Daily Glean: Surge paves way for political progress in Coyote Springs

• Petraeus-Packed Supercalifragilistic September may be effectively coming to an anticlimactic and wildly unsatisfying close with Democrats whimpering into their customary corner to crouch and plant tails firmly between their legs in the party's most recognizable posture of the 21st century (NYTimes). Meantime, the earnest bloggers, bless them, want you to get on the horn and tell Harry Reid to grow a spine or some wholly improbable shit like that. OpenLeft
• "Republican Leader Boehner’s belittling of the sacrifice of more than 30,000 brave Americans killed or injured in Iraq as a ‘small price’ is reprehensible – John McCain understands that, why can’t Rep. Jon Porter?" Democrats ask (FOX). OK, we'll take a shot: Is it because Porter is a career political hack and lip-smacking sycophant who does whatever his party's leadership tells him to do, and it's not very bloody likely that his party's leadership is going to tell him to point out the disgusting behavior of his party's leadership, and so Porter will quietly stand around with his finger up his butt even as the House Minority Leader callously dismisses the tragic fact that American spouses and parents and children are gone forever and will never be seen by their loved ones ever again because of decisions made by pampered cloistered fuckwits like Boehner? Oh, the Democrats were asking a rhetorical question? Never mind.
• If the Democrats aren't, well, lying, and polls genuinely did show that baggage-laden area political personages like Rory Reid, Dina Titus and Richard Perkins would beat Porter (Sun), we'll bet that  Porter polls even more poorly against any generic Democrat or, to use the term for "any generic Democrat" popular among local political junkies, Robert Daskas.
• Fancy-pants college students don't know jack about history or current events, study says (RGJ). As opposed to the national media and 29 Democratic senators, who in 2002 knew that Saddam posed an imminent threat, demonstrating a much more knowledgeable perspective than the millions of uninformed and unenlightened people in the nation and around the world who naively thought that Iraq was boxed in, not worth invading, and that the world would be better off to continue pursuing a containment policy
• Judicial Watch sues the BLM demanding correspondence between Harry Reid, the Hairdo and the nation's creepiest governor (albeit while he was the nation's least effective congressman) regarding uberlobbyist Harvey Whittemore's ill-conceived and unsustainable Coyote Springs suburb-without-a-city project out in the middle of nowhere.  "This is clearly a politically motivated move by a right-wing group attempting to get headlines," says Reid spokester Jon Summers (AP, LVRJ). Yes, could be. But when Nevada's political establishment, of both parties, and its sprawl industry are effectively one and the same, Reid has put his jaw out and walked right into the punch, don't you think, Jon?
• The presence of Larry Craig makes John Ensign, David Vitter and Mitch McConnell feel all ooky. NYTimes
• It's hard to quit smoking so we can't have universal health care. LVRJ brain trust
• Republicans worry that their hatred of blacks and Latinos might give the impression that Republicans hate blacks and Latinos. Post

Comments

[The Mole]

Fans of unbiased media, note today's R-J. When the prosecution was laying out Warren Jeffs' career as a rapist, the R-J wasn't exactly all over the story. When the defense paints him differently, it's front-page. Couldn't be certain editorial influences supervising the newsroom, could it?

[Douglas Democrat]

Why is it when someone comments on the ludicrous premise of the R-J's editorials about "evil government", the immediate response is to point out how no one thought the Nazis were evil at first?

[Jaded]

Tasering a student at a Kerry speech doesn't bode well for the Democrats or anyone else for that matter. Welcome to America's First Reich. Beneath disgusting!

[front page]

Jeffs has been front page news all week, as far as I can tell.

[The Mole]

Not at the R-J.

Where the @*^%$%$@%#^%ing heck is Elliot Ness?

.. when he's very badly needed?