Daily Glean: Our water czarina is smarter than everybody else in the whole wide world

• Hand-wringing Harry reaches out to Republican Senators to cave to so he doesn't have to cave to Bush personally. Sun, Reuters
• "Now is the time for Democrats to stand our ground, stick to our principles and fight for an end to this war. I know when to make a principled compromise and this ain't one of those times." Okey dokey, Senator Chris Dodd. Now go tell Harry.
• If we don't cut taxes on the world's biggest corporations then the terrorists will make us all convert to fundamentalist Islam and wrap colorful scarfs around the heads of all our women, Sen. John Ensign explained Thursday. More impressively, however, Ensign's staff successfully lobbied the R-J into reporting Hairdo McWedgeshot's wholly insignificant and inconsequential speech (LVRJ). Well, the staff no doubt put a lot of work into it, so who can blame them for wanting their work to be acknowledged somewhere, even if it is only the R-J.
• Hillary Clinton's "Nevada Educators Leadership Council" gives us pause. Among its 50 or so members, for example, are former UNLV president Carol Harter, Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani and state Senate Minority Leader Dina Titus.  Harter is already a Nevada co-chair and a member of Clinton's Nevada Women's Leadership Council. Giunchigliani is also a co-chair of Clinton's Nevada campaign. And Titus is a member of Clinton's Nevada Women's Leadership Council and co-chair of the campaign's "Women of the West." It seems these people are spread pretty thin. Clinton better not announce any more Nevada leadership councils, or some of her key supporters are going to start collapsing under the stress of so many duties.
• Obama talks too much. Either that or his support is soft. AP, Sun
• In the face of peer-reviewed scholarship to the contrary, minions for area water czarina Pat Mulroy continue to assert that their plan to mine aquifers up yonder to support the unchecked construction of tract homes, strip malls and other unplanned growth in Las Vegas will have safeguards to protect groundwater sustainability (LVRJ). Which is to say that Mulroy (pictured at right looking for the last drop of water on the planet so she can sell it to developer Harvey Whittemore), on behalf of her growth lobby masters and their pet politicians, is promising to do something — sustainably mine an aquifer — that virtually no one else is doing in the United States, or in the world.
• "Nevada's youth suicide rate among highest in nation" (LVRJ). Yeah, but at least we don't have an income tax.
• The one-time student council members running the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce on behalf of a handful of zealous bidness wingnuts want everyone to know that we have to privatize social security  and make old sick people sell their houses and belongings to pay for health care or our enemies will think we lack resolve in the global war on terror. LVRJ
• Nevada's predatory home loan industry coupled with Bush administration neglect of domestic economic policy continues to wreak havoc on U.S., global economy. Post, NYTimes
• The expenditure for a security detail to travel with the nation's worst governor seems a tad excessive (RGJ). But if it will provide single mothers security from being sexually assaulted by the creep, eh, what the hell.

Comments

[Gus]

Re: Clinton "Leadership Council." Hugh, thats about a 3.5 on the snark scale of 10 about being spread to thin, but there's something serious that bothers me about Clinton's constant "major announcements" and slogans, song-contests and general razzmatazz that her campaign cranks out nationally and locally. Its simply this: after 7 years of a government that constantly assaults not only the constitution and any reasonable sense of decency but also our intelligence on a daily, even hourly basis, by spinning and bamboozling every single question, by constantly asking us to believe black is white and down is up, it seems to me that the most fundamental thing an opposition candidate can do is ...simply talk to her fellow citizens like something other than blithering idiots.

There's plenty of intelligent things that Hillary Clinton, as first lady of Arkansas, as first lady of the US, as Senator, as a candidate has said about education. Couldn't at least one of them have been in the press release instead of just a list of names and generic quotes attributed to said names?

So to the people who read this blog and who write those press releases, and you know you are, how about sometime between now and January 19th, even just once, say just something substantive to make us believe that a Clinton presidency will be in some way different from the on-going, relentless exercise in spin, misrepresentation, and general flying circus than we've had since 2000 -- and, truth be told, which we had to endure a lot of in the years prior.

I realize she's "in it to win it" or "innit tawinit" and that the basic rule of a presidential campaign is to say the same three things over and over again without any sense of irony, but please, just once, say something that shows a small bit of respect for the intelligence of voters.

[Keeping Them Honest]

And with all of this important stuff going on, guess what Ralston wrote about?

But one thing I am getting a little tired of is people saying that Reid has a majority. He does NOT have a majority, even of his own party. He has 48 Democrats, one Independent who is to the left of the Democrats (Bernie Sanders) and one Independent who will stay with the Democratic party but does everything he can to piss off bloggers and other people like us because he knows he can--Joe Lieberman. Maybe four Republicans would vote with Harry. That isn't enough to get ANYTHING--repeat, ANYTHING--to the floor. So, knock him if you like, demand that he introduce legislation that will be defeated anyway if you like, but first learn something about the fucking Senate!

[NVMojo]

In the meantime, Hillary distracts us from the fact that she's in tight with the Reid family and one of her campaign co-chairs is water-grabber Rory Reid of the Clark County Commission and the Southern NV Water grabbers authority. Rory was also seated as the Clark County Commission Chair while sitting on the Water Grabber authority when his daddy pushed through the water bill that allowed for the current water grab for Harvey Whittemore and other developer elitists.
I see nothing bright and shining about a plundering Democratic group like that.

[What?!]

Water issue; a great book to read is "Plan B 2.0"