Reid cheers deranged incumbent's redundant challenge of health care law

No, not publicly.

But privately, the gubernatorial campaign of Democrat Rory (reid) must be ecstatic to see demented has-been Jim Gibbons' running wingnut-flavored circles 'round the hapless candidacy of Republican establishment insider and Latino heartthrob Brian Sandoval. 

As everyone has known from the first hints of a Sandoval candidacy, Rory's one best only chance of winning in November is for Gibbons to take out Sandoval in June. And thanks to your creepy governor's innate mastery of batty teabaggery -- and Team Sandoval's floundering cluelessness of the same -- it could happen.

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto is doing her part, by the way. Of course, her office isn't authorized to just flat-out buy some TV ads directly encouraging teabaggers to vote for Gibbons. But she's suggesting she might have to take steps to stop Gibbons from signing Nevada up for the health care suit, and that will rally the teabaggers to Gibbons more effectively than any TV ad ever would.

Oh those tricky Nevada Democrats! They're lucky and clever.

Comments

[Gus]

The other good news here is that Tea baggers can now begin to work their way down the entire GOP ticket asking every candidate, esp the ones facing hard-right challenges, why they haven't thrown support behind the law suit?

Why hasn't Brian Krolicki supported it, Barbara Woollen might ask? Will Dennis Nolan support it? Joe Hardy?

[Happygirl]

Man, Gleaner, hope you're right. God help Nevada if that lying, incompetent, low-IQ fornicating hypocrite wins another term.
Surely the Nevada GOP will come to its sense and ask the unworthy Gibbons to step down. Surely it will.

[dave404]

I. State of Nevada Commission on Ethics

Mark A. Hutchison, Esq.

Member

Initially appointed: January 2004

Reappointed: July 2007

Appointment expires: June 2011

Appointed by: Governor

http://ethics.nv.gov/Ncoe%20Website/Mark%20Hutchinson%20Bio.html

II. "A two-member panel of the state Ethics Commission will decide Sept. 11 whether there is enough evidence to proceed with a hearing on whether Gov. Jim Gibbons received an undeserved property tax break on land he owns in Elko County.

"Commissioners Mark Hutchison and Paul Lamboley will consider the evidence submitted by Democratic Party official Travis Brock and Gibbons' response and decide whether there is reason to take the matter to a full hearing or dismiss it."
http://www.lvrj.com/news/27011039.html

[ColinFromLasVegas]

I think the best course of action is to just stand back and watch, head going back and forth quickly, as if watching a spirited ping pong match.

And stand back far enough so you don't get hurt as you watch the RepubliCAN'Ts fight each other or do other incredibly stupid things like spending money on lesbian bondage clubs in Hollywood and buying "office supplies" at liquor stores.

And don't forget the Tea Partiers, who follow false prophets like Ms. Sarah Palin around, who actually end up leading the RepublicaNOs policy making, are all mixed in there to in order to make it interesting.

It's hilarious. Because President Obama and his administration are just cruising right along, taking on the hard stuff, and scoring successes left and right. And for anyone to say they are not successes is stupid. Because if they weren't, why do the RepublicaNOs and the Tea Partiers always react to things the President does, but seem to have no idea, no answer nor any rational solution to solve anything other than to stop taxing the rich, cater to insurance cartels and suck up to big business to make money?

The answer to that sums it all up.

I can see the Democrats churning right along, bound and determined 2010 will not be a replay of 1994.

[Happygirl]

May your words be true, Colin. Seriously.

[atdleft]

Happygirl-

"May your words be true, Colin. Seriously."

They will. The NV GOP just keeps f*cking up...

"Surely the Nevada GOP will come to its sense and ask the unworthy Gibbons to step down. Surely it will."

And no, they won't. Now yes, the insiders struggling to maintain control of NV GOP want "Luv-Guv Gibbons" to step down... But the teabagger crazies don't! And that's their problem. They courted the teabaggers and lured them in, so now they have to deal with all their teabagger batsh*t crazy. That's why Suzy Lowdown is still struggling to nail down the base to wrap up her primary, and why Gibbons still has a real chance to survive his primary.

And yes, at the very least Harry Reid will benefit from their chaos. And if Gibbons manages to ride the chaos all the way to a June primary win, Rory Reid will also benefit from the chaos. Mr. Gleaner is right... NV Dems are lucky AND clever this year. :-)

[Dennis]

It really appears that the Nevada state democrats are running a little scared. I have not read such disgust and filth in the language that they are using because it looks like the "Tea Partiers" are getting the message thru to intelligent human beings, whether they are Democrats, Republicans or Independents. The filthy rhetoric that has been typed by some of the proclaimed Democrats just means that they are trying their very best to try to intimidate the other parties commentors about what is truly happening NOW and that those who really have figured out what all the stimulus package money, national helth care taxes and Cap and Trade taxes is going to bankrupt this country beyond repair and this government will never be able to tax the individual citizen enough money to get out of dept for a very long time. Look at what is really being said by the Democrats that are expounding the filth and hatred and you will get the idea that they are scared that they are going to lose their power in Nov. and in 2012.

[Dan]

"Because President Obama and his administration are just cruising right along, taking on the hard stuff, and scoring successes left and right" Really???
Other than passing the health care bill which the vast majority of Americans do not want, what else has he accomplished? International diplomacy? Nope. War in Afghanistan? Well, he is certainly expanding it. Does the left like that? Jobs? Nope. Economy? A little. Very little and with fuel and food prices rising, he is hurting the most vulnerable people. The deficit. Oh, he certainly has expanded that, far more than any other president.
Mid term elections are going to be a diaster for the Dem's and he will go down as a president that is even worse than Jimmy Carter.

[judy]

I am doing my part to help Gibbons win the primary. I changed my registration to a RIRO and will enjoy voting for the AzzHat.
This is playing out rather nicely for the moment isn't it?

Oh and Dan, your typical GOP Tea bagging sky is falling rhetoric is really getting old dear. How can anyone go on day to day with all of that fear and paranoia hanging over their head?

I feel for you honeybuns.

[Goldy]

What happened to the Honey Bun?

Is it ironic that the part of health care reform Republicans wanted to include was Tort Reform? The argument being that the harmed patient should have more limited access to courts and lawyers when the health care system hurts them. Yet when they feel the health care system hurts THEM, they fight (through lawyers) vigilantly for access to courts.

But seriously, what did happen to the Honey Bun? And Snack-N-Cake? These were perfect foods that seemed to just disappear from my life. Conspiracy?

[JaneDoe]

You have to admit, the Guv DID look sharp & unusually jaunty in that desert-sand-colored suit at the press conference yesterday. Cocktail waitresses all over town are postitively damp for the Men's Wearhouse candidate!

[Happygirl]

Dennis: Did you support the Bush Administration?
Because if you did, you supported: Pre-emptive war that destroyed our blood and treasure, the expansion of government that no liberal would ever dream of and the running up our defecit.
Oh, but that's right: You and your ilk NEVER supported Bush. He was NEVER a real conservative Republican. Your side NEVER questioned the partriotism of those who challenged what Bush was doing.
Maybe you were living under rock then, Dennis. But the rest of us weren't. We fully remember all the "the filth and hatred" the Right spewed for years. But you were OK with that, right? Your side is *totally* innocent.
I await your answers to these questions, Dennis. Something tells me you won't be back.
But hey, I could be wrong, so impress me: Respond with some honest answers about how the GOP governed for nearly a decade, and how happily the "Tea Party" crowd marched along with them.
Please spare us your "we're just common folk against the big, bad evil gov't" rheotic, Dennis. We're not buying it.
One more thing, Dennis: Please make sure you are not cashing any Social Security checks, using Medicare or going to the VA for treatment. Because, after all, those are evil socialist concepts -- and to be a real conservative, you can't use any of those.

[ColinFromLasVegas]

Dan, I am simply amazed at the idiocy and hypocrisy of your question you pose to me.

You probably won't listen due to opinions that force you to be set in your ways and viewpoints, but I'll give it a shot.

Just yesterday, President Obama's administration experienced the highest point share on Wall Street. The stock average went up in one year time from about 7,000 to 10,000. This has not been accomplished for a very long time in the history of the U.S. The last time was FDR's Presidency back in the Great Depression. This statistic is a sure sign that the economy is struggling to recover. And jobs are slowly coming back, but it will take a few more years to show positive increases; increases gauged on what it was back in 2006.

There are many, many other things President Obama has accomplished, but you won't believe me at all, so it's a waste of time to explain it.

In just one year time, this administration has done many things to straighten out an American economy that went pretty much belly up. It was so bad from the excesses of Bush/Cheney's eight years in office, that this President is STILL trying to dig out of a hole. But he is introducing things as law and, he is making sure it's paid for. Bush/Cheney introduced an unnecessary war and spent on many other things, but had no clue and/or plan on how to pay for them.

And the Republican Party is still foundering. Right now, as I'm typing this, Representative Michelle Bachman is speaking, with that other nitwit quitter Alaskan Governor, Ms. Palin, in Minneapolis. Rep. Bachman's district has the highest amount of foreclosures as well as the highest job unemployment rate in all of Minnesota. But here this idiot Ms. Bachman is railing against President Obama and other things that will have no bearing on helping people in her district. I am very sure they are paying attention to her stupidity and will slam her ass out in the street the next election.

But that's okay, Dan. You do your horse-with-blinders thing and disregard the truth of the new Republican Party; a political entity that can do absolutely nothing.

[Happygirl]

Bravo, Colin! As usual, you put the shameless GOP apologists right in their place.
Cheers, mate.

[dave404]

Colin:

There is no purpose in addressing the uninformed positions of "Dan". Dan reminds me of our late poster, Patrick, a person full of ignorant understandings postulating as if they were full of Wiki intelligence.

Too many on the Right forget that unemployment was highest, even to this day, under Reagan in 1983 (2 years into his administration), or that inflation and interest rates were the highest in recent history under Ronald Regan (again, two years in), even to this day.

They, of the Right, conveniently forget that Reagan conspired, in violation of U.S. law (Boland Amendment), with our sworn enemy, Iran, to sell ARMS to Iran!! All in order to receive covert money to engage in unlawful Central American wars to support brutal dictators. Deficits? Hell Reagan ran up more deficit than every previous administration combined! Even Reagan's C.O.S., Dick Cheney, said, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter!"

Obama inherits the worst economic condition since the Great Depression (thanks to Republican public policy), along with two unfunded wars (whose costs had been kept off the books), and who is now blamed for record deficits (well, the Bush tax cuts have impacted revenue, which makes up the deficit, by a half-trillion a year and an unfunded multi-trillion $ Medicare drug program which was rammed through Congress by the Republicans in the middle of the night and the deficit on January 7, 2009 was already $1.2 trillion)..and all the slack jaw stupid and ill informed in our midst can do is point to today as if Obama's policies are the cause of their misery! The stupid dumb fucks! All they have to do is re-read the news in 2007!!!

Forget the likes of "Dan" and continue to focus on reality! Dan can't and won't do the same, and he can vote to re-elect those anti American Republicans that used his simple brain to screw him and his children for decades all so they can reward their friends to his detriment.

[Dan]

Dave, you really are a funny fellow. Stupid, but funny.
Colin, you do bring up some legitimate points, and I will give you that, but saying Obama is doing the pay as go plan is just a lie.
You give praise for Obama for raising the Dow but you blame Bush for the economy. I really hope you see the inconsistancy in your beliefs.
Fact is presidents blame others when the economy is bad but take credit when the economy is good. But the reality is that government and especially presidents have very little impact on the economy.
And I will give you that the leadership of the GOP is floundering. But despite the incompetent GOP leadership, the GOP will take far more seats than they will lose in November. You cannot ignore election results. Dem's and incumbants of both parties are losing elections throughout the country.

[Douglas Democrat]

"And I will give you that the leadership of the GOP is floundering. But despite the incompetent GOP leadership, the GOP will take far more seats than they will lose in November."

That is the funniest thing I've read all day.

The leadership isn't floundering. Floundering would imply they have a hope of saving the ship.

[Happygirl]

Just as I thought: Dennis didn't come back.
Figures.

[dave404]

"...presidents have very little impact on the economy."

stupid and not funny.

[Dan]

Ok, Dave. Prove you are an intelligent human being instead of a knuckle dragging mouth breathing liberal. How do presidents have a big impact on the economy?
And to Douglas, you may want to read some history books. In almost every case, the party in control loses seats in mid-term elections. And this year will be no exception. It happens with both parties.

[ColinFromLasVegas]

Dan says: "In almost every case, the party in control loses seats in mid-term elections. And this year will be no exception. It happens with both parties."

The RNC Chairman all the way down to Dan all believe to their soul that this piece of history will happen again like in 1994.

Very possibly.

But, I say this year there will be an entirely different outcome. And the reason for this is many things. But the two most glaring factors that prove the opposite of following history are these specific things that are here and right now, not based upon past assertions:

(1) Republicans seem to be brazen about this and don't seem to campaign too much. They seem to rely totally upon history repeating itself. So, the arrogance towards the President Obama administration and towards all Democrats is AMPED UP TO ELEVEN!!!!!!! Which is really no problem, but this shouting and screaming basically has no purpose. There are no solutions to anything. There is clear evidence the hierarchy of elected Republicans only want to obstruct, to be negative, to not lead, to not govern, and ultimately they seek only to destroy this President; basically attempting to portray him as a tyrannical despot who should not be in power. It is so loud and so often that it is getting annoying. Not to me. But to other Republicans and to those who haven't decided yet and/or the independents.

(2) The Republicans have simply lost their way. There are many, many things pushing and pulling at the base. On one hand, you have Fox PORNO (Party Of Republican News Only) basically inherited as their mouthpiece, along with the approximately 450 other extreme right wing TV/radio personalities/stations out there all vying for money. On another hand, you have the Tea Party grassroots organization, which were basically whipped into shape by ClusterFox, all screaming so loud that the Republicans can't even have reasonable dissent with them. Again, the base of the Republican Party is impaired. They can't go moderate or even discuss anything within reason. Because the Tea Party people have such a tight hold on their reasoning and the Republicans don't want to piss them off. In short, it's basically a shotgun wedding. The Tea Party and the Republican Party in somewhat of marital bliss...or mutual agreement...or....something. Hard to put your finger on, to tell the truth. Whatever it is, it's a bond the Republicans can't get out of.

So, these combinations will kill the Republicans here in Nevada in November 2010. If not nationwide.

But that's okay, Dan, go ahead and believe that all this is left up to inevitability because of past history.

I have a strong feeling you are going to be surprised at the outcome.

Because on the other hand, you have a President who is just churning right along and doing things. And he seems to be not interested in the outcome of things in November 2010. Because actions do speak louder than shouted words, misspelled signs and screechy complaints with no solutions by "Caribou Barbie" Palin and "Captain Crazy" Bachman. The voters can see this. And they can figure out where the lunatic fringe is. And avoid it like the plague.

[dave404]

Ok, Dan. Prove you are an intelligent human being instead of a knuckle dragging mouth breathing liberal. How do presidents not have a big impact on the economy?