Advice to GOP: Stop Saying You’re Going to Create Jobs!
Memo to Nevada GOP Legislators: STOP saying your #1 priority is to create jobs! (Republicans in Congress might want to heed this advice, as well.) It does nothing whatsoever to distinguish you from Democrats who are saying the exact same thing. And besides, as Republicans you’re supposed to know that the government doesn’t create jobs, […]
And the Winner of the Biggest BS Story of the Year is…
Sean Miller of The Hill wrote on Friday that “The GOP presidential field has weakened in recent weeks as Republicans seem to conclude they’d stand a better chance of winning the White House in 2016.” As evidence to back up his “weakened field” assertion, Mr. Miller cites the fact that “South Dakota Sen. John Thune, […]
Mom jailed for protecting her children
I saw this story a couple weeks ago, but forgot to mention it here…and it certainly deserves note. Back in 2007, after having her home broken into, black woman in Columbus, Ohio, named Kelley Williams-Bolar decided to enroll her two daughters, 9 and 13 at the time, in a better school in a safer neighborhood […]
It’s official: Public thinks teachers unions, public ed suck
Rasmussen Reports reported last week that 46 percent of Americans now view unionized teachers as “a bad thing” with only 37 percent disagreeing. As the union’s agitators continue to overplay their already over-played hand, look for that 46 number to continue going up while that 37 number continues to drop. In a separate Rasmussen poll […]
Harry Reid, John Boehner square off over government shutdown
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker John Boehner have locked themselves into a trillion-dollar game of chicken as lawmakers gear up for the final days of a budget showdown,” writes Karoun Demirjian of the Las Vegas Sun today. “The stakes aren’t as much whether the government will shut down — as who is […]
Mini-Muth’s Truths: February 24, 2011
For those of you who called and contributed money to our successful effort to change Sen. Dean Rhoads mind on the “necessity” of tax and fee hikes this session, you should know that your efforts also helped result in a new letter signed by ALL TEN Republicans in the state Senate, including Sen. Rhoads, who […]
The Chicken Little Chancellor who Cried Wolf
(Chuck Muth) – Dan Klaich – the Nevada university chancellor who, in what meets the classic definition of a “gaffe;” that being when a politician tells the truth – recently said “I think we have been guilty of hyperbole in the past where, you know, we get the first dollar of a cut and we […]
GOP Senators Unite, Declare Tax Hikes DOA
It required a do-over, but Republicans in the Nevada state Senate appear to have now gotten with the program and are foursquare behind the no-new-taxes budget proposed by fellow Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval. A couple weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness and Assembly Minority Leader Pete Goicoechea inked a joint letter to Sandoval pledging […]
The March of the Crybabies
The parade of government employee sob stories continues unabated, with Jon Ralston featuring a new one from Sean Alto, a 31-year-old state worker and former bartender who proceeds to do more whining about what he apparently feels us taxpayers owe him than my four-year-old does when I take his Nintendo away. Instead of taking care […]
My Rebuttal to Ralston’s Rebuttal to My Rebuttal to His Column
In response to my rebuttal of his column slamming the Taxpayer Protection Pledge on Friday, Jon Ralston wrote in his Flash e-newsletter yesterday: “Muth’s entire, serpentine rebuttal is based on a false premise – that I called conservatives ‘simpletons,’ which I clearly did not. I said the tax pledge is for simpletons. Big difference. But […]
Government Employees Goin’ Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs
While the rest of the world is watching the Middle East these days, Big Labor and its Democrat allies, including Obama, have their sights fixed on Wisconsin, where the state’s Republican governor and Legislature are attempting to balance the budget and end collective bargaining for government employees as we know it. “Rallies,” writes AFL-CIO propagandist […]
No New Taxes isn’t Just for Simpletons
Jon Ralston and I will never agree on the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, but we have agreed to one day debate it in public; hopefully during this legislative session; preferably to raise money for a mutually agreed-upon charity. (No, not Planned Parenthood.) In the meantime, we’ll continue to point/counter-point this issue through our columns, blogs and […]
Nevada Jobs First Vote: 39 to Goedhart
Unbelievably, but not necessarly unsurprisingly, though thoroughly disappointedly, every Republican but Assemblyman Ed Goedhart voted with every Democrat for a protectionist, union-backed bill today which has been disingenuously called “Nevada Jobs First” (AB 144). Republican Mark Sherwood was absent, but indicated to me in a phone conversation that he, too, would have voted no. Here’s […]
Don’t Tax Me; Tax the Guy Behind the Tree
The column headline seemingly says it all: “Nevadans prefer tax increases over spending cuts by wide margin.” In the column, Jon Ralston reported that a recent poll conducted for the Retail Association of Nevada showed that 52 percent of Nevadans “think the governor and the (Legislature) should raise taxes to avoid cuts in government services.” […]
Look! A Crocodile! Feed It! Push Charlie In!
Since the Retail Association of Nevada (RAN) is opposed to the imposition of a corporate income tax, and its own poll released this week showed public support for a corporate income tax, many were left scratching their heads, wondering why RAN would release results that apparently weaken and undermine its own position. Speculation in the […]
WND designates me as an air-quote “conservative”
Apparently if you believe it’s possible to be both gay and a conservative, you, yourself, are no longer a conservative, but a ‘conservative.” WorldNetDaily’s headline on Monday read: ‘Conservative’ joins homosexual lobby The former executive director for the American Conservative Union has agreed to serve on the advisory council for GOProud, a homosexual lobby that […]
Mini-Muth’s Truths: February 15, 2011
Hey, I’m still in DC attending a Leadership Institute training school. Yes, even teachers brush up on their skills. The difference being I paid for this one out of my own pocket, not the taxpayers’. Anyway, this issue of NN&V is going to be a little light. Will catch up after I get home late […]