In the Catholic and Mormon churches they call it excommunication. The Amish refer to it as shunning. The Klingons call it discommendation. In each case, it’s a process by which an individual who has committed an egregious offense so serious they are literally kicked out of the organization.
In Tennessee, Republicans have invented a new term for this action: disassociation. I like “RINOing” better, but what the heck. Here’s what it’s all about…
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Last July, Republican Sen. Bill Raggio (R-Reno) was fighting off a furious primary challenge by former Assemblywoman Sharon Angle and issued this seemingly clear and unambiguous statement regarding tax hikes: “This is not the time to start talking about raising taxes. It is something that we can’t even consider.”
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, issued the following statement yesterday afternoon after repeated requests to speak with Gov. Gibbons were blown off by the governor’s office…
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Today is the second day of the 75th legislative session. Which means it’s the second day of the 75th legislative session without a specific Democrat alternative to Gov. Jim Gibbons’ budget proposal which opponents have so vocally bitched about for weeks now. It also marks the second day of the legislative session in which legislative Republicans haven’t said a peep about the Democrats not having a specific alternative proposal while complaining about the governor’s budget proposal.
It’s gonna be a long session.
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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One of the reasons Republicans are no longer the majority party in Congress is that they didn’t do things when they had the majority that they knew they should have done but didn’t do. Like dramatically overhauling, if not outright privatizing, the post office. Every email from a constituent they received should have been another nail in the USPS’ coffin.
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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As the saying goes, you can’t beat somebody with nobody. And right now the GOP has no clear front-running candidate to take on incumbent Nevada Democrat U.S. Sen. Harry Reid. A look at the potential field, including my personal assessment on the odds on their getting into the race and securing the nomination…
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Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Fans of the Jurassic Park movies will recall that the velociraptors were the fastest, most lethal killing machines in all of dinosaur-land. So I doubt it was merely a coincidence that the United States Air Force nicknamed its fifth-generation F-22 fighter jet the “Raptor.”
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Posted on February 1st, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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God help us, the 75th session of the Nevada Legislature convenes tomorrow. Expect legislators - who have 120 days to fix a $600 million overspending hole in the budget - to get right down to business from Day One.
OK, just kidding. Tomorrow’s first day will be pretty much wasted on pomp and circumstance signifying nothing.
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Posted on February 1st, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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That’s like asking if kids should eat their vegetables.
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Posted on February 1st, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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Well, not really.
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Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Chuck Muth
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