It’ll come as no surprise that I personally think Mike Huckabee is the absolute worst choice Republicans could possibly make next year as their presidential or vice presidential candidate, but the criticism he’s getting over his latest TV ad strikes me as a bit ridiculous.
The ad - which I haven’t seen since I don’t live […]
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Every time you turn around there’s a story in the paper with someone on the Left slamming the “devastating” cuts Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons is implementing and/or a calls for him to break the “no new taxes” pledge he made to the voters of Nevada before they elected him. But with the notable exception […]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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In a recent email to supporters, Matt McCullough of the Porter for Congress re-election campaign for Nevada Rep. Jon Porter wrote: “Our district is on the frontlines in the fight for control of Congress, and we simply can not allow (House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi to have another liberal vote in the House of Representatives.”
This is […]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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On the same day the Associated Press reports that funding for the Yucca Mountain repository under the Democrat-controlled Congress is the lowest it’s been in years, “likely causing yet more delays in opening” it, Nevada Appeal columnists Carolyn Tate and Maizie Harris Jesse - who normally don’t weigh in much on political issues, had this […]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Former Nevada superintendent of public education Eugene Paslov appears to have been using public school “fuzzy” math when he claimed recently that “years of budget tightening…has squeezed out virtually all waste, if any ever existed. Cutting fat is long gone. We’re now cutting bone.” Oh, puh-lease.
Only a public school bureaucrat could look […]
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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There are voices of opposition to both Gov. Jim Gibbons’ no-new-taxes pledge, as well as his efforts to cut the budget. Some of these voices, however, risk serious backlash if they’re not careful.
Big Gaming is the leading voice of opposition to Gov. Gibbons taking tax increases off the table, championing higher taxes on businesses […]
Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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When the need for budget cuts became undeniably apparent, Gov. Jim Gibbons warned that the first thing the Left tends to do is close facilities and services which are popular with the public in order to rile up the public against budget cuts. He told how the bureaucrats in DC always close the Washington […]
Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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A letter-writer in today’s Nevada Appeal takes issue with my support for budget cuts over tax increases. The writer maintains, with a straight face I might add, that “years of budget tightening, budget reductions, and increased productivity pressure on state employees has squeezed out virtually all waste, if any ever existed. Cutting fat is […]
Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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Personally, one of my favorite Ronald Reagan quotes is this:
“If you analyze it, I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom - and this is a pretty general description also of what […]
Posted on December 16th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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FLUNKING HUCK
“On its annual governor’s report card, Cato gave (GOP presidential candidate Mike) Huckabee an ‘F’ for fiscal policy during his final term, and an overall two-term grade of ‘D.’ Only four governors had worse scores, and 15 Democratic governors got higher grades, including well-known liberals like Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, […]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by Chuck Muth
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