{"id":40674,"date":"2019-04-04T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=40674"},"modified":"2019-04-04T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:50:46","slug":"drive-by-muthings-on-creepy-joe-wheeler-dealer-ruby-fast-fingers-the-puc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/drive-by-muthings-on-creepy-joe-wheeler-dealer-ruby-fast-fingers-the-puc\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-by Muthings on Creepy Joe, Wheeler-Dealer, Ruby Fast Fingers & the PUC"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have mixed feeling about the controversy surrounding former Vice President\u00a0\u201cCreepy Joe\u201d Biden<\/strong>\u00a0and the accusations of sexual harassment being leveled against him.\"\"<\/p>\n

On one hand, the accusations seem, at best, trivial. The ol\u2019 mountain out of a molehill.\u00a0 I mean, come on.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t even any cigars involved!<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Biden is reaping what his party has sown by embracing the extreme, man-hating agenda of the proverbial \u201cfemi-Nazis\u201d for so many years.<\/p>\n

So I guess I\u2019ll just sit back and enjoy watching him stew in his own juices after being hoisted on his party\u2019s own petard.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Republicans in the Nevada State Assembly this session were destined to be irrelevant, thanks to Minority Leader\u00a0Jim Wheeler-Dealer\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0fumbling in last year\u2019s elections in which he somehow managed to lose two incumbent seats and failed to win back the only seat in the state with a Republican majority and a Democrat incumbent.<\/p>\n

That Little Big Horn-esque electoral massacre left the Assembly GOP in a SUPER-minority; a caucus small enough to hold its meetings inside a Toyota Prius.<\/p>\n

But with \u201cSan Francisco\u201d Democrats putting forward some of the most extreme pieces of legislation imaginable, you\u2019d at least think these people would be able to make some hay with the public and the media.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019d be wrong.<\/p>\n

Wheeler-Dealer\u2019s dumb-and-dumber communications operation not only isn\u2019t laying a political glove on the opposition, it\u2019s actually embarrassing the caucus even further with every lame \u2013 often totally unintelligible – press release, tweet and statement it puts out.<\/p>\n

Here, see if you can figure out what the hell this tweet the @NVGOPAssembly posted yesterday means\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cDems introduce a bill AB401 today that will fuel economy car drivers should pay close attention to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

Or how about this Facebook post from last week\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cRural Communities take a moment to watch two of our conservative rock stars fight for medical professionals to benefit by working in rural Nevada.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n

The Laughingstock Caucus.<\/p>\n

What in the wide, wide world of sports were Assembly Republicans thinking when they put Wheeler-Dealer in charge of their caucus?<\/p>\n

Bigger question: How much longer will they allow this embarrassment to go on?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

So former Congressman\u00a0Ruben \u201cFast Fingers\u201d Kihuen<\/strong>\u00a0lost his bid for a Las Vegas city council seat by\u00a0FIVE<\/u>\u00a0lousy votes yesterday in an election with just 9 percent turnout.<\/p>\n

That is an epic fail, even for a quintessential empty suit.<\/p>\n

But I hear Wheeler-Dealer is thinking of making him an honorary member of the Assembly GOP caucus and hiring him to be their political director for next year\u2019s campaigns.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Switch is a hugely successful, modern-day Nevada company that houses computer back-up servers which protect and preserve data for large businesses in case of an in-house crash.<\/p>\n

The key phrase here is \u201chugely successful\u201d – and brings to mind something\u00a0Ronald Reagan<\/strong>\u00a0once said about government\u2019s view of a successful business\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As such, it should come as no surprise that the Nevada Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is now arguing that Switch is a \u201cpublic utility\u201d and should be regulated and strangled in red tape just like NV Energy and Southwest Gas.<\/p>\n

An absurdity wrapped in bacon.<\/p>\n

And the government mission creep beat goes on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have mixed feeling about the controversy surrounding former Vice President\u00a0\u201cCreepy Joe\u201d Biden\u00a0and the accusations of sexual harassment being leveled against him. On one hand, the accusations seem, at best, trivial. The ol\u2019 mountain out of a molehill.\u00a0 I mean, come on.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t even any cigars involved! On the other hand, Biden is reaping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40676,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40674\/revisions\/40676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}