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Good morning, everyone. Did you hear about Newt Gingrichinviting Harry Reid to come on “Crossfire” when it starts up again?
Imagine:
Newt: “Fundamentally, do you care that you don’t know what you are talking about?”
Prince Harry: “Don’t you have a zoo to go to or something?”
Newt: “What does that have to do with anything? Frankly, you need to retire.”
Prince Harry: “You tried that once. By the way, thanks for coming to campaign for Sharron Angle. That was really helpful to her.”
Newt: “This is...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 315
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 462
Good morning, everyone. A short time ago, Gov. Brian Sandoval was gushing about those cool statehood license plates. (I hate personalized license plates, but as a proud Nevadan, I may even get one.) But who would have guessed those celebratory plates aren’t even being made in Nevada?
Oregon? Really? Oregon? So the ...
Good morning, everyone. Mondays are the days I usually tell you, dear Flashees, how awful “The Newsroom” is after an evening hate-watching the program. I will bore you no more. Suffice it to say, the obnoxious Sorkinese, the terrible female characters, the heavy-handed plot points (Team Romney was mean to the media, and the media didn’t do its job!) and the great Jeff Daniels suffocated by the dialogue. Ah, what might have been. It’s euthanasia time, HBO.
If you missed premium content Sunday,...
Good morning, everyone. Mondays are the days I usually tell you, dear Flashees, how awful “The Newsroom” is after an evening hate-watching the program. I will bore you no more. Suffice it to say, the obnoxious Sorkinese, the terrible female characters, the heavy-handed plot points (Team Romney was mean to the media, and the media didn’t do its job!) and the great Jeff Daniels suffocated by the dialogue. Ah, what might have been. It’s euthanasia time, HBO.
If you missed premium content Sunday,...
Good morning, everyone. The Rawson-Neal controversy continues with what has become a predictable trajectory. Government downplays latest development, Democrats attack, administration reacts with sunny statement. The latest
is really something after the disclosure that the troubled hospital was denied accreditation and the day ending with the state announcing it wouldn’t appeal but that everything would be fine. If this were an issue people cared about----
What’s interesting here is that...
Good morning, everyone. I should write a book someday (or at least a long piece) about some of the stuff that’s been said over the last 12-plus years during breaks in my program. Lots of great stuff, but none better than Wednesday night when I turned to William Horne’s two beautiful children and asked about how fired up their Dad was on Stand Your Ground laws. “That’s why he should run for the Senate,” his son, Henry, responded, without missing a beat. You should have seen his father’s face. (...
Good morning, everyone. The riveting and revolting spectacleTuesday of Anthony Weiner and his wife (!) was something to behold. What is wrong with these politicians who can’t simply slink into the shadows once they have shown their true character? Remember how long John Ensign clutched onto power? And Jim Gibbons ran for re-election? As I both felt sorry for and was disgusted by Huma Abedin’s performance, I recalled how Darlene Ensign and Dawn Gibbons stood at news conferences by their men,...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 322
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 469
Good morning, everyone. I’m not exactly sure why legislative Democrats continue to be defensive about the 2011 Stand Your Ground law overwhelmingly passed in Nevada – Majority Leader William Horne is slated to come on “Ralston Reports” to talk about it on Wednesday. They seem to want to separate what they did...
Good morning, everyone. The great Pinky boxing mystery goes on, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid still not acknowledging that, even if he won the fight by a KO, that’s him on the ropes. Look at the comments, too, with almost all agreeing with the obvious, including Harriet Trudell and Naomi Millisor, the veteran Democratic activists who have known Reid for many decades. I further explored the burgeoning scandal here.
Speaking of mysteries, I am still waiting for my first response to a...
Good morning, everyone. I’ve finally posted my review of “This Town,” Mark Leibovich’s searing catalogue of DC people and parties. If you are interested in national politics, I highly recommend it. And it could have been written about any state capital, too – which reminds me to get back to my book outline----
I’ve also assembled some of what Leibovich had to say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In relatively few words, he captures the many sides of the complex anti-pol who is really...