REID or....uh..... REID??

Sandoval gives up a lifetime appointment many say was only given to him by Harry Reid in order to keep Sandoval from running against him for the U.S. Senate. Tho locals are predicting he has given up the prestigious and lucrative job in order run for governor. After all, Jim Gibbons pretty much jumped the shark even before his election. Nobody but Jim thinks he is re-electable. Conventional wisdom says that should he run for Governor of Nevada, his opponent in the general election would be none other than Rory Reid, son of the useless, onerous Senate Majority Leader Himself. Rory has been around Nevada politics for a long time. The apple does not fall far from the tree. Rightzilla thinks he may ahve his eye on another Reid, the old man himself.........Icky Harry...you know...he is the one who calls tourists stinky. I say, which ever position Mr. Sandoval (former Attorney General, Assemblyman and Federal Judge) decides to take on, he must be pretty confident he has the cash coming and support to beat a Reid. I hope so, because like cockroaches, you gotta squash them all to get rid of the pleague they present.

If Mr. Sandoval prevails in either fight, it is Rightzilla's hope that he will put Yucca back on the map as a storage facility for nuclear waste. It has to go somewhere and it was quite a process, beginning clear back in 1978, even getting to the point where Yucca was the choice. Then we spent BILLIONS getting it built only to see NOBAMA begin to deliver the final deathnell. We will keep our eye on this as it develops.

DASHING DASCHLE

Well. The chickens are coming home to roost. In the early days of his presidency, Obama is getting a lesson in cronyism gone bad. Seems that TomTom is a tax evader. So is the commerce head. easy to vote to raise taxes if you do not pay your own. Makes one wonder what went through ol' TomTom's cranium when he decided to skip all that tax obligation. Is he too GOOD to pay taxes? Is he thinking he already pays too much in taxes? Any Republican would say he likely has too high a tax burden...the rich do. They really do. But given the "jobs/stimulus" package passed by nearly every democrat in the house (and not ONE republican vote) they NEEEEEEED all the money they can get from productive people to pay for the layabouts with their hands out. OH...and lets not forget the:

• $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

(credit: rightpundits.com).

Not bad for those who don't pay taxes anyway. Whether because they don't work or cheat like the sanctimonious liberal elites we are flushing out into the light. Isn't it TomTom who disdained those who did not pay their taxes????? What a hypocrite. But, he is not alone. I will be running a DEMO-TAX-RAT list right here at Rightzilla!

Goodbye, Mr. Ford

The passing of President Ford has been an interesting study in political equivocation. He was a man largely forgotten, sandwiched between President Nixon who stepped down in scandal, and President Carter, who injects himself into politics to this day in just as ineffectual a manner as he did during his tenure in office. He lost his re-election, which actually was his election campaign, and then simply waved goodbye and sank into the backs of our minds, rarely conjured up except for when he was useful as the butt of a good golf joke.

The most memorable action of our 38th president was his controversial pardon of Richard M. Nixon. He was berated by the democrats and people claimed he was simply playing favorites with his predecessor to save him from deserved criminal action. But this man was no dummy. He knew that the country was in a spiral after Watergate, the Viet Nam War and the scandals that elevated him to the highest office in the land. But rather than not do what was controversial and make sure that instead he could live another four years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he did what he thought was right and he issued the pardon. Historians today widely credit him with having committed the act that single handedly began a national healing that was badly needed, and not any too soon.

Now the liberals, many the same ones who so vehemently opposed him, praise his actions. Even our own Harry Reid has doubled back on his view of the pardon.

My favorite John Wayne movie is The Quiet Man. It is the story of a strong but silent man who overcomes his demons of the past to stand his ground and maintain his pride. For 30 years, Ford sat back and awaited the taming of his demon while standing his ground and maintaining his pride. No sooner had he passed into the hereafter then his demons were tamed. He did not have to demand his place in history, or engineer the historical record to get there, he simply had to await the unfolding of history and let what he believed to be true play itself out. I am glad for men like Gerald R. Ford. They work for what they truly believe is right and they accept their fate as a result of their actions. Many times, as with Ford, fate shines upon their memory and affirms their good choices. R.I.P., President Ford.