Angle proves to be backroom brawler/deal maker worthy of Jethro

Once again, Angle is clearly caught out, on an audio recording this time, trashing the national GOP leadership to within an inch of it’s life just before they throw a big fundraiser for her on Wednesday of this week.

Ooops!

Then she goes on to try an end run on her GOP handlers, in a wasted attempt to clumsily craft a deal with a goofy ‘Tea Party’ rival wannabe, Scott Ashjian. Angle recklessly risks her carefully concocted ‘reputation’ as a kindly grandmother, above it all and trodding the High Road, with a nobody who has less than 1% of the potential vote. So much for Angle’s perceived authenticity and tight relationship with her GOP money and ‘charm school’ machine.

She tells Ashjian that she wants the GOP leadership “to leave me alone.”

“…so I moved myself up within the Republican ranks….they have no choice, I’m the only game in town…. There was no one more shocked than they were when I won that primary, when I went back to Washington DC, they were still moaning and groaning and weeping and gnashing teeth over Sue Lowden…And I said I am what ya got, this is it.”” Sharron Angle to Scott Ashjian

Now there’s some canny political maneuvering and cogitatin’ worthy of Jethro Bodine.

If she were to win in November, just what do you think her reward will be from the national GOP leadership - vis a vis committee appointments?

“Angle: “(The Republicans in DC) don’t want me back there…because they know I’ll shake this mess up….…..I shook it up in Carson City, they hated me there…41-Angle was not a compliment……..When I go back, there may be five or six of us….maybe Joe Miller (Alaska), Ken Buck (Colorado), Christine O’Donnell (Delaware).” Sharron Angle to Scott Ashjian

Serving up the famous Bean Soup in the Senate Dining Room perhaps? (Click here for the recipe) I’ve had it, and it’s really very good.

Watch out Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell and Tom Coburn. Angle is angling for your jobs!

“…You want to see DeMint, I have juice with him….I go to Washington, DC and want to see Jim DeMint, he’s right there for me. I want to see Tom Coburn, he’s right there for me. I want to see Mitch McConnell, he’s there.” Sharron Angle to Scott Ashjian

And just how will that advance any of her agenda to eliminate Social Security, Medicare, the Veterans’ Administration. How will that help anybody back here in World-of-hurtin’ Nevada?

Meanwhile, back in the real world at Rancho Reid, it seems that he has done brung $125 million to Nevada in 2010 alone. In addition to health care for those who can ill afford it. While protecting Social Security and Medicare for future generations. Protecting Washoe County Senior Services. Beefing up police departments around the state. Getting critical mission essential equipment and technology to keep Nellis and the Naval Warfare and Air Strike Center relevant and at the top of their game - and employing locals.

Reid has also been instrumental in getting funding for 21st century jobs in Nevada by obtaining funding for development of ultrafiltration membrane separation technology for energy efficient water treatment and desalination processes, an alternate energy school of the future, renewable energy feasibility studies and assessments (probably done by environmental consultants around the state), Washoe wind turbine demonstration project.

At UNR , Harry Reid got funding for: mass exchanger technology for geothermal and solar energy systems, Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy, biodiesel from food waste, and the DRI Renewable Energy Center.

The contributions directed toward the Nevada Cancer Institute, the US Army Corps of Engineers in regard to protecting Lake Tahoe (which I’m intimately familiar with), Nevada consumers, parents, school children, educators and more lay critical foundations for pulling this states’ economy out of the Bush-Cheney ditch.

Those funds - which Angle would probably refer to as ‘pork’ - reflect JOBS, JOBS and more JOBS. Perhaps not today, but soon and for the long term. Long after the Indian casinos and online gaming have stolen the thunder from the Nevada gaming industry as an employer, and the mining industry which has reached its limits of job production.

If you’re a person working for a paycheck, with a family, going to school to better your circumstances, working in law enforcement, working in education, working in health care, working at any of Nevada’s military installations, on Social Security, taking Medicare, on Tri-Care, going to the VA hospital …  I can’t imagine you’d vote for anybody but Reid.

If you moved to Nevada to hunker down and avoid paying your fair share, with an “I’ve got mine” mentality, you’ll want Angle.

The choice really is quite clear.

Either you care or you don’t.

-maven

And, this just in to the mavenandmeddler newsroom:

REID ANNOUNCES $8 MILLION FOR NEVADA PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Washington D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid announced this week Nevada will receive

$8 million from the Department of Transportation (DOT) for the State of Good Repair Program. The Nevada Department of Transportation will distribute the funds to be used to maintain and repair buses across the state.

“Nevada’s bus systems remain an important part of the state’s transportation system, providing affordable transportation to and from schools, jobs, and tourist locations,” Reid said. “Federal investment in bus transit centers and in the upkeep of public transportation is an investment in our economy and in jobs for Nevadans.”

According to a national study nearly 18 percent of the nation’s bus fleet is in need of repair and almost half of the nation’s bus facilities are over 20 years old. The grant will also provide funding for an effective asset management system that will increase the ability of the buses to remain in use for several more years, drastically reducing the overall costs of the transportation system.