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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...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: We'll see.
DAYS UNTIL PRIMARY ELECTION DAY 2014: 329
DAYS UNTIL GENERAL ELECTION DAY 2014: 476
Good morning, everyone. Remember when Dr. No, a k a Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, was John Ensign’s gynecologist? He protected Ensign for some time before clamming up. Well, Coburn is featured in “This Town” and had a love note for Las Vegas. Coburn, who is often at odds with Senate Majority Leader Harry...
Good morning, everyone. I received my copy of “The Town” over the weekend and it veritably teems with delightful nuggets about Washington insiders and the DC culture. I hope to have it finished as quickly as I can – I do have other duties, alas – and I will bring you a review as soon as I can as well as a sidebar on all the harry Reid stuff. (Author Mark Leibovich was kind enough to quote your favorite Reidologist on a couple of things.)
Not sure how many of you saw “The Newsroom,” Aaron...
Good morning, everyone. Point of personal privilege: The Teen is 18 today. Does this mean she won’t clean up her room anymore? (Oh, wait----) Does this mean she is not my little girl anymore? Does this mean I’m old? Oh, nevermind.
By now you may have heard that Sen. Rand Paul, in town this weekend to rev up the Nevada GOP and gain a foothold here as his father already has, canceled a “Ralston Reports” appearance less than 24 hours before it was scheduled. He has done this kind of dodge before,...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Student loans.
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 481
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 1
Good morning, everyone. Set your DVRs: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will make a rare Sunday show appearance Reid on “Meet the Press" (hat tip to Steve Tetreault). As we all know – and as Mark Leibovich shows in his new book – when Prince Harry speaks, anything can happen. And when he goes on TV programs...
TONIGHT'S RALSTON REPORTS: Third anniversary of Erik Scott shooting, and there's a new book.
DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY 2014: 482
DAYS UNTIL THE TEEN CAN AFFECT THE POLITICAL WORLD: 2
Good morning, everyone. The Harry Reid hits just keep on coming from Mark Leibovich’s new book, “The Town,” which will officially be released next week. The latest, via Salon, contains this gem:
“On Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer’s reactions to the news that...
Good morning, everyone. Am I the only one in the country not obsessed with the Zimmerman trial? How are all of these cable TV stations making the decision to have this wall-to-wall coverage? Whoops. I spoke too soon. I have just received the memo: Tonight’s “Ralston Reports” is on local reaction to the trial so far: Guilty or not guilty? YOU be the judge!
Speaking of soap operas, I am eagerly awaiting my copy of “This Town,” which is Timesman Mark Leibovich’s apparently scorching takedown of...
Good morning, everyone. Did you miss me? OK, don’t answer that. I can’t handle the truth. I see I didn’t miss much beyond newly minted CD3 hopeful Erin Bilbray morphing immediately into Dean Heller (it’s US vs. DC!). Ah, the summer doldrums. But fear not, dear Flashees: I am back to make sure something happens or make stuff up----
Of course there are no doldrums in New York City, with a Weiner-Spitzer ticket now a real possibility. Which gets me to thinking: The Republicans have no obvious...
Good morning, everyone. Yes, history was made Thursday when the U.S. Senate, with more than two-thirds voting aye, passed comprehensive immigration reform. But whither goes it now? Looks like best-case scenario is that some pieces of it will pass out of the House, although that sort of defeats the whole “comprehensive purpose, no? My favorite post-vote news release was from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, gushing about Dean Heller’s support. No mention from the progressives of...
Good morning, everyone. I suppose I should be flattered. After all, it’s not every day that a U.S. senator attacks you on the floor of the world’s greatest deliberative body – even obliquely. But that’s just what Sen. Dean Heller did during his predictable yet awkward embrace of immigration reform on Wednesday. I wasn’t flattered, however, by the junior senator’s petulance. I was more stunned, then saddened.
So I offered this restrained response.
What’s below: Nevada and SJR 13, “newspaper”...