Isn’t that sweet, warm and fuzzy? Grandmotherly? It sorta reminds me of that other Republican grandfatherly type back in the 80’s that stood up and told us - in his best Hollywood actor voice - that government was the problem.

My husband, back in the day as an airline captain, had Ronald Reagan in his cockpit on many occasions, while Reagan was governor of California. Mr. Maven always told me how delightful the man was, warm, funny and gracious - so unlike his wife. But, Mr. Maven would also say, ” the man is like my uncle Larry, warm, funny and gracious, but not presidential material.”

Actually, Reagan got the infant ‘conservative’ base all fired up to carry out a concerted effort to kill effective government in America. You’re seeing the results of that today. They starved it of money when they could, and when they couldn’t, made sure idiots were put in charge with predictable results.

Sharron Angle would like to carry on that tradition. Maybe we could aspire to being Mexico - with no effective government. Or, Afghanistan.

“As Grover Norquist has said: ‘My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.’”

Isn’t it time for these people to stop defining ‘government’ as some sort of alien being within our midst? Isn’t government you - and me? Aren’t we the ones who vote and elect?

I don’t believe in re-inventing the wheel by writing a post when somebody else has done it already - far more eloquently than I could. To that end, I’m giving you some good insight on the deliberate campaign to make sure you believe what Ronald Reagan and Sharron Angle said - that government is the problem.

The Anti-Government Campaign

on the Government is Good website, a project of Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoak College

There is a political movement dedicated to denigrating and radically reducing American government. What is it and how did it come to be?

“Fact 1: Of course, you can blame Sen. Harry Reid for contributing to the highest unemployment rate in Nevada. As Senate majority leader, he has pushed the Dems’ tax-and-spend agenda through Congress. His actions have hurt both our national and Nevada’s economy. No wonder he is dogged by unfavorable ratings among Nevada voters over shameful unemployment rates and record foreclosures.

Fact 2.: Remember, it is Congress that controls the money. Since the election in 2006, the Democrats controlled Congress. Before that the economy was good. We now have the largest federal deficit in history. Thanks, Harry.

Fact 3: Congress is adopting the left-wing agenda of Obama, Reid and Pelosi. They’ve rammed through ObamaCare, wasteful stimulus packages, Cash for Clunkers, etc. Unfortunately, they are not done yet.

I recently saw a bumper sticker, “unREID our country.” Yeah to that.”

Lorraine Koster, Sparks

The common modern usage of the word fact refers to verified information that reflects an objective reality. An example might be the ‘fact’ that the earth revolves around the sun. This is a reality that has been repeatedly verified, objectively, by numerous authoritative sources.

But, when you take ‘facts’ that merely represent your own subjectively personal ‘reality’, that have only been ‘verified’ by your own Greek chorus of similar thinking pals, then it’s really not a ‘fact’ but rather an ‘opinion’.

It’s your own subjective  i

Here’s the score: Reid’s campaign re-posted the original Angle website - with all her seriously deranged ideas - that was scrubbed when she won the Nevada GOP primary. She stamped her little feet in anger, and got her lawyers - Dewey, Cheetum and Howe to threaten the Reid campaign. Uh, on what grounds we’re not sure. Probably on the grounds of “ooooo, you’re just so mean!”

Anyway, Reid’s people took it down - redirecting to an alternate Angle reality site they’d posted - and confered.

Nope, not illegal. Actually, fully legal under the um