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have you met jim gibbons?

i knew him in congress as the gray-haired man with the boehner-tan who'd only traipse down to the floor to poo-poo tax raising every few months. last year he became the proud governor of nevada in a secret swearing-in 12 seconds after midnight on new year’s eve at home, “citing ominous nonspecific security threats that aides later said pertained to the execution of Sadam Hussein.” because al-qaeda hates fake tans.

consider his campaign stump:

Among the more memorable campaign remarks made by Mr. Gibbons, a former combat pilot and veteran of both the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, was his suggestion that “liberal, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals” ought to be used as human shields in Iraq. It all played well with Mr. Gibbons’s base of voters in rural and Northern Nevada.

who can blame them? who wants a hippie? better to sit back and witness the magic anyway:

In the last few months, Mr. Gibbons, a Republican, announced a plan to turn coal into jet fuel to raise money (problematic, as Nevada has no coal to speak of) and proposed paying for a $3.8 billion shortfall in highway construction money by selling water rights under state highways (it turns out the state did not actually own the rights). He told a local editorial board he could not pronounce the name of his energy adviser because she was “Indian” — she is Turkish — and vetoed a bill that would stop budget-busting tax breaks for builders of “green” buildings before issuing an executive order to end them anyway (with the exception of four companies).

it gets better.

Labels: gubernatorial dongs

posted by the cold cowboy @ 12:08 PM