And on the sixth day, Nevada Democrats looked for ‘new ideas’

The spend-more crowd showed up in force this Sunday in Southern Nevada newspapers.

This pundit (who virtually writes on Democrat Party letterhead) called it "sad" that we're missing out on a "historic debate on the tax structure and spending priorities."

And this pundit (who is relatively sane, all things considered) said we've already debated new taxes, so there's still time to enact them. He sounds like the Rob Schneider character in "The Waterboy" yelling to the Legislature: "You can do it!"

The Las Vegas Sun, meanwhile, spit out one of its more poorly constructed editorials on why smart people -- really smart people -- want and need higher taxes, even if they are not smart enough to realize it.

"The bottom line is," the Sun said, "that the anti-tax rhetoric used to support gutting state services doesn’t fly because it’s not realistic. Smart families and businesses don’t paint themselves into corners — they face reality and deal with it."

Really? So, when a the dad in a family loses his job and gas goes to $4 a gallon, the family deals with it by, what?, pulling the kids out of school and putting them to work so that the family can keep on spending? Does anyone actually edit Sun editorials for logic?

But the pièce de résistance this weekend came in an op-ed by Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford entitled "Time to set politics, ideology aside".

Exactly when was that, senator? There's about 30 days left in the session and you only now unveil your spend-more budget? If Horsford's op-ed showed anything, it showed that under the current leadership all hope is lost for setting aside politics and ideology.

On the sixth day of the creation of the Nevada budget, Sen. Horsford wrote that "Democrats looked for new ideas" to balance the budget.

And, surprise!

It came up ... drum-roll, please ... more spending, higher taxes.

It's a wonder that Horsford's piece didn't cause the whole of the Internet to come crashing down with an error message.