Titus running again — hello, UNLV, anyone home?

It's been lost in the shuffle of the news over the last couple of days, but it merits much more attention.

Former Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus told The Daily Caller that she is "seriously considering" another run for Congress in 2011.

Political "analyst" Jon Ralston, who pretty much works for the Nevada Democratic Party and the kingmakers who rule that party (and doesn't know jack about the meaning of the movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance") tweeted that Titus wasn't "seriously considering" another bid. Ralston said Titus is definitely running ... "she's in".

It raises the question for the umpteenth time as to whether anyone at the UNLV is minding the budget store.

Titus has used her taxpayer funded political science job at UNLV to launch and further her long political career. When she lost her congressional re-election to Dr. Joe Heck, she immediately found work back at her UNLV nest. And when the student Republican group started raising a stink about how much she was getting paid to do very little work while the university budget was in dire straits, Ms. Titus complained that the mean students were picking on her. She was a private citizen, she said, and not an elected official or, by logical extension, an aspiring elected official.

Now we find from The Daily Caller that she, in fact, is. And it's confirmed by no less than the Nevada Democrat Party's unofficial press secretary.

The question now is what is UNLV going to do about it. It's pretty hard to justify Dina Titus on the payroll now, isn't it? UNLV wouldn't possibly keep her on another day after hearing this, could they?

Hello, is anybody at UNLV at home?

(Postscript -- This same standard should apply to any stripe of politician, left or right. UNLV should not be a paid landing spot for booted politicians to wait for another position for which to run.)