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Nevada’s best known political talking head, John Ralston, pokes fun at Nevada Congressman Dean Heller for sending this letter to Speaker Pelosi.

Ralston calls it an

“I really don’t care if you read this but I hope the media picks up on it or someone posts it on a blog” letter

If blog recognition was the primary motivation, “mission accomplished” since both John and I have now made note.

It would be nice to think Dean Heller actually meant what he wrote, but he would do better to form a coalition of outspoken opposition and have them all sign a letter and/or hold a Meeting on the Steps.  (And alert the media and the blogosphere, of course.)

The coalition could start their press conference by stating that Nancy Pelosi refuses to meet with them to discuss the death of the secret ballot and coerced unionization through Card Check.

Or was that the idea?

Congressman Heller?

Here’s an amusing anecdote from my friend E.M.:

So I’ve been visiting friends in Louisiana for the last few days; partly to catch up because I haven’t seen them in forever, and partly because I love Mardi Gras – and thanks to a special surprise, I was actually able to go this year and enjoy it.

I love everything about the South: the food, the pace of life, the fact that my skin doesn’t get dry and that people walk around with funny hats on for no reason and don’t get self-conscious. But most of all, I love it because of interactions like this:

We were sitting around the kitchen table after Bacchus, when a two year old child came running in brandishing a toy shotgun (with real cocking and smoking action!), aiming and firing at nothing, shortly followed by his mother.

Mother: “Give me that gun!”

Child: “No!”

Mother: “Give ME THAT GUN!”

Child: “No!”

Mother takes the gun.

Child cries.

Father (from Kitchen Table): “Give him back that gun, Nancy Pelosi!”

Another child (also from Kitchen Table) bursts into tears: “Don’t call mama that, Daddy!!!”