{"id":1102,"date":"2013-01-04T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T01:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2013-01-04T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:13:24","slug":"the-incredible-lightness-of-being-state-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/04\/the-incredible-lightness-of-being-state-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Lightness of Being&#8230; State Treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the biennial Nevada legislature kicking off for their 120-day limited threatening of life, liberty, and property, the idiocy of politicians steps out even more <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetnevada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">front and center<\/a> than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, with an early lead out of the starting-gate, Nevada Treasurer Kate Marshall has already made numerous vapid babblings already.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>in 1800s under gallatin\/Madison US paid off all debt &amp; shrink govt substantially which exposed US to British successes in war of 1812 &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kate Marshall (@KateMarshallNV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateMarshallNV\/status\/287328532579885056\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-04T22:43:55+00:00\">January 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\">\n<p>As a result A Hamilton&#8217;s policies were implemented whereby debt was used to fund infrastructure needs and keep America secure<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kate Marshall (@KateMarshallNV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KateMarshallNV\/status\/287328809269751808\" data-datetime=\"2013-01-04T22:45:01+00:00\">January 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a bit frightening to think that Nevada&#8217;s finances are in the hands of someone who thinks that the elimination of the debt in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_public_debt\" target=\"_blank\">1835-1836<\/a> caused the British to be successful in the war of 1812, which resulted in the financial actions of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was <a href=\"  https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Hamilton\" target=\"_blank\">killed<\/a> in 1804.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unless she tweeted all this in order to avoid the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/All_Good_Things..._(episode)\" target=\"_blank\">destruction of humanity<\/a> from a Star Trek: TNG plot point with the assistance of Q, there really is no excuse for such idiocy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To make matters worse, she wants to be responsible for running elections in Nevada, and is planning to run for <a href=\"http:\/\/ralstonreports.com\/blog\/my-column-predictions-2013#.UOdzlzXyA18\" target=\"_blank\">Secretary of State<\/a>.  Perhaps the trope of a Democrat announcing the election results <em>before<\/em> the votes are cast will come true.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With the biennial Nevada legislature kicking off for their 120-day limited threatening of life, liberty, and property, the idiocy of politicians steps out even more front and center than usual. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sadly, with an early lead out of the starting-gate, Nevada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/01\/04\/the-incredible-lightness-of-being-state-treasurer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,1],"tags":[15,22,27,50,7],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-democrats","tag-fail","tag-nevada","tag-nvleg","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}