Penny Press Nevada, USA Volume 16 Number 13 NOVEMBER 29, 2018

They Stuck The Landing!

American Exceptionalism On Mars! THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 2

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The latest example… Sandoval and the 2015 Nevada spokeswoman Jeanine Klein said Special to the Penny Press Back in 1998, Clark County Legislature made those “temporary” that “Residential customers will be (NV) voters approved an advisory tax hikes passed during the Great charged a quarter-percent reliability Ronald Reagan understood question for a “temporary” quarter- Recession permanent. surcharge, resulting in a 7 to 10 the nature of government like no cent hike in the sales tax for “water The Las Vegas City Council is cent increase for the average user at one since our Founding Fathers. and wastewater infrastructure” considering a resolution in support $26 a month.” And this Reagan quote is about as projects. That tax, as passed, was of the lobbying effort by the Anybody out there still paying set to expire – “sunset” in political- Southern Nevada Water Authority anywhere near $26 bucks a month Commentary speak - in 2025. (SNWA) to make the quarter-cent for their water? Didn’t think so. And while a quarter-cent sounds tax hike permanent. In a November Here’s why. like a piddling amount, a quarter 21, 2018 memo to the council from Hearken back, dear taxpayer, cent here and a quarter cent there the Director of Administrative to this article by Henry Breen of immutable as “what goes up must adds up to a pretty humongous Services, Ted Olivas wrote… the Las Vegas Review-Journal on come down”… figure. In fact, since 1999 that “This stable revenue source December 3, 2013… “No government ever little quarter cent added to your is needed to maintain the credit “Ever feel like your water bill voluntarily reduces itself in size. sales purchases has totaled up to a worthiness of water agencies and goes up every year? Get used to Government programs, once whopping $1.4 BILLION dollars. keep water bills affordable for it. On Tuesday, the Clark County launched, never disappear. Actually, Nevertheless, a move is afoot customers.” Commission, sitting as the board a government bureau is the nearest by government bureaucrats urging Let me ask you a question: for the Las Vegas Valley Water thing to eternal life we’ll ever see the Clark County Commission to Do you think your water bill is District, unanimously approved a on this earth!” remove the “sunset” clause and “affordable”? series of annual rate hikes scheduled Same goes for “temporary” tax make the tax hike permanent – you Indeed, back in December 1997, to begin in January and top out in hikes foisted upon citizens to pay know, just like how Gov. Brian Southern Nevada Water Authority Continued on page4 The Conservative Weekly Voice Of Nevada RON KNECHT PAGE 5 Penny Wisdom FRED WEINBERG PAGE 6 Inside: ROBERT RINGER PAGE 7 I said, I heard you’re closing DOUG FRENCH PAGE 9 Saudi Journo Was your plant…It’s not going to be closed for long, I hope, ANDREW LANGER PAGE 10 NOT a U.S. Citizen Mary, because if it is you ROBERT ROMANO PAGE 11 have a problem. CHUCK MUTH PAGE 14 See Editorial Page 6 —President Donald Trump THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 4 The BS Hucksters Use To Sell Snake Oil Continued from page 3 2017. All customers, from the smallest home to the largest resort, can hikes passed in 2009 permanent. They claimed that nobody’s CURRENT expect to see their bills go up…” taxes would go up; therefore, it wasn’t a tax “increase.” And they ain’t done yet. From SNWA’s current website… But the lie lies within the fact that the tax increase was originally sold “In 2017, the Las Vegas Valley Water District Board of Directors as being temporary; that the temporary tax would eventually go away; that approved a change to water rates to support the LVVWD’s capital your taxes would one day be LOWER again. That’s the BS these hucksters improvements efforts over the next decade. The Water District is investing used to sell their snake oil. more than $600 million to upgrade, replace and expand pipelines, pumping In 2025, that “temporary” quarter-cent tax hike is supposed to stations, reservoirs and other infrastructure vital to the operation of the disappear. And no matter how Mr. Olivas tries to slice it and buffalo the community’s water system. Beginning in January 2018, typical monthly public, any extension of a “temporary” tax hike that’s supposed to go residential water bills will increase by about 75 cents as the second phase away is a new tax HIKE. Period. of the rate modification takes effect.” The FACT is, voters in 1998 voted for the quarter-cent tax hike with Before the third phase kicks in. Then the fourth. Then the fifth. the understanding that it would drop back in 2025. So any effort by the Eternal life! county commission to remove the “sunset” clause and either extend or Now… make permanent the quarter-cent tax hike is an outright breech of contract If the “temporary” quarter-cent sales tax hike was sold to consumers and a betrayal of the voters who voted for it. and taxpayers as necessary for “water and wastewater infrastructure” Since the VOTERS voted for the TEMPORARY tax hike in 1998, projects, why are our monthly water rates still being jacked up for the ONLY honest way to extend or make it permanent should be via “pipelines, pumping stations, reservoirs and other infrastructure” projects? ANOTHER vote of the people, not the seven members of the county Something smells here…and it ain’t the wastewater treatment plant commission. Period. near my home! If the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the Clark County Commission, Sounds to me like there’s either some mismanagement going on, or the Las Vegas City Council, and any other “eternal life” government mission creep, or taxpayers have once again been scammed by the ol’ department, agency or bureau wants to extend or make permanent that bait-and-switch. “temporary” quarter-cent tax hike…put it on the ballot, make your case Oh, and here’s the most dishonest part of the scam… and let the people decide. Under the “Fiscal Impact” heading of his memo to council members, Period. Olivas listed: “No Impact.” (Mr. Muth is president of CitizenOutreach.org and publisher of That’s pure, unadulterated bull droppings. And it’s the same scam NevadaNewsandViews.com. He blogs at MuthsTruths.com. His views Republicans pulled in 2015 to justify voting to make the “temporary” tax are his own.) THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 5 Commentary: Ron Knecht and James Smack in congress should lead the way. the service economy. century. As controller and deputy Time for Federal The first action is simple: The electorates in three controller, we’re acutely aware of the federal government should conservative states, Missouri, the financial and security problems Prohibition of reclassify cannabis. It should not be Oklahoma and Utah, voted federal prohibition has caused a schedule one drug. Let’s even go to approve legalized medical individuals and businesses, plus the this far: completely decriminalize cannabis in this year’s election. states that have recognized even Cannabis to End cannabis on a federal level. This leaves just six states that still just the medical value of marijuana With Republicans running consider cannabis to be illegal for and legalized that use. Nevada Republicans suffered a point on the issue. any purpose: Idaho, South Dakota, It’s surprising we have not heard significant setback in last month’s The war on drugs, especially Nebraska, Kansas, West Virginia more stories of people being robbed elections, despite good efforts, and against cannabis, has been a and Indiana. going into cannabis establishments, we need to revisit some issues. We dismal failure. Even before there We’ll be surprised if several which are all-cash businesses. We won’t change our principles, but being a recreational dispensary in of those states do not at least pass are equally surprised there have not it’s time to square those principles nearly every major municipality medical cannabis initiatives by been more robbery attempts at the with some changed facts on the in Nevada, it was not difficult to 2020. Nationwide, the people have dispensaries, which are often flush ground. procure marijuana on the black spoken. with cash. Let’s start with marijuana. market. Total social costs of Yet, federal law still classifies Touring a medical dispensary Consistent with Republican this ineffectual war have greatly cannabis as a schedule one drug, a couple of years ago, James was “leave us alone” principles that exceeded its total social benefits. with no medical uses. told by the proprietor that he must oppose federal micromanagement One friend stated, “Even before Why? Follow the money. regularly take large amounts of of people’s lives, it’s time for recreational cannabis was legal, There’s huge money in big cash to the bank. To put the cash the federal government to make I could get an ounce of weed pharma, and if you follow the into a safe deposit box, of course, cannabis legal and get out of the delivered to my home faster than I money, many folks waging this because it would be illegal to have a way of the states on such matters. could get a pizza.” Already part of losing fight against the proliferation bank account and own a dispensary. The President and Republicans of medical and recreational Leaving his shop, traveling to cannabis have some association the bank and entering it, he is an with big pharma. obvious target for thieves. We understand there are So, the federal government Tips Of Our Cap substantially fewer deaths needs promptly to do at least from using cannabis than using two things: eliminate the federal psychotropic drugs and opioid pain schedule one designation and and killers big pharma continues to tell fully decriminalize marijuana; us are safe. Big pharma wants to and change banking regulations deflect attention from the problems to let this industry and its people Bronx Cheers their products cause, so they rail operate in a safe and financially about cannabis. secure manner. This will also solve Republicans nationwide should problems states face in regulating The Penny Press Tips Its Cap To: urge the Trump Administration and and taxing it. Congress to roll back the schedule It’s well past time for Each and every person who was associated with NASA’s Insight mission to Mars which successfully one designation on cannabis and Republicans to square the federal landed on the red planet on November 26 and within four minutes sent back its first picture from the fully decriminalize it at the federal cannabis issue with their principles, surface. The spacecraft stuck the landing perfectly, going from 12,300 miles per hour to zero in six level. Let the states decide whether quit following the big pharma line, minutes. Do you believe in American Exceptionalism? You better. they want cannabis legalized for and let states make the decisions medical use only, recreational and on cannabis based upon the will of President Trump for his very plain spoken response to the CEO of General Motors for her idiot plan to medical use, or not legalized at all. their citizens. screw American taxpayers so she can make more money in China. Apparently, the brain trust at GM Also, Republican legislators Yes, follow the tenth amendment has forgotten that it was the American taxpayer who allowed them to stay in business in 2008. That brain freeze must have maid it easy to want to close the plant in Ohio. should be developing bipartisan of the Constitution. legislation, led by either the The Penny Press Sends A Bronx Cheer Republican minority in the house RON KNECHT or our majority in the senate, to And A Bouquet of Weeds To: eliminate banking restrictions and and JAMES SMACK bring this industry into the 21st The morons on the left who are still yammering about tear gas at the Southern border in the face of the fact that the caravan IS trying to invade the and that they have NO claim for asylum in view of the fact that they rejected that very offer from the government of Mexico. www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 6

From The Publisher...OPINION Saudi Journo No More Worthy Than Plumber From Peoria I’m getting a little sick of people who self-identify as on AT&T’s Chicken Noodle News Network. “journalists” thinking that they are somehow entitled to more protection than, say, a plumber in Peoria. Now at that point, they are not “enemies of the people” but merely bozos who get paid a lot more than the late Bob Bell Our constitution guarantees freedom of the press in our who actually played Bozo the Clown on WGN in Chicago. country. Where they venture into that category is when they start It doesn’t, as an example, guarantee the safety of a Saudi making things up and reporting it as if it were news. citizen in Turkey from his own government simply because that Saudi citizen writes a column for the Washington Post and lives So and so is LEAVING the administration they report breathlessly. in Washington on a visa when it suites him. Everybody in the White House is trying to undermine the Foreign “journalists”, outside our borders, are simply not President is a common refrain. covered by the Constitution, any more than we guarantee the safety of Saudi lesbians in Turkey. And “journalists” within Two things. A) Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. B) the United States are NOT a protected class—like the Sage There is plenty of REAL news which simply goes unreported… Grouse…or the LGBT community. They are just—exactly—like like, deregulation successes. plumbers in Peoria. And they get the same physical protection as anyone else. The first leads to a small number of reports which eventually turn out to be close to correct. And the second makes them Put another way, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of players on the “enemies” team. the press—not physical protection of “journalists”. And then, there are the overfed and overpaid “journalists” who Now, let’s talk about creeps like Jim Acosta who somehow think think they are smarter than the President. They’re the ones that they are entitled to special access to places like, say, the who, as an example, deride the President’s statement that the White House. caravan of Central Americans is an invasion. Like Acosta did.

First of all, despite what a rookie Federal Judge said, nobody is And, often, freedom of speech means you are free to make a entitled to a White House hard pass or an all access NASCAR complete bozo of yourself. Like Acosta. hard pass or an all access pass to the Super Bowl. That may have to go all the way to the Supreme Court, but here’s another But real people in flyover country have a balancing test. fact most non “journalists” don’t know: You do not need to be in the White House press room to cover the White House. They ask themselves who is the President and what has he In fact, the laziest people in the business are those who sit accomplished and balance it against the question, would I ever around the press room eating what’s free, drinking coffee and vote for the bozo making a fool of himself by trying to make looking important. the President look bad.

People who really chase stories develop sources and you can I’m not suggesting that Presidents don’t occasionally make bet that doesn’t happen in full view of the herd. It happens in themselves look bad. places beyond the view of the competition and mostly on the phone. I’m just suggesting that someone playing Bozo the Clown with a CNN press credential should go out, find the news and report In fact, full access is almost a prison. The only thing it really it as opposed to playing chicken with the most powerful leader gives a “journalist” is live access to press briefings which, in the free world. Assuming what he reported was true, we frankly, produce little if any news…except, of course, when a might all learn something. “journalist” makes a complete bozo of himself—like Acosta. And you don’t need a White House hard pass to do that. So, for the most part, the Acostas of the world sit around and BS each other. Which explains the stand-up act at the press FRED WEINBERG conferences. If not for that, he would have nothing to put forth THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 7 Commentary: Robert Ringer that the Dirty Dems have recaptured the House, the lies we’ve heard over The Art of the Lie the past two years are sure to be multiplied many times over. A handful of examples include: The lost decade of the sixties brought relativism up to a whole new • Most of the news the media feeds us is a lie. level, as millions of young people were relieved to discover that lying • The apocalyptic dangers posed by manmade climate change is a lie. is a perfectly acceptable alternative to truth telling. The tone was set by • Transgenderism is a lie. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, along with underlings • Establishment Republicans professing to be conservatives is a lie. like Robert McNamara, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Dean Rusk, all of whom • Antifa fighting against fascists is a lie. repeatedly lied about the costly, spreading war in Southeast Asia. • Institutionalized racism in the United States is a lie. Of course, no one went to jail … or was even indicted … or impeached. • Democratic compassion is a lie. After all, what’s the big deal about lying, even if it destroys untold numbers • The Mueller investigation is a lie. of lives and families — both in the United States and on the other side of • The notion that elected representatives work for the people who the globe? vote them into office is a lie. Then, along came Richard Nixon in 1968, who dutifully carried on • The claim that there is no voter fraud in America is a lie. the subterfuges surrounding the Vietnam War. At one point, he even told • The whole concept of hate speech is a lie. the American public, without blinking an eye, that he was going to bomb • Everything about illegal immigration is a lie. Cambodia “to shorten the war.” (That must have been when he earned the • Planned Parenthood as a provider of women’s health services is a moniker “Tricky Dick.”) lie. Unfortunately for Nixon, he stayed around a bit too long, and when And, of course … he naively put his trust in a sniveling little nerd named John Dean, it was • Everything about Barack Obama is a lie, and … the beginning of the end for him. Republicans, of course, once again • Everything about Michelle Obama is a lie. proved that they’re always ready to eat their own by giving full support to And on … and on … and on. The Lie List is endless. their Democratic soulmates, thus forcing Tricky to resign. No doubt Jeff But it’s not just politicians who lie. Professional liars are everywhere Flake has fantasies about how exhilarating it would have been had he been — in the business world, in religious institutions, in sports, in the film involved in going after Nixon. industry … literally everywhere. The sad fact is that lying has become a Today, of course, high-level politicians don’t resign when they’re national pastime. We are now the Land of the Lie and the Home of the Liar. caught lying, because they realize they can get away with it. They are One of the biggest secrets of professional liars is their uncanny ability well aware that their counterparts in both parties, with just a handful of to tell the biggest whoppers imaginable without displaying so much as a exceptions, aren’t about to do anything to weaken the power structure that smirk. Further, they tend to be masters at feigning indignation whenever has made it possible for them to commit crimes without having to worry they’re caught in a lie. about punishment. The reason professional liars can be so convincing is that in many cases It wasn’t surprising, then, that two decades later Bubba got away — perhaps a majority of cases — they have devolved to a point where they with wagging his finger at the American public and chastising those who actually believetheir own lies. From whence comes their self-delusion of didn’t believe him by saying that he “did not have sexual relations with moral superiority. that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.” Understandably feeling an abundance of So, how do honest people survive in the Land of the Lie and the Home confidence, he then outdid himself when he answered a perfectly clear of the Liar? By fighting lies with more lies? I don’t think so. It’s not question on national television with a -type one liner, so much that two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s just that if you aren’t a “It depends upon what the meaning of the word is is.” natural-born liar, you won’t get away with it. You will be caught, while He then poked his finger in the public’s eye by adamantly stating that professional liars get off scot free. he intended to serve in his capacity as president until the last minute of the That being the case, I believe one of the great challenges to achieving a last day of his last term. And, by golly, he did just that. (Poor Nixon, he happy life is finding an efficient way to deal with the endless stream of lies didn’t realize that a president could pull that off or he might have tried it that surround us each day. Whether the lies be from politicians or people himself.) with whom you come in direct contact, my personal solution is to simply So, it’s not surprising that Bubba’s charming little wife has no fear ignore everything that comes out of the mouths of liars. I’m not saying it’s of lying about violating 1,823 federal laws (at last count, that is). Who easy, but with a bit of self-discipline, I know from firsthand experience that says you have to answer to the authorities for deleting 33,000 subpoenaed it works. emails? Who says you have to obey the law that forbids you from On the other side of the coin, you should always keep in mind that conducting government business on a private server in the basement of it’s just as important for you to have the courage to speak the truth when one of your mansions? Who says you have to answer the telephone in the all about you are lying their heads off (aka “group lying” or just plain middle of the night when the ambassador to Libya is begging for his life? groupthink). This isn’t just a moral choice. It’s also a rationally selfish Above all, who says you can’t dole out favors to America’s enemies in choice, because what it gives you is a clear mind coupled with dignity, two exchange for huge payoffs and lucrative speaking fees? Or pay millions to commodities that professional liars can never hope to acquire. the Russians to sabotage your opponent’s presidential campaign? ROBERT RINGER With all this as a backdrop, it’s little wonder that poll after poll has Robert Ringer (© 2018)is a New York Times #1 bestselling author who has shown that roughly two-thirds of U.S. students cheat and don’t see anything appeared on numerous national radio and television shows, including The wrong with it. And with thug athletes and Hollywood celebrities as their Tonight Show, Today, The Show, Good Morning America, role models, don’t look for that to change anytime soon. ABC Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, as well as Fox News and Fox Which brings me to politicians, who are, hands down, the most prolific Business. To sign up for a free subscription to his mind-expanding daily liars on the planet. They foist their lies upon us on a daily basis, and now insights, visit www.robertringer.com. THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 8 THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 9 Commentary: Doug French values. Trump Bump in Housing Turns into In the seemingly always red-hot Bay area and Silicon Valley homeowners are rushing to put their homes on the market. Wolf Richter Trump Dump writes, “So it’s time to unload. Sellers are putting their homes on the market, Donald Trump continues to claim victory, but the blue wave was and active listings in those three counties combined – San Francisco, undeniable on the left coast. You might say, California was already San Mateo, and Santa Clara, which cover the area from San Jose to San a bunch of lefties. Yeah, except Orange County has always been a Francisco – surged by 76% in October compared to October last year, to Republican stronghold since the days of R.C. Hoiles. In a review of Brian 4,149 listings, according to the National Association of Realtors.” Doherty’s “Radicals for Capitalism,” I wrote, The chart below dramatically illustrates the Bay Area price cutting. “One of the genuine heroes of the movement who the book The market is no better in Southern California. KTLA 5 News enlightened me to is R.C. Hoiles. It should have occurred to me sooner reported at the end of October, that a courageous man was behind a very libertarian daily newspaper “A chill is settling over the once white-hot Southern California being published from the middle of liberal California: the Orange County housing market.Listings are up. Sales are falling. Price reductions are Register. As Doherty describes, “Orange County became known, to a becoming more common.” large degree thanks to Hoiles himself, as ‘nut country,’ the hotbed of the The Seattle market also hit the ditch this summer. The number of rightest of the right wing.” listings doubled in October, from a year ago, with the number of listings “Any time a man has to pay for something he does not want because matching the lows of 2012. Price cuts in King County (Seattle and of the initiating of force by the government, he is, to that degree, a slave,” Bellevue) have tripled according to Wolfe Street. Hoiles wrote. Now that’s my kind of guy, and the fact that he owned a Mr. Richter makes the point that Seattle and San Francisco voters newspaper with all the pressures of making advertisers happy to keep the didn’t side with Trump in 2016, “But when it comes to home prices in presses running is heroic. these liberal bastions, the ‘Trump effect’ made property owners a ton of “Hoiles was an earthy and simple man and a notorious union-busting money – if they’re able to get out in time.” anarchist cuss,” writes Doherty, “who’d thrust himself into picket lines If they are not out by now, they may have waited too long. surrounding his property to tell the union boys why they were all wet.” DOUG FRENCH Just learning about the late Mr. Hoiles is worth the price of the book.” Orange County “nut country” went bluer than blue on election night. Was it Trump’s fault, or maybe the Trump Bump has turned into Trump www.pennypressnv.com Dump in west coast housing with voters voting their falling property THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 10 Commentary: Andrew Langer Meanwhile, Canadian and Mexican firms ship huge volumes of raw energy Ratifying New Trump Trade Deal products into the United States. Almost all heavy crude oil shipped out of Canada goes to refineries in the American Midwest, where it’s turned into gasoline and other products. Then, in turn, American companies sell refined products back; Will Secure America’s Energy Mexico alone imports nearly 900,000 barrels of refined petroleum products every day. Renaissance This cycle is a powerful employment engine. All told, the oil and gas sector supports 10 million American jobs and accounts for 8 percent of the national The White House has completed negotiations on the United States-Mexico- economy. Ripping up NAFTA without a replacement would have allowed the Canada Agreement, a modernized version of NAFTA, the 24-year-old free trade imposition of new trade barriers, dramatically slowing North American energy agreement that has transformed the American economy. trade. USMCA updates NAFTA framework for the 21st Century, installing new Fortunately, USMCA retains central components of NAFTA that made this rules for digital trade, intellectual property, and other crucial areas of the boom possible. The renaissance can continue unimpeded. continental economy. USMCA is also an exercise in restraint; it doesn’t touch For example, USMCA requires an official commitment from the Mexican parts of NAFTA that are working — especially trade provisions powering government to remain open to American energy investment. And it ratchets back America’s energy renaissance. tariffs on a special thinning liquid used in oil pipelines. Over the last decade, the United States has enjoyed an expansion of domestic Most importantly, USMCA preserves a legal mechanism preventing oil and gas production. It has spurred economic growth, putting our country on Mexico from abusing American energy companies. The “Investor-State Dispute a path to energy independence. This boom depends on continued free trade. Settlement” tool allows firms to challenge breaches of trade law in international Congress must ratify USMCA to ensure future our prosperity. court, instead of relying on the Mexican legal system. Signed by President Clinton in 1993, NAFTA eliminated tariffs and trade If Mexican officials tried to seize private property, impose unfair regulations, barriers between the United States, Mexico, and Canada and established a legal or otherwise disadvantage American companies, energy companies could appeal framework for litigating trade disputes. to an impartial tribunal to protect their investment. Those aren’t theoretical risks: At the time, the American energy market was heavily dependent on imports the Mexican government has tried to nationalize energy companies before. By from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other foreign retaining this tool, USMCA gives oil and gas companies the confidence to keep sources. But then, U.S. energy companies adopted extraction techniques such working in the Mexican market. as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, enabling them to tap previously The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement fulfills the central promise of inaccessible oil and gas deposits trapped in underground rock formations. the Trump administration to create jobs and secure a widely shared prosperity. Natural gas production has jumped 50 percent since 1990, turning America into The energy industry is already a powerful economic engine, and USMCA an oil and gas powerhouse. ensures it will keep revving. As energy production took off, NAFTA’s trade channels offered American Now, it’s up to Congress to ratify the deal. firms a gigantic market. Mexico is now the biggest buyer of American liquefied ANDREW LANGER natural gas — importing 4 billion cubic feet equivalent every day. Last year, Andrew Langer is President of the Institute for Liberty. roughly half of U.S. natural gas exports went to Mexico via pipelines. THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 11 Commentary: Robert Romano parties have only picked up Senate seats 6 times: 1906, 1914, 1962, 1970, How the GOP Could Win Back the 2002 and 2018. After that, White House incumbent parties have proven to be unbeatable, sweeping to victories in 1908, 1916, 1964, 1972 and 2004. House and Keep the Senate In No president during that period has lost re-election after picking up seats in the midterms. You have to go back 1888, when incumbent President 2020 Grover Cleveland lost to Benjamin Harrison after picking up 2 seats in the Senate. Note: In 1906 and 1886, senators were still selected by state Just as midterm elections tend to favor the opposition party in races legislatures. in the House — 89.7 percent of the time the incumbent party loses seats, The lesson is that if you’re a Republican member of either the House with losses averaging about 36 seats — so do presidential elections tend or Senate, or rooting for them, you sure better hope Trump gets re-elected to favor the White House incumbent party. or at least keeps things close. Their fortunes more or less are joined at the In presidential election years dating back to 1900, the White House hip. incumbent party picks up seats in the House 57 percent of the time, with ROBERT ROMANO gains averaging 18.7 seats. Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for If Republicans were to pick up seats and win the average number of Limited Government. seats gained in 2020 — it looks like they’ll have about 200 seats in the next Congress — they’d be well within striking distance. President Donald Trump and the GOP could take back the House. It’s not impossible. It would be the first time since 1948 that the White House incumbent party held 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and flipped control of the House. So, there’s that. And 57 percent of the time is hardly a sure thing. On the flip side of the equation, of the 13 times House seats were lost in a presidential cycle, 9 of those were years the White House incumbent party lost the election, in some cases catastrophically. In 1932, Republicans lost 101 seats in the House for example. So, if the GOP loses House seats in 2020, there’s a 69 percent chance Trump would lose re-election. Overall, in years the incumbent party lost the White House and seats in the House, losses in the House averaged 34.5 seats. Suffice to say, that would be a catastrophe for the GOP. Interestingly, the White House incumbent party usually loses seats in the Senate during presidential election years, 57 percent of the time, with losses averaging 4.3 seats. However, losing Senate seats is not as fatal and is far less predictive to presidential reelection hopes as losing House seats. In years that Senate seats were lost, the White House incumbent party went on to win the election 59 percent of the time. The size of Senate losses appears to depend on whether the White House was lost or not. In years Senate seats and the White House were lost, losses averaged 8 seats. In years Senate seats were lost but not the White House, losses only averaged 1.7 seats. Also of interest, in years Senate seats were gained by the White House incumbent party, 61.5 percent of the time that party kept the presidency. Meaning, if Trump gets re-elected in 2020, the odds are that the GOP would keep the Senate — and could even possibly win back the House. And given how well Republicans did in the Senate, picking up a net 2 seats, Trump could be very well positioned for 2020. In midterm elections going back to 1906, White House incumbent www.pennypressnv.com THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 12 THE PENNY PRESS,NOVEMBER 29, 2018 PAGE 13

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