Why Democrats Can Never Be Public Leaders

Democrats just don't have the temperament nor intelligence to be leaders in the Country and at the state and local level.
Point 1: President Obama: Can't lead, full of scandal, has no clue about economics.
Point 2: Nevada Democratic Legislators:  From the Las Vegas Sun:
Democratic lawmakers showed little restraint when opponents of Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick’s admissions tax took to the microphone Tuesday to beg for exemptions to the 8 percent levy she wants to assess on nearly all forms of recreation.
In the first public hearing on Assembly Bill 498 — which would impose an 8 percent tax on tickets and memberships to movies, concerts, nightclubs, fitness centers and other entertainment activities — Assembly Democrats lambasted their critics.
Their arguments were described as “ridiculous.” Their tactics were described as bullying. And their motives were described as suspect.....
When the manager of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Chris Powell, testified that the tax would hit working families the hardest and would deter attendance at its NASCAR event, Assembly Majority Leader William Horne laid into him.
“Now it’s getting ridiculous,” Horne said. “It seems like you’re really concerned about the spectator that comes to see your sport, but in fact, it still comes down to your bottom line.”
Assemblywoman Theresa Benitez-Thompson demanded that Powell and the company that produces the massive Electric Daisy Carnival music festival provide hard facts detailing how similar taxes in other states have hurt their events.
“Convince me as a legislator that if the sky really is going to fall in Nevada if we enact this tax that exists in other places, paint me that picture and put it in black and white,” she said. “Start talking in terms of numbers.”
As for those who would threaten to take their event out of state in response to a new tax: “I've got a hotline to U-Haul and I’m happy to help them if that's the attitude,” Kirkpatrick said.
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/may/15/democrats-circle-wagons-against-family-fun-tax-hat/#ixzz2TQyLzwWX
Maybe Stephen Brooks was right: Kilpatrick is a incompetent bitch who should have been gotten rid of as speaker of the Nevada Assembly. (legal, not violent way)
And From the Las Vegas City Council: From the Las Vegas  Sun:
Las Vegas will keep its funding for public art projects at current levels after the city council rejected a bill Wednesday that could have scaled back contributions to the program.
The issue: The council considered an ordinance amendment that would have made their mandatory contribution to the arts fund optional instead.
The vote: Rejected 6-1, with Councilman Bob Beers voting in opposition.
What it means: The city’s public art fund, which has funneled $1.1 million to projects since 2005, will remain unchanged.
As part of the Percent for the Arts program, the city diverts 1 percent of its annual capital improvements budget into the arts fund.
The fund has supported numerous projects large and small around the city, but collections have slowed in the past several years because of a reduction in capital spending.
Beers’ proposed bill would have made the city’s 1 percent contribution optional, which could have led to a cut in funding.
Beers said he doesn’t oppose public funding of arts projects, but he wants to see the money spent on local artists. Several of the largest projects paid for through the arts fund, including the $350,000 pair of glowing paintbrushes on Charleston Boulevard near downtown, were done by out-of-state artists.
The proposal drew opposition from the arts community, who turned out in force to voice their opinions on the bill at a hearing earlier this month.
On Wednesday, the rest of the city council voted not to make any changes to the program after a brief discussion.
Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/may/15/automatic-percent-arts-funding-prevails-las-vegas-/#ixzz2TQzJMLsu
Mandatory spending of 1% of capital improvements for art projects is just plain stupid and not needed.  Does a fire station that costs a $1,000,000 need $10,000 in art projects?  Of course not.  Why should the City of Las Vegas subsidize artists and not other professions?
This is the kind of bull crap when you allow liberal dumbocrats in charge of federal, state and local governments.  They don't have the intelligence nor do they have the temperament.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.