Reno paper NewsReview.com tells Nevada pols to Grow up, folks.  Here’s the opener:

U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley thinks President Obama is picking on Las Vegas.

No kidding—she actually used those words in a written statement: “President Obama needs to stop picking on Las Vegas, and he needs to let Americans decide for themselves how and where to spend their hard earned vacation dollars.”

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid didn’t use the language of kindergarten, but he was just as outraged—or, we suspect, mock outraged. Because, after all, both Berkley and Reid, as well as Gov. Jim Gibbons and Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and a mess of columnists, know perfectly well that Obama was not attacking Las Vegas. He was simply using that city as an example of excess. And since Las Vegas has spent decades cultivating its image as Excess Central, its leaders have no grounds for complaint if the president makes use of the city’s self-image.

And closing:

The fact that Las Vegas jumped into the president’s mind when he was making a point about extravagance is a mark of that city’s success in making itself into an adult playground. If it weren’t such a success, he would have used Hawaii, or Disneyland, or Acapulco or Miami. And we suspect that leaders in all of those places would have handled the reference with more grace and maturity than Reid and Berkley did.

Read the middle if you wish.

Hat Tip:  Linked by @RalstonFlash on Twitter sometime early this morning (I’ve had the browser tab open all day, just catching up on that and a few other stories now)