So it seems that Gov. Jim Gibbons didn’t get an invite to the cool green energy summit U.S. Sen. Harry Reid threw at UNLV this week. This really isn’t news, inasmuch as the explanation is probably one of two things, or both: One, Reid didn’t want any of the women at the forum to feel uncomfortable, or two, Reid realized that Gibbons’s stances on energy (coal-to-jet-fuel or more polluting power plants) didn’t really fit in with the program.

But we were amused by a comment made by Gibbons’s spokesman, Ben Kieckhefer, in the Las Vegas Sun on Wednesday.

“Harry Reid decided not to invite him,” Kieckefer said. “It was Harry Reid’s summit, so Harry Reid gets to invite who he wants … It’s not appropriate to invite yourself to someone’s party.”

Kieckefer added that Gibbons was “not going to beg” for an invitation.

Wait, it’s not appropriate to invite yourself to someone’s party? And Gibbons is not going to beg for an invitation?

Since when? Do you all still remember the time that Gibbons bitched and moaned and whined that he wasn’t invited to give his surely robotic and duplicative testimony at a Yucca Mountain hearing scheduled by California U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer? He even enlisted U.S. Rep. Jon Porter in his defense, and the Republican congressman dutifully called the hearing a “dog and pony show” without Gibbons.

So Boxer changed the schedule around so Gibbons could be invited to the hearing after all, so Whiney McBeggington could get his time in the Capitol Hill spotlight. So what does Gibbons do? Say his schedule was just too busy to attend! And while the Review-Journal headline on that story says Gibbons turned the tables on the (non-existent) snub, it really should have read: Whiney governor proves he’s just a dick and willing to embarrass fellow Republicans for nothing.

So, probably, Reid learned a lesson and decided to skirt all the drama with Gov. Diva.