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October 31, 2013 03:40 PM UTC
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It seems we were a little quick off the line today. Give YouTube a moment to finish processing the video.
Yelling at your constituents and throwing down the pointing finger, especially at what sounded like an older female, yeah,Scottie, that's the way to bring home the votes. But I only got about 40 secs into it when the Tipton hairdo got my brain earworming on Wichita Lineman, I mean could he look any more Glenn Campbell-esque hairwise? So I had to switch it off.
Wow. Tipton's flat "No" on "Will you vote for background checks?" got him like two people handclapping somewhere. Otherwise, it went over like a lead balloon. The strategically placed Latino family did not seem impressed with Scotty, either.
What will you bet his next town hall is in a pure red district with a carefully screened crowd?
I won't look to see him in Pueblo any time soon.
Agree with you mama that there won't be anymore open townhall meetings. It's definitely not 2009. I think it has a lot to do with Democrats standing firm on the government shutdown. It motivated Democrats and demotivated the Tea Party Republicans. Probably a lot of them woke up to no pay checks.
You can't find any redder than Montrose. They probably didn't realize how many federal jobs there are in Montrose, including the Forest Service, BLM and WAPA, and how dependent the rural Rocky Mountain West is on the feds. Over here on the Western Slope, people love to rant against the feds, but love taking the money.
When you have absolutely no defense, your only hope is to attack and intimidate.
He is an embarrassment to the office.
There's a lot of that going around.
"How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table."-Wiktionary. Thats our Scotty
I'm seeing the vid a bit differently. To me it appears there were a small number of folks, perhaps 2-3, who were differing with Tipton. Tipton appears confident. Neither he nor his questioner appear to understand/believe that background checks do not infringe the 2nd A. But, I hope to see more of this kind of questioning and hopefully there will be more and more people doing it
Agree & agree
How confident could he have been to cut short the event by 15 minutes? In an hour event that's 25%.
Praise to the constitutent (hunter) who questioned whether Tipton would vote for Background Checks bill. Tipton jumped right into the NRA/RMGO line….2nd amendment rights (no background check bill is in any way unconstitutional…other states have had them for years. Thank God, Colorado now has a universal one.). Then he pulled the same weasley slippery slope arguments. Please grow up Scott Tipton and actually realize that people are dying because too many people who shouldn't have guns (criminals, domestic violence perpetrators, and the seriously mentally ill) are easily able to evade the national background check bill. AGAIN. Thank you Colorado legislature and Governor Hickenlooper for making us safer. No thanks to Tipton and his ilk.
And the key question remains, who to run against him?
Who, indeed?
Kathleen Curry?…Wally White?…Josh Joswick?..
Martelle Daniels?
Who has the name, connections, and gravitas to overcome the moron and his money?
Doesn't anyone recall that the president of the United States said that he would in no way discuss Obamacare, the debt ceiling or a budget? Hmmm, I think that was the reason the shutdown occured.
No one recalls that because that isn't what happened. The Republican House told the President we are going to shutdown the government unless you agree to sign a bill repealing the Affordable Healthcare Act, period. The Republicans took the "no prisoners" approach to the continuing resolution, not the President. I worked on the "HIll" in the early 80's when Presient Reagan was able to enact his 25% across the board reducton in income tax rates and no one, Republican or Democrat, ever thought or tried to hold the government and the nation hostage unless he agreed to a complete repeal of his tax bill. President Reagan would never have agreed to that, period. It was silly and disingenious for the Republicans to think President Obama would agree to repeal his signature domestic policy achievement.
Then the Republican House changed their position to we will shutdown the government unless you agree to a one year delay in the implementation of the AHA, period. No negotiations, you either give us what we want or we're going to shut the government down. Neither the first or second position was ever meant to be a negotiating position. It was a Republican demand for uncondiditonal surrender. There is no point in negotiating in those circumstances.
And, since the president wouldn't meet their demands, the House Republicans shut the government down by failing to pass a clean continuing resolution.
After the shutdown began and the debt ceiling was looming nine days down the road, the House Republicans changed their position again and said they wanted a comprehensive deal on deficit reduction but they never put a specific proposal on the table. As a practical matter they counldn't because no one could rally a majority of the House members behind such a plan without the members being confident their constituents would support it and nine days isn't enough time to get that done. So, in essence, the Republcans gave up on the repeal and the one year delay of the AHA, and substituted a meaningless statement regarding deficit reduction as their position. Even if the President wanted to negotiate on the deficit, the Republicans did not present anything for him to respond to.
At that point, the President had the House Republicans by the proverbial neck because they had, by their foolish demands, put themselves in that position. With, in reality, no negotiating position and the rising tide of public wrath intensifying by the hour, the Republicans had to surrender. Their utterly foolish gambit put in that position.
I forgot to add. Congressman Tipton's statement that President Obama refused to negotiate isn't a difference of opinion on his part, its a lie and he knows it.
I watched these fanatics, n/k/a as the Tea Party but f/k/a the "religious right" infiltrate and take over the Republican Party beginning in the 1980's because Ronald Ragan invited them into the tent but their intention, from the beginning, was to throw everyone out of the tent except those who pass the litmus tests 100% of the time. Any deviation from ironclad ideology, at anytime, whether based on changed circumstances or reality, is not tolerated, period. It is ironic that Ronald Reagan invited them into the Republican Party and still today they hold him up as the great conservative icon but if one looks back on the actual posiitons he took and the compromises he made when he was in the White House, they would drum him out of the Party as a RINO today.
But of course, to maintain Reagan as their icon the Tea Party leaders have rewritten the history of his presidency. About one year ago, it may have been a bit longer, Congressman Eric Kantor was interviewed by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes and one of the questions she ased him was why he could not compromise with the Democrats like Ronald Reagan did? Before he could answer, his aide, standing off camera, yelled out: "Ronald Reagan never compromised."
What Ronald Reagan said during the 1980 campaign was if he could get 80% of what he wanted, he would take it and run. And what hapened in 1981 when he had his 30% across-the-board income tax cut legislation introduced? He compromised. He accepted a 25% across-the-board cut. He didn't say to the Democratic controlled House of Representatives, either you agree to 30%, period, or I won't negotiate.
If the Republican wants to survive, they should look at reality not myths.
Goddess help me, I'm nostalgic for Reagan now. Thanks, R36
Thanks 36. Nice recap of political history.
It was Ginrich that started all the no compromise crap. What an anti-American concept.
jason-you are either another uninformed voter, a troll or a liar. Which?
I'm going for uninformed troll.
Obama and the Dems compromised all over the place during the legislative process. He didn't allow any single payer advocates so much as a seat at the table for bargaining purposes, went closer to 90% than halfway in his opening bargaining position and most of the resulting ACA comes straight out of right wing think tanks.
After all that the people still had a chance to reverse ACA by electing Romney who promised he would do so. Instead they elected Obama who obviously wouldn't and a Dem majority Senate that obviously wouldn't.
At every step of the way it's been the Republicans who have refused anything less than everything their own way. After it became the law of the land, despite their best efforts, at the polls and in the legislature and the courts, there was no reason for Obama to "compromise" by surrendering his own duly passed and signed law on pain of a government shut down. It was extortion plain and simple and it would have been a dereliction of his duty as President to give in to it.
What's next? The GOTP demanding that Obama step down as President or else they won't raise the debt ceiling and then accusing him of causing the subsequent default because he refused to even discuss that "compromise?" Because that would make exactly as much sense as accusing him of causing the government shutdown because he refused to "compromise".
Jason must think "compromise" must mean giving your opposition everything they ask for even though you won and they lost. If he's a Cards fan I suppose he thinks the Red Socks ought to be willing to discuss who gets to be the world champions because the Cards really really wanted not to lose.
And this is in Montrose…hardly the most liberal area of Tipton's district. In fact, Montrose County went for Romney 67 percent to 30 percent for Obama (Even Mesa County had more Obama voters). Yet Tipton appears to be getting significant pushback there.
Maybe they are a bit pissed that their tourist economy took a hit when Black Canyon of the Gunnison closed down because of the shutdown? I know October isn't peak season or anything, but those little towns really depend on tourist dollars and shutting down the biggest tourist attraction around can't help.
The segment that struck me as really weird was Tipton railing about Reid being a dictator when he voted for H.R. 368 which who could bring a vote to the floor to the speaker. Talk about projection. He knowing gave all power to Boehner to handle the shutdown and then makes Reid out to be the next Ceaser. What a fraud.
typo because this website sucks at editing.
s/b: H.R 368 which limited who could bring a vote to the floor to the speaker.