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April 11, 2014 11:30 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

–Napoleon Bonaparte

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41 thoughts on “Weekend Open Thread

  1. Listening to a replay of Grassroots Radio in tne middle of the night, I learned a fascinating fact, new to me.  Delegates to the state Republican convention must pay $60 each to attend.  Alternates pay $40.  These are the people elected to attend the state wide convention.  Evidently, the Republican party raises ovoer $200,000 from this event.  Better than bake sales. 

  2. And Tipton got a primary challenger.  Tea Partier gets on June ballot.  Let's hope he spends up some of Scott's oil and gas and Koch cash.  

    Still, he garnered 33.8 percent of the vote compared to Tipton’s 66.2 percent.

    Immediately after the vote was announced, Cox said he thought he did so well because an increasing number of Republicans feel disaffected by Congress and believe the nation is getting too far away from its constitutional roots.

    “They’re sick of an unlawful and criminal organization running the federal government,” said Cox, who works his family’s peach farm on Orchard Mesa. “I’m going to fight for constitutional government whether or not I won this vote or got on the ballot or not. … Anyone who’s paying attention knows what’s going on with the criminality of our federal government. What is happening must be stopped.”

  3. How politics makes us stupid

    Cutting-edge research shows that the more information partisans get, the deeper their disagreements become.

    Presented with this problem a funny thing happened: how good subjects were at math stopped predicting how well they did on the test. Now it was ideology that drove the answers. Liberals were extremely good at solving the problem when doing so proved that gun-control legislation reduced crime. But when presented with the version of the problem that suggested gun control had failed, their math skills stopped mattering. They tended to get the problem wrong no matter how good they were at math. Conservatives exhibited the same pattern — just in reverse.

    When most everyone here is happily agreeing with each other that the facts back them up. Well maybe they truly do… but maybe they don't.

    1. So we can blame the partisan divide on the Internet?

      Maybe giving control of it to the Russians and Chinese will bring Republicans and Dems together?

      Maybe that is what they had in mind when they said Obama is a post-partisan President.

  4. Nice and quiet at the Dem assembly, just now. The mood seems very upbeat. I am sitting in the Mesa county section. I will try to update with any significant events as they occur.

            1. Ken alwaysgot a nice chunk of Rs everywhere. Of course he's more an old fashioned I Like Ike R than anything else. Still a huge improvement over the most "moderate" of today's allegedly "moderate" Repugs. As an outside observer it seem like John fell asleep at the wheel and woke up just in time to lose an election.

      1. Tapia and family were in GJ for the Spring Fling. I talked with him and he already had several dates on his calendar for returning to Mesa County. Really pleasant to talk with. He served on Joint Budget Committee with Bernie, so those lines of communication are open and being used. 

      1. Nah, BC, you're not giving David nearly enough credit . . . 

        . . . he's actually a very stong champion for two-dimensional, hypothetical, cartoon teachers.

        It's only those flesh-and-blood ones that he despises!

    1. Watch righties blame it on Obama. Starting with my black sheep Fox follower uncle. I can't wait for the forwarded e-mails I'm going to get from him.

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