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November 24, 2014 07:14 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."

–Robert Quillen

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    1. Don't hold your breathe.  Brian Sandoval has national aspirations and did not want the press coverage over the next 24 months to be able Hansen.  So he gave the bigot a shove.

      I loved Hansen's traditional attribution of blame to the liberal media for distorting his record.

    1. Great read.

      What is wrong with us? Why do we as a nation allow this obscene waste? Nearly 1/3 of all the gases coming to the surface in the Bakken are 'flared'; finite resources that literally 'go up in flames'. It's a disgusting display of smug arrogance; that we see ourselves as so star spangled rich that we can waste what is estimated to be $100 million/month in valuable off-gases. While the flares light up a North Dakota evening sky, people in our country sleep on the street and we battle for food security and living wages. It's hard to miss the irony that all of this is happening under conservative leadership in North Dakota – a place Teddy Roosevelt treasured for its solemn, natural beauty.

      This, on top of what many in the advanced biofuels industry see as a White House caving to the American Petroleum Institute (API) this past week, leaving significant market uncertainty to the future of a US biofuels industry. The API argument that we should gut the advanced biofuels mandate (while includes biodiesel) remind me of the story about the young boy who murdered his parents and then plead for the court's mercy because he was now an orphan. The API has spent a decade fighting the biofuel industry; they own Capitol Hill, they block blender pump programs and the spend tens of millions of dollars in the judiciary fighting market access by our producers – and now their argument is, "hey, you tried but it just isn't working out. Let's gut the law".

      We've lost our minds.

  3. IF this is how Senator Michael Bennet wants to be perceived in the runup to his reelect bid, then I guarantee he will lose:

    Maria Cantwell told The Hill that she stood up to press Senate Democratic leaders to adopt a more focused approach toward crafting an economic strategy and communicating it to voters.

    “I want us to focus on a strategy for how we’re going to focus on an economic message and implement that. We have to dedicate time to doing that and not just going through the discussion of this bill and that bill,” she said.

    “We need to do more to focus on the big-picture economic message we want to deliver to middle-class Americans,” she added.

    Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.), who served this past election cycle as chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, delivered one of the most memorable lines of the meeting, capturing the feeling that the Democratic Conference is less than the sum of its parts.

    “I like you all a lot individually but I can’t stand you collectively,” he said, according to two sources familiar with this remarks.

    The point he was making, he told this reporter, is that the Senate Democratic Conference needs to channel its collective energies into something that resonates with the nation.

    He just had that very opportunity as nominal chair of the DSCC and passed. Can you say "Bannock Street Project"? And he refuses to take any responsibility. And he continues to whine.

    Thank you, Bill Ritter.

        1. He is a US Senator. And he took the job to chair the senate campaign committee, though I'm not exactly sure why.

          Everyone, including CPols, thought the Bannock Street tactics would be enough to win. They weren''t, Bennet failed, but still won't admit there was anything that could be done about it:

          But the results would have been even worse if the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee hadn't invested some $60 million in an unprecedented midterm get-out-the-vote effort, according to a memo Democrats are circulating about the debacle. The effort was dubbed the Bannock Street Project, after the street where DSCC boss Sen. Michael Bennet (Colo.) had his campaign headquarters when he won in the 2010 midterms.

          …

          In Colorado, Bennet won in 2010 with 852,000 votes, even though Republicans had a 7-point voter turnout edge. He dominated with independent voters. In 2014, according to the Democratic memo, their get-out-the-vote surge whittled the GOP advantage to just 5 points, and Sen. Mark Udall (D) got many more votes than Bennet — 916,000. But the big difference was that independent voters soured on President Barack Obama, and flocked to Rep. Cory Gardner (R), who got his own Republican surge and tallied 966,000 votes. 

          Why did voters sour on Obama? Well, he isn't perfect, but Udall and Bennet were hardly there for him when they should have been. That's not only a lack of message, it's the wrong message: "I'm not Obama, never seen the guy before. Don't like his policies, either."

          Now MB is in the batter's box and it looks like he's going to do the exact same thing once again and lose to a party that acts more crazy by the day. And he'll say "both sides do it." And he'll be wrong one last time.

    2. Head of the DSCC is about fundraising, not messaging. Bannock Street was a field operation, not a messaging strategy. The message, whoever cam up with it, failed, and the fundraising and field failed right along with it. 

      Is Bennet wrong in his assessment of the caucus? With the decision of Reid staying on as Minority Leader, absolutely not. Senate Dems need new leadership, they need a new direction and they need a new cohesion. 

  6. Rudy Giuliani, the man who gave us the term Giuliani Time which those NYPD officers inserting a toilet plunger into Abner Louema’s rectum, has given his take on Fergeson. Apparently it’s the African-American community’s fault because if African-Americans weren’t killing one another, they wouldn’t need white cops to come in and kill their children.

    And then GOP wonders why the Party ofc Lincoln is lucky to get 5% of African-American votes.

    1. Lindsey Graham will get to the bottom of this cover-up which now includes the House GOP leadership which appointed the committee that issued the report.

    2. This article says it all — the final paragraph sums it up well:

      Benghazi conspiracies have come to represent a vile and ugly chapter in American politics. It's a chapter built upon hypocrisy and cynical Fox News ethics. Journalists should keep that in mind the next time the right-wing media launch a hollow "cover-up" crusade against a Democrat.

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/media-lessons-from-the-be_b_6212392.html

      But I'm sure our resident troll-apologists both would give Faux News a 1000% rating for accuracy and integrity.  Facts don't matter to them, just that the perception they want to be accepted as true gets endlessly repeated by the Ministry of Truth 

  9. The bright side is that we now get to have the Senate investigation that will uncover everything that has been hidden from the House over the course of five investigations (and a sixth still pending). Obviously Boehner and Issa are incompetent; the incoming Senate Republican majority will finally bring the resources needed to uncover Hillary's traitorous deeds!

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