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I'll be damned – I finally agree with something on Fox News…..
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/12/03/eric-garner-case-grievous-wrong-not-to-indict/
Is it hailing blood yet?
Yes – you can't argue wit video. This is why we need body cameras on all police … to show Faux News viewers the left is not "race baiting" and "race hustling" … the left is telling the truth and the right hates them for it.
"In Colorado, many Republicans support the wind PTC, including Senator-elect Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, who even filmed a campaign ad in a wind farm earlier this year". Now the truth will come out on con man cory http://kdvr.com/2014/12/03/bennet-blasts-houses-three-week-extension-of-wind-ptc-other-tax-breaks/ With the election will he really support this?
Another republican governor proposes medicaid expansion http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/03/matt-mead-wyoming-medicaid-expansion_n_6262138.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
U.S. experiences unprecedended slowdown in health care spending
And this is what Republicans have been lying about for 6 years straight to the American people. They want us to pay more. They want insurance companies to be allowed to charge anything the free market will allow. They* said it would ruin America, that Obama is anti-American and that he hates business.
* – "they" are not stupid bloggers, "they" are high elected Republican officials in national and state offices with power and visibility.
When Pigs Fly- GOP faces task of governing.. Read all about it with Gail Collins
Republican House Majority plans to pass meaningless and worthless and wasteful legislation
Hope someone is keeping track of this crap for 2016.
We can keep track of it, but it doesn't matter. The way House districts are drawn, they can literally set fire to the Capitol building and get re-elected between now and 2021. Look at how an imbecile like Lamborn managed to get 59% last month running against a credible opponent.
please don't give them any ideas………. 😉
Rats are jumping off the ship.
AC is losing his Vicki Marbles … lowest turnout in 70 years – congrats GOP, you represent a faction of a faction.
Not a big deal. If you read their entire article, the electorate self-reports as shifting toward the party that was the winner after most elections.
What we also know is that even in red states, voters seem to prefer progressive policies. This also has been true for a long time; voters seem to like the apparent strength of conservative candidates, but agree with progressive policies.
You've got a big circus tent over there at the GOP–so the addition of a few new rats isn't unwelcome, I'm sure.
In light of the ongoing police brutality issues in Colorado (especially Denver, where the DA fails time and again to charge police officers involved in shootings and excessive force incidents), it is time for the legislature to enact, and Hickenlooper to sign, legislation creating, funding and empowering an independent Inspector General agency to investigate such incidents. Such an agency would only work if headed and staffed by non-prosecutors–preferably by lawyers with civil rights experience. This epidemic of government violence against people of color must be stopped.
And it's not going to be stopped by tasking prosecutors who have close relationships with the the police with whom they normally work to get convictions. In cases where it is a police officer facing indictment it absolutely has to be a special prosecutor brought in from outside the cozy world of police/prosecutor partnership.
Exactly my thoughts. This would be a relatively easy change to make in procedures, and might provide a small deterrent factor in the same way body cameras do.
Any such bill needs to give authority to present to a grand jury and bring charges. Ideally for that reason, it should be an independent body marginally attached to the state AG's office.
And, just to be straightforward, any such agency will need prosecutorial experience; it won't do to have an entire agency that doesn't know just what laws it's capable of prosecuting, nor how to best build a prosecutorial case. Perhaps, though, it could draw on the AG's office for most of that experience, and put civil rights attorneys at the head of oversight…
I think there are any number of competent criminal defense attorneys–especially public defenders, whose clients have been persecuted for decades by law enforcement–who would have an excellent idea on how to build a prosecutorial case. As has been pointed out, merely being a prosecutor and knowing how to build a case does not guarantee that the prosecutor will build a case against a police officer.
Agreed that prosecutors that are involved with police can't be the driving force – only looking at the fact that we need someone willing to actually do the prosecutions, and that means they're prosecutors in both title and duty, and there should be prosecutorial knowledge.
Agreed.
The Senate would never approve it. It would cost money. Money which could be sent to Texas to defend the border. And bigger TABOR refunds.
It cannot hurt to propose the legislation. Let the Repubs further alienate themselves from everybody except white Christian reactionaries.
So utterly predictable:
GOP: Thanks for Electing Us, and Screw You | Richard Zombeck
200,000 urge Udall to realase CIA Torture rpt