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April 10, 2015 12:38 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Friday (April 10)

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So it’s not technically a “Good Friday.” We’ll take it anyway. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

 

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Democrat Hillary Clinton will officially launch her campaign on Sunday, April 12, with an online video! Polling numbers are all over the place, which makes sense given that it is April 2015.

► Colorado business groups are backing a proposed ballot reform measure that would make it harder to reform the ballot — which is not a bad idea. As the Denver Business Journal explains:

Senate Concurrent Resolution 2 — introduced late Wednesday by Sens. Ellen Roberts, R-Durango, and Pat Steadman, D-Denver — would require a majority of voters in a statewide general election to approve any proposed constitutional amendment before it is then resubmitted on a statewide ballot the next year.

It also would require that state officials conduct public hearings about any proposed amendments in each of the state’s seven congressional districts before the second round of voting on the question.

► The State House gave final approval to “The Long Bill,” despite a litany of silly objections from House Republicans. The discussion now heads back to the Senate to work out differences over the $26 billion budget proposal.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

 

SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Colorado needs to do a lot of repairs on roads and highways…but we need Congress to help pay for it. Officials from the Pueblo area are asking local residents to help get things moving.

► Former State House member and current Jefferson County Commissioner Libby Szabo got Jeffco to buy her a new car because she is too short to reach the pedals 0f other vehicles. Szabo is about as tall as 32 reams of paper.

► Focus on the Family founder James “SpongeDob” Dobson is convinced that gay marriage will lead to a civil war in the United States. If SpongeDob is correct, he may want to consider moving to a different state; we’re guessing Colorado would be more likely to fight with “Union” forces than “Confederates.”

Tyler Sandberg, Chief of Staff for Republican Rep. Mike Coffman, says his office won’t respond to “fake news sites” that ask for comments about, well, anything. Instead of responding to the Colorado Independent about Coffman’s acceptance of $20k in campaign contributions from disgraced Rep. Aaron Schock, Sandberg stayed silent until the Denver Post picked up on the story. Well played, genius.

► The Senate Education Committee has given initial approval to a plan to reduce the number of required tests for Colorado students. 

“Construction defects” legislation made it out of the State Senate; SB-91 is now on its way to the House, where Democrats are likely to reject the proposal to limit the ability of homeowners to sue builders for shoddy work.

 

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Colorado Senate Republicans want to kneecap the U.S. Environmental Agency’s “Clean Power Plan.”  Yes, it would make more sense for Congress to deal with this issue, but they’re legislating with crayons in Washington D.C.

► Hide your cameras — TABOR daddy Doug Bruce is in Denver today for a court appearance to discuss possible violations of his probation stemming from a tax-evasion conviction. Meanwhile, Colorado Springs City Councilwoman Helen Collins — who was nearly recalled from office because of her connections to Bruce — is struggling in her part-time job as a slumlord.

► Republican Presidential hopeful Rand Paul doesn’t seem to respond well to being interviewed by female journalists. That should bode well for his hopes of winning the GOP nomination.

 

ICYMI

► Congressman Mike Coffman signed a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this week so that he can pretend to be supportive of LGBT rights when he campaigns  for re-election in 2016.

► It’s Opening Day (at home) for the 3-0 Colorado Rockies. Now there’s s a sentence you probably haven’t read before.

 

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5 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Friday (April 10)

  1. Obama Hatred Only Getting Worse

    Of course, Republicans can’t stand the fact that Obama has done anything productive. And despite their electoral victories, the policy victories they’ve had and/or attempted are trivial at best and desperately destructive at worst.

    The reason R’s still have to put on the hate is that they are looking down the barrel at 8 years of Hillary to follow Obama’s 8 years, and the more mud they sling the more might just take. If it doesn’t, at least they’ll have a fired up base that will support another 8 years of Obstructionism.

    Obama explains some Republican stupidity and destructiveness and spite:

    When I hear some, like Senator McCain recently, suggest that our Secretary of State, John Kerry, who served in the United States Senate, a Vietnam veteran, who’s provided exemplary service to this nation, is somehow less trustworthy in the interpretation of what’s in a political agreement than the Supreme Leader of Iran — that’s an indication of the degree to which partisanship has crossed all boundaries. And we’re seeing this again and again.

    We saw it with the letter by the 47 senators who communicated directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran — the person that they say can’t be trusted at all — warning him not to trust the United States government. We have Mitch McConnell trying to tell the world, oh, don’t have confidence in the U.S. government’s abilities to fulfill any climate change pledge that we might make. And now we have a senator suggesting that our Secretary of State is purposely misinterpreting the deal and giving the Supreme Leader of Iran the benefit of the doubt in the interpretations.

    That’s not how we’re supposed to run foreign policy, regardless of who’s President or Secretary of State. We can have arguments, and there are legitimate arguments to be had. I understand why people might be mistrustful of Iran. I understand why people might oppose the deal — although the reason is not because this is a bad deal per se, but they just don’t trust any deal with Iran, and may prefer to take a military approach to it.

    But when you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our Secretary of State is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one that you say is your enemy, that’s a problem. It needs to stop.

    And here’s what the NY Times has to say about this non-stop venom:

    It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to undermine not just Mr. Obama’s policies, but his very legitimacy as president.

    It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans’ earlier questioning of Mr. Obama’s American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist in their message — reminding people that Mr. Obama was black, suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it.

    Obama isn’t on the ticket this next election, something he is surely glad of. Those D’s who are need to take note: this is the Republican game plan for the foreseeable future. Ignore it at your own risk.

    1. Pretty odd that thy hate a centrist President who uses lots of policy ideas straight out of their think tanks more than they hate anyone including terrorists and dictators. They even call him a dictator when obviously, in countries with real dictators all their asses would be in jail or worse. There’s only one explanation for the irrational and visceral quality of their hate and we all know what that is.

  2. Is there any precedent – in this country or elsewhere – to the ‘irrational and visceral’ hate of President Obama?

    And when did short-changing the little guy become an OK thing to do?

    *SMH*…

    1. sure, the hate waxes and wanes. Lincoln was hated…….and killed. I wonder why. People (looking at you, Bennet) say “both sides do it”, but both sides do not do this. Only their side does.

      The obstructionism is historic and unprecedented: filibusters by the 100s; judicial nominees held up; DoDefense nominee filibustered; lawsuits threatened by that Moron Boehner (where’s his suit?); Laws that were passed 2 years ago voted to repeal in the next session (that’s some kind of bipartisanship); yelled at at SOTU; Doug Laimbrain botcotts SOTU; government shutdown; IRS defunded; the 47Traitor letter; etc……etc……..etc. 

      It really is their contempt for democracy that is hard to miss.

      1. Thanks for this – and add the 40+ (50+?) votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the so-called ‘mis-statements’ by the so-called ‘representatives’, and as you say, ‘etc……etc……etc.’

        The words ‘integrity’ and ‘politics’ seem to go against each other these days, and we’re supposed to be the leaders in democracy?

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