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Profiles in Cowadice
Jared is on the list. This may, and I mean very remotely may, have been a "smart" vote politcally, but it was also a fact-free, principle-free, and courage-free vote. And if Polis thinks R's won't attack him because of this, then maybe he's not sharp enough to be in congress.
Republicans have very few tactical cards to play these days. Fear is probably #1, and Jared Polis made sure it has a much greater chance of succeeding next year.
Fear is a powerful weapon. Polis is not the first and will not be the last to fall victim. But it is immensely dissapointing that someone with so much political and economic power cannot overcome their fear and do the right thing.
hey, someone give me an 'r'
I will give you a "R" if you agree to not then ask for a "U" "B" "I" "O".
Gandhi said it well…
I’ll bet no one has ever confused Moderatus for Gandhi.
Except maybe for the diaper.
No, but I once confused Moderatus with my pet rock.
He's not a rock, V. He just crawls out from under one once or twice a day to display his proud ignorance, shameful narrow-mindedness and wholesale lack of critical-analysis capability. Actually, I think it's a rock duplex; he sublets the other half to his partner in delusional right-wing hysteria, AC.
Not much is bipartisan these days, but apparently bigotry is something both sides of the aisle can come together on.
And the right wing sinks even lower http://www.occupydemocrats.com/trump-lets-force-muslims-to-carry-special-ids-like-nazis-made-jews/
Ja, Herr Goebbels…das ist gut…
Because that always ends so well.
That ain't the lowest, denverco, but this may be: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/huckabee_says_obama_s_anti_terror_plan_is_memorize_a_koran_verse_twitter_goes_ballistic
Hillary Clinton has done it again. Demonizing single payer healthcare with lies and deception.
The folks at Angry Bear provided the perfect response:
Clinton is making it harder and harder for me to even vote for her in the general election.
Truly, James. Hillary
GoldmanRodham Clinton is certainly no less a water carrier for Wall Street than Barack, Thurston, or any of them, really. 'Cept Bernie …of course.'Cept Bernie …of course.
Close your eyes, hold your nose and think of whoever the R opponent is. That's what I'm going to do.
A true American hero, who unlike the bush brothers actually served https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/18/seth-moulton-opened-his-home-heart-refugee/uWe2uCXLfxke5klUtbFK8M/story.html
Sounds like he'd make a great Massachuesetts US Senator when someone picks Warren as their VP candidate.
I'd like to see Warren as VP. The problem is, with Hillary the likely candidate, that would be both nominees were of the same gender. Surely, nobody would accept a ticket of TWO men or two women. I mean, did we ever have a ticket with both candidates of the same gender?
Reminds me of the quote from Justice Ginsberg when a reporter asked her how many women should occupy SCOTUS seats? Her answer was that "she'd be happy when they were all women." The reporter, somewhat aghast, said, "you can't seriously be advocating for an all woman court?" Her answer: "Would you have a problem with an all male court?"
If you want Old Scalia to be replaced with a Young Scalia, by all means Bernites, vote for the R in the general.
Or go third party or write in. The result will be the same.
Not only that, but Thomas, Kennedy, Breyer, and RBG are all likely to retire in the next 4-8 years. The next Pres could end up appointing 5 SCOTUS Justices, shaping the Court for the next 30 years.
Imagine Trump's nominees. Or Carson's. Or Cruz's, or Rubio's…
Hello President Hillary Rodham Clinton, damn glad to meet you.
flatiron,
seriously?
No Bernie
supporters will
vote R in the general.
We're idealistic
but not insane.
I have noticed, mama, these reflexive reminders we seem to get every time we start extolling the virtues of the "Bern" or lamenting the weaknesses of the "Hilldog", are indicative of the true lack of depth to their support for the candidate they assume will be the eventual nominee.
I have never been comfortable with conventional wisdom, or the status quo, …or predictions.
We are still a full year away from an election in a world than can change in a very short time….Bernie is igniting the imaginations and the hopes of the younger generations…
stay tuned…
[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship]
“I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.”
Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with Arthur and watched the nonstop frenetic news reports on television […] “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…”
“You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”
“No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”
“Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”
“I did,” said Ford. “It is.”
“So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t the people get rid of the lizards?”
“It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”
“You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”
“Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”
“But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”
“Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?”
“What?”
“I said,” said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, “have you got any gin?”
“I’ll look. Tell me about the lizards.”
Ford shrugged again. “Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them,” he said. “They’re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone’s got to say it.”
Excerpted from Douglas Adams' So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Tipton running for Senate?
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2015/11/18/scott-tipton-takes-hardline-stance-on-syria-raises-profile/123869/
He drew the short straw?
…in other words, Daesh's mother is related to Jeb¿ Perhaps we're bombing the wrong country?
Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It