8 thoughts on “Get More Smarter on Friday (Jan. 29)”

1. I think Senator Scott ought to run for Governor of Outter CraigMerica, one of the future Bakkenalized states of the Confederacy of Utahradoming.

    

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2. All R's are Dummies and we'll never vote for them and all their ideas are sooooooooo stupid. 

   And all D's are More Smarter and all their ideas are gud and their policy proposals are the best and we all have to support them cuz there's a (D) behind their names (cuz they're so smart, doncha know?)

   Whether the next president will build on the[ Obama Administration's accomplishments in consumer protection and regulation of harmful business practices], or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration’s record on enforcement falls short — and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.

   I just released a report examining 20 of the worst federal enforcement failures in 2015. Its conclusion: “Corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct.”[snip}

   Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. Last year, five of the world’s biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase, pleaded guilty to criminal charges that they rigged the price of billions of dollars worth of foreign currencies. No corporation can break the law unless people in that corporation also broke the law, but no one from any of those banks has been charged. While thousands of Americans were rotting in prison for nonviolent drug convictions, JPMorgan Chase was so chastened by pleading guilty to a crime that it awarded Jamie Dimon, its C.E.O., a 35 percent raise.

   …Each of these government divisions is headed by someone nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The lesson is clear: Personnel is policy.

   And I agree 100% with Mongo's Rule of Modern Politics that proposals by Democrats like Elizabeth Warren are always good and should be adopted without complaint by her party mates both in and out of government.

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   1. Dem voters voting for Ds does not require thinking any given candidate is perfect just by virtue of being a D. Most of us do vote for less than perfect Ds because the alternative is to support the whole truly horrendous GOP agenda either by voting R, not voting for the D or voting write in or third party, all of which can help an R win. Those are our options. Pick whichever one you want. But what you say about those who pick the option of voting for the D is ridiculous.

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      1. The proprietors of Colorado Pols, I would have to say 99.9% Jason Bane, call this a "politics" blog, mostly to the effect of keeping things on the trivial side and being able to note the non-stop infantile actions of Republicans and Conservatives, and of protecting their status within the Professional Left as consultants or whatever to Democrats. 

         But, they also in effect innoculate D's from their stupid political and policy initiatives, which is probably good for business and this blog, but is almost surely bad for Democrats here – and moreso the ones who go to DC, who are so subsumed by the conventional wisdom there that they forget what the heck people are like back here in little ol' CO. 

         It's stupid and should be the bane of what this blog is trying to do rather than it's stated goal.

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         1. Zap – if this isn't a politics blog, what do you call it?

            Also, I think that our Democratic officials would be surprised to find that Colpols supposedly "inoculates them against their stupid political and policy initiatives. "

            I haven't seen much inoculatin' for Udall, Bennet, Hickenlooper, Giron, Polis, Degette, or many others. Is it your opinion that a little criticism on Coloradopols is a bulwark against electoral defeat? Otherwise, I don't understand your "inoculating" reference.

            But you do have a point about our elected officials in DC forgetting about how progressive their constituents really are.They do tend to represent their donors, as opposed to their constituents.

             

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3. 1) A lot of people need to go to prison over the Flint tragedy with Snyder at the top of the list. 

   2) What do righties always say about any law enforcement shooting of even a completely unarmed black kid? If you don't comply with police demands whatever happens is your own fault. If an unarmed black kid gets scared enough to run away from police and the police shoot the kid in the back multiple times, that's fine and anyone who says it isn't is endangering our always heroic, never at fault law enforcement officers. If that's fine with them than an armed Finicum who has declared mutiple times that he will not allow himself to be arrested getting himself shot while reaching into his jacket in a confrontation with law enforcement following a failed attempt to flee should be more than fine.

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4. Will Trump's rivals jump all over this? 

   A Saudi prince may have just beaten Donald Trump at a game of Twitter trolling.

   Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Twitter that he's bailed the billionaire out twice — and suggested the GOP presidential frontrunner might need his help a third time.

   The exchange was initiated by Trump, who had retweeted a badly Photoshopped image showing the prince with Fox News host Megyn Kelly, calling him a co-owner of the network: 

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-prince-alwaleed-donald-trump_us_56aafa72e4b0010e80e99806

    

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   1. Maybe the Prince isn't lying about Trump needing another bale out. Does this sound like a something a gazillionaire would demand? A measly 5 mill? Come to think of it, how many multi-billionaires have the time to take from their business interests to star in TV reality shows for years. Is it all flim flam? 

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      1. QUID PRO QUOFox: Trump Wanted $5M to Be in Debate Fox News reports Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump asked the TV network for $5 million in exchange for appearing in Thursday night’s debate. Trump had ditched the GOP event in favor of his own “Special Event to Benefit Veterans Organizations”—which he claimed had raised $6 million for his foundation while overshadowing the debate in the process. The network said in a statement, “Trump offered to appear at the debate upon the condition that Fox News contribute $5 million to his charities. We explained that was not possible and we could not engage in a quid pro quo, nor could any money change hands for any reason.”

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