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May 31, 2016 07:20 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliances are relieved,
Or not at all.

–William Shakespeare, From Hamlet

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    1. I'm guessing the media is overselling their potential impact in an attempt to have something interesting to carry on about during the lull before the California primary. 

      1. Even beginning to see chatter about election going to the House.

        Same crap every 4 years because not enough interesting stuff is covered 

        1. And of course, the Slate author JUST had to pick out the most loony individuals at the convention to use as examples of what a "typical Libertarian" looks like. 

          I took an on-line issues survey over the just concluded holiday weekend to see where I fall in line with, or not with, the five remaining presidential candidates (2 Dem; one each Lib., Green, Repub.). My highest alignment was with Gary Johnson, the Libertarian, followed by Hilary. Trump was dead last by a large margin. 

          1. Didn't see the survey. Expect Johnson might win mine  but I know I wouldn't vote for him. So far, this year he really has not yet talked about issues

  2. Ahh, eight years ago it was all about PUMA and party chairs trying to be neutral. And "what if" because remember Robert Kennedy.

    Now it's just he's just making it difficult for no reason… He's not even a D.

    Let everyone vote.  If /when she wins, then we can forget all about PUMA and foolish RFK references and focus on Trump. 

     

    Speaking of Trump- he's going to win Florida.

    Will he put the electoral math in play if he can run close in OH, PA, MI, and NJ?

    1. Check out Luntzs' interview on CBS…He says the 11% NOTA vote as a base could easily swing a three party election….less easily a Clinton/Trump contest, but it will depend, he says, on who they think they can trust….

          2. Poor Luntz. He really doesn't seem to know which way is up anymore.  He used to be so good at  creating the catch phrases his party needed t get people to vote against their interests. Now his world has been turned upside down

    3. What information do you have that people like Charlie Cook and Chrystal Ball doesn't?

      Florida is leaning (heavily) Democratic, Pennsylvania will go a big Blue D.

      Ohio is a bit iffy, and New Jersey is a solid D.

      Perhaps you may have some info on Georgia and Arizona–while the lean (very shakily) R, some pollsters are saying if certain things go certain ways–whatever that means, Georgia AND Arizona may very well go blue in this election.

  4. Springs roads are notoriously bad and got there via the idiotic Republican principles that 1) government is bad and, therefore 2) should not be funded. As Grover Norquist slept in ecstasy and Dougie-boy Bruce plotted future felonies against his fellow citizens the Republican Monarchy instituted its plan. R's continue this assault on our daily lives at the state level as well:

    The Colorado Department of Transportation says it needs $1 billion more every year to maintain and build roads to meet the needs of more than 7.3 million residents by 2040. It devotes most of its $1.4 billion budget to maintenance.

    Voters haven't increased the 22-cent-per-gallon state gasoline tax in more than 20 years. It and the federal gas tax provide more than half CDOT's revenue.

    But taxes, so no.

    South Carolina is in the thralls of a similar Republican reign with quite predictable (except to those who deny reality and facts) results:

    Thirty-one dams failed in a single rainstorm. I believe I've spied something of a trend. So did The State and, mirabile dictu, the paper hung the responsibility right where it belongs, without equivocation or mock fairness.

    The recession took its toll. But so, too, has a one-party political system controlled by a small fraction of the state's residents, GOP primary voters who focus on lower taxes.

    Even when the Republican bosses of South Carolina agree taxes must be increased to fix a problem—the state's crumbling roads, for example—they are unable to act. To OK a gas-tax hike, the state's GOP governor demands a larger income-tax cut. The GOP-controlled House and Senate debate the structure of roads agencies for more than a year and, finally, facing re-election, legislators agree to spend money from the state's general fund. That money, they agree, won't be enough to fix the roads problem but will come at the expense of other troubled state agencies. That is state government today, licking its financial losses after the recession and paralyzed by politics.

    Holy reality, Batman. It turns out that Both Sides haven't done it.  

    Republicans say government doesn't work and they work to prove it constantly. Their m.o. continues and years of road neglect will take more years to fix. 

    1. They have to create drama during the lulls. Let's hope, once the charade of a remaining race between HRC and Bernie is over, they'll look to exposing Trump for the charlatan he is for something to talk about. It won't hurt his standing with his supporters but should do some good with the stunningly low info voters who are still truly undecided (at this point meaning utterly clueless) and to get some of the less enthusiastic non-Trump fans off their asses to vote to keep him out.

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