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April 10, 2011 05:45 AM UTC
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Defending education. What will they do next?
Is that what you wanted to hear from the Tea Party?
Just looked at the subject and picture.
Bold-faced liar. Unbelievable the guy’s head doesn’t explode from telling absolute lies.
I said that Republicans were defending education, because they wanted $250 million in cuts rather than $350 million that our Democrat governor proposed. Something wrong with that?
You’re so right, beej. And the Republicans are defending abortion providers because they wanted a budget that leaves Planned Parenthood’s funding alone rather than cut it entirely the way Democratic negotiators were discussing.
It’s so easy to come to radically wrong conclusions if you ignore what actually happened! It’s fun!
The difference is that a Democrat proposed the $350 million in cuts. Democrats did not propose cutting funding for Planned Parenthood. (Although, since it is a corporate subsidy, it is a bit of hypocritical thing for leftists to support.)
The fact that revenue estimates changed dramatically between Hickenlooper’s initial budget proposal and the deal cut by the legislature — immaterial!
If the Republicans hadn’t demanded a $5 million tax exemption for bull semen, it could have been $245 million.
As for the Tea Party freaking out over education – it’s not a deal breaker. He didn’t advocate a woman’s right to choose, civil unions or protecting public employees. Now those are downright sinful and he’d be excommunicated or whatever they do to banish the unforgivable.
Yes he did. Watch the whole interview.
He said it would happen in some form and was already happening to some degree (contracts) but he didn’t acknowledge Ellen Roberts and other R-Senators that voted for the bill in the Senate and justified the house votes as a bill that went too far.
Fine line – yep!
But he isn’t making the arguments House Republicans made, which is an interesting approach.
Republican leader walking that tightrope, Ellie? The Republican party seems to be dominated by its’ extremes at the moment. Between the Corporatists screaming for more goodies and Tea Partiers screaming for less government, a vision of a rock, sitting on a hard place, with a Republican leader in between comes to mind…in fact, there is a guy in a three-cornered hat jumping up and down on the rock…so to speak.
Several former leaders have told me they would never be elected today. Sad but true. What I fear is the extremes on both sides of the aisle dominating the conversation followed by a paralysis that leaves the country on life support.
If I sound like doom and gloom that’s because I made the mistake of watching a couple of Sunday news shows this morning. The political talking heads are already starting to debate the debt ceiling and officially we haven’t put the most recent compromise on the President’s desk.
to the number of extreme righties because the GOP message machine has managed to move the center so far right. Except for a few very safe liberal districts, Ds have to be center or at least no more than very slightly center left to win elections. What used to be considered center right is now deep in RINO territory according to the R base.
Those Rs are correct. They couldn’t get elected now that rock ribbed conservative without being a complete wack job is just not right enough for the GOP anymore. But it really isn’t an even steven, far righties vs far lefties equation at all anymore. Hasn’t been for a very long time.
It’s either swords or sharks — and either way the end won’t be pretty, but it will be pretty much the same.
Those that think they can manage to dance these threads through the needle’s eyes are playing a game of self-deception.
I think they’ve started realizing that most people don’t actually follow politics all that closely, so they’re pretty comfortable saying one thing on the national talk shows (let’s abolish all spending) and another in local news and advertisements (we saved spending on that thing you like).
They did the same with Medicare in 2010.
Although with leaders like Obama and Hickenlooper, who can’t make a case for anything they claim to believe in, it’s easy and tempting to run circles around them.
Surrender the question-asking to random members of the public communicating through non-interactive email or text or whatever and then never ask a follow up question when the talking points come spilling out in response. Why do we need airhead Matt Flener there at all? There should just be the politician and a chair with a screen on it where the questions roll.
Call: “You see, Matt, we Republicans pressured the Democrats to put aside more tax money for public schools and then we made them bolster green energy development to save your beautiful Colorado environment and then, despite Democrat intractability, we raised unicorns for your children to ride.”
Flener: “Great. Our next viewer wants to know what your favorite color is.”
Adam Schrager would have asked the goddamn follow-up. It’s just ridiculous that Call was allowed to say something so utterly absurd without getting the boom lowered on him.
This was a bipartisan budget agreement. You forget that at your peril.