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(D) Phil Weiser
(D) Jena Griswold
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Att. General
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(D) Alexis King
(D) Brian Mason
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(D) A. Gonzalez
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(R) Kevin Grantham
(D) Jerry DiTullio
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CO-01 (Denver)
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80%
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(D) Joe Salazar
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August 24, 2009 03:36 PM UTC
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LBJ was the master at this – http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI…
I’m sure I’m not the only one who occasionally forgets you have to sell something new not only on its merits but also using plain old persuasion and politics.
If you read about only one President to learn about government, it is LBJ.
It was said you could give Kennedy a list of 12 Senators to call and he would call 8 on a good day. If LBJ had a list of 12, he would call 20.
Love or hate his policies, the man had purpose and he was driven to win. Me was President Retail to Regan’s Mr. Wholesale.
I have alway thought that the down fall of LBJ was not that things did not get better, but they did not get better fast enough. Same as the French Revolution/ Glasnos and Parastoika.
even if he botched Viet Nam. (To his credit there, it is told that sometimes he would get up in the middle of the night, go down to the Situation Room, and ask about casualties. Compare to Bush……)
LBJ was a man that rose above his destiny as a rural Southern boy. The poverty he saw as a young teacher along the Rio Grande – and I’m sure Johnson County wasn’t exactly Malibu – informed him for his whole life. It took a man of his knowledge, drive, ability, and willing to risk his future for getting things down now.
Unlike the current occupant of the White House.
And he’s already said he’s willing to be a one-termer to pass health care. Not sure what you’re referring to with your last sentence.
When?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.c…
I’ll assume you’re talking about the one-termer bit.
From Robert Gibbs:
As for the poverty part, I figured that was common knowledge.
When he was in Indonesia?
It was when his dad left his mom and they lived with his grandparents in Hawaii during that time.
I thought he went to an elite prep school while in Hawaii?
I should read his book.
Indonesia, Hawaii, growing up with a single mom, working in Chicago… Seriously?
….but he did not grow up in poverty or, to my small knowledge, have an epiphany like LBJ.
As a kid, Mom shunted him off to the grandparents as needed. I would guess they also would not have let them starve.
They need a candidate who can beat him. Even with people generally dissatisfied with Bush in 2004, he still managed to beat a weak opponent in John Kerry.
Or look at Clinton in 1994: the GOP thought they had nailed him to the wall with their victory in the midterms, but two years later he was re-elected by a wide margin. Mostly due to the fact that they nominated Bob Dole.
If the GOP can’t find a candidate with the political skills necessary to unseat an incumbent president, then Obama will be sitting pretty.
Day Three of the DAV Convention….GEN Shinseki made a bold promise to end Veteran Homelessness by 2013, and promised to cut the VBA backlog.
Best of all, Chris Vanderveen was recognized for all the stories he’s done on Military and Veteran’s issues by the DAV with the Bugle Award.
Thanks to the magic of the interwebs, you can see the stories and his acceptance:
The Durango Herald has an article on our newest State Senator – a Democrat for a whole month!
Read his comments, one can’t get more noncommittal, is that why he was picked?
I hope he’s a quick study on politics, the legislative process, the Democratic Party, etc.
Quote from article: Given what’s going on in Denver right now, why would you want to be a senator? “That’s a difficult question,” said Whitehead.
Huh? It’s the first thing you learn when you want to run for office – be able to say WHY you want the position.
I know he was selected in order to be the candidate for office next year, but I hope he decides against it. He doesn’t show much preparation or skill at the job – it’s just not a fit. Plus, his being named by Isgar to succeed him will not sit well with many progressives or active party members. I think the general populace will react with “Who?”
I don’t know who should run in the Dems primary, but it better be someone with a raging fire in the belly, Roberts will be hard to beat.
he said to cheers at a Republican’s town hall meeting.
Congressman Wally Herger (R-CA) praised him as a “great American.”
We’re through the looking glass, and we blew it up on the way out so nobody could follow us.
From the AP via HuffPost
Clorox and Sprint have left Glenn Beck’s show as well, bringing the total to 33 companies. I can’t find the list though. Color of Change is amazingly effective with this boycott, but their internet presence is kind of crap. (They must have sent out a press release, but I can’t find it posted online anywhere.)
It…it just says so much. Old righties with small penises who believe in tort reform for you but not for them.
with crap in their water whose urine smells kinda sweet.
We’re continually surprised by some people’s determination to annoy others.
He’s good at it.
Bob Beauprez just announced on the Silverman/caplis show that he is NOT going to run.
To bad for the GOP. I think, and I know you will all disagree, he would have won the U.S. Senate race
But as Senator from Colorado? Not so much.
from the Denver
LiberalPostThe same sort of idiotic mentality that has righties wanting to bomb Iranian nuclear power plants has lefties wanting all nuclear reactors thrown into the sun. I think nuclear isn’t as safe as it could be, but done correctly I think nuclear power could be very effective.
In other news, in a bizarre freak of nature the McCain Clock briefly coincided today with Earth Time.
Nukes require water, lots of it. It limits Nukes as a panacea since power must be produced locally.
Nukes make a lot of sense in the great lakes and certain coastal regions (not California), but it is not a panacea.
San Onofre seems to work pretty well.
The geologic instability in large portions of california increases risk and fear.
Even if designed to eliminate geologic risk, the perception problem makes building a power plant next to impossible.
Design to eliminate geologic risk, that is. We just don’t know enough about the location and potential of all the faults in California.
I can’t see why it would for the same power output.
It can be done safely.
It cannot be done profitably. So make th ebuilder pay for everything.
solar.calfinder.com/…/solar…/solar-power-and-climate-change
http://books.google.com/books?…
the biggest subsidy is the price-Anderson act that caps liability for commercial nukes. Without that, there would be no nuclear power.
However, I think we do need to subsidize alternatives to fossil-fueled power, so that we can achieve economies-of-scale and to decrease greenhouse emissions.
Pols, please, please take Taddy’s crappy auto-audio off.
And put him in a time-out for a week, since one of the disadvantages to cyberspace is beating the crap out of somebody who richly deserves it.