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Declare independence from the Trumpstink. It's the American way.
Please be true. Please be true.
'It stinks': Twitter gets wind of oddly named Trump tariff bill draft
Why do you want it to be true?
As the article goes on to explain:
Either it could be a subtle act of rebellion, or people in his admin are really that stupid to name it the FART Act. Either scenario is likely.
Instead of stopping it with a veto, better to simply take GasX.
Trump stinks. He FARTs. Stay upwind, world.
https://twitter.com/PolisForCO/status/1013803120881618945
Taking all bets!
I'll go ahead and say Johnston.
I say Kennedy, unless she turned him down. He gets more from her than Johnston. Besides, the teachers' union will be livid with a Polis/Johnston ticket.
It wouldn't be bad for Kennedy to take it while she decides what she really wants to do: run against Gardner, see if Hancock is forced out and then she runs for mayor, or wait for Polis to finish and then run for governor again.
I think Cary should take it, if offered. Right now, she has lost two straight elections and it wouldn't be easy move from there to a mayoral race. As for Johnston, the teacher's unions would throw a fit. Yes, he ran a stronger race than expected but third place is third place and an all white male ticket is an anachronism.
If played properly, the lt. gov. can be a valuable minister without portfolio and trouble shooter, like Gail Schoettler did for Roy Romer.
I suppose a unity ticket with Cary might be too obvious (personally, I hope she has a chance and desire to run for Denver Mayor if the opportunity arises)
How about Crisanta Duran? No way it's Mike– no need to pick someone who gets him no demos and kills him with teachers. Crisanta is the opposite of that, helps him with unions, and she's available, at least in theory.
https://twitter.com/PolisForCO/status/1013845084343697411
She has at least 1 dog, so things are looking up for that choice. Not finding any evidence that Cary or Johnston meet this new qualification =]
I've been to Ken's house once too, so he's out as well unless he's been to the shelter recently.
No to Crisanta. Just ask the members of Local 7 what they think of her.
David Leonhardt of the New York Times takes a jaundiced view of Sen. Susan Collins' pro-choice stand on the next Trump-appointed Supreme Court justice:
During Trump's campaign, he promised that he would demand his nominees be in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade. His WH attorney, Don McGahn, has already vetted the list supplied by the Federalist Society from which Trump will be choosing his nominee. Thus it is not a big stretch to infer that they meet that criteria, thus eliminating the need to press the question in Senate confirmation hearings. The nominee will simply refuse to answer when asked by Democrats, and Collins, et al can claim they can vote for them in good conscience.
The correct way to pronounce Trump (per his ancestral home in Germany):
If only the Kaiser had allowed grandpa to return home, so much would be different.
What makes anyone believe that Susan Collins is pro-choice? Watch what she does, not what she says. Isn't that the first rule of watching politicians?
Didn't she already vote for several anti-abortion Supreme Court justices?
For that matter, on what significant legislation has she voted with the Democrats and against the Republicans?
Half right, Park Hill. She has voted for several anti choice judges most recently Got such. She has rationalized it by saying that he respects precedent.
Yeah, right. Whatever helps her sleep at night.
She did vote to save ACA.
Hey, I wonder what Tim Geithner, Obama's Treasury Secretary and right-hand man during TARP is up to? [Checks internet] Oh my…
‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans
Lock em up! Lock em up!
The word Republicans want to erase from textbooks? Democracy
This is fricking scary. I have ex in law relatives who bemoan that “public schools don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance” anymore…. and no matter how many times I assure them that we in fact Pledge every morning, they insist that all those other public schools refuse to say it.
i guess it’s a talking point on Fox or something. I could just see some of these extreme parents coming to school board meetings to protest “ too much talk of democracy” in civics textbooks.
When I taught the Transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau, etc), I actually had kids whose parents complained that we were talking about Nature too much. And these were farm and ranching kids.
It’s getting wacky out there with a chance of brain shrinkage.
As George Orwell and Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) showed us, words are powerful. Suppressing or twisting their meaning has long been the favorite technique of fear-driven regimes. It is no wonder Republicans are resorting to that to pervert our nation’s values.
Mining the comments on Daily Kos articles really pays off:
WOTD from Josh Marshal: "Dem's Goldilocks Fight Club"
WOTD2 From Mahablog: "Who gets to be angry"
https://twitter.com/PolisForCO/status/1013881671496503297
Round 2: Dog-owning recent grandparents only!
Any word on when Wayne Simpleton will reveal his choice? Moddy is probably keeping the phone open for Cynthia to take the call.
Ruh-roh…
Highlights from Michael Cohen’s exclusive interview
Leadership, Trump-style (and governing GOP-style):
1. Start fire
2. Pour gasoline on it
3. Make sure your private and corporate benefactors extract the maximum profit
4. Find someone else to blame
5. Start new fire
Between the bungling of the immigration issue, sabotage of the health insurance markets, the unfunded $1.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, and the planned reductions in Medicare, Medicaid, and even Social Security if they can pull that one off, we need to keep the malevolent incompetence of the Republican Party as the number one issue for voters to remember in November.
Republicans (and their hacks on this site) wonder why we call them Nazis. Here is something that might clear up their confusion: