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February 13, 2010 04:01 PM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Never confuse motion with action.”

–Benjamin Franklin

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  1. Tell the nation last year, “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”, Obama now has a new, “agnostic” stance on middle class tax increases

    Does this signal a broken pledge?  Has he misled The American People?

    But after repeatedly pledging not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year, Obama told Bloomberg he is now “agnostic” on such a plan.

    “The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” Obama said. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”

    “The president’s fiscal commission proposal is nothing more than a partisan Washington exercise rigged to impose massive tax increases and pass the buck on the tough choices we need to be making right now,” said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

    In creating the commission, the president faces three immediate problems. Originally billed as a means for building consensus, the commission is effectively being defined by its critics as a way for the administration to dodge fiscal responsibility.

    The president also faces the hard truth of a record-high, $1.6 trillion federal deficit this year, amid pressure from his own party not to cut spending on popular programs in a congressional election cycle.

    But politicians are uncommonly superstitious about raising taxes after promising not to. Former President George H.W. Bush famously lost his campaign for a second term after breaking his “read my lips, no new taxes” pledge.

    Obama has been no less emphatic, telling a joint session of Congress and the nation last year that “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.”

    The statement echoed a frequent pledge from the campaign trail, where Obama vowed to resist a middle class tax increase: “Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” he told a New Hampshire audience in 2008.

    Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer….

    1. paranoid and intentionally ignorant crowd. eh libertarded?

      BTW a republican plan agreed to by Democrats, then rejected by republicans… passed in the house and senate… was signed into law by President Obama Friday.

      Do you know what it was libertarded?

  2. I probably dislike Russian girl groups as much as anything played on the banjo, but traditions are traditions.  So I’m going to hold my nose and post this.  No idea if he’s posted it before.

    1. Somehow this one does not fully fill the void on my TV that used to be filled with stuff from cable TV. Dumped my cable TV connection a few weeks ago. My bird may miss it though, he watches more TV than I do.

       I let him watch this but he didn’t join in by dancing and singing so this is not on his hit list.

    1. Here is a link to a html tutorial.

      Here is their test bed to practice and see if you have your html right.

      I’m sure there are other sites available if you want to google them.  But the above site seems pretty straight forward and not too difficult to understand.

      “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

      1. you have to wade through it.  Practice and don’t get too frustrated.  Took me a while to figure it all out.

        On the other hand, if you have access to a programmer geek, that could make it a lot easier.

        “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

        1. in plain english, say, how do I get a video into a blog post, how do I get an image into a blog post and have step 1 do this, step two do that instructions for dummies?   Maybe, since you understand it now and were once a dummy yourself (since you are self taught from scratch) you could come up with some?  

          1. You need two windows or tabs open.  One YouTube and the other Pols.  In the Pols window, begin entering a comment just the way you enter any other comment.

            Go to the YouTube window or tab and bring up the video you want to post.  Just to the right of the video, you will see a couple of text boxes.  One says “URL” and the other says “Embed”  Highlight the code in the Embed box from start to finish with your mouse.  Right-click and choose “Copy.”

            Then in your Pols post, right click in the box where you’re entering your comment and choose “Paste.”  It will paste the embed code from YouTube.  Hit the Preview button to make sure it worked.

          2. to add to the CPols right hand column?  Seems the question comes up quite often.  

            And while we are at it, maybe a CPols lexicon page link on the right for abbreviations, definitions, similes, metaphors, alliterations, cacophonys, onomatopoeias, anagrams, clichГ©s, satire, idioms, morphemes and secret codes used at this site?  That way the casual user, lurker or newbie could figure all of this out.

            Of course, we would need a second page for all the metaphors and descriptors used to define Libby.  

            1. could finally add an “embed URL” button to the bold, italic and quote buttons on comments … is that available on Soapblox? I’m guessing, if so, that it’s not there to discourage spam posts, but they don’t seem to mind as it is.

  4. Aide to stranded Hickenlooper sought flight help from Frontier CEO

     http://www.denverpost.com/sear…

    Frontier HQ is leaving town but what the heck Hick…

    With Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper stuck in Washington this week because of the East Coast snowstorms, the mayor’s scheduler looked to the upper reaches of Frontier Airlines for a little help.

    She lobbed an e-mail to the assistant for Sean Menke, the chief executive of Frontier Airlines, seeing what could be done.

    As of Friday, the mayor’s office had not responded to a Denver Post request to see the contents of the e-mail and the reply. But both the mayor’s chief of staff, Roxane White, and Menke confirmed the e-mail.

    Everybody denies Hick was given any special treatment or bumped anyone.  Then why did they contact Frontier’s Menke in the first place?

      1. And if Hick didn’t want special treatment assuming the marketing strategy behind Frontier’s offer in a different weather event in a different city was remembered (that’s a reach…), I still don’t understand the need to make contact.

          1. Last fall there were a number of stories about the maintenance shops leaving Denver because of Denver’s costs/taxes…I don’t recall all the details.  This year it’s Frontier’s HQ leaving.

            The whole picture of making contact asking for help when you were in the driver’s seat during the exit struck me as more than a little curious.  

        2. He also gave out a fax number to directly contact his office with questions and concerns if/whenever passengers felt they couldn’t get through via normal channels.

        3. I’d rather he be contacting Frontier, even the CEO’s office, instead of some lobbyist paid charter.

          Should we start comparing charter/private jet flight experiences of the candidates?

      1. It’s beyond me how it reflects negatively on the Mayor.  If I have a problem with a contractor, I usually find that I get better results talking with the boss than I do with the lower echelon.  I mean, as Scooty finds himself trailing in the polls, does he go to the local teabaggers to get his strategy or does he talk with Wadhams and Penry?  This smacks of desperation from the McInnis camp.

        “The U.S. economy will bottom in the next two years. It will need 15 to 17 years to recover fully, if past recessions and depressions can be used as guides.”  -Scott McInnis

        “Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.”  -Scott McInnis

        1. If anybody thinks Scooters scheduler doesn’t call airline CEOS and refer to him as “Congressman McInnis” they are smoking crack.

          Hickenlooper is the mayor of the capital city of Colorado. Elections have consequences. Mayors get to have their schedulers call airline higher ups and look for tickets.

    3. 1. IF the email exchange had been purely neutral, rather than asking for and receiving a favor, the contents would have been made public immediately.

      2. When an elected official contacts a corporate CEO, there cannot help but be an implied quid pro quo…either “help me now and I’ll help you in the future,” or “don’t help me and I won’t intervene in a tax audit (or whatever).” It’s built into the titles, regardless of who’s doing the asking.

      3. There is already a good deal of royalism running through the ranks of elected officials in the republic. Candidates are Everyman until election day, when they instantly become kings, dukes, earls, or at the very least Knights of the Realm. No more waiting in line! Of course they still appreciate the travails of life for Ordinary Citizens–but in the abstract. For some voters it’s natural and okay; for others, it rubs the wrong way.

      4. Given that Hizzonor had access to a telephone and the Internet, one wonders what vital city business demanded that he be back in Denver right now, aside from a personal desire to be with his family–understandable but hardly a matter of state. Was it some pressing city business that could only be handled in person, or was he using his title to squeeze to the top of the list of waiting passengers, for his personal satisfaction?

      5. Small incidents under a microscope can have a way of providing insight into the mindset of a candidate, even if the incident under examination is as minor as, well, emailing the CEO wondering about flights.

      LET’S SEE THE EMAILS and then we can judge for ourselves.

  5. .

    as their influence goes up.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/…

    “I don’t think it’s materially weakened the lobbying profession, … The rules have had more unintended consequences than intended ones.”

    “it tells people you’re fixing a problem without actually fixing it.”

    “While all these government watchdog groups are pandering to the White House, they’ve actually invited more big business to Washington.”

    “The big dogs will eat,” … “They will always find a way to fly their people in, to funnel their money in. It’s smaller interests and nonprofits who are going to suffer and have a hard time.”

    .

  6. Ok, over the last 2 weeks we were getting some final functionality in part of our program – to demonstrate at a trade show. I got it in (as long as you don’t do 3 things) and it was a major hit.

    It’s funny, we’ll come out with a new version that makes things worlds easier than before and we then think we’ve hit perfection. And then a year later we do an even better approach and the old way looks much poorer. I guess that’s a measure of progress.

    Anyways, we came back with a ton of leads – and we’re the only company bringing reporting & docgen to SharePoint so we’ve got first product advantage – and that’s gigantic.

    A couple of diaries coming shortly…

    ps – No video today because Ralphie did a great job in my absence.

  7. from ABC Chicago

    The Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action Now (CLEAN), a national bipartisan group of state legislators working with the White House to pass federal clean energy jobs legislation, sent a letter to members of the United States Senate today pressing for urgent action on pending clean energy jobs and climate change legislation.

    The letter, signed by 1,198 state lawmakers from both parties and 49 states, seeks energy reform legislation that would meet three goals:

    Signers include:

    Rep. Dennis Apuan, CO

    Rep. Debbie Benefield, CO

    Sen. Betty Boyd, CO

    Sen. Morgan Carroll, CO

    Rep. Terrance Carroll, CO

    Rep. Ed Casso, CO

    Rep. Lois Court, CO

    Rep. Mark Ferrandino, CO

    Rep. Randy Fischer, CO

    Sen. Joyce Foster, CO

    Rep. K. Jerry Frangas, CO

    Sen. Rollie Heath, CO

    Sen. Evie Hudak, CO

    Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, CO

    Sen. Mike Johnston, CO

    Rep. Joel Judd, CO

    Rep. Daniel Kagan, CO

    Rep. John Kefalas, CO

    Sen. Maryanne Keller, CO

    Rep. Andy Kerr, CO

    Rep. Jeanne Labuda, CO

    Rep. Claire Levy, CO

    Rep. Beth McCann, CO

    Rep. Buffie McFadyen, CO

    Rep. Michael Merrifield, CO

    Rep. Joe Miklosi, CO

    Sen. John Morse, CO

    Sen. Linda Newell, CO

    Rep. Sal Pace, CO

    Rep. Cherylin Peniston, CO

    Rep. Jack Pommer, CO

    Rep. Joe Rice, CO

    Rep. Jim Riesberg, CO

    Rep. Su Ryden, CO

    Rep. Christine Scanlan, CO

    Rep. Sue Schafer, CO

    Sen. Brandon Shaffer, CO

    Rep. Judy Solano, CO

    Sen. Pat Steadman, CO

    Rep. Cynthia Thielen, HI

    Rep. Nancy Todd, CO

    Rep. Max Tyler, CO

    Rep. Edward Vigil, CO

    Sen. Suzanne Williams, CO

  8. is that Michael Bennet may be a fictional alternate identity for Ben Stein.  I mean, seriously, can anyone not notice the disturbing similarities in their voices?

    Petty, yes.  That’s what 3-times-a-week robocalls will do to you, I guess.

    1. Michael hasn’t been calling me!  I’m hurt, hurt I tell you.  I did, however, get the robocalls from the other side a few weeks back, telling me to call Sen. Bennet and tell him not to vote for that bill that was going to cut Medicare and be mean to  senior citizens (uh, insurance company CEO’s, I think was the real message).

  9. from the San Francisco Examiner


    HONOLULU – Hawaii lawmakers defeated a proposal Wednesday that would have allowed government contractors to make campaign contributions.

    The House of Representatives sent the bill back to committee, where it will either die or be revived in some other form.

    Good-government groups praised the decision, saying it prevents businesses from further influencing lawmakers.

    …

    House Republicans said the bill would have opened up politics to corruption, allowing government contracts to go to businesses that help people get elected, said Rep. Cynthia Thielen.

    Gee, this idea sounds awfully familiar…

    1. Ours was not a bill allowing contributions by government contractors, it was a bill banning them. But it was a Republican wolf in sheep’s clothing (to coin a phrase) because it defined state employees as government contractors.

      In other words, Republicans were trying to prevent state employees from contributing to political candidates, which is almost certainly a violation of their first amendment rights. Money is speech, so sayeth the U.S. Supreme Court.

      Republicans love campaign finance laws when they work in their favor, and hate them the rest of the time (your mother notwithstanding I am sure).

  10. Words cannot express how reassured I was that I am backing Senator Bennet after watching Andrew Romanoff at home with “his base”.  I am still flabberghasted at some of the things I heard him say tonight.  

    All I can say right now is, “Jared Polis gets my vote for the classiest guy in America.”

    Wow.  Wow.

    More tomorrow.

  11. A review of other revisions to both the Bennet and Romanoff pages shows that a former Romanoff campaign volunteer made changes to both pages in March, October and December of last year.

    The revisions were minor, but they did include a recommendation to put a “lock” on Bennet’s page to limit who could edit it.

    The volunteer, Andrew Barrow, declined to discuss the editing.

    “I’m not allowed to talk about any of this,” Barrow said before hanging up.

    Dean Toda, spokesman for the Romanoff campaign, said Barrow briefly was a volunteer who was “told to take a hike” in November after he was involved in “monkey business” with another political website.

    Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news…

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