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August 24, 2012 03:24 PM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The American people, as you and I have known them to be anyway, are resilient, and we can overcome whatever obstacles are put in our way. What we can’t overcome is a country made up of losers, morons, and takers that would elect a guy like Obama. My point is that the problem really isn’t Obama; it’s the people that vote for him.”

–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday

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  1. Behind a paywall: http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…

    “I know that there’s been a lot of press out there and I think Jared is a fighter with backbone who will not back down just because the going gets tough,” the former congressman says in the 90-second recorded message. “I know he’s a family man and a man of faith who won’t sell out our values to self-interested power brokers in Mesa County or anywhere else.”

    Ironically, Tancredo did to the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate, Dan Maes, in 2010 what local Republicans are doing to Wright: Ask him to step down for the good of the party.

  2.  Union bosses and Democrats kill bill to firing school workers who do violence and sex on kids

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G…

    http://times247.com/articles/u…

    You won’t find this story in the local rag. It’s too astonishing to think they’d report that in CA school workers can do sex on kids at school and even feed them seman, but they’ll still keep their job.

    In a stunning example of truth stranger than fiction,В DemocratsВ in the California Assembly killed a bill that would have made it easier to fire teachers accused of serious sexual offenses against children.

    The bill SB 1530, had bipartisan support in the Senate, where it passed 33-4, but in a display of strength by the California Teachers Association, six Democrats on the Education Committee either voted against it (Tom Ammiano and Joan Buchanan) or didn’t vote (Betsy Butler, Wilmer Carter, Mike Eng and Das Williams).

    The bill followed shocking incidents of sexual abuse in the Los Angeles Unified School District and elsewhere, the worst of which involvedВ Mark Berndt, 61, who’s been accused of 23 acts of lewd acts against children at Miramonte Elementary in the LAUSD.

    Under current law, it’s almost impossible to fire teachers facing even the worst of charges.

    The bill was narrowly crafted to focus only on cases in which school employees are accused of sex, violence or drug use with children.

    2. and what the current laws are.

      Feeding “seman”? “Can do sex on”? Jesus Christ, son.

      Your outrage is also like two months late.

      Anyone actually interested can start in these places:

      http://www.aroundthecapitol.co… (With a link for the full text of the bill.)

      Quick summary from a local CA NBC – http://www.nbclosangeles.com/n…

      And for any interested in what the CTA thinks about it – http://blog.cta.org/tag/sb-1530/

      I’m fairly ambivalent on the bill. Just about everyone, save ‘Tad, had good points.

      1. Massive political contributions from Union Bosses.

        The bill sailed through the Senate, only to be killed by the state Assembly education committee.

        What do you think the victims will think when they are 18 and able to vote?

        2. Or what actually happened at that school? Using kids’ horrifying sexual assaults to make a political point against a union is pretty low, even for you.

          1. Thanks Union Bosses …. I’m sure every non criminal school district employee appreciates this optic.?…NOT

            I mean really, just what was the fucking union policy board thinking when they arranged to kill this bill after it passed un opposed through the Senate …. and where was the Governor?

    1. concealed carry permits were as easy to get in NYC as they are here in Colorado, plenty of people would have been carrying and could have expertly dealt with the perp in a shoot out that would have safely saved everyone. Just like what happened here, right?  

  4. From the Daily Prophet:

    State Sen. Evie Hudak leaves candidate forum in an ambulance after vertigo attack

    Her Republican opponent, Lang Sias, who was sitting next to her at the event, had no idea where she went and was told later she’d had an allergy attack. When it came time to talk about the Senate District 19 race, he was the only candidate present.

    “It’s a little bit of an awkward situation to have a debate with yourself,” said Sias, who wished Hudak a speedy recovery.

    “I shot her a little note afterwards saying I hoped she felt better,” Sias said, “and I’d be happy to to do the thing again and give her extra time.”

    http://blogs.denverpost.com/th…

    Terms of use: http://www.denverpost.com/term…

    1. had to immediately step all over Sias’ classy, kind, decent behavior.  See today’s” Stay classy Sen. Brophy” diary.

      Also I hope I missed something about DaveT going on vacation or something. No Euro-trash video? Nothing bad happened to ol’ Dave?  

  5. post Citizens United decision world, it’s good to know progressive PACs are at least trying:

    A liberal super PAC hoping to unseat some of the Tea Party’s most beloved lawmakers added a new incumbent to its takedown list: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

    CREDO SuperPAC announced Thursday that Bachmann and two other darlings of the conservative movement — Reps. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) and Jim Renacci (R-Ohio) — are the latest targets in its Take Down the Tea Party Ten campaign.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

     

        1. Versus point fucking blank redistribution via massive regulations, new taxes, higher taxes, more mandates and out of control spending on auto pilot.

          So Democrat leaders lie to their own people before fucking them out of their cash vs the approach with non Democrats who just get fucked.

          3. It’s because your overlords tell you to.  Frank Luntz found that in test groups “Democratic” tended to make the participants feel warm and fuzzy and positive.  But “Democrat” refers to a political party that many don’t like.

            So, he put the word out to all the R-Bots to not give the DemocratIC Party any fuzzies.

            You are being used.

            1. Trying to move the brand away from the Jackass logo was quick for me, but then there are fucks like you who will require your own party to spend millions rebranding itself

              1. between a noun and an adjective … maybe next semester if the ping pong table gets moved to the garage and there’s room for them language arts flip charts.

              2. The donkey is not a logo.  That, and the Publican elephant was a creation of the political cartoonists about 150 years ago.

                As noted below, you absolutely do not understand the English language.  Yes, we are Democrats.  We (mostly) support the Democratic Party.  

                Rebranding?  WTF are you jerking off about?  The Party has a lineage going back over 200 years.  Pretty successful, I’d say.

          4. There are real polls that say this and none of them is far from dead heat. This is the way everyone raises funds; a combination of whipping up enthusiasm and scaring people about the other side. Nobody ever said political operatives on either side were choirboys. It’s a far cry from Willy Hornton.  

    2. From: Jason Rosenbaum

      Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012

      To: Guy Cecil

      Subject: Breaking: swing state polling

      BREAKING: “Recent polls in several swing states show Romney asserting a lead or closing the gap in a way he hadn’t before.” The Washington Post, 8/23

      Guy – Mitt is ahead by two in Ohio, three in Virginia, one in Wisconsin, and one in Florida.

      He has outraised President Obama for three straight months, and his non-stop attack ad rampage put him ahead in these swing states. No matter how we slice and dice the numbers, we know that President Obama will lose the election and Democrats will lose the Senate if Mitt wins these four key states. ….snip…..

      1. And do you understand that there aren’t near enough of your beloved “union bosses” to counter the Adelman’s and Super PAC’s on the Republican side?

        Do you know that Obama raises much more money from individual contributors?  

        People want Obama, corporations (allegedly people) want Rmoney.

  7. The Crackpot Caucus

    Take a look around key committees of the House and you’ll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missouri’s Representative Todd Akin’s take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who’s been raped.

    On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.

    Let’s take a quick tour of the crazies in the House. Their war on critical thinking explains a lot about why the United States is laughed at on the global stage, and why no real solutions to our problems emerge from that broken legislative body.

    http://opinionator.blogs.nytim…

    This stuff would be funny if:  1) it were some comedic movie about a dystopian future, and, 2) if parody hadn’t recently been offed.

    Unfortunately, it isn’t funny because it’s real and now . . . God Science and logic help us all.

    I’m truly mystified, how people can actually manage to live their lives with false assumptions not born of fact or experience.  I’m serious, I look at some of these people and wonder how it is that they don’t get run over by a car, or drown in their own bathtub, or electrocute themselves with one of their own appliances.  The power or fable and myth in everyday life is enormous — and it’s killing us.

    “Killing” — that’s not just hyperbole, by the way.  Check out just a couple of the results from today’s news:

    http://rendezvous.blogs.nytime…

    (be sure to watch the video, “Plastic Beach” embedded in this one.)

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48…

      1. I’m easy — and three, or some multiple thereof, might just be one of my favorite drinking numbers.

        Shoot me a e-mail when you get the chance and we’ll figure something out.  

  8. it weren’t for the fact that a decisive majority of the resilient American people elected Obama. “The people that vote for him” and are such losers are the American people. Hating the majority of Americans sounds a lot like hating America. Thought that was supposed to be Obama’s thing in Rush world. Or is Rush only counting certain (white male, for instance) people as “Americans”? How “American” is that?

  10. How Ordinary People Come to Embrace Paul Ryans Cruelty

    …. reported that when the details of his proposals were run past focus groups, they found that the plan is so cruel that voters ” simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.”

    http://www.alternet.org/electi…

    Ie, no one has read it.

    When they do, they don’t believe it.

    Aint’ cognitive dissonance grand?

  11. And his point? Nuthin’ ’bout Obama, he’s just talkin’ ’bout Michigan.

    Or maybe I’m missing the joke? Because it sounds like he’s insinuating that Obama isn’t old fashioned American. I could be wrong, I’m not Romney. He may have misspoken, I may have mistakenly inferred. I’m sure I’m right that he should have kept his fucking mouth shut.

    Classiness abounds today.

    http://politicalticker.blogs.c…

    1. hateful and divisive the Obama campaign is whereas he, Romney, only wants to talk about policy and issues?  Ask him for any details on any policy?  Crickets.

      All he really wants to talk about is how Obama isn’t a real American, doesn’t understand or love his country and while he’s not a birther himself he sure understands why people can’t believe that such an un-American guy was born here. Oh and he knows how to create jobs and balance the budget but you’ll have to just trust him on all that.

      But mainly he’s not Obama and Obama hates America so vote Romney.  I mean look at him. He’s so white and all. His wife is so blonde. So he’s a Mormon.  At least he’s not… you know… wink,wink.

    2. sometime next week President Obama will be able to say . . .

      “Governor Romney recently told a crowd of Americans that no one had asked to see his birth certificate . . .

      . . . well, Governor Romney, the American people have asked to see your economic plan, your tax plan, your energy plan, your medicare plan, your job creation plan, and your plans for protecting the rights of American women . . . where are those, Governor Romney?  That’s some of what the American people would like to see from you . . . or from any man or woman who aspires to become President.

      . . . And, just to set the record straight, no one has ever had to ask to see my tax returns.  I have gladly released all of those for years now.”  

  12. The erstwhile party of fiscal knowledge is eyeing a return to the Gold Standard….an idea already dumped by Saint Ronnie back in 1981:


    So, to recap, in 1981, amidst a serious inflation problem, Reagan created a commission to study a gold standard. You couldn’t have picked a more sympathetic president, or a more sympathetic moment, to the gold standard. And they still rejected it.

    Now fast forward 30 years. There’s no inflation problem. The head of the Federal Reserve was originally appointed by George W. Bush and is credited by most observers as having headed off a potential Great Depression through creative monetary policy. And so what does the Republican Party want to do? Well, according to a draft of the party’s platform, they want another Gold Commission.

    You might dismiss this as a meaningless capitulation to Ron Paul’s delegates. But that’s not what Rep. Marsha Blackburn, co-chair of the GOP’s platform committee, says. “These were adopted because they are things that Republicans agree on,” Blackburn told the Financial Times. “The House recently passed a bill on this, and this is something that we think needs to be done.”

    One of those House Republicans is Paul Ryan.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/…

    No, it’s a meaningless capitulation to the Ron Paul Nutjob Army about to complete disrupt the RNC convention.

    But, as suggested, perhaps Rep Ryan can call up Mexico and see if they’ll give us the $10 Million back for the Gadsden Purchase (inflation-adjusted, $239Mil)in return for a southern chunk of the US….

  13. Romney says tithing makes him hesitant to release tax returns


    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said his charitable giving to the Mormon Church, a practice known as tithing, makes him uneasy about revealing more of his tax returns as demanded by Democrats, according to an interview in Parade Magazine.

    “Our church doesn’t publish how much people have given.  This is done entirely privately,” Romney told the magazine in an interview to be published on Sunday.  “One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public.”

    http://www.reuters.com/article…

    . . . yeah!, that’s the ticket . . .

    “God says you people already have everything you’re going to get.  So, now can we please get back to discussing Obama’s birth certificate? . . . “

  14. who objected, albeit humorously, to my plan to expel Texas and Oklahoma from the Union to form the new state of West Birtherland and likewise to expel South Carolina as East Birtherland.

      On reflection, I’ve decided that since South Carolina has at least one intelligent politician, Rep. James Clyburn, D-6th District, I will settle for partitioning the Palmetto State.  Clyborne’s 6th CD and any other identifiable sentient parts of the state can stay in the Union as South Carolina 2.0.

    The rest of the state is expelled to form the Republic of Calhoun, otherwise known as Birtherdesh or DeMintville.  

    1. I welcome your revision as the objector given that I’m from Clyburn’s district. And don’t forget Gene Robinson, WaPo columnist and native of that district as well. Of course, then there’s Nikki Haley.

  15. One of the commentators said CU predicted a CU win and “they have been right for thirty years.”  Did anyone contradict him? NO.  Do any of those political commentators read Colorado Pols..The most read political blog in Colorado?  NO

    What this illustrates is how quickly the media picked up on the CU study, did not analyze it, and it now is considered “gospel” and part of the popular culture…….

    Maybe the CU School of Journalism could do a case study on this….OH WAIT.

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