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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/6/1545343/-Morning-Digest-The-national-GOP-sounds-ready-to-triage-Colorado-s-Senate-seat
As bad as it looks for Glenn and with the seat having moved from one of the most vulnerable to "Lean Dem" and now to "Likely Dem" it's nice to see that the DSCC isn't taking anything for granted.
At this point..the Democrats need to put everything they have behind Gail Schwartz and Morgan Carroll.
But here is a tip, national Dems…give us the funding and staff and let us run our own campaigns, thank you. This is Colorado…not Virginia.
It'd be a first, Duke. The national Dems have been throwing their weight around the 3rd CD for years with horrible results. The Denver dudes haven't done much better. They just don't get that the 3rd is winnable for the right kind of Dem, with money from national and state but campaign expertise from the 3rd. I hope Gail can keep them at bay.
Forever War is a nice little policy that Republicans have supported for quite a while. When out of power, they can always call for more troops, more bombs, higher defense spending, and criticize those in power for beings incompetent wimps who hate Amurica (sic).
Yeah but…. Freedom Fries!
With catsup, Freedom is a good thing.
Have to love the British Parliament. Investigations that mean something, well-written conclusions that matter, likely action to follow.
Thanks for the summary.
Thanks for posting that, Zap. George Bush and his merry band of warlords may someday rival histories' greatest murderers for the sheer number of people who will have died, directly or otherwise, as a result of their lies and political machinations. I hope history never fades on their culpability.
History hath commenced . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/books/review-bush-a-biography-as-scathing-indictment.html
( . . . commenceth??)
Yes, Sanders campaign did have a significant effect. Which makes you wonder why he's chosen to pretty much disappear until the convention. Time to stop sulking. He should be out there taking credit for and supporting new improved HRC policy positions, like this one*, that he and his movement managed to bring about to demonstrate his movement's muscle. Regardless of whether he or HRC can get these things passed the point is that they are now the prospective candidate's policies and it's because of him and his supporters.
So why is he foregoing bragging rights if he wants to maintain his movement's strength? Why does he seem to be focusing on licking his wounds and complaining about not getting everything he wants into the platform? Nobody gets everything.
Looks to me like grumpy Bernie is letting his movement down, letting the enthusiasm fade, when he could be focusing on their many significant accomplishments, celebrating how far they've come and, like Elizabeth Warren, marshalling support for a candidate who is listening to them.
*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-debt-free-college_us_577cfd13e4b09b4c43c19800?section=
Apparently I'm not the only one who feels Bernie is squandering what his supporters won for him. And I can tell him one thing for sure. We aren't going to transform diddly by losing elections to Republicans.
Bernie's going in with an agenda. He knows a thing or two about negotiating; otherwise, he wouldn't be the "amendment king", and have preserved $10B funding for community health centers in a hostile Republican congress. He won't win the nomination, as he's acknowledged publicly, and he will vote for Clinton, as he has also said, but he's entirely within his rights, and is continuing as a smart negotiator to wait for the traditional nominating process to play out at the convention.
Votes in California are still being counted, as the precincts which demanded provisional ballots are hand-counting those. Clinton's lead over Bernie in CA has narrowed from 13 to ~7 points over the last few weeks. It's unlikely that he'll actually win California, but his stated principle is that every vote should be counted; and they are. Conceding early would, among other things, negate the political will of thousands of California voters.
The agenda includes:
*reversing the Democratic party's reliance on lobbyist and PAC money, limiting the influence of superdelegates.
*encouraging down ballot progressives to run for local offices
*having a platform that embraces meaningful climate change policy, as opposed to feel-good greenwashing "we want clean energy" faux policies.
*encouraging open primaries and same-day registration in all 50 states.
*Keeping the "Sanders revolution" alive as a movement to hold centrist Dems' feet to the fire.
If Bernie supporters, including 30% of Sanders voters who are Democratic-leaning Independents, see movement from Hillary on the above agenda, I would expect to see the longed-for endorsement and Kumbayah moment at the DNC. Until then, expect Sanders to stay stubborn, and expect Dem politicians to keep on caling him pain in the ass, narcissistic, infantile, etc, etc. Name-calling will not move the stubborn Vermont Senator, although it may alienate some of his supporters from the Democratic party. Only policy changes will move him. The sooner people realize that, the better.
He's losing his influence. He's losing the attention and enthusiasm of his young troops. He's being a grumpy old pain in the ass. He's wasting news cycles.
Or, alternatively, the sooner he pulls his swollen head out of his ass, the better off we all will be.
Thereby proving my maxim that it is best to leave Vger's swollen head alone.
The thing is, mama, he's not being seen doing much of those things you list lately. Whatever he's doing behind the scenes he's kind of fallen off the public radar. Seeing interviews with many young Bernie supporters who came to the Clinton/Warren appearance in Ohio feeling very cool toward HRC and left all fired up for her by Warren was a reminder of how quickly the enthusiasm of the young can be ignited, how hot it can burn and how quickly it can burn out as their attention is grabbed by the next thing. If he's going to basically grump and grouse quietly until the convention he's going to lose what gives him power… the noisy high energy enthusiasm of his young troops.
There is actually quite a lot going on behind the scenes, BC. I'm on the Sanders text message list, and have gotten 2 alerts just in the last 2 days to call my congresscritters or DNC officials about various items on the Dem platform. It's all policy focused and wonky now.
As such, it won't fit into an 8 second soundbite, or fit the lamestream talking points of "When will Bernie concede / endorse/ give up / hide under a rock /remove head from ass/ bla bla?"
My millennial age nephews are still active on Sanders policies on anti-GMOs, living wage, etc. I assume they get the text messages, too.
Sanders isn't holding huge rallies anymore, because what's the point? But there are going to be several rallies, marches, protests, and actions in Philly, most of which will be studiously ignored by the mainstream media.
I wouldn't count Sanders out quite yet.![wink wink](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/wink_smile.png)
Behind the scenes is not my point. As I've said he needs to be taking advantage of his new fame, name rec and following. He needs to keep the masses of his enthusiasts pumped up, not just a core of supporters behind the scenes. The main stream media can’t be blamed for ignoring him if he isn’t even trying to get out there and make some noise. They don’t ignore Warren.
And telling the House that he doesn't much care about winning elections isn't the way he's going to keep his movement going. He'd better care because his movement has no future with Republicans in power. It's going to evaporate if he doesn't stop the damn self righteous, holier than thou sulking.
Guess getting criticized in lefty Mother Jones and getting booed in the House might have had a some effect. He has finally come out and praised HRC's plan for free in state tuition for those whose families make under 125K and intimated an endorsement will be coming soon. Good move, Bernie and about time.
Lest she be a prophet without honor in her own blog, let us salute the astute MJ. She maintained all along that Hillary would not be indicted, simply because the e-mail follies did not rise to the level of criminal conduct. While she opposed Hillary firmly on many policy issues she, like Sir Bernie of the Mountain Green, never took cheap shots on the e-mail issue. You Go, Girl!
Thanks, V, for the acknowledgement.
Happy to join in the salute but, honestly, hasn't that always been the majority view among Dems? And the media? And pretty much everybody but Republicans and hopeful Bernie Or Busters? Not exactly a shocker.
Yes, but MJ preached this gospel to her fellow deep-dyed Bernistas. Contrast that to Dodd, who hoped to the end for an indictment that would throw the nomination to Bernie, as evidenced by his bitter comments yesterday when he falsely accused Hillary of perjury.
The hopeful Bernie or Busters I mentioned? Mama's always had more sense than that.
To be fair to Dodd, though, both Clintons have a way of skating pretty damned close to perjury. Sometimes the best they can do is insist that it depends on what the meaning of “is” is. But, hey, it works and in the face of Trump, who gave a “speech” today that was nothing short of certifiable, it’s hard to understand how any sane person could support him over HRC even if she does get a little weasely at times.
Not even mr _Dodd is crazy enough to vote for Trump and he has stated he won't. But I bet in the end he will go with Jill Stein. And at the risk of being called before the board of pun control,, I like to remind the Bernie or busters that the first woman nominated for president by a major party does indeed have a bust.![smiley smiley](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png)
Excuse me? I never said anything of the kind.
20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You
Okay, Hater Boy, here is your quote:
Frankly, I think you edited this statement after I called you on it because it seems more lucid than I remember , but it still contains two falsehoods.
"According to the AG." Hello? Can we assume in your malignant fury that you said Attorney General when you really meant FBI director James Comey? While false, this blunder is not a deliberate lie. You might call it "extremely careless."
"According to the AG (sic) this was a lie."
Actually, this is a deliberate lie on your part. As it happens Hillary ‘s statements were only 99.7 percent true, since about 100 of the 30,000 e-mails did originally contain classified materials — and only about two of those were labeled classified, it being left to a "reasonable person" to realize the others included unlabeled classified information. Well, maybe.
But Comey did not call it a lie. If he had, he would have had no choice but to indict her for perjury, since lying to the FBI in an official investigation is perjury. Ask Gen. Petraeus — that's the reason he did face charges — the FBI felt he lied to them. Hillary just made a mistake. Gee, out of 30,000 documents, only two of which were labeled "classified" she forgot — or failed to recognize at the time that these unlabeled items were classified as she "reasonably" should have deduced, — she, four or five years after the fact, goofed. Is that "extremely careless" — well, yes, going back to the original setup of the server, it sounds like she should have anticipated this mess and did not.
But is it perjury — only in the perverfid fever swamp known as the mind of James Dodd.
So, here's my offer: Produce the text in which Comey — or the Attorney General if that is what you really meant to say — said Hillary "lied." I'll apologize to you.
But if you can't produce it, I expect you to apologize to us for your lie and then go soak your head in a toilet bowl as I originally suggested.
Sound Fair?
Don't forget to flush first.
Comey: Petraeus lied, Clinton was "extremely careless"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-hillary-clinton-david-petraeus_us_577e6db3e4b0344d514e1d73?section=
More than that Petraeus purposely and knowingly provided classified material to his journalist mistress. Republican Comey didn't see any indication that Clinton had any attention of providing classified material to anyone who didn't qualify to receive it and there is no proof that such a thing even accidentally happened.
So thanks a lot, HRC, for your clueless Clinton arrogance we now have to defend you from but Comey is certainly not in anyone's pocket, much less a Clinton's.
BC, it has been evident for years that the Clintons possess a super-power– the power to drive their enemies mad.
Yes, Bill did perjure himself in the Paula Jones suit — well, lied like a trooper, anyway. "I did not have sex with that woman…" But that was not an impeachable offense, As someone said at the time, "He betrayed his wife, not his country."
He deserved to be censured and that's what I advocated (I was a Republican in that era.) If he had been, he would have finished his term in disgrace.
Newt insisted on an impeachment that didn't even get a ,majority of the Republican controlled Senate, let alone two-thirds–and the people turned against the whoremongering hypocrite that is Gingrich. Because Newt and other Clinton enemies overreached, Bill ended up a popular president.
I have a better opinion than you do of Hillary and don't think she deliberately lied about the handful of e-mails that had — usually unlabeled — classified information. But as with Benghazi, the Rs overreached and made her look good! If I'm ever fighting for my life, please, dear lord, let my opponent be Donald Stumblebum Trump or Newt Whoremonger Gingrich!
Since you think I find her perfect, I won't mention her real sins — such as her amazing success in the tricky world of cattle futures. And if you want to see a stunning display of just within the letter of the law greed, look at how she and bill raked in the legal graft as they were leaving the White House.
As to the server fiasco, I think it was motivated by her paranoia with the press — she seems to have wanted to avoid FOIA. But hell, everybody hates the press, with much justice, and that's not the high treason the Benghazi Benghazi crowd tried to paint it as.
I used to call myself a BobDole Republican and I'm damn glad a man of his integrity and wit is not running against Hillary. But as it is, it looks like our girl has dodged a very big bullet as the Clintons once again exercise their mysterious power to drive their enemies mad.
So you noticed? I agree with most of what you say and just wish the both of them would quit having these occasionally WTF fiascos that remind people of all the things they didn't like about them, that's all.
As for Dole, I never would have voted for him in a million years but I'm a pure bred 3rd generation Dem. That's ever since my family started arriving from Ukraine between 1914 and 1921 and got their citizenship pretty promptly, the younger ones by act of congress. And I agree HRC would never get past his style, now pretty much extinct, of Republican.
Glad you came over from the dark side.![wink wink](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/wink_smile.png)
Well, this shouldn't surprise anyone:
The context of the article is about the dozens of GOP foreign policy experts from the Bush I and II administrations that have endorsed Hillary.
Trump, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Putin, Saddam Hussein — all birds of a feather.
So he's got the war criminal and brutal dictator demos. And don't forget the neo-Nazi vote.
While Donald Trump Flirts with Jew Haters, Clinton denounces Smear of Elie Weisel
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Clinton-campaign-slams-hateful-Max-Blumenthal-comments-on-the-late-Elie-Wiesel-459657