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August 24, 2009 03:36 PM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

We don’t want the loonies taking over

Tiptoe round, tie them down

–Radiohead

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51 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread

    1. 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.

    2. 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.    

      1. 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.  

            1. I’ll assume you’re talking about the one-termer bit.

              From Robert Gibbs:

              I have heard the president say that, if making tough decisions in getting important things done that Washington has failed to deal with for decades means he only lives in this house and makes these decisions for four years, he’s quite comfortable with that.

              As for the poverty part, I figured that was common knowledge.

                  1. ….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.  

          1. 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.

  1. 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:

    1. 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.

      1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.)

    But it could mean advertising time becomes cheaper on his show than such a large audience would normally command. Some of his show’s advertisers last week included a male enhancement pill, a law firm looking to sue on behalf of asbestos victims, a company selling medical supplies to diabetics and a water filter company.

    It…it just says so much. Old righties with small penises who believe in tort reform for you but not for them.

  4. from the Denver Liberal Post

    McCain said he would not support legislation without a nuclear component.

    “I agree with Sen. McCain that nuclear power has to be part of the mix,” Udall said. “It’s clear that if we want to respond to climate change, nuclear energy has to be part of the solution.”

    1. The 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.

    2. 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.

        1. 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.  

      1. 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.

    1. 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.

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