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September 09, 2009 03:36 PM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”

–Napoleon Bonaparte

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  1. Campaign for four seats, which will constitute a majority, on the Denver Board of Education is underway. But then you all knew that.  Right.  The candidates, their resumes, their platforms have all been reported in the MSM.  The Post, the TV stations, and talk radio have been dominated by this important race.  The winners will determine the future of the Denver Public Schools.  So, I am really glad that there has been such wide-spread journalistic coverage of the election.

    I particularly liked listening to the candidates on talk radio give their opinions on the Obama speech.

    Wait. NOT.

    1. What I’ve found is candidates are desperate for press because the MSM is doing so little nowadays. (There is no way 10 years ago I would have gotten the interviews I get now as a blogger.)

      Ask them all for an interview and post it here. I think you’ll do a good job as you know the subject very well. And what will happen is you will get a yes from some, you’ll post those interviews, and that will force the rest to also agree to an interview.

      1. I will try an email and see what happens.  However, my point is that there is no coverage at all of the elections.  What about people who don’t have access to a computer?  What about parents who do not blog?  

        1. If it’s in the Post that misses the majority who do not read the paper. If it’s on TV again you miss the majority who don’t watch local news.

          On the flip side, if you write good interviews then the nuggets from that will make it into the MSM. Trust me – that happens 🙂

  2. The newest  white paper from the Economic Policy Institute shows that the nation’s deficit of $1.67 trillion started back in 2001 with tax policy changes, the wars, the financial bailouts and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or the stimulus package.

    According to the Economic Policy Institute:

        In 2001, the federal budget was in surplus by $281 billion, or 2.8 percent of the nation’s GDP. The Congressional Budget Office that year estimated surpluses would continue through 2010. In fact, former President George W. Bush was one of the few presidents in modern times to start with a surplus.

        Since 2007, before the recession began, the Congressional Budget Office projection for 2009 has deteriorated by $1.5 trillion or 10.9 percent of GDP.   Of that change, the largest chunk can be attributed to the recession.

        Of the change, 45 percent is due to economic factors, including bailouts of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; 21 percent due to non-recovery act legislative changes; 22 percent from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP; and 12 percent was due to the stimulus package.

    The Economic Policy Institute concludes that the “very large increase in the federal budget deficit of the past year and a half is both unavoidable and economically necessary … Unavoidable because most of the recent deterioration is due to a drop in revenue – from 18 percent of GDP in 2007 to 15 percent of GDP in 2009 – which is a result of the economic downturn.”

    http://blogs.denverpost.com/ec

    Gee, if a Right-wing newspaper like the Denver Post can report that Dubya’s stupid tax policy dug us into the deficit hole. it must be true!

  3. from the Telegraph

    Police in Australia have voiced their concern about the growing use of social networking sites after two young girls who were trapped in a drainage well system updated their Facebook profiles instead of calling the emergency services for help.

    1. If your friends see your Facebook update (and if you have enough, it’s a good chance someone will see it in less than two minutes), they can themselves call 911, and also contact your family, and possibly physically get to you sooner, and that sort of thing. That seems to have been what happened in this case.

      Besides, it doesn’t seem like they were trapped, just lost. They probably didn’t think of it as an emergency.

  4. Does he or doesn’t he support a public option?

    Yes, he posted a video last week and a link to his website stating his support for a public option. However, on that same day, he told the Denver Chamber of Commerce that a Public Option is not the end-all and be-all.

    And then today…

    Look for his support of a public option on his website. It isn’t there. It has been removed.

    Last week’s link: http://bennetforcolorado.com/h

    Google search for the words “public option” on the bennetforcolorado.com website:

    http://www.google.com/search?q

    1. They came down as quickly as they went up.  I’ll note what I said here many days ago – on Bennet’s website, when you look at Health Care under the Issues tab, the text of that document never reflected support for a public option – before the “public option support” videos went up, while they were up, and now after they’ve apparently been removed.  Sure like the flexibility of the internet, don’t we?!!

      1. I did have a typo. However, public option has been removed from the first link. What makes me mad about that is that I signed the “petition” when it had all the “public option” support stuff up there. Now I feel that the petition has changed, which is a bait-and-switch to me. And I would still like to see his support for the public option listed on… I don’t know… the Health Care issues page!

        1. Your initial purity trolling ended in a face plant, so now you’re back with more arbitrary bitching?

          Bennet has been out selling the public option to Republican crowds on the Eastern Plains. The horse is dead. Stop beating it. Leave the wretched thing be.

            1. Between you, Wade Norris and the other “netroots” Bennet bashers, you’ve helped me understand why my support for Michael Bennet has increased so much recently. It boils down to this Nietzsche aphorism:

              “At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”

  5. then school districts taking kids to see him speak wouldn’t be political at all.

    http://blogs.usatoday.com/onde

    A Texas school district that declined to allow students to listen to President Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday will bus about 500 students to attend a Super Bowl-related event this month where former president George W. Bush will speak, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

      1. Governor “Ratched” Ritter’s budget priorities are indicative of his values. On one hand Ritter uses public monies through his energy office to subsidize solar panels on the homes of, well, the “largely underserved” populations in the communities like Aspen and Carbondale. On the other hand, Ritter cuts services from societies’ most vulnerable populations. Governor Ritter should divert his NEED grant program dollars to serving the disabled. How about donating Tom Plants’ six figure salary to shoaring up the regional center to maintain beds for Colorado’s marginalized clients?

        If having wealthy people receive subsidies to for solar panels on their homes is more important than serving someone with Cerebral Palsy at the Grand Junction Regional Center then Governor Ratched, I mean ehh, Ritter, needs to be replaced indeed!  

    1. That solar panels are being provided by state government to the rich and richer in Aspen and Carbondale. There are poor people in the valley, too. They clean the trophy houses, tend to the lawns and gardens and change beds in hotels.

      Also, continue to ignore the fact that the state, through various administrations, has been cutting back, if not close, the GJ Regional Center for years. Then, try taking a tour of the place. One part of the Cuckoo’s Nest reference is right: the facility where these profoundly disabled citizens are housed is right out of the 1930s.

        1. I don’t want to attempt to post it, because it was about what we’re discussing downthread from here. I’ll email what I was trying to post so you can try to replicate it.

  6. It’s mostly (family values) Republicans but we Dems have quite a few thinking with the other head too. But it’s 100% male.

    from TPM

    Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two began describing, for the benefit of a colleague seated next to him, his ongoing affairs with two different women. In very graphic detail.

      1. I wish I hadn’t clicked the link.

        I’m wondering though why female lobbyists fuck Congressmen. I understand the motive for Congressmen, I understand the motive for lobbyist employers, but why would a woman with a law degree and a lot of potential for a successful career become a prostitute?

          1. is if the two women he was sleeping with were lobbying for different things.

            Although it would also be funny if they were lobbying for the same thing, and their bosses started arguing and saying, “I thought we had coordinated this thing!”

    1. is still pushing the BS “the primary is pushing Bennet to the right direction on policy” meme.

      I wonder if Wade Norris, who acknowledged that this line of thinking was fallacious and incorrect, will let Markos know that he’s wrong.

    1. This open day thread and diary post are showing up all over Colorado Pols in what appears to be a thinly veiled sock puppetry attempt by conservative groups to attack Ritter on an issue that one of his core constituencies approves of.

    1. “(The) Fish and Wildlife Service does not seem to have any concern about having bison out there (with the plant present),” Scharmin said.

      Yeah, right. What happens when a herd of Bison with the munchies descends on Taco Bell at 2am?

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