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April 24, 2018 07:49 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

  • 45 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“It’s time for Big Bird to earn his wings and learn to fly on his own.”

— Rep. Doug Lamborn

 

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45 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread

      1. And Zappy repeats himself ad nauseum and never puts forth anything coherent on the policies he claims to support.  And nobody understand him.

        1. This isn’t a policy blog, it’s a politics blog. Just ask Jason. 

          The policies I support are similar to those espoused by Liz Warren, Bernie, FDR, et al: Unafraid Democrats who don’t feel the compulsion to be bipartisan with a bunch of lying Sociopaths. 

          1. FDR's policies are your policies?  So, you are aligned with Southern racists to suppress black people as long as they support your economic policy?  Good to know.

            1. Of course, you Fucking Asshole. (That actually sounds like politics. Ask Pols if it’s good strategy.)

              Ever heard of Unions, Social Security, WPA (infrastructure), the Four Freedoms?

              Bennet pisses his pants thinking about having to support any one of those things. 

              1. Tee hee, caught you being ignorant again.  FDR also named Republicans to his cabinet to build bipartisan support, the thing you hate the most.

      2. Would you prefer 6 years of Bennet or 6 years of Glenn? Or in the previous election, 6 years of Buck?

        I have yet to connect in my mind — who do you believe would be an electable alternative to Bennet? And do you have any reasoning to think why that candidate would actually win in purple Colorado, absent another round of Republicans finding poorly funded candidates?

         

      3. SFL Bennet is an Eisenhower (R) in Centrist (D) clothing

        So now you understand why Bennet is pretty representative of the the people that voted for him — and the general rightward shift in the political landscape overall in the last 60 years

            1.   I miss the old-fashioned Republicans who did what was good for business and stayed out of people's bedrooms. Sure, they were greedy bastards, but they weren't telling ordinary people how to live.
              Curse Nixon for his Southern Strategy that started us down this road where the Republicans teamed up with the Southern Baptist/Dixiecrats who just want to win at all costs so they can impose their (im)moralist/corporatist dogma on the rest of us. 

          1. Well,there was the bit about putting "In God We Trust" all over the money and "under God" in the pledge… OTOH, Eisenhower believed in the good of government and the potential ills of the military-industrial complex…

            1. … and got us out of the Korean War, and had a generally non-interventionist foreign policy, and supported civil rights and desegregation, and public schools, and progressive taxes (particularly for the rich) that paid down the national(WWII) debt…

              Hey Zap!  You’re an Eisenhower Republican too!

            2. And he was pro civil rights and not afraid to spend money on infrastructure. Hell, they even believed that ideally revenues and expenditures should match.

    1. What does this mean?

      Why do you think losing Lamborn would be any sort of Republican disaster?

      I'm uncertain what "challenge" would be sufficient in your mind.

          1. So we fight heroically in El Paso County and claim a moral victory because we only lose by 15 points? Meanwhile, Tipton, Buck and Coffman’s replacement win in seats that we could have captured?
            Great plan.
            If you’re Republican!

  1. Fascinating poll of non-voters today.  Bottom line reasons — discouraged, disillusioned or apathetic.

    Yesterday, Suffolk University and USA Today released a fascinating poll of these likely nonvoters. “Every other poll conducted this election cycle will express the views of registered and likely voters,” the organizations explained. “This is a poll of everyone else.”

    Many nonvoters “say they have given up on the political parties and a system that they say is beyond reform and repair.” (Why? I think the stagnation of living standards is the main answer.) They also have a decidedly negative view of Donald Trump’s performance.

    Here’s what the poll found

     

    Oh, yeah, and they think Trump stinks!

      1. Agreed — more polling would be helpful to understand what, if anything, would increase voter turnout.  Although I strongly suspect that due to our celebrity-driven culture, it would take a charismatic, inspirational (Obama) or demagogic, FUD (pick most any current GOP officeholder) candidate to excite marginal voters.

        Here is a Times article with new analysis of what really motivated a large number of Trump voters: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/trump-economic-anxiety.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

        Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds

  2. It’d be hard to top that Lamborn quote, but here’s another thought from the Retrograde universe:

    I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them.”  

    (Kentucky Retrograde Republican Governor Matt Bevin on the subject of . . .

    . . . teacher strikes?!)

    We Don’t Need No Education

     https://nyti.ms/2vHwiJg

  3. Trump's vetting process for Cabinet appointments (how deeply and often the candidate's nose finds its way up his ass) appears to be backfiring once again:

    The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is examining allegations that President Trump’s nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician and allowed the overprescribing of drugs, according to congressional officials briefed on the committee’s work.

    They have also received claims that Dr. Ronny L. Jackson drank too much on the job.

    The allegations, which have been under investigation since last week, forced the postponement of Dr. Jackson’s confirmation hearing, planned for this Wednesday as senators scrutinize the nominee’s time leading the White House medical staff. Officials familiar with the allegations against Dr. Jackson declined to offer precise details but said that they suggest a pattern of behavior, not just one or two isolated incidents.

    1. Purism leads to absolutism. 

      Absolutism leads to griping.

      Griping leads to not voting.

      Not voting leads to the dark side.

      The dark side leads to Donald Trump being "President".

       

  4. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

    Inside A Divisive Fight Over How A Top Progressive Think Tank Handled Sexual Harassment

    But only an hour after the Access Hollywood tape was made public, top officials at CAP received an exit memo from a young woman who'd just quit detailing the sexual harassment she experienced from Benton Strong, a manager on her team — harassment, she wrote, that management already knew about — and how she faced retaliation for reporting it.

    In the email, the junior staffer, who asked that BuzzFeed News refer her to as Mary, which is part of the woman’s formal name, wrote that “on several occasions, myself and others on the team felt as if reporting had been a mistake and that the retaliation, worsening of already tenuous team dynamics, and treatment by supervisors outweighed the seemingly positive act of reporting sexual harassment in the workplace.” When contacted about this story, the woman confirmed the authenticity of the exit memo, but declined to comment further, except to respond on Saturday to a statement from CAP.

    “CAP’s culture obscures its mission,” Mary wrote, toward the end of her memo. “All of this to say, I surely expected better out of an organization that housed a national campaign on sexual assault.”

    1. She’s doing the right and smart thing at this point . . . 

      . . . I’ll say what should be said here . . . 

      Thankyou Amy, my best wishes on your future endeavors!

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