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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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(D) Manny Rutinel
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December 03, 2009 06:18 PM UTC
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And, how do you explain getting more contributions from outside Colorado than inside the state? Who does Senator Bennet represent in practice if not in form?
NOTE: IF this interview occurs, you can be sure his aides will have read this blog beforehand. Appointed politicos don’t like surprises, I daresay.
Do you daresay elected politicos like surprises?
Schumer has had appoint some ‘professional staff’ from other statewide races like NJ, VA.
Push him for specific answers, rather than the “keeping America secure from terrorist threats” stuff. How, exactly, would our continued presence in Afghanistan advance that goal? What does he see as the likely systemic consequences of the various options facing us vis-a-vis Afghanistan? Does he support the President’s decision, and, why or why not?
I read Ed Perlmuter’s statement (my congressman), and he said nothing about where he stood on the escalation, just the “keep America secure” crap. He should have saved the electrons.
In contrast, Congressman Polis has stated definitively his opposition to the escalation, why (because there is no military solution to Afghanistan), and the need to bring our troops home.
Ask Bennet if he would vote for a bill to cut off funds for the war, (ala McGovern-Hatfield in 1971 concerning Vietnam) and require a de escalation in Afghanistan.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
I will try to to generate a specific question on financial regulation.
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sweet ride!
to push for a public option that is more than a fig leaf. Does he believe that passing any bill with anything at all that can conceivably be called a public option, no matter how watered down, will make enough of a difference for average Americans to be worth supporting? Would he oppose a bill without an honest, meaningful public option? Would he support reconciliation to get a real public option? Does he believe costs to individuals can really be brought down without a public option. If so, how?
Does he think this fall’s health care reform is our only bite at the apple, or will there be an opportunity next year and the year after to fix things, expand coverage, strengthen options for those without insurance, and continue to bring down costs?
and decisions about health care reform and how often he hears from local elected officials, what are their concerns, which was the first local elected offficial to visit his DC office?
Sen. Bennet –
Do you believe the stimulus package is working? What effects do you see that it has had for the country and for our state?
what’s his opinion of having to petition onto the ballot, does he feel it hurts him?
– What sweeteners are you looking at for Colorado in a cap-and-trade bill? Are you going to hold up your support for the bill if there isn’t CO-specific language in it?
– Regardless of the final shape of a greenhouse gas regulation bill, is your policy preference a carbon tax, cap-and-trade or neither?
– What are you doing (policy legislation, tax code changes, leaning on the Agencies, etc.) to better position CO to be at the tip of the cleantech revolution?
– Beyond just doing so as a favor to Mark, why are you cosponsoring S.1777 (Good Samaritan abandoned mine cleanup)?
on 10 ways to move the budget back to stability.
http://content.ksg.harvard.edu…
I would like to ask Senator Bennet which of these he supports (since he talks about controlling the deficit and debt so much), and just as importantly, when he thinks we should to begin enacting such measures.
To follow up on Steve’s question on Afghanistan, I think it would make any questions on that more specific and interesting if you included that apparently there are only 100 Al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan left. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/…
On health care, mainly I guess I’d ask him how much frickin’ longer are we gonna have to wait for this? But also, in future health care bills, would you support switching payment for hospitals and doctors from our “fee for service” model to a flat salary as it is at the Mayo Clinic and most European countries.
Thanks for that link Raphael. Apparently its true, comes from our own intelligence assessments.
Makes the case all the more pervasive that we’re escalating to keep a corrupt government in power. And little to do with fighting terrorists.
As always in war, the first casualty is the truth. But I fear there will be many more real casualties to follow.
Pakistan, with its complex and volatile characteristics as the alternate haven for Al Qaeda, our nominal ally, a nuclear power sharing a border with another nuclear power with whom it is perpetually on the verge of war, and a country whose stability is fragile, combined with the porous border it shares with Afghanistan, is clearly a major part of the equation (and in many ways the real focus) in whatever policy we pursue in Afghanistan.
I mean, it’s a fine point and all, but really. 78 words if you count the subject as part of the sentence!
what’s your point?
I was not in any denying the importance of Pakistan to the Afghan situation, I was merely suggesting that, in asking about Afghanistan, Dave ask the Senator for a comment on this latest revelation that apparently there are only 100 al-Qaeda operatives left in Afghanistan.
your question or the value of asking it, but a point regarding the significance of the number you cite. Rightly or wrongly, I think it’s pretty much an article of strategic faith that we can’t invade Pakistan to get at the much larger number of Al Qaeda holed up there (probably the vast majority of those who had been in Afghanistan previously) but that we have to find a way to deal with their presence there. If we let Afghanistan go, it’s highly probable that they’ll flow back into Afghanistan. If (and I’m not saying this is possible) we were to stabilize Afghanistan completely, then we would gain a base for a sustainable approach to the mountains of Western Pakistan. I didn’t mean any offense by bringing it up, just to throw out the possibility that the “only 100 Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan” may be one of those things that is misleading in what it appears to imply (that we’re in Afghanistan for a reason that no longer exists) due to the complexity of the situation.
I don’t have a position on this topic, by the way: I don’t feel I know enough of the relevant details, or have a strong enough strategic understanding, to take one. I’m just trying to help to lay out all of the pieces of the puzzle for our collective consideration.
giant shadow army of private contractors, raking in huge profits and salaries, that we now use to perform services that once were performed by our military according to military regulations and under chain of command oversight. Does he think this is a healthy development and a good way to spend our tax dollars? Why or why not?
cap ‘n tax
card check-forced arbitration
bailouts: ARRA performance to date and a redux of ARRA
Obamacare
a Don’t Tread on Me flag flying on his front fucking porch?
an American flag tattooed on his ass?
on his chest? Birdman’s tattoo artist could do that if Bennet doesn’t have it already
What sort of plan does the Senator have to promote small business and job growth, both nation wide and in Colorado?
between financing a business from his debt fueled hedgefund days vs the SBA.
Why hasn’t the SBA been as active in the CO market as they could have been?
we’re in year 3 of a mildly profitable business and can’t get anything from SBA
I interviewed the head of the Denver SBA office and he’s beating on the banks to issue SBA loans too. They’re trying.
Does he feel like he knows all the answers?
Is he just going through the motions?
Has he forgotten all the lessons he learned as head of DPS?
And finally, does he think your company is crappy and worthless?
Cheer up – you live in Boulder and have a public sector job – life is good.
Sorry you didn’t find it funny.
Senator Bennet,
Before you agree to commit 100,000 troops to Afghanistan for an indeterminate period (no one believes we will pull out in July, 2011), please explain what exactly would happen if we were to pull out now.
Note that your answer must be overwhelmingly compelling because I am extremely skeptical that our involvement in Afghanistan today has any impact on our national security.
Figure I’ll have it written up and posted around 3:00 (writing it takes awhile).
This is the most critcal civil rights issue of our day. 12-20 million people have no rights whatsoever. This is not unlike the Jews in germany after the Nuremberg laws wre passed in 1938.
Prison reform. NOn-Violnet drug offendors (i.e. people doing hard time for less than 3 ounces of Marijuana) might want to be relaesed altogher comnsidering that anyone with a Dr.script can now grow up to 3 ounces at home legally.
Ask about economic stimulus money or grants for inner city jobs and businesses.