6 thoughts on “I’ve Heard Ducks Fart Underwater Before”

1. Key insight above: the tea baggers are victims of the economy gone off the tracks. The conclusions and so-called solutions offered by their leaders are fundamentally wrong, bordering on simple-minded, but the rank-and-file tea-bag anger is real and it’s legitimate. That popular anger is in jeopardy of being hijacked by the far-right.

   DEMOCRATS need to be the party that stands for change.

   DEMOCRATS need to be the party that says enough!

   DEMOCRATS need to be the party that reigns in a system run amok.

   DEMOCRATS need to represent the interests of the broad base of people who have to work for a living, who know what it means to get their hands dirty at work.

   DEMOCRATS cannot do this by nominating someone who is of, from, and bought by the very financial industry that has brought us to this crisis. The man temporarily holding one of our two Senate seats in his few short months in office has time after time shown himself to represent the interests of the financial industry that brought the economy to its knees to a much greater degree than normal economic cycles of capitalism would require. Not coincidentally, that man is one of the top four politico recipients of contributions from…the financial industry.(Fact not opinion.) Duh.

   DEMOCRATS need to wake up and demand that their party (a) nominate for the Senate someone clearly willing to stand for meaningful reform. IF that’s Romanoff, great; show us Andrew so we can get moving. Lookin’ for a way to differentiate yourself? Here it is. IF it’s not Romanoff, then we need to find someone else. And (b) reach out to tea partiers to help convey our common cause: the need to regulate and help organize the financial functions of the economy in order to get this country back onto a track that leads to sustainable, meaningful economic growth, by which I don’t mean derivatives.
   

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   1. are on the same page, JO. Speaker Romanoff is the choice of the people…Michael Bennet is the choice of the Democratic Party establishment. Both, I believe, are honorable men. I KNOW this is true of Andrew, and the times I have met Sen. Bennet I have come away thinking that Bennet is also trustworthy.

      That said, I am not comfortable with the kind of access the wealthy and connected have in the Senators’ life.

      I come from a lower-middle class family of hillbillys. My extended family are white, blue collar Christians. Many of them have been duped for decades by the Republican party into thinking that the GOP was on their side. They now see that double-cross and the subsequent rage they feel is helping to power the Tea Party.

      Whether or not disaffected Dems will ever be able to work constructively with Tea Partiers is hard to predict, but as I have said in other places; the distance between the haves and the have-nots is much greater than the distance between the left and right. If liberal reformers and Tea Party Conservatives ever bury the hatchet over some ideological issues and focus on economics and the distribution of wealth… and CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM…Katy, bar the door.

      All of the old political paradigms are changing. Be prepared for surprises.

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      1. When I said that in Ferburary, both Speaker Romanoff, and everyone on Colorado Pols besides Wade Norris said no he was not the people’s choice.

         Re writing history, and the Bennet position on things appears to be a fine art among his supporters.

         They even lie about their own points of view.

         They certainly DID NOT support the Speaker at a time that made most sense for him to enter. Neither did he.

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2. Thanks for my new sig line.  

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   1. when cooperating with Republicans makes one a BLue Dog or Condervadem

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      1. HOw much “new speak” are we expected to tolerate from the Speakers’ people?

         The Statesman has aticle thatmostly attacks John Wren for objecting to the Denver Cems breaking the rules to cancel a district meeting and hold a ROmanoff fundraiser at the exact same time and place as the district meeting. Cindy Lowery states that in November they decided to hold “a community service event” instead.

         It depends upon what the definition of community service is , I suppose.
         
         It’s a clear violation of ethics and of the rules.

         How is this not politics as usual? Basic systematic manipulation covered up by spin.  

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