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September 14, 2018 06:57 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.”

–Clare Boothe Luce

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34 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread

      1. Duke: Manafort is 69 years old. I seriously doubt that he wants to spend the rest of his life behind bars. I think there also are state level charges pending, which Trump can't pardon away.

        Will be interesting to see how this gets the "spin treatment" on Fox tonight, or by Moderatus.

      1. The socialist wing — Nixon, Teachout, Williams — got pummeled in New York, CHB.

        As to legislative primaries, Ds still need to pick up one Senate seat to control the lege.

      2. The “victories by socialists” change the discussion topics of the coffee groups at most Denver delis.

        In the real world, “socialists” aren’t winning the state-wide primaries and were only moderately successful in primarying the “Democrats” in the Senate who had been effectively caucusing with Albany Republicans. We’ll see how many “win” in November.

    1. Zappy, you talk about triangulating like it is a bad thing. Between the batshit crazy right and the loony left is a lot of room for the rational middle to make sound public policy decisions.

      1. I don't have a dog in the statewide races in NY.  Not a fan of Cuomo, but Nixon didn't seem to have traction, etc. 

        As far as the IDC goes, they caucused with the Republicans for 7 years, giving them power and to me, that would be like if enough Democratic US Senators (when Dems had the Senate majority) defected and gave Republicans the majority, or if we re-take the Colorado State Senate in the fall and then a couple Dems break ranks and caucus with the GOP to give them the majority back.  Good riddance to them.

  1. Trump says he earned an A plus for Hurricane response in Puerto Rico.  What was his real grade?

    A: F.

    B: F minus.

    C:  Trump stinks.  Great God Almighty, Trump stinks!

    D:  All of the above.

  2. Broccoli screws the pooch yet again: 

    Mistrial declared in case of driver who killed trooper

    Rob McCallum, a spokesman for the Colorado Judicial Branch, confirmed a mistrial had been declared by Judge Shay Whitaker. The judge made the ruling because the prosecution failed to disclose critical information to the defense, Mc-Callum said.

     

    1. Wow — mistrial due to PROSECUTION errors.

      If Brauchler were actually managing his 18th JD staff, this might be damaging to his concern about Weiser's knowledge of and practice of "Colorado law."

  3. Inconvenient truths that Trumpidiots don't want to hear:

    The very same politicians who piously declared that America couldn’t afford to spend money supporting jobs in the face of a deep, prolonged slump just rammed through a huge, deficit-explodingtax cut for corporations and the wealthy even though the economy is currently near full employment. No, they haven’t abandoned their commitment to fiscal responsibility; they never cared about deficits in the first place.

    So if you want to understand why the great slump that began in 2008 went on so long, blighting so many American lives, the answer is politics. Specifically, policy failed because cynical, bad-faith Republicans were willing to sacrifice millions of jobs rather than let anything good happen to the economy while a Democrat sat in the White House.

     

  4. Another reason we need to toss a bunch of Republicans out of office this November:

    Colorado lawmakers under pressure to act as troubled immigrant driver’s license program approaches another large crossroads

    If they aren't in office, they won't be able to constantly prove how incompetent at governing that they are.

  5. Koch Brothers plan to spend $1 million to back Stumbleton's campaign to turn Colorado into Kansas

    “He’ll defend TABOR, work to expand educational freedom, and ensure special interests don’t limit our energy sources.”

    Yep, we all want to keep our damn potholes, give our tax money to religious indoctrination camps, and sell off our pristine lands to oil and gas companies!

  6. Terms of Manafort's deal with Mueller have leaked out.

    Trump and Manafort will go to the same federal prison.  But Manafort gets the lower bunk.

    Trump HATES the higher bunk.

    1. I think that's why nutteranus was so angry in his posts today.   He is pissed at NYT for that poll.  Should have just polled Republicans.  Since in his opinion, non Republicans should be barred from voting.

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