CO-04 (Special Election) See Full Big Line

(R) Greg Lopez

(R) Trisha Calvarese

90%

10%

President (To Win Colorado) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Biden*

(R) Donald Trump

80%

20%↓

CO-01 (Denver) See Full Big Line

(D) Diana DeGette*

90%

CO-02 (Boulder-ish) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Neguse*

90%

CO-03 (West & Southern CO) See Full Big Line

(D) Adam Frisch

(R) Jeff Hurd

(R) Ron Hanks

40%

30%

20%

CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado) See Full Big Line

(R) Lauren Boebert

(R) Deborah Flora

(R) J. Sonnenberg

30%↑

15%↑

10%↓

CO-05 (Colorado Springs) See Full Big Line

(R) Dave Williams

(R) Jeff Crank

50%↓

50%↑

CO-06 (Aurora) See Full Big Line

(D) Jason Crow*

90%

CO-07 (Jefferson County) See Full Big Line

(D) Brittany Pettersen

85%↑

 

CO-08 (Northern Colo.) See Full Big Line

(D) Yadira Caraveo

(R) Gabe Evans

(R) Janak Joshi

60%↑

35%↓

30%↑

State Senate Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

80%

20%

State House Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

95%

5%

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
December 09, 2019 06:43 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

  • 29 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

–Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tweet
Share

Comments

29 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

  2. Remember to act surprised, everyone!

    AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH

    U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it.

    A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.

    1. This is me, sadly not being surprised.

      As I sit here listening for something relevant from the minority counsel, I am dismayed that the question of what T***p did can be so dramatically excused by so many Rogers.

      I am introducing a new synonym for "willfully ignorant". A person who suffers from severe intellectual laziness is a "Roger"

      My Cat is concerned enough people won't understand it all, but I think they will.

    2. Making “progress” in war these days doesn’t mean ending or winning it . . .
       

       . . quite the opposite
       

      . . . it means more that the war-profiteers and grifters are making good progress on raking in enough to buy their second private island. 

      1. Oh, Rudy, Don’t Kiss the Rump of Trump.

        Tune: Ruby, don't take your love to town

        -o-

        You’ve thrown on pancake make-up and combed your single hair.

        Oh, Rudy are you contemplating going out somewhere?

        I realize it's hard to be a has-been and a clown.

        Oh, Rudy, don't kiss the rump of Trump.

         

          It wasn't me who started up that crazy Ukraine war.

        Where you sucked up to Putin like a cheap two-dollar whore.

        But when you were mayor you still had a shred of dignity.

        Oh, Rudy, don't kiss the rump of Trump.

         

        You say you're still a lawyer and your ethics are for hire.

        But the Southern District of New York says you're just a liar.

        Your long string of ex-wives say you never keep your word.

        Oh, Rudy, Don't Kiss the Rump of Trump!

         

         

         

    1. You think so, too? I've been saying for a while that Pence is in this up to his neck. To Yammie-pie it's just business, but the way they tried to squeeze Ukraine takes governmental savvy he just doesn't have. That's where Pence came in. Having served in Congress, he had to have known it was wrong. Was he just so grateful to The Yam for saving him from the embarrassment of defeat in Indiana that he'd lie and cover for him? Man, is he dumb.

       

  5. At least Pence isn't a madman.  With him in the White House, the world might stop laughing at us.  But the price of removing Trump is Hail to Mike Pence.

        1. That's "Blessed be the fruit",  and "May the Lord open", R&R. I read that terrifying book on an extended business trip with my wife, years ago Steven King's got nothin' on Margaret Atwood when it comes to writing horror stories.

  6. My morning reading found a truly exhaustive analysis (in all senses of "exhaustive") at Just Security website:  Seven Outright Falsehoods in GOP Staff Report on Impeachment

    Not everything in the report is a lie. In many instances, it is clear that, where possible, there was great care taken to avoid outright mistruths, through the careful phrasing of arguments to suggest a more sweeping defense than is actually offered, or through focusing on irrelevant and ambiguous witness testimony while ignoring direct and clear testimony to the contrary.

    But staying within the bounds of the factual record – or even within the bounds of reasonable subjective interpretation of the record – could only get House Republican staff so far, and much of the report doesn’t just dance around the truth so much as it strides into deliberate falsehood. In order to depict the events at the heart of the Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry in a light that could at all be construed as a defense of President Trump’s conduct, it appears that some outright lies were needed.

    I'm still unclear why the author prefers "falsehood" to "lie," but the impact is very close to the same.  At least we didn't downgrade to "controversial statements" or other innocuous term. 

    1. Did anyone besides me just hear a shreik from Gordon Sondland as the GOP Intelligence committee quietlythrew him under the bus? Minority counsel just tried the "stupid /rogue/ incompetent accomplice"" defense…aimed squarely at Sondland.

    1. Your ignorance knows few bounds, does it Pfruit? What do you know, when you out a group of conservative ag leaders in a room with no press shit starts getting real: 

      How a closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change

      Even a year ago, such a meeting would have been improbable, if not impossible. But the long-held resistance to talking about climate change among largely conservative farmers and ranchers and the lobbying behemoths that represent them is starting to shift. The veil of secrecy attested to just how sensitive the topic remains, but over the course of the two-day gathering, the group coalesced around big ideas like the need to pay farmers to use their land to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, participants told POLITICO.

       

  8. Roger that. The net effect of volcanic eruptions is to cool the planet.This is because volcanoes spew clouds of particulates that block the sun and shade the surface. 
    https://scied.ucar.edu/shortcontent/how-volcanoes-influence-climate
     

    The hypothetical effect of atomic bomb explosions would be similar – vast clouds of particulate debris, shading and cooling the surface. Hence, the expression, “nuclear winter”. Let’s hope we never find out what happens to net temperatures post-nuking. 

  9. Page, Pappadopolous and Barr should be indicted (again).
    Putin and Russia should be sanctioned. Often and bigly.

    Bring back the Panama Papers.

    As for Trumpeachment : RELEASE THE RECORDING or shut up about the partial transcript.

Leave a Comment

Recent Comments


Posts about

Donald Trump
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Lauren Boebert
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Yadira Caraveo
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado House
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado Senate
SEE MORE

168 readers online now

Newsletter

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!