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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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January 27, 2011 05:06 PM UTC
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Congress is going to have to raise the debt ceiling any minute now. В I expect no serious opposition, Speaker Boehner has made it clear that acting responsibly doesn’t mean shutting down the gov’t nor defaulting on national obligations.
I do, however expect 50% Tipton to elaborate on his campaign claim that the US budget could be cut in half without loss of necessary services.
Here in Colorado, the SOS campaigned on a vote for me because I can do more with less theme. В What he meant is unclear since the former SOS found a way to budget the office on $3.5 million less, $3.5 million that the new guy says must be retained in the SOS budget.
The R wave was apparently not about real reductions or solutions. В It was about rumor and innuendo. About creating a perception that because of their R affiliation they were the candidates of serious fiscal restraint. В Apparently, not even “deficits don’t matter matters anymore.
(Fast acting on removing the video, FPE MADCO.)
Or the sound of no hands raising in cyber space.
The first act of their majority is to pass a repeal of HRC, by cutting off debate or amendments from the minority party….something they campaigned on always allowing when they were elected.
They pass the “repeal” by ramming it thru the House floor without enough time for review or comment from the public – something they campaigned on always allowing when they were elected.
They promised that job creation would be Job#1 when they took control in the House – so their first action for committees? Have hearings on how horrible the HRC law is… which they’ve already passed a repeal of.
And they’re going to have endless hearings on the President. Because that creates a lot of jobs.
Over the last 2 years they talked about it a lot but after the stimulus bill, did nothing more. Ritter & Hick both talked about jobs, but Ritter never did much outside of green energy to help on the job front and Hick just doubled down on repressing small business job growth with the Roxy Huber appointment.
They all talk about it a lot because they know it’s the primary concern of the voters. But few of them back up that talk with action.
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there’s not much difference between the 2 major parties ?
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But only one of the two major parties’ had two candidates in the most recent governor’s race.
than [two candidates from the same party] in action.
Diogenes Bartholomew De Demar
They say one thing and do another.
The state government is bound by TABOR from doing more than its budget allows, and that’s not much.
Dan is talking about the Federal level, and I think that the Federal government over the last two years has done, if not all that it can, at least a lot of what it can given the political makeup of the Congress.
Hey, LB, tell me again… did this ever occur during the last session of Congress? If no, then how is it that your assertion about the Dems’ attitude was “screw you, we won,” like you’ve repeatedly asserted, true? And is this even-worse behavior really okay with you?
No end justifies means that would piss you off if the other side were doing it.
The majority in the House almost always creates rules which limit amendments from the minority and minimize their involvement in committee and conference discussions.
Of course, Republicans (both this time and the last time they were in charge) have been much more restrictive than the Democrats in this regard. House Republicans at least got seats at the table in conference, and weren’t denied meeting rooms for their own meetings. And the new rules are more limiting than the last regarding certain motions.
Pity the Democratic Senate won’t be using their majority to reform their rules as they should.
I’m sure LB would be overjoyed at the prospect, but I’d like to point out that they voted to repeal HCR (health care reform), not HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton).
and in an effort to not do that again, I think I’ll call it the Affordable Care Act (or ACA) which is the name of the law.
Apparently he drives a late model Lexus SUV, not a 14 year old car (source nverDay ostPay comments – which could be wrong).
from Gessler in the very near future??
“That sleazebag at the car lot told me the Lexus was 14-years old, . . . how was I supposed to know?”
about used cars.
Perhaps some elected official could oversee the administration of such rules.
Just like when I tell the insurance company that the cars my kids drive are really “my cars.”
I told you so. You were warned.
There are so many Jasons. Too many, in fact.
And what did you warn Jason about?
Say what you will about PERA, its members, its “problems,” or the make up of the PERA board . . .
(my emphasis)
http://coloradoindependent.com…
. . . you just gotta love Rep. Kerr’s justification for his legislation! Deeeeeelicious.
What we need is more political patronage jobs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…
http://www.gvnews.com/sahuarit…
I hope every one of them gets put to death. What they did is horrible.
Horrible doesn’t even begin to capture it.
Its a great way to demonstrate that killing people is wrong…by killing people.
and it’s cheaper. You don’t get the same blood lust sensation, but hey.
And no lifetime maintenance expense.
The question should be whether or not the convicted criminals recognize the authority of the relevant laws. If not, they should be executed as enemies of the state, ie, us.
In this case, it sounds like the accused not only do not recognize the authority of the law, but also believe they can be the law.
Lt Kendrick: I have two books at my bedside, Lieutenant, the Marine Corps Code of Conduct and the King James Bible. The only proper authorities I am aware of are my commanding officer Colonel Nathan R. Jessup and the Lord our God.
Lt Kaffee: At your request, Lieutenant, I can have the record reflect your lack of acknowledgment of this court as a proper authority.
But I can’t condone killing, even if they do deserve to experience the same unparalleled terror that the little girl experienced before they murdered her.
And neither justice nor security require it.
If they did it as described, I don’t want to hate on them. I don’t want to torture them. I just want them gone.
But locked away in a hole is better than being culled to sleep. They don’t deserve such a painless death (Arizona uses lethal injection and gas chamber, but only two inmates of the 30+ executed since 1973 were killed by the gas chamber method.)
murder, which is what the death penalty is.
along with the rest of the Tanfreako supporters. He was one of their most vocal supporters, after all:
http://coloradoindependent.com…
(BTW, can we link to CoIndy?)
Yes.
The Denver Post ran an article today with figures about how much debt various CO counties have–but the figures that they gave were from the Independence Institute. They listed Denver County as having over $8 billion in debt. Does anyone know whether these figures are accurate?
Did you see what they are considering “debt”? Voter approved improvements. For a group that loves local control, they sure hate Denver’s local control. They brought up the same things when accusing Hickenlooper of “raising taxes” during the last election.
The article is misleading because many local governments choose to take on debt in the form of bonds or other obligations to build jails or acquire open space or other things the citizens want.
Denver, of course, just had a huge jail expansion and other capital construction projects, so technically their ‘debt’ is larger than other counties.
The fact that Weld County never asks for anything, and the fact that they have enjoyed strong property tax revenue ad oil and gas revenue, leads to a health budget.
Good on them, but the article is somewhat misleading if you don’t read between the lines.
all investments are debt, and must be eliminated.
Apparently King McConnell and some guy named Harry Reid have agreed to not actually reform the Senate’s rules.
Mmm…smells like bipartisanship. 🙂
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-…
Everything is gridlocked – so let’s not change anything. Because complaining beats legislating…
I know. Not much.
There’s no formal rules change, unless they can get 2/3 of the Senators to agree. (Reform failed because some Dem Senators and all GOP Senators apparently balked at using the Constitutional Option.)
Items brought to the floor for reform (each a separate vote):
* End the “secret” part of secret holds.
* Legislatively exempt 1/3 of the current 1400+ executive nominations from requiring Senate confirmation.
* Eliminate the reading of amendments if they’ve been publicly available for 3 days.
In addition, there’s an “on the record” gentleman’s agreement stating that McConnell and Reid will not use the Constitutional Option in this Senate session or the next, McConnell will reduce the number of filibusters on motions to proceed while Reid will reduce his use of filling the amendment tree.
BFHD.
http://www.politico.com/click/…
What a wonderful couple, and what a cute story!
Another reason to like Jared 🙂
Thumbs up.
implying a sinister connection between the five pillars of Obama policy cited in conjunction with the SOTU but never mentioned as such by Obama in that speech and the five pillars of Islam I decided to check out both. Here’s what I found on each:
For Islam:
1) Faith or belief in the Oneness of God and the finality of the prophethood of Muhammad;
2) Establishment of the daily prayers;
3) Concern for and almsgiving to the needy;
4) Self-purification through fasting; and
5) The pilgrimage to Makkah for those who are able.
A site that offers detail: http://www.islamicity.com/mosq…
All sounds like the typical combination of general niceness and the specifics of a particular religion or sect common to most familiar religions. Various kinds of Christians, Jews, including Beck’s own Mormons, are familiar with prayer, charity, fasting and visiting holy sites. Lots of overlap
Obama’s
1) reform rules and regulations for Wall Street,
2) reform the education system,
3) harness renewable energy,
4) reform the health care system,
5) restore fiscal disciple
Hmmm. Not much overlap.
But Beck seemed to be saying that calling them pillars and the number five was sending a secret message (not another one!?!). Somehow this could best be illustrated by brandishing first a bunny and then a chain saw and kind of implying he might cut the bunny in half. I know. I don’t get where he was going with that either. But here’s something I do get. And you should too!!!
Are you ready? Beck’s hand, holding the bunny and then the chainsaw, has five fingers! And fingers are kind of like little pillars if you hold them up vertically, aren’t they? Could that be simply a coincidence? Of course…. it’s possible (wink, wink) but shouldn’t we all be smart enough to know better?
The message ought to be clear: Beck has followed every connecting line on every board and has finally discovered the source for every sinister conspiracy thus illustrated. The answer? Isn’t it obvious? Glen Beck; five fingered, secret Muslim, bunny hating enemy of the state. Who knew?
Oh wait. He might just be a money grubbing buffoon.
Is there no end to the buffoon Glenn Beck’s depravity?
if millions of people gave Beck the middle pillar all at the same time. . .
This guy didn’t get the Tea Party/Sarah Palin memo. He was supposed to lay low a little longer, until after 2012:
http://wonkette.com/436272/man…
“Polly Baca leads for Colorado!
Make this your profile picture and make sure to run for the State Central Committee at your County Re-org in February! Polly is the leader to heal the Democratic Party of Colorado!”
(For those of you on the colossal waste of bandwidth, go here: http://www.facebook.com/Polly…. )
Now, I admit that Colorado Dems are a dysfunctional family in the best of times, but we really haven’t needed to “heal” since the Miles/Salazar primary race.
Am I missing something?
The US Senate primary may have officially ended back in August, but a shit load of people missed that particular memo.
I’ve been thinking “but load”, and even “boat load.” Which is most?
and I can tell you this . . . there were many thousands of butts and untold tons of shit.
If I hadn’t read the subject line, I might have thought you were talking about Scottsbluff again. 😉 Which was worse?
An amazing equivalency — in one case 28 years of butts and shit lasted 28 years; in the other, 2 years of butts and shit seemed to last 28 years. Time-shit-shithead-space dilation.
Both Bennetistas and Romanauts, are pretty shitty. So I thought it was appropriate.
Some also have shit for brains. Et cetera.
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
This could spell big trouble for the Democrats as this has been a strong and loyal bloc of
voters
Good gawd, what will those evil geniuses try next?? Demonstrating some deep commitment to civil rights?? Selecting an RNC Chairperson of color?? Supporting women’s suffrage???
Run for the hills Dems — the jig is up! — the Republicans have entered the 1960’s!
when the hypocritical fucks actually remove the antigay stuff from their platform. And then I’ll only believe that they’re jockeying for more votes, and not sincerely embracing the LGBT community as people deserving the same rights as straights.
when the hypocritical fucks actually remove the anti-immigrant stuff from their platform. And then I’ll only believe that they’re jockeying for more votes, and not sincerely embracing the Latino community as people deserving the same rights as whites.
when the hypocritical fucks actually remove the anti-abortion stuff from their platform. And then I’ll only believe that they’re jockeying for more votes, and not sincerely embracing the womens community as people deserving the same rights as men.
It works in so many ways!
….doing some research for (hopefully) my TEDxDU presentation, and I stumbled onto this:
TEDxPentagon – Rear Admiral David Titley, USN – Climate Change and National Security
Gonna be hard to deal with this one, LB…that a commie-pinko lib’rul institution like THE PENTAGON recognizes the reality and national security threat of Climate Change….
The same guys who fell for Friedman’s prediction that by the middle 21st century at the latest, Mexico would be the viable regional military threat we’d have to worry about? (Something about Mexico being a net oil exporter through the century- whoops they’re an importer now like us.)
But I’ve seen their data- they are right to be concerned and addressing it. How do you fight the next war with 30 days supply of diesel? How/where do you homeport an aircraft carrier when the sea level is 18″ higher? What does the rising tide do for the coastal populations? etc and so on
He’s a scientist, after all.
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/b…
I know a lot of you don’t necessarily like responding to posters who use excessive amounts of bolding in their type, but have a question on the DPS story that MotR wrote about earlier today and was wondering if any of you could help me out.
http://www.coloradopols.com/sh…
The question is about board/non-profit structure which I know very little about, but the answer to this would help to answer whether or not there is a legitimate case against Nate Easley.
Seeing as there have already been a number of shills appearing around this issue I was hoping to appeal to some of you regulars here to help me out.
Much obliged.
but basically it was how can someone simultaneously be a superior and subordinate to another person in the same non-profit.
The original statement that prompted the question was worded in a very confusing manner and the entire diary was since deleted.
I posted the link instead of retyping the question because I was trying to avoid posting the same thing all over the place. My understanding and experience with the norms of this site is that reposting the same comment is bad form, but maybe that just complicated matters.
Many thanks again though to MotR and coloradowah-something for their clarification. You can see the exchange better on MotR’s original diary.
like everthing else — IOKIYAR.
Otherwise, good etiquette is welcomed (and pretty much expected).