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April 14, 2011 03:43 PM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.”

–Bertrand Russell

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  1. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

    I can’t imagine the timing of this drop had much to do with the forced fiscal strategies our President laid out yesterday.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.co

    1. … per Real Clear Politics’s polling average: http://www.realclearpolitics.c

      And Rasmussen is at 49 approve, 50 disapprove, when you use their rolling average (same webpage)

      But don’t let facts get in the way of yuor bullshit, L. Do keep trolling daily polls for the one poll that on one day yields an outlier result. I’m sure you’re convincing someone of something (by which I mean yuo’re convincing us that yuo’re dishonest and an idiot)

      1. … for the one poll that on one day yields an outlier result …

        all learned & reasoned folk have trouble with your kind opinion of r-Ass-mussen.  

        (BTW, need to work on “yuor” finger dyslexia there …)

         

  2. Righthaven lost the PR war against Brian Hill and dropped their lawsuit against him, after they repeatedly insulted him in their dismissal filing.

    And to add insult to injury, the judge in the case declared Righthaven’s filing  “immaterial and impertinent” and struck two of the three pages of their text from the record.

    Michael Roberts has the rundown on the dismissal as well as the lame ass excuses Righthaven throws out there for suing Hill over at Westword.  

    1. and his completely logical progression from problem to solution

      FROM

      We have a very serious grave situation with our national debt….

      TO

      …so we’re going to have to give more tax cuts to billionaires

      But he just seems so SERIOUS, because he actually has a PLAN !  Really.

      We Americans are so easily fooled.

      1. Is David incorporated in the Cayman’s or Bahamas?

        I betcha David is doing more than his fair share in tax responsibilities than any med- large employer in Boulder County, but go right ahead with your assumption.

        Now he & his engineers are likely rightly getting tax advice that takes advantage of the numerous gaping loopholes the GOP has embedded into our tax laws but that’s a collective problem to be corrected and not an indictment on the individual.  

  3. “Tax beaks and loopholes for millionaires and big corporations…deregulation  policies that led to the worst economic crisis since the great depression.  These are the principal drivers of today’s deficits, and we’d be foolish to do more of the same.”

  4. Yesterday Boehner and today Gingrich have come out and said “no way” to Obama’s plan because it does away with the Bush tax cuts to the rich. Both say its’ a “job killer” penalizing the very people, aka “the rich”, who create jobs.

    Bush tax cuts have been into effect since 2001, enacted when we had budget surpluses. Somebody please tell me how many jobs they created with 15 million Americans out of work and the worst economic retraction since the Great Depression? Since these cuts have been in effect for 10 years now, where are the jobs?

    Their reasoning is as fraudulent as a real estate appraisal in Las Vegas during the boom.  

        1. A warm sunny but crisp fall day in VA, a flannel and a cold beer, the smell of wet leaves, and Sunny Jurgensen and Sam Huff calling a skins game on the radio.

          Sheer bliss from my formative years.

        2. Long story short- I used to have recordings of the 1988  Dodgers season on tape and listened to Vin Scully driving cross country several times that year.

        1. I caught the WFAN version — with our old turncoat Wayne Hagin on the mic. Remember him falsely calling out Helton for steroid use? Well, it apparently hasn’t hampered his prospects.

  5. Does anyone know of a place I can see a history of votes in the legislature broken down by lawmaker?

    The legislature’s official page seems only to show votes broken down first by bill–which makes it really, really difficult to put together a picture of a particular lawmaker’s voting history.

    Thanks.

    Also: whatever happened to ask alva/the mailbag?

  6. It kind of sucks. Way too many of the GOP’s true colors shining through. How does Call spin this again?

    Senate Democrats were able to reduce the initial proposed K-12 cut of $332 million after agreeing to reinstate two tax exemptions, rolled back last year, and to reduce a fee on vendors who remit sales tax in the state — two priorities important to Republicans.

    Eli has the full write-up: http://www.kdvr.com/news/polit

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