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(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) Jena Griswold
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(D) Brianna Titone
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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(D) Jason Crow*
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(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
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March 01, 2012 03:52 PM UTC
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His website reports natural causes.
Probably one of the most influential conservative media figures of the 21st century has died. Overwhelming outpouring of sympathy from conservatives:
https://twitter.com/#!/michell…
http://livewire.talkingpointsm…
I’m sure my original version program would be weighing in this morning as well, if he wasn’t in the PB.
I rarely agreed with him but he was out there front and center in the arena. And he was good at what he did.
Well, I am sorry for his friends and family, but seeing that he was a destructive force in politics, I can’t say I’m sad to see him go.
Yeah, that’s insensitive, but sometimes you have to see the big picture, too.
Still, quite shocking. 43 years old…
that we put politics aside and offer our condolences and best wishes…
http://thinkprogress.org/polit…
So, in that spirit, Screw Breitbart. If I was a Christian, I’d hope he’s in the same level of Hell that the 9-11 highjackers currently occupy.
(BTW, I was kicking him long before he was down.)
He’s so young. This has to be a horrible shock for his family.
Common mom rule tells me that’s all I’m writing about this.
because any family deserves condolences for the loss of a loved one. Beyond that, under the circumstances and in the interests of compassion, the thoughts that first come to mind are best left for another time.
God Bless his family.
In the hours following Kennedy’s death, Breitbart called him a “villain,” a “duplicitous bastard” and a “prick.”
Backatcha, Andrew.
that saying anything I really think about the guy would be best left to a later time.
Was unconscionable. I do feel badly for his wife and children; to die so young is tragic. But he was not a nice man and he hurt a lot of people.
An untimely death is always a tragedy, although I will not miss him much myself.
43?
Whatthehell happened?
the never ending parade of examples of the pervasiveness of right wing racism, not at all confined to a rare outlying few:
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So this respected, highly educated chief federal judge thinks being the kind of person who would send a racist e-mail like this doesn’t make him a racist, though on some level, he must realize what a crock that is or he wouldn’t have noted that it was meant to be private (hidden from public view – why?).
He’s the perfect embodiment of the contemporary right’s common as dirt, casual and often almost, but not quite, unconscious racism, evidenced by gravitation toward racism in expressing negative views of a president of color Just a few ignorant fringe yahoos? Hardly a day goes by without a fresh racist e-mail or remark coming from some educated, high status Republican community member like this one. Racism undeniably takes up a very considerable amount of real estate at the heart of today’s right.
http://www.politico.com/news/s…
Your last statement is prejudice and continues to be beneath you. Anyway, one word – Linsanity. I could find racism on either side of the aisle, every single day, but it wouldn’t make us all racist. Or maybe we are.
This guy’s racist scum and shouldn’t be in his current position. Sunlight is good. Doing your best to mirror him is bad.
but stand by assessment of which side of the divide has more than its fair share of racism. If an equal number of racist e-mails, jokes, cartoons, images and such were popping up coming out of the blue side in reference to prominent African American Republicans, you can bet the right would be losing no time making them public to support their specious protestations. So far, they haven’t been able to come close. Go blame the lefty bias of reality if you want to.
Half of America is full of racist loons. Go get ’em! Excellent.
And defense of it is clearly my point. It has nothing to do with not confronting our fellow countrymen as enemy because of a prejudice held by ourselves. Nothing. At. All.
I really can’t accurately convey the depth of my disappointment here. But whatever, knock yourself out proving your own point.
don’t constitute half. And I didn’t say all of the remaining ones are racist. Just that racism is much more common and accepted as no biggie or maybe even not recognized among them then among those who identify D or Indie. Can you show me equal numbers of D generated racist e-mails, jokes and cartoons? I won’t hold my breath.
There is seldom a day that goes by where the news doesn’t have an example of bigotry of some sort by Republicans as an institution. Whether it’s against [pick a skin color, not white] people, or Jews, or women, or some other group, it seems that lately Republicans have it covered.
And Republican voters are supporting those views over more moderate tones. Perhaps there are a few states left where the whacky right hasn’t completely taken over the Republican Party, but they are few and ever more isolated.
No where does BC say +/-50%, but I’ll put a lower bound at 10% – half of all active Republican voters – and at the very least these prejudiced views are acceptable to a near majority of active voters. Not all of them are outright racist; some still cling to the belief that Republicans won’t spend taxpayer dollars, some are swept up in other Republican talking points. And a lot of them probably aren’t consciously racist but their subconscious tells them that there’s good reason to fear these minority groups…
This is sad, but it does us no good to ignore the fact that someone had to vote the current crop of U.S. House and Senate members and state legislators and local officials in to office. It is what it is.
I said 50%. Me. That’s the general population that votes right. And you just implied that anyone who voted for these people are inherently racist. That’s where I get half. By stated that it’s less is a contradiction.
No, no, by all means. Label half the country based on a hand full. That’s not racist or prejudiced at all!
Active voters are only half the population, and people voting Republican half of that. And then I note that it’s not all of those. And then I note that of the people who support a candidate because of a prejudice, it’s not always conscious or doesn’t rise to the level of full-on bigotry.
But pick a vote in the U.S. House or Senate that covers an issue of bigotry, and you’ll find almost all of the Republicans supporting bigotry. And those people got in to office on a majority vote. More than a handful of people have to at least acquiesce to this type of behavior for that to be true.
The Senate just voted 51-48 to table the Blunt Amendment, which would have allowed employers to opt out of insurance coverage of any medication or procedure to which they morally objected.
Democrats crossing over in favor: Ben Nelson (retiring), Bob Casey, Joe Manchin
Republicans crossing over against: Olympia Snowe.
Notable non-crossovers: Scott Brown (will get pummeled for this in MA this election); Susan Collins (same in ME when she’s up for re-election next time); Lisa Murkowski (often thought of as moderate on these issues – I guess not so much…).
Casey will get hit on his support next time around; they like him in PA, but I’m not sure they like him this much.
Going out in style. How I’m going to miss you.
Snowe had stuck to her guns when the chips were really down on so many pieces of legislation over the past few years, instead of going along with her leadership except when they could afford to spare her and if only she hadn’t exited with that plague on both your houses crap to the effect that both sides are equally to blame for failure to work together. I seem to recall a couple of fruitless years worth of Dems going more than half way, more like 90% of the way, with no reciprocity from Rs including Snowe. I see a minuscule number of anything like extremist lefty Ds in congress.
I guess I’ve always failed to share the general lefty warm fuzzies for either her or Sandra Day who gave us GW. We tend to be so appreciative of so little. Look forward to an opportunity to replace Snowe with a Dem and hope it won’t be a piece of crap Dem like the ones who crossed over.
Whatever happened to Joe Lieberman? I mean I know he’s still around but he sure is keeping a low profile these days, isn’t he? Can’t remember the last time I heard him weigh in on anything. Unless he’s on Fox a lot or something.
If that’s what you are asking me, how he voted, that’s your answer.
Figured he voted to table or he would have turned up with the non-GOP suporters. Just wondering and asking no one in particular what the old boy’s up to..
but otherwise shutting down his Senate tenure pretty quietly. I’m sure he’s got a lucrative
lobbyinghistorian gig lined up after ’12.lobbying for the war interests in this country . . .
adopted earth dad. Exactly the same nasal whiny tone.
of all-knowing, self-righteous paternalism, but I think Jon Stewart’s Droopy Dog shtick (plus a good dash of old fashioned patriotic ethnocentric Strangelovian war-mongering) really nails it, . . . at least for me.
Joe remains the one thing that most ever pissed me off about Al Gore. (I mean, I can almost understand the distancing from Bill Clinton, especially at that time, but Joe Lieberman?? Fucksakes!)
As much as I despised Cheney and disagreed with his every position, Lieberman was so pathetic it was no contest.
Who I happened to think was a decent human being.
The resemblance is only superficial.
The voters knew that when they elected him.
It’s an anti-medicine bill. There is a big difference between abortion and contraceptives in public opinion, and this bill goes way beyond contraceptives…
Was getting a weird message when I tried to post something else. Sorry.
http://arstechnica.com/busines…
City rejects ‘WTF’ campaign – Think of the free publicity they would have received.