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May 02, 2007 03:22 PM UTC
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From an email I just got:
“As some of you know, CO State Rep. John Kefalas’s voting reform bill, the Voter Choice Act HB07-1162, was killed in the Appropriations Committee. However, Speaker of the House, Andrew Romanoff has resuscitated it by – as I understand it – paying for the legislative services from his own budget.”
What’s going on there?
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A Wyoming WhoreHouse. Booooo. But it was a dumb joke that I came up with back in the 81 while driving Ft.Colley to Denver.
where men are men and sheep are nervous.
I see that you have spent time there.
Is Colorado loosing ground in another industry?
http://www.channelin…
I’m not in the tech sector. The closest I get to the tech sector is when I have my wife figure out why the wireless on my laptop isn’t humming along as usual. But which part of the state will this hurt economically? I’d guess the Boulder area but I also know the Springs has a major tech industry. Maybe it’s an equal-opportunity offender…
The last 5 years of policies has encouraged companies to move on. Worse thing was when Owens perused companies to open branches here. Most of those closed down during the 2002-2004 time frame due to the economy. He took the easy way, and That had to have been one of the worse strategies that we could have taken. We need companies to start here and STAY here.
Not to open up a big discussion here about this but,
I saw a picture of the Denver march yesterday of a marcher for the immigration thing that disturbed me.
The fellow had an American flag flying upside down on a pole with the Mexican national flag flying above it, of course flying correctly.
Not exactly the message to be sending if they want to be taken seriously.
I know Eaton’s comments has been posted somewhere here; one more.
http://nsnetwork.org…
05.01.2007
Washington, DC
Today, two retired Generals who led troops in Iraq expressed outrage at the President’s veto of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health, and Iraq Accountability Act.
The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed strategy in violation of basic principles of war. His failure to mobilize the nation to defeat world wide Islamic extremism is tragic. We deserve more from our commander-in-chief and his administration.
–Maj. Gen. John Batiste, USA, Ret.
This administration and the previously Republican controlled legislature have been the most caustic agents against America’s Armed Forces in memory. Less than a year ago, the Republicans imposed great hardship on the Army and Marine Corps by their failure to pass a necessary funding language. This time, the President of the United States is holding our Soldiers hostage to his ego. More than ever apparent, only the Army and the Marine Corps are at war – alone, without their President’s support.
–Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, USA, Ret.
And I’ll say it again:
It’s rather ironic that the same people insisting the war’s been a defeat also latch on to the words of the men who led that war to its current state as the words of prophets… So long as those men agree with them. The ones who don’t are obviously just goose-stepping morons. Or something.
These Generals did NOT lead the nation into war. They took orders. Do you REALLY believe Generals led us into the war? The most high profile General at the time said, NO! He warned of the Pottery Barn Rule. Do you remember General Colin Powell? When anyone challenged the wisdom of those orders, they were fired. What don’t you understand Yokel! Fucking idiot!
I know, everyone on the site wants us to be civil. But your ignorance astounds me!
It’s like the spin that went out today that I heard the goose steppers trying to amplify on talk radio. That it’s the Dems that could have stopped this war and it’s their fault we are still there four years later.
Oh, God, I hear Goebbels laughing so hard he puked.
Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must “admit defeat” and stop fighting “a hopeless war” in Iraq.
Iraqi insurgents would not give in, he said. “I don’t excuse them for some of the terrible things they do, but I do understand why they are resisting.”
The total number of UK troops killed in operations in Iraq stands at 147.
‘Admit defeat’
Sir Michael has written a book drawing similarities between the tactics of insurgents and George Washington’s men in America’s War of Independence.
He told Newsnight: “As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America, he said ‘if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms’.
I would not want Yokel on my side defending America against invaders. He would want them to win.
Quick take on Bush’s little post-veto performance.
What strikes me as the most dishonest of everything he said is that the timetables insisted upon by Democrats “adds to the uncertainty felt by military families.” Actually it seems to me that it gives them some certainty by telling them exactly when the war will be over.
He’s scared. You can see he’s a little nervous. He also admitted that he will continue to keep the troops in the field by moving money around in the Defense budget.
Why would Lou Dobbs ask how long the Democrats can maintain this position? The question ought to be, how long can Bush keep up this position? How long can he insist on keeping troops in the field without the approval of Congress?
The Congress has clearly said, we no longer support this war. End it. Isn’t it Bush’s responsibility to comply with our wishes? If he keeps troops in the field without popular and Congressional support, isn’t that a violation of both democratic principles and the War Powers Act? Can the president conduct a war on his own?
The question of how long the Democrats can maintain this position is backward. How long can Bush keep up this position?
The Congress has voted to end this war. Bush has vetoed the end of the war. Since he needs money to conduct his war, and the Congress controls it, hasn’t the dye been cast?
IF THE WAR ISN’T FUNDED YOU HAVE TO BRING THEM HOME.
They’ve achieved what they needed:to show to the country that they’re against the war and will act to end it. When ’08 roll around, you can be sure the dems will point to this as a “we tried, but the knuckleheaded GOP stalled, so let’s settle their hash once and for all.”
In reality, leaving the troops unfunded in the field is political suicide. So I predict that the dems will reluctantly pass Bush’s bill. That way they have the best of both worlds: they’re not cutting and running but stilling forcing an eventual withdrawal. And more importantly, they’ve shown the pundits that they have a plan for Iraq (the merits of that plan is debatable, but at least they’ve got one).
The dems won this round.
Poetic, descriptive and right:
“Ashcroft supermoralistically draped the body of the department’s statue of justice to hide her contours; Gonzales amoralistically tore off her blindfold. Both diminished the prestige of an important government agency.”
Let’s just add the cost to everybody’s taxes next year, a nice little line-item. Total costs of the war in Iraq will soon be $500 billion, to date, and with 100 million Americans filing tax returns each year (the actual number is somewhat higher, but for the life of me I can’t find it), that comes to about $5000 a taxpayer. (And I’m just talking about the actual up front defense costs – the real cost of the war is estimated at $2 trillion dollars, that’s four times what we’re paying for the defense side of it, so that makes the real cost to taxpayers around $20,000.)
We’re paying for it anyway, why not put it in our tax returns so that we’re forced to see exactly how much the Republicans’ little patriotic venture in Iraq is costing every American taxpayer. Most Americans have no idea what the costs of this war are, in lives, in money, in national prestige. But the one thing we can show, quite personally, is the cost in dollars.
The Iraq war is the biggest tax increase in American history. I’d love to see someone amend the tax code and require a line-item on all of tax forms adding $5,000. Then see how long the war goes on for.
h/t Americablog