Wednesday Open Thread

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1. Slow service all the time.

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2. Another "Hick is a flaming lib" story that completely ignores fracking…

   http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_23718883/hickenlooper-moderate-no-more-critics-say-governor-has

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   1. Yep, when I read that article I almost spit up my coffee.  Lynn Bartels ticked off all the GOP talking points as if they were in the majority of public opinion (far from it).

      Yep, Hick might have lost the RMGO vote.  So he can write off that 0.001% of the vote next year.

      As Craig Hughes implied with his "irrational exuberance" remark, if the GOP wants to run on the gun vote, be our guest!

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3. …as if I need a daily reminder why I left the clown car.  My disgust for Congressman Steve King only grows stronger with each passing day. 

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   1. Remember when that kind of overt racism was considered unacceptable in a public servant?

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      1. I can remember when it was considered unacceptable in a bar full of morning drunks.

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4. Bucky Balls.

   http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2013/07/24/ken-buck-mark-udall-u-s-senat/98642/

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5. Fascinating series of articles on Life in the Boy's Dorm – Sun Microsystems.

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6. Here's a must read article from the New York Times  http://nymag.com/news/features/republican-congress-2013-7/

   Anarchists of the House

   The Republican Congress is testing a new frontier of radicalism—governmental sabotage
   

   A few months ago, Eric Cantor was ready to bring his latest brainchild, the “Helping Sick Americans Now” bill, to the House floor. The move was pure Cantor—a smarmy, ultrapartisan ploy. The bill proposed to eliminate funds the Obama administration needs to set up and run the health-care exchanges that are the central mechanism in the health-care law, but then Cantor’s bill would use those funds to help a handful of sick people get health insurance. There was no chance this, or anything like it, would be signed into law, as Obama obviously would not agree to tear down a program to insure millions of Americans in return for insuring a tiny fraction of that number. It was a message vote whose purpose was “embarrassing Obamacare,” as one conservative activist gloated, by forcing Obama to deny immediate aide for the uninsured. As a soulless exercise in disingenuous spin, it was well conceived.

   It failed, however, because a crucial faction of ultraconservative House Republicans threatened to vote against it. The trouble was that Cantor’s bill purported to “fix” Obamacare rather than eliminate it. “Why the hell do we want to fix it?” complained conservative pundit Erick Erickson. “We should want to repeal it.” Since they have already voted 37 times to repeal Obama­care, one might think that the House Republicans’ appraisal of the law’s general merits had been made sufficiently clear. But just the pretense of working to improve the law, even while actually crippling it, offended the right. In the face of unmoved conservative opposition, Cantor had to pull his pet bill from the floor. It wound up embarrassing the House Republicans, not Obama­care.

    

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   1. New York Magazine ain't the New York Times magazine by a long shot.

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7. How rich quoting Menken.

    

   How about keeping H.L. in context.

   I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

   

   H. L. Mencken

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   1. Ooh – comparative Mencken…

      Looks like the Guvs have your quote beat. He only "believes" your quote – he states the Guvs quote as fact.

      (Yes, this comparison is childish – so is your own response…)

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