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October 13, 2014 06:27 AM UTC

Monday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

–Vince Lombardi

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    1. I did not realize, until I read the linked article, that Dr. Chapps is a cross between Jesus, the Lone Ranger and William Wallace. Leftist libs had best be packing their bags to get the hell out of Colorado because "Captain Righteousness" is on his way to clean the scum out of the pond….

  2. kind of obvious, but anti-science, anti-infrastructure, anti-government budget cuts delayed development of Ebola virus treatment options.

    "NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."

    NIH is National Institutes of Health, one of those bland bureaucratic organizations that only makes headlines when there's an emergency, but that we really need to be funded and working for the health and safety of American citizens all the time, Cory Gardner.

    And here's some gasbaggery from the Sunday News Shows' #1 guest: John McCain, forgetting it was his party's filibuster that harmed NIH:

    Turning to McCain's call for an Ebola "czar," and leaving aside his own earlier grousing that the Obama administration has "more czars than the Romanovs," traditionally the nation's public health "czar" is the surgeon general. The surgeon general is the federal officer best positioned to communicate down-to-earth realities about public health issues — think of C. Everett Koop's campaign against smoking — in judicious terms, quelling unnecessary alarms.

    At the moment, we don't have a surgeon general. And for that, blame belongs to the fourth branch of government, the National Rifle Assn.

    The NRA has put the kibosh on Dr. Vivek Murthy, whom President Obama nominated to the post last November, after the resignation of Surgeon Gen. Regina Benjamin. The NRA's complaint was that Murthy called guns "a health care issue" in a 2012 tweet. It's worth noting that the tweet came out almost two months, to the day, before the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which Adam Lanza's gunfire took the lives of 20 children and six adults. One might take Murthy's comment as, if anything, a grotesque understatement.

    R's run on a hatred of government and the idea that the free market will take care of everything. When they implement those policies it ends up hurting all of us, something the Denver Post can't quite understand…..

        1. Why do you hate America?  Why do you view people with such disdain?  If you think money and power is all there is, you are in for a big surprise.  Societies based on that crumble because of internal rot or revolution.  Let's hope our revolution is peaceful, at the ballot box.

    3. Oh, they understand it just fine.What they simply can't bring themselves to admit is that some things are better accomplished by government that isn't trying to squeeze money out of people in a genuine crisis.

      1. I understand your ignorance problem. gallup also predicted a romney win. My statistics in my article are more valid than yours poor little troll. Post something valid just once in your life.

      2. These are real facts troll – get used to the third lost chance for gop Senate control – how inept is the right wing for losing this time?

        It appears something similar to Florida is happening in North Carolina. Typically, registered Republicans lead the mail ballots; in 2010 they led ballot counted 45.4 percent to 35.7 percent. This year is topsy-turvy, with Democrats leading mail ballot requests 41.4 percent to 35.0 percent. Their lead is persisting in the daily ballot request updates. Once in-person early voting opens on October 23, we'll have a better sense how much Democrats are going to need these banked mail votes.

        North Carolina's wealth of data provides an opportunity to peek under the hood of the DSCC's voter mobilization efforts. The key support target any campaign wishes to encourage to vote is not high propensity voters; they will take care of themselves. It's mobilizing moderate and low propensity voters that is a key to winning elections. The fruits of these efforts can be measured by examining those North Carolina voters with and without a record of voting in the 2010 general election. Those without are the gold campaigns are mining for.

        1. Denverco,  Great insight.  Everything is going great for the Dems.

          Check back in 3 weeks.

          NRSC just dropped another $6 mill in North Carolina.

          $6 million in a state that is not now polling as well for the Republicans as Colorado and Iowa.

          Would they do that if they did not see things breaking their way?

          My guess is that my 7 senate seat pick up of a few months ago may be too conservative.  Could be 9 or 10.

           

          1. Oh you mean the way the Dems dropped money in South Dakota , you dismissed that as wasted money even though the race has tightened severely ? Wouldn't they do that if they did not see things breaking their way?  Can't have it both ways troll. I'll be here in 3 weeks, i doubt you will , you will still be recovering from another gop senate defeat. By the way the latest poll in Iowa has Braley up by one. You just aren't very bright are you?

            Don't forget Ken Buck led by 3 in the same polls on election day. How is Senator buck doing?

    1. It's GOTV Stupid!!!

      You conveniently forget that the Democractic grass roots organization was superior in all regards and that infrastructure and knowledge is intact and has been operationally active for the last year.  The economy has made an amazing recovery from the ineptitude of the Bush years in 2008 when Mark Udall was first elected by popular vote to the Senate.  Much better shape but someone as dishonest has you will claim that we're worse off.  Guarantteed.

    2. Or it can be both women's reproductive choice AND economic survival as the latter spelled out in Mark's latest ad, equal pay,affordable student loans, and equal health insurance costs. From a RCP redirect to WaPO "A consumer's guide to the final weeks…" ; an embedded Dem(Stan Greenberg) pollster  PDF, goes further (15 pages) Since the Rs are bent on Obama care, polls show a 73% popularity among minority voters.

       James Carvels name appears on the top , who says Bill loves Arkansas, & with Hill in Iowa. I think maybe the  Senate might be 50-50, with Biden ( what a hoot ) sitting in the catbird seat.

  5. Todays Washington Post numbers:

     

    Gardner has an 89% chance of winning.

    And how about control of the Senate?

    Republicans are favored to control the Senate.

    94% chance as of today.

     

  7. From The Coloradan:  No Senate Endorsement

    This year, the Coloradoan editorial board will not be endorsing a Senate candidate because Rep. Cory Gardner declined to participate in an editorial board meeting. (my emphasis) Gardner, a Republican, had scheduled a meeting, canceled it and his team representative said he would reschedule. But emails and phone calls were left unanswered

    4. It's even worse because Udall did meet with the editorial board, and they, in general, liked what they heard:

      .No endorsement

      We encourage voters to eschew the TV ads and research Gardner's stand on issues and votes in the U.S. House to better understand if he should represent Colorado.

      Incumbent Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat, did visit the editorial board. His answers were direct and forthright, except for his weak justification of continuing abortion attack ads. He chose to blame Gardner.

      His emphasis on protecting the middle class by supporting Pell grants and wage equality for women is on target. So, too, is his call for strong, unified action against ISIL. Udall said there are no active threats against the United States, but he wants to see the U.S. support Syrian moderates to fend off ISIL terrorists. Udall's efforts to reduce train noise and increase firefighting aircraft in Colorado are appreciated.

      What a bunch of buffoons.  

      1. This isn't doing Gardner any favors.  And it highlights some things people need to be reminded of that Udall has done.

        If we could only get some air time for the ad coming out about Ebola.  All of the gop candidates who have supported government shutdown and under funding of the NIH and CDC should have to defend those votes.  This is not to say that they are actually defensible.   

    5. In other words, Gardner lost NoCo.

      And after we're finished laughing at the DP editorial, the wife, mom, and I are going straight D.

      Gardner does not belong in politics. He should be in a criminal mental institution along with the Koch Brothers for LIFE (after their assets seized and repatriated)

       

      1. The Denver Post strikes again:

         

        A new Denver Post poll shows Colorado's marquee U.S. Senate race is shifting toward Republican Cory Gardner, as President Barack Obama's sagging popularity erodes the advantage once held by Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.

        Gardner and Udall remain in a tight race, 45 percent to 43 percent, according to a SurveyUSA poll of likely voters released Monday.

      1. As is often the lede at FauxNews, "Some people say….."

        "Real Clear" Politics is about as "clear" as the Bush (Dubya) Clear Skies Initiative (which allowed tens-of-millions of tons of additional pollutants in to the atmosphere, weakened the cap on nitrous oxide, delayed the improvement of SO2 levels and punted the enforcement of smog-and-soot pollution standards until 2015). 

        But they must be legit – they both have such credible sounding titles, right?

        Pure Orwellian Doublespeak. 

  11. Just my imagination running away with me:

    "I'm an editorial page board member at the Denver Post. Let me decide for you if you're being insulted. Yes, it's presumptuous on my part. Demeaning, too–as if you wouldn't even know unless I told you. However, in my capacity as a op-ed writer, it's within my purview to speak for people who, perhaps, do not wish to be spoken for or who disagree with my assessment. Furthermore, never mind if my endorsement itself is a result of cherry-picked inanities, and insulting to your intelligence. If you think that that's the case, you can always contribute to the discourse responsibly and write me a letter. Or go fuck yourself."

    1. Not to mention the cost to the economy of the boom and bust cycles that are an integral part of any fossil fuel energy economy. When the  jobs related to fossil fuel go away people fo on unemployment and require other forms of government assistance while they look for low paying jobs in service or retail. They may still require government assistance once they land one of these non-living wage jobs.  Businesses that once catered to well paid workers go bust, strip malls become eyesores, schools crumble. Good times. 

  13. New report reveals that Cory Gardner ignores threats to our national security:

    U.S. military officials have long warned that changes in climate patterns, resulting in increased severe weather events and coastal flooding, will have a broad and costly impact on the Defense Department's ability to protect the nation and respond to natural and humanitarian disasters in the United States and around the globe.

     

    The new report — described as a Pentagon roadmap — identifies four things that it says will affect the U.S. military: rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, more extreme weather and rising sea levels. It calls on the department and the military services to identify more specific concerns, including possible effects on the more than 7,000 bases and facilities, and to start putting plans in place to deal with them…

    The report comes amid an ongoing debate within the administration and Congress over the actual extent and existence of global warming and climate change.

    1. I thought they already reported that.  I think that's why Irv Halter is running, and Wesley Clark is working on alternative energy. It's a national security issue like funding the CDC, universal healthcare and public education and making quality food available to hungry people.  Those things are also required for social stability and economic growth. 

      Why the library personage and immoderatus don't understand or care about those things, I have no idea.  Perhaps they are not very smart.  I think immoderatus taps away on his keyboard in his 60's era basement rec room.  Oh joy, at least he is off the streets. And the personage is paid for what he does.  That's worse. 

  14.  

    Following in the footsteps of the nat gas boys….

     

    U.S. Oil Producers May Drill Themselves Into Oblivion

    By Matthew Philips October 13, 2014

     

    An oil drilling rig on July 30, 2013, near Watford City, N.D.

    Photograph by Andrew Burton/Getty Images

    An oil drilling rig on July 30, 2013, near Watford City, N.D.

    Remember the fall of 2008? As the world spun out of control and the price of everything crashed, a barrel of oil lost 70 percent of its value over about five months. Of course, prices never should’ve been as high as $146 that summer, but they shouldn’t have crashed to $40 by the end of that year either.

    As the oil market has recovered, there have since been three major corrections, when prices have fallen at least 15 percent over a few months. We’re now in the midst of a fourth, with oil prices down more than 20 percent since peaking in late June at around $115 a barrel. They’re now hovering in the mid-$80 range and could certainly go lower. That’s good news for U.S. consumers, who are finally starting to reap the rewards of the shale boom through low gasoline prices. But it could spell serious trouble for a lot of oil producers, many of whom are laden with debt and exaggerating their oil reserves.

     

    http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-13/u-dot-s-dot-oil-prices-are-dropping-but-drilling-is-more-expensive?campaign_id=yhoo

    1. Duke – have you read this?  It's Not a Renaissance, It's a Retirement Party. 

      But that's not Arthur Berman's take. The oil patch consultant sees the shale gas frenzy as "magical thinking" as well as a full-blown commercial failure. In fact, the 62-year-old Houston-based petroleum geologist doesn't view natural gas as "a bridge to anywhere."

       

      What others call the "shale gas revolution," he rudely describes as an "industry retirement party."

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