CO-04 (Special Election)
See Full Big Line
(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
CO-01 (Denver)
See Full Big Line
(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
See Full Big Line
(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
See Full Big Line
(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
See Full Big Line
(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
See Full Big Line
(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
CO-06 (Aurora)
See Full Big Line
(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
See Full Big Line
(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
See Full Big Line
(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
See Full Big Line
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
July 10, 2008 04:18 PM UTC
36 Comments
But of course, yours is better. There is also a diary at Daily Kos.
We knew last Thursday when the NYT reported on these deals that Schaffer would land squarely in the middle of the story. And sure enough.
Post a link to the Kos diary and no doubt our resident account-holders will recommend it.
PS, my earlier diary on this has a fun poll!
Daily Kos diary
You care what the corrupt Iraqi government says is legal and illegal?
This is all about lining the pockets of the Iraqi government vs. the economic well being of the Kurdish people.
You’re picking Bagdad over the Kurds?
What this dispute shows is that Jesse Jackson isn’t the onlly “nut job” around.
You guys amaze.
You are a great study in self-parody.
Because I hear by 2013 the now fundamentally corrupt Iraqi government that can’t be trusted to run its own country will be a “functioning democracy.”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITI…
But appreciated nonetheless.
I was hoping that John McCain would be able to wrap up the Iraq War in his first term, if elected. But now, according to McCain himself, he’ll probably need another year after being re-elected in order to make it happen. How convenient.
🙂
n/t
that you guys, incl. Schaffer, support as the cost to establish this government…..let’s not forget the tens of thousands of dead and wounded Americans and innocent Iraqui’s!!!
You are a pathetic fool and a huge joke.
Here, let me assist you in your reading comprehension:
Yeah, nothing wrong here, folks. Move along.
This is going to make a beautiful commercial in the fall, isn’t it? 🙂
Uh…”it’s a non-issue”
If you run a Dem backed web site…or if you are in the Iraqi government, and you are trying so very hard to make sure that the Kurds don’t try and break away from the country.
If you work at Condoleeza Rice’s Dem backed State Department.
You would vote for someone who voted for war and then profited from it after leaving office?
It’s all about lining the pockets of some people, that’s for sure. But I think we can look a lot closer to home than the corrupt Iraqi government.
Makes me smile.
Just because Schaffer (apparently) didn’t get the memo and because it was Constitutional in Iraq, that’s supposed to make this OK.
How about a little bit of judgment from the guy who is a three-term Congressman and already knew he was at least considering running for Senate? It doesn’t take a masters degree from Yorktown University to deduce that signing oil contracts with the Kurds when it’s well-known that one of the conditions of the “surge” succeeding was the signing of a national oil law was a bad idea.
It doesn’t take even an ounce of smarts to sit back for five minuted and think about the potential consequences of signing an oil contract with the Kurds who are facing total annihilation by the Iranians and the Turks if they fail to unify with the Iraqi government.
So our military is there fighting and dying to tamp down a smoldering civil war, Bob Schaffer comes along with a can of lighter fluid and squirts it all over the place.
No wonder Schaffer wants to keeps the troops there indefinitely. Alex Cranberg has an investment to protect.
Again, Mr. Schaffer has gone around the state telling people he has always been a moderate, middle-of-the-road Republican but the story in today’s Denver Post about his serving on the board of Yorktown University belies his statements this year.
He served on the board until the May of 2008 when he resigned. This online university has one course entitled “The Enlightenment as Failed Moral Revolution.” This is an attack on the Enlightenment itself. One of the primary purposes of the Enlightenment was to make religious belief a matter of personal conscience and not state policy which it had been in Europe and resulted in the nearly two hundred years of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics. Our Founding Fathers believed in that principle and included it in the United States Constitution. Apparently, the University Mr. Schaffer supported doesn’t believe that and it is trying to pawn off the distorted view that American history supports the notion that government and religion should not be separated.
In response to the Post, Mr. Schaffer said Yorktown provides a “classical” education not a conservative one. For once he got it half right. It certainly isn’t a true conservative curriculum but it most certainly isn’t a classical one either. This is another example of Mr. Schaffer’s extremist-radical positions akin to his statements that: “Republicans defend religious freedom. Democrats incinerate religious zealots and their children;” and “Republicans are for a clean environment. Democrats set big forest fires in New Mexico.” Anyone who believes in these ideas or makes these kind of statements are not individuals who should be deciding issues of war and peace, energy security or any other pressing issue. Mr. Schaffer lives in a world that the rest of don’t even recognize. He isn’t equipped to deal with the real problems confronting the United States.
The anti-Enlightenment movement is typically known as “postmodernism,” another conservative bete-noire. LOL
Schaffer’s radicalism is very scary, and so is Mark Udall’s.
We don’t have much of a choice. We have to vote for one extremist or the other.
If Obama looks like a winner, you have to vote Schaffer to prevent the abuse of power that we have under Ritter and a powerfully Dem legislature.
Vote for gridlock.
You all know I’m no fan of Udall. But he’s world’s better than Bob Schaffer. Udall at his worst is a spineless back-bencher. But he’ll go along with the majority of Democrats. He just won’t be leading them.
And gridlock is the last thing we need. Bush has so screwed the pooch that we need a very active federal government to start turning things around.
Mark Udall has been the leader on energy security. Everything the Democrats (and John McCain) now spout about renewables and conservation they got from Mark Udall.
Just one example: Mark Udall has been a leader for years on this issue. When he first started authoring bills supporting renewables ten years ago he got laughed out of committee. This year his package of bills passed the House overwhelmingly only to lose in the Senate by one vote (with a 59-vote majority, but it takes 60 votes to kill a Republican filibuster in the Senate).
He took something with zero support and made it into something with overwhelming support. If that’s not leadership I don’t know what is.
Because apparently Gore has been stealing Mark’s credit for making this issue one people are demanding action on. He should contact the Nobel committee too.
Yes Mark has shown some leadership on environmental issues. I’ve never said he would be a non-entity, just that he would be a back-bencher safely in the middle of the crowd. And in this case he has not created the support, he is merely riding a groundswell of support.
He’s going to get laughed at if the employee free choice act gets passed. That of which would not allow the private ballot system to be in place, nor any union-privacy for the matter. He’ll take something with 40% support and bring it down to 0. If that’s not bad leadership I don’t know what is.
yet again Schaffer thinks he can weasel his way out of this by playing dumb:
He gives the same excuse for the Mariana’s, his involvement with Orr, and now this. He’s either a dumb man easily taken advantage of or he’s simply insulting YOUR intelligence.
He was unaware of the forced abortions too.
“Ahhh, f**k it. I give up!”- Dick Wadhams.
If he’s just being quiet that’s a damning indictment of how bad this is.
of Big Oil Bob, Water Grab Walcher, and the Great White Hope…
The average voter on the average voting day could care less about this. It is too complicated.
Sweatshops and forced abortions are another matter. True or not, great sound bite material.
Oil contracts. I am asleep already.
Schaffer voted for the war, and as soon as the U.S. military made it safe enough he promptly went to Iraq to profit from that vote. But he didn’t just profit from it, he did it in such a way that it may contribute to extending our commitment there and causing the deaths of more American troops.
Worse, these oil deals might convince Kurdistan that it would be more profitable to secede from Iraq, further destabilizing the region and inviting Iran and Turkey to get involved.