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TOP OF MIND TODAY…
► Debate begins today in the State Senate on Colorado’s annual budget, which is a proposed $26 billion.
► Politico looks at the “terrible, terrible jokes” that politicians are using this April Fool’s Day.
Get even more smarter after the jump…
SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…
► Indiana Gov. Mike Pence wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to bail his ass out of hot water for signing his name to a stupid bill. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has added Denver employees to the list of people not allowed to partake in government-funded travel to Indiana.
► Our friends at “The Fix” examine the picture — and Tweet — that started the bonfire in Indiana.
► Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are in Denver today to learn how to use email speak at a forum about terrorism and fundamentalist extremism.
► The Denver Post continues its look at various races for Denver City Council.
OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK (IF YOU WANT MORE KLINGENSCHMITT)
► Believe it or not, Rep. Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt did have some high-profile endorsements when he first ran for office last year. But does he still have that support?
► Dr. Chaps is now refusing to speak with 9News because reporter Brandon Rittiman gave him a chance to explain his strange rant last week.
► Republican Rep. Justin Everett is not happy that Dr. Chaps was removed from a House Committee post after making controversial statements outside of the State Capitol. We just think it’s nice that Rep. Everett managed to show up to work on time.
ICYMI
► Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who will likely declare his campaign for President this month, has a “Jeb Bush problem.” Don’t we all.
► Now you have a new reason to avoid East Colfax: A big road resurfacing project!
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Dems could get more smarter if they cut this Blue Dog Bullshit.
Why Blue Dog Dems Suck and Why DWT Blog Goes After Them All the Time
And yet…….
I will remind again, and perhaps forever, that both Bennet and Udall pursued this tactic upon Barack Obama’s election. I’m not a Dem purist, not even close. We will never know how much they degraded the chance for progress in 2009, how much they poisoned the revitalized Dem voting base that overwhelmingly elected Obama, nor how much they enabled Republican obstructionism with their half-hearted support for the newly elected Democratic president.
They say they’re “voting their district”, but they have most likely never truly pushed for truly progressive policies. One of the prime reasons we may never know these things is that Democrats can’t seem to give up this failed, phony strategy that keeps losing seats.
But I think it’s quite simple: Dems need to get More Smarter!
Got one of those fund raising e-mails begging for money for Bennet as one of the most vulnerable Dem incumbents. No wonder. This isn’t a conservative rural state but it is a state where polarization is increasing as it is in general. So it’s no wonder that the Republican lite thing doesn’t work well for Dems here anymore. It doesn’t get them R leaning votes. Times have changed since Ken Salazar got a nice chunk of those. Those go to actual Republicans now. It just pisses off the base and leaves most run of the mill Dems not terribly enthused.
It’s not that an Elizabeth Warren would be the right choice in Colorado but it wouldn’t hurt if Bennet would do something attention getting on some issue dear to Dem hearts once in a while instead of doing things like joining the Rs in making a statement by voting to to overturn our President’s veto. Especially when he knew it couldn’t be done so it wasn’t to actually accomplish an overturn. So just who was that statement addressed to?
Most low info voters, the kind who show up only in presidential years, wouldn’t even recognize his name. More of those same low info not terribly partisan voters have at least heard of Coffman and don’t know much more about him than that he’s a vet. Makes people who don’t know much more than that think he must be a good guy. People like that like to vote for good guys. That’s a plus for him if he decides to run. What’s Bennet’s plus to voters like that?
And if I contribute, will my money just get spent on the same kind of stupid campaign they ran for Udall? The kind where the ads keep dropping the candidate’s numbers instead of pushing them up but they keep sticking to their obviously lousy strategy no matter what the polls tell them? Because they’re the experts and the locals desperately warning them that their strategy isn’t working are just bumpkins so the polls are sure to turn around?
I think I’ll hang on to my wallet until I see some signs political life from Bennet and some indication that the alleged expert ops have learned something from the completely avoidable Udall fiasco.
I, too, get the phone calls from the national Dems and always turn ’em down on their money requests. They support candidates I don’t like, but don’t support the candidates I do like, so I contribute directly to the Permutter’s, the Donna Edwards’ (in MD), Bernie Sanders, and the like.
BC has a good last paragraph; I don’t have the resources to throw away on someone who has only political aspirations, and not the interests of their constituents.
Klingenschmitt just has to share his “expertise” regarding transgender folks changing their birth certificates. He’s agin it, because he says that
Then again coming from him, that probably one of his more compassionate remarks.
Right – at least he didn’t compare TG people to ISIS…yet.