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July 01, 2015 06:53 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”

–Edmund Burke

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  1. Major electoral warning on '16 Republican motivation (Larry Wilmore of The Nightly Show already figured it out): the 2016 election is Republicans' second chance to kick that black man out of the White House, and they are poised for success this time.

    Each and every Republican will relish the vote and will tell their grandkids they were the key vote in finally kicking that Kenyan-Muslim-Socialist-Tyrannical-Weakling who Hates America and Hates Business out.

     

     

  2. Trade Silence is Golden 

    With well over 600,000 members, the Communications Workers of America (CWA), an AFL-CIO affiliate, is—by far and away–the largest communications and media labor union in the U.S.  So, when outgoing (after a decade at the helm of the union) CWA President Larry Cohen announced over the past few hours that he’s going to work as a volunteer in the Sanders campaign, in large part due to Hiillary Clinton's equivocation on granting President Barack Obama so-called fast-track authority on his mammoth trade deal,” it’s pretty damn newsworthy. And, I’m sure many of CWA’s members will be reporting upon this story, as well.

    Our senior senator did his part to delay Obama's secret trade deal and made sure the press releases were fired off within minutes. Then he did what he was always going to do: vote to give the president fast track authority. Now he's doing what all Corporate Dems are doing: shutting up about the damned trade bill.

    All this stuff may be inevitable, and this may be the most progressive trade deal in history, and if so, why not hash this thing out in public, over time, with the disinfecting light of public scrutiny?

    The one thing most of its supporters want right now is zero scrutiny, fast passage into law, and the same for a whole series of new trade agreements with everyone about everything. And when all this is said and done, the bipartisan support, the acquiescence of Tea Party Republicans, the silence of the Chamber of Commerce, and the systematic actions DC's ConservaDems are what worry me most and are the surest signs that Corporate America will be the big winner and the Middle Class will be fighting over world trade scraps once again.

    Hey, I'll know we finally won when my Chinese counterpart is training me to take his job for half his pay. 

    1. …and we really don't need to worry about the Big Guys, somehow they always manage to do quite well:

      Boeing CEO Jim McNerney is retiring next year. His pension: $3.9 million per year for the next 15 years.

      Jim McNerney is the same person who used the threat of capital mobility to force the International Association of Machinists-represented workers in Washington to sign a new contract that gives up their pensions and grants only a 1 percent raise every other year. He said he would move to South Carolina if they didn’t, where workers in Boeing plants only make half of what they do in Washington.

      Boeing is a shockingly profitable company that could easily afford to pay pensions to workers.

      Jim McNerney is also the same person who was the former Chair of The Business Roundtable, a corporate lobbying group looking to raise the retirement age to 70.

      In conclusion, Jim McNerney is a terrible human being. And very emblematic of the New Gilded Age.

      1. Support for Fast Track/TPP = opposition to generics & support for trade protectionism for Big Pharma that will cost American taxpayers and the people of the western Pacific region trillions.

        Oooh, this is fun.  Let's play more.

      2. If that's really the case, CHB, if we really have to agree to anything other countries demand regardless of whether it damages our own workers, our own sovereignty in setting our own domestic policies, or forces us to lend tacit support to the ongoing atrocities of slavery, then it's all over anyway. We're already dominated. We're already handing over our lunch money. Nothing more to worry about.

        I'm pretty sure we still wield enough economic and military power as the world's only remaining superpower that we don't have to dance to the tune of far less powerful countries for fear of China. We still are in a position to make demands of our own. It's not those who demand we do so but you who are advocating surrender.

  3. Certain elements might like his crass bullying style but that's a very small segment as witnesses by his ultra low popularity everywhere including his own state. Sit down and shut up is just not what most Americans consider presidential.

    1. yeah, and these guys show just what an ego trip it is to run for prez on the R side. Jindal horrible approval in LA, Christie horrible approval, Walker associates indicted and in jail, JEB millions in questionable business practices over the years.

    2. The Big Boy did win the coveted endorsement of Paul LePage (Teabagger-ME) today. Of course, LePage may be facing an impeachment vote by the ME House and just had his veto of the state budget overriden so his effectiveness isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  4. As Texas elected officials defy the SCOTUS gay marriage ruling, I thought it was a good time to highlight the new slogan for Texas tourism:  "Texas — It's Like a Whole Other Country!"

    Hmm.

  5. Any trade pact that requires turning a blind eye to the atrocities of slavery in order to keep potential partners happy is a moral abomination. Whether it promises profit or making the trains run on time or not. Not a bit different than turning a blind eye to the holocaust was. Not one bit.  Sen. Michael Bennet, a Jewish descendant of holocaust survivors on your mother's side, you should be ashamed of not loudly and publicly proclaiming an absolute refusal to vote yes on any trade deal that does not forcefully address this issue. It's a shonda. Ask one of your relatives to explain what that means. President Obama, with a wife and children descended from those who suffered through the American holocaust, it’s equally shameful for you to ask anyone to do so.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/myanmar-slave-fisherman-free_n_7702458.html

    1. By "do so" I meant fail to refuse, of course, a confusing combo of negatives. I probably should have said it's equally shameful for you to ask anyone to support a pact that turns a blind eye to slavery, President Obama.

    2. And CHB… do you really believe we're  so diminished and pathetic that we have to dance to the tune of a regime like Myanmar's on TPP? Seriously? Then we're nothing but a bad bloated joke of a superpower anyway. 

      1. Hey, it's USA, Burma, Somalia that together continue to avoid adoption of the metric system. No argument re the atrocities of slavery, but it needs its own attention and not being caught up in a trade bill.

        1. Thanks for the metric system clarification. I'm sure that must be relevant to …. something? And the slavery thing is caught up in the trade agreement. The agreement means we reward the slavers and look the other way. 

    4. They are moving so far away from a daily newspaper for a large city – and toward what?! An imitation of Facebook or Twitter? – hey, we're going to have "breaking" news, short articles, and . . . and. . .  Will investigative reporting and feature stories be a thing of the past (no jumps, we're told)? Ugh.

       

      1. We only still get it because we're old and addicted to having a paper to read in the morning at the breakfast table. As far as on line news consumption there are plenty of better sites to access than the Post. Once I give up reading the print version altogether I'll rarely have reason to bother with it and I honestly don't know any young people who do. My son consumes lots of news but not from the Post. When they lose their older readers I don't see them gaining a lot of younger ones who don't have the habit of reading a newspaper and can get all the news they want without subscribing to anything. Making the paper less and less appealing to those who like newspapers doesn’t sound like a promising strategy going forward. And it’s less appealing all the time.

        1. It's expensive, but I subscribed my husband to the NYT.  It has actual articles in it.  No local Denver news, but the Toast doesn't really have that either.  He loves reading the paper in the am too.

          1. Actually the NY Times often has been Denver local coverage than the Denver Post. (But there are those coupons and the Broncos coverage to keep the Post in demand.)

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