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February 26, 2016 06:10 AM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“‘Cause unity isn’t what this is about. And to me, it never has been.”

–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday

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  1. Dear Mike.

    You know you can do it. The signs are unmistakable:

    Apparently, some Republicans actually are capable of feeling shame. That won’t make them change their mind about blockading President Obama's eventual Supreme Court nominee, but at least they're embarrassed by their actions.

    Several senators ran away from The Huffington Post this week as we tried to ask if they thought a Supreme Court nominee should get a hearing.

    Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said she had to "go vote," even though she could have talked as she walked to an elevator down the hall. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) didn't even let HuffPost get the full question out before saying, "I don't do hallway interviews." Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said he had to "run to a meeting" and disappeared into an elevator. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) listened to the question and, with a blank look, said, "I'm not doing any interviews."

    Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) — chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where majority support is needed to advance the nomination—attempted to shield himself from cameras by raising "a binder to cover his face" while exiting the Senate chamber on Wednesday. 

    Yes, as Simon, or Garfunkel, or one of those guys said: there is a time for bipartisanship, but that ship left the dock years ago. Now is the time to look your "peers" in the face and kick their proverbial asses over this.

    Sincerely, 

    Z

    P.S. Don't be a stranger!

  3. Two sides of the same coin:

    The triumvirate of big media, big donors and big political parties has until now successfully excluded every challenge to its authority. But like every aristocracy, it eventually got lazy and profligate, too sure it was loved by the people. It's now shocked that voters in depressed ex-factory towns won't keep pulling the lever for "conservative principles," or that union members bitten a dozen times over by a trade deal won't just keep voting Democratic on cue.

    Bennet uses the "both sides do it" dodge quite often. In this case, ignoring their base for long stretches of time, both side do do it.

     

  4. Imagine my surprise (not) when I clicked on your link to discover an article about Donald Trump with nothing about Bennet saying "both sides do it" in reference to  Obama's trade deal. Got a link for that?wink

      1. I  dutifully clicked on your links, two of which took me only to menus of more links. Outside of Bennet commenting on how nothing gets done in the Senate I don't see much. Once again, I'm puzzled as to why you blame Bennet so uniquely for TPP and never mention Obama's name in the same breath.  Actually I'm no longer puzzled. It's clearly some sort OCD thing. I'd suggest you get help but you enjoy it so. Rock on!

  5. Didn't anyone catch last night's mudwrestling match?  I thought their attire was entirely inappropriate for such an event.  

    Why weren't Trump, Cruz and Rubio wearing the standard red, white and blue stars and stripes thongs?  Here I thought they were all patriots!

    They also cheaped out and didn't have any babes in bikini's announcing the start of each round.

    The GOP is disgraceful. devil

        1. Daddy Bush has seen this thing progress – or should I say "degenerate" – over the past 40 years.

          Back then he was a Rockefeller Republican running against what was then considered an extremist:  Ronald Reagan. Daddy tried to maintain his establishment moderate bonafides (i.e., pro-choice, pro-ERA – how many remember the ERA, and opposed to what he correctly labeled voodoo economics). But he saw the train coming down the track and got on.  

          Fast forward 8 years and he had to face off with Pat Robertson (and Bob Dole) in the Iowa primary. In the general, he ran to the right, wrapping himself in the flag – almost literally – and playing the right wing GOP's greatest hits:  No new taxes and racism (Willie Horton). It worked.

          Fast forward 4 more years and Daddy Bush is facing a right wing in the name of Pat Buchanan. Buchanan softens Daddy up for Ross Perot and Bill Clinton to finish off.

          And of course he got to watch the rise of the Tea Party and all those establishment Repubs (i.e., Mike Castle, Dick Lugar, David Dewhurst, and closer to us, Jane Norton) go down the toilet in primaries. IIRC, the elderly Bushes were big supporters of Dewhurst over Raphael in the '12 GOP Senate primary in TX.

          While I'm guessing George and Barbara never expected the crazy train to run this far down the track, they cannot be completely surprised. The puerile behavior was probably a bigger shock than any of the content – or what passes for content – emanating from stage last night.

           

          P.S. It would have been neat if Daddy Bush had glanced down at his watch at one point during one of the Donald’s rants like he unfortunately did in the middle of one of Ross Perot long-winded speeches during one of the ’92 debates. He wouldn’t have had anything to lose this time.

  6. Well, Chris Christie has endorsed Donald Trump.   If I compare this to the Hitler-Stalin pact, will the fools who always misquote Godwin's law stay out of it this time?

     (The supposed law emphatically does not state that the first to evoke Hitler loses the argument, as the fools think.   It merely states that the longer an online discussion continues, the greater are the odds that Hitler will be mentioned.)

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