Get More Smarter on Cinco de Mayo! (May 5)

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1. I saw a report that Mexico had invited Herr Drumpf to visit in the not-too-distant future. Wonder if the man with the big mouth has big enough cojones to accept the invitation…..

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   1. Only ifMexico pays for the visit

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2. In other referendum news…

   Colorado ballot initiative seeks to strike slavery from state law – yes, apparently it's still technically legal to become a slave/indentured servant as part of a criminal conviction.

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3. The loan shark bill, SB16-185, was PI'd yesterday.

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   1. Woo-hoo!   Thank you Dickey Lee, and the Dems on the House SVMA kill committee!

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4. Thomas Frank:

    

   Seven years have passed now since the last recession officially ended, and yet the country’s fury has scarcely cooled. To this day we remain angry at Wall Street; we rage against career politicians; and we are incandescent that the economic system seems to have been permanently “rigged” against working people. Median household income has still not recovered the levels of 2007. Wages are going nowhere. Elite bankers are probably never going to be held accountable for what they did. America is burning.

   Listening to the leading figures of the Democratic party establishment, however, you’d never know it. Cool contentment is the governing emotion in these circles. What they have in mind for 2016 is what we might call a campaign of militant complacency. They are dissociated from the mood of the nation, and they do not care.

   I mean this in ways both great and small. The party’s leadership is largely drawn from a satisfied cohort that has done quite well in the aftermath of the Great Recession. They’ve got a good thing going. Convinced that the country’s ongoing demographic shifts will bring Democratic victory for years to come, they seem to believe the party’s candidates need do nothing differently to harvest future electoral bumper crops.

    Frank goes a bit too far with the burning.

   His finale: 

   Trump is “…a bigot of such pungent vileness that the victory of the Democratic candidate this fall is virtually assured. Absent some terrorist attack … or some FBI action on the Clinton email scandal … or some outrageous act of reasonableness by Trump himself, the blowhard is going to lose.”

   “This, in turn, frees the Democratic leadership to do whatever they want, to cast themselves in any role they choose. They do not need to move to ‘the center’ this time (We've gone way past center and just move further right each election.-Z).

   They do not need to come up with some ingenious way to get Wall Street off the hook. They do not need to beat up on working people’s organizations.”

   (Anyone remember "card check"? I do.-Z)

   That they [the Democratic status quo] seem to want to do all these things anyway tells us everything we need to know about who they really are: a party of the high-achieving professional class that is always looking for a way to dismiss the economic concerns of ordinary people.

   Dismissing "populism" as the standard, safe strategy is a bad move by Democrats, in my opinion. Dems' ickiness with the subject helped the Tea Party use it for their own gain, and has also led us to Trump the possible president.

   Franks goes a little bit too far again, but Democrats dismiss Bernie supporters and activists and donors –  and Issues! – at their own very real risk. You have to stand for something more than renegotiated student loan rates. Riding Hillary's coattails to another six years in office is pointless without principles.

   Oh, and quit trying to be bipartisan with a bunch of Obstructionist Sociopaths:

   If the Democratic Party has the brains god gave a duck, it will hang He, Trump around Kelly Ayotte's neck like a dead raccoon. It will do the same thing to Rob Portman in Ohio and Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania and Ron (Shreds of Freedom) Johnson in Wisconsin. (Ayotte's running pals, Lindsey Graham and John McCain, are studies in abject terror on the subject.) He, Trump is not only the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee, he has won that distinction in an overwhelming fashion. He won the most votes. He won all over the country. He defeated 17 other candidates, some of them the most ballyhooed rising stars of the GOP. Beyond question, he is the person that the majority of Republican voters want to run for president.

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