Why I like this bill: bridges and risk

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Monday September 29, 2008 · 6:20 AM PDT

2008/09/29 · 06:20

Well OK, I like the bailout (or "rescue") bill the way a medieval prisoner would like lethal injection, when the other choice is disembowelment. But here we are. We all believe we're at a point in history where a failed governing philosophy is about to be thrown out, and we need to put a better one in its place. I think this bill is a big step in that direction.

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Saturday January 05, 2008 · 11:58 AM PST

2008/01/05 · 11:58

The Douglas County, Colorado, Democratic Party has finalized its caucus locations for 2008. All caucuses will occur on February 5, 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

In Colorado, the caucus is the only primary vote to nominate party candidates for president of the United States. The caucus is also where you elect delegates to represent you in nominating all other candidates for Federal, state, and county public offices, and to oversee the operations of the party. It is also the first step in writing the party platform.

Anticipating exceptionally high turnout, 17 locations have been reserved around the county, all in schools. Read More

Have you received your RNC fund-raising appeal? (with poll)

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 5:13 PM PST

2007/12/18 · 17:13

This weekend our family received three identical letters from the Republican National Committee, warning us of the grave dangers if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama become president, and asking us to act right away by rushing them a check and "renewing your RNC Sustaining Membership for 2008 today."

This is pretty hilarious considering I'm a Democratic Party County Chair. A couple of prominent posters on SquareState received the letter, too.

That makes me wonder how many others might have received it. Please let us know in the poll.

It also makes me wonder what would happen if lots of recipients of the letter were to return the reply envelope, inserting a DCCC fund-raising letter? Not that I'm recommending anything....

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Did you receive your RNC fund-raising appeal?

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Did you receive your RNC fund-raising appeal?

Yes

14 votes

31 votes

Pie

5 votes

Mea culpa

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Friday April 27, 2007 · 8:47 AM PDT

2007/04/27 · 08:47

The earth still turns on its axis, the rivers still flow downhill, and endless cycles of violence still beget more violence. No one with half a brain was surprised this week to learn that the Republicans' "surge" in Iraq resulted in its own counter-surge of even more violence. The same pattern has been repeated so many times in history, you wonder how anyone could think it would go any other way.

Iraq car bomb
As is his custom, Bush tried to lie about it, but the attempt was so lame that it left people of both parties shaking their heads. When the Administration counts the number of civilian deaths from the conflict, it has started leaving out deaths from bombs. Why would they do that? Aren't people killed by bombs just as dead as those killed in other ways? Charlie Rose had a chance to ask Mr. Bush this question directly, and here's his priceless reply:

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Thursday April 05, 2007 · 2:08 PM PDT

2007/04/05 · 14:08

A leader in one of our local Democratic Party groups, the Parker Democrats, sent me this fundraising letter (on the flip) signed by Rahm Emanuel. The return address on the envelope says it's the 2007 Annual Fund Drive for the Parker-Area Democratic Party. The letterhead and return coupon say the same.

A recipient who is not steeped in the minutiae of the party might believe that the DNC is helpfully collecting donations to aid the local chapter of the party. They would be wrong. The letter is blatantly misleading.

If you receive a letter like this from the DCCC, you need to know that none of the money you send in reply, will go to your local party. If you want to send a donation to your local Democratic Party organization, you need to send it directly there. Chances are, they will make much better use of it than the DCCC will.

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Have you received a solicitation like this?

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Have you received a solicitation like this?

yes

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pie

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Respond to terrorism as a disease

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Wednesday May 17, 2006 · 5:47 AM PDT

2006/05/17 · 05:47

Georgia10 wrote a very interesting story yesterday about the "War on Terror," and that got me thinking about a better way to frame it. Let's try this on for size and see what people think about it.

As much as president Bush has done to fight his "War on Terror," the public is still dissatisfied, still doesn't feel safe. To take away the weapon of fear, we need a whole new mindset. Read More

Big Brother prepares for disaster

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Sunday February 26, 2006 · 9:15 AM PST

2006/02/26 · 09:15

[Cross-posted from Democracy in Progress.]

The White House Homeland Security Staff this week released its post-mortem on Hurricane Katrina, with a review of lessons learned and a list of 125 recommendations. Predictably, the report contains the usual fawning references to His Majesty the President, and 28 occurrences of the term "faith-based". The first words of Chapter 1 of this report about a hurricane are "Terrorists still plot their evil deeds." (I'm not kidding.)

The report limits its scope to disaster preparedness, so it doesn't address the biggest problem exposed by the hurricane, which was the short-sightedness of capital investment decisions that allowed New Orleans to be protected by inadequate levees. It's interesting reading in spite of all that, especially Appendix A, which has the 125 recommendations. If you're willing to plow through them, you're rewarded with the clearest picture yet of the implications of the "Big-Government Conservatism" that is now in control of the country. And I mean in control.

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Wednesday January 11, 2006 · 7:17 PM PST

2006/01/11 · 19:17

[Posted for Bill Winter, candidate for Congress in CO-06]

Yesterday morning I went to the meeting of the United Veterans Committee of Colorado, an organization that brings various veteran's advocate groups together. Tom Tancredo showed up late, spoke for five minutes, and left, but an interesting thing happened while he was there. Read More

A Jarhead's Journey to Washington begins!

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Friday December 02, 2005 · 12:33 PM PST

2005/12/02 · 12:33

[Posted for Bill Winter, candidate for Colorado Congressional district 6]

Good morning, America! It's Friday morning, December 2nd, 2005, and I'm in Phoenix at the Democratic National Committee fall meetings. This morning I had the privilege of meeting with Gov. Howard Dean, Chairman of the DNC. I asked if I could get a photo with him and he said "You know they'll try to use it against you, don't you?"

This comment illustrates what I think is a serious problem in America today. We are more divided today than at any time I can remember in my lifetime. We have been divided by fear and hate to the point that we can't even remember all the things we have in common anymore. The Bush administration has used fear to divide us at every turn, and Tom Tancredo has used hate to do the same! Read More

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Why I like this bill: bridges and risk

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Have you received your RNC fund-raising appeal? (with poll)

Mea culpa

Misleading DCCC fundraising letter (w/ poll)

Respond to terrorism as a disease

Big Brother prepares for disaster

The Cost of War

A Jarhead's Journey to Washington begins!