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Mon Jul 19, 2010 at 10:41:05 AM MST
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Said Roy Teicher, spokesperson for the Andrew Romanoff campaign in reference to Colorado Senators Udall and Bennet's vote-switch on an amendment by VT Sen Bernie Sanders (God bless his soul) that would have capped credit card interest rates at 15%. In other words, this was like a national version of Colorado's successful attempt at ending usurious payday lending practices, reform of which struggled though the Colorado state legislature this last session.
Remember that? All the fighting and all the buzz about protecting the middle class? Now we've lost an opportunity to protect the middle class in the worst recession since the Depression and our Colorado Senators voted in a most despicably suspicious way.
:( All this time I thought Udall was a Boulder liberal :(
To the discerning, perhaps intelligent eye, it looks like Udall and Bennet first voted No on the amendment but when they saw there was a majority of sell-outs in the Senate who were also voting No, pandering to multi-billion dollar bailout recipients who used taxpayer money to "invest" in our "democracy", they changed their votes to Yes so it would go on the record that they were in support of it when in fact, it's possible, they never intended to support it.
And since it's the US Senate AND 2010, it was caught on tape.
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Fri Jul 09, 2010 at 23:39:07 PM MST
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Closely I watched the Colorado Senate this last session and instead of actually governing with solutions, the Republicans would cry and scream about how the reason the economy was bad, was because of government. The intention, of course, behind their meaningless slogans is to encourage voters to make the overemotional jump to think well, vote 'em out! thus falling prey to the Republican lie machine and forfeiting the Democratic majority that does its best to prevent the continued death-careen that the Republicans prefer. When pressed about their proposed solution for meeting fixing the economy, Rs could only say "cut state government workers income (jobs) by 25%" which, given the fact that the state government is the largest employer in the state, such an idea is utterly counterproductive to creating a vibrant economy but WHATEVER.
Morons.
Now, about these Conservative-backed (and illegally funded??) current ballot initiatives, one Repub meme is "no debt" which, again the vulnerable voter would equate with borrowing which is in part what the "Dr Evil Amendments" 60, 61, and 101 on the ballot this Nov seek to do.
The Denver Business Journal (yes, it has the word business in it, all hail business AUM) has a piece about how, if passed, these amendments would send Colorado into another recession. Who wants that?
Well, Republicans want that. Republicans want Obama and all Democrats to fail so they can get re-elected and continue their raping and pillaging of our nations resources.
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