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Sean Paige is a lying coward.

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But that's no surprise coming from the right.

Sean Paige really ain't gonna like this

More problem solving from our Democratic Governor and Legislature:

Bill Ritter today is expected to sign a package of mortgage related bills aimed at protecting consumers and stemming the state's ongoing wave of home foreclosures. Ritter will sign five bills during a ceremony at Brothers Redevelopment Inc., a Denver-based nonprofit that operates the state's foreclosure hotline. The hotline was established last year in response to the thousands of foreclosures in Colorado.

The state had the country's highest rate of foreclosure filings per household last year. "On balance, this is the right thing to do," Ritter said Thursday. "We will watch how it is implemented so that the mortgage industry is still able to thrive." One of the bills, Senate Bill 203, will convert the state's mortgage-broker registration system to a licensing system.

Colorado was previously one of just two states that did not require mortgage brokers to be licensed, said Zachary Urban, a director with Brothers Redevelopment. Urban said Alaska will be the only state without a licensing requirement.

Bill summaries:

• HB 1322 (Marshall/Groff), “Mortgage Fraud Prevention Act”
• SB 85 (Veiga/Massey), “Protect Consumer Real Estate Transactions”
• SB 203 (Groff/Marshall), “Mortgage Broker Licensing”
• SB 216 (Veiga/Marshall), “Mortgage Loan Acts Practices” SB 249 (Veiga/Rice), “Real Estate Title Escrow Settlement”

I can hear Sean Paige now: "Stupid consumers need to live and learn so they can execute these detailed transactions themselves and not have to rely on the professional training and ethics of those who do mortgages all day, every day."

Sean Paige ain't gonna like this

At separate ceremonies in Lakewood and Fort Collins, Governor Bill Ritter today signed into law bills that will enhance health care for children, make Colorado universities more competitive for national research grants, and provide a tax break to high-tech companies that build “clean rooms.”

In all, Gov. Ritter signed 40 bills today as the Monday deadline approaches for action to be taken on legislation from the 2007 session of the General Assembly:

“Each and every child deserves a healthy start to life,” Gov. Ritter said at Stein Elementary School in Lakewood, which is home to a community-based health clinic. “But in a state where 180,000 children don’t have any health insurance, that’s hard to accomplish."

I doubt Sean Paige would approve of using his gold-plated tax dollars to take care of poor children's health. Don't those kids know the value of the free market?

Amendment 41 ruling protects the big guy

A Denver District Court judge on Thursday blocked the gift-ban provisions of an ethics measure that voters approved last fall. The ruling means lobbyists and others are free for now to give gifts - including meals and tickets to sporting events - to elected officials, government workers, contract employees and their families.

When a court says speech = money, or vice versa, they are condemning the political process to the desires of those with the most to spend and the most to gain. It's quite obvious human nature will kick in all too often in relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists.

The courts nowadays often stick up for the big guy against the little guy. It's rarely what is best for our system.

Colorado's reactionary immigration laws...

have had some unintended affects. Luis at SquareState:

Colorado isn't the only state where attempts to enact "get tough" anti-immigrant legislation have turned into embarrassing failures.

First, there is Alabama, which imitated Colorado by passing a law ("The Deficit Reduction Act") that required Medicaid recipients to provide a birth certificate before receiving benefits. Instead of balancing the state budget by throwing Latino freeloaders off the rolls, the law has caused 5,000 people -- mostly black and white children -- to lose their eligibility. (Only 2% of those denied eligibility are Latino.) Who would have thought poor people in Alabama might have problems proving their citizenship? Aren't you proud to be a Coloradan?

Then we have Georgia, where the "tough on immigration" package (which actually served as the model for Colorado's special session laws) has caused a labor shortage that will be addressed through the use of prison labor. Of course, the same thing is happening here in Colorado.

Let this also be a lesson for Democratic leaders to not get duped into a fight with disengenuous, manipulative politicians on the other side whose once strong majority ion Colorado is dwindling to nothing. They wanted to rule with an iron fist and it failed.

Well, we just had our next terrorist attack

With the willy-nilly treatment of this highly contagious, non-treatable tuberculosis patient, we have just had our "next" terrorist attack.

George Bush and his Department of Homeland Security just failed the test miserably. And we are lucky it was just a test....maybe:

New reports indicate that the U.S. government is to blame for an Atlanta man taking two transatlantic flights despite having a rare, potentially deadly type of tuberculosis that is highly resistant to treatment. The man – under the first federal quarantine in decades – says CDC officials knew he had the disease and even put him on a no-fly list, yet he was still able to leave and return to the United States.The unidentified patient, who had been making regular hospital visits for treatment, told officials he would be traveling to Europe for his wedding but was never told not to go. Only when he was on his honeymoon in Rome was he instructed not to return to America and that he was on a no-fly list. He was also ordered to surrender to Italian health authorities for indefinite isolation and treatment. Fearful of the quality of medical care in a foreign nation, the man opted to fly to Canada and drive into America.

He was never stopped despite several passport checks.

How could a man with a deadly and contagious disease enter this country when we knew exactly who he was? The whole point of the Homeland Security Department (DHS) was to integrate various government agencies to fulfil its mission to "protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation." If we can't intercept a known pestilent citizen using his real name and passport, how are we supposed to stop foreign terrorists who are actually trying to be elusive?

"I'm a uniter, not a divider"

Some guy whose name starts with an 'A':

A suicide car bomber struck a busy commercial district in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 21 people and damaging a shrine revered by Sunnis and Shiites alike, police and hospital officials said.

Lies, Lying Liars, and the Yellow Dog Democrat(s)

Eric Massa has said what few in our party had the guts or ability to say regarding this latest cave-in by Democrats in DC:

The failures of this Administration are so numerous and so disastrous, that the complacency and egotistical posturing of the rubberstampers in Congress must not pass unnoticed. We must stand up and tell these cowards that their days in Washington are numbered.

I am not willing to go quietly into the night and let bygones be bygones. Therefore I would never vote for a bill based only the reality that the President might veto the version that I feel strongly about.

We as Democrats should not run for cover every time we are threatened with the specter of appearing soft of defense, unsupportive of our military nor fully behind the War on Terrorism. I don't. I will take a back seat to no one who attacks my military career, as they did in the last election, especially when those attacks are being orchestrated by someone with nearly a decade of draft deferments. While Randy Kuhl, Dick Cheney and the entire cast of Bush rubberstampers were busy doing "more important things," my father served a decade in Vietnam and all over the world for his nation. His service inspired me to follow in his footsteps and I'll be damned if anyone is going to call me un-American because I disagree with the Worst President in the History of this Nation.

We must stand, tall and proud, in our disapproval of this President. We must force him again and again to VETO the funding Bills that would in fact support our troops.

We must hold him and his entire culture of rubberstamping sycophants accountable for the total and absolute disaster that they have dragged us into.

When I started volunteering for Jay Fawcett in 2006, it was quite obvious he wasn't going to be cowed by anyone questioning his patriotism or courage or experience. The same went for Eric Massa and John Laesch, who both ran as Fighting Dems with Jay that year - both of whom I was lucky enough to meet at YKos.

But do you have to be a vet to respond to the lies that way? Absolutely not.

Do you let someone say you don't support the troops when they themselves refuse to supply all available equipment, technology and care to those troops?

Do you let someone say you aren't funding the troops when it's your veto that killed the troop funding legislation?

Do you let someone say you want us to lose when their strategy has led to al Qaeda and Iran's increasing influence in a country where they were previously at bay?

Do you take up the language of a rejected policy by a failed leader in the hope he may finally admit the truth, start negotiating in good faith thereby repudiating everything he's said since day one of his war of choice?

Eric Massa has the answers to those questions. It is just that simple.

We need a few more yellow-dog Dems to act before this war is stuck in the dynamics 2008 presidential campaign. That day is nearer than anyone realizes. Next Memorial Day it will be too late for at least 1,000 more of our troops. We'll be another year stuck in Iraq exactly like today. And it will be a quagmire accomplished by giving in to the lies, the lying liars, and the yellow-dog Dems who betrayed their mushy principles in the name of non-existent bipartisanship.

Immemorial

(Cartoon courtesy of Mike Keefe, Denver Post)

Words fail me, others will have to speak and draw:

This is, in fact, a comment about betrayal.

Few men or women elected in our history - whether executive or legislative, state or national - have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear:

Get us out of Iraq

Yet after six months of preparation and execution - half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:

• The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president - if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history - who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats "give the troops their money";
• The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;
• The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.
• The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions - Stop The War - have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you for a handful of magic beans.

You may trot out every political cliché from the soft-soap, inside-the-beltway dictionary of boilerplate sound bites, about how this is the "beginning of the end" of Mr. Bush's "carte blanche" in Iraq, about how this is a "first step."

Well, Senator Reid, the only end at its beginning is our collective hope that you and your colleagues would do what is right, what is essential, what you were each elected and re-elected to do.

Because this "first step" is a step right off a cliff.

And this President!

How shameful it would be to watch an adult... hold his breath, and threaten to continue to do so, until he turned blue.

But how horrifying it is to watch a President hold his breath and threaten to continue to do so, until innocent and patriotic Americans in harms way, are bled white.

You lead this country, sir?

You claim to defend it?

There's more if you can stand it. The massive betrayal by our elected officials has left me physically ill. As Olbermann reminds us almost daily:

Today is the 1,488^th day since the declaration of mission accomplished

And there have been 101 Americans killed in Iraq in the month of May, 2007, 3,492 since the start of George Bush's war.

War of Words

President Bush:

"I’m credible because I read the intelligence."

Senator Rockefeller:

"[T]he intelligence community prior to the war [warned] that the American invasion would bring about instability in Iraq that would be exploited by Iran and al Qaeda."

I guess reading ain't all it's cracked up to be.