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On the Colorado recall elections

I wasn’t able to blog about it yesterday, but from my newly-configured phone I did manage to belch out a late-night Tweet that encapsulates my take on the thing.  The contents of which will come as a surprise to no one here.   But just for the record:

“Giron, Morse recalled; anti-salt, anti-transfat, anti-styrofoam gun grabbing pimps & their presumptuous stable of Dem whores hardest hit.”

Yeah. That’ll about sum it up.

Next step, Crackerado!  And no, we’re not kidding.

 

40 Replies to “On the Colorado recall elections”

  1. Bacon Ninja says:

    Maybe we can get Denver & Boulder to secede.

  2. eCurmudgeon says:

    I expect the next step will be to encourage John Morse to make a primary challenge against Hickenlooper for governor.

    The rationale, of course, will be that Morse “stood his ground” and did what was right, rather than politically expedient, was overthrown by a “low-information-voter” lynch mob, etc…

  3. eCurmudgeon says:

    (i.e. Instant Progressive Street Cred)

  4. eCurmudgeon says:

    Maybe we can get Denver & Boulder to secede.

    I’m more a fan of starting a “California Repatriation Movement”…

  5. SGTTed says:

    I’m more a fan of starting a “California Repatriation Movement”…

    Hey, we’re still trying to send Pelosi back to Boston, along with the rest of the East Coast New European socialists that have been moving here for the last 50 years. We used to be a real wealthy State until they moved here, took over and enacted France and England here.

    So, until we do so, you can keep the New European socialists. We do want the Americans back, tho.

    Now, we here in the north are left with trying to form a new State of Jefferson with the rural southern Oregonians that are tired of being ruled by the Portland Commies.

  6. newrouter says:

    This was the recall that never supposed to happen — let alone be successful. The nine men who set the ball rolling weren’t supposed to be capable of organizing a town hall, let alone taking down the state-senate president. And yet they did it. Victor Head, a plumber who had never been politically active, took down a senator in a district that went Democratic in 2012 by ten points; a group of six concerned men from the AR15.com chat room removed the state’s top-ranking legislator. “We are a quiet people,” recall founder Tim Knight told his victorious friends when the results became known at the Stargazers Theater. “You may be tempted to ignore us. Clearly, that would be a mistake.”

    link

  7. sdferr says:

    Pelosi back to Boston Baltimore

  8. SGTTed says:

    Where ever she is from. not California.

  9. bgbear says:

    thanks SGTTed. Us native Californians are not the whacky ones. We were just overly tolerant of all the alt lifestyles that flocked to California for the sunshine and freedom but, for some reason later decided freedom was just a little too unpredictable for their tastes.

  10. leigh says:

    That’s one of the reasons I left my beloved home state when I was in my 30s. The weirdo to normal people ratio was getting seriously skewed.

  11. McGehee says:

    The California I grew up in might as well be the planet Krypton. It’s gone.

  12. JohnInFirestone says:

    I’m all for repatriating Californians, as long as its via trebuchet.

    Listening to Morse bleat about how having a Republican in his seat for the next 16 months will mean nothing nationally and listening to Giron react in puzzlement as to why she got recalled makes me happy.

  13. bgbear says:

    and Boxer is from Brooklyn.

    Trying to point out that California didn’t create the radicals, we just got invaded earlier than others, is falling on deaf ears here.

  14. Squid says:

    Trying to point out that California didn’t create the radicals, we just got invaded earlier than others, is falling on deaf ears here.

    You should have taken Cartman’s advice. Hell, I’m thinking we should chip in and get Jeff a snazzy orange exterminator’s jump suit right now. Or is it already too late?

    Cartman: For the past several days I’ve been noticing a steep rise in the number of hippies coming to town. At first I thought maybe it was just a coincidence. Then I saw this: three new drum circles have sprouted up here, here, and here. They’re all growing in diameter, at a rate of two hippies per hour. What this means is that the hippies are conglomerating. They’re thriving, if you will. I think that they’re setting up for a… hippie music festival.
    Linda: A what?
    Cartman: It’s simple science. Look — when hippies start to nest in a new area, it draws other hippies in. With the right weather conditions and topography, it can lead to a music festival. One that lasts for days, even weeks. Reggae on the River, Woodstock, Burning Man, they will all pale in comparison to what we’re looking at now. In my professional opinion… I think we’re looking at a full-blown hippie jam festival the size of which we’ve never seen!

    What is California, if not the nightmare scenario described by Cartman?

  15. bgbear says:

    I heard an ad this morning for senior living community that boasted many activities. Drum circles was one one of the activities. I can only hope it means they are dying off.

    Maybe I’ll have a few years of peace before I earn a dirt blanket.

  16. eCurmudgeon says:

    You should have taken Cartman’s advice.

    “Guitars leaning in the corner threatened Folk Music” – P.J. O’Rourke

  17. leigh says:

    we just got invaded earlier than others, is falling on deaf ears here.

    Don’t feel that way, bgbear. There are a lot of us who were born and raised there. My own family has several generations of natives, we just aren’t enough to tilt the balance back. Between tasty waves, tolerance of deviance in the cities, Hollywood money and later the recording industry, the die was cast.

    I left when they stated closing the military bases and doing nothing about the gangs.

  18. bgbear says:

    Idaho is our retreat plan if needed but, I am going to do my best to stay here.

  19. Pablo says:

    I finally got the missus to concede that California is untenable and she’s taken a shine to…Crackerado.

    Heh.

  20. cranky-d says:

    I was born in and lived in San Diego until I was 31. I won’t ever move back to stay permanently, though if my dad needs me there I will go until he doesn’t any more.

  21. leigh says:

    That’s great Pablo! It’s very pretty there and you already know some people . . .

  22. Pablo says:

    I’m fixing to visit San Diego shortly. I love it, but just can’t stay there. Those people elected Bob Filner ferchrissakes!

  23. Pablo says:

    They’s my people, leigh!

  24. Bacon Ninja says:

    If Cartman really is right, it might be a good idea to stock up on Slayer CDs in addition to food, water, and ammo.

  25. geoffb says:

    Believing your own PR always works out in the end.

  26. newrouter says:

    ppp has hickenlooper on it’s face

  27. charles w says:

    Ninja, Its true hippies hate death metal. It harshes their mellow.

  28. dicentra says:

    anti-styrofoam gun

    Forgive me for being contrary, but I’m against styrofoam guns, too.

  29. newrouter says:

    but I’m against styrofoam guns, too.

    how about styrofoam greek columns?

  30. palaeomerus says:

    I find the concept of a gun that shoots the opposite of styrofoam quite fascinating.

  31. Squid says:

    When I was a wee lad, we had these little foam nuggets about the size of tater tots that you could squeeze between your finger and thumb to make them shoot across the room. Pop-its? Something like that.

    Later, we got little rubber pistols that would shoot the foam tater-tots when you gave the handgrip a good squeeze. They were one of the best Christmas presents ever. I can remember spending all day at my aunt & uncle’s house shooting at relatives, with my brother and cousins and parents and even my gimpy uncle taking turns. As I recall, one of the adults snuck out and bought a couple of extra pistols and bunch more of the tater tot ammo on the day after Christmas.

    So you can take your ignorant kneejerk anti-styrofoam gun beliefs and cram ’em!

  32. sdferr says:

    That Missouri Veto-Override story belies the “hand-grenades and horseshoes” aphorism, I think, at least as an indication of the trend. Though the override vote failed in the Mo. Senate due to the defection of two establishment Republicans, still, verging at two thirds of the vote is nothing to sneeze at, as well as promising the potential primarying of those two establicans — now that they’ve pointed the big styrofoam finger at themselves — come the next election.

  33. RI Red says:

    Pablo, you’re leaving Little Rhody even after Gov. Missing Linc Chaffee announced that he won’t run again?
    That’ll leave only about five outlaws here in New England …

  34. LTC (ret) John says:

    And I can only dream of such recalls here in miserable Illinois….sigh.

  35. Neo says:

    It would be accurate to say that the recall campaign was driven by opposition to the anti-gun bills which Morse and Giron pushed through the legislature. But this is only the first part of the story. As it turns out, Morse and Giron sealed their fates on March 4, the day that the anti-gun bills were heard in Senate committees. At Morse’s instruction, only 90 minutes of testimony per side were allowed on each of the gun bills. As a result, hundreds of Colorado citizens were prevented from testifying even briefly. Many of them had driven hours to come to the Capitol, traveling from all over the state.

    That same day, 30 Sheriffs came to testify. They too were shut out, with only a single Sheriff allowed to testify on any given bill. So while one Sheriff testified, others stood up with him in support.

    Admirably, Morse had urged his Committee Chairs to be polite and courteous to all witnesses, and they were. But President Morse did not follow the standard practice of the Colorado legislature, by which any citizen who wishes to testify is allowed to be heard, at least briefly. The patient endurance of Colorado legislative committees which have heard hour upon hour of testimony on bills about gay rights, motorcycle helmets, and other social controversies is a tribute to our republican form of government.

    When Morse shut that down, and Chairperson Giron went along, they crossed the double-red line of Colorado government. Had the seven gun control bills (one of which I testified in favor) been heard on March 4-6, instead of being rammed through committees on March 4, the recall might never have happened. It’s one thing to lose; it’s another to thing to lose when you didn’t even have the opportunity to present your reasoning. While the gun control bills were before the Senate in March, President Morse urged his caucus to stop reading emails, to stop reading letters from constituents, to stop listening to voicemails, to vote for the gun bills and ignore the constituents. Giron, presciently following this strategy, had allowed citizens to raise Second Amendment concerns at a single town hall meeting, and thereafter refused to discuss the issue at public fora.

    If an 8:1 Bloomberg money advantage can’t buy an election, then elected officials will be more reluctant to support repressive gun bills. As Giron told The New Republic, “”For Mayors Against Illegal Guns, if they lose even one of these seats, they might as well fold it up. And they understand that.”

    Game, Set .. Match

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