tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post9176925804758942966..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Beto bitter over El Paso police-union fight: Here's why that's okayGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-8764261284538230222019-01-30T18:39:13.904-06:002019-01-30T18:39:13.904-06:00Oh, I want someone competent, don't get me wro...Oh, I want someone competent, don't get me wrong. But, if that's the foremost reason to sell Beto? Nahh. There are competent progs with better policies!<br /><br />That said, this appears to be when Beto first started pushing pot legalization as a public official. That's primarily a state issue, of course, but, in the last Congress, he had a chance to help try to do something at the federal level ... and didn't. https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2018/08/beto-bob-orourke-doesnt-walk-walk-on.htmlGadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-66901541805947793472019-01-15T02:44:02.255-06:002019-01-15T02:44:02.255-06:00I find it fascinating that a life-long Democrat ca...I find it fascinating that a life-long Democrat can switch parties, take over the Republican party with a populist appeal and earn the vitriol of the people who once championed his agenda. But that's the way American politics works. That said, my hat's off to the best Democrat president the US has had in decades.Steven Michael Seyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07809935502307219692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-1340568328552039122019-01-14T13:46:02.264-06:002019-01-14T13:46:02.264-06:00We must agree to disagree. The Presidency is, firs...We must agree to disagree. The Presidency is, first and foremost, a job - the CEO of the executive branch of government. Elect someone incapable of running the government, and no one will run it. There must be a baseline level of competence. We've seen what happens when there's not.Gritsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-71076569312928760842019-01-14T11:27:33.134-06:002019-01-14T11:27:33.134-06:00I'm not looking for a "managerial" p...I'm not looking for a "managerial" president myself. I'm certainly not looking for a ConservaDem managerial president.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.com