Episode 9.7 - The Final Colorado Progressive Voice Episode, but not the end of the Show
Elena Kagan confirmed; Prop 8 ruling!; Arizona SB 1070 ruling; Feisty debate over WikiLeaks; Bennet/Romanoff update and Colorado primary predictions; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff must defend the crazies who think the Cordoba House mosque and cultural center shouldn’t be built; Rants - Jeff on Kenya’s new constitution and John on more Obama broken promises re: civil liberties and privacy.
This is the end of the Colorado Progressive Voice as we know it, but we announce our plans for the future (new name! slightly new format! more frequent shows! podcasting!) at the end of the show!
Episode 9.5 - Patriotism Drugs
Discord over Michael Steele’s Afghanistan comments and the DNC response; Obama gives a big speech on immigration, but does it matter?; Hickenlooper issues an oil and gas mea culpa - kind of; New ballot measure proposes partisan elections for judges; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff must defend the NYT’s 2001 decision to and current justification of not using the word ‘torture’ to describe waterboarding; Mexican elections; an extended debate over legalizing all drugs in the US; what Presidents are overrated? underrated?; Special 4th of July Rants!
Episode 9.4 - A Deserted Pitch
The US World Cup loss to Ghana in perspective; With McChrystal out and Petraeus in, where does Afghanistan policy go from here?; Is the oil spill really an oil spill?; BP escrow fund; Devil’s Advocate - John must defend allowing students to carry concealed weapons on the University of Colorado campus; Hickenlooper betrays his environmental record - again; Elena Kagan confirmation hearings preview; an evaluation of the merged financial regulation legislation; Rants - Jeff on the iPhone 4 and the future; John on Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo
Episode 8.12 - International Rhubarb Pi(e) Day!
Jeff and John discuss pi (and pie); Comprehensive preview of Tuesday night’s Democratic and Republican caucuses; For the 13679th time, health care reform is thisclose to being passed; student loan reform is on the way; Obama proposes significant changes to No Child Left Behind; Devil’s Advocate - John has to sink to the depths of hell to justify Israeli’s diplomatic affront to Joe Biden; a discussion on the misguided belief that the Supreme Court is above politics; Afghanistan updates; Rants - Jeff on Daylight Savings Time, John on reducing US nuclear weapons stockpiles
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Episode 8.10 - Podcasting Olympics
Obama’s upcoming meeting with the Dalai Lama and the future of US-China relations; a new strategy for Iran?; bad congressional strategy on a jobs bill; Devil’s Advocate - John must be the one, the only, Sarah Palin; John Hickenlooper questions climate change - or maybe not?; Blackwater has billed the US for strippers and prostitutes - and might get more US contracts; Major news from Great Britain on the issue of torture; Rants - Jeff on the Winter Olympics, John (after dissenting on the Olympics) on the Obama missile defense lie
Episode 8.4 - A Show of Epic Proportions
Jeff and John return from their unintended hiatus and deliver the most epic CPV show episode ever; Afghanistan debate; Copenhagen and other climate news; Updates on Colorado Senate and Governor races; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff defends bad economic policy and high unemployment; Surprise, Surprise, J & J argue about Obama admin’s approach to detainees; what to make of the UC student protests?; Rants - Jeff on his two favorite totalitarian regimes, John gives Obama a belated and not happy anniversary message.
Episode 8.2 - A Real-Life Remote (no kidding) from the DU Dems BBQ
Jeff and John are on location at the DU Dems/Denver Dems BBQ: Interviews with Dillon Doyle, President of the DU Dems and with Dr. Irene Aguilar, President of Health Care for All Colorado; Hearty debate on the meaning and consequences of new Iran nuclear information; local Najibullah Zazi is arrested and accused of plotting a terrorist attack; Hypocrisy on defunding ACORN; Devil’s Advocate - Jeff has to direct vitriol at the Obama admin for dropping Bush-era missile defense plans; Rants - John on the fear that Obama is giving up on a global climate deal months before the Copenhagen conference and Jeff on the lack of perspective in discussions on Afghanistan
Episode 8.0 - Jeff and John’s Secret Child Indoctrination Chamber
Jeff and John return permanently from their hiatus, and the people cheer! Discussion of the wackos who are convinced Obama is indoctrinating America’s youth; Update on Romanoff/Bennett; The release of the Lockerbie bomber (and was it part of an oil deal?) - Jeff and John get in an epistemological debate; Devils Advocate - Jeff assumes the role of a Blue Dog Dem (Devil) and we have a long, thoughtful discussion on health care; Progressive Caucus strategy; Holder appoints a special prosecutor to investigate torture, but John is still not happy; Rants - John on the incongruity of the Obama admin Afghanistan strategy; Jeff on Ritter’s stupid moves
