In what is likely to be described by him as a “big f___ing deal,” former Vice President and Chief Gaffe Master Joe Biden endorsed Jason Crow in the 6th District Congressional race.

Unfortunately, Biden didn’t actually show up to embarrass endorse Crow in person.

We’re not sure Biden’s even allowed to appear in public anymore. We suspect the Democratic National Committee has him locked away in an attic.

Disappointingly, the endorsement came in written form from a Beltway flack.

In the statement, Biden acknowledged Crow went to college and was in the military. That’s about it. Oh, and the Democrat said he is proud to endorse another Democrat for office.

Completely non-eventful, but the response from Crow is what caught our attention.

“He’s a model for the kind of servant leadership I believe we need to bring back to Washington, and I’m honored to stand with him as I make my case this fall.”

Seriously dude?! This is your role model?




A politician who asks a man in a wheelchair to stand up for a round of applause? Who introduced the president as Barack America? Who likes to talk about lubrication and taking dumps?

We hoped Crow would be taking Biden out on the campaign trail with him. Biden would be a real hit with minorities when he praising them for being articulate and bright, or asks how the convenience store business is faring.

Yesterday, Colorado Politics published an op-ed by Julie Gorte in support of Xcel Energy’s Colorado Energy Plan, a proposal that would shutter two of the state’s cheapest and most reliable power plants (not to mention cleanest) and replace them with less reliable and super expensive wind and solar sources.

Using Gorte to carry its torch is a strange approach by the public utility. Gorte, senior vice president for sustainable investing at Impax Asset Management LLC and Pax World Funds, sits on the investment committee of Wallace Funds, which is one of the biggest proponents of the fossil fuel divestment campaign across America.

This begs the question: is Xcel’s Colorado Energy Plan a veiled divestment strategy? Or is Xcel hostage to an extravagant investor activism campaign by the likes of divestment activists?

What would a broader Xcel divestment look like for us little people? A disaster. The Colorado Energy Plan is likely to result in jacked-up rates for everyone who pays a monthly bill to Xcel.

Not that any of this matters to environmental extremists like Gorte. In fact, this green utopia that divestment proponents dream about is not about cost, but rather about putting big, “evil” oil and gas out of business.

Here’s the problem with doing that: Colorado’s oil and gas industry provides an economic boost of over $31 billion per year, and supports 230,000 jobs in the state. What happens when all of that money and all of those jobs disappear?

You guessed it: a massive cut in local and state tax revenues. So, for those of you who like the idea of a green future, but also, ya know, like functioning hospitals and basic public services, it’s not looking like Xcel’s Colorado Energy Plan is the plan for you.

Just don’t tell Julie Gorte and her divestment BFFs.

Former IT staffer Imran Awan who worked for U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette before he was fired after unauthorized access of congressional computer systems will be sentenced Tuesday for separate bank fraud crimes.

You’ll never believe his lawyer’s arguments for keeping Awan out of prison.

Chris Gowen says his Pakistani client shouldn’t have to go to jail because Republicans and President Trump are mean and the media conspired against his client.

The sentencing memo was obtained by the Daily Caller, who has cornered the market on the continuing saga of this scandal.

Gowen suggested that Trump, Republicans and the media were responsible for Imran losing his Capitol Hill job, despite that the former IT aide was banned from the House computer network immediately following the internal investigation and before anyone outside of a small cadre on Capitol Hill knew about it.

“The 18 months of insane media attention and false public accusations against Imran unfairly cost Imran his job (not one accusation about Imran’s work on the Hill has been sustained),” the sentencing memo read.

The lawyer also said Awan should be spared jail and fined only $4,000 because Trump engaged in “incoherent rambling” about the former Capitol Hill staffer.

We have to admit, if we were president when this mind-boggling scandal unravelled, we’d be rambling incoherently too, in expletives!

PeakNation™ will recall that Awan was trying to flee the country with bags of money he fraudulently obtained from a congressional bank when he was arrested.

DeGette has refused to comment on this frightening scandal and security leaks that are summarized here and here.

The sentencing memo may sound like a pie-in-the-sky request, but considering it comes from a lawyer who used to be an aide for Hillary Clinton, to an Obama-appointed judge, it’s not so far-fetched that Awan will be a free man next week.

We can count on one hand how many tweets we typically see from U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet in a day — 17 this month.

He’s never been a big communicator with his constituents through social media or actual, in-person town halls.

So repeated tweets in a matter of hours from his office caught our eye as we scrolled through. We were moving fairly quickly and presumed it was all about fire safety and evacuation information that many western politicos have posted in recent days.

Turns out Bennet was tweeting about newspaper editorials from across the state bashing his chief nemesis, President Trump.

We posted earlier about this coordinated event with more than 300 newspaper editors across the country to run editorials in the Sunday paper bashing the president because he says mean things about them.

Looks like Colorado papers are running all theirs online Thursday, and Bennet’s office was right there trolling behind them to push that Republican-bashing message into his social media echo chamber.

They posted 10 tweets in just three hours.

“The role journalism plays in our free society is too crucial to allow this degradation to continue. We aren’t the enemy of the people. We are the people. We aren’t fake news. We are your news & we struggle night/day to get the facts right.” @DurangoHerald https://t.co/bWNcg2iFMh

— Michael Bennet (@SenBennetCO) August 16, 2018

The Colorado participating newspapers in the bashathon include:

Denver Post
Boulder Daily Camera
Aurora Sentinel
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Durango Herald
Pueblo Chieftain
Colorado Springs Gazette, wait, what?

We’ll give them all read, so you don’t have to, and we’ll pass on any gems of wisdom, if any of the editorial writers actually stumble upon one.

We seriously doubt Bennet read a single one of them. His press secretary was either sucking up to her sources, or congressional Democrats are coordinating their own effort to use all these editorials for their political advantage.

The Denver Post and 300 newspapers across America are coordinating efforts to prove once and for all they don’t like Republicans.

Their admissions are scheduled for the Sunday editorial pages in which they all, united in one giant biased voice, will criticize Republican President Donald Trump for calling them out and saying mean things about them.

Perhaps the writers missed that day in their journalism law and ethics class, but we believe the term we are looking for, is malicious intent.

And where were these coordinated editorials when the Obama administration was tapping the phones of AP reporters in the U.S. Capitol? Demanding reporters reveal sources or go to jail?

Swearing at reporters? Seizing their notes? Raiding reporter’s homes?

There was no collective outrage, because Obama is a Democrat, just like them.

This weekend’s editorialpalooza is being organized by Marjorie Pritchard, who oversees the editorial page of the Boston Globe, the gold standard of journalism.

By the way, that gold was tarnished, along with the shine on their Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who was recently suspended after the paper finally admitted he made up a bunch of stuff when he wrote about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in which three people were killed.

He had an interesting excuse. He says he was drunk when he reported the story. He was suspended for three months.

But we digress.

According to Pritchard: ‘‘I hope it would educate readers to realize that an attack on the First Amendment is unacceptable,’’ she said. ‘‘We are a free and independent press, it is one of the most sacred principles enshrined in the Constitution.’’

Interesting, but we’re going to go with free speech over freedom of the press as the most sacred principle enshrined in the First Amendment.

Journalists should take note of that, and remember they’re not the only ones free to speak their minds. Presidents, Republicans and conservatives have right, as well.

And without free speech, what a free press had to say wouldn’t even matter.

Is there any question that Jack Phillips, infamous owner of Masterpiece Bakery in Lakewood, is being targeted? Phillips, if you have been hiding under a rock for the past two years, was sued by the state of Colorado because he would not bake a cake for a same-sex wedding ceremony because it conflicted with his religious beliefs. Note – Phillips did offer to sell the intendeds anything else in the bakery.

The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission infringed upon his right to free exercise of religion by demonstrating overt religious animus against him. On the same day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips, Autumn Scardina requested a cake to celebrate the transition of someone (her?) who is transgendered. Obviously, Phillips also said no to her as well.

The National Review piece on Scardina’s harassment of Phillips – not only requesting cakes celebrating transgender transitions, but also celebrating Satan and other weird crap – shows that Scardina is pretty nuts and, frankly, gross. Nobody wants a sex toy on a cake. Nobody. It just seems unsanitary. Now, you’re going to read the article, aren’t you?

According to Google Maps, Denver literally has hundreds of bakeries. Pick a different one.  A Fox31 report quoted part of Phillips’ defence team, Alliance Defending Freedom senior vice president of U.S. Legal Division, Kristen Waggoner on the issue:

“Even though Jack serves all customers and simply declines to create custom cakes that express messages or celebrate events in violation of his deeply held beliefs, the government is intent on destroying him — something the Supreme Court has already told it not to do.

“Neither Jack nor any other creative professionals should be targeted by the government for living consistently with their religious beliefs.”

Phillips should be permitted to have his religious beliefs and keep his business. In response to the harassment from the state, Phillips has sued the state. One can hardly blame him. LGBTQ advocates are overplaying their hand by continuing to target Phillips.

Last night, Democrat Attorney General candidate Phil Weiser’s campaign sent a tweet, ostensibly “outing” a young conservative political operative who tracks Weiser’s events, as if this is something that Democrat candidates don’t employ in equal measure:

What followed was, plain and simply, mortifying. The replies section quickly filled up with various posts from liberal activists, cruelly fat-shaming the young man.

Unfathomably, Weiser’s campaign jumped into the replies and piled on. The campaign would later delete the Tweets, but, you know, screenshots live forever:

It is hard to put into words how vicious and terrible one has to be, from the comfort of his or her keyboard, to attack any young person over their appearance. This really shouldn’t be a partisan issue (looking at you, ProgressNow Colorado). For an official campaign account to do so, from a guy who is running to be the CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF THE STATE, is unconscionable.

Weiser’s campaign would later tweet an apology “to anyone who was offended for our earlier tweets.”

Don’t apologize to us. Apologize to the young man you abused. Be better human beings. Politics ain’t beanbag, but bullying is unacceptable. Thousands of young people commit suicide every year due to bullying and cyber-bullying.

The Attorney General’s office handles cases involving bullying and cyber-bullying, and runs an organization, Safe2Tell, that protects young people from harm.

Phil Weiser has disqualified himself from ever touching this critical component of the office he seeks.

As an aside, if a Republican campaign ever did this to a young Democrat operative, it would (rightly) be front-page news in every media outlet in America. For the betterment of society, we encourage the media to apply the same standard to our liberal friends today.

9News conducted a “truth test” on the RadiCalifornia ad paid for by the Republican Governor’s Association, but got a little off track and kind of smashed their whole premise into the side of a mountain.

The ad illustrates Polis’s support for single-payer health care, but the truth test criticizes it for comparing what Polis supported in Congress by citing it as an example of something Polis actually believes in.

Then they went down the rabbit hole questioning whether this is a congressional or gubernatorial campaign.

That’s the crazy thing about a candidate’s record, it’s actually examined in campaigns. And as a congressman for nearly a decade, Polis’s record is fair game.

This truth test was all over the board, picking on small citations it claims are just opinion — like single payer health care is a “radical ideas” or “crazy regulations.”

Do you hear that politicians? Keep your opinions out of your campaign ads. No one cares what you actually think.

But we busted a gut laughing over the examination of the ad’s claim that single payer health care would double an individual’s taxes.

CLAIM: And would more than double what you pay in federal income taxes each year.

VERDICT: False.

And why is it false? Because the study they reference says doubling taxes IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY to cover the costs!

There’s a lot more we could quibble with, like their statement the cost study was done on the Senate bill version, which Polis supported, and is actually called a “companion bill” for a reason. The result is the same.

Campaign ad truth tests should be used for blatant and sneaky whoppers, not based on the opinions of journalists.

According to an article by Colorado Politics, the proponents of Initiative 97, the 2,500-foot oil and gas development setback initiative that would kill the oil and gas industry. claimed to have the backing of the Catholic Archdiocese of Denver.

There is just one problem. The Archdiocese has no idea what the radical frativists are talking about.

Lying about the endorsement of the Catholic Church has to carry some seriously bad juju (or as Catholics would say 1,129 years in purgatory). Plus, with all the horrific scandals in Pennsylvania with the Catholic Church, is that truly a sought-after endorsement? [Says three Hail Marys and one Our Father in penance.]

Dan Haley, CEO of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, obviously, agreed with our position:

“Coloradans can’t trust this group. You don’t have to be a person of faith to know that lying about the Catholic Church is a bad idea.”

If Coloradans can’t trust Rising Colorado (the initiative backers) to be honest about whether a church supports them, on what issues can voters trust Initiative 97 folks?

Stand back everybody!

Jared Polis is digging himself into a giant hole, which looks like it’s about to cave in on him.
The Democrat running for governor of Boulder Colorado called the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction Monday to try and weasel his way out of the bashing he is deservedly getting for skipping the Club 20 debate.

Their story ran today, so we’re not sure if Polis’s phone call came before, or after, we posted this.

Polis played several different cards hoping the left-leaning paper would side with him, and they did on the most important point — they didn’t press him on the actual reason he won’t attend.

All that Polis allowed in the interview is that he has a “scheduling conflict.” The Sentinel went on to cite the “campaign” as describing it “as a personal family matter.”

Unless someone in his family has scheduled themself to die that far in advance, we don’t accept this as a valid reason for skipping out on the campaign so close to the election. It’s a weaselly excuse.

Polis went on to say he wouldn’t want to attend anyway, because the Club 20 event charges $25.
And, he goes to the Western Slope all the time. However, we doubt he gets any further than his own congressional district in Vail.

Memo to Polis: Visiting with your environmentalist buddies isn’t the same as answering tough questions in a debate format with your opponent on issues that are of historical importance to the Western Slope.

Polis tried to score points by insinuating the only complaints about his skipping the debate come from Front Range elitists, yet that’s where every single one of his debates are scheduled, except for one hosted by the Daily Sentinel.

No wonder they gave him a pass.

With Gary Harmon now retired from the paper, we fear the only questions Polis will be asked at the Sentinel debate are the ones his friends in the teacher unions, Big Green, and other Boulder activists will be interested in hearing.

Polis is proving with his own words and actions that he has no intention of representing the entire state of Colorado.

Only those who share the same Boulder-world view will get an audience with the king if he’s successful in buying the governor’s mansion.