Dozens of former U.S. Senators, including four from Colorado, are urging their colleagues to set aside partisan politics and stay focused on governing and keeping the nation secure.

That’s what the upper chamber is for, keeping the affairs of state civil and on a slow, steady course, while their colleagues in the House bicker and fight, pass legislation willy nilly, and scream for resignations and even impeachment when they disagree with someone.

So why the letter now?

The advice is solid, but obviously missing is the word “impeachment.”

It’s no secret House Democrats, especially those newly elected ones, are spoiling for a fight with President Trump. Many probably believe that’s why they were elected in the first place.

If one were of a partisan mind (present!) one might suspect the letter signed by 32 Democrats, 10 Republicans and two independents, it would be nudging in favor of impeachment.

But we read it quite the opposite. Plus, the signatories, with a few exceptions, are noted for their statesmanship leadership, rather than partisan rancor.

That most were Democrats, presumably speaking to fellow Democrats, we see the letter as more of a warning against rash actions. Like impeachment. House Republicans successfully impeached President Clinton, and ended up energizing Democrats to throw them out of office.

What we read between the lines is a cautious warning against jumping on the partisan bandwagon to impeach Trump.

Here’s the entire letter. Judge for yourself.

Dear Senate colleagues,

As former members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans, it is our shared view that we are entering a dangerous period, and we feel an obligation to speak up about serious challenges to the rule of law, the Constitution, our governing institutions and our national security.
We are on the eve of the conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation and the House’s commencement of investigations of the president and his administration. The likely convergence of these two events will occur at a time when simmering regional conflicts and global power confrontations continue to threaten our security, economy and geopolitical stability.
It is a time, like other critical junctures in our history, when our nation must engage at every level with strategic precision and the hand of both the president and the Senate.
We are at an inflection point in which the foundational principles of our democracy and our national security interests are at stake, and the rule of law and the ability of our institutions to function freely and independently must be upheld.
During our service in the Senate, at times we were allies and at other times opponents, but never enemies. We all took an oath swearing allegiance to the Constitution. Whatever united or divided us, we did not veer from our unwavering and shared commitment to placing our country, democracy and national interest above all else.
At other critical moments in our history, when constitutional crises have threatened our foundations, it has been the Senate that has stood in defense of our democracy. Today is once again such a time.
Regardless of party affiliation, ideological leanings or geography, as former members of this great body, we urge current and future senators to be steadfast and zealous guardians of our democracy by ensuring that partisanship or self-interest not replace national interest.
Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Richard Bryan (D-Nev.), Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.), Max Cleland (D-Ga.), William Cohen (R-Maine), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Al D’Amato (R-N.Y.), John C. Danforth (R-Mo.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Dennis DeConcini (D-Ariz.), Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), David Durenberger (R-Minn.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Wyche Fowler (D-Ga.), Bob Graham (D-Fla.), Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Gary Hart (D-Colo.), Bennett Johnston (D-La.), Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), David Pryor (D-Ark.), Don Riegle (D-Mich.), Chuck Robb (D-Va.), Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Jim Sasser (D-Tenn.), Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), John W. Warner (R-Va.), Lowell Weicker (I-Conn.), Tim Wirth (D-Colo.)

Should Gov. Hickenlooper be disqualified from running for president because he’s white?

CNN seems to think so, and put the question to Gov. White Boy in a recent interview.

“You know the debate that the Democratic Party is having right now. Is it time to have somebody of color and a woman and somebody younger, or somebody more establishment?”

CNN host Alisyn Camerota apparently forgot the Democratic Party had “somebody of color” who served two terms as president, and in the last election the party selected a female nominee.

The question itself would get any human resources director fired in a heartbeat, yet it seemed perfectly acceptable to Hick that he should be asked such a question, and worse yet, he didn’t know the answer.

“I’m not sure it’s clear what is exactly needed. But I do know there are a lot of strong options, and that list shows the strength of the Democratic Party. They’re people from all walks of life.”

We’re surprised he didn’t go to the Elizabeth Warren line of defense or declare  that he did not identify with white people.

The correct answer, for future reference, is that it does not matter the color, gender or age of a president, it only matters they serve the interests of all Americans.

We are not one nation divided among a subset of colors and parts and pieces, we are human beings.

Democrats have no one to blame but themselves for pursing identity politics to grow their base, rather than promoting an ideology of commerce, national security, law and order, protecting the poor and pursing the American dream.

Now, Democrats think only illegal immigrants are allowed to be dreamers, but only if they’re not white.

The newly hired communications director at the Denver Sheriff’s office has newly resigned after a backlash from deputies who didn’t care for her social media posts they say were racist.

But wait, there’s more.

Bethany Frisbie Candelaria made the statements against white people, of which she might actually be one.

She also made nasty remarks about Christians, hates Americans, and President Trump.

White people are honkeys, whom she likes to offend because it’s so easy, like telling America to go f#ck itself, she explains on her Facebook page that has now disappeared.

And Jesus, he was some dude who pulled off a prank more than 2,000 years ago so Easter should be celebrated on April Fool’s Day, she writes.

We understand why the sheriff’s office hired her — she can clearly communicate her position.

Officials there now say her Facebook page was private and just recently learned of the offending remarks, but will take “swift action.”

Since she has “resigned,” we’re guessing they communicated to her the sheriff’s office has a duty to uphold the law for Americans, many of whom may be white, or Christian, and that her hatred has no place in a law enforcement agency.

This is what we call a teachable moment for those who traffic in hatred against race, religion, nationality or political beliefs.

It goes both ways.

Now that U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter has kept his pledge to vote against Nancy Pelosi for speaker in the party caucus, he’s trying to weasel out of that commitment.

Perlmutter is trying to cut a deal for his vote when Congress convenes in January, and the entire House, now with a Democratic majority, votes on the leadership.

He’s not asking for an outright bribe, but a quid pro quo — Perlmutter will vote for Nancy when it really counts, if Nancy agrees to term limits and an action described by Colorado Public Radio as a “pipeline for new leadership in the House.”

Jumping to the obvious conclusion, we believe this to mean that Pelosi should only serve one term, then step aside so leaders can move up the chain and open the whip position for a new person.

Perhaps it would be Diana DeGette, who so coveted that rank but had to abandon her campaign after accusations of racism from her opponent.

Stay tuned.

Everyone knows that Rep-elect Rochelle Galindo isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, nor the most stable, ahem, mentally. On November 6, Galindo posted on Facebook a video of her walking a group of her interns into the University of Northern Colorado voting center, urges them to stay in line if they’re still in line at 7 p.m., and told people to vote for her, according to Complete Colorado.

There are a few problems with her actions. First and foremost, she was electioneering within 100 feet of a polling location. She was actually INSIDE a polling location. Second, an election judge told her to knock it off and she continued anyway, which may or may not be illegal, but it’s certainly rude and disruptive.

Naturally, the Colorado Republican Party filed not just a complaint, but a criminal complaint, against Galindo. The complaint is now in the Weld County District Attorney’s hands. If convicted, Galindo could face up to $1,000 penalty and up to a year in jail.

According to Complete, this is not Galindo’s first run-in with the law. In 2015, Galindo spent leftover campaign funds to take a friend or special friend to Vegas for the weekend. Unfortunately, it would appear that her lawbreaking was not discovered before the statute of limitations expired.

This is just another example of how Democrats think that rules apply to you, PeakNation™, but not them. Everyone else must comply, except for Galindo. Exactly the person we want making laws. That’s sarcasm.

In case you missed Democrats’ House committee assignments earlier this week, we’re here to summarize it for you. They love social issues and hate commerce, which about sums up the ethos of the Democratic Party anyway. But we digress. One assignment in particular gave us pause.

It’s fairly unbelievable that Democrats would put Emily Sirota on any committee dealing with energy policy. Yet, here we are. Emily Sirota is officially part of the Energy and Environment Committee per the House Dems press release.

Who cares though, right? She’s a Democrat, and all Democrats are probably of the same mindset, right? Wrong. Emily Sirota has a virulent dislike of the oil and gas industry. Take her reaction to the failure of Proposition 112. It wasn’t anything remotely like Democratic Speaker KC Becker, who basically said, “The people have spoken.”

Here’s a tweet from then:

826K of my fellow Coloradans — including a majority of Denver, which I will represent — voted for setbacks & did so in the face of $40M of oil/gas spending. The health/safety of Coloradans will be my priority & we won’t be intimidated by the oil/gas industry’s money. #copolitics https://t.co/yo0HAwMTql

— Emily Sirota (@EmilyForCO) November 7, 2018

And, really, we’re focusing on Sirota, but the composition of this Democratic legislature if far further left than any previously. These aren’t Ed Perlmutter Democrats. These are Bernie Sanders Democrats and it does not bode well for our state.

We suspect that Democratic State Chairwoman Morgan Carroll and her radical agenda is at play here. Buckle your seatbelts, PeakNation. This could be a bumpy legislative session for average Coloradans.

Attention citizens of the People’s Republic of Boulder: Only 20 days remain for the registration of all privately owned guns with the police state.

If you do not comply and an unregistered gun is found in your possession after Dec. 27, you will be forced to pay a $1,000 fine and face 90 days in jail for ignoring the trendy will of The People.

Gun owners must undergo a background check and pay a fee for their constitutional right to own a gun.
We bring you this friendly reminder, because only 85 people in all of Boulder have so far complied with the law passed by the city council in May.

If estimates of more than 100,000 guns in the city holds true, the city is looking at a major windfall of penalty cash to pay for a significant prison population explosion.

Or, a drain on the city coffers from all the lawsuits coming their way.

Stay tuned.

Gov.-elect Jared Polis laid the first concrete bricks against taxpayer money accountability Thursday in announcing Cary Kennedy as his senior advisor for fiscal policy.

Kennedy’s political record extends beyond her failed gubernatorial bid against Polis to her role as Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s deputy mayor and chief financial officer.

PeakNation™ will recall Kennedy was clueless about the $75,000 payout to Detective Leslie Branch-Wise for sexual harassment complaints against a mayor’s friend and fellow employee.

That’s right, the chief taxpayer money handler didn’t think it was her job to know how much, or how many harassment claims were paid out by the city.

She wasn’t even asked about it until she was running for governor. Her explanation seemed to be that she’s not accountable, because she didn’t know about it.

We expect this will also be how transparency works in the Polis administration.

They won’t be accountable for spending, because they won’t want to know about the spending, so they don’t have to be transparent about spending.

If sexual harassment is also covered up along the way, well, Democrats are getting quite adept at that little trick as well.

Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton was in Washington yesterday for the state funeral of his cousin, President George H.W. Bush.  Over the course of the past several days, it has become apparent that Stapleton had a much closer relationship with the former president than many had understood, and that certainly speaks to Stapleton’s humility and down-to-earth nature.

One of the main stories on FoxNews.com during the state funeral was an op/ed penned by Stapleton titled, “A Final Letter to my Uncle George.”  It talks about a letter written by the President to Stapleton’s parents on the day that he was born.  And he wrote about how 41 had the ability to make everyone around him “feel special and important.”

Pictures showed Stapleton as a child with the President, and even Walker’s own son were shown throughout.  In one story relayed by Stapleton, he recalls that, as a six-year old, the elder Bush invited him on a fishing trip – the day that he was named Ronald Reagan’s running mate.

Another picture showed Walker huddled with the senior Bush and baseball hall of famer Tommy Lasorda.  Stapleton’s father was part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team and his partner was George W. Bush.  Fun fact: our state treasurer was actually on the field for Nolan Ryan’s final no-hitter.

It is also apparent that Stapleton played tennis with George H.W. Bush, as Walker posted a picture on Twitter of the two of them after a match. Another fun fact: one of the two other players shown in that photo was John Newcombe, the three-time Wimbledon singles champion.

Stapleton also appeared as a commentator during a ten-minute segment on Fox News Channel just hours after the state funeral.  Stapleton said that the former president “would have loved every minute of that service,” and that “it was a beautiful service for a beautiful man.”  He also said that Bush “lived his life treating people the way he wanted to be treated himself.”

Stapleton last spoke to the President a couple weeks ago, and like the last words spoken by Bush before he died, the last words that he spoke to Walker were “I love you, too.”

Tonight, Democratic Sen. Dan Kagan announced that he was resigning from his seat, which encompasses Aurora, Foxfield, Greenwood Village, Englewood and Littleton – oh, and of course Cherry Hills Village. While Kagan gave no explicit reason for his departure, the Aurora Sentinel noted that he had been embroiled in controversy since last year over whether he inappropriately used the women’s bathroom at the state capitol after repeatedly being asked not to.

We’re guessing his reasoning goes something like this (note, this is not a direct quote from Kagan, but us hypothesizing about his rationale):

“I’m rich AF. I hate serving with my caucus at the State Capitol because they’re a bunch of idiots. I should be able to use whichever bathroom I want. Again, because I’m rich AF. I don’t need to put up with this bullsh!t. I’m going to enjoy my life.”

His resignation will take place January 11. A vacancy committee will appoint his replacement, which is thought to likely be Rep. Jeff Bridges, son of Rutt Bridges. Although, we could be surprised. Certainly, Democrats’ tendency to elect the most radical possibility has only intensified over the past two years. Stay tuned.