Opening day in the Upper Chamber was its normal snooze-fest. No funny jokes. No compelling speeches. No fisticuffs between Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp and President Brandon Shaffer. Just Senator Nancy Spence and newly-christened Senator Jean White at their affable best, while a bunch of other Senators you'd rather not hang out with blandly milled around.
President Shaffer earned big points for getting the ball rolling on a bipartisan redistricting plan, but he instinctively U-turned back to his more partisan inclinations in the days before session. Shaffer told the Statesman in their pre-session publication that a recovering economy would be a boon to the Democrats, and not Republicans.
Earth to President Shaffer: your party has been in control of everything in Colorado for four years and in control of the national government for the last two. Go back and read everyone's speeches from yesterday. The economy has never been worse.
If the economy turns around in the months after Democrats were thrown out of the State House and the U.S. House, the same election where Democrats lost seats in the State Senate and the U.S. Senate, my guess is that it isn't Barack Obama and Brandon Shaffer who get the credit.
But nice try. . .
You let us down. If you wanted to fix the economy, you should have taken care of it in the last 4 years when you had the chance. Too bad you’d rather tax, I mean “fee,” us to death.
Sincerely,
The Public.
Don’t forget who was in charge before Democrats were. History goes back further than just the past 4 years. Republicans would do well do realize that the past election wasn’t an endorsement of their party, but just one more desperate attempt on behalf of Coloradans.
Haha. This is great. Seriously, where has BS (Brandon Schaffer) been for the last four years as the Demorats have driven Colorado into the ground. Did he miss the Ritter recession, or perhaps he was too busy running for Congress to pay attention. Go get ’em BS!
isn’t governor anymore!! When will you repubs realize that and move on?
HickenRitter is. Such a huuuuge difference. How could I forget?
I am so sick of all you Repugs trying to hide behind 2 second sound bites and take a look at where Democrats have led us in the past 6 years, we are ahead of the economic recovery curbe, ahead in energy production, and ahead in the new energy economy. Credit will only come to those who take the credit where it is due: in the lap of progressive Democrats!