Looking back on Colorado politics throughout 2022 … well, we’d rather not.
Instead of the standard, year-in-review fare being offered by every other online publication, here’s what conservatives can look forward to in the New Year with Republicans leading the charge in the U.S. House.
Investigations! Investigations! Investigations!
Every big news story coming out of Washington will have a gate at the end of it — Huntergate, Chinagate, Faucigate, Bordergate, Fentanylgate, Energygate — the list of desperately needed oversight after just two years of Democrat rule is endless.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Democrats’ unchecked one-party rule over the past two years has resulted in multiple crises abroad and at home. Americans have made clear they want accountability in Washington, and Republicans are ready to deliver.
Governmental transparency also suffered, abetting these disastrous policies. Under Democratic control, the House Oversight Committee targeted American industry instead of fulfilling its primary job of providing Americans governmental transparency. Democrats’ inordinate focus on things like climate pledges made by U.S. oil and gas companies shielded the administration from meaningful oversight—as is made evident by the F grade the Oversight Committee received from the nonpartisan Lugar Center.
That will change in January when the GOP assumes its House majority. In the new Congress, Republicans will return the committee to its proper role: rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in the federal government. Committee members will conduct credible oversight, identify problems, and propose reforms.
We just don’t see how the Democrat-controlled legislature in Colorado can come close to delivering so much good will or oversight as its federal counterpart.
And considering how Democrats operated this year, we hope they don’t even try.
