DEGETTE’S LEADERSHIP RACE: Campaign is Sugar-Coated Nastiness

Poor Diana DeGette, we can’t get enough of her sad, yet determined bid for the U.S. House whip race. It’s doomed, we’re told by everyone, but bless her heart for throwing everything she has at the race, including, uhm, candy. As Congress reconvenes today, I’m...

DEMOCRAT DEBACLE: Beltway Intra-Party Struggle Screws Colorado

U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and Congressman-elect Jason Crow have gotten themselves, and the constituents they represent, into a political jam. Both promised not to vote for Nancy Pelosi to control the U.S. House as speaker — it was a huge issue in Crow’s campaign — but...

OUT FOR BLOOD: Democrats Planning Scorched Earth Session

For the last four years, the Colorado State Senate, with its one-seat Republican majority, has acted as a backstop against radical Democrat proposals that passed through the lower chamber, many of which would have been signed by Governor Hickenlooper.  Starting in...