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INTERVIEW WITH KEN BUCK: Today at 12:30 on Twitter. Follow #CPP to tune in.
Today at 12:30 we will be interviewing Ken Buck for the second segment of our new series "Checking In." Every so often we will be interviewing popular former candidates and elected officials, giving our readers a chance to get a glimpse into their thinking...
DUMPED AND DENIED: Ken Salazar’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
This week Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been rebuffed by Republicans and lambasted by liberals, leaving him with very little support on which to stand. It turns out that the Congressional budget compromise from last Friday, which extracted $38.5 billion in cuts...
COLLISION COURSE: Obama’s Big Spending Runs Smack Into A Deficit He Must Address
POLITICO has got a super good read up today about President Obama's political conundrum, replete with lots of White House spin about how a President who has jacked up the debt more than any man ever living (times two) is super concerned about mounting debt. When...
A CRYING SHAME: John Morse Gets Off on Per Diem Party Payments, Ethics Troubles Not Over
Our View: To paraphrase Michael Kinsley, the scandal in politics these days isn't what's illegal; it's what is legal. This morning the bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee voted to dismiss the ethics complaint against John Morse over his per diem payment...
UNFAIR PRIMARY: Dem Chair Palacio Points to Bitter Bennet/Romanoff Primary As Source of Party Rift
This morning on Colorado Public Radio (CPR) they were interviewing new Democrat Party State Chairman Rick Palacio, who had some interesting insights into the fractured Democrat Party in Colorado. Thanks to the reader who tipped us to this interview.In the interview,...
TRUMP TO SALAZAR: You’re Fired?
Readership here at the Peak has gone meteoric in a few short months. We won't gloat, not out loud at least. And there is more exciting news...by the looks of it today, it seems as if Donald Trump is one of our committed readers. That supposition...
ROMNEY IS IN: Announces Presidential Exploratory Committee Over Twitter
Former Massachusetts Governor and 2008 Presidential aspirant, Mitt Romney, announced this afternoon over Twitter he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee. In the Tweet Romney linked to a Youtube video (see after the jump) of his announcement, marking his...
SPLIT DECISION
Our View: Speaker John Boehner proved he had the chops to wage and win a public relations war with Obama, but the actual cuts the Republicans won were minuscule compared to the nation's hulking debt. The true test will be whether the GOP can use their new found...
QUOTE ME: Sal Pace’s Quixotic Quest to Block the Bipartisan Budget and Get His Name in the Paper
Sal "The Fist" Pace is at it again, trying to get his name and picture plastered all over what Speaker McNulty jokingly refers to as the "Sal Pace Newsletter," aka the Pueblo Chieftain.In Curtis Hubbard's great morning round-up of political news on local outlets...
BOY WONDER: Tim Pawlenty Hires 28 Year Old as Campaign Manager
Former Minnesota Governor and likely Presidential candidate, Tim Pawlenty, announced he had hired 28 year old Nick Ayers as the Campaign Manager of his Presidential exploratory committee.Ayers may just be the youngest Campaign Manager of a top tier Presidential...