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NANNY STATE: House Democrats Push More Children into Programs That Don’t Work
At a cost of more than $11 million per year, Democrats in the Colorado House of Representatives want to increase the number of preschoolers enrolled in government schools. Free preschool? Who doesn't love that? It turns out the devil is in the details. HB 1024,...
WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ AUDIT: Will Democrats Kill Bill Today?
House Democrats today are set to take up the health exchange audit bill, which is fancy political speak, for kill it with the passion of a thousand white-hot suns by stabbing it repeatedly through the heart. Then shooting it in the head. Democrats have no use for...
BIPARTISANSHIP: Seriously, Both Sides are Working Together for VA Facility
The entire Colorado delegation is working together to bring the Aurora VA hospital construction mess to Washington’s attention in order to find a financial fix. It’s a nice change, isn’t it, working together? We probably won’t even mock it. The first letter from U.S....
PARTY CRASHERS: Anti-Keystone Protesters Rain on Bennet’s Parade
A crew of protesters from 350 Action spoiled the kick off for Michael Bennet's 2016 Senate campaign by standing outside the entrance to the event and threatening to find someone who supported their values to run. See for yourself: From the Denver Post coverage of the...
PeakFeed: Hick’s Name Floated for President, Serious Politicos Try Not to Laugh
Walter Issacson, president and CEO of the non-partisan Aspen Institute, an educational and policy organization based in D.C., dropped Gov. John Hickenlooper’s name on Morning Joe today as a potential 2016 presidential contender. We tried not to laugh, especially since...
LAST SHOT: Senate Bill to Claw Back 2013 MagBan in Senate Committee
UPDATE: The MagBan repeal passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 3-2 party line vote. According to Twitter, applause erupted upon passage. Coloradans shouldn't get too excited just yet - the Democratic leadership in the House has hinted that the bill will...
VISIONARY: New Poll on Daylight Savings Proves Former Sen. Brophy had it Right
For years, Colorado politicos have referred to daylight savings as “Greg Brophy Day” in honor of the former state lawmaker who famously ran a bill to keep daylight savings year round. It turns out, he was a head of the curve on this one. As The Denver Post reports, a...
FRACTIVISTS UNITE! Lachelt’s Not-So-Subtle Call for Action
Gwen Lachelt issued a pissy little email this morning to her colleagues on Hickenlooper’s oil and gas task force that amounted to a back-handed call for fractivists to rise up and accomplish what she couldn’t – a ban on the energy development. Lachelt began by...
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW: Where Does Bennet Stand on Clinton Email Scandal?
Democrats have been running in horror from the Hillary Clinton email scandal - see example U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. Today's Denver Post editorial skewered Clinton on her handling of this scandal: "It's not just the private e-mail account that's so disturbing. Or that...
PEAKFEED: Cats with Hulahoops? Seriously?
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette can’t be bothered with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech this week. But this, THIS demands the attention of a member of Congress. Today, in 1963, the #HulaHoop was patented- 52 years later even Internet #cats can’t get enough...
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