Lefty Cara DeGette at Colorado Confidential needs to read more carefully. Her recent diary on GOP State Chair Dick Wadhams' recent visit to Montana painfully stretches to draw a contrast between his remarks to a Republican group in Big Sky Country with those quoted Monday in the Denver Post. To make her "gotcha" point, she conflates two issues. In both venues, Wadhams made confident predictions for the Republican candidate to win Colorado's electoral votes and for Bob Schaffer to win Colorado's U.S. Senate race. The pessimism highlighted by the Post's Karen Crummy was that the GOP didn't expect to take back the Colorado state legislature until 2010, a topic he didn't address to the Montana audience. No hard feelings, just a quick … [Read more...]
Stop the Fairness Doctrine
In case you've missed it, please take a minute to sign the National Republican Senatorial Committee's petition to stop the proposed censorship of restoring the Fairness Doctrine. This is an issue of free speech that should garner support from Left and Right. Also, bookmark N.Z. Bear's Fairness Doctrine Watch for the latest on the topic. Just doing my two cents' worth to stand up for the First Amendment on this issue. … [Read more...]
More Americans Taking Notice of Military Progress in Iraq
This week alone from Iraq, we see strong evidences of success in our fight against al-Qaeda (Sunni) and against the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army (Shi'a). Both developments provide encouraging news in our slow upward climb to victory. Also encouraging is that our fellow countrymen may be beginning to take notice. Results of respected national polls taken before this week's developments already show some noteworthy changes in American public opinion concerning Iraq. Far from the Left's loudly-touted "mandate" to the new Democratic Congress to get our troops out of there right now, only 20 percent of Americans favor this approach. Fifty-four percent believe immediate withdrawal would leave Iraq in worse shape, and 71 percent recognize that it … [Read more...]
Blogger Eyes on Washington: Moving Forward on Immigration
All eyes are on Washington this morning and the second cloture vote that seems increasingly likely to kill the bad "comprehensive immigration reform" bill. If Senators of both parties would listen to the mainstream people of this country from across the political spectrum, it seems they would hear this simple message: Give clear evidence that border security is being addressed as a top priority, and then we can debate other issues - how to deal with the illegal aliens already here, expanding the guest worker program, et al. The large majority of Americans who oppose the bill are not nativists or racists and don't wish to be patronized by elected officials - be they Democrat or Republican (that includes you, Sen. Lindsay Graham). The … [Read more...]
Give Petraeus a Chance
I share the heaviness of Jim's heart and El Presidente's disgust at Colorado's band of Surrendercrats. Short-sighted political pandering from both parties - but most especially the Democratic leadership in Congress - ignores the military realities of Iraq, and the promising success of Gen. Petraeus' "surge" strategy, which has been in full effect for scarcely a month. We need to move past our feelings about the current administration (mine aren't too positive) and recriminations about the earlier halfhearted war policy and the mismanagement that put us at a disadvantage. Stop the blame game, and let's get to victory first. And whatever we do as a nation, it's infuriating to see some of our leaders try to pull out the rug just as we're … [Read more...]
Selective Phony Outrage of Colorado’s Left: Part CXXVII
The highly-paid propaganda organs of Colorado's Left make a living off incidents of phony selective outrage, such as the one repeated yesterday against Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer at one of their mouthpieces. Today's Denver Post clears up the matter pretty decisively, however. First, they picked the wrong subject to attack him on. Schaffer's personal integrity and principled stance on issues of parental choice and educational freedom are well-established. Further diminishing the credibility of those who attack him, they are firmly aligned with the status quo forces of the teachers union: Schaffer said there is no connection between his vote to support the charter school and Brennan's contribution. "I … [Read more...]
Who Should Replace Allard?
Please note the change in appearance on my site: I'd appreciate your vote in the straw poll to your right. Who do you think is the Republicans' best choice to run for U.S. Senate here in Colorado in 2008? And it's one vote per person (this is a Republican straw poll, after all). Your input is greatly appreciated. Update: Where's the poll, you may ask? Yes, I notice it's not there. Blame Blogpoll for its sudden disappearance. That's what you get for having a poll hosted outside your site. I hope it's just a brief technical glitch that will quickly be fixed, but if not, well, it was fun while it lasted. If the poll is there, please disregard the previous paragraph (obviously). … [Read more...]
Intra-Party Fights for Colorado Democrats Heat Up
The Democrat Party's intramural squabbles are intensifying, and Colorado is ground zero for the shakedown. The Denver Post reports this morning that the Teamsters' James Hoffa, Jr., confronted Governor Bill Ritter yesterday with the threat that the party's convention scheduled for Denver next year could "blow up" if Ritter doesn't kowtow to the Big Labor agenda. Still a bit angry about the governor's veto of House Bill 1072, don't you think? The response from Ritter's office? The governor has said he made the decision in order to advance a broader agenda. He declined an interview Monday on his encounter with Hoffa. But his staff pointed to Ritter's recent restoration of a voluntary payroll deduction for state workers that … [Read more...]
“You touch my grandchildren, and I get really angry”
Yesterday at an Independence Institute women's luncheon, State Sen. Nancy Spence told the crowd (including my wife and several other Institute colleagues) the latest on the investigation re the threatening email she received in April: A state lawmaker who received an e-mail containing a threat to her grandchildren said Tuesday it was sent from a computer at a metro-area hotel. Agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation reviewed the hotel's security tape but couldn't determine the e-mail's author, said Sen. Nancy Spence, R-Centennial. The security tape had been improperly inserted, Spence said Tuesday at a political luncheon. She has vowed to press charges if authorities catch the culprit, who was upset over an education … [Read more...]
Fred Thompson on Unions and Ask First Policy
Spot-on commentary from the GOP's Presidential un-candidate Fred Thompson about union dues and the need for Ask First, the Supreme Court ruling in the Davenport case (hear more at iVoices), and the poorly-named Employee Free Choice Act. You can read Sen. Thompson's post, listen to his podcast, or both - just go here. … [Read more...]
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