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December 21, 2010 10:16 PM UTC

Lots of Eggs in the Lame-Duck Basket

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: Bill Martinez has been confirmed for the District Court bench in Colorado by the Senate, reports the Denver Business Journal, filling an 18-month old vacancy.

A flurry of activity at the end of the lame-duck session of Congress–KUNC reports:

Senator Mark Udall praised the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the military’s ban on gays serving openly in armed forces, but says it was part of a larger defense bill that’s still pending.

“It would increase pay for service members and it contains a provision I authored to allow military families to include adult children on their TriCare health insurance policies until the age of 26, just as civilian families can now do through the Affordable Care Act we passed this year,” says Udall.

The Colorado Democrat says he’d like to see that passed before the senate adjourns. And he will keep pushing for the passage of several public lands bills that would affect the state…

Sen. Mark Udall is also reportedly trying one last time to win confirmation in the Senate of Bill Martinez to the U.S. District Court, a nomination that, like many around the country, has been stymied by GOP holds and procedural stalling for almost two years–despite the fact that the vacancies on the federal court for Colorado are considered an emergency situation.

The Durango Herald reports on some of the specific priorities that the Colorado delegation is working on with local support as apart of the omnibus lands bill–a bill we’ve heard is unlikely to move at this point, meaning the list of protections for Colorado natural areas they had hoped to see passed will be left for incoming Rep. Scott Tipton and the new House majority.

Have we mentioned recently how “hopeful” Tipton’s new constituents are that he will do the right thing on forest protection in his district, or transportation funding, or any of the issues he’s telling people not to sweat in the wake of his triumphant “cut the government in half” campaign? The public lands protection that local governments around his district support is just one of a range of issues where Tipton has the choice of pleasing the stakeholders of CD-3, or the “Tea Party” ideologues who boosted him into office. Because he won’t be able to please both.

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27 thoughts on “Lots of Eggs in the Lame-Duck Basket

        1. So he’s your basic garden-variety racist who thinks anything the judiciary does to enforce obvious constitutional requirements of equality is “activism”

            1. Because you have no answer other than pouting “activist!” and then “bullshit!” Sorry to make you feel bad; go yell upstairs from the basement for mommy to get you a nice warm glass of milk, ok?

          1. There’s an interesting article out there pointing out that most of the delayed/obstructed Obama appointments to the Court system have been minorities.

            One of those who has been held up just got a confirmation vote of 92-0 the other day.  They guy’s appointment was held up for a year, and when the vote finally came, he had no objections against him.

  1. Democrats, living in their own little world as they always do, believe that:

    1. The majority of voters were either bamboozled or high when they elected a GOP majority.

    2. The majority of those voters are not totally disgusted by the Democrat last gasp in the lame duck session.

    3. Local governments lined up at the federal trough are representative of the voters who elected Tipton and the GOP majority.

    You are wrong on all three counts. I for one do not want these vindictive Democrats screwing anything else up on their way out the door. Let the new majority look at these public lands bills, and all the other spending, and decide what we need to keep.

      • Polls show that Republicans are less popular than Democrats, still.
      • Polls also show that people are frustrated at the lack of economic recovery and perception that Washington is ineffective (aka gridlocked).

      And you could then come to the conclusion that what the voters really wanted was some results out of the Federal District.

      You could also step back and remember that Republican Senators were able to block all of these bills prior to the election.  If they really wanted them to fail, they’d continue whipping their caucus in line and vote against cloture on all of them.

      The reality is, these bills were being blocked for election purposes only.  And they’re being released for the same reasons.  Republicans will own part of the operation of government come January 5, 2011; they wanted all of the controversial but popular stuff out of the way before they either had to defend their inaction or have their name associated to bills unpopular with the Tea Party base.

          1. My priority this month has been to supply a good Christmas to my family in a down economy. I am good for my debt to MADCO. I apologize for not having paid it yet and i will pay it very soon.

            Believe me, I don’t like you idiots being able to avoid perfectly good arguments by reminding me that i owe a new Colorado Pols FPE $50. He’ll get it.

            1. What’s the difference, except your ability to be honest? It’s only been a month since you promised you were paying up with a check sent off to Voyageur.

              But hey, happy holidays to you and yours.  

    1. From what I’ve heard, a solid majority of Americans actually support the repeal of DADT and the ratification of START. I don’t know about Republicans, but I’m pretty sure Democrats like living in a world that is safer and discriminates a little less against gays.  

          1. but still, ’tis the season and all . . .  I won’t begrudge anyone a Merry Christmas (and thinking of GOPers family now, it’s got to be hard enough on them just having to put up with him all year).

            So, GOPporter — I’m still downgrading you in rank until you’re square — my best wishes to you and to them.  I’ll hold all my fabulous rebuttals on account for now.  But, be warned, you dare not let another holiday celebration pass (and by my calendar the next one is in January — Martin Luther King, Jr. Day — not that you likely need to be reminded) before getting right with our new FPE.

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