DSCC Hammers Buck, Hill For Shutdown Support

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by: Colorado Pols

GOP Senate candidates Ken Buck and Owen Hill.

Perhaps in response to yesterday's ridiculous Denver Post story, attempting to characterize Colorado GOP Senate candidates as "outsiders" during the government shutdown controversy, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee renews the attack on Ken Buck and Owen Hill for their undeniable and explicit support of the Ted Cruz-led plot to coerce "Obamacare" into submission:

Owen Hill and Ken Buck should be ashamed of recklessly and irresponsibly supporting a continuation of the government shutdown. For more than two weeks, Hill and Buck continued to embrace the extreme Washington Republican position on the shutdown that hurt Colorado’s economy, wasted taxpayer dollars. and had devastating effects for hard-working families across the state. Hill and Buck could have advocated for ending the shutdown weeks ago, but chose to put their reckless partisanship ahead of what was best for Colorado by supporting holding the government and the economy hostage and putting the full faith and credit of the United States at risk.

Owen and Hill’s recklessness and irresponsibility forecasts major problems for each of them in 2014. While Buck and Hill aligned themselves with extreme Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz, Mark Udall worked to end the shutdown.

Owen Hill and Ken Buck’s government shutdown cost the economy at least $24 billion dollars and shaved 0.6% off the nation’s economic growth. Voters will not reward the recklessness and irresponsibility Hill and Buck demonstrated in refusing to abandon their support for the government shutdown.

“For more than two weeks, Owen Hill and Ken Buck shamefully supported continuing the government shutdown that hurt Colorado’s economy and their recklessness and irresponsibility has no place in elected office let alone the U.S. Senate, said Justin Barasky, as spokesman at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, “Buck and Hill had countless opportunities to advocate for an end the reckless and irresponsible government shutdown but instead they repeatedly cheered on fellow Tea Partiers and failed to do the right thing for Colorado by putting partisanship ahead of what’s best for their state and the country. In 2014, Coloradans will remember that Hill and Buck had no interest in fighting for them.”

Throughout the shutdown, poll after poll showed that Americans blame the GOP. An NBC/WSJ poll last week showed the Republican party with a record low 24% approval rating. 70% of Americans said Republicans were putting their own politics before the good of the country during the shutdown debate.

This is one press release worth clicking through to read the supporting documentation. Both Buck and Hill signed the pledge backing Cruz in his strategy to force the defunding of the Affordable Care Act. During the crisis, Buck's campaign repeatedly engaged on social media using the #StandWithCruz hashtag. Hill says he is "all for" the campaign against Obamacare, and likewise signed the Senate Conservatives Fund pledge to support Cruz and the hard-right faction in Congress that instigated the shutdown.

Knowing that, now you can do a better job informing your friends than the state's newspaper of record.

10 thoughts on “DSCC Hammers Buck, Hill For Shutdown Support”

JeffcoBlue says:

October 17, 2013 at 3:37 pm

I saw your "ATTN: Kurtis Lee" Tweet, Guvs. Thanks for stepping up!

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DavidThi808 says:

October 17, 2013 at 3:37 pm

Bad idea to send this out. Very bad. You want one of these two winning as they have zero chance against Udall. Stephens actually has a chance. Not much of one, but a chance.

Leave Buck & Hill alone, or even hlp them during the primary.

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1. Miss Jane says:
  
  October 17, 2013 at 3:56 pm
  
  Perhaps having the DSCC attack these guys will energize the crazy tea party primary voters to support them. They certainly won't be fond of Miss Amy and Amycare. We live in interesting times.
  
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  1. n3b says:
    
    October 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm
    
    Amy has zero chance of winning the primary. Her candidacy is a joke to conservatives, especially now that Amycare is a disaster like all of Obamacare.
    
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    1. roccoprahn says:
      
      October 17, 2013 at 7:37 pm
      
      It's posts like yours above that clearly illustrate your "side" has absolutely clue where you're at, where you're going, what you're doing, or even what's the temperature in the room.
      
      You people are unbelievable. Angry, powerless, resentfull, absolutely blinded by your hatred.
      
      Amy Stephens is a perfect example of why the republican party can't win National elections any more. She's a "bad" candidate" to the extreme right because other than her disappointing anti choice position, she's actually not all that crazy. Her seeming willingness to reach out to her opponents is seen as a weakness to the current republicans. How can not being bachman/goehmert/cruz/stockman/lee crazy be a BAD thing?
      
      The "litmus test" to garner a republican nomination now includes so many disqualifiers that only extremist hacks like buck and hill, idiots that actually rooted for the Federal Government to default, would deny access to health care for reasons they can't or won't articulate, think a "balanced budget" superceeds the nations' desperate need for growth, revenue, and jobs, and a slew of other moronic, discredited "conservative "memes".
      
      As for you and all teabaggers, n3b,you might consider the President's advice this morning. Get a sane position. Articulate it. Win an election, then implement your ideas. "Regular order", ever hear that?
      
      The win an election part ain't gonna come easy if you stay this pissed off and crazy.
      
      It sure would beat the whining, moaning, and sore loser snivelling you and your ilk are reduced to at the present.
      
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    2. Duke Cox says:
      
      October 17, 2013 at 11:05 pm
      
      like "all" of Obamacare…? um…what is with the specifier? Is there some rumor that "part" of Obamacare might not be the disaster you hoped it would?
      
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    3. langelomisterioso says:
      
      October 18, 2013 at 7:10 am
      
      N3bbish-Conservatives especially those like yourself are already a joke. Why do I suspect your IQ is no higher than the caliber of the gun you're supposedly holding in your av image. That would be really typical for gunsucks.
      
      You know,as far as I can tell the best way for cons to have combatted any form of healthcare would have been for cons to come up with a competing plan oftheir own,but you never did that. I' still would like to try your current insurance gainst my ex-Ranger friend disarming you.
      
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Duke Cox says:

October 17, 2013 at 10:30 pm

I think it is fair to routinely use the word "sedition" when referring to Cruz and Co.

Think "Free Market Experiment"…think Chile…

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1. langelomisterioso says:
  
  October 18, 2013 at 7:15 am
  
  I'm still trying to figure out why cons always whenever one of their crazy schemes gets hammered automatically think it was because they weren't crazy enough. I don't believe there's enough oxygen in that bubble.
  
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  1. Duke Cox says:
    
    October 18, 2013 at 7:31 am
    
    It is because they can't admit they are wrong and they don't know how to share power.
    
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