April 05, 2018 04:24 PM UTC

Caption This Photo of Sen. Kevin Lundberg Tripping Out

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Colorado Senate GOP is celebrating passage of this year’s budget in an almost schizophrenic way:

…but it’s taken quite some time to get to this point. Until 10:42 PM last night, we were debating over 80 amendments to the “Long Bill,” including over $600 million in new spending proposed by the Democrats.

— Colorado Senate GOP (@ColoSenGOP) April 5, 2018

Got that? $600 in “new spending proposed by the Democrats.” But then the very next two Tweets:

…and we added a few important #amendments as well:
$35M towards protecting our children (resource officers)
$400K for #suicideprevention
$20K for closed captioning on the @ColoradoChannel #COpolitics #AmendIt #LongBill2018

— Colorado Senate GOP (@ColoSenGOP) April 5, 2018

Because the debate was never about “new spending” by Democrats–there’s simply more money in the budget this year! Everybody who follows Colorado politics knows that, or at least should know that, so it makes you wonder who Senate Republicans think they’re kidding. It’s an old joke that in Washington, Republicans only care about deficits when a Democrat is President. In Colorado where we’re not allowed to run deficits, it appears the only good spending is GOP majority-approved spending.

Though to Sen. Kevin Lundberg, especially on whatever he’s smoking in the image above, we honestly believe that Democratic and Republican spending all looks the same.

Trippy, man.