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Lynn Bartels has a
whitewashstory about basically the same thing, except that it’s a “fringe element” that’s upset with McNulty and Stephens.Lynn, you know perfectly well that this “fringe element” has been a huge chunk of GOP politics for decades. They are brought out every election to fire up the nut vote. Then they put them back in the box as best they can.
If they’re suddenly “the fringe,” cool by me. But please don’t sweep under the rug how powerful they have historically been.
End of discussion.
She’s taking the people who won the election for Republicans last year and declaring them “the fringe” just like that. Either she’s trying to revise history, or the script has changed so much it would make Orwell blush.
“We’ve always been at war with the Tea Party.”
Yeah, right…
I know it is fun to demonize the whole Republican Party and castigate them as part of teh DNA crazies of the Schultheis ilk. But there is much more going on here.
In the dwindling small pond that Schultheis and his ilk – can we call it a cult? – are living in, McNulty, Stephens, Waller and other very, very conservative Republicans are dealing with the reality of keeping the ship of state afloat. It is to their credit that they are looking over the precipice and seeing the bottom of Dante’s Inferno and stepping back and being prgamatic.
It is easy for the Schultheis’s and Union of Taxpayers (can you spell Penn Pfiffner cult)and Independence Institute (we’re still here – tell us you love us by sending more checks in larger denominations) to rally the anarchist movement but hope desperately that they do not succeed. These groups have a market niche of the disaffected and marginalized and they cannot survive without the responsible element of Colorado politics creating the stability that they have to have.
This is a group that should form the losers and failuire caucus.
Did we live in the same state last year? They relied the Tea Party and now they’re cutting them lose as an inconvenience. And you’re helping.
Please explain, wise one: why were they all members of the Dave Schultheis Club TO BEGIN WITH? Why did the GOP spend the last two years creating this monster?
You have to get over your fantasies, bub.
Speaker McNulty and Majority Leader Stephens are part of the group that now has to govern the state of Colorado. Responsibility for the state landed on their shoulders last November when the voters put the Republicans in charge of the Colorado House of Representatives. Responsibility has a great tendency to sober people up to what is really in front of them. Its real easy to assert silly, goofy positions like Sen. Schultheis has done when you’re in the minority, but once you’re responsible reality tends to change at least some people.
“at least some people”.
Republicans proved last time they were in charge that “at least some people” didn’t include enough of them to responsibly govern the state. I do have to feel a little pity on any Republican in the State House who is actually trying tackle the important issues of governance – but I’m not convinced that Air Quotes Amy and Speaker McNulty are 100% committed to that yet…
this time but there are some signs governing has sobered the House leadership. Hope springs eternal.
Seriously: He’s way too conservative for me, but he did the right thing leaving this ridiculous Schultheis cluster.
And this isn’t going to get them safely off. They’d better hang on tight or hope the tiger dies. We’ll see how healthy he is in 2012. Looks like some Repubs think he’s getting a little tired.