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A fascinating story from the Loveland Reporter-Herald’s Alicia Stice: responding to criticism of Rep. Cory Gardner’s vote for the “Ryan Plan” 2012 budget, a textbook deception: A group of about 50 people gathered Thursday outside of U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner’s Fort Collins office to protest his recent vote for a budget proposal that would make […]

McClatchy’s Kevin Hall: At a time when Washington is wrestling with how to end federal budget deficits and trim the national debt – huge questions that are expected to dominate the nation’s politics through the 2012 elections – the fact that Americans are under-taxed compared with U.S. historic norms is central to the discussion. This […]

A fascinating report from the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, that might confirm something you’ve been thinking the whole year: Following the first election since the Supreme Court has struck down limits on election-related advertising, a new poll finds that 9 in 10 voters said that in the 2010 election […]

That in the press advisory we got from the Colorado AFL-CIO, based on video of Buck’s appearance on Face the Nation late last month (right): DENVER-U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck has demonstrated some extreme views, but Veteran’s are up in arms about his stance on wanting to privatize the Veterans’ Administration Hospitals. He declared on […]

“The point of CBO and its relevance this morning is that we’re being scammed. The numbers are irrelevant. The fact of the matter is: The number doesn’t matter.” –Rush Limbaugh, yesterday

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is busily picking apart the recent interview of Senate candidate Jane Norton on the Fox News Channel–and we think they’ve got an interesting angle here, though not the one you see at first glance: Colorado families struggling with unemployment and economic challenges got their answer yesterday on if Senate […]

As the Aspen Times reports: The energy-climate bill passed last week in the House will face an even tougher battle in the Senate, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet predicted Wednesday during a stop at the Aspen campus of Colorado Mountain College. The Colorado Democrat, in town to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival, met with CMC administrators […]

As the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports: Rep. Betsy Markey broke with the Democratic leadership in opposing a bill that would give bankruptcy judges the ability to lower mortgage payments for troubled homeowners. Markey, a Fort Collins Democrat, said the bill passed by the House Thursday night “had the right intentions, but the wrong approach.” “This […]