Tuesday Open Thread
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” –Horace Mann
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House Republicans Have Little to Celebrate After 100 Days
The Republican House Majority in Congress surpassed its first 100 days in power last week. Silly sloganeering and partisan rhetoric aside, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy doesn’t have a whole lot to boast about after the first three months of Republican control in the lower chamber of Congress. As The Associated Press explained on Friday: As […]
Caraveo Fights For SNAP Benefits McCarthy Wants To Cut More
UPDATE: Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) hits back at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling “plan”: “Defaulting on our debt is not an option”? What? That’s EXACTLY what you’re proposing. Defaulting. Your whole plan is to force a default if everyone else in Congress doesn’t agree to cut funding for poor people. You entire strategy is […]
Rep. Richard Holtorf Guerilla Markets “The Devil’s Lettuce”
It’s not even the most controversial thing GOP gaffe-o-matic Rep. Richard Holtorf has said this week, but for the deejays and stoners among the readership we decided it’s worth a mention: Uh where I come from, you know we don’t like the Devil’s Lettuce, it’s not good for our communities, but that’s not here. Okay, […]
House Republicans Literally Work to Achieve Nothing
The 2023 legislative session in Colorado’s House of Representatives is not unlike a typical first grade classroom. Most of the kids in the room are excited to be there – to learn new things and make new friends and sing new songs. Some of the kids have trouble playing nice with others, and they […]
My Kids, You’s Kids; Red Kids, Blue Kids
Testimony will be held today in the State Senate Health and Human Services Committee regarding HB23-1003 (“School Mental Health Assessment”), which has become another flashpoint for right-wing activists forever searching for their next grievance. This legislation, which has already passed the State House, is riling up a group of “parents’ rights” advocacy groups that tend […]
Boebert, Lamborn Love Them Some Mifepristone Judicial Activism
As Colorado Newsline’s Jennifer Shutt reports, Colorado’s two most stridently anti-abortion congresspersons, Reps. Doug Lamborn and Lauren Boebert, joined 67 of their congressional and U.S. Senate colleagues who signed a letter supporting the controversial decision by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk that the widely-used drug mifepristone was wrongly approved by the Food and Drug Administration: A […]
Get More Smarter on Wednesday (April 12)
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Wednesday Open Thread
“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.” –Virginia Woolf
Colorado Republicans: You Really Don’t Want TABOR
Colorado is the only state in the country that has intentionally handcuffed itself on fiscal policy, which it did in 1992 when voters passed the so-called “Taxpayers Bill of Rights” (better known as TABOR). Two former Republican lawmakers in Colorado are now warning Arizona not to make the same mistake. Former Republican legislators Don Marostica […]