Watch: Boehner stumps for Coffman in Denver amid protest (again)
John Boehner on Tuesday hosted a fundraiser for Congressman Mike Coffman at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver. Coffman’s reelection race for Colorado’s 6th District against Andrew Romanoff is...
View ArticleLittwin: Andale! Obama set to ‘wave red flag’ on immigration reform
The news is out: Barack Obama is preparing to wave the red flag in the face of the bull, to borrow Mitch McConnell’s elegant phrasing, as soon as next week. And Obama’s team seems delighted by the...
View ArticleKeeping the devil in the hole: Boehner, Jeb sign up for the pain
Congress is more polarized today than it was in the wake of the Civil War. Let that sink in for a minute. The country’s lawmakers are more divided in their attitudes, ideology, voting records today...
View ArticleLittwin: See that? Republicans all about abortion, again
As you know, Sen. Mark Uterus is no longer in the Senate. In losing to Cory Gardner last November, Mark, uh, Udall was mocked for his singleminded single-issueness in running all those TV ads defending...
View ArticleWiretap: ‘Are you kidding me?’ government-shutdown redux
This is how it figured to play out. Mitch McConnell caves in the Senate, offering up a so-called clean bill on Homeland Security and steering clear of any responsibility for a shutdown showdown. That...
View ArticleRepublican coup punishes Rep. Ken Buck for his ‘no’ votes on ‘Obamatrade’
While Colorado’s political community is watching the alleged coup that attempted to remove state GOP Chair Steve House from his position, another coup is heating up in Washington, D.C. Republican Rep....
View ArticleLittwin: Cannibalism in the GOP
Looking back on the latest Republican disaster, the surprising thing is not that Kevin McCarthy had fallen on his sword — I mean, this sword-falling business is starting to become a GOP tradition — but...
View ArticleWiretap: Terror returns to New York, this time in a pickup truck
Terror returns to New York City, but this time in a rented pickup truck. The driver brought terror to Lower Manhattan, ramming his pickup into a bike lane, killing eight and wounding 11, in what was...
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