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Bristol and Snooki nation: ‘Jersey Shore’ company plans politics reality TV show
U.S. politics today features a speaker of the House with an orange tan and the kind of constant unoriginal and petty backbiting and betrayals that are the stock in trade of reality TV. Why pretend...
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Lamborn oil shale bill seen by Boehner as possible transportation funding fix
Republican Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up oil shale production in western Colorado has been packaged with House Speaker John Boehner’s American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act (HR 7) as a means of...
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DeGette expresses ‘extraordinary frustration’ as GOP House leaders reject...
Republican Colorado congressional members joined their House colleagues today in blaming the Senate for failing to pass a long-term extension of unemployment benefits and a payroll tax break, but...
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Udall pleased House Republicans agreed to end ‘political brinksmanship’ on...
Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Thursday afternoon said he hopes a deal between House Republicans and Senate leaders to end a payroll tax-cut stalemate signals a new willingness for both parties to work...
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House Committee approves Lamborn bill to open more land to oil shale exploration
Oil shale isn’t yet commercially viable but on Wednesday the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources passed Rep. Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up its production in the West anyway. Extracting fuel...
View ArticleBoehner threatens congressional showdown on birth control
House Speaker John Boehner announced during a floor speech this week that he would take legislative action against a federal decision requiring insurance companies to cover contraception as a...
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Lamborn’s excuses blowing in the wind while Polis sets sights on oil shale...
Asked why he was Colorado’s lone congressional holdout in calling for the extension of the wind tax credit, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn answered his “preference is to help industry grow by reducing federal...
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House green lights oil shale plan but stops wind production tax credit in its...
A bill designed to encourage oil shale development cruised through the House on Thursday evening. But a wind production tax credit didn’t fly, and now layoffs and abandoned projects loom. The...
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Chevron giving up oil shale research in western Colorado to pursue other...
Chevron is giving up its experimental oil shale lease in western Colorado. The company is one of only three that holds a federal lease to research oil shale energy development on the Western Slope, but...
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House committee uses Regnerus parenting study to defend DOMA
Speaker of the House John Boehner, courtesy of the Speaker’s office. A Republican-controlled congressional body last week used a controversial new parenting study to argue that the Defense of Marriage...
View ArticleWiretap: President Obama, still kicking
The political obituaries of Barack Obama have all been written. And they will almost certainly all be wrong. Obama has three more years in office, which is like a 100 more years in presidential...
View ArticleFrom the Congressional Junket File: Yes, Gardner went to Ireland
Colorado Rep Cory Gardner and his wife Jaime took a $17,000, five-day trip to Ireland in August, paid for by the Republican Party Ripon Society and the big business-backed Franklin Center. Gardner...
View ArticleWiretap: Bad Ideas Inc. wants Colorado to host more recall elections
The Washington Post reports on gun control groups meeting here in Denver to figure out what to do about the Democratic state senators who were recalled for their gun votes. One plan, it seems, would...
View ArticleKathleen Sebelius doesn’t really need to be there
The Obamacare rollout was a disaster. Republican members of the House, who have held up the healthcare reform legislation-become-law for five years and two-and-a-half election cycles as the thing...
View ArticleLittwin: Boehner breaks free
Are you kidding me? John Boehner goes all Travis Bickle on the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. And he not only beats them (at least for now), he annihilates ‘em. Are you kidding me? A 332-94...
View ArticleThe real point of Obama’s speech
It wasn’t so much a speech as it was a performance. Barack Obama didn’t have much new to offer in his State of the Union address — in fact, nothing really new — but he did, it turns out, have a lot...
View ArticleWiretap: Zen Congress still working hard at doing nothing
It’s just another day on Capitol Hill, where nothing seems to ever get done. John Boehner says that immigration reform, which he was championing not long ago, doesn’t seem to have any real chance in...
View ArticleWiretap: Unemployment benefits end for a million Americans
For a million people, unemployment benefits have come to an end. Over the course of this year, another 72,000 will lose their benefits each month. At no time in the last 65 years have so many workers...
View ArticleLittwin: Still stuck at ‘self deport’
If you want to understand the brief life and painful death of the House Republican plan for immigration reform, you don’t have to travel all the way to Washington. You can stay right here. There’s no...
View ArticleHungry for immigration reform
Rudy Lopez grew up in an immigrant family in a part of Indiana spread across the southern shore of Lake Michigan called “the region.” It’s a place where fumes from heavy industry fill the air and...
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