Littwin: Obamacare lives!
Now that the Obamacare sign-up deadline has more or less passed, it is more or less official: Obamacare is not a catastrophe. With a little luck, it might even someday be a success. But as of now,...
View ArticleLittwin: Jeb’s ‘act of love’ roils Tanc’s toxic GOP
The big question in Republican circles is what exactly Jeb Bush was trying to accomplish with his “act of love” speech the other day. If you missed it, Bush went out of his way to say aloud — where...
View ArticleWiretap: Sebelius drops the mic
Kathleen Sebelius is the fall person for the disastrous Obamacare rollout — but not before the exchanges hit their goal. So what exactly is her legacy, asks Jonathan Cohn at the New Republic. Ezra...
View ArticleWiretap: Gotta have more Benghazi
What we know about Benghazi is that it will never go away. Because it can’t, unless Hillary Clinton decides not to run for president. It’s the scandal — at least in Republican eyes — that takes on...
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The Republican immigration-reform problem persists
REPUBLICANS must do something about immigration reform now or they will find themselves speeding into another presidential election year wrestling with the same “Latino problem” that destroyed any...
View ArticleHouse leaders stump for Coffman, Lamborn amid protest
U.S. HOUSE Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor dipped briefly into Colorado politics to take part in a fundraiser for Congressmen Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, and Mike Coffman,...
View ArticleImmigration reform supporters crash Gardner’s Greeley office
GREELEY, Colo. — “Stand with Cory” reads the website for Colorado’s Fourth District Congressman, a Republican vying to unseat Democrat Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate. Rather than standing with Gardner...
View ArticleWiretap: It’s not just another crisis
It’s not a border crisis. It’s not an immigration crisis. It’s not a crisis caused by the Dreamers’ debate. It’s not a crisis that Congress can fix. So writes Sally Kohn for the Daily Beast. She says...
View ArticleLittwin: Turning the border crisis into yet another political game
LET’S say you’re Cory Gardner (big hair, winning smile, federal personhood co-sponsor), finally home for a five-week recess from your day job at the House of Representatives, and you have to explain...
View ArticleWiretap: Justice thwarted?
There are fresh doubts over the 2004 execution in Texas of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of murdering his three young daughters. The Washington Post reports that Johnny E. Webb, the...
View ArticleLittwin: The dreadfully consistent anti-Obamacare industry
IT has been a while, but the good times are officially back. There’s another anti-Obamacare ad on a TV screen near you, this time featuring an area woman with a sad, 30-second tale of Obamacare woe....
View ArticleWatch: 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...
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