TPM links to a new bit of promotion from Health and Human Services regarding the state-by-state impact of the current Senate health care reform bill. So if you want to know, for example, what Colorado stands to gain in the whole health care reform mash up just approved for debate, click here. I’ll try not [...]
Entries from November 24th, 2009
What Colorado Can Gain from the Senate Health Bill
November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform
Tags: Colorado Health Care Reform·Health and Human Services State-by-State Analysis
“President or Jihad?” Boycott Wolf Automotive
November 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Free speech
I think America is pretty sweet, and Denver, CO, is a great place to live, even when–and perhaps because–our neighbors to the west erect a billboard like this. That’s right, Wheat Ridge, I’m talkin’ about you.
Phil Wolf of Wolf Automotive, which the Denver Post reports has dealerships in Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, commissioned the sign [...]
Poll: Majority of Republicans Believe ACORN Stole the 2008 Election
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Elections
Kevin Drum calls attention to a recent poll from Public Policy Polling: “52% of Republicans now think that ACORN stole the 2008 election from John McCain.”
The table he posts is well worth a quick glance. Drum also hits the nail on the head:
There aren’t words for this. Something like 40 million Republicans are now convinced [...]
Tags: 2008 Election·ACORN·poll·Republicans
Tancredo Running for Relevance (not for Governor)
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · 2010 Colorado Governor's Race, Tom Tancredo
Per yesterday’s Mike Rosen, Tom Tancredo will drop out of the race he has not yet entered in order to make way for a unified party line in the GOP’s newly hatched Contract for Colorado.
The agenda, modeled on the winning reform recipes of Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell in their New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial [...]
Tom Tancredo is Small Minded and Hateful
November 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Tom Tancredo
Jenna stood over my shoulder a couple days ago as I composed a post expressing my desire to see Tom Tancredo run for governor, if only for the bloodletting that could result in the GOP primary. (Turns out I’m not alone.)
“I don’t know,” she said. Her reservations were clear: Give the guy a platform, and [...]
Tags: Tom Tancredo
Go Tancredo, Go!
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · 2010 Colorado Governor's Race
Colorado political circles are all abuzz today about Josh Penry’s anticipated withdrawal from the governor’s race. And while that’s an interesting turn, I want to take a moment to speculate on the sidebar item. That’s right, I’m thinking today about Tom Tancredo’s possible entry into said governor’s race.
For those who don’t know him, Tancredo is [...]
Stupak Costs Taxpayers More
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform
Kevin Drum mulls the Stupak Amendment and nails it:
I wonder what the insurance industry thinks of this? I know that if I were an insurance company, I’d sure rather cover an abortion (cost = $500 or so) than a pregnancy carried to term (cost = $10,000 or so). But they’re probably too scared to speak [...]
Tags: Abortion·House Health Care Bill·Kevin Drum·Stupak Amendment
Betsy Markey and the Democratic Party: Rogue Dissent or Political Genius?
November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform
Health care reform has passed the House. Betsy Markey didn’t vote for it. My guess is she really must feel threatened up in Larimer County, despite–or perhaps because of–having been elected on the coattails of Barack Obama’s ‘08 sweep through the Front Range (Larimer Co. election results available here). To be sure, Markey’s opponent [...]
