Udall’s U-turn on US oil
Mark Udall’s message to Colorado voters is crystal clear: just tell me want you want to hear, and I’ll say it. (more…)
Hands off Ritter’s personal cell phone
Any reader of this website knows that Gov. Bill Ritter never gets a break here — never, until now, that is.
Yesterday, the Denver Post announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Ritter, demanding complete access to his personal cell phone records since they day he became governor.
Ritter’s office has provided records for his Blackberry provided at taxpayer expense but refuses to turn over records for his personal cell phone, to which the Post believes it is entitled under Colorado’s Open Records Act.
Rubbish! (more…)
On energy, Paris Hilton makes more sense than Ken Salazar
Colorado’s junior U.S. Senator Ken “Silly Sally” Salazar added another layer of nonsense to his no-energy policy recently when he suggested releasing 70 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
To be fair — and proving once again that “even a stopped clock is right twice a day” — there is some merit to releasing oil from the SPR when prices are high and replenishing those supplies when prices recede. But that’s about as close as Silly Sally gets to a bright idea. (more…)
Ritter’s VP credentials: slim and none
This Capitol Review also appeared at HumanEvents.com.
It’s hard to imagine anyone in Colorado touting rookie Gov. Bill Ritter as vice presidential timber. Yet 2,000 miles away, locked in the surrealism of the Beltway, Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson has done just that.
Oblivious to Ritter’s indecisiveness on fulfilling major campaign promises, Gerson thinks Ritter stands out because he is “authentically pro-life.”
Come again? (more…)
Even if gas goes to $10, Salazar says no to drilling
Just how much is Colorado senator Ken Salazar drinking the do-nothing Democrats’ anti-exploration koolaide these days?
So much that before the Senate adjourned for summer recess, he stood time after time after time to block attempts to allowing drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf if gas more than doubles in price.
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Salazar refused to allow a vote to declare an emergency even if gas reaches $4.50 a gallon. He said it’s no emergency if gas reaches $5 a gallon … or $7.50 a gallon … or, get this, even $10 a gallon! (more…)
Ewegen’s latest anti-TABOR tirade
Denver Post’s big-government dinosaur, Bob Ewegen, proclaims that “the good folks” are finally back in charge — i.e., those who want to make it easiest for government to spend every last dime are back in charge at the state capitol and taxpayers are about to take it in the shorts.
Ewegen is, of course, cheerleading for what he hopes will be the death knell for Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR) — a ballot initiative championed by outgoing Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff and State Treasurer Cary Kennedy.
The initiative would gut everything that remains of TABOR after Referendum C, except the taxpayers’ right to vote on tax increases — or at least the right to vote on anything the legislature and governor admit are “tax increases,” as opposed to tax increases they deceptively call tax “freezes” or “fee increases.” (more…)