January 16, 2009 01:24 AM UTC

Amnesia Theater, Nancy Spence Edition

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• by: Colorado Pols

From GOP propaganda “news” site Coloradosenatenews.com:

This week’s debut features GOP Senate Whip Nancy Spence, of Centennial, urging the General Assembly not to cut the state’s property tax homestead exemption for senior citizens. Spence tells viewers that the exemption, which can offer substantial property-tax savings to seniors who have lived in their current homes at least 10 years, “is one way Colorado recognizes the contributions of its many senior citizens over the years.”

“Suspending or repealing that important allowance in state law would be an insult to the very Coloradans who have done so much for our state,” Spence says in the video.

Sounds really compelling, doesn’t it? Problem is that reduction of the homestead exemption has been done before, in 2003–in a budget compromise that Nancy Spence voted for. The bill was SB03-265 and if you’re to reconcile the Nancy Spence of today with the Nancy Spence of 2003, a whole bunch of her fellow Republicans supported this “insult to the very Coloradans who have done so much for this state.” As in Mike May, Greg Brophy, Shawn Mitchell, Al White–even John “Disgruntled Elf” Andrews himself, just to name a few.

So if all these same Republicans supported the very thing Sen. Spence now claims is an “insult,” including Sen. Spence personally, what’s really going on here? Well, it’s a pretty clear indicator that Republicans, safely in the minority, are planning to stick the Dems with the blame for every budget cut and tax/fee increase that needs to be made–and are posturing in advance of the governor’s budget recommendations tomorrow. So much for Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry’s opening day remarks that bipartisanship should be more important than politics in this dire economic time.

To be filed under the “stupid pet tricks” category, made all the more laughable by a convenient inability to remember, you know, how they voted last time.

On a more positive note, we love the intro music to the video. Kind of a mixture between “breaking news” and background music on a low-budget porno.