February 21, 2025 11:49 AM UTC

Colorado House GOP (Literally) Show Their Asses On January 6th Pardon Resolution

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE 1:45PM: Colorado House Republicans are attempting to hold the floor in a politically ill-advised protest of the resolution condemning Donald Trump’s January 6th pardons, with debate stretching into Friday afternoon:

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This morning, the Colorado House is in the process of passing Senate Joint Resolution 25-006, a joint resolution condemning Donald Trump’s pardoning of violent offenders from the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol attempting to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. While no one expected minority Republicans to vote for the resolution, given the polling that shows clearly the public does not agree with the pardoning of violent January 6th convicts, we didn’t expect the minority to engage in a high-visibility performative protest:

They didn’t have to do this. It would have been easy to simply allow this resolution to pass with their “no” votes (which is what Republicans in the State Senate did earlier this month). This was a deliberate choice by the Colorado House GOP minority to show their support for violent criminals who assaulted police officers and smashed their way into U.S. Capitol four years ago. Since a strong majority of Americans including a substantial percentage of Republicans agree with the resolution condemning Trump’s blanket pardons of violent January 6th rioters, the intended audience for this protest is…well, one man. Who himself isn’t popular in Colorado to say the least.

Posting the above photo of the GOP caucus turning their backsides to injured cops to social media, the House GOP decried the Democrats’ resolution:

Not a single life in Colorado will be saved by this political stunt.

Democrats can retort that not a single vote will be won for Colorado Republicans by theirs. Public opinion in Colorado has never been on the side of the January 6ers, and it isn’t today. This photo immortalizes the choice of the Colorado House GOP minority against public opinion to throw their support behind the violent insurrectionists of January 6th.

It’s a performative protest some of them may still come to regret.