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Lawmaker intends to take oath of office on Quran
The bible didn’t work for DeLay, Foley, Cunningham, et al.
You are what you print, and the Rocky’s publishing of Litwin’s off-the-wall column on the Tancredo-Bush flap shows how little integrity means to the state’s second paper.
It takes a real nut like anyone in the Bush family or on the Rocky’s staff to dispute Tancredo’s contention that Miami is a cesspool, thanks to the flood of illegal immigrants and the break down of law and order on our borders.
You gotta understand that Litwin is a professional provacateur, a comedian, if you will, with not a serious thought in his hairy head.
His purpose in life is to keep his job, and he does this by being outrageous, unpatriotic and obnoxious. That he’s held the job for a long time shows the strategy works for him and John Temple.
Nice work if you can get it.
Litwin is all about making people uncomfortable with the establishment even though he’s a leading member of the elite lefties who will be running our state come January.
Now, this isn’t about shooting the messenger, for Litwin really has no message. He is the message, and, it is, after all, all about him.
That so few care what Litwin writes or thinks is reflected in the Rocky’s declining readership. If we want to read fools, we can do it for free on the internet. We don’t need to buy the Rocky to find out what the old hippies are saying.
What I do admire about Litwin is that he’s an incredibly good writer. Outstanding. Glib and an easy read for the masses who drop out of Denver’s public schools.
Nobody in town can out write Litwin. But almost anybody can out think him.
Have you ever been to Miami?
Otherwise, how would they know how to attack him?
Hey, it’s a column written with a slant. No one has ever pretended otherwise. Should the Snooze get rid of Mike Rosen? I think so, but probably most of the cons don’t. Go breath some fresh air, dude, this is a democracy and it’s all about opinions and dialogue.
And I might note, unlike 99.9% of the cons, Littwin has actually been to Iraq, and if I’m not mistaken, outside of the Green Zone.
You could substitute “Tancredo” for “Littwin” and “right-wing” for “leftist” in your letter, and so much of it would be totally apropos for our man Tommy!
To wit:
“You gotta understand that TANCREDO is a professional provacateur, a comedian, if you will, with not a serious thought in his hairy head.
“His purpose in life is to keep his job, and he does this by being outrageous, unpatriotic and obnoxious. [AND IN TANCREDO’S CASE, BY RENEGING ON HIS TERM LIMITS OATH.] That he’s held the job for a long time shows the strategy works for him …
“Nice work if you can get it. [TANCREDO SPONGES $167,500 PLUS FRINGES PLUS A GIGANTIC FREAKIN’ PENSION OFF THE PUBLIC, ACCOMPLISHING NEXT TO NOTHING FOR HIS DISTRICT. WE’RE SUBSIDIZING HIS TRIPS TO PALM BEACH AND HIS BOOK-WRITING CAREER.]
“TANCREDO is all about making people uncomfortable with the establishment even though he’s a leading member of the elite RIGHT-WINGERS who will be BACKBENCHING AND DOING LITTLE OTHER THAN THROWING POLITICAL STINK-BOMBS come January.”
Can we get this guy re-certified for a mental insanity deferment?
Mike Littwin got it exactly right, once again: Tancredo loves this kind of stuff. “I don’t care what they say about me, just make sure they spell my name right” is a saying that could have been written for Tom “Bomb” Tancredo.
We have only ourselves to blame: We all just can’t wait the next installment of the Tom Show. What letter will he send next from his illegal-alien-built rumpus room?
The guy doesn’t DO anything for us to justify his nearly $200,000 salary. All he does is write his own frothy books, send out letters hither and yon complaining about the crescent shape of 9/11 monuments, too many Spanish-language comic books in the Denver Library, and giving advice to the Pope (which, especially coming from an ex-Catholic like Tancredo, undoubtedly went straight to Benedict XVI’s circular file).
Oh, and singing “Dixie” with racist friends in South Carolina.
But we can’t get enough of that Tancredo stuff. At least he has some entertainment value.
http://tancredowatch…
The guy is a racist, a bigot, and a gay-basher. The voters chose him anyway. What more is there to say?
the voters are right and you guys are wrong?
just because a majority of voters approve of something doesnt mean it is right.
Just because the voters select someone doesn’t in itself make it the right choice……
Just because the voters select someone doesn’t in itself make it the right choice……
(While we’re on the subject of tortured logic.)
Just because the voters select someone doesn’t in itself make it the right choice…..
It only took three posts befor liberalism is dead contradicts himself using, as an example to contradict himself, someone he doesnt like. I’m shocked i tell you, just shocked!
tortured logic all around, I guess.
And Bush got elected twice, Tancredo, 5 times Beauprez twice, Musgrave 3 times, and Lamborn once so that goes to show you how wrong the choices are sometimes.
Bush won the presidency once, in ’04. Remember, he was awarded the office in a lawsuit (dare I say frivolous lawsuit?) in 2000.
Your President and mine, Mr George Bush, WON both elections fair and square.
You are just a sore loser.
Typical lefty.
Gore won Florida’s popular vote any way you want to count it. The ballots are public documents and have been studied extensively.
If you’re interested…
You changed your moniker. I’m impressed. That’s bucking your brand, which is gutsy.
prevent a true illness that is ravaging many people on this blog.
Please, please, all you poor tortured souls walking in left circles.
Run, walk, crawl, get a cab, anything…….but get down to your local Republican center and pray. Pray like you’ve never prayed before.
Maybe with the help of the almighty you will see the light.
Please hurry. Our country depends on it……don’t let this fine land slip into the abyss………we don’t want to change our motto to: “Land of the Socialists, Home of the Taxed”
America is a nation of the center. The pendulum swings one way, then the other. It’s just starting to go left now, but once it goes too far it will swing to the right again.
BTW, I’m in SW Denver. I know where my vote center is, but do you know where the Republican Center is?
710 S Tejon St
Downtown Colorado Springs.
You don’t think I would live in the commune of Boulder now do you?
Such an insular viewpoint as yours can only develop in an insular community. (I lived in Boulder and couldn’t stand it after 2 years – I need to rub shoulders with people with opposing viewpoints and abhor conformist communities of both wings.) Not that the Boulder quip makes much sense given I live in Denver… although I’m sure it’s way too liberal for you as well.
710 S Tejon (whatever is there; I don’t know) is part of the reasonable part of Colorado Springs. You gotta go north or east to find most of the quacks.
Then I dont want to be cured.
A majority of Democrats won the Congressional races in ’06. Most of those Democrats were liberal to moderate-liberal. However, some (i.e., Bob Casey, Heath Schuler to name but two) were conservative Democrats which in your twisted world would make them something akin to RINOs.
You may live in a one-dimensional ideological world, which is fine with those of us who live the three-dimensional world.
If you want to keep equating conservative with Republican by ideologically purifying your party, that’s fine with us. You can send the rest of those RINOs over to our team, and we’ll make them the conservative wing of the Democratic Party.
They had the 1st or 2nd largest plurality but they did not have a majority.
and enough sympathetic supporting parties to pass the Enabling Act.
Another Right Wing Nut. Yes, I ‘m talking about Liberalism is a sickness, but also about Larry Corrigan, from the state of WA, whio has worked on a number of Republican campaigns, but now he’s in jail after he was caught in an Internet sting, accused of trying to solicit sex from young girls. Did he take lessons from the “conservative” Foley? Or perhaps we should listen to the other Republican spokesman Gingritch when he dares state that we have to give up our rights to free speech to combat terrorism. Ahhh, here’s someone that Jefferson, Hamilton and Lincioln would have certainly welcomed into their inner circle in the deliberations on how to create a model domocratic republic. Ahem…..liberalism lays at the heart of the constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Where do these unschooled, ill mannered, dangerous dark souls come from?
are the party of morality?
HA
Why are they trying to get Alcee Hastings in to head the Intelligence Committee then?
Don’t you think that giving one of the most important jobs in the country to someone that was impeached by your own party, is stupid?
And yes I know he was let off the hook. Probably by shady means if the truth be known. But still in fact, if a HUGE majority of Dems thought he was a crook then, what has changed now?
Funny this doesn’t make ColoPols news………..
Oh yeah, it isn’t local, that’s it.
Buzz! Wrong answer! Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) – a former border patrol agent and Vietnam Purple Heart vet – will be taking the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
Alcee Hastings has been out since at least Wednesday, when he made a public announcement after a meeting with Pelosi saying he was no longer seeking the chair.
See CNN linky here.
If that is true it is a good thing, but still does not address the question as to why would the Dems push to get him in that position?
Why would they want someone with his obviously questionable character in a job like that?
Doesn’t show good judgement does it?
See, you can run for a political post even if someone says bad things about you.
You can also loose if people think those bad things are true.
Funny how that works.
Harman was term-limited out of the committee; Pelosi would have had to waive caucus rules in order to seat her as Chair.
Hastings was second most senior on the committee, and was pushed by the Congressional Black Caucus, which has had a recent history of standing up for its members despite overwhelming evidence of corruption (they pushed to allow LA-02 Rep. Jefferson to keep his committee assignments after his “cold, hard cash” incident became public knowledge…); pushing for Hastings, who was acquitted in a court of law, is by comparison a modest thing. I don’t agree with the CBC’s color-before-qualifications ethic, in either the Jefferson case (duh!) or the Hastings issue.
So this was never about Dems promoting Hastings, but rather about the caucus rules and a caucus push. That failed because the Democrats are pretty serious about this reform thing.
As it is, there will be 4 or 5 House Committees headed by members of the CBC, and the Majority Whip; that’s probably more African American leaders than the Congress has seen in its total history. They didn’t need Hastings, and Reyes is a much better pick (Hastings had no background in Intelligence before being appointed to the committee.)
See my diary here that shows it is ALWAYS the Repblicans that are the rapists, kiddy diddlers, and hypocrites.
http://coloradopols….
I asked for copols bloggers to speak up, correct anything, add some Dems, whatever that would enlighten me. No one did.
Then we can add non-sexual criminal acts. BTW, a BJ between consenting adults is not, no matter where done. (And if you think Clinton was the first to ever have sex in the Oval Office, you are pretty naive.) Ronald Reagan, aka GOD to the right, had Iran-Contra and the most indictments and convictions of any administration, ever. Grant and Harding set the stage back when, althoug pikers of corruption compared to today. GW, closing in on RR; think Abramoff, Halliburton, etc.
Why are the R’s so prominent in scandal? I would offer two thoughts. One is that they see gummint an opportunity to raid, not serve. The other is that the see themselves as elite and above the law.
Whatever happened to Randy Ankeney? He was supposed to go on trial about a week and half ago? Did it get continued? Dit it proceed to trial? Did he PLEA BARGAIN?
Hastings was never convicted of any crime. There still is the presumption of innocence in this country in spite of the GOP smear machine. On the other hand Elliot Abrams was convicted of SEVERAL felonies yet he was appointed deputy National Security Advisor to YOUR president! He is one of the White House ass clowns who is into nation building and helped get us into Iraq
be a Cuban national or maybe a French citizen?
How else could you say Bush is someone else’s President on this blog, but say it in a way to make people believe he isn’t YOUR President too?
It’s not like Tancredo is a closet bigot – he’s front and center with it. So why does he keep getting re-elected? Clearly a significant majority of his district likes what they hear from him.
And likes it enough that in this election when most Republicans were in danger of losing their seat, he cruised to an easy win.
a much less interesting place if we understood the workings of man’s mind well enough to figure this out.
the shit out of his district….give him a few thousand of Diana DeGette’s constituents. She’s safe. She can afford to lose a few.
Let’s Texas style him!
DeGette will not give up any part of her district. There was a confict with her last time around not wanting to share the wealth. She had to have all 67% (close there to) of the Democratic vote for some reason or another.
Look, the fact is that the 6th Congressional District is a Republican lock – with the key thrown away. The only way a Republican can lose the 6th CD is to be caught “in bed with a dead girl or a live boy,” as the old saying goes.
And even then I think the Republican would have a sporting chance.
When enough mainstream Republicans like Jeb Bush realize that Tancredo is absolutely murdering their chances of ever getting the Hispanic vote, and is making their party look more like the KKK than the GOP, maybe then the Republicans will finally get off their collective as*es and get this dishonest, lying, do-nothing, say-anything, bullying, sensationalizing, clown out of office and – well, I would hope retired and living off his gigantic Congressional pension instead of returning to schoolteaching and poisoning the minds of our impressionable youth.
But it might take a disaster like Pat Buchanan’s speech at the 1992 Republican Convention for that to happen.
Tancredo is like “Mean Jean” Smart or Katherine Harris: most people know he’s a buffoon, a clown. Look at the Rocky’s article about him today. But he has a certain rabid following, and fantastic name recognition among the uncaring masses. That’s what he counts on.
Jean Smart played “Charlene” at the Sugarbaker interior decorating firm on “Designing Women” in the early ’90’s….
You can take Tancredo out of North Denver, but you can’t take North Denver out of Tancredo. The Italians and Hispanics have been fighting up there for seventy years. Any of them will tell the tale of how Columbus Park became LaRaza park…and the horror or wonder of that, depending on who is talking. The problem with Tancredo is he gets a legtimate issue, illegal immigration, mixed up with his rants against Hispanic culture. His rage against those who won”t “assimilate” according to his dictates is truely racist.
Littman doesn’t have a clue…he is a newcomer…only here about thirty years….one of those “back east” guys….who mainly phones it in because Denverites are dumb.