February 18, 2016 02:49 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Thursday (Feb. 18)

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• by: Colorado Pols

Wear sunscreen out there — and a giant windbreaker. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► Colorado’s U.S. Senators — Democrat Michael Bennet and Republican Cory Gardner — are weighing in on the process for choosing a new Supreme Court justice. Bennet has taken one side on the issue, while Gardner…well, Gardner likes all sides:

If the President sends the Senate an acceptable nominee, says Gardner, that nominee will be confirmed. As you know, that is how stuff already works per the Constitution. This could be a problem for Gardner’s friend Marco Rubio, who is on the presidential campaign trial right now assuring primary voters that Obama won’t get to pick Antonin Scalia’s replacement.

Then again, there is this whole other part in Gardner’s statement about waiting until the next President to replace Scalia because of what a bad guy Obama is–in fact that’s most of the statement. Might that be superceded by the brief aside about how the President could send them a nominee and that would be okay too? It seems like the answer could be a function of who Sen. Gardner is talking to at any given moment.

If it makes you feel any better, Con Man Cory, many of your Republican colleagues are also backpedaling furiously.

► The Colorado caucuses are just a few weeks away, which means more of the local news coverage of the race for President is shifting toward the activities of Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. There is a little less excitement on the Republican side, of course, ever since the Colorado GOP decided not to participate in this silly game of choosing a Presidential nominee.

Get even more smarter after the jump…

IN CASE YOU ARE STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…

► Chelsea Clinton and actress America Ferrera (“Ugly Betty,” if that helps) are campaigning in Colorado today and tomorrow on behalf of Democrat Hillary Clinton. How long will it be before the Clinton campaign comes up with a bunch of “America agrees with Hillary” commercials?

► Colorado Springs businessman Robert Blaha, one of a baker’s dozen of Republican candidates seeking a U.S. Senate nomination in 2016, says that he would have opposed the omnibus spending bill passed last fall that kept the federal government from closing its doors. Colorado Democrats were not particularly amused with the thought.

► Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) is officially running for re-election in CD-5. What else is he going to do?

► Caption this photo of Mike Coffman getting on his soapbox (literally).

► According to the Denver Post and the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group’s latest update of “hate group organizations” includes plenty of groups that plant their flag here in Colorado.

► Former Republican Congressman — and former Republican — Tom Tancredo believes that there is place for him and his rhetoric at the Ted Cruz table.

OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK

► Medicaid disinformation and state Sen. Tim Neville.

► Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is now in a war of words with The Pope. Of course he is.

ICYMI

► It seems like we’ve written this before, but these are not the best of days for a man named Jeb!

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