February 15, 2009 06:45 PM UTC

A Little "Mile High Magic" For Stimulus Bill

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Denver Post reports:

President Obama will come to Denver to sign the landmark economic-stimulus bill.

The bill-signing, an unusual event outside of Washington, will be Tuesday at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park. The president also will give a speech about the economy.

Attendance at the midday event is by invitation only, and all invitations have been distributed…

The bill, officially named the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, will give $787 billion to a variety of programs designed to stimulate the economy. It was passed Friday by both houses of Congress.

In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama called the bill a “major milestone on our road to recovery.”

“I am thrilled President Obama has chosen to showcase our state with its historic signing,” said U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Boulder Democrat.

He said the growing green-energy industry and “cutting-edge scientific institutions” in Colorado make the state “uniquely situated” to highlight the bill’s investment in renewable energy, science and technology.

Signing the bill here is “fitting” because Colorado “is a leader in renewable-energy development,” said U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, an Eldorado Springs Democrat.

“The West has always been the land of opportunity, a place where anything is possible,” said Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, of Denver. “It is fitting that President Obama has chosen Colorado as the site where our long and difficult road to economic recovery will begin.”

…Catherine Mortensen, spokeswoman for Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs, said that while Lamborn “regrets” passage of the stimulus bill, “it is a great honor for the president to sign a bill in this state.”

Additional commentary here.

Just marvelous isn’t it, don’t left and right agree? A million billion percent marvelous?

Surely our astute conservative community members will recognize the historic nature of signing this unprecedented bill in our city, and will quietly refrain from pissing in their fellow commenter’s Cheerios about said unprecedented bill.

You’re right, we don’t really expect that.