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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Good riddance – Stevens gives last Senate speech as staffers weep Headed to Court – California’s Prop 8 Bushonomics Redux – Jobless rate at 16 year high Today’s hot Cabinet rumor – AZ. gov Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security Today in local political news – Nothing

UPDATE: Stay classy, says MSNBC: The Rocky Mountain News summarizes: Ousted Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is making national headlines – and not the good kind. Under the headline “Nobody Likes a Sore Loser. Even in Washington,” Musgrave scored a withering 78 ranking – approaching “utterly shameless” – on Newsweek’s The Dignity Index, described as a […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) … then Bill Ritter is moving along in his preparations for a 2010 re-election bid, while Tom Tancredo is doing nothing. Ritter’s website at http://www.ritterforgovernor.com is at least up and running, although most of the articles there are placeholders. Meanwhile, the website “tancredoforgovernor.com” has been purchased, but nothing is […]

UPDATE: Liberal activist group Progress Now, as you can imagine, has a few things to say about this (release follows). Could this be considered “failing upward?” It pays more, as 9NEWS reports: Just weeks after his senate successor was elected; Wayne Allard is showing interest in a new Colorado position. Allard’s spokesperson, Steve Wymer, says […]

Ok, the election is over, 47 & 49 lost, 53, 55, 56, & 57 were withdrawn, and 54 is looking to be eviscerated by the Supreme Court. And that is a good thing, re-writing the business/labor rules via dueling ballot initiatives would pretty much guarantee that we all end up worse off. But, the existing […]

from the N.Y. Times Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging chancellor of the Washington public schools, thinks teacher tenure may be great for adults, those who go into teaching to get summer vacations and great health insurance, for instance. But it hurts children, she says, by making incompetent instructors harder to fire. Ok, ironclad job security is […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) Ignacio, CO-Former Congressman Scott McInnis addressed the struggling US economy this past Saturday evening at the annual LaPlata/Archuleta Farm Bureau meeting.  McInnis, a six term Republican from Grand Junction with more than 22 years of legislative experience including several years on the Ways and Means Committee, now serves as […]

Apparently Latinos weren’t among the stupid voters that should stay home–or were they? As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s editorial board opines wistfully: When someone moves to the United States, often finding freedom in what many Americans consider menial labor, that person is responding to the labor market. Why else would they come here? We don’t […]

Now the easy part is over and the hard part begins – governing, and governing effectively and efficiently in the middle of the worst recession since the great depression. Ok, let’s talk the State of Colorado – what do we need to do. For the past 2 years we Democrats have done a competent job. […]

You can understand a day or two, but now it’s just getting weird–as the Denver Post reports: Bitterness generated by the bruising battle between Betsy Markey and Marilyn Musgrave apparently lingers days after voters decided the winner of the 4th Congressional District. Incumbent Republican Musgrave, who lost to Democrat Markey by a 56 to 44 […]

As the Denver Post reports: Colorado Republicans, sifting through the ashes of three disastrous election cycles, are in the midst of a vigorous debate over how to win again in a state where their future looks bleak. That struggle is likely to play out over the next few months, key players say, starting with a […]