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House Votes to Extend Some Government Funding for a Whole Week!

As The Washington Post reports, House Speaker “MAGA” Mike Johnson once again needed the help of Democrats in order to pass a ONE WEEK EXTENSION for funding critical government services: The House on Thursday approved legislation to extend the expiration date for federal funding later into March, sending the measure to prevent a partial government […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Feb. 28)

Holy crap! There is so much happening in the political world today that there’s no possible way for us to get to everything without returning to this Get More Smarter format. So let’s do that. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you […]

Lauren Boebert Needs To Spend More Time With Her Family

Colorado Public Radio’s Paolo Zialcita reports on the latest sordid chapter in transplanted but no less drama-infused GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s “American Life,” though we doubt Boebert’s biography will be updated to include developments since its publication. As readers know, Rep. Boebert’s tagline on her social media profile is that she is “Raising my boys […]

Colorado’s Leading Talibangelical, Biggest Conservative Conference Slink Away

Over the years readers have gotten to know Jeff Hunt, the head of Colorado Christian University’s political activism wing known as the Centennial Institute, from his wedge issue grandstands at the state capitol and on social media, sometimes burning fellow Republicans–and also the Centennial Institute’s annual Western Conservative Summit, which during its heyday landed a […]

Hello Colorado, Nikki Haley Must Be Going

The last remaining Republican primary challenger to ex-President Donald Trump, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, has so far made good on her pledge to stay in the race after badly losing her home state, appearing today as promised at a campaign rally Centennial’s Wings over the Rockies museum: Haley managed what could be considered […]

Dave Williams’ War on AFP: What About Gabe, Dave?

Earlier this month, the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby summarized a growing list of allegations against Colorado Republican Party chairman and congressional candidate Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams, who ever since taking the job last year has regularly employed the resources and brand of the state party in pursuit of Williams’ personal career objectives. After […]

Ken Buck Still Groping Blindly For a Legacy

Retiring Rep. Ken “KenSNBC” Buck has substantially reduced his stockpile of friends on the right side of the aisle through his “evolution” away from support for the impeachment of President Joe Biden and more recently Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, while at the same time contributing greatly to the present state of historically unproductive disarray […]

Nopeachment and a Dozen Future Chickens

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the incredibly cynical and evidence-free impeachment attempt against President Biden is failing, and now even Republicans are noticing; as it turns out, when the leader of your party is a 91-time indicted twice convicted obvious crook, trying to play both sides against a guy like Joe Biden […]

Conservative Conference Speakers Highlight Republican Divisions

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This article first appeared in the Colorado Times Recorder. The Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) held its annual retreat this weekend at the Broadmoor Hotel, the historic Colorado Springs hotel, resort, and conference center owned by billionaire conservative activist Phil Anschutz. LPR, Colorado’s premiere conservative political training program, is known […]

Republicans Caught in Dangerous IVF/Abortion Rights Quagmire

We wrote last week about the devastating opinion by the Alabama State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos had the same rights as actual people. That decision has created chaos for families who hope to conceive children through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) — which often uses frozen embryos for this very purpose. From […]

Iffy Text Poll Nonetheless Describes Boebert’s Narrow Path To Victory

The Courthouse News Service reports on a newly-released poll from Florida-based Kaplan Strategies, run by the former managing partner of the better-known PR firm Gravis Research Doug Kaplan, that shows carpetbagging Republican reprobate Rep. Lauren Boebert with a small plurality of support in the jam-packed race for retiring Rep. Ken Buck’s CO-04 seat: Kaplan Strategies, […]

It’s Getting Pretty Ugly Under The Dome

Colorado Public Radio’s veteran Capitol correspondent Bente Birkeland reports on seething acrimony from certain excitable members of the GOP House micro-minority, over bills this year that pertain to the decidedly not intertwined issues of protecting LGBTQ+ rights and penalties for crimes related to human trafficking and sexual assault on minors. The fact that we are […]

One Too Many Skeletons for “Shady Steve” in CO-03

Pueblo Republican Stephen Varela is one of those politicians who seem to exist in a perpetual state of shadiness. The latest trouble for “Shady Steve” may finally be the one that sinks him. As Sam Tabachnick reports today for The Denver Post, Varela’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in CO-03 would seem to […]

Sorry Dan Haley, Nextdoor Anecdotes Aren’t Data

Colorado Oil and Gas Association President Dan Haley stepped out of his fossil-fuel cheerleading lane last week to offer this hot take derived from his recent perusal of the Nextdoor neighborhood chat app, in which Haley says he’s observed lots of complaining about higher property tax assessments arriving in mailboxes across the state: So first […]

Cory Loves Jerry in CO-04

As Jesse Paul reports for The Colorado Sun, Republican congressional candidate Jerry Sonnenberg has picked up some notable new endorsements in his bid for the GOP nomination in CO-04: Cory Gardner reentered Colorado’s political conversation Wednesday to endorse former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg in the crowded Republican primary in the state’s 4th Congressional District, a […]

Deja Vu All Over Again: Russian Disinformation Drives Biden Impeachment

As CNN reports–for a party that considers itself the defenders of American sovereignty against evil foreign influences on all sides, the Republican Party sure seems to wind up doing the bidding of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service an awful lot. We’re not talking today about the 2016 presidential elections, in which Russian intelligence played a […]

You Don’t Need Extra Permission to Read This Story

There may be no more annoying, exhausting, and deplorable business model than that of the health insurance industry in the United States. Customers pay a lot of money for health insurance coverage only to be forced to jump through endless hoops in order to receive the very benefits that were agreed upon from the start. […]

The Made-Up Migrant Scare in Lakewood (feat. Kyle Clark)

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, Democrats keep winning, Republicans keep losing, and we predict whether these two trends will continue! Congress finally found the votes to impeach the Secretary of Homeland Security, even though the Senate wants nothing to do with this ridiculousness. And can four GOP state lawmakers running for higher […]

Doug Bruce In It To Win It, Or At Least Kick It

As reporter Hannah Metzger writes for Westword today, one of Colorado’s most infamous conservative activists, former state Rep. Doug “Mr. TABOR” Bruce, is officially jumping into the CD-5 primary for retiring Rep. Doug Lamborn’s seat after signaling his intention to do so early this month: Rumors have swirled for weeks that Bruce could join the […]

Trump Readies Himself to Touch Hot Stove of National Abortion Ban

Former President Donald Trump might not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but when it comes to political strategy, he’s definitely aware of avoiding the bigger landmines. And ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, no issue has been more fraught for Republicans than that of abortion rights. Since […]

Things Suddenly Look Skeezy Again For Boebert’s Bestie Matt Gaetz

ABC News reports on new and potentially damning information obtained by the House Ethics Committee validating longstanding allegations against Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz of Florida of sex trafficking and payment of women both above and below the age of consent for sexual favors. Gaetz’s alleged partner in sex crime, former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, has […]

No More Exploding Kids!

This quote — which we assume includes a typo — comes from a story written by Marianne Goodland for the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman regarding proposed legislation to create tougher penalties for sex trafficking crimes. Here’s the full section of that story for context: Reps. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park, and Regina English, […]

Some GOP Congressional Candidates Not Saying if Colorado Should Ban Abortion

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) At least eight Republican congressional candidates in Colorado support the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade but are saying they would oppose legislation in Congress to establish a national abortion ban. The states should be in charge of creating abortion laws, they say, not the federal government. But seven of these […]

“KenSNBC” Almost But Not Quite Helps Once Again

Yesterday, as readers are by now aware, the U.S. House succeeded in their second attempt at passing a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, by a 214-213 margin sending the resolution to certain death in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate. Last week’s attempt to pass the same resolution unexpectedly failed after Republicans tried and […]

Get More Smarter on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14)

Roses are red, violets are blue; we enjoy GMS updates, we hope you do also. Let’s Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to […]

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