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Ken Buck Folds Like A Cheap Suit For Steve Scalise

Following yesterday’s House GOP “candidate forum” featuring two contenders to replace ousted former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado refused to support either Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan due to their inability in Buck’s view to clearly state for the record that Joe Biden was the rightful winner of the […]

Colorado GOP: Never Miss an Opportunity to Miss an Opportunity

If you’ve followed Colorado politics in the last decade, you’re probably well aware that the Colorado Republican Party has moved so far beyond “dumpster fire” status that it’s hard to come up with an appropriate analogy anymore for their consistent ineptitude. The GOP’s persistent failures were punctuated in 2022 with devastating losses to Democrats up […]

What the Hell, Tim Hernandez?

A former school teacher named Tim Hernandez was selected by a vacancy committee on August 26 to serve the remainder of the term of former Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who resigned her seat after winning election to the Denver City Council in June. Hernandez will serve in the state legislature for one session because of the […]

Scalise Gets Speaker Nomination, Boebert Vows More Chaos

In a narrow 113-99 vote by the U.S. House Republican caucus today, Louisiana GOP hardliner Rep. Steve Scalise was nominated to succeed the ousted former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. AP reports via Denver7: In private balloting at the Capitol, House Republicans pushed aside Rep. Jim Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chairman, in favor of […]

Lies, Damn Lies, And Americans For Prosperity

As readers know, the marquee question on this year’s statewide election ballot is Proposition HH, a referred measure from the state legislature supported by Gov. Jared Polis to slow the increase on property taxes after an historic runup of home values in Colorado over the last few years. Proposition HH limits the pain for homeowners […]

Can War Put Kevin McCarthy Back Together Again?

The ouster last week of Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy took on a whole new shade of irresponsible over the weekend, as geopolitical events made the smallest of potatoes out of the objections of the “Gaetz Eight” including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck to a functioning House if led by Kevin McCarthy. Although House […]

Lauren Boebert is Hemhorraging Support in CO-03

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”           — Ian Fleming in Goldfinger   As we noted on Friday, Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) had a really tough week that ended with news that Mesa County Commissioner Bobbie Daniel was joining fellow Commissioner Cody Davis in publicly endorsing […]

Lauren Boebert Is A Poor Character Reference For “Gym” Jordan

As CNN reports today, the jockeying to succeed ousted Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy intensified over the weekend, and although two hard-right conservative Republican Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan are formally competing there’s no guarantee that either one will be able to win a majority vote: House Republicans remain badly divided over […]

Who Will Speak for the Speakerless? (feat. Rep. Brittany Pettersen)

Leaves are falling. Blue books are arriving. ELECTIONS ARE HAPPENING! This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, the government shutdown was avoided, Kevin McCarthy’s career was ended, and Democrats were in “array.” We’ve got a crazy week in Washington to report back on with a special guest who was there for the action — […]

War In Israel, Political Football In Colorado

The shocking news the world woke up to today, as the Washington Post reports on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Saturday that “we are at war” after Hamas militants from Gaza launched a surprise, multipronged attack across central and southern Israel, killing an estimated […]

Civil War: Dave Williams Ghost-Writes Dick Wadhams Hit Job?

A guest op-ed appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette last Tuesday, ostensibly written by freshman whack-right Republican state Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf and castigating former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams for Wadhams’ increasingly intense criticism of the current party chairman, former Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams: Dick Wadhams, although a former Chairman of the […]

Bidenomics is Working, Whether Republicans Like it Or Not

The numbers don’t lie, as The New York Times reports: In a sign of continued economic stamina, American payrolls grew by 336,000 in September on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said on Friday. The increase, almost double what economists had forecast, confirmed the labor market’s vitality and the overall hardiness of an economy […]

Everything’s Turning Up No-Bert

It’s been a bad couple of days weeks months for Congressperson Lauren Boebert (R-ifle). It would be a rough week for any politician to have been the butt of jokes on late-night television for a scandal (#Beetlebert) that happened nearly a month ago. But Monday’s comedic onslaught is already the least of Boebert’s worries. On […]

Beauprez: GOP Might as Well Have Taken Cyanide

(Bob Beauprez is all out of Bucks — Promoted by Colorado Pols) On the day Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost his gavel, former Congressman Bob Beauprez expressed his frustration with House Republicans, including Rep. Ken Buck who was one of eight GOP members who voted for the unprecedented removal, in no uncertain terms, calling it […]

“Boebert Bought Off?” A Startling Accusation From MAGA World

The eight Republican members of Congress who voted to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led by Rep. Matt “Giggity” Gaetz and including Colorado’s Rep. Ken Buck did not include Colorado’s by-far most cantankerous Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, despite Boebert’s fight to the fifteenth ballot at Gaetz’s side to stop McCarthy from becoming speaker and even […]

Republicans Attempt to Blame Democrats for McCarthy’s Ouster

“Bumfuzzle.” That’s today’s “word of the day” from an email list that we somehow ended up joining. Regardless, it’s useful for today’s news. “Bumfuzzle” means “to confuse or perplex; to bewilder.” We are completely “bumfuzzled” by Republican attempts to blame the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ON DEMOCRATS. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) […]

Governing the Ungovernable

[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”50%”]“For Mr. McCarthy, who practiced a management style of doing and saying pretty much whatever it would take to get through the day, tomorrow finally arrived.” — The New York Times (10/4/23)[/mantra-pullquote] Kevin McCarthy made history on Tuesday by becoming the first Speaker of the House to have his gavel taken away […]

Kevin McCarthy Removed as Speaker of the House

UPDATE #4: The destruction wrought by Matt Gaetz today is just the Colorado Republican Party’s style: Smugness over cash flow is how Dave Williams runs his shop too. —– UPDATE #3: Here’s the moment for posterity — the first time in history that a Speaker of the House has been removed by a vote of his/her […]

Late Night TV is Back, and #Beetlebert is not Forgotten

With the Hollywood writer’s strike settled, late night television returned with new episodes this week. There was plenty of news to catch up on in opening monologues, and Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle) was featured in most of them for her #Beetlebert scandal. Let’s take a look at all of the ways in which our […]

Bennet Flays House Republicans For Shameful Putin Bootlicking

An agreement was reached on Saturday night for a relatively “clean” continuing resolution to fund the federal government for a further six weeks, avoiding the government shutdown widely expected when we last wrote on the subject Friday afternoon. Generally perceived as a capitulation by Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy who abandoned his own […]

The GMS Podcast: Deputary Secumatary of Shutdowns

By the time you hear this episode of the Get More Smarter Podcast, the federal government most likely will have shut down because of the MAGA clown show…nevermind, it didn’t! For now, anyway. Still, you can listen to us talk about the problems that could lead to the same issue in about 40 days. Our […]

As Shutdown Looms, Republicans Embark on New Stupid Mission

UPDATE: It’s almost like Republicans are trying to PROVE that they’re shutting down the government for no reason: WHAT DO WE WANT? “Now!” WHEN DO WE WANT IT? “What?” —– The federal government will officially shutdown at Midnight tomorrow (think Saturday night), as hard-right House Republicans drawed themselves another dumb line in the sand today […]

An Overnight on the Streets To Fact Check Coffman’s Stories About Posing As an Unhoused Person

Below are some of the claims Coffman made about his time on the streets, followed by my perspective from what I witnessed. Coffman: “I never met anybody in the encampments that, you know, mentioned a desire to get a job or move away from there. I think it’s very sad.” (KHOW Dan Caplis Show 5/19/21) […]

House Republicans Careen Nation Toward Shutdown

As we’ve been discussing in this space for several weeks (HERE, HERE, and HERE), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy seems to be no closer to finding a way to prevent a federal government shutdown beginning after Midnight on Saturday. As The Associated Press reports: A government shutdown appeared all but inevitable as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy […]

Get Ready for a BANANAS Republican Primary in CO-04

If you think Santa Claus has a big list to deal with every year, just wait until you see the potential lineup of Republican candidates considering a bid for Congress in CO-04. Incumbent Republican Rep. Ken Buck (R-Greeley) appears to be leaning toward retirement from Congress rather than running for a sixth term in 2024. […]

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