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Former GOP presidential candidate and Tea Party activist Alan Keyes and more than 100 members of America’s fastest-growing political movement are heading out on a seven-day float to the U.S. Virgin Islands. They’re calling their adventure a “cruise for liberty.”
Organizer Michael O’Fallon told CNN the cruise is a chance to “talk politics in paradise.”

Rep. Spencer Swalm, R-Centennial, led the charge Thursday defending the rights of men to continue to pay less as a group on the individual health-insurance market in Colorado. Swalm is a member of the Health and Human Services committee that was weighing a bill aimed to ease wide inequalities in the cost of insurance for [...]

It’s an election year and Colorado political news readers will be reading a lot about taxing and spending– about the big difference between Democratic and Republican ideas about government. Recession realities, however, are mocking those easy distinctions. Yesterday, legislative staff reported that Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter and Democratic-dominated legislature will be slashing state aid to [...]

The Denver Post today poked straight-faced fun at state Republican lawmakers this morning, mocking a big budget plan GOP legislative leaders unveiled yesterday. The proposed plan of attack in the ongoing battle over a budget that is short billions in revenue is to cut a lot of programs– and they want Democrats to decide what [...]

The Washington Independent’s Dave Wiegel, chronicler of all things Tea Party, is (where else?) in Nashville for the first annual National Tea Party Convention. He reports that attendees are beginning to post videos from the event, including this gem from Tom “The Tank” Tancredo. Why is he there? Because they paid to get him there! [...]

The Wall Street Journal Wednesday painted a bleak picture of Capitol Hill Democrats wandering about without a map on health reform in the wake of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts, as if the blow of recognition that an anti-health reform Republican is taking Teddy Kennedy’s seat has dazed the caucus leaders out of all [...]

Stepped-up natural gas drilling in northwestern Colorado can ripple-effect Denver politics, where wrangling over new drilling regulations last week took an ugly turn. But the ramifications for the nation’s largest deer and elk herds that roam there are often overlooked.
While humans like Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry – current [...]

Roll Call confirms that GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate Tom Wiens accounted for the lion’s share of his impressive fourth quarter campaign cash haul. Wiens reported he pulled in an impressive $728,000 over the last three months of 2009. More than half a million dollars came from his own bank accounts.

Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis drafted a letter with fellow Democratic freshman Chellie Pingree, urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to revisit the Senate version of the legislation in order to add a public option and then pass the bill through the process known as reconciliation, where it would only take 51 votes. A [...]

A latest dispatch from the the land of political foolery comes from Mike Lillis today at the Washington Independent. It involves Pres. Obama in New Hampshire. It involves Las Vagas. It features demands for an apology. It has a Republican waging battle on the side of sin! Full dispatch reposted after the jump.