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Udall blasts Obama tax-cut deal and its $900 billion in debt over next two years

By | 12.07.10 | 3:55 pm

Democratic Sen. Mark Udall late Tuesday issued a fairly pointed rebuke of President Barack Obama’s deal with Republican leaders to extend all the Bush-era tax cuts.

Obama defiantly defended the deal in the face of what The New York

GOP 2012 preview: While Palin courts lamestream media, Huckabee woos Christian conservatives

By | 11.18.10 | 8:23 am

In interviews with ABC news and the New York Times former Alaska governor Sarah Palin said she is planning to run for president of the United States in 2012. The interviews with two of the main “lamestream media” outlets in the country, as she refers to them, will come out this week and are certain in Palin style to make a splash. They will overshadow the grassroots work former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, one of Palin’s likely rivals for the Republican nomination, will be doing in Iowa, the traditional first battleground in the presidential election cycle.

PPP poll has Bennet topping Buck among key independent voters

By | 10.05.10 | 10:46 am

The nail-biter U.S. Senate race pitting Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet against Republican Weld County D.A. Ken Buck will be won or lost among independent voters with views in the middle of the political spectrum, according to a new…

New Yorker story details Senate breakdown on climate bill

By | 10.04.10 | 8:03 am

The New Yorker published a blockbuster story this weekend detailing the many failures of the White House and the Senate to pass climate change legislation.

The story, by Ryan Lizza, is nearly 10,000 words, but it’s definitely worth a read.…

KHOW’s Caplis gets Obama ‘kingdom on earth’ quote wrong

By | 09.30.10 | 12:43 pm

During his afternoon drive time show on KHOW Tuesday, radio host Dan Caplis accused a caller of denying the historical fact that President Barack Obama during a 2007 “Close the God Gap Tour” said, “Elect me president so that I…

McChrystal in Aspen: ‘Afghanistan a post-apocalyptic nightmare’

By | 09.27.10 | 2:07 pm

ASPEN — Looking relaxed in civilian clothes, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal took questions about his resignation in stride Saturday at a private function at the Maroon Creek Club golf course in Aspen. “You make mistakes allowing situations to occur,” McChrystal said. “I’m about moving forward.”

Bennet opposes Obama infrastructure spending proposal

By | 09.09.10 | 1:12 pm

Sen. Michael Bennet became the first Democrat Wednesday to oppose President Obama’s new economic stimulus proposal for not using unspent stimulus funds to pay for it. Obama proposed $50 billion in new infrastructure investment at a speech in Milwaukee…

Tea partiers rally in Arizona for greater border security

By | 08.16.10 | 8:51 am

This weekend, hundreds of tea party activists gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to protest illegal immigration. The crowd yelled “Hey, don’t come over here anymore” across the border. Although President Obama signed into law

Obama lauds Senate action on unemployment benefits, bashes GOP political gamesmanship

By | 07.21.10 | 11:24 pm

Following the Senate’s reauthorization of an extension to unemployment benefits tonight, President Obama released a statement urging the U.S. House of Representatives to quickly pass its version so he can sign it into law. He blasted Republicans who’d stonewalled…