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The ACORN scandal, then and now

This week the Brooklyn D.A.’s office concluded a four-month investigation into the controversial ACORN sting videos produced last fall and found no criminality carried out by the organization. On the contrary, it found that the people behind the tapes, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, edited them heavily to “meet their agenda.” This comes after similar [...]


Udall co-sponsors bill to repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Colorado Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall joined with Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman and eleven co-sponsors to introduce legislation this morning to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bans lesbian, gay and bisexual service members from serving openly.
“In a time of two wars, any policy that leads to the discharge of [...]


National Journal’s ‘most conservative’ congressman Lamborn has been called a lot of things

Saturday, the National Journal ranked Colorado Fifth District Rep. Doug Lamborn a most conservative member of Congress. He was tied for the highest ranking with six other middle aged white guys from western desert states, including Arizona’s Trent Franks and John Shadagg and three guys from Texas.


Udall urges Pentagon to speed the repeal of “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell”

In the wake of a Senate Armed Service Committee hearing today on the “Don’t Ask; Don’t Tell” military policy that forces gay service members to remain closeted, Colorado Democratic Sen. Mark Udall pressed for more urgent action to effect a repeal.


Upside-down Watergate: O’Keefe was always the break-in phone-tapper, not the journalist

No one knows what a journalist is anymore and maybe that’s good. But when thirty-one lawmakers on one side of the aisle in Congress decide to commend someone for “journalism,” then it’s abundantly clear the person being commended is no journalist. Gotcha activist YouTuber James O’Keefe was so commended by GOP members of Congress last [...]


Wednesday State of the Union tea party response events!

Conservative responses planned for the State of the Union will have a new flavor this year. Take this run-up event, where Florida U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller will host tea parties in his D.C. and Pensacola offices Wednesday.


It’s not politics; it’s a pledge: Lamborn vows to oppose ‘health care takeover’

Colorado U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, made the unsurprising announcement today that he had joined 26 other lawmakers sponsored by the conservative Club for Growth in pledging to work to stop federal health reform legislation from taking effect.


Lamborn blasts Dems for costly transportation bill; price tag was bipartisan

Thursday, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, announced that he voted against the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act and attacked Democrats for passing it. “This bill is just more of the same from Washington Democrats addicted to spending,” wrote Colorado’s 5th District Republican in a release. But, if this bill is any measure, Republicans are [...]


Free-market medicine: New bill would withhold Congressional health benefits

With GOP lawmakers blasting the Democrats’ health care reform bills as a giant step toward socialized medicine, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) will soon let them put their money where their mouths are. The Oregon liberal announced today that he’ll introduce legislation prohibiting all members of Congress from receiving government-sponsored health coverage until health reform, providing [...]


House and Senate bobbleheads: They’re not offensive; they’re funny!

Apple said that the House and Senate shakeable bobbleheads application ridicules public figures and so Apple rejected it. Then last Monday, apparently, Apple rethought its position. Bobbleheads is silly, not mean spirited! It’s bipartisan foolery! Now you can download the bobblehead app for your iPhone and watch Rep. Doug Lamborn, for example, cast in a [...]


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