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Coffman rallies Republicans by decrying Obama ‘march of socialism’

By | 07.19.10 | 11:16 am

Sixth-District Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman fired up the party faithful Saturday at the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Centennial by unleashing a tea-party-style broadside lambasting President Obama as the leader of a socialist takeover of America.

“This election will…

Tea Party Express docks in Denver

By | 03.31.10 | 6:58 pm

DENVER– The Tea Party Express tour (part three) has rolled into town and is holding a rally at the capitol here. The tour is hitting states where Congressional seats are in play and those include seats held by Colorado Democratic Reps Betsy Markey and John Salazar, both called out after their votes in favor of health care reform by Sarah Palin, who seems lately to be solidifying her place at the top of the Tea Party celebrity heap. There are rumors in the crowd here as there were in the capitol hallways today that Palin might speak to the Denver crowd even though it’s not one of the two stops on the tour at which she is scheduled to appear.

Fake-Boehner tweets the apocalyptic dawn of Obamacare America

By | 03.22.10 | 10:57 am

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Congressional Republicans had a lousy night. Obamacare, the grand American socialist experiment, passed. In the months preceding the vote and on the floor of the House last night, GOP lawmakers ratcheted up the end-times rhetoric so high it became…

No apologies: Limbaugh fantasizes a socialist Barry Obama at Columbia

By | 10.23.09 | 3:39 pm

Rush Limbaugh fell for a blog post Friday that quoted from a ridiculous fake ten-page excerpt of a “thesis” alleged to have been written by Pres. Obama at Columbia. The excerpt was designed to mock the right’s socialism panic but…

Tea party protester: ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God’

By | 09.11.09 | 8:24 am

Here’s a fairly representative video from the Freedom Summit in D.C. today — Annie Rupp, a conservative activist from Hawaii, going nuclear on the Obama administration. She took the microphone twice during the morning’s sessions, both times finishing…

Obama school speech provokes accusations of racism all around

By | 09.08.09 | 10:13 am

As Obama gives his controversial back-to-school speech today, Colorado residents on both sides of the issue are crying racism.