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Polis joins Republicans Coffman, Lamborn voting against war funding

By | 06.16.09 | 6:15 pm

Talk about strange bedfellows. Tuesday night, liberal Democrat Jared Polis joined Colorado’s two Republicans — U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman and Doug Lamborn — voting against the $106 billion Iraq-Afghanistan war funding bill, which narrowly passed the House of Representatives on a 226-202 vote with strong Democratic support. The remainder of the state’s House members, all four Democrats, voted for the bill.

Promise of Iraq Victory Slams into Reality Check

By | 09.07.07 | 8:00 am

The commercials which sponsored Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate featured a legless vet, who lost his limbs in Iraq, and a grieving mom, whose son was killed in the war. Both told viewers that the United States is succeeding…