February Survey of Colorado’s Political Temperature: Results Unveiled

by Ben DeGrow | 1:41 pm, February 15, 2010

Thank you to the more than 400 people who participated in the February 2010 Survey of Colorado’s Political Temperature. A snapshot of the results in headlines:

U.S. Senate: Ken Buck Still On Top, Norton and Tidwell Gaining
Governor: Dan Maes Widens Support Edge Over Scott McInnis
3rd Congressional: Scott Tipton Tops Bob McConnell Twice
4th Congressional: Cory Gardner Still [...]

Seeking Substance in the Energy Debate

by Ari Armstrong | 11:43 am, February 15, 2010

The following article originally was published February 15 by Grand Junction’s Free Press.Seeking substance in the energy debateby Linn and Ari ArmstrongScott McInnis, the presumptive Republican candidate for governor, blasted his Democratic opponent J…

Why eliminate tax breaks?

by Al Maurer | 11:08 am, February 15, 2010

The Colorado Legislature has been busy passing laws eliminating tax breaks–or “loopholes” as politicians like to call them–along party line votes.  Blogger Ben DeGrow has been following this closely and reports on the latest activity of the Dirty Dozen.  I’d like to go against the grain a bit and explore why eliminating these tax breaks [...]

Jeffrey Sweetin, rogue federal cop, decides national and state policy in Colorado.

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 10:45 am, February 15, 2010

Who determines Colorado law?

Breaking news: Evan Bayh (D-IN) will not seek reelection to the Senate

by Rossputin | 10:41 am, February 15, 2010

The race for Indiana’s Senate seat currently held by Evan Bayh was expected to be one of the most competitive in the nation, particularly if former Senator Dan Coates joined in the race.

It is now being reported that Bayh is dropping out of the race.  The announcement is surprising because pollsters thought that Bayh remained, even in these rough seas for Democrats, the likely winner and because he has over $13 million in his campaign coffers, giving him the third highest cash balance of Senators up for reelection this November.

Bayh’s press conference will be at 2 PM Eastern today.

Pundits will speculate that Bayh’s internal polling showed him much weaker than the common wisdom believed.  If that’s the case, given that Bayh is a popular and reputedly “moderate” Democrat, today’s news should scare other Democrats to death…or at least to retirement.

In political betting in the hours after the announcement, the chance of the Republicans now taking the Indiana seat jumped from 40% to 77%. And the chance of Republicans taking back control of the Senate in November jumped roughly 14%, from just under 21% to an astonishing 35%.

Liberal Sen. Evan Bayh retires, sends message to viciously partisan Obama, Colorado Democrats;

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 10:16 am, February 15, 2010

In a blast from fly over country, the highly partisan Democrats in Colorado and Washington are getting a stunning message from one of their own today. “Cut it out.”
Two-term liberal Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) will announce this afternoon that the viciously partisan environment in Washingon created by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have convinced him that he should retire from the Senate at the ripe old age of 54. This is despite the fact that he has a big 20-point lead over former Senator Dan Coats who is running for his seat. Bayh has some $13 million on hand for a re-election campaign. What will this do to and for Colorado and Washington politics? Will the Democrats cool it and start governing instead of just focusing on winning?

As seen in my back yard

by Rossputin | 10:02 am, February 15, 2010

A beautiful reminder that we live in Colorado…

(The scale is hard to tell from the photo…he’s about 18″ tall.)

 

 

Movement to clear the Colorado Supreme Court of 4 justices gains attention and momentum

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 9:19 am, February 15, 2010

Scott McInnis, Dan Maes call for replacing 4 justices on Colorado Supreme Court. The Business Word, 2.9.2010.The campaign to deny retention to the chief justice and three other judges on  the Colorado Supreme Court in the November 2 elections is gaining attention and momentum, thanks to the hard work of Matt Arnold at http://www.clearthebenchColorado.org. Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey and justices Alex Martinez, Michael Bender and Nancy Rice will face retention elections if the fall. They can’t declare their intentions to stand for retention elections until May.
Felisa Cardona does a pretty good job of reporting on why Four Supreme Court Justices face tough votes in elections. Her story is sure to be picked up by the Associated Press and many newspapers and bloggers around the state. And look for Arnold to promote the Denver Post’s story on his web site, in his frequent appearances at political events and on Facebook and Twitter. A lot of people are upset with the justices’ votes to allow Governor Bill Ritter and the General Assembly to raise taxes by more than $1 billion without getting the approval of voters as required by the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) section of the state constitution. Links are below the jump:

Keeping Boulder Green Isn’t Easy

by Chuck Moe | 9:01 am, February 15, 2010

The city of Boulder Colorado has been having a little trouble getting people to reduce their carbon footprints according to the Wall Street Journal article Boulder Struggles With Energy Conservation.
In 2006, Boulder voters approved the nation’s first “carbon tax,” now $21 a year per household, to fund energy-conservation programs. The city took out print ads, bought radio time, sent email…

Top 10 Reasons Why Both Parties Are in Tea Party Hot Water – #6

by Lu Busse | 7:30 am, February 15, 2010

This is Day 5 of a 10-part installment. 6. Tea Partiers Are All About Substance. Another disconnect between the parties and those of us in the Tea Party movement is the struggle between substance over style or form. Major political campaigns (and some policy debates in Washington DC) have come to be more about the candidate’s style [...]

Democrats eating their own

by Rossputin | 6:12 am, February 15, 2010

Those of us who have been watching what Congress has been doing to the nation over the last year – which is to say the 80% of the population that isn’t a member of the Cult of Obama – have been wondering why Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have seemed so willing to walk their respective chambers’ Democrats off the electoral cliff. They acted as if getting a legislative victory – any victory – for The One would be worth any price, including, strangely, the price of their own leadership positions, their majorities, or even, in Reid’s case, his seat in the US Senate.

With every move, every closed-door meeting, and every transparent “bipartisan” embrace (which couldn’t even fool Olympia Snowe) Congressional Democrats’ poll numbers fell. President Obama’s fell also, but the drop was tempered by his personal popularity and by his being oddly if wisely silent during every important policy debate.

According to the latest Gallup poll, Congress’ job approval rating is now at its lowest point of the Obama presidency, taking a particular recent beating among liberals and moderates. (Support among conservatives is so low at 14% that it’s not easy to push it down further.)

Perhaps it took the loss of “Ted Kennedy’s seat” in the Senate and the retirement of another Kennedy (Patrick, of Rhode Island) in the House to snap Reid and Pelosi out of their Obama-serving trance. Perhaps they’re watching political betting sites and seeing the odds of Republicans taking back the majority in the House go from 32% to 42% in a month or, in its own way more impressive, the chance of Republicans gaining a Senate majority going from 6% to 21% in four weeks. Over that same time, betting odds on a Democrat being in the White House after the 2012 election has barely dropped, going from about 59% to about 58%. In other words, Reid and Pelosi could no longer blind themselves from the fact that they are Barack Obama’s sacrificial lambs.

And the lambs have decided to fight back.

It began subtly last month when Pelosi implicitly criticized Barack Obama for not living up to his campaign promise of transparency in health care negotiations. After the President’s State of the Union speech, Pelosi was publicly irritated that Obama’s so-called “spending freeze” excluded the Defense Department. It continued last week with Pelosi pushing back against the Obama-backed Senate “jobs bill” – Pelosi wants more spending and fewer tax incentives. And a Politico.com article last week entitled “Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with President Obama” has the liberal media and left-wing blogosphere abuzz.

The article, which starts off talking about “Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama” and elaborates on other areas where Pelosi and Obama are butting heads quickly descends into the expected spin-fest, quoting Pelosi’s aides and Obama’s henchman David Axelrod as saying the disagreements are “a few tactical differences” and “predictable.” Jumping into the “defend the Democrats” fray was CBS News reporting that “some Democratic aides” say the Politico piece “was completely made up.” Another unnamed aide says that the utterly plausible idea that Obama wouldn’t mind having a Republican Congress to run against in 2012 is nothing more than “loose chatter.” The left-wing propaganda machine is in high gear.

Over at far-left blog DailyKos.com, one contributor wonders “Who do you think told freaking Politico that Pelosi was disagreeing with the President. (sic) ” The blogger then chastises Pelosi for disagreeing with Obama in front of John Boehner whom he presumes must be the leak. The left-wing blogosphere seems happier with Pelosi, whom they see as a “fighter”, than with Obama whom they properly see as ineffective but strangely perceive as having shifted to the middle. If this is the middle, one can barely imagine just where lefty bloggers would like us to be.

If Nancy Pelosi’s continuation as Speaker of the House is uncertain, Harry Reid’s political future is downright bleak. Reid’s disapproval ratings in Nevada are consistently over 50% and he trails much lesser-known Republican candidates by wide margins. Reid has nearly $9 million on hand in his campaign coffers, five times his closest Republican competitor and roughly twenty times the next two GOP contenders, but it’s hard to see how even that kind of financial advantage will be enough to save him. Reid, like Pelosi, has finally decided to think about himself and other Senate Democrats rather than repeatedly suffering in the service of Barack Obama’s legacy.

Most notably, despite Obama’s almost desperate recent pleas for bipartisanship, Harry Reid torpedoed the first important (which is not to say good) measure which seemed ready to pass the Senate, a “jobs bill” negotiated primarily by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and his Republican counterpart, Charles Grassley (R-IA), another too-often-willing-to-give-in Republican. The $85 billion measure was loaded with pork and giveaways…something which hasn’t seemed to bother Democrats or Republicans in recent years. Indeed, the NY Times said “the measure drew accolades from the left and the right, a virtually unheard of occurrence in the Senate these days and one viewed as a potential sign of a thaw in the partisan freeze. Even the White House weighed in, with Mr. Gibbs distributing a supportive statement on Thursday.”

Imagine Mr. Gibbs’ surprise (and that of the man behind the curtain) when Reid refused to bring the “jobs bill” up for a vote, instead substituting a much smaller $15 billion measure apparently under the theory that despite Grassley’s lack of backbone, other Republicans would have made the $85 billion price tag of the “bipartisan” bill another campaign example of out-of-control government spending. Reid’s theory is that he’s chosen a few parts of the larger bill, parts which he believes should have Democratic and Republican support, and he’s going to dare Republicans to vote against a “jobs” bill during a recession. Despite Reid’s claim that he had his caucus’ support, it’s hard to believe the substitute bill makes anybody but Reid happy. Republicans will now be even less interested in “bipartisanship” (perhaps the most beneficial result of Reid’s decision), the left wing of the Democratic Party really wanted the bigger bill with its profligate spending, and Max Baucus, a critical player in almost any major legislation, must be fuming.

It was only a matter of time before Democrats in DC began eating their own. They’ve promised everything and accomplished nothing other than spending our children and grandchildren into immorally high levels of debt and the public is getting angry. When even the NY Times talks about “The Rattled State of Democrats”, you know the wheels are coming off the Democrat Express. For those of us who enjoy the spectacle of politics, the next several months will be a time to sit back and watch a great show…perhaps the political equivalent of watching the explosion of the Death Star. The real remaining question is whether the Republicans have their own Luke Skywalker. I hope we don’t have to wait for the next movie to find out.

 

Buying insurance across state lines not a “race to the bottom”

by Brian Schwartz | 1:30 am, February 15, 2010

Colorado politicians forbid citizens from buying more affordable insurance available in other states.  Ed Sealover reports in the Denver Business Journal:
Colorado Republicans‘ top health-care bill is coming before a House committee today. But don’t expect you’ll ever hear about it again this year.
HB 1163, sponsored by Rep. Cindy Acree, R-Aurora, would authorize the Commissioner of [...]

Evaluating the Performance of Colorado Supreme Court Justices

by CTBC Director | 11:11 pm, February 14, 2010

It’s Valentine’s Day, but the Denver Post is not feeling the love…
Between a weekend social calendar and attending several events (including One Sweet Fundraiser for Clear The Bench Colorado – a great success!  Thanks to all who attended and contributed!) yesterday, I almost missed the publication of the following guest commentary article on judicial performance [...]

AMERICA’S TEAPARTY MOVEMENT

by El Marco | 10:30 am, February 14, 2010

Happy Birthday to the Party of HELL NO!
February 2010  -  by EL MARCO

In 2009 big things happened in America. Some were good and some were not. One of the good big things was the birth of the Tea Party Movement. It is made up of angry Americans of every socioeconomic, ethnic, and racial stripe. They [...]

Backbone Radio: February 14, 2010

by Rossputin | 5:40 am, February 14, 2010

I’m pleased to announce that starting today, I will take over primary hosting duties for John Andrews’ Backbone Radio program which is broadcast live from 5 PM to 8 PM on Sunday evenings on 710 AM KNUS in Denver.  It will now be called Backbone Radio with Ross Kaminsky and John Andrews.  John will continue to do one broadcast per month and I will do most of the rest.  (Over the next month, I have some previously-scheduled weekends away so you will hear other hosts, including John, for the three Sundays from January 28 to March 14.)

If you’re not in range of the radio waves, you should be able to listen to the show online by clicking HERE.

Before I go any further, allow me to thank John for the great compliment and privilege of offering me this opportunity.  I will do my very best to uphold the high standard at which he as performed for the last five years and to bring to the listeners an enjoyable and informative show.

On this Valentine’s Day, we’re going to talk about the wider-than-ever gap between Democrats and Republicans, both in the federal Congress and in our state legislature.  We’ll discuss “bipartisanship”, whether it’s a valid end in itself and whether it tends to help or harm the cause of liberty.  And we’ll discuss why it seems that Democrats believe they can tax and spend without political repercussion (or at least without worse political repercussion than they might suffer without supporting tax increases and rampant spending.)

During the 5 PM hour, we’ll have former Congressman Bob Schaffer as our guest to discuss nuts-and-bolts politics.  I’m sure he will also remind people to register for the Leadership Program of the Rockies’ Annual Retreat at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs (Feb 26-27)…an event I haven’t missed once during my 6 years in Colorado.  John Bolton will be the Friday dinner speaker and Dick Morris the Sunday lunch speaker!

And during the 7 PM hour, we will be joined by State Senator Greg Brophy who will talk to us about the Democrats’ “Dirty Dozen” tax increases – both the details of the measures as well as the likely political fallout.

One modest difference in style between me and John Andrews is that I really want to encourage listener participation, i.e. I want listeners to call in and join the conversation.  So if you have something to add (other than just swearing at me), please don’t be shy (regardless of whether you agree or disagree with my point of view.)

The studio call-in number is 303-696-1971.  Add it to your speed dial!

If you call while we have a guest and want to ask a question, you might or might not get on the air with him (or her), but at the very least our producer will get your question and we’ll ask the guest on your behalf, just in the interest of time management.

In the future, I will endeavor to implement an instant messaging service, either through my web site or through the Backbone web site so that you can send us messages if you’d prefer that to dialing a phone.

Also, I will check e-mail during the show, so feel free to e-mail me at rossputin (at) rossputin (dot) com and I’ll even try to keep an eye on my Twitter account so you can try “tweeting” to me…@Rossputin.  You can try THIS link if you’re logged in to Twitter, but I’m not an expert so I’m not sure it will work…

Boulder Lawyer exploits Federal courts to assault TABOR, undermine constitutional rights of Colorado citizens

by CTBC Director | 11:45 pm, February 13, 2010

As usual, it’s “for the children.”
Boulder lawyer Herb Fenster has declared that he intends to file a lawsuit against the people and state of Colorado to nullify a section of the Colorado Constitution (Article X, Section 20 – colloquially known as TABOR, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights) in Federal court “by the end of the [...]

Republicans should not publish health plan; make Obama sell them on his health deform bill

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 8:50 pm, February 13, 2010

Republicans have offered many health reform ideas over the last several years.
Democrats blocked the GOP’s reforms when the GOP controlled the WH and Congress. Democrats have ignored the GOP’s plans since taking Congress. Republicans should not publish a new plan prior to President Obama’s scheduled White House health deform summit.
They should say their role is not to write a plan that everyone knows Obama will reject out of hand. Their role is to critique and negotiate about the sections of ObamaCare that keep them from supporting the plan. It’s Obama’s job to sell his bill to Republicans, not the other way around.
Republicans should list the key sections of ObamaCare bills passed by the House and Senate that they think both they and the Democrats are ready to negotiate. They should list the sections they think are non negotiable for both parties. The non negotiable sections should be dropped from the bill.
In any case, the idea that the crowd attending the Feb. 25 televised summit can negotiate anything in three hours is ludicrous.

Feb. 15th Happy Hour Meet Up

by redrocks | 3:27 pm, February 13, 2010

“Where have you gone, Mr. Washington?”
Michael Holler – Up On The Roof (upstairs indoor HEATED bar)
February 15, 2010

It’s Presidents Day, and our special guest, Michael Holler, Tea Party tour speaker and author of the book The Constitution Made Easy, will be joining us to ignite your patriotism for Liberty and conduct a book signing.

Have you [...]

Blue Dog Markey: All bark; no bite

by Amy Oliver | 2:32 pm, February 13, 2010

At the end of last year Congresswoman Betsy Markey (CO 4) joined the Blue Dog Coalition, a self described group of 54 conservative and moderate Democrats that focus on fiscal issues including a balanced budget and the national debt.   A review of Markey’s voting record leaves one to wonder if her support for fiscal reform is [...]

Dan Maes launches Valentine’s Day moneybomb

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 1:27 pm, February 13, 2010

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is hoping that his Valentine’s Day moneybomb will attract contributors to his campaign. He’ll soon know how strong his grass roots, Tea Party support is.

Cleve Tidwell warns against dictatorship, Marxism, loss of liberty

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 1:18 pm, February 13, 2010

Cleve Tidwell, a long-shot Colorado Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trying to exploit conservative Republicans’ distrust of President Obama and Congressional Democrats by warning that they are leading the country into a Marxist dictatorship.
In the first of what he says will be five articles on his blog, Cleve Notes, Tidwell warns:

Suit against TABOR’s constitutionality would be an attack on all voter initiatives and referenda

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 11:18 am, February 13, 2010

The announcement that a Boulder lawyer wants to sue in Federal District Court to overturn Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) really is an attack on the rights of Americans to use the ballot to approve or kill state and municipal laws, state constitutional amendments and proposals to fund the construction of schools, hospitals and other infrastructure by issuing tax-exempt bonds.
Interestingly,

Colorado Republicans should think twice about bringing in Sarah Palin; 37% favorable, 55% not

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 10:51 am, February 13, 2010

Some Colorado Republican candidates who are trying to bring in Sarah Palin to help them raise money and rally supporters may hurt themselves more than help their campaigns if they get her to speak at their fundraisers. A new Washington Post/ABC poll shows 37% of Americans give her a favorable rating and 55% give her an unfavorable rating. What’s more, polls show voters rank her way down on lists of potential presidential candidates for 2012. And party pros who bundle contributions for presidential candidates seem unenthusiastic about jumping on her bandwagon. Like it or not, the establishment doesn’t think much of Palin’s potential as a president, and even Barack Obama depended more on establishment money and traditional fund raising channels than most people realize. While online contributions can be huge, nobody has won the presidency without the support of his party’s establishment. The Republicans who won the Blue states of Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey wouldn’t touch Palin. Colorado’s a Blue state until proven otherwise, and Republicans will be wise to keep her out of this state as well. Politico examines the Palin appeal to ratings-hungry media versus her appeal to voters and GOP pros as a potential presidential candidate. This article is a must read for political junkies, I think.

This is about state sovereignty, not medical marijuana

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 9:43 am, February 13, 2010

As the Denver Post reports, “Major metro grower jailed,” federal agents have asserted their authority, primacy and superiority over its mere subjects in the district of Colorado.

I say “district,” because states have rights. Districts are mere political subdivisions of, and exist at the whim of, the larger federal government.

Last night the feds, asserting their supremacy, arrested a man who was in full compliance with Colorado state law.

With the federal government’s decision to completely ignore the Colorado Constitution and assert its statutes, any semblance of Colorado autonomy has been crushed.

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Lest there be any doubt, Special Agent Jeffrey Sweetin, who is in charge of the DEA’s office in Denver, was very clear:

“Technically, every dispensary in the state is in blatant violation of federal law. The time is coming when we go into a dispensary, we find out what their profit is, we seize the building and we arrest everybody. They’re violating federal law; they’re at risk of arrest and imprisonment.”

And you thought the Governor, state legislature and state Supreme Court had some say what goes on in Colorado.

Not if the feds decide they do not like it.

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TAKE ACTION

Remember, this is not about medical marijuana. It is about Colorado sovereignty.

In a polite, reasoned manner, tell the feds you do not appreciate them stepping into a Colorado law enforcement matter. Tell them if they have enough time and money to spend usurping Colorado’s sovereignty to enforce federal policy, they have too much time and money.

Tell them to leave us alone. We can handle our own business.

CALL NOW IF YOU CAN

Here is the Denver DEA office contact information:

Media Contact – Special Agent Mike Turner

Phone: 720-895-4214

Email: Robert.M.Turner@usdoj.gov

You can also call these other Colorado field offices:

Colorado Springs, CO — (719) 866-6100

Durango, CO — (970) 385-5147

Glenwood Springs, CO — (970) 945-0744

Grand Junction, CO — (970) 683-3220

And let your U.S. Representative and Senators know you want him/her to get the federal agents out of Colorado state business:

United States Representatives

District 1 – Diana DeGette

(303) 844-4988

District 2 – Jared Polis

D.C. # (202) 225-2161

District 3 – John Salazar

D.C. # (202) 225-4761

District 4 – Betsy Markey

D.C. # (202) 225-4676

District 5 – Doug Lanborn

D.C. # (202) 225-4422

District 6 – Mike Coffman

D.C. # (202) 225-7882

District 7 – Ed Perlmutter

D.C. # (202) 225-2645

Colorado Senators

Mark Udall

Toll free # 877-7-MUDALL

(877-768-3255)

Michael Bennet

Toll free # (866) 455-9866

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Please forward this to any other citizen concerned about Colorado’s sovereignty.

David K. Williams, Jr.

Big Brother in a windbreaker

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 9:40 am, February 13, 2010

Little Brother had an idea, but he knew his big brother did not approve.

Little Brother went ahead and tried it, but tried to keep it small so as not to bring undue attention to himself. Big Brother eventually noticed, however, but said, “sure, Little Brother, go ahead and play with your little idea, I don’t care.”

Little Brother, no longer concerned about undue attention, really expanded his idea. He still had lots of issues to work out, but he felt he could work them out eventually.

Well, Big Brother decided one day he did not like Little Brother’s idea any more. So he stepped in and stopped it. Just like that.

He does not need a reason. He is Big Brother.

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This is exactly what has happened in Colorado and its burgeoning medical marijuana industry.

And Big Brother is not in a fairy tale or contained in an Orwell novel. He wears a windbreaker with “DEA” across the back in yellow letters.

See “Major metro grower jailed.“

It Stinks to Be Michael Bennet: Andrew Romanoff Nets Big Labor Backing

by Ben DeGrow | 6:45 am, February 13, 2010

It really stinks to be the Appointed One these days. As if trailing all potential Republican rivals in the polls (including Jane Norton by double digits) wasn’t bad enough for junior U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.
Then Bennet sticks out his neck, kowtows to Barack Obama to cast a losing vote for Craig Becker and back-door union [...]

The myth of American deindustrialization

by Rossputin | 5:04 am, February 13, 2010

Following is a note I sent yesterday to CNBC’s early morning show “Squawk Box” after hearing one of their guests parrot some of the worst propaganda about American industry...

Just before 9 AM Eastern time on Thursday, your guest make some outrageous statements which deserve serious questioning or push-back.

He argued that the nation is suffering “de-industrialization”. That is simply parroting a lie of big labor unions.

The US’s share of world industrial output has been remarkably constant for several decades.

We are not producing less than we used to.

What is happening is that industry is getting more efficient, making more “stuff” with fewer people. And while that might not be good for the particular worker who loses a job, it is good for the economy overall and good for consumers.

Furthermore, there is ZERO evidence that (before the current recession) reductions in industrial jobs was translating into permanent unemployment. Industrial workers either retired or retrained.

The guest’s argument could just as easily be applied to agriculture. Earlier in our nation’s history, a large majority of Americans worked on farms. Today it’s a single digit percentage of people yet our farms produce more food than ever.

Would your guest support policies to “protect the farmer”, to try to defend farm jobs? What about buggy whip makers?

Your guest’s statements about American de-industrialization were not just wrong, they lead to extremely harmful public policy. Such statements, especially on a network like CNBC, must not go unchallenged.

One Reason CO Loves CA: Letting Teachers Know Membership Options

by Ben DeGrow | 3:04 pm, February 12, 2010

It’s Friday, a fun time for Colorado Republicans to zing Gov. Bill Ritter for declaring February 12 “Colorado Loves California Day.” I get the humor of all the possibilities. It was last year about this time I made the same point.
But I want to take a different tack, and point out one small reason to [...]

John Hickenlooper’s Flip-Flop on Global Warming

by Mr. Bob | 2:55 pm, February 12, 2010

#redco #tcot #colorado #Denver
From the People’s Press Collective
John Hickenlooper’s Flip-Flop on Global Warming

Newt Gingrich joins the Ali Hasan for Treasurer Team

by Joss Armstrong | 2:18 pm, February 12, 2010

I received an interesting email from the Ali Hassan campaign yesterday: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, January 11, 2010 Contact: Drew Dougherty, Campaign Manager NEWT GINGRICH JOINS TEAM HASAN The former speaker joins as campaign adviser in bid for Colorado State Treasurer DENVER – Ali Hasan is proud to announce support from former speaker of the [...]

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