It’s About Politics, Not Governance, With Guns

by Joshua Sharf | 10:15 am, April 9, 2013

As the US Senate begins today’s debate on gun control, Coloradoans can be forgiven for having a feeling of deja vu.  That’s because the debate in Congress is intended to mimic the one in Colorado, and because it’s about politics, not about governance. The one piece of the president’s broad gun control agenda that has [...]

It’s A National Political Strategy

by Joshua Sharf | 11:21 pm, March 18, 2013

On Friday’s Grassroots Radio, the discussion of Rep. Mike McLachlan’s (D-Durango) deceptive advertising of his own gun control positions turned to the national agenda being rammed down Colorado’s throat.  I pointed out that while other states with Democrat majorities and governors – Illinois and Washington came to mind – had rejected similar proposals, Colorado had [...]

Dems Try to Tar Republicans With…Slavery?!?

by Joshua Sharf | 6:13 pm, January 17, 2013

Gawker seems to think it has a scoop of some kind, trumpeting the fact that the Republicans are meeting in the Burwell Room of the Kingsmill Resort (named for a formed slave plantation) to discuss – ta da! – minority outreach.  The irony, the sheer hypocrisy of such a thing is apparently too much for them [...]

How Bad Was the Fiscal Cliff Deal? Michael Bennet May Have Teed One Up for the Teetering GOP

by Ben DeGrow | 11:33 pm, January 3, 2013

Conservatives have plenty of reason to mope in the fiscal gloom these days, maybe even enough to indulge in a bit of dark humor. That brings us to the Colorado political junkie joke of the week, the first of 2013: “How bad was the fiscal cliff deal Congress approved?” “I don’t know. How bad was [...]

Mitt Romney as Adlai Stevenson

by Joshua Sharf | 2:29 am, December 24, 2012

These comments by Mitt Romney’s son Tagg have gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of days: In an interview with the Boston Globe examining what went wrong with the Romney campaign, his eldest son Tagg explains that his father had been a reluctant candidate from the start. After failing to win the [...]

The Pivot – The Republicans’ Secret Weapon

by Joshua Sharf | 10:48 pm, December 10, 2012

When sequestration was designed by the Obama administration, the idea was that the required spending cuts would be unpalatable to both sides – cuts to Democrat-favored patronage programs would be balanced by cuts to Republican-favored defense spending.  Few of us who supported the debt ceiling deal realized how seriously the deck was stacked against Republicans, [...]

Bennet to Head DSCC

by Joshua Sharf | 1:48 pm, December 4, 2012

Word is that Sen. Michael Bennet will accept the position as the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), reuniting there with his old chief of staff, Guy Cecil, who’s now the DSCC’s Executive Director.  It’s tempting to conclude that the appointment is largely on the strength of the unexpectedly strong Democrat showing in [...]

Despite Minor Flaws, Spielberg’s Lincoln Worthwhile Viewing for History Geeks

by Ben DeGrow | 5:02 pm, November 25, 2012

Finding enjoyable movie fare for American history geeks typically presents a challenge. The nature of the genre leaves diehard purists perpetually frustrated. Yet even those of us willing to allow some minor transgressions of fact or character to pass too often are disappointed by the shallow Hollywood luster that insults its audience and kicks a [...]

Facts Remain Facts

by Joshua Sharf | 3:00 am, November 7, 2012

Facts remain facts. Now, the One Big Unpleasant Fact is that Obama got re-elected, and will be President for the next four years, with all that means. Make no mistake, the administration and the rest of the institutional left talk of “consensus” to claim mandates far beyond what the public actually bestowed, and will attempt [...]

Franchise

by Joshua Sharf | 9:00 am, October 30, 2012

More than any election before it, this one has been about the polls.  Right now, it’s about the discrepancy between the  national polls and the state polls, especially in Ohio and other mid-western states.  Other stories say that it comes down to 100 swing counties, which is another way of saying that if you know [...]

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