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How Can George Will Still Deny Global Warming?
Tweet Share on Facebook July 10, 2012 CommentLAKEWOOD, COLO.—On ABC News's This Week this past Sunday morning, climate change denier George Will had an interesting take on the wildfires in the west and the powerful thunderstorms in the east:
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Mitt Romney's Colorado Disconnect
Tweet Share on Facebook May 31, 2012 CommentLAKEWOOD, COLO.—Mitt Romney is quickly becoming the Chevy Chase of Colorado politics: the pratfalls are piling up. While the national media focused on the Romney's evening fundraiser with birther Donald Trump Tuesday night, Romney's Tuesday morning in Craig, Colo. wasn't any less embarrassing. As ProgressNow Colorado put it in a press release, "Mitt Romney makes a fool of himself every time he comes to Colorado."
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Colorado GOP Rejection of Civil Unions Hurts Mitt Romney
Tweet Share on Facebook May 15, 2012 Comment (1)Lakewood, COLO.—There were two equally queasy groups in the Colorado House of Representatives State Affairs Committee hearing room at the state capitol Monday night. One group was supporters and advocates for civil unions, hoping desperately for a last-minute change of heart by one of the Republicans on the committee. The other group was moderate Republicans, watching nervously as multimillionaire philanthropist Tim Gill and his lobbyist Ted Trimpa sat for the whole hearing.
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Colorado Republicans' Anti-Civil Unions Antics Will Help Obama
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2012 Comment (6)Lakewood, COLO.—While the national media fixated on Indiana and North Carolina Tuesday night, something extraordinary happened in Colorado. Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty pulled a Newt Gingrich and shut down the entire legislative process here to stop a civil unions bill.
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Dear Republicans: Contraception Is an Economic Issue
Tweet Share on Facebook April 30, 2012 Comment (15)Republicans on the Sunday talk show circuit spent a lot of time insisting that contraception isn't a real issue for women voters, that it's unimportant and will take a back seat to the economy. Colorado Republican Chair Ryan Call said much the same thing on a local Colorado political show Friday night when he insisted access to contraception was a "small issue."
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Rush Limbaugh Leads Republicans Right Into Social Issues Trap
Tweet Share on Facebook March 6, 2012 Comment (8)LAKEWOOD, COLO.—I'd like to begin this blog post by thanking Rush Limbaugh, Rep. Darrell Issa, and Senate Republican, because their attacks on contraception and Georgetown student Sandra Fluke might be the 2012 equivalent of former Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck's "buyer's remorse" comment in his 2010 Colorado Senate race against Michael Bennet. Buck's use of that phrase in reference to the woman in a rape case he declined to prosecute, as well as his embrace of the "personhood" amendment that would ban many forms of contraception, doomed his candidacy in a swing state in a Republican wave year.
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GOP's Sexist Mad Men Worldview Threatens Women's Health
Tweet Share on Facebook February 28, 2012 Comment (12)LAKEWOOD, COLO.—The new season of Mad Men is upon us, but my mother, a fan of PBS and quality television, still can't bring herself watch it. Mad Men brings back too many bad memories for her of a time when women were second-class citizens, belittled on a daily basis. Many Republicans, on the other hand, seem to view Mad Men and its ritual humiliation of women as an instructive documentary. The Republican presidential field is in a race to the bottom on who can most obnoxiously turn back the clock to the pre-Griswold 1965. House Republicans don't think women are qualified to testify on their own healthcare.
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Rick Santorum's Colorado Win Shows Why GOP Loses Swing Voters
Tweet Share on Facebook February 8, 2012 Comment (2)LAKEWOOD, COLO.—A couple of quick takeaways from former Sen. Rick Santorum's shocker win in last night's Colorado caucuses: One, Colorado Republicans still can't get out from under their own base. They can't get a moderate to win in a primary and they can't get a social conservative to win in the general.
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Mitt Romney and the GOP’s War on Birth Control
Tweet Share on Facebook February 6, 2012 Comment (10)LAKEWOOD, COLO.–The night of the Florida Republican primary, Hotline National editor Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) Tweeted, "Romney line about religious liberty CLEAR reference to Obama health law on contraceptives. Sleeper issue in general."
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Susan G. Komen Foundation Plays Politics With Women's Lives
Tweet Share on Facebook February 1, 2012 Comment (23)LAKEWOOD, COLO.–As the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, thanks to political pressure, the nation's largest breast cancer charity, Komen for the Cure, is halting its grants to Planned Parenthood's health centers to help mostly low-income women with breast cancer screenings. The grants have provided 170,000 clinical breast exams over the past five years.
