Posts Tagged ‘United States Senate’

These types of stories aren’t surprising anymore by any means but that doesn’t make them any more palatable.  The long and short of it is that taxpayers footed the bill to send 101 Congress-related personnel including 21 Congressmen and Senators to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month.  The sad part is, that [...]

Political season is quickly arriving and candidates are crisscrossing their districts and the state drumming up support.  Many were in Thornton on Saturday morning at the monthly meeting of the North Suburban Republican Forum (NSRF).  The crowd was there mainly to see the big guns – the candidates for United States Senate.  Former Colorado Lieutenant [...]

Slurred speech, stuttering, exaggerated gestures.  Sounds like at least some symptoms of someone being drunk and Senator Max Baucus (D – Montana) had all of them while giving a floor speech about health care last week.  Pretty odd.  Drudge has picked up the video so Baucus will no doubt have to address the issue – [...]

If you were on the government payroll at a salary of $174,000 and your office was operated at taxpayer expense to the tune of at least $1.3 million, is it out of line to explain to taxpayers how you are spending their money?  Of course it is not.  As much as those in Washington D.C. [...]

The race to secure one of Colorado’s seats in the United States Senate has been an interesting one.  Currently holding the seat is Michael Bennet, appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to replace Ken Salazar.  On the Republican side, the sands have been – and continue – to shift.  The one candidate for Senate that has [...]

Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier announced today he was dropping his United States Senate bid and instead will run for Congress in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District.  That seat is currently held by Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and had been considered relatively safe – until today.  Frazier’s announcement today wasn’t much of a surprise.  Rumors about the [...]

Almost one month to the day after insisting a brigadier general call her Senator and not ma’am, California Senator Barbara Boxer once again makes an appearance on Tony’s Rants.  This time the good senator receives a hard slapdown from Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford after Boxer displays subtle but definitely palatable racism during [...]

Time to wake up and smell the trash, folks!  As the bleeding from job losses and a sinking economy continues, our congress and president are intent on taking us down a path from which we will assuredly get lost if something isn’t done soon.  Emphasizing that point, the director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office [...]

In one of the absolutely most comical and asinine displays ever seen in the halls of the Senate, California Senator Barbara Boxer directed an Army brigadier general to call her ‘Senator’ – not ma’am.  Brig. Gen Michael Wash of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers was testifying about the restoration of the Louisiana coast and [...]

Yesterday at ThorntonFest I had the opportunity to spend some time visiting with Cleve Tidwell, candidate for the United States Senate.  Mr. Tidwell is seeking the Republican nomination to take on Michael Bennet in 2010 and from what I have seen, read and heard, of Mr. Tidwell, Senator Bennet may be out of a job [...]