If you were wondering how something could be both utterly shocking and entirely unsurprising at the same time, I give you the U.S. House of Chaos, formerly known as the U.S. House of Representatives, where pandemonium reigns and, for all I know, dogs and cats live together. As you have probably heard, Kevin McCarthy lost […]
Mike Littwin
Special to The Colorado Sun
Email: milittwin@gmail.com Twitter: @mike_littwin
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Littwin: The second GOP debate shows you can’t beat Trump if you don’t actually run against him
Trump has skipped both debates, leaving the other candidates to spend their time futilely sniping at one another while Trump just slides
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Littwin: Dem senators finally start calling for Menendez to resign after corruption charges. Why aren’t Republicans?
GOP senators want to run against a damaged Menendez, of course. But there’s also the problem of calling out Menendez while defending Trump.
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Littwin: McCarthy, nation both fight for survival. I’ll assume you’re rooting for the nation.
Columnist Mike Littwin notes that days before a possible government shutdown, Speaker-for-now McCarthy sent House members home. Think he was just tired of looking at Matt Gaetz’s face?
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Littwin: The shameful rise in child poverty is obscene. It would be worse to ignore it.
Sen. Michael Bennet says we’ve turned our backs on our kids. He’s pushing to bring back the enhanced child tax credit he championed.
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Littwin: Do we know who Lauren Boebert is? Do you really have to ask?
Columnist Mike Littwin observes that getting kicked out of a Denver theater for bad behavior amounts to just another day in the life of Lauren Boebert, Colorado’s gun-totin’ congresswoman.
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Littwin: You’d think when Kevin McCarthy announced the Biden impeachment inquiry, he might offer some evidence
By pushing ahead with an impeachment inquiry absent evidence, speaker-for-now Kevin McCarthy conceded that the Boeberts, Gaetzes, Jordans and other Trumpists are in charge of the House, columnist Mike Littwin writes.
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Littwin: Can the 14th Amendment block a Trump return to the White House? A Colorado case may hold answers.
Columnist Mike Littwin explains how a Colorado case may hold answers to the constitutional question of whether Donald Trump’s actions surrounding January 6 disqualify him from the ballot.
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Littwin: American democracy may be in crisis, but you can still find glimmers of hope
Columnist Mike Littwin points out that If Lauren Boebert is in deep trouble and Ken Buck is smashing fellow Republicans for supporting Jan. 6 rioters, all is not lost for American democracy.
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Littwin: The legislature reconsiders letting Colorado cities open supervised injection sites for illicit drugs
But there’s no reason to believe Jared Polis supports the plan this year, so we shouldn’t count on seeing a new law