Why can't the president deal with this congress?

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Monday March 04, 2013 · 11:00 PM PST

2013/03/04 · 23:00

And then it hit me: President Obama has two daughters: he's never had to deal with an all-out, screaming, poop-throwing tantrum by a 3-year-old boy. And that, my friends, is why he's having so much trouble dealing with this congress.

Betsy Markey (CO-4) Joins The Blue Dogs

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Saturday December 19, 2009 · 11:11 AM PST

2009/12/19 · 11:11

It's extremely disappointing, but hardly surprising:

Rep. Betsy Markey on Wednesday became an official member of the Blue Dog Coalition, a 55-member group of conservative Democrats known for fiscal restraint and bucking party lines.

Betsy Markey

Those of us who have seen her in action this past year already knew her orientation, but now it's official. And it fits in well with the Democratic Party's strategy these days: appease your opponents and screw your base.

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Will you vote for Markey in 2010?

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Will you vote for Markey in 2010?

Yes, enthusiastically

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Yes, grudingly

12 votes

Undecided

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Probably not

6 votes

Definitely not

26 votes

Betsy Markey public meeting in Longmont, CO

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 6:16 PM PDT

2009/08/20 · 18:16

Freshman congresswoman Betsy Markey, who won our hearts by finally topping the loathsome Marilyn Musgrave from her perch in Colorado's 4th District (The fightin' 4th!), has had a series of public meetings along the front range this week.

Today was, according to her staff, the biggest turnout yet. A couple hundred citizens turned out for a weekday, mid-afternoon chance to vent. The crazy stayed at a low simmer, and Markey did an impressive job of laying out facts.

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Monday August 25, 2008 · 8:44 PM PDT

2008/08/25 · 20:44

"Imagine Denver under missile attack from nearby Boulder."

That's the first line of a real ad, running on television, being run by a group called "The Israel Project." I personally saw it during the Daily Show - I thought it was parody at first. It's not.

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 7:31 PM PDT

2008/07/25 · 19:31

Colorado GOP Senate Candidate Bob Schaffer and several of the most embattled incumbent Republican senators are going to skip the upcoming Republican national convention in St. Paul, Minn., according to an article in The National Journal.

Schaffer is running for the seat being vacated by Republican Wayne Allard.

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Friday July 11, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/07/11 · 11:49

Measles was all be eliminated in the US just a few years ago, but it's making a comeback, sickening 127 people in 15 states, most of whom were not vaccinated against the virus, federal officials announced Wednesday.

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More Anti-Vaccination Fallout: A UK Measles Epidemic

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Thursday July 10, 2008 · 10:27 AM PDT

2008/07/10 · 10:27

Fourteen years ago, measles had been stamped out in the United Kingdom through comprehensive vaccination. But anti-vaccination hysteria has dropped immunization rates to the point where local outbreaks are increasing in scope and severity, and the disease will soon become epidemic, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), the public health body of England and Wales.

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Wednesday July 02, 2008 · 10:35 AM PDT

2008/07/02 · 10:35

Republican Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave repeated Monday a lie told by Dick Cheney, falsely claiming that China is drilling for oil 60 miles off the Florida coast in Cuban waters.

In an article in The Fort Collins Coloradoan, Musgrave was reported as repeating Cheney's June 12 whopper, which he was forced to retract when experts reported that, well, it simply wasn't true.

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 3:17 PM PDT

2008/07/01 · 15:17

When people stop vaccinating their children, disease breaks out. It's that simple. It's happening in Africa, and it's happening in the U.S., and if trends continue it's going to get worse.

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Do you immunize your children?

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Do you immunize your children?

Yes

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No, for religious reasons

1 vote

No, I don't think vaccines are safe

22 votes

No, I don't think it does any good

0 votes

No, for other reasons

4 votes

I don't have children

50 votes

CO-Sen: Udall lengthens lead over Schaffer

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 8:12 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 20:12

Democratic senate candidate Mark Udall has extended his lead over GOP rival Bob Schaffer, and now has a 49%-40% lead, according to polling firm Rasmussen Reports.

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Monday June 02, 2008 · 10:06 PM PDT

2008/06/02 · 22:06

(cross-posted at Longmont YourHub, a community blog)

Those poor holdout soldiers - nobody told them the war is over. They're clutching tight to their rusted, useless rifles, proudly waving tattered flags and swearing never to surrender islands that nobody's fighting for anymore.

In Longmont, our local holdout is Richard Yale - a prolific contributor to a community blog I also post to. His latest diatribe: 35 Inconvenient Truths & Efficacy of Indulgences - is a classic outing in global climate change denialism. The core of his article seems to be this: climate change is a lie because Al Gore refuses to debate someone from "Science and Public Policy," an Exxon-funded "think tank." Mr. Yale's link to the group's website is broken, but you can see their Gore criticism here.

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 10:39 AM PDT

2008/05/31 · 10:39

Republican Bob Schaffer's campaign for the US Senate has finally gotten a substantial website on the air. It's not a bad effort, to be honest, but doesn't match up to the site of his Democratic opponent opponent Mark Udall by several measures.

The short version: Udall gets the web, Schaffer doesn't.

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Betsy Markey public meeting in Longmont, CO

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CO-04's Musgrave: I See Chinese People

Anti-Vaccination Hysteria Causing Outbreaks

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The GOP's Stranded Footsoldiers

Udall and Schaffer - A Tale of Two Websites