I AM THE FORCE

Hail the Republican agenda! The evangelicals and NRA should be with us now. How else would GOP legislators like voters to remember them? When November elections roll around, what should regular people see as the identifying GOP characteristics? At the moment, there might just be a few things missing. What about TABOR? How about working out solutions on some real issue with the current Governor? What about using Republican power to actually accomplish something, like rolling back the size of state government or punishing greedy teachers? And we can't even take credit for the gas indexing repeal, since our brilliant leaders fought the change so publicly. If the election were held today, voters would be equally unimpressed with Republican legislators and the Democratic Governor.

Come on people! Why are you even in the Legislature? At least if someone like Frank Lasee was in charge, the Republicans could at least be pursuing some principled objectives. The governing party republicans that are currently in charge seem both uncreative and unprincipled. If you have to be unprincipled, can't you at least be a little creative? Or perhaps a bit more strategic in your planning and implementation of a legislative agenda? The GOP will eventually lose its hold on the Legislature unless they can come up with some more meaningful reasons for being in charge.