Allard on What's Important

We have two Republican Senators from Colorado. Ken Salazar is a GOPer-lite who voted for Bush's torture and deny habeas corpus law, a gutless Republican wannabe who wouldn't stand up for the principles our country stands for. The other Colorado Senator, Wayne Allard, is a true-red old school GOPer whose idea of the most important thing facing this country is the immortalization of Ronald Reagan.

Come on, Wayne! El Paso County has already named I-25 the Ronald Reagan Expressway, what more does the ur-neocon need? The only differentiation between him and the dividers that followed is that Reagan was eloquent and I speak as a Reagan-Republican who later saw the light. Allard, one of the Great Dividers, now wants "bipartisanship" from the Democrats. I believe he should be given exactly the same "bipartisan" treatment his party gave the Democrats for the last twelve years - none. He believes the spirit of "bipartisanship" will move his meaningless tribute while his GOPer buddies wouldn't budge on it in the last congress. I hope our Democratic majority will move on more meaningful legislation and let Allard's go where Allard himself should - right down the political toilet.

Meanwhile, Republican-lite Salizar says In the next two years, "the politics of division, of the past, are politics we will be able to transcend." With his record of voting for torture, for drumhead tribunals and for denial of habeas corpus and suspected support of spying on American citizens without a warrant, I'm sure our GOPer-wannabe will be one of the first to reach across the aisle. I hope Congress can pull it together and find some statesmanship, God knows we need it to solve some of the problems we face but rather than forwarding a GOPer-lite agenda, I'd rather have the GOPers and GOPer-lites treated exactly the way the GOPers treated us for twelve years - ignore them.