GOP: SEN. BROWN SAVED THE REPUBLIC
State GOP lawmakers were positively giddy Wednesday over the outcome of the Massachusetts Senate race.
“That sound you hear is Teddy Kennedy whirring in his grave,” said Rep. Larry Liston of Colorado Springs.
Sen. Ted Harvey of Highlands Ranch proposed lawmakers wear brown suit coats every Wednesday in honor of “Scott Brown saving the republic.”
Probably the most excited was Rep. Cory Gardner of Yuma, who practically had to be tethered he was floating so high. The GOP believes the outcome bodes well for Gardner, who is running for Congress.
I am woman, hear me roar.
Sen. Nancy Spence did a good job of guilting her caucus into donating money to help buy livestock at the National Western Stock Show.
The Centennial Republican noted Senate Democrats had ponied up plenty, but all she had collected from her side of the aisle was her own $100 donation.
“Come on, guys,” she said, to laughter. Spence is the only woman in the 14-member caucus.
Reinisch vs. Rush in Haiti showdown.
House Democratic spokeswoman Katie Reinisch killed two birds with one stone when she donated to a Haiti relief fund.
She aided an impoverished nation struggling to recover from a cataclysmic earthquake. And she skewered conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh by making her donation in his honor.
Limbaugh last week suggested President Barack Obama was taking political advantage of the Haitian situation to ingratiate himself to black, American voters, saying: “… We have another crisis simply too good to waste. This will play right into Obama’s hands. He’s humanitarian, compassionate. They’ll use this to burnish their, shall we say, ‘credibility’ with the black community — in the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.”
