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Politics

Gardner plays up youth in first ad

Tessa Cheek -
But it's not a pitch likely to win over youth voters.
Environment/Energy

Wiretap: Climate change? Boehner wouldn’t presume, is ‘not a scientist’

Staff Report -
"Listen, I'm not qualified to debate the science over climate change," Boehner told reporters last week... It's a strange form of reasoning.
Littwin Columns

Littwin: The purple state and its would-be Tea Party senator

Mike Littwin -
Whatever else you say about Cory Gardner, you have to admire his nerve.
Littwin Columns

Shutdown strategy report: Obamacare popularity boosted; House GOP popularity tanked

Mike Littwin -
You didn't have to be in the room to know what happened at the big White House shutdown confab Thursday.
Mike Littwin

Coffman has seen the light — or maybe the oncoming train

Mike Littwin -
Rep. Mike Coffman has seen the light or maybe he's just seen the polls, but now he says he's absolutely, positively in favor of...
Politics

Lamborn, Colorado’s ‘suicide caucus’ member, determined to battle over debt ceiling

John Tomasic -
Lamborn said he's prepared to battle over the nation's debt ceiling and that he aims to expand debate beyond funding for Obamacare to try and win sweeping budget reforms.
Littwin Columns

Littwin: And the freedom fighters roared

Mike Littwin -
The crackup is coming. You don't have to be a political genius to spot it. Everyone knew it was coming eventually. The only surprise is that the fault lines are moving so quickly.
Littwin Columns

Down the shutdown rabbit hole: The Tea Party and the hack

Mike Littwin -
It was a powerful image of the shutdown theater at its most absurd: The Capitol Police government officers protecting the people who closed down the government for no good reason.
Health

Chart: Obamacare as presented by The Commonwealth Fund

John Tomasic -
For 100 years the Fund has been working to deliver better health care to more Americans, especially to the poor, the elderly, the sick. Its simple chart on the Affordable Care Act is damning commentary on the government shutdown.
In Depth

Nation’s farm bill expires, critical programs shutter as government shuts down

Tessa Cheek -
DENVER -- On Monday, as House Republicans determined to defund the Affordable Care Act steered the federal government toward shut down, the limping extension of the now-five-year-old law that governs the nation’s farm policy expired.
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