This probably should’ve been expected: Colorado voters approved referendum C, but not D.
“The real focus of their efforts was to pass C,” said Ciruli. Referendum D was some extra bonding to make up for past cuts, “icing on the cake,” said Ciruli.
Ciruli said at least some conservatives may have decided to support C but not D because they didn’t want to give the state any more money. He said some voters feel strongly that the state shouldn’t go into debt.
Colorado tends to be a very moderate state. Everything balances out. We vote for Republican federal legislators but Democratic state legislators. We vote more tax money for schools, but a taxpayer’s bill of rights. It shouldn’t be surprising that we voted to fix TABOR and the state budget, but voted against taking the state into debt.
All in all, I’m quite happy. Referendum C was the important part. Getting that passed is a very good thing.
Well, that didn’t take long. Some Republicans are starting to turn on Karl Rove:
Breaking with the White House and fellow conservatives, Republican Sen. Trent Lott (news, bio, voting record) and the head of the Cato Institute questioned on Tuesday whether top White House adviser Karl Rove, who remains in legal jeopardy in a
CIA-leak probe, should keep his policy-making job.
If anyone had any doubts about whether or not Republicans hate the poor, you can now lay those doubts to rest, as Republicans are working to cut $10 billion from Medicare and Medicaid:
A Republican-led effort to slow spending on health care programs for the poor, elderly and disabled survived a stern test in the Senate Tuesday.
That chamber’s Finance Committee, voting along party lines, approved legislation that would trim overall spending on Medicare and Medicaid by about $10 billion over five years. The committee’s 11 Republicans supported the legislation. The committee’s nine Democrats opposed it.
So Republicans are looking for ways to cut into the record deficit this administration has created. Instead of, say, repealing the tax cuts which favored the wealthy, they instead choose to cut health care for our nation’s poorest citizens? There’s no way to justify this. It is flat-out cruelty, flat-out greed, flat-out disrespect for the poor.
