[econ_grad]

Or maybe he has national ambitions and is trying to appeal to the "moderates."

[HostileTerritory]

Not-Terri-Schiavo BTTT

[tomahawk]

I guess I can scratch another one off my list for '08.

[ikka]

I think we need to figure out how many years of "shelf life" Republican pols have before they turn rotten and end up being like Democrats. Then vote out any Republican who is past his due date.

[freepatriot32]

vote for the real small goverment fewer taxes party http://www.lp.org

[demlosers]

Tax spending sits better with Democrats.

[Liberator]

Owens is working to persuade Coloradans to suspend the limits he championed and let the state government spend $3 billion more in tax money than TABOR would allow.

D@mn RINOs.

These people are worthless, pandering, ideological traitors to the real GOP.

Real conservatives have no alternative but to seriously form a Third Party.

[stevem]

Not all Republicans believe there are limits on what government should or is even capable of doing. Sometimes Republicans obtain an office only to grow into this limitless world or, rather, catch the disease. This may be worse than those that move into office with the condition already firmly entrenched.

In real life, there is no limit to the problems that are caused when Republicans and drunken sailors spend like Democrats.

[cogitator]

Longer version here:

GOP Governors Fight Tax Limits

" During the boom years of the 1990s, with population and personal income soaring, the limits worked well. But the economic downturn and the reduction in federal support during the first Bush term proved disastrous for Colorado's finances. The state put off building roads and maintaining infrastructure. It reduced services and raised fees. Spending on higher education fell so sharply that the president of the University of Colorado declared the flagship state school a "private enterprise."

Voters grew increasingly angry and demanded changes from Owens and the Republican-controlled legislature. But GOP leaders refused to act. "So long as I am governor, we will not raise taxes," Owens pledged in 2003.

Last fall, the Democratic Party launched a statewide campaign against the TABOR [Taxpayer Bill of Rights] limits -- and scored a huge victory at the polls. While Bush was easily carrying the state, Democrats took control of the state House and Senate."

[goldstategop]

Colorado's voters want their state to become like California, they should ditch TABOR and foot the bill. Liberals will love it.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[goldstategop]

Some GOP Governors have become Democrat Lite. With friends like these, we don't need enemies.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)