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Well, it's become quite apparent that U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) is quickly making a name for himself among the ranks of the slandering, sensationalizing far left. Since I live in Colorado, covered the primaries and election that put Salazar into office, and know some of the principals personally, I thought my take might shed some light onto the underpinnings of this bizarre phenomenon. First, on April 25, 2005, Senator Ken Salazar (affectionately known as "Gollum" by Colorado conservatives) commented that Focus on the Family (FOTF), the organization founded by Dr. James Dobson, has relentlessly and unfairly attacked him. In...

Salazar's Splutterings [Wendy Long 01/26 12:18 PM] Ken Salazar, who has been completely neutered as a political force by his own scheming, twisting, waffling, and blowing whatever way he wrongly thinks a political wind might be blowing, is obviously frustrated. What would be the metaphor? Neutered cat trapped in corner? Never mind.... Salazar is stuck. He can't filibuster Judge Alito, because that would be political suicide with the great majority of Colorado voters who, like the great majority of Americans, want Senators to do their jobs and vote on judicial nominees. But, unfortunately for him, he chose to make his...

Leahy, Salazar and Max Baucus of Montana — who announced his opposition to Alito on Wednesday — were three of the 22 Democrats who voted for Roberts' confirmation as the replacement for the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a conservative.

“Sen. Salazar is nothing more than a partisan pawn who is simply toting the party line of the extreme liberals within his party. The excuses he offers for opposing Judge Alito’s confirmation are transparent and reek of partisan politics. Sen. Salazar claims that he thinks Alito will move the court ‘out of the mainstream of American law’ – to Salazar I say, this vote is certainly out of the mainstream of the Colorado voters. This sort of liberal behavior makes me wonder if Sen. Salazar remembers which voters he represents – liberal Massachusetts’ or Colorado’s?

Salazar Cheered Like a RepublicanIt must be hell in the Senator Salazar (D-CO) camp -- sort of like the final scene in the classic film "The Quiet Man" when Ward Bond as Father Lonagan clutches his scarf about his neck to hide his collar and asks his flock to "cheer like Protestants" when the Rev Playfair drives by with his bishop. Senator Salazar had to cheer like a Republican when he recently voted for the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - but is he fooling his flock? Maybe so. On a recent Saturday morning...

Colorado Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar said today he won't be part of any possible Democratic filibuster to stop a vote on the confirmation of Samuel Alito as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. "I do not intend to join in any filibuster against a vote on Judge Alito," Salazar said in a telephone news conference. In his view, Alito's nomination is "not filibusterable" due to his stellar academic record and support of his colleagues on the appeals court. Still, Salazar has said he would vote against Alito, especially due to his history of decisions favoring a strong executive branch....

Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., today called current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an "abomination" when compared with the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Marshall, the first black appointed to the Supreme Court, was the lead litigator on the historic 1954 school desegregation case and, as a justice, a champion of civil rights. He died in 1993. Thomas was the second black appointed to the Supreme Court, and he succeeded the retiring Marshall in 1991 after being nominated by the first President George Bush. Thomas' televised confirmation hearings captured the nation's attention when Professor Anita Hill accused him...

Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., all but said he would oppose the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, listing his continuing concerns about Alito's previously expressed views on the power of the presidency, as well as major civil rights decisions by the Supreme Court in the 1960s. In a telephone press conference, Salazar repeated that he had not made a final decision on Alito, but went on to express his doubts about the federal appeals court judge. In particular, Salazar said he questioned whether Alito would set aside his personal political views when making court decisions....

Sen. Ken Salazar today expressed "grave disappointment" that President Bush overlooked women candidates in making his latest pick to the U.S. Supreme Court, but he said he will give Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. a closer look before deciding how to vote. "At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we see huge forward strides made by women in our society, including their representation in law school and in legal and judicial careers," Salazar said in a prepared statement. "For me, it is a grave disappointment, that out of the thousands of qualified women in the United States, the president has...