Are all politics local?

It’s one thing for local progressive municipalities to pass resolutions of impeachment (meaningless) and quite another for state representatives to involve themselves on the foreign policy front (none of their business). My Denver Post column takes a look at local representatives stepping out of their element to pander to voters with selective and convenient outrage on foreign policy.

Yes, Iran, a mullah-infested sinkhole of religious fanaticism, has me shaking in my boots. But I have no interest in watching Colorado Republicans conjuring up ineffectual divestment plans to fix the problem. That’s not why barely any of them were elected to the state House.

On the Democratic side, we have the obscure Colorado Speaker of the House headed off to give communist China’s leaders an earful on Sudan. One Colorado newspaper carried the headline ”House speaker to risk arrest in China.”  Oh my. How brave.

UPDATE:

David Sirota comes after me here.

I respond here.