Colorado's embarrassing, soon-to-be-senior U.S. Senator, Ken Salazar, is at it again. He is the master of harvesting cheap political hay at the drop of a hat.
Today alone, he piled on two situations that are already on their way to be being resolved, and don't require his intervention. But alas, he's up for re-election in two years and needs to garner all the favorable publicity he can get.
Most noted for his ridiculous cowboy hats and boots, as well as his inarticulate, painful speaking style, Salazar works his Hispanic heritage for all its worth. Salazar certainly is not a cowboy, but a 17th street lawyer. Presumably, the cowboy hat covers up his failed comb-over, and serves as some sort of badge of identification--a politcal brand, if you will.
The real problem is that his head and stature are too small for the big hats, making real cowboys laugh.
Even worse are his political cheap shots and piling on. Today he called for the resignation of Chief Federal District Judge Edward Nottingham, a great jurist who has diminished himself by consorting with prostitutes in strip clubs and lying about it.
The system already has this one well in hand, and Salazar is simply piling on, trying to belatedly get on the correct side.
Similarly, he has called for a congressional investigation of soldiers from Fort Carson serving in Iraq. Too little, too late--Salazar's simply trying to get his mug on the news, playing tough guy.
Salazar has been a farce in the Senate. He claims to be a moderate. He accomplishes this hollow feat by voting conservative on no-hoper bills like the flag burning amendment, while voting liberal on everything else. He joins Barack Obama with one of the most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate. There are no major bills, threads of vision or leadership in the Senate from Ken Salazar.
The product of a bitter GOP primary between Peter Coors and Bob Schaffer, Salazar was a fluke when he was elected, and hasn't gotten any better in office. Even as severely atrophied and emaciated as the Colorado Republican Party is, surely they can figure out how to bump off this ripe target in 2010.
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