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" I&amp;#039;m not sure about the rest of the country, but, contra Willard Romney, I think both Colorado and New Mexico could use some more firefighters right now. That is certainly the opinion of the Colorado congressional delegation, which has dispatched a letter to the federal government appealing for more help. The delegation includes Rep. Scott Tipton (R -3d CD), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-4th CD), Rep, Mike (Stuck In A Groove) Coffman (R-6th CD). (As it happens, Gardner&amp;#039;s district is the one most directly affected by the wildfires.)  Needless to say, but we&amp;#039;ll say it anyway, all three of these folks voted for the Paul Ryan budget, which would cut the daylights out of things like federal firefighting programs, which already are pretty imperiled. Here, for example, is Tipton praising the Ryan budget, and here&amp;#039;s Gardner doing the same. Meanwhile, some folks came to talk to Coffman about it, and he was unavailable. Undoubtedly, he was off somewhere, standing by a statement, until the squirrels came and covered him with leaves. Small government, you see, is the way we will all get our golden unicorns. Meanwhile, you and me and many scientists might be wondering if climate change has anything to do with these huge wildfires that are breaking out every year now. Don&amp;#039;t worry. Cory Gardner, whose district is freaking burning down at the moment, has that covered. He joined every other Republican on the House Energy And Commerce Committee to scrub amendments that would affirm that climate-change is actually happening and that humans are its source. And here he is, yukking it up about another congressman&amp;#039;s pile of books, like you can learn anything from them, right? Of course, the Feds should honor this request and do as much as they can do, given what the congressional Republican nihilists have left them for a budget. But I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m contributing to the general incivility if I wish that, at some point, some hardworking firefighter accidentally dumps a bucket of water over the head of every damn one of them. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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