Of all the people we've had the pleasure of calling to account this very good 2006, the two that stand out are Bob Beauprez and Marilyn Musgrave. Herein lies an important point about what we do: one election went one way, one another, and it doesn't really matter as we'll prove in 2007 when we continue to hold these people to account.

Well, not Beauprez so much. He's pretty much done. But the others, you watch for it.

If you ask Time Magazine's Person of the Year (look it up), ProgressTV producer Jen Caltrider, who she most enjoyed making video shorts for YouTube about this year, she'll show you these videos.


"Marilyn Musgrave's Issues" -- The not-so-obvious ones, anyway.


"That's My Record!" -- our resurrection of the Pink Lady (sans dead people) was well-received (once people realized it didn't contain dead people). Our Pink Lady put in an Oscar-winning performance in 100+ degree heat wearing pink wool. We love her. But the winner by a mile would nonetheless have to be


"Marilyn Musgrave Attacks!" -- Viewed over 88,000 times on YouTube and their #9 video clip the week prior to the 2006 elections, this video documents various Musgrave lackies' (and Musgrave herself) attempts to doge a question put to her by ProgressTV's Ben Gelt, who is like fifteen feet tall and apparently doesn't blanch easily.

So that was Jen's high point in 2006. Mine, on the other hand, the reason 2006 was a fun year for me, was


(undoctored photo)

Now it's true that we weren't the ones who came up with the now-legendary moniker "Both Ways Bob" -- we'll give that credit where it's due with Beauprez's Republican primary opponent. There was a staff meeting, when we were running through all the things to do that week and one of us remarked kind of offhandedly, "'Both Ways Bob.' That's pretty good."


We eventually decided it looks even better on a billboard rolling down I-25:



And on flip flops (Senator Ken Salazar agrees as you can see):



Beauprez kept us pretty busy this year, reaching a high point last October best illustrated by these four links:

Ritter accuses Beauprez campaign of illegal research
Rocky Mountain News, 10/14
Group wants FBI to take over probe
Rocky Mountain News, 10/16 -- we're the "Group"
Beauprez should speak up
Denver Post editorial, 10/17
FBI joins probe in guv race
Rocky Mountain News, 10/18

After you've read those, this picture makes a little more sense:



So I'm going to miss Bob Beauprez, and Rick O'Donnell, and Joe Stengel, and all the others who won't be joining us in the sandbox next year. They really were good sports about it, and I hope their remaining friends and successors will be too. Happy 2007, companeros, 'cause we're gonna be there.