… we turn to conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics, which happily plays skunk at the picnic with its “Gold Dome duds: Who came out worse for the wear this legislative session?“

Peak pulls no punches in pulling for the political right, and not surprisingly, its take on who/what came out of the 2017 session as the biggest losers tends to zing the left. Pols such as pot-stirring populist AG candidate and state Rep. Joe Salazar, D-Thornton, and newly minted congressional hopeful Andy Kerr, the Democratic state senator from Lakewood, get to be the butt of some of Peak’s barbs.

The blog tops its list of losers with the legislative Democratic leadership, which earns the dubious distinction in Peak’s eyes for “failing to negotiate in good faith” on assorted issues.

Still, there also are some ideology-neutral losers by the lights of Peak Politics. Like construction defects reform (“…is the watered-down version better than nothing?” asks the ever-anonymous Peak); “people who hate the smell of pot,” and Colorado drivers (“…who were hoping for a fix to our state’s transportation woes”).

By the way, Peak Politics preceded Gold Dome duds with an earlier blog post on the winners it feels emerged from the session. That list isn’t nearly so sour — things like charter schools and “people who like cheap and reliable energy” — and thus isn’t as fun. (Read: “Winners: Honoring those who cause the dome to shine a little brighter.”)