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Big Day Tomorrow… Come Out and Join Us!

by jccaldara | 2:31 pm, March 9, 2010

Tomorrow is a big day in the land of liberty. We’ve got two events going on, back to back.
The first is Taxpayer Day at the Capitol. The Independence Institute is proud to join forces with Americans for Prosperity and other liberty minded organizations including The 9-12 Project Colorado Coalition, The Gadsen [...]

Deroy Murdock: Obamacare Declares War On Growth Capital

by Rossputin | 6:29 am, March 9, 2010

In his article for Human Events entitled “Obamacare Declares War On Growth Capital“, the always excellent Deroy Murdock explains an aspect of Obamacare which needs to be explained more loudly and more frequently to anybody who hopes to start a business – or work for one, namely the punishing tax increases Obama hopes to use to fund his government takeover of medicine.

While the focus on Obamacare’s likely destructive impact on the quality of American health care and its metaphysical certainty to increase health care price inflation is appropriate and reasonable, more must be made on the other costs to Americans of the plan.

Murdock’s article is excellent intellectual ammunition for anyone who wants to understand this and help others to understand it.

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Two Reasons Why We Could Use More Shawn Mitchells in the State Legislature

by Ben | 10:36 am, March 6, 2010

Two days, two stories, two reasons why I believe the Colorado General Assembly needs more legislators like Senator Shawn Mitchell fighting for us. First, Colorado Senate News reports a recent floor debate in which Mitchell assumes his usual role as bold and articulate spokesman for common sense and liberty, leading the vote against a heavy-handed, [...]

Health bill: Markey & DeGette on fence, tell them to vote “No.”

by Brian T. Schwartz | 9:59 pm, March 5, 2010

Do you live in either Betsy Markey’s district (4th, map) or Diana DeGette’s district (1st, map)? If so, contact them (see end of post) and tell them to vote “no” on the Senate health “reform” bill or any scaled down version of it.  This reform is terrible from both moral and economic grounds (yes, they [...]

Health Care Knights of the Roundtable

by jccaldara | 1:01 pm, March 5, 2010

On Wednesday, March 10th, the Independence Institute is co-hosting a health care policy roundtable with Chicago’s Heartland Institute. We would love to have you come out and take part in our discussion. To RSVP online click here, or give us a ring at 303.279.6536.
The party starts at 2pm at the Denver Public Library [...]

Contact your Congressmen: no on health “reform” & reconciliation

by Brian T. Schwartz | 9:01 pm, March 4, 2010

Tim Phillips at Americans for Prosperity summarizes the situation and has links to quick ways to contact your Senator and Representatives.  An excerpt:
President Obama finally made it official yesterday:  he wants Congress to ignore Senate rules – and the American people – and use a parliamentary trick called “reconciliation” to pass his health [...]

The Audacity to Ignore Results

by jccaldara | 2:19 pm, March 2, 2010

Obama likes to believe that he’s the audacious type. And what could be more audacious than facing quantifiable clear results in one state and ignoring them completely? Actually, ignoring might be an understatement. It’s not just ignoring if you deliberately act in a way exactly opposite of what the facts are telling you. [...]

Thanks to Obama Care, Nancy Pelosi is Generous with Other Dems’ Careers

by Ben | 12:26 am, March 1, 2010

You knew Democrats are very comfortable with the idea of appearing generous by spending other people’s hard-earned money. But you may not have known just how generous at least one liberal Democrat leader in Washington, D.C., is with the political careers of her minions, er, fellow members of her Congressional caucus:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged [...]

Differing views on who “won” the health-care summit

by Rossputin | 9:45 am, February 26, 2010

The editors at Americans for Limited Government argue that Republicans basically won yesterday’s confrontation with Barack Obama:
http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=2064

And over at the American Spectator, Quin Hillyer suggests that the very existence of an ongoing debate and the fact that Americans might let their guards down just through becoming tired of hearing the arguments means that Obama is winning:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/26/summit-strategems/

What do you think???

 

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Health Care Summit Does Nothing for Vulnerable Congressman John Salazar

by Ben | 9:02 am, February 26, 2010

Say what you will about yesterday’s Health Care Summit. Obama and the Democrat leadership didn’t make the case for expanded government control of medicine and didn’t move the ball politically in any way to help ram through the Obama Care monstrosity.
In Colorado, that has to be especially unsettling for 3rd District Congressman John Salazar. Dick [...]

Thank you John Kefalas!

by amyoliver | 5:17 pm, February 25, 2010

I want to send a thank you card to State Rep John Kefalas (D-Fort Collins).
In a press release bragging about the House Health and Human Services Committee passing his “Transparency Trojan Horse” bill, a.k.a. HB 1330 The Health Care Cost Transparency Act, Kefalas said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”  In other words, Kefalas [...]

All-payer Database: Transparency Trojan Horse

by amy | 4:12 pm, February 25, 2010

Coloradans should beware the “Transparency Trojan Horse” that will create a database containing their most personal health care information, according to an Independence Institute analysis of HB 1330 the Health Care Cost Transparency Act sponsored by State Representative John Kefalas and Senator John Morse.
Health Care Policy Center Director Linda Gorman warns that the legislation grants unlimited power to [...]

Michael Bennet Gets Some Small Redemption from SEIU Endorsement

by Ben | 6:54 am, February 25, 2010

A good reminder that not only is Big Labor anything but monolithic but also that the Democrats potentially face a very competitive primary for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has endorsed the Appointed One, Michael Bennet.
While rival Andrew Romanoff has won backing from the Teamsters and UFCW, Bennet at [...]

ObamaCare’s last stand arrives today

by Rossputin | 6:28 am, February 25, 2010

For about six hours today, Republicans will sit down with Barack Obama and representivatives of the administration as Democrats try to fool the public into supporting the shoving of ObamaCare down our throats.  It’s a meeting fraught with peril for Republicans who’d better have well practiced their debating skills.

Although the meeting is superficially “balanced” in terms of head count, its structure isn’t:  With each aspect of the proposed legislation, the Administration makes the introduction and thus frames the debate.

Connie Hair reported yesterday who the Republican Senate participants will be: Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Enzi (Wyo.) and the Senate’s only two medical doctors, Sens. Tom Coburn, M.D. (Okla.) and John Barrasso, M.D. (Wyo.).

Interestingly, John McCain will also participate. Connie’s take on McCain’s participation is clear, describing him as “the senator with the most experience consorting with liberal Democrats in order to create disastrous legislation.”

I think they added McCain thinking that since he’s viewed as Mr. Bipartisan, his strong opposition will give weight to the argument that there’s simply nothing in the bill that can be agreed to.  And I think that McCain will stand up strongly against ObamaCare, in large part because he’s facing a primary challenge from his right in the form of former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.

When I mentioned this to Connie, she predicted that McCain’s opposition will be written off by the media as sour grapes from losing the election.  That’s certainly true, but as long as McConnell knows that McCain will give no ground, I don’t have the idea of having him in the conversation as much as Connie does.

At the time I’m writing this (midday Wednesday), it isn’t yet known who will participate from the House Republicans.  One has to hope that Paul Ryan will be there…

There is a lot of political risk for Republicans in taking this meeting (which explains calls by some serious people for Republicans not to participate in this sham meeting.)  There will be some Republicans who think that trying to find some area in which they can find a compromise with the Democrats will be a good defense against being characterized as the “Party of No”. That would be an enormous mistake.

As I’ve written (in this article for the American Spectator) the GOP should be proud of being the Party of No when it comes to a government takeover of our health care system.  Indeed, some Congressman should be ready to say in the meeting something like “I would ask that you (President Obama or his subordinate) don’t call us the ‘Party of No’.  We much prefer the ‘Party of Hell, No!’”.

Opposition to ObamaCare remains near its highs and above 50%.  The entire purpose of this meeting from the point of view of the Obama Administration is to get that number below 50%, to get it close to even with its level of support (hanging around 40% in that Rasmussen series).  They hope that such a move will give aid and comfort to nervous members of Congress.  I don’t think it will, but this is clearly the biggest threat and the one which Republican meeting participants must work to prevent.

They must not play softball, must not let Obama, Biden, and Sibelius get away with selling ObamCare as a deficit-reducing, competition-increasing, tax-cutting free lunch.  It is anything but those things, and the public must be made to understood that this plan will destroy one of the most important areas of privacy and liberty, namely a citizen’s relationship with his doctor, and will do so while adding hundreds of billions of dollars of debt on to our children’s backs.

Republicans must also reiterate, to wreck the accusation that Obama will try to make repeatedly, that the GOP has presented many ideas, that they’ve been publicly available for months, that they don’t increase the size or cost of government, and that they’ll improve the health insurance system for most Americans.  They should also keep in mind (though not say) that the vast majority of Americans care about cost and quality of the health care system…and NOT about universal coverage.

One political reporter suggested that Obama is looking for “one Republican idea he can grab on to” in order to create an image of bipartisanship.  Republicans must not fall into that trap.  Covering a poisonous apple with chocolate won’t change the ultimate effect when you take a bite of it.

It should be some interesting political theater.  It poses great risk to the nation and probably greater risk to the Republicans than to the Democrats.  But it does pose real risk to them, including to Barack Obama.  Obama has stayed out of the discussion until now.  If he very publicly stakes his political capital on this and then cannot pass anything, his feverish drive for socialized medicine could indeed become, as Senator Jim DeMint suggested, Obama’s Waterloo.  Let’s hope so.

In this gave of extremely high political stakes, Republican participants just need to remember one thing:

Not just no, but Hell, No!

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Video: Karl Rove vs. Howard Dean Debate at CU Boulder

by T.L. James | 8:18 am, February 17, 2010

Here’s a few more pictures and a few minutes of video from Monday evening’s debate event with former Bush Administration political advisor Karl Rove and former Vermont governor and former Democrat Party chairman Howard Dean.

As Michael noted in his post, we as press were only allowed to shoot photos and videos for the first five [...]

Blue Dog Markey: All bark; no bite

by amyoliver | 2:32 pm, February 13, 2010

At the end of last year Congresswoman Betsy Markey (CO 4) joined the Blue Dog Coalition, a self described group of 54 conservative and moderate Democrats that focus on fiscal issues including a balanced budget and the national debt.   A review of Markey’s voting record leaves one to wonder if her support for fiscal reform is [...]

Anti-vaccination study retracted only a decade too late

by Rossputin | 6:30 am, February 4, 2010

I’ve written in the past about how Boulder liberals are not just stupid about economics.  In substantial numbers, they’ve also risked children’s lives (theirs and others) by an idiotic decision not to vaccinate their children.

The anti-immunization fear was caused by a scientific hoax essentially similar to today’s “climate change” hoax, and possibly even more damaging to date.  Indeed, as bad as Algore and friends are, one can’t make a strong argument that their self-enriching hoax has actually killed people whereas the anti-immunization movement has.

Now, the medical magazine The Lancet, where the original fraudulent article claming a link between vaccines and autism was published in 1998, is retracting the article, something that only happens when the article becomes known to be the product of fraud and not simply an honest error in research.  The Lancet’s statement, however, underplays the hideous corruption which was behind the article’s publication.

The study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been found by the British General Medical Council (GMC) to have engaged in “dishonesty and misleading conduct” in his so-called research.

In particular, he lied about the medical issues of the children used in the study, he knew that the children were being used by a lawyer to gin up a class-action lawsuit against drug makers based on wholly fictitious charges of vaccines causing autism, and he did not disclose that he was paid by those attorneys or that he was trying to get his own patent on a new vaccine at the time.

Wakefield should be tried for assault, attempted murder, and murder since at least a few children have died from a preventable disease, and many dozens or hundreds suffered from these diseases unnecessarily due to his corruption and lies.

Here are a couple of resources to give you a sense of the damage Wakefield has caused:

http://www.drwile.com/lnkpages/render.asp?tragedies
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience/all/1
http://www.whyichoose.org/outbreaks.html (Note the pertussis numbers!)

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Ed Perlmutter – Rewriting the Constitution One Bill at a Time

by Chuck Moe | 1:08 am, February 4, 2010

I’ve often chastised politicians for not obeying their oath to the U.S. Constitution and I may have to rethink my strategy if they keep pulling “rights” out of thin air faster than the Fed can print fiat currency. It seems Ed Perlmutter (D) from Golden Colorado is trying to follow the Constitution…just not the same Constitution I was thinking of.
In…

Obama publicly insults Supreme Court; EXCLUSIVE with Andrew Romanoff on “Seng Center” tonight

by Seng Center | 10:30 am, January 28, 2010

Who ever said college media outlets are run by liberals?
Last night, Barack Obama openly scolded the United States Supreme Court for a decision he disagreed with.  Of course the Court really has no recourse to fight back against the smear – but tonight, the Seng Center radio show will!  And in the process, we’ll provide [...]

9News Interviewed Me

by jccaldara | 12:47 pm, January 25, 2010

Adam Schrager from 9News sat down with me the other day to discuss our initiative to opt Colorado out of Obama Care. In addition to answering his questions, I also had the opportunity to answer questions from viewers. Watch the video, courtesy of Channel 9 here.

State Rep Sara Gagliardi (D-Arvada) Stands For Government Health Care

by Ben | 6:20 pm, January 21, 2010

A couple days ago I told you about my friend Libby Szabo running for House District 27. Well, you also ought to know a bit more about the incumbent Democrat who she is trying to unseat: Rep. Sara Gagliardi.
Check this out from a recent Colorado News Agency story about Tuesday’s health care freedom rally at [...]

Dan Maes Gets Real; He and Acree Talk Health

by Ari | 1:39 pm, January 21, 2010

“Some guy named Dan Maes also remains in the race, and he has about the same chance of becoming the next governor of Colorado as I do.”

“Anybody who thinks Dan Maes has any chance of winning the Republican primary and beating Bill Ritter is simply delusional.”

“Dan Maes doesn’t have a chance in hell of becoming the next governor of Colorado.”

Who wrote these nasty things about hard-working gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes? And what did Maes ever do to that vindictive SOB?

The lines are mine. And, while Maes has offered a pointed response, he’s taken my needling well. And I respect that. An underdog who can’t deal with people throwing scraps will never be anything more than an underdog.

Moreover, it seems like every political event I go to, Maes is there. I heard him give his stump speech last night at Liberty On the Rocks. I saw him Tuesday at the rally against Obama Care. I saw him last month at an Independence Institute holiday party, where Maes listened to my complaints for another twenty minutes or so. Maes takes questions — and answers them.

Meanwhile, this is the only sign I saw of Scott McInnis (the other Republican in the race) at Tuesday’s rally:

(In fairness, McInnis has given public addresses and uploaded some of these to YouTube.)

If memory serves, I first saw Maes June 27 of last year at an Aurora Republican Forum. What I recall from his speech that day is that there was nothing important to recall. LIghtweight, I thought. But last night I saw a candidate for governor. He talked energy. He can effectively challenge Governor Ritter’s “New Energy Economy” with the Real Energy Economy. He talked Constitutional restraints of federal power. He talked low taxes. He spoke with passion. He spoke from the heart.

What’s more, Maes is a genuine guy. He’s fun to talk to. He’s fun to listen to. He’s even fun to make fun of. McInnis, on the other hand, is well known for his testy personality and media meltdowns.

True, Maes has suffered from lackluster fundraising (though it seems to be picking up a bit). However, Maes also beat McInnis in the unscientific, skewed poll put out by the People’s Press Collective.

Delusional? No chance in hell? I was stunned that Ritter dropped out of the race. I thought Scott Brown didn’t have a chance in hell of winning his U.S. Senate race. Well, it looks like hell is freezing over and political probabilities must be tossed aside.

I would like to see a Maes/Hickenlooper showdown because I’d like to see two real guys, two businessmen, have a serious discussion about the important issues facing Colorado. (I’m sure Hickenlooper would also love to face that showdown.) With McInnis, I get the feeling that his main purpose is to package his message and play it safe. (McInnis could easily change my mind on this point simply by providing straightforward answers to the Armstrongs’ Colorado 2010 Candidate Survey). Moreover, last night I had a chance to chat briefly with Maes’s delightful wife and elder daughter, each of whom could be a major asset to his campaign if willing to play that role.

However, Maes has some serious problems. His lack of political experience translates to difficulty raising funds. His ideological problems are more serious.

While Maes is friendly toward free markets for a Republican, generally Republicans suck on economic liberty. I worry about three things from Maes.

First, Maes is fairly strong on property rights but not as strong as I’d like. He said that eminent domain “is a constitutionally acceptable process and should be applied on a case by case basis. Application of the practice should only be exercised when there is a clear and convincing case for a purely public use and benefit.” That’s better than most politicians on the subject. But, for me, the right answer is that eminent domain is always and everywhere a violation of property rights.

Second, while Maes has admirably taken a stand against corporate welfare, he is amenable to discriminatory taxation. My view is that, while existing tax breaks should not be removed, otherwise we should seek to establish tax parity, rather than punish some businesses more severely than others with higher taxes. Maes said, “Our state constitution clearly states we are not to make investments in private entities. I want to honor the spirit of our federal and state constitutions. I do see tax breaks as viable incentives to spur our economy.”

Third, while Maes opposed the federal health bills, he inconsistently advocates free markets in health. Here’s what he said on Tuesday:

Here is the worrisome line: “We need to keep health care within the free market system. But we’d have to encourage private industry to get serious about pre-existing conditions. If they don’t take on pre-existing conditions, then government has every right to do so. So I want to make sure private industry accommodates that need.”

Maes’s position is unclear to me. Either he is saying that insurance companies must be politically forced to ignore pre-existing conditions when accepting customers, or he is saying that tax dollars should fund government-run insurance that ignores pre-existing conditions (as Cover Colorado basically does now). The former position leads inexorably to an insurance mandate, as my dad and I have argued. (See also my earlier article.) I welcome Maes’s clarification of the matter.

Again, Maes is mostly good on fiscal matters, and I have no doubt he would outperform any Democrat (and most Republicans) on economics. But Maes has a much more serious problem: social issues.

Maes has endorsed the so-called “personhood” measure likely to appear on this fall’s ballot. This would ban all or almost all abortions if fully enforced. It would also outlaw forms of birth control (including the pill) and fertility care that may result in the destruction of a fertilized egg. Colorado voters overwhelmingly trounced the “personhood” measure in 2008, and Maes will make few political friends by supporting it.

Maes also said that marriage “is a privilege that is ordained in the Scripture.” However, last night he granted that “civil remedies” can solve the problems of homosexual romantic unions. He said churches should not be forced to conduct gay marriages, and with that point I fully agree.

Maes strikes me as a common-sense kind of guy, so I will be interested to hear how he responds to concerns about the horrific and far-reaching implications of the “personhood” measure.

Meanwhile, all I’ve heard from McInnis is an ambiguous claim that he’s “100 percent pro-life.” Does McInnis want to outlaw absolutely all abortions? Voters deserve to know this.

As Paul Hsieh has written, independent voters, especially in Colorado, “want the Democrats out of their pockets and the Republicans out of their bedrooms.”

For the first time I am very interested in following the Republican primary.

* * *

Also at Tuesday’s rally, State Representative Cindy Acree offered her take on health reform:

Acree wants “tax equity at the federal level” to allow people to buy insurance with pre-tax money. That’s fantastic. However, she also wants a “new delivery system for primary care all over the state with public-private partnerships.” That sound to me like more tax subsidies and government controls.

So, while Republicans rallied against the federal Democratic health bills, they hardly advocate consistently free markets in health care. Hopefully advocates of liberty will continue to persuade them.

What Was Missing from Michael Bennet’s Post-Massachusetts Statement

by Ben | 9:15 am, January 21, 2010

From today’s Denver Post:

Voters who elected Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Edward Kennedy for 47 years sent a clear message that they expect Washington to listen to their concerns, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet said.
“Last night, the voters of Massachusetts didn’t just elect a senator; they sent a message to [...]

Brilliant! Poli Sci Profs Find One Creative Way to Make Obama Care Math Add Up

by Ben | 3:06 pm, January 20, 2010

Yesterday two political science professors — one from Yale and one from Georgetown — had a column published in the Washington Post titled “After Massachusetts, why the Democrats should still pass health-care reform.” Here is the argument they make (apparently) with a straight face:
The bills in Congress hardly enjoy runaway popularity. But the problem isn’t [...]

Vacation, but still paying some attention

by Rossputin | 11:48 am, January 20, 2010

As we’re attempting to relax in Mexico, trying to get maximum value from our hotel’s “kid’s club”, I had the good fortune to watch Scott Brown’s acceptance speech last night.  I was impressed with his intelligence, his sense of humor, his apparent independence.  He struck me as a man who intends to run for President in the not-too-distant future, like a smarter, more experienced, conservative version of Barack Obama.

Since I’m on vacation, I’m going to keep this short.

The big short-term questions are:  How soon with Massachusetts sent the “appropriate paperwork” to DC so that Brown can be seated? And will the Democrats try to pass some sort of health care bill requiring both a House and Senate vote before then?

If the latter seems likely, what procedural moves can Senate Republicans use to delay the process until Brown is seated?  That said, I think it’s extremely unlikely that the Senate would be able to vote prior to Brown’s being seated, especially with Senator Webb (D-VA) and Senator Durbin (D-IL) saying the Senate should not vote until after Brown is seated.

And if it seems that a Senate vote prior to Brown’s being seated is not possible, will Pelosi try to get the House to just pass the Senate bill?  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is already saying the Senate bill is better than nothing.  He knows it isn’t in terms of health care and economics, but the political truth is unusually coming from the forked tongue of Obama’s political advisor David Axelrod.  From Politico.com:

“I think that it would a terrible mistake to walk away now. If we don’t pass the bill, all we have is the stigma of a caricature that was put on it. That would be the worst result for everybody who has supported this bill.” He said the administration will work with Capitol Hill to figure out how.

It’s not at all clear the House would pass the Senate bill, with various interest groups, even on the Democratic side, having some objections, in particular the “Bart Stupak group” of pro-life Democrats.  I don’t think the far left who want a public option will vote against it because they realize this bill is the first step toward their desired government takeover of health care.  But the Massachusetts election is a massive wake-up call.

If the Democrats jam this bill down America’s throat, America’s anger will turn from a roughly equal balance of anti-Democrat and anti-incumbent to almost entirely anti-Democrat and I would think the GOP would then have a 50/50 chance of winning back control of the House, and maybe a 20% chance of winning back the Senate.

In the medium term, I expect to see quite a few more Democratic retirements.

Congratulations to Scott Brown. He’s the sort of “hope and change” that America needs, rather than the hapless anti-capitalist Manchurian Candidate that so many naive voters elected 14 months ago.

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Coloradans Speak Out Against Obama Care

by Ari | 4:17 am, January 20, 2010

As Massachusetts voters filled Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat with a Republican, Coloradans rallied against the Democratic health bill, vowing to pass a state initiative blunting the force of the federal bill — should it pass and be signed into law by President Obama.

Neurosurgeon Sanat Dixit spoke out against the Democratic health bills:

Jon Caldara introduced the rest of the speakers and offered his own thoughts (presented here in a selection of clips).

I captured the views of some of the ralliers.

State Senator Shawn Mitchell adds his concerns:

Here Justin Longo offers the perspective of a young buyer of a high-deductible health insurance plan:

See the People’s Press Collective for more.

The Scott Heard Round the World

by T.L. James | 12:13 am, January 20, 2010

Despite my relief at the Scott Brown victory, I’m going to be a voice of sobriety here: important though it may prove to be, this is one victory.
One.
Brown’s win may or may not derail the nationalization of healthcare, depending on whether Obama, Pelosi, and Reid “double down” in an all-out push to ram through their abominable [...]

Colorado Rejects Obama Health Care Reform at Rally

by wesley | 11:59 pm, January 19, 2010

**Update 3** Ari Armstrong has video interviews from the rally posted on Free Colorado.
**Update 2** Welcome Michelle Malkin readers!
**Update 1** Complete video of the speakers is now available from El Presidente here on the People’s Press Collective, so if you missed the rally, just scroll down for video.
Opting out of federally-mandated ObamaCare:
In Colorado, organizers of [...]

Join Us Today: Defend Colorado From Obama Care!

by jccaldara | 9:47 am, January 19, 2010

Come join me on the west steps of the Capitol at noon. Show your support for our great state, and say NO! to federal mandates!

Defend Colorado from Obama Care!

by amyoliver | 8:41 am, January 19, 2010

Hell No! We Won’t Go…to Obama Care.  Make Colorado a “sanctuary state” for free choice in health care. 
Jon Caldara, my boss at the Independence Institute, is calling for an amendment to the Colorado constitution that would opt our state out of the onerous health insurance mandates being forced upon us by the federal government.   Check [...]

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