December 16, 2009 06:51 PM UTC

Senator Michael Bennet's elitism

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• by: Another skeptic

From the Denver Post online by Richard Stacy:

Our unelected Senator, Michael Bennet, told CNN’s John King the other day that he’d vote for Obama-Reid-Pelosi heath care, even if it cost him his job. Political courage? I don’t think so.

Elite limousine liberal arrogance is more like it. To me, it reeks of “I know better than the unwashed masses of Coloradans.” “Let them eat cake” elitism, writ large!

Betsey Markey voted against the House version of these 2,000 page monstrosities, because she apparently listens to the voters of Colorado, respects us, and would like to keep her job. Not so the good Senator. He listens to his handlers in the Obama Administration and his chums in Moveon.org and The Daily Kos, on the far left fringe of his party. Far be it from him to realize that Colorado is still a center/right state – one which abhors extremism of either the right or the left.

I talk to lots of Coloradans on a daily basis, Republicans, Democrats, liberals and conservatives. I have yet to talk to a single one who wants a government takeover of health care, massive new bureaucracies, bureaucratic meddling in the relationship between patients and their doctors, rationing by government bureaucrats of medical services and procedures, new taxes, huge additions to our out-of-control deficits and new burdens on our children and grandchildren to pay for the whole mess.

But that is exactly what they get under the bill for which Mr. Bennet is so nobly willing to sacrifice his job. Bennet seems blissfully unaware that the average Coloradan doesn’t trust the government to do much of anything right. The attitude I encounter most often, frequently from the members of the Senator’s own party, goes like this: “Do you want the people who run Amtrak and the Post Office to be in charge of your health care?”

Is Bennet an elitist?

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