March 23, 2011 08:56 PM UTC

Ambush! "Does Colorado Want Amycare?"

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• by: Colorado Pols

The natives at the conservative People’s Press Collective are getting restless:

Amazing as it may seem, the Colorado state House Republicans are negotiating with Governor Hickenlooper and the Senate Democrats to pass a key piece of Obamacare legislation: state health care exchanges. It is sponsored in the state senate by far left Senator Betty Boyd and in the House by Monument Representative and GOP Majority Leader Amy Stephens…

The sad fact is that if all 33 GOP representatives stick together, the Democrats can pass nothing. This bill is not compromise, this is surrender.

New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Idaho have already said “No” to healthcare exchanges. Colorado must say no as well…

It seems we’re not the only ones who are curious about the role of GOP Majority Leader Amy Stephens in the health care exchange legislation, while also sponsoring a bill to pull Colorado out of the federal health care system entirely. Stephens claims there’s no contradiction.

Tonight at 5:30 at El Paso County GOP headquarters, the word we hear is a very large and rowdy “Tea Party” crowd will confront Rep. Stephens about this at a town hall. As you can see, the right isn’t of the opinion that exchanges are the “most free-market part of Obamacare.” Given that a large number of them think “Obamacare” is one step from turning Grandma into Soylent Green, Stephens may be about to learn the downside of a base who will believe anything.