Denver Post Editorial Board Trashes Michael Bennet

[otohara]

it's personal and it's ugly.

Most Americans want Congress to start over on health care reform, but it seems Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet would rather jam it down our throats.

Ignoring the message that voters sent in Massachusetts, and shedding any notion that he intends to be a moderate Democrat, Bennet is leading a pack of liberal senators who want to push through health-care reform using a process known as reconciliation.

How is it possible that Sen. Bennet, yet to receive one vote from a Coloradan, has such a tin ear for what most Coloradans and Americans want?

Under reconciliation, which does away with normal Senate procedures, health care reform needs only a simple majority vote. We editorialized last spring against using reconciliation on this issue and urged congressional leaders to come up with a bipartisan solution. Something of this magnitude, which would make generational changes to our health care system, shouldn't be forced on Americans by one-party rule.

And here's the kicker: Bennet doesn't even have the votes necessary to ram it through on reconciliation.

So why even bring it up?

Bennet's recent actions — from last week's unnecessary nod in favor of a questionable appointee to the national labor board to pushing reconciliation — reek of calculation. Is he so nervous about his primary with Andrew Romanoff that he's looking to curry favor with leftist activists?

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_14421214#ixzz0fvaOPoMA

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[Cha]

1. Thank you, I will write the Denver Post..that's my

hometown. Freakin' corporatewhore victims:nopity:.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Some people who voted for Scott Brown would have supported the Democrats...

...if they had done something popular in the past year, like passing a public option.

Of course, the message of electing a Democratic president and big Democratic majorities in the House and Senate outweighs the message of one Senate election in MA.

[brentspeak]

3. Yet another RW rag n/t

[kstewart33]

4. "jam it down our throats"?

I've been reading the Post for years and that's about the toughest language they've ever used.

Milquetoast, that's been the tone of their eds for years.

Until now. HCR is a burr in their collective butt. I think the new ed board members - from the RW and now defunct Rocky Mountain News - has a great deal to do with it.

[coti]

5. Yes! The public OPTION!

These liberal clowns are jamming the OPTION of buying health insurance from the federal government down our throats!

If there's anything they should be shoving down our throats, it's a "bipartisan," corporatist, IRS-backed mandate to buy unreliable and overpriced health insurance from private corporations. Don't you see?

[paulk]

6. yeah, this editorial sounds like it could have been from the RMN

Denver Post was usually the "liberal" paper...

If the DP keeps this up, they'll go the way of the RMN, too. Denver is a liberal town and the state has gone blue.