Colorado representative schedules public meeting under cloak of darkness

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

Was reading the PoliticsWest section of the Denver Post online today and something shocking was posted. Reporter Ross Putin posted an e-mail he received about Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter of the Brighton, CO area. Apparently, after numerous calls from media asking the Congressman and his office staff when he would be scheduling a town hall or public meeting to discuss issues during the August recess, no phone call was returned.

HOWEVER, an e-mail cropped up out of nowhere from President Obama's ongoing campaign, entitled "Organizing for America," where an out-of-nowhere "public meeting" had been scheduled at the King Soopers on 500 E. Bromley Lane in Brighton. The scheduled meeting was from 1-2 p.m., and the e-mail had been distributed not more than HOURS before the event! And more than that, the e-mail only went out to the "Organizing for America" distro list, versus the Congressman's office sending the information on the public meeting out to local media for them to report on it!!!!!!

This Congressman is scared to bring his plan for voting on healthcare to his constituents! His voters know the truth about nationalized health care, and he is too afraid to face them one-on-one. Is this the kind of "change we can believe in …scared politicians running from the very people THEY WORK FOR? What the hell kind of country is this when guys like Ed Perlmutter get away from "running away" from their constituents? Are there no representatives with backbone?

Here's the blog on the information. GOOD GRIEF... throw Perlmutter out!! This is the kind of representative we DON'T need in Washington? Perlmutter should schedule a public town hall meeting NOW, instead of using the cloak of darkness and Obama's ongoing campaign to get the word out? WHERE IS THE REPRESENTATION PERLMUTTER? You say you represent... PROVE IT TO ADAMS COUNTY!

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Denouncing violent protesters

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

What I fear may happen during August's month-long recess is taking place. Some of the protests against nationalized health care are starting to get violent, which gives groups like the TEA Parties and the 9.12 Project a bad image, as, and I quote Sen. Harry Reid, can make us look like "the lunatic fringe."

I can understand people's frustration, I really do. I'm seething mad that our country would even concoct anything remotely resembling a socialistic program to implement on all of us (it's bad enough we have Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid). Cooler heads must prevail, and the hot, August summer doesn't help much either.

Case in point, we have some situations brewing (pardon the pun) in St. Louis and Tampa and where protesters have been arrested and some have been injured in altercations. While this is concerning, people should be reminded of this point: the far-left has been protesting anything from environmental policies to wars since the late 1960s, many times, those protests turned violent. Fast forwarding to today, organizations like the Earth Liberation Front and Code Pink are notorious for violent-laded approaches to getting their word out. So why is it that conservative-leaning protests, like those of 9.12 and TEA Parties, are scrutinized even more than the far-left protests?

From Tampa Bay

From St. Louis

The answer I think is simple: conservatives are held to higher standards and, might I add, it is those conservative values which launched us into a Revolutionary War in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. The far left and their radical protests are to be expected, and many average, every day people just write them off as "crazies." However, if conservatives protest, that tends to be more "mainstream," and people take a closer look at WHY they are protesting because the majority of Americans, party affiliation aside, are conservative in nature. We enjoy lower taxation, we enjoy clean and safe neighborhoods for our children and we believe in God and go to church. These are the "silent majority;" the ones never portrayed on television because we are the mainstream... the cogs of our economic might. Because I have never seen our country rely on far-left hippies to ensure industry hums along.

So, we should protest and have our voices heard. But is it worth anyone getting hurt in the process? If violence happens, it should have but just one outcome: an American Revolution. But violence is being used for intimidation, our organizations are no better than that of Chicago politicians.

THE GOOD POST: Connecting ObamaCare and the Beverly Hillbillies

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

Not only is the headline possible, it's TRUE! The following melody comes to us from Jody Davis, a local TEA Party member who is creative in her own right. When "humming" the below lines, remember to sing to the tune of the popular show "The Beverly Hillbillies."

Come'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Fred
A poor, jobless man tryin' to keep his family fed
Then one day, he went fishin' in the sea
and up from the deep came some slimy algae
Pond scum, that is, kinda like green tea?

Well, the first thing ya know, old Fred's a millionaire
Kin folk said, Fred, move away from there
Said, California's NOT the place you wanna be
So they packed up the hybrid and moved to D.C.
Washington, that is, Capitol Hill,
Where Health Care is FREE!

Well, now it's time to say goodbye to Fred and all his kin
They've gone to save the planet, you might say they
were suckered in -
You're all invited to the White House & all its pleasantries
To have a heapin' helpin' of Barrack's amenities

Flim Flam man, that is, set a spell, have a beer

Ya'll come back now - if there is a next year!

Democracy in action: protesting government-run health care

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

It's almost appropriate to say the "same old song and dance" act. Government run health care, which was laid upon the ash heap of 1994, has returned full-on in 2009. With no ash heap in sight, clear-thinking Americans who see right through the far-left liberal agenda of nationalized health care are taking a stand all over the country. Here are a few videos to show that YOUR VOICE IS AND WILL BE HEARD!









If you haven't taken part in a local town hall meeting, YOU SHOULD! Arm yourself with the knowledge of what your locally-elected leaders are voting on... are they voting in your best interest, or are they cowtaling to their political leadership? Your respresentative should answer to YOU... not to an political leadership nor should they answer to who is donating money to their next re-election.

The hits keep on coming

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

I swear, I really try to keep the blog partisan free, and have it focus on the issues. But it just seems the far-left talking points have circulated through the Democratic ranks and the far-left liberals who receive them are reguratating them.

I have some new examples of the "tolerant left" that is often championed. Take for instance the following politicians on video .. it's like a golden hits CD for purchase:

Here's Pelosi:


And here's Barbara Boxer:


And a little sweet tart from Michigan:


If Nancy Pelosi can bring up proof of swastikas, I'll back HER up 100 percent. Barbara Boxer is an ignoramus... people in business attire don't count as protesters... what does a protester look like anyways? I hippie, pot smoking bum protesting panhandling areas being taken away? And these Michigan folks.. not sure if they are 9.12 Project or TEA Party... but FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!!

Quote of the day: Why would you ... try to shove a health care bill down our throat .. when the President took six months to pick a dog for his kids?

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

DATELINE: Utica, New York

The tapes tell the tale... I have a registered Democrat here arguing with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on his plan for passing healthcare... and this guy digs into him. He points out some interesting things, with some really good one-liners, including:

>"Just because I don't have sophisticated language, I can recognize a liar when I see one."

>"Why would you guys try to shove a healthcare bill down our throat in three to four weeks when the President took six months to pick one dog for his kids?"

>"Are you willing to have your family members sign on to every bill you have?"

Watch for yourself how average Americans (regardless of party affiliation) are taking a stand for what they believe in!

If the video doesn't work correctly, here is the link to it: click here

Government-ran health care forces you and me to pay for abortions

By Steve Collier, Colorado Springs

It's true: Obama's health care public options and/or co-ops will subsidize abortions for those who want them... with your taxmoney and mine.

In a story from the Associated Press posted on Yahoo! News, a Democratic Congresswoman from, guess where? ... California ... has inserted an amendment into the House Bill (one of three swarming throughout the House) where "it would allow the public plan to cover abortion but without using federal funds, only dollars from beneficiary premiums. Likewise, private plans in the new insurance exchange could opt to cover abortion, but no federal subsidies would be used to pay for the procedure."

Here's the story.

So one might think with that language, no government funds (i.e.: taxpayer money) would be used in the procedure? Wrong. Read this part: "new federal funds would take the form of subsidies for low- and middle-income people buying coverage through the health insurance exchange. Subsidies would be available for people to buy the public plan or private coverage. Making things more complicated, the federal subsidies would be mixed in with contributions from individuals and employers. Eventually, most Americans could end up getting their coverage through the exchange."

And the reason the abortions would be covered? Because abortions are labeled "medical procedures," versus the term "abortion" at the doctor's office. And staff aides for some senators confirmed it here: "Staff aides confirmed that the public plan _ and private insurance offered in the exchange _ would be allowed to cover abortion, without funding restrictions."

So, with a health care reform bill that is OVER THE TOP socialistic... to add to it, we have taxmoney collected from you and I that would, and probably will, be used to fund abortions for reasons other than rape, incest or the pregnancy is determental to the mother's well being. In this case, your taxmoney and mine will go to abortions that are simply just a casual method of birth control. Sick... absolutely sickening.