Everyone knows that the proposed health care legislation is a bad idea and the public is overwhelmingly against it.  Despite this, President Obama along with Colorado Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet are intent on forcing the measure on the American people against their will. 

In an editorial Saturday titled “Dispatch health care reform bill”, even the left-leaning Denver Post calls on Colorado’s senators to vote against the measure.  The Post says, “From the wildly improper gifts to senators like Nebraska’s Ben Nelson to this week’s backroom deals for unions, the so-called health care reform emerging from Washington has become bad medicine for America and ought to be rejected. Quickly.”

The editors of the Post lay it out for the senators:

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet ought to take a principled stand against the failed reform effort, even if it once held promise.

Bennet went on the record weeks ago saying he would support the bill even if it cost him his job. Well, it probably will.

His hard-line stance may have been noble at the time, but so much has changed with the legislation since then that the bill is now at odds with the stated goals of both Bennet and Udall. We think both senators have more than enough clearance to oppose it and ask for better.

Bennet faces a tough election in November. We understand the pressure Democratic Party leaders have put on him to ensure this stinker of a bill passes, but most Coloradans want an independent leader, and not doing right by Coloradans could be costly at the polls.

We’d like to think Udall, who campaigned as a moderate Democrat, could muster the courage to buck his party and vote against the bill, but we won’t hold our breath.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.  Coloradoans can do better by electing people that will actually do the right thing. 

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