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Thanks to Obama Care, Nancy Pelosi is Generous with Other Dems’ Careers

You knew Democrats are very comfortable with the idea of appearing generous by spending other people’s hard-earned money. But you may not have known just how generous at least one liberal Democrat leader in Washington, D.C., is with the political careers of her minions, er, fellow members of her Congressional caucus:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged [...]

Libertarian Party State Convention

It’s convention time!

The Libertarian Party of Colorado’s convention is Saturday, March 20, at the Red Lion Inn.

LPCO Business Meeting /State Convention

Red Lion Hotel

The Jefferson Room

3200 S. Parker Road

Aurora, CO 80014

303-695-1700

The doors will open at 7:30 am, registration begins at 8:00 am, and the business meeting will start at 9:30 am.

Vendor tables available for advertising your business.

Please complete a quick questionnaire if you’re attending, so we can provide the best possible convention.

Book your king sized non-smoking room for $89 a day by calling the hotel directly or by going to: RedLion.com & using access code 0319libe.

If you call 1-800-Red-Lion through central reservations, simply request the Libertarian Party of Colorado rate.

Currently, we have three people seeking our nomination for Colorado Governor.

We have candidates seeking our nomination for every U.S. Congressional District and the U.S. Senate. This is good news.

We have some candidates seeking our nomination for state General Assembly seats. We need more. If you score near the top of the Nolan Chart and can effectively articulate why you answer each question on the World Smallest Political Quiz the way you do, consider running.

With growing dissatisfaction to the big-government two-party duopoly, the Libertarian Party of Colorado has an opportunity to do well in the 2010 elections. We are the only political party that actually believes in small government and free markets. The ONLY ONE. However, to capitalize, we need to provide an option to the public. The best way to provide that option is to run as many qualified Libertarian candidates as we can. We are off to a good start. Let us keep up the pressure.

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The night before our Convention, there will be a candidate reception at the Red Lion Inn. You are encouraged to attend and meet them all. I will see you there.

LPCO Candidate Meet & Greet

Red Lion Hotel

Rooms A & B

3200 S. Parker Road

Aurora, CO 80014

303-695-1700

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Come meet the 2010 LPCO Candidate Pool,

and schmooze with fellow Libertarians.

$10 donation suggested.

Cash Bar.

All Donations Welcomed.

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National Update

As I write, I’m in Austin, TX, attending the yearly Libertarian State Leadership Alliance conference. It is a good opportunity to meet members of other state parties and to learn what is working in their states.

The Libertarian National Committee is also meeting at the same time. Our current National Chairman, Bill Redpath, is not seeking another term. As of now, there are five announced candidates to replace him. All five spoke at the LSLA.

They are: George Phillies, Ernie Hancock, Wayne Allyn Root, John Jay Myers and Mark Hinkle.

Redpath’s successor will be selected at the National LP Convention this summer in St. Louis, Missouri. The convention will be the weekend of May 28.

In addition to selecting our candidates for the 2010 elections, we will elect our delegates to the National Convention.

If you have interest in attending the National Convention as a delegate, you are encouraged to attend the State Convention and seek a seat. Even if you can not attend the State Convention but wish to be a National delegate, you can have someone nominate you at the State Convention.

Other National News

Tony Ryan is our District Four representative on the LNC. Tony has done a great job representing us, but is not seeking another term. Tony’s alternate, Rob Latham of Utah, does not want the position but is willing to remain the alternate. Enter our own Jim Remmert, of Boulder. Jim is seeking the District Four spot on the LNC being vacated by Tony. Jim is the former Associate General Counsel for Exxon and has retired in Colorado.

Jim is also in Austin meeting many of the LNC and letting people know he is running.

Jim has my full support and I hope you all get a chance to meet him if you have not yet.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…

The Obama administration and the Democrat controlled congress extended the USA PATRIOT Act.

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Weekly Wrapup - “Dirty Dozen” tax increases signed into law, Amendment 54 overturned, school districts sue - taxpayers?

It’s been an eventful week in Colorado - unfortunately, so eventful that it’s been hard to keep up.
Unfortunately, I haven’t had the time to give any one of these issues the attention (and analysis) they deserve this week - particularly the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling on Amendment 54, which calls for a thoughtful (and time-consuming) [...]

Democrats’ remarkable reconciliation hypocrisy

The video below is making its way around the Internet, showing Democrat Senators railing against a plan by Republicans during the Bush Administration to use the “nuclear option” in order to get votes through the Senate with a simple majority rather than the 60 votes needed for items which would be filibustered.

Also, Human Events has many excellent quotes HERE.

As usual, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd are the source of inspiration and amusement…

Biden: “I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don’t make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.”

And Dodd: “I’ve never passed a single bill worth talking about that didn’t have a lead co sponsor that was a Republican. And I don’t know of a single piece of legislation that’s ever been adopted here that didn’t have a Republican and Democrat in the lead. That’s because we need to sit down and work with each other. The rules of this institution have required that. That’s why we exist. Why have a bicameral legislative body? Why have two chambers? What were the framers thinking about 218 years ago? They understood Mr. President that there is a tyranny of the majority.”

It’s worth keeping in mind, however, that hypocrisy is one of the least effective charges against “liberals.”  As I’ve written before, conservatives frequently campaign on principles. (Whether or not they govern based on them is another question entirely.)  Liberals, on the other hand, are utilitarians whose actions are judged based on whether they move the ball toward the goal line of socialism, not whether the ball is moved by a play that they previously threw the flag on when the other team tried it.  It’s all about outcome, nothing about principle.  They’ll lie, cheat, and steal.  They’ll say “it’s different this time”.  They’ll do absolutely anything to take the next step in the march on the Road to Serfdom.

So even when you catch them in repeated shameless hypocrisy, they don’t care.  And their voting base won’t care either.  It’s just a question of whether the rest of the country does…

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Differing views on who “won” the health-care summit

The editors at Americans for Limited Government argue that Republicans basically won yesterday’s confrontation with Barack Obama:
http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=2064

And over at the American Spectator, Quin Hillyer suggests that the very existence of an ongoing debate and the fact that Americans might let their guards down just through becoming tired of hearing the arguments means that Obama is winning:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/26/summit-strategems/

What do you think???

 

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Bill Ritter’s Pitch for Cary Kennedy Shows Vulnerability of Treasurer’s Race

Just a reminder that Colorado Democrat State Treasurer Cary Kennedy’s re-election hopes are fragile this year. Yesterday I received a fundraising email from Bill Ritter. After touting the incumbent’s record, the message reads:

Cary Kennedy is facing a well-funded challenger who is related to George W. Bush and has tapped into his family’s national fundraising network. [...]

Health Care Summit Does Nothing for Vulnerable Congressman John Salazar

Say what you will about yesterday’s Health Care Summit. Obama and the Democrat leadership didn’t make the case for expanded government control of medicine and didn’t move the ball politically in any way to help ram through the Obama Care monstrosity.
In Colorado, that has to be especially unsettling for 3rd District Congressman John Salazar. Dick [...]

Public-Sector Unions: The Fourth Rail of Politics

I’m participating in the Leadership Program of the Rockies Annual Retreat today, so I won’t be writing about yesterday’s health care summit.  I’m sure plenty of other people will have covered that Kabuki more than adequately.

But not too many people are covering this, so I hope you find it interesting.

I believe this is becoming, and will continue to become, a major issue in American politics:

In few places has unionization been less justified and more harmful to the nation than in the creations of unions of government workers – at all levels, local, state, and federal.  Please read my article for American Spectator on this topic at http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/25/the-fourth-rail-of-politics

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Republicans, beware the trap of ‘limited’ health reform

Writes Paul Hsieh, M.D. in Pajamas Media:
Controls breed more controls. The seemingly innocuous “reform” of requiring insurers to cover all pre-existing conditions would merely set the stage for ever-tightening controls until liberal Democrats achieved their long-held dream of a complete government takeover of health care — only gradually, rather than all [...]

How much is Medicare costing taxpayers?

Keith Hennessey reviews the disagreement between Paul Krugman (on one side) and Rep. Paul Ryan, New Gingrich, and John Goodman (on the other) about how to change Medicare so it does not bankrupt the country.  How much is Medicare spending? Consider what Hennessey points out:
The policy reality is that if we are to prevent a [...]

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