Obama Comes Knocking on Betsy Markey’s Door, Will She Answer?

Obama Comes Knocking on Betsy Markey’s Door, Will She Answer?

Healthcare Campaign Attempts another Stop in Colorado

Washington- A week after Nancy Pelosi’s failed attempt to win over Coloradans, the President brings his healthcare campaign to Colorado today and will surely look to Betsy Markey for support. With Democrats’ confidence in passing their radical healthcare plan deflating like an old balloon, Obama will need all the help he can get. Will he get it from Betsy Markey?

Earlier this month, Pelosi attempted to woo Markey and Colorado constituents:

“Contrary to reports of squabbling between liberal and conservative Democrats, Pelosi insisted members of the party were on the same page — if not the same paragraph. ‘Do we have a diversity of opinion? Yes,’ she said. ‘But we do not have a split in the party.’ She ended her brief appearance by pledging victory in the health care battle. ‘When we are ready, we will bring a bill to the floor,’ she said. ‘And when we do, we will succeed.” (John Ingold, Pelosi visits Denver clinic, says Dems united on health reform, Denver Post, 8/06/2009)

“Nice try Nancy Pelosi, but Colorado residents did not buy into your PR campaign last week and they won’t buy into today’s pitch for the Democrats’ government takeover of healthcare,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain.  “If Betsy Markey is truly interested in lowering healthcare costs and restarting the true engine of our economy, then she shouldn’t support a government takeover of healthcare that will raise taxes, force millions of Americans out of their current coverage and potentially destroy five million American jobs.”

Markey has expressed concern over the unparalleled healthcare costs of “reform”:

“The cost has to be paramount. We already spend so much on health care already — it’s doubled over the last 10 years. We have got to find some savings in health care.’

 ‘With or without a reform plan, government health costs are going to go up soon’, Markey said.

 ‘We’ve got 70 million new people coming into Medicare in the next three years, and that concerns me, how we’re going to be able to afford it,’ she said.

‘If the ‘public option’ is self-supporting, if it competes on a level playing field … I may be able to support it,’ Markey said. ‘But I don’t know these things yet.”  (Longmont Times Call, During Markey visit, discussion quickly turns to health care, June 21, 2009)

But when Obama knocks on Markey’s door today, will she answer? Will these two stops on the Democrats’ healthcare campaign trail lead Markey to cave in to the Democrats’ sure-to-fail healthcare takeover?

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