rssA Bachmann Hijacking?
Friday, November 06, 2009 at 8:46 am
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There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally was not planned by the GOP leadership, which was focusing on a 12-hour online health care “town hall.” Rather, the rally was initiated by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the loose-tongued rising star of the GOP conference. And while they won’t say so on the record, some Republicans felt that Bachmann’s rally was sprung on them.
This isn’t a surprising turn of events. In the run-up to the Sept. 12 march on Washington, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) were surprise guests at a Sept. 10 rally outside the Capitol. That event was actually identical to this one–protesters fanned out after the rally to talk to their members of Congress. But the crowd at that rally was smaller and more controlled, with most protesters holding FreedomWorks signs that had been passed out. The crowd at this rally was far less on-message. By the end of the day, the images that made it out of the rally were of protesters waving signs comparing health care reform to the Holocaust, and the video that made it out of the protest was heavy on Bachmann — one of the people Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) seemed to be referring to in a cryptic October comment about how to deal with a “problem member” who keeps making news.
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Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 1:56 pm
Bachmann is a self serving politician and nothing more.
The intent of her rally was to be able to do more fund raising and continue her 15 minutes of fame.
there is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 10:31 pm
Bachmann is an insirpiration for Liberty lovers all over this country. Thank you Congresswoman
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
Here we go again!
Another nutbag idea from the right-wing nutfactory!
Think they could have checked in and done their jobs, which is what everyone else with an ethic was doing? How about doing what the people of their respective states sent them to D.C. to do?!
But NOOOO, they come up with ridiculousness like this! Please….No more excuses about how this crap isn't racist, either.
2010 will be a bad year for the right if they keep this nonsense up. You'll see.
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 3:02 am
She is a hero for sure…
There was nothing racist or violent, unlike the years Bush had to endure the pure viciousness and violence threatened to him from the lefty loons.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Check it out.
There has never been anything like that at a tea party.
The symbolism shows how fearful of these horrid people like Cass Sunstein, John Holdren and Ezekiel Emanuel and their CER Death Councils.
Read some of their wackaloon ideas:
http://www.zombietime.com/john_holdren/
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 3:03 am
How the hell is euthanasia racist?
You people have such a limited vocabulary and intelligence you can't even refute the charges…. because they are all true.
Argue the issue, everything is NOT racist just because you don't agree with it.
Racist… what a joke. you are making fools of yourselves!
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 3:05 am
Roy Blunt was referring to Lyndsey Graham who will soon be kicked to the curb for being such a jackass.. he needs to join the jackass party.
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 3:08 am
Zombietime? hmmm not sure if i want to go there and see scenes from Sodom and Gomorrah. LOL.
Ok maybe i will.
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
When Graham is the voice of moderation, you wingnuts are truly beyond help!
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
A teabagger accuses the mainstream of being the ones making fools of themselves: THAT'S hilarious!
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
Why? He's the definition of a Republican. It's you extremist fundamentalists that are going to reduce the GOP to, as Graham says: “You'll be just a club”.
We're waiting for you all to wake up.
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
chrisjay,
That's the one fact they can't wrap their minds around. So, like the birther wackos, they will say anything, even if it makes no sense.
Bear with me here…..It's sort of like watching someone standing on your lawn, naked, smearing their own excrement on themselves, in front of your living room window.
It's disgusting, but fascinating, It makes you wonder why they would do something like that.
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Comment posted November 25, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
YOU MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF EVERYTIME YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SHOW YOUR ROTTEN TEETH MORON
Comment posted November 25, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
DOES NOT TAKE MUCH TO MINDFUCK YOU HUH??
Comment posted November 25, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
YOU MAKE A FOOL OF YOURSELF EVERYTIME YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SHOW YOUR ROTTEN TEETH MORON
Comment posted November 25, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
DOES NOT TAKE MUCH TO MINDFUCK YOU HUH??
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