Bachmann: We're Not Going To Obey Health Care Law -- 'We Don't Have To' (VIDEO)

How do they even not obey the law? Not buy insurance and not pay the tax penalty?

What....ever.....

Nice photo. I think they really captured that look of utter cluelessness she's been going for.

So if for some reason they're able to get their votes this week and pass this 2,700-page Senate bill -- if they get it, trillions of dollars is what it's gonna cost, when we didn't vote on it,...

So in Bachmann-land the bill might get enough votes to pass, but they didn't get to vote on it? Ummm...wouldn't she have voted on it at least twice by then? I wonder what color the sky is in cognitive dissonance land.

Well if some teabaggers decide to refuse subsidies for their premiums and won't participate in health care exchanges, who am I to stop them?

Apparently, it's "taxation without representation" if your party loses the election. Does that mean I can get back all my withholding from the Bush years?

I am with bachmann (god that hurt to say)! The first person to try and make me GIVE money to a private company in exchange for shit is getting nothing but a knife in the ribs...even if I have to go find a BCBS rep to stab.

No PO No Mandate. Kill the bill rather than give a lifeline to the bloodsucking scum.

Selective intelligence, selective hearing, selective patriotism, what is it? Too cold, thought she was Sarah, democracy challenged, I really don't get it. If you listen closely, Michelle actually says "buzzword-buzzword-buzzword-blah-blah-blah". She was against the government census takeover too, until, afraid of the law-just elect me anyway Michelle actually met fearful, crazier than thou rhetoric machine Michelle. Do these people know that they don't have to listen to her, & that's actually legal?

Oh, how I'd love to see her in chains for not paying her taxes!

Last time someone was told not to pay his taxes....the IRS ate him alive and he flew an airplane into a federal IRS building.....

I think that it is interesting that Michelle Bachmann walks right up to the line of what the courts would consider subversive speech. I have been researching her remarks this morning, and although I don't think that she crossed the line per se I certainly beleive her toe touched it. I would be interested to hear what a constitutional lawyer would say about her speech. Certainly one would expect that their elected officials would be held to a higher standard when determining whether or not their speech crosses the line from the merely political hyperbole to the outright subversive.

This Loony Toon needs to go, she has one too many screws loose. Let’s hope the Democrats get’s a strong Democratic challenger to run against her. All they need to do is throw her own words back against her, and anybody in their right mind would throw this bitch out.

We're not going to recognize that you're a congresswoman. We don't have to.

Easy for Michelle to say, since she gets her insurance through the federal employee health benefits program! Who are the rubes who elected this dumb ass anyway? Minnesota, WTF?

Did anyone watch to the end? Can you tell me why she wants them to bring dog food to the Senator's offices? Is this some kind of inside deal with Purina? I kind of wondered whether this teabag thing might have been sponsored by Lipton, now this dog thing? And didn't they want to send ice melter to Snow at one point? I'm thining they are making little deals with these companies.

But it would be nice if TPM had at least provided the turd of content that MB's batsh!t insanity blossomed from here. The most generous possible interpretation of her angry word salad is that she is talking about the tactic of passing the fixit-bill before the senate bill, so she's saying you can't have an amendment to something that doesn't exist, and if they do that, then the fixit isn't law. That is an interesting legal point. Of course, I don't think Michelle or a single person in that audience could follow that dog home, and it wouldn't really serve their angry racist revolutionary jargoneering anyway because what do they know or care abuot the fixit anyway? But that's what her speachwriter had in mind as the sand her crazy rhetorical house was supposed to be built upon I think. TPM kind of lazy here.

Why has this woman not been locked up for treason and sedition yet? Personally deciding what is unconstitutional is taking the Libertarian thing a bit far. Courts get to decide that, not indviduals. The resulting anarchy from everyone getting to pick and choose their own laws would destroy any semblance of civilization.

I wonder how the good Congresswoman would feel if a group of men decided that the laws for rape and murder were 'personally unconstitutional' and then performed those acts upon her and her family.

I don't like the "You have to buy car insurance don't you?" argument because you can choose not to drive; you can't choose to not get sick.

I didn't know that loons grew so large!

Can someone please oh pretty please shut up that bitch?

yeah, just like she wasn't gonna cooperate with the census, until she realized her district could get eliminated. She's the dumbest of the dumb, except for the people who vote for her.

She doesn't have to care what she says about this anyway, seeing as how she already has the best "government run" healthcare in the country, with a medical staff right there where she works at the capitol. Unless she actually declined it, otherwise she's a giant hypocrite as well as a giant moron.

I don't like the "You have to buy car insurance don't you?" argument because you can choose not to drive; you can't choose to not get sick.

If the bill passes through established legal actions which the Democrats are pursuing then it will be considered legal. If Michelle Bachmann who has openly professed being a Christian (that doesn't mean she is Christ-like)she will be defying what the bible says about obeying all authority...
Romans 13:1
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God".
Christian but not Christlike men and women in government and those outside of government absorbed and led by misinformation are re-crucifying Jesus.

This fraud needs to be addresed by the House of Representatives.

Censure her and her seditious talk. And if that doesn't work then start proceedings to expell this treasonous demagogue.

Remember: If you're in Bachmann's district, you must refuse to fill out the e-vile Census form! ;-)

sick b-itch

Technically, Bachmann is exactly right. No one needs to get health insurance - they can pay a $750 tax if they don't want to. There are exceptions for religious reasons, allowing people to opt out of insurance and join religious cooperatives to get their healthcare through a "cost sharing" agreement like Medi-Share (a Christian conservative plan to share costs without creating comprehensive insurance).

And Bachmann is also right that people don't need to get insurance via the Exchange - just like parents don't need to send their kids to public schools. There will be plans off the Exchange that will fit the needs and wants of consumers who are trying to avoid some of the regs - but those plans will not be government subsidized.

The GOP opposition to this as a 'government takeover' and the infighting among Dems has caused this point to be ignored to a large extent. People still have tremendous freedom about how to pay for their own healthcare.

Can I opt out of the real death tax? I won't pay the portion of the taxes that goes towards or Killitary Budget.

As a Chicagoan, I am sick and tired of the smear and fear tactics used by Michele Bachman and her Republican friends. What next, Al Capone? The "American people aren't going to take this lying down"? What this dim bulb just can't understand is that it's the American people who voted for the DemocratIC majority, who voted for President Obama, and who rejected the Republicans.

This is you brain on white cultural panic.

Yep. Just like we didn't "HAVE" to integrate our public schools. Just like we didn't "HAVE" to abide by Roe v. Wade. Just like we didn't "HAVE" to start paying SS and Medicare taxes. Just like we didn't "HAVE" to pay property taxes.

Sure. Its all a choice. Submit to the rule of law. Or get busy organizing American Revolution 2.0

Word to the wise, however. When the ATF, FBI, and SWAT show up at your Newly minted Revo HQ, just remember. They LIVE for that shit. Whatever you do, don't fire first.

It's amnesia all over again. "One party rule?" Where have you been lady? I know, I know, spending only matters when Democrats are in power. Same with "bipartisanship," patriotism, marital fidelity, and any number of other things. How do these people sleep at night? Oh would that I were blessed with such thick blankets of delusion.

I swear Minnesota, you guys have got to get your act together and get this lady OUT of office.

Hollywood was Bad.

New York City* (* = home of the dread East Coast Liberaljew Elites!) was Bad.

Now... Chicago is Bad.

By the time these people are through, Real America [tm] will be geographically located somewhere in the middle of the prairie in Wyoming.

Really, she's amazing. What I always wonder is, is this B.S. an act, or is she really as crazy and genuinely stupid as she sounds?

A lot of you just don't seem to get it. This isn't about Health Care. It's not about Taxes. It is not about breaking Laws.
It is about taking a stand with an over bearing federal government. It's about maintaining the Freest, Strongest Cause of good the world has ever seen. A free Capitalist America. It is about fighting against the enslavement of individuals.
You are enslaved anytime you are forced to labor for someone else's benefit. I is not charity (redistribution of wealth) if it is done at gun point. And If you think it is not done at gun point then try not paying your taxes. We need all the freedom fighters like Michelle Bachmann that we can get.
I'll agree that she is not perfect, and she may not always say the exact correct thing to say a any given time. But then I've never seen anyone that could. Even our current President who is a great orator makes many verbal gaffes now and again.

Marvelous, mysterious, mesmerizing Michele Bachmann: Her voice is melodious, her eyes mischievous & merry. She is magnificent!

To Michelle Bachmann concerning refusing government provided HCR. YOU FIRST. I mean it; I want documented proof that Bachmann has forfeited her GOVERNMENT PROVIDED health care and is paying for her health care out of her own pocket. Her farm is already taking advantage of the subsidy she railed against. Bachmann is the height of hypocrisy, just like her sisterfriend Palin, who trotted across the border to take advantage of CANADA's government provided health care services.

Finally Bachmann says something I agree with. As this bill is a complete and utter travesty and will do nothing whatsoever to correct the problems we face as Americans in need of decently priced health care, I applaud her stance. I've voted solidly Democratic for longer than most of you have been alive, I'll wager, and I mean every syllable.

With any luck, I'll be on Medicare--mightily endangered by this POS bill--before it goes into effect, but if not, I pledge here and not NOT to buy insurance from the enemy (Blue Cross, Wellpoint, etc.), and I will refuse to pay the fine up until they come to take my physically to jail. It won't just be teabaggers doing this, either. Mark my words.

where's her pitchfork?

Bachman should refuse her government plan and buy a plan on the open market. Here is what she now has to choose from on her public option: http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/rates/nonpostalhmo2010.pdf

Why is it always Democratic politicians who are to blame in wingnuttia? I mean, never do Repubs blame actual citizens--there are tens of millions of us who want this bill but WE never get blamed. It's as if we are all pawns of some amazingly powerful cabal.

Maybe Dem politicians could talk more about how many actual, real people want the bill.

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