TPMDC Michele Bachmann: March 2010
Death Panels
Bachmann: Senior Citizens' 'Lives Literally Are On The Line With ObamaCare' (VIDEO)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is continuing to warn that senior citizens are in danger from "death panels" under President Obama's new health care legislation, predicting that seniors could lose their lives -- and their money, too.
Bachmann visited Duluth over the weekend, a city that is located in the district of Democratic Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN). Fittingly enough, the local Republicans put their speaker's podium in the middle of a boxing ring, and Bachmann was putting up her rhetorical dukes.
"Senior citizens have followed this issue more than anyone," said Bachmann. "Senior citizens are very smart. And they have been absolutely opposed to ObamaCare going forward, because senior citizens are the ones whose lives literally are on the line with ObamaCare."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (53) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Death Panels, Health Care, Michele Bachmann
MN-06
Minnesota Dems Endorse Candidate Against Bachmann, But Primary Still Awaits
MN-06 Democratic candidates Tarryl Clark and Maureen Reed
Minnesota Democrats have officially endorsed a candidate to run against Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the darling of the Tea Party right. But the process isn't over, and there will still be a primary in August.
The district-level convention of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsed state Sen. Tarryl Clark, who has long been supported by other Democratic elected officials and key unions. The other candidate is Maureen Reed, former state University regent and 2006 Independence Party nominee for lieutenant governor -- and she will still be contesting the nomination in the primary.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (11) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: 2010 elections, House '10, MN-06, Maureen Reed, Michele Bachmann, Tarryl Clark
Roundup
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
Jarrett On Health Care Reform: 'We Are Confident That The American People Will Support This. It's Good For Them'
Appearing on This Week, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett predicted that public opinion on the new health care law will improve: "There has been a lot of negative rhetoric that we've heard around the country. But what we are sure of is that this is as the American people begin to understand what's in this package...we are confident that the American people will support this. It's good for them. As you go around and you start talking about the individual components of this bill, we're seeing overwhelming support.
DeMint: Obama 'Mocking Americans Who Continue To Be Against This Bill'
Appearing on Face The Nation, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) continued to push for repealing the new health care reform law. "All of us who believe in freedom in this country recognize that if this health care bill stands, it will not only destroy our health care system, we believe it will bankrupt our country. So to give up on repealing this bill will be giving up on our country, for me and, I think, for millions of Americans," said DeMint, who also added: "Bob, the president is mocking Americans who continue to be against this bill."
Topics: David Axelrod, Health Care, Jim DeMint, Lamar Alexander, Lindsey Graham, Michele Bachmann, Recess appointments, Roundup, Sunday Shows, Valerie Jarrett
Sunday Shows
The Sunday Show Line-Ups
Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL)
Here are the line-ups for the Sunday talk shows this weekend:
• ABC, This Week: White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS).
• CBS, Face The Nation: Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
• CNN, State Of The Union: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD).
• Fox News Sunday: Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL), former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R-FL).
• NBC, Meet The Press: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (5) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: 2010 elections, Charlie Crist, Chuck Schumer, David Axelrod, Ed Rendell, FL-SEN, Haley Barbour, Jim DeMint, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Michele Bachmann, Sunday Shows, Tim Kaine, Valerie Jarrett
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann: '100% Of Our Economy Was Private' Before September 2008
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is continuing to denounce what she says is a pattern of government takeovers of the economy -- going so far as to say that the economy used to be totally private.
"And what we saw this Tuesday, once the president signed the health care bill at the 11th hour in the morning on Tuesday, that effected 51% government takeover of the private economy," Bachmann said on Wednesday, during an interview with North Dakota talk radio host Scott Hennen. "It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (212) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (2)Topics: Michele Bachmann
Health Care
Americans United Ad Hits Bachmann For Opposing Health Care Bill (VIDEO)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Americans United For Change has a new ad against Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), one of the top stars of the right wing, attacking her for opposing the health care bill at the same time as she herself gets health insurance as a member of Congress.
"She may think she's an important politician in Washington," the announcer says. "But when it comes to health insurance, if it's good enough for her, shouldn't it be good enough for the rest of us?"
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (23) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Americans United For Change, Health Care, Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann To Visit Iowa, Praised By Steve King As 'Fellow Warrior In The Culture War'
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will be making yet another out-of-state political trip -- this time to Iowa, the key first caucus state.
Bachmann has been invited Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a close ally, to be the keynote speaker at his annual Defenders of Freedom event on April 10, 2010.
"I am honored to have Michele come to western Iowa to share her brand of conservative leadership with us," King said in his press release. "Together Michele and I have led the charge in the U.S. House to fight the Obama/Pelosi/Reid health care nightmare. It was her idea that sparked our 'Declaration of Health Care Independence' and am proud to call her a friend, ally in the conservative cause, and fellow warrior in the culture war."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (16) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Michele Bachmann, Steve King
Health Care
Bachmann Promises To Grind Health Care Reform To A Halt
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) rallied the small tea party-style crowd outside the Capitol this morning by promising them that conservatives will stop the Democrats' efforts to pass health care reform in the final week of debate.
"It's the bottom of the 9th, and we've won every inning so far," she said. "All we have to do is keep it up through Saturday."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (75) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: Health Care, Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann: We're Not Going To Obey Health Care Law -- 'We Don't Have To' (VIDEO)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is going a step beyond simply pledging to fight efforts to pass the health care bill -- she's openly pronouncing that people should personally declare it unconstitutional and defy it, depending on how it ends up getting passed.
At a rally at the Minnesota State Capitol on Saturday, Bachmann declared illegitimate the potential route that House Democrats could take to pass the health care bill. She was specifically railing against a parliamentary tactic by which the House could skip voting on the Senate bill by declaring it passed as part of the reconciliation bill. Bachmann pronounced this to be taxation without representation. "They have just started a revolution -- and they did it," said Bachmann.
"But mark my words, the American people aren't gonna take this lying down," Bachmann later said. "We aren't gonna play their game, we're not gonna pay their taxes. They want us to pay for this? Because we don't have to. We don't have to. We don't have to follow a bill that isn't law. That's not the American way, and that's not what we're going to do."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (178) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: Health Care, Michele Bachmann
Health Care
Bachmann: 'We Need To Start Literally Banging Garbage Lids Together' Against Health Care Bill
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
During an appearance on a right-wing Internet radio show on Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) called upon voters who oppose the health care bill to get loud.
"Well I couldn't agree with you more, as to the timing and the sense of urgency," Bachmann told a caller to the show, Hot Tea Radio. "That's why with everything within us we need to start literally banging garbage lids together, to create enough noise so that our neighbors and our co-workers realize where the time clock is at this point, because the second hand is literally banging up against 11:59 on the clock on freedom when it comes to health care."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (53) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Death Panels, Health Care, Michele Bachmann
Health Care
Bachmann And Grayson Debate Health Care, Corruption, And 'Weapons Of Mass Distraction' (VIDEO)
Reps. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared last night on Larry King Live, with the two eminently quotable legislators debating health care policy. Bachmann used the opportunity to call for an investigation of the Obama administration.
"I think that we can come together. But I think a big question that has to be addressed right now, Larry, is, what in the world is going on in the White House?" said Bachmann. "Because today, the president offered a judgeship to the brother of a member of Congress. Tonight, the president has that same member of Congress at the White House, pressuring him to change his vote on health care." She then called for an investigation.
Grayson responded: "Well, my esteemed colleague from Minnesota has just deployed another weapon of mass distraction that the Republicans use from time to time to try to change the subject away from health care."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (60) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (1)Topics: Alan Grayson, Health Care, Michele Bachmann
Census
Bachmann Learns To Support The Census
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Hmm, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) seems to be getting more and more supportive of the Census.
The Hill reports that Bachmann will vote yes on a resolution today to encourage Americans to participate in the Census, and promote March 2010 as "Census Awareness Month." "We are where we are right now in 2010, and she hopes the population is counted accurately as the resolution calls for," said Bachmann's communications director David Dziok.
What makes this really interesting is that Bachmann spent a decent amount of time last year repeatedly trashing the Census. Let's take a trip down memory lane.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (26) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (0)Topics: Census, Michele Bachmann
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