Bringing Down Bachmann »
Posted By Progressive 1 week, 6 days ago in Political OpinionThe far right's star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.
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jordan111 week, 6 days ago
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The democrats shouldn't have to bring her down. Where are the people who voted for her? For crying out loud, if they aren't embarrassed and concerned by this lunatic woman, we have bigger things to worry about. Like her constituents being as nutty as she is! Their silence on her crazy behavior is consent.
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hyperbola1 week, 6 days ago
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Well, the "health care" debate has revealed that many more than Bachmann need to go - and not just in the GOP.
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Shut Down the Murderous Health Care Racket
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/11/07/shut-dow...
Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world’s Superpower in the sociological Stone Age. A recent study upped the figure of Americans killed by this enterprise from 20,000 to about 45,000: that is fifteen 9-11’s a year of Americans facing a cruel, painful death at the hands of these prolific killers....
Some might say I sound like a demagogue. When you are used to insipid soundbytes and P.C.-fluff, the truth starts sounding like demagoguery. The fact of the matter is that the truth is extraordinarily painful in this country ruled by a peculiar Victorian fetish of the marketplace. Nowhere in the civilized world could one imagine civic leaders fear mongering the populace about the evils of “socialized medicine” without getting laughed out of the country. Unfortunately, these goons of capitalist oppression seem to have been collectively laughed out of the civilized world and into Land of the Free.
Nonetheless, the problem is not this visceral minority. The problem lies in those that pretend to befriend progress: that grand, archaic organ of political oppression called the Democratic Party. This increasingly irrelevant union of crooks, hucksters and swindlers has betrayed the American people beyond recognition. Their failure to enact meaningful health care reform must be the last straw.... -
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hyperbola1 week, 6 days ago
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In the end, both the Kucinich and Weiner amendments were removed from consideration by house leadership this past week. Meanwhile, Democratic cheerleaders have been trumpeting the success at instituting a “public option” in both the House and Senate versions of the health reform bill. The proposed public option will cover about 3% of the population, while roughly 33% of Americans are un- or under-insured. Many progressive democrats inform me that this is the best we can realistically do given the conservative dynamics of the American populace. I don’t understand what American populace they are talking about. As someone who goes out to the bungalow belt of Chicago to knock on doors practically everyday, I can say with full confidence that only an insignificant wacko minority is repelled by the thought of “Medicare for all.” Perhaps we can figure out a way to leave those few people out when we finally do institute a single-payer system.
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Progressive leaders have fallen to the right of the American people. Americans crave and need meaningful health care reform in line with the remainder of the civilized world. They crave and need leadership in Washington that stands for the interests of their constituents: leaders that aren’t fearful of lifting their heads above the fray, pounding their fists on the podium and declaring “It is time we shut this racket down. Let us throw the insurance companies into the dustbin of history once and for all, and end this domestic terrorism that kills 45,000 Americans a year!”
Unfortunately, to get to this point, we are going to have to purge the Congress of almost every last one of its members, and stop thinking that the Democrats or the NGO industrial complex will ever bring Americans their cherished Medicare-for-all.
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CRYMTYPHON1 week, 6 days ago
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Woah, woah; hold on a minute there.
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Bring down Bachman?
Of 'Obama has seized the Census to give to Acorn
to come into our bedrooms?' fame?
The one who brought us the announcement that Obama
would be canceling the dollar?
The one who sparkles with insanity like
a shorting electric device in a gunpowder storage room?
The woman I have hand-selected to be Palin's VP in 2012?
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Progressive1 week, 6 days ago
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I think it may have been the "sparkles with insanity" part that got to these folks:
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http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/
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NoWayMan1 week, 6 days ago
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why bring down bachman when she's actually valuable to our society?
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she's a great example for the kids of who not to be and what not to do.
bachman is a living lesson of what we might turn into if we don't stay vigilant and invest in things like education.
"better do your homework or you'll end up being as stupid as michelle bachman"
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cowboygrandpa1 week, 6 days ago
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FTA:
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"But both candidates seem far more eager to direct their attacks at Bachmann. Clark told The Daily Beast that she was concerned by the congresswoman's frequent attacks on the Census, which Bachmann at one point said she would refuse to fill out. Her stance drew a rebuke from fellow Republican lawmakers who were nervous supporters would follow her lead.
“I have no idea why she wants people to break the law, but why does she want us to send our tax dollars to other states?” Clark said, noting that population counts will help determine funding for the state and district. “She should be fighting for our dollars.”
Clark also took aim at Bachmann's attacks on AmeriCorps, which she has likened to “re-education camps.” Bachmann's criticism came back to haunt her when it was reported her son had joined Teach for America, an AmeriCorps program.
“We have three things in common: We're women, moms, and we both have sons in AmeriCorps,” Clark said. “The difference is I'm proud of mine and we should be proud of our young adults giving something to the community.”
I don't know about attacking Bachmann. But to show her continuing beliefs as a detriment to her constituents. Well that is the duty of those who serve their constituents.
Something that was not done enough under the Bush joke of an administration !!!!!
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