U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann urged her supporters to fight health care reform by calling Congress “every day, when you wake up in the morning and comb your hair and take your vitamins.”
Democrats are purposely pushing health care legislation at holiday time, Bachmann charged during a nationwide conference call Thursday. “It’s intentional that they’re doing this at Christmas time and Hannukah.”
“We’re going to kill socialism,” Bachmann vowed during the call, which was hosted by the Republican National Committee. “They can’t have our country. We’re not going to let them win.”
Electric moment
Bachmann warned that “senior citizens have the most to lose. … Senior citizens are going to be told ‘no’ an awful lot more. There will be rationing of health care. … We have to work hard and pray hard. It’s a far easier task to hit these senators hard now [than to repeal health care reform later].”
Bachmann credited her rally on the U.S. Capitol steps last month with giving Republicans in the Senate confidence to resist health care reform. “I went on Sean Hannity’s show and asked people to come,” she recalled. “This was wildly successful. We had over 20,000 Americans [who came on their own]. I didn’t organize a bus or a car. … It was an electric moment.”
After the rally, the “heroes” who attended went to their representatives’ offices, she said, and “looked at members of Congress with the whites of their eyes. … They were quaking in their boots. It sent a huge signal to the Republicans in the Senate.”
“It’s not inevitable that this is going through. I’m not just puffing smoke here,” she said.
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Notes:
I like Michelle.
Just like Sarah, there is never a dull moment when she is around.
As I’ve said before there’s nothing wrong with trying to reform healthcare but it should be an open , transparent process. This situation in the US is anything but. Creating a 2000 page document, giving lawmakers 15 minutes to read it before they have to vote on it and locking the doors so the GOP can’t see what is happening behind the scenes is a prescription for mass disobedience.
Socialism on a rampage.
If you are an American you should be very concerned by now because it’s YOUR money they are playing with. Frankly, if this keeps up the GOP (like Alberta Wildrose) will be able to run a bale of hay in the next election and win.
Depending on who you talk to, socialism is either a dying, defeated philosophy OR entering the next stage of their campaign to reign supreme on the planet…
I wonder whether when the electorate is sleeping, not suspecting that they elected a hard core socialist agenda, that this stuff is rammed through. What happens when they wake up? Revolution?