Conservatives Rally Behind Bachmann’s Call For Anti-Health Care Reform Protest In DC
Conservatives Rally Behind Bachmann’s Call For Anti-Health Care Reform Protest In DC
On Saturday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was calling on conservatives to take time off from their jobs this week and to gather on the National Mall this Thursday for “a big party” in opposition to health care reform. In an interview with the Washington News Observer, Bachmann said that her protests would be inspired by hate radio host Mark Levin, who recently wrote a book called Liberty and Tyranny.
Now, it turns out that Levin will be at Bachmann’s rally. Promoting the right-wing gathering on WorldNetDaily’s radio show today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced that Levin, along with conservative stars like Jon Voight and Betsy McCaughey, would be speaking at the event:
KING: On that day, we will have with us Jon Voight, the actor is coming in. And he’s more than an actor if you’ve seen him in the media. Mark Levin will also be here, Dr. Betsy McCaughey who has written much about this national health care in the Wall Street Journal. Tony Perkins, there will be others, but those I can announce will be here. Michele Bachmann will be here, I will be here, Tom Price, the chairman of the Republican Study Committee will be here, and we’re calling upon the American people, come defend you’re freedom. Do so politely, within the law, respectfully. But do it as emphatically as you can within those limits. That’s the only thing that is going to turn this thing around.
Listen here:
The conservative infrastructure has been rallying around Bachmann’s idea. Last Friday, Bachmann promoted her rally on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. Glenn Beck hosted her on his radio show today and endorsed her efforts. The offices of both House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) also issued their support.
For those who are unwilling to take time off from work to travel to DC, Bachmann and King are both recommending that they visit the website of the corporate front group Americans for Prosperity to find info on congressional district offices.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 pmThis tells you the state of the Republican Party when Bachmann is leading the charge for anything….
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pmNow, it turns out that Levin will be at Bachmann’s rally. Promoting the right-wing gathering on WorldNetDaily’s radio show today, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced that Levin, along with conservative stars like Jon Voight and Betsy McCaughey, would be speaking at the event
Ahhh , a true Meeting of the Mindless ………..
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pmGooooo Michelle! ;)
Too late. She’s already gone, really gone, really really gone.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pmHyperinflation says:
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Gooooo Michelle! ;)
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Yes , please do ………..And take the above imbecilic jackass with you ………And do not return
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmWish i could get time off my job along with 100k others as well and show up with PO or single payer signs and out number there 5k =(1 million) (repug math).
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmNow that be great to see all the looneys standing there out numbered.
Hyperinflation says:
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Republicans are sweeping elections all over. TP desperation is cranked up to the max!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Yeah …………………..Just like they did in ‘06 and ‘08 , leg humping stooge…………
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:38 pmDo you think it will be as ’succesful’ are the ‘912′ march? You know, when Faux News claimed there were a million, when in fact there were only between 50,000 to 75,000 ‘protesters’? Ironically, roughly the same number as the Gay March. But don’t worry I’m sure Faux will inflate the numbers, yet again.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pmHyperinflation says:
Republicans are sweeping elections all over. TP desperation is cranked up to the max!
AAHHh one question? what are you talking about? could you answer in more then one sentence would be nice.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm“…and we’re calling upon the American people, come defend you’re freedom.”
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Why do I have this idea that we’re going to see a lot of teabaggers in the capital (although maybe not as many as in the past — it IS getting colder these days), most of whom will be outraged at the idea that their “freedom” is being taken away from them, but will have absolutely no clue as to which freedom, and exactly how it’s being taken away.
I anticipate we will see a few (but only a few) protesters approached by broadcast reporters on camera and asked about this. And I predict the response will be some mishmash of the words “socialist”, “Marxist”, “government takeover”, etc. that will make no sense whatsoever.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pmParty in D.C. ?
Hasn’t she learned from the last time she partied in the capital, and tossed her cookies ? Better stick to bong water.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 pm“The Million Moron March”
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmAnd foxnation is of course promoting Bachmanns big party on its frontpage
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmPilot@11, Yeah. Two Governorships and a little burg in NY. Sweeping elections? Maybe idiots like these should wait until 2010.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmWill Bachmann be renouncing her own publicly funded medical insurance? And payback any and all money laid out for same?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmThat was obvious in 2008 and 2006.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmCome to Washington and save my FREEDOM [WOW] . .
And my FREEDOM is being taken away how?
Anyone know?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pmHyperinflation says
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Republicans are sweeping elections all over. TP desperation is cranked up to the max!
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I take it this is just random drivel? Or do you have a point you can back up with something meaningful?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pmYes, the GOPigs and conservative terrorist movement will be extinct in a decade.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pmDung Beetle Excrement > Michele + King + Beck + Hyperboy X 28%
New math, ain’t it a bitc?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pmWell the gay march ironically wasn’t as much of a spectacle as the Angry White Old People Brigade. The Tea Partiers had a bevy of awesome braintwisting quotes and a neverending stream of ‘lulz’.
If future gay marches want to sacrifice respectablitiy for coverage, they’re going to have to turn up the crazy.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pmHyperinflation says:
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MCMetal says
This is ‘09, ellens little minion. The times are a changin!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
They sure are , Johnny Dollar’s little suck toy ; we inaugarated a black president ……………….Isn’t PROGRESS wonderful , tool ?
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pmP.D. says:
Pilot@11, Yeah. Two Governorships and a little burg in NY. Sweeping elections? Maybe idiots like these should wait until 2010.
Yes and the burg in NY-23 will be democratic in 2010 as it will be a re-districted and the districts either side o fit are democratic.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pmP.D., I wouldn’t count the NY race as even a win for the Republicans. That is and has been a Republican stronghold. They should win it. The fact that there has been two candidates, a Republican Party and a Conservative Party, beating up each other is a lot more indicative of trends than if the Democratic candidate loses. I
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pmRepublicans are sweeping elections all over.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pm–Care to be more specific?
Will Bachmann be showing them how to “slit their wrists” for healthcare? I might be willing to watch that.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pmConservative estimates by conservatives predict the crowd to be somewhere between 20 & 30 billion people, give or take a few Ron Paul supporters.
Yes, Bachmann & Palin will be swimming nude in the Mall pool…tickets to observe are extra, of course. (Bring a copy of Sarah’s centerfold from her new book and enter your name for a chance to spend a weekend in Appalachia with Mark Sanford or John Ensign!)
Come join us for inanity, insanity and some good old crude, rude conservative humor.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pmThe times are a changin!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm—
How so or do you not do specifics?
So I assume that vote indicates that you don’t care to be specific….
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pmEvery time I see this picture I can’t help but wonder what Steve has been doing with that finger.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pmHyperinflation says:
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we inaugarated a half black president
Fixed.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Which is a hundred-fold improvement over his predecessor , who was simply half-a-retard …………..
Fixed better.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pmThe “sweeping elections” are a result of the Democratic contender being borderline stupid or focusing their campaigns too negatively. The voters aren’t pumped for conservative ideals, they’re just annoyed by the men in particular rather than their ideologies.
20% Republican self-identification is a hard number to combat. Bachmann is representative of why a lot of moderately-minded people are backing away from the party.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm@26&27, LOL! You had to see Joe Scarborogh this morning when Lawerence O’Donnell tried to tell him just that. I’m afraid Joe wants to live in denial. Let him.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmSee New Jersey.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pmSince when is Jersey evidence of all over?
Hyperinflation says:
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See New Jersey.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
You mean when Corzine’s re-elected ?
Good call………
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pmsince obama has f’ed up everything he’s touched.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pm— Can I get a list? The people aren’t fed up. They just want shit to happen faster that’s all. I have met two fed up people and they were both less than educated.
“Hyperinflation” is trying to say he wants to murder the President, hates the 9/11 families and thinks the races should never intermarry. He’d also like to add that he’s completely obsessed with a certain MSNBC commentator whose name rhymes with Shmolbermann, but his real love is for Michael Weiner Savage. He knows his heroes are dummies, liars, blowhards and loons, and it makes him very angry so he hopes he can do something to make you angry too. Just don’t laugh at him, okay? Lastly, he’d love to do more than just troll but he’s too cowardly and incompetent to be anything more than be a Cheeto-munching keyboard commando, so what you see is what you get.
Same as it ever was.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pmHyper, Give it up! I isn’t just about Obama. Many people vote on the issues about THEIR state. The troll insistence this is all about Obama is specious, and they know it.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:52 pmHyperinflation says:
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dbadass says
Jersey is a sign of the timers since obama has f’ed up everything he’s touched. The people are fed up.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Since when did Obama become responsible for Jersey’s property tax rate , you unintelligible imbecile ?
BTW
I am a Jerseyan , and as bad as things are , Corzine and Christie are running neck-and-neck ; that shows you how immensely UNPOPULAR your garbage Republican party is …..
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pmP.D. says:
@26&27, LOL! You had to see Joe Scarborogh this morning when Lawerence O’Donnell tried to tell him just that. I’m afraid Joe wants to live in denial. Let him.
Yes i watched that this morning as well, Joe tried to blow him off. I like Lawrence come back>>>>> well I do my home work!!!!
then last Friday he was sitting in for Keith went he smacked and slapped down Liz.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pmHyperinflation means:
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Hi Twajie!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:54 pmSaying shit like this is why people are laughing at you.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pmhyperinflation, you are obviously confused. President Obama is the black one with the charming smile. President Bush is the white one with the smirk. Please, do try not to “misidentificator” them in the future.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:55 pmHey McMetal any chance you could throw a little Taylor Pork Roll my way? You can’t buy that shit here….
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pmSaying shit like this is why people are laughing at you.
— He doesn’t care how he gets attention just so long as he gets attention. It is really quite sad and pitiful….
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:57 pmPilot@36, Did you see a couple of weeks ago when Mika’s Father (The foreign policy expert) slammed Joe for being unknowledgable? Classic!
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 pmI love statements like “Obama has screwed up this country. The people are fed up.” Who are “the people”? Like the 9/12 protests, conservatives like to think they speak for everyone, then inflate their numbers as a result.
Polling is done for a reason. If the people of NJ and VA and NY’s 23rd were asked specifically if Obama’s policies were influencing their voting decisions compared to the actual candidates, the results would prove the conservatives’ talking points superficial almost instantly.
But, of course, leave it to right-wingnuts to make blanket assumptions that the world is on their side.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pmI think we’ve discovered why our favorite pet stupid troll needs new sockpuppets so often. He, apparently, ruins another one every time Crazy Shelly is mentioned. One would hope that someone with such an active fantasy life would have less time to spend annoying people to no purpose.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pmJust a few more nuts and frootloops and you’d have yourself an orchard.
Cheers,
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pmdbadass, hyper is sounding a lot like bagdad bob. He never admits defeat even when totally surrounded and taking fire.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pmdbadass says:
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Hey McMetal any chance you could throw a little Taylor Pork Roll my way? You can’t buy that shit here….
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Where are you ? Cali ?
1st tme I ever went out to the West Coast , I visited a former high school classmate (who was engaged to a producer’s daughter) , and who charged my bass player and I a couple of Taylor Ham Pork rolls as payment for lodging for 2 weeks…….
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 pmTrollspotter says @43
You just might be on to something there.
I have notice all the trolls are about as un-american and un-patriotic as one can get. Not to mention that there gods of hate radio and fox news are even bigger Cowards and plane old wrong about ever thing.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 pmSo when 100 wingnuts show up they declare it was a million and then go home. Shelly needs to strip naked to get that wingnut crowd excited.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pmAnd don’t forget there will be plenty of Faux news producers standing behind the scenes telling the crowd what to say and rally the sheeple into a frenzy. Fair and Balanced my ass.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pmDon’t forget me! I want to play follow the mental patient and hit that Bach bacon from behind!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 pmCan someone show old Marty Feldman Eyes how to properly make the shocker hand signal? No wonder she has that embarassed look on her face….
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:05 pmSorry, Smelly Shelly, can’t make it.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pmI’m doing volunteer work later this week at the local VA hospital.
Seems the veterans have a hard time getting health care.
This time we can get an accurate count of attendees by weighing all the trash left behind and dividing by 200 (average weight of the average attendee).
Then they can package it up and send it back to said attendees for proper disposal.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pmHyperinflation, your wife should have that checked out.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pmweighing all the trash left behind
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:07 pm— beef jerky and wrappers from the crap on the McDonald’s dollar menu?
“1st time I ever went out to the West Coast , I visited a former high school classmate (who was engaged to a producer’s daughter) , and who charged my bass player and I a couple of Taylor Ham Pork rolls as payment for lodging for 2 weeks…….”
There’s a screen play in there somewhere…
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm;)
Hyperinflation says:
The times are a changin!
this is so reminiscent of the other day when a conservative loon troll quoted John Lennon.. now we have one quoting Dylan.
Don’t you idiots find it telling that you are quoting liberal minded people? There are no conservative revolutionaries.. or revolutions. Why is that? Change is liberal. Change is about getting rid of your kind and your dead end policies.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 pmIf the, so-called, “Librul media” were really liberal? Every network would send a crew to film the FAUX crews. That would be compelling coverage.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pmnoseeum says:
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“1st time I ever went out to the West Coast , I visited a former high school classmate (who was engaged to a producer’s daughter) , and who charged my bass player and I a couple of Taylor Ham Pork rolls as payment for lodging for 2 weeks…….”
There’s a screen play in there somewhere…
;)
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Gal’s father produced STARGATE (film with Kurt Russell) , among others ; he asked me if I wanted to “act”.
I told him it was easy for me to act like an idiot , and not much else…..
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pmP.D. says:
Pilot@36, Did you see a couple of weeks ago when Mika’s Father (The foreign policy expert) slammed Joe for being unknowledgable? Classic!
yes i did and i still get a smile went he comes on.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pmThe dude in the straight-jacket is always mumbling “People love me!” to himself.
Enjoy that sweeping mandate, overinflated wife. We know Bush did.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pmLooks like hyper split. Good. There is nothing worse than a stupid, uninformed troll.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pmlux:
This is the same intellectual midget, he is wearing a different sock today.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pmReally? In NY-23, which has been held by Republicans since the Civil War, the Republican candidate dropped out.
So Republicans won’t be “sweeping” that one.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:16 pmHyperinflation cannot exist with high gas prices that went un-magic-wanded and $1.2 trillion in debt left to the demlib president. Only when a demlib spends the same dollar can hyperinflation exist.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 pmDamn it ralph. I was waiting for them to trip themselves up on that one….
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 pmI see our last sockpuppet, the K Street Whore has been downsized and replaced with a new sockpuppet.
What does Twajie keep doing to his tube socks that forces him to change them out so frequently?
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pmSorry, dbadass, I should have been more discreet.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pmIf the democrat wins, and that’s a good possibility since my party did a number pissing off the locals, I’m going to break into this thread and curse the hell out of all you demlibs and chant “2009 + 3!”
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:20 pmWhat kills me about this race in NY. was that Dede was PICKED by her own Party members, only to find that the Repug Establishment thought she wasn’t Republican enough. The a bunch of outsiders came into town to denounce her, defame her, and call her a ‘Liberal’. Not even Newt could save her. And then final shiv in her back, was Newt himself when he backed Hoffman. The Repugs are killing their own Party. Let the bloddletting begin.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:21 pmIt’s all good my friend ralph. Ya know I am growing a little bored just slapping around our little friend with these electrons. Maybe I need to roll up on him and his wannabe gangsta friends down in the big city and have that chat he is always to afraid to have….
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 pmI would’ve figured Palin would switch support for the Republican in NY-23… she quit afterall… birds of a feather.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pmBach bacon should get a campaign bus and do an orgy with all the republican members of congress and sell the tape for campaign cash!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:24 pmLet’s recap and examine this upcoming flop:
- The sht flinging Baboon had months and both his radio and Fox gNOpig Propaganda shows to promote his 9/12 farce, and accompanying book, to be held on a Saturday.
- Bat sht crazy has been promoting this failure fest for only about one week. She was featured with the Baboon today. Bitter wingnut Mark Levin didn’t have kind words for the Baboon and he is trying to promote his own book. This public humiliation is to take place on a WEEKDAY.
:0!
AVERT YOUR EYES! Train wreck ACOMING!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 pmSince it’s the Halloween season it would be appropriate for a group of dedicated sane people to show up in the stereotypical “white suits” and carrying straight-jackets.
A pity I don’t live within range of D.C. or I might be tempted to start a movement. Counter the teabags with straight-jackets. Though it may be a good idea for the sane ones to wear a flak-jacket too.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pmWhere are the Democrats?
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pmI would also love it if some clever person would market a “Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube-Shelly” that squawks “ACORN”!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm“Sweeping Elections”, Glenn Beck the father of the “Revolution” to save their cherished country from the Nazi, fascist, socialist, Marxist, Stalinist bad guys.
The only word I can think of is pathetic. Adults giving mutual head pats, pumping each others egos.
These Republicans are on quite a head trip. Hey boys and girls, the rest of the world is watching and shaking our heads.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pmI’m really Hoping that some REAL Reporters do some Real Interviews of those Tea baggers.
America Wants to Know…
…what kind of health Insurance Does YOUR FAMILY have…and are you happy with it?
….How can you AFFORD to take a DAY OFF from work??
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pmwiley says:
“Where are the Democrats?”
Hard at work, in their offices and on the floor, trying to alleviate the multiple crises they inherited.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pmwiley @ 88
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:50 pmI would hope the Democrat have more class and self respect.
The troll insistence this is all about Obama is specious, and they know it.
They would if they knew what the word “specious” meant.
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 pmOh please, oh please, let this rally happen! I’ll need some humor to brighten up my weekend…Will that be “several hundred thousand” (i.e.50,00-75,000) like Becky’s 912 march?
RELEASE THE WINGNUTS!!!
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:58 pmP.D. says:
What kills me about this race in NY. was that Dede was PICKED by her own Party members, only to find that the Repug Establishment thought she wasn’t Republican enough. The a bunch of outsiders came into town to denounce her, defame her, and call her a ‘Liberal’. Not even Newt could save her. And then final shiv in her back, was Newt himself when he backed Hoffman. The Repugs are killing their own Party. Let the bloddletting begin.
And then she endorsed the Democratic candidate in the race.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:00 pmIn her note to Limbaugh, Bachmann said, “We’ll have a meet-up at the Capitol steps and then the insurgency begins.”
PS
“I’ll bring the Oxy , Viagra and 12 year old Central American boy for you” …….Sincerely , M Bachmann …..
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:33 pmAt the so called 9/12 march, many of them sported signs saying
I wonder how many of these bozos will be packing heat like the emotionally troubled dupes from the summer Obama events.
That will go over well…
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 pmAwwww, how cute. The rich right wing fringe is going to hold a rally of their own in support of the CEO’s across America against the poor and the middle class.
Not a peep out of these a-holes under the 8 years of George Bush, though! Well, of course not because ole George represented their anti-American interests!
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pmBachmann enlisted Rush Limbaugh to promote her rally as well. In her note to Limbaugh, Bachmann said, “We’ll have a meet-up at the Capitol steps and then the insurgency begins.”
When did this become OK? Yeah, sure, Bachmann undoubtedly doesn’t even know the meaning of the word, but perhaps someone should let her know she’s preaching treason.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 pmOh great. Now we’re going to be forced to listen to some more wingnuts pissing and moaning about the lousy public transportation to get their fat teabagging asses to the Capitol.
*eyes rolling*
I can’t WAIT.
Not.
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 pmThat’s the only question left about Crazy Shelly, gummitch. The line between stupid and crazy is so blurred that it’s impossible to know if she even hears, much less comprehends, the words that come out of her mouth. I have a feeling that there’s a constant babble, featuring her hubby and pastor and Jebus, ringing inside the echo chamber of her head.
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:12 pmThere were at least one gazillion patriots at Glenn Beck’s 9-12! I’m sure there will be at least 200 bazillion patriots, conservatively speaking, at this rally!
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 pmDang, I like that photo in the post. What’s the caption? “Michelle “Batshit Crazy” Bachmann fakes orgasm while Steve King waves stinky finger around”?
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:23 pmThe GOP have lost their minds. Queen of Planet Wingnuttia Crazy Shelly is now enlisting gas bag radio host El Rushbo into the teabaggers’ anti-healthcare reform love fest. I don’t who is the real leader of the GOP party: Crazy Shelly or El Rushbo.
Republican party = mental illness
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pmwiley: “Where are the Democrats?”
In congress, working on passing legislation. Where do you want them to be?
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 pmSpeaking up for the rest of us and pushing back hard against the corporate bullies that are lobbying against real reform.
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pmI am sick of this psychotic ignorance. I think we (pro-reform) need to have a counter protest. We should match every teabagger and be just as passionate. Let’s all gather in DC this week. We need to go and march. I think it would be very moving to have 44,000 people lying on the mall in reflection of the thousands that die each year because they can’t afford health care in America. This is an important moment in our country’s history and I think that it deserves a high profile demonstration to show the true support. It’s time to fight back.
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:40 pmI hadn’t scrolled up to the update. Sheesh! If inviting an “insurgency” into the halls of Congress isn’t worth formal censure? I don’t know what is.
Please good people. Contact your Congresspersons and insist on disciplinary action regarding Crazy Shelly’s constant divisive and damn-near treasonous statements. I’m not above begging the nation to help me shut this b!tch up.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:16 pmThese racist rallies would be empty if it weren’t for the first of the month checks.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:33 pmWhat are you saying Pete?
We should let the loonies loon.
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I just wonder what old Michelle would do if a bunch of public option loving Americans were roaming the halls with her. Pushing reps to support reform. I think her head might explode. Every American has the right to protest as long as they agree with her. I think seeing an equally emphatic pro reform crowd would push her over the edge. That’s her kryptonite!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:56 pmThe worst bill ever — OMG
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703399204574505423751140690.html
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:02 pmI rarely acknowledge a stupid troll by name but conservative4ever, deserves a response. Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers the stupid troll claims we need to study, said;
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:21 pm“To the Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland” (March 31, 1809)
Drat! I hit the button too soon!
It seems that President Jefferson would have stood for most measures to protect public health and ease suffering. And I’m damn sure that he would have objected to cancer patients, or other sufferers of chronic disease, being denied treatment because their VISA is maxed out.
On the other hand he, and most of the other Founding Fathers, were pretty unanimous that there was no justification for invading foreign lands. That particular evil came much later.
In fact, they weren’t much for standing armies. That particular expense was left to the states. I think that one could make a case that the Founding Fathers would have disbanded the U.S. armed services and given state guards and “militias” more autonomy.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 pmI rarely acknowledge idiots by name (like you pete), but you don’t ruin an entire healthcare industry, bankrupt the country, destroy personal liberties, expand government, give the government more control of your life, and destroy your children’s futures, to help a relatively small percentage of citizens when there are much better, more economically-sound solutions.
It seems to me there is no hope here, with such brain-washed morons who can’t think for themselves.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 pmwow you take a lot of words to say nothing true conservative4ever.
wait, not words, …crying.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 pmThe republican regime doubled the national debt, ran huge deficits, lied to the American people…WMD..mental recession, illegally wiretapped our conversations. Is selective amnesia a pre-existing condition? I’m sure dementia is.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pmconservative4ever, I’m with you. This is a bad bill with the purpose of giving more power to the government and less freedom to the people, freedom to control our money and choose our healthcare providers. Maybe the liberals could explain which government run program was ever more efficient and cost effective than private industry. (stand in line at the DMV lately?) The republican regime doubled the national debt, I agree, but Obama doubled it again in 6 months. We are out of money, wake up!
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:42 pmWow, and more wow. Typically I don’t respond to the trolls but this conservative4gettingscrewed is beyond the pale. He doesn’t know what our country is and where we came from. He has no information about our founders and their struggles to create a just society.
I have a job and health insurance that goes away when my job goes away. Get it? Freedom? Perhaps I would like to start a business creating jobs for Americans to create things again, I can’t because the health insurance companies would make that impossible. How do you like knowing that everthing crappy piece of shit you buy is made in China? Freedom? Blow me!
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:46 pmI’m afraid that I would need links to the sections of the bill that would cause all these calamities the stupid trolls are so afraid of. Though I’ve only skimmed a summary I haven’t seen anything resembling the calamities they claim.
Plus, Medicare, the VA, and some state’s Medicaid programs are all more efficient than private insurers.
BTW, I’m on Medicare and I still pay a premium and co-pays, they are just lower than any of the private insurers who refused to cover me. Medicare literally saved my life, like countless others who suffered with non-insurable conditions without it.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 pmQuestion: Which government run program was ever more efficient and cost effective than private industry?
Liberal response: Blow me!
Very Intelligent
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 pmOf course medicare is less expensive for you, because it’s subsidized by 3% of every paycheck everyone else earns (1/2 employee, 1/2 employer). Nothing is free.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:58 pmGood evening Pete.. I agree. Medicare for all is the way to go. And I would be quite happy to pay more into Medicare knowing that my fellow citizens and myself and my children could be covered….and get the health care we all need. It’s simple.
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:59 pmWhy do these pro-insurance lobby folks get trying to scare us with the “government will bankrupt our children” stuff? Do they think that the health insurance folks deserve some sort of monopoly on bankrupting our children?
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 pmBy the way, the health care bill cuts medicare.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 pmThe national debt was 5.73 trillion at the beginning of the Republican regime then doubled to 10.7 trillion when the tyranny was lifted. In order for Obama to “double it” then you are saying the national debt is over 20 trillion. Wrong. The current national debt is 11.9 trillion, not double by any kind of standard. It was the disastrous and failed policies of the republican regime that is the heart of all of this madness. It will be future generations paying for the Right’s wrongs. If only instead of republicans sailing down the river of denial in the S.S. Mental Recession, they used their superior brain power to stave off the Great Recession when it started in Dec 2007.
BTW, the health care bills reduce the deficit, but I guess you’re against that too.
Please clarify..are you against Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and every single “government run health care”. Do you believe ALL of these should be abolished?
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 pmsawyer says:
By the way, the health care bill cuts medicare.
It cuts taxpayer subsidies to expensive Humana plans for seniors. But I guess you prefer taxpayers get gouged by paying 14% more so someone over 65 can have a Humana card in their pocket.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 pmI paid my share and now I’m collecting. That’s how it works.
I might also mention an old friend of mine, a Nam vet, who developed a degenerative disorder that his private insurer wouldn’t treat and, because he had always done the “right thing” and carried private insurance, he didn’t go to the VA until he was nearly wheel-chair bound. They arrested it in a couple visits and he’s shown dramatic improvement under their care.
I might add that, as someone who has spent a lot of time in clinics and hospitals, I’ve been impressed with the efficiency of the local VA hospital/clinic. I’ve taken my old friend to many visits and, to mention just one impression, if he arrives early for an appointment he goes in, and finishes, early. The whole place seems to run with military precision.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 pmDo you honestly believe the health care bill will reduce the deficit? I have some land I would like to sell you. Medicare and Medicaid aren’t going anyhwere until they go bankrupt. I am in favor of helping hose who need it, but not by creating disincentives for people to help themselves. I stand corrected on the deficit. The federal budget deficit for fiscal 2009 tripled to a record $1.4 trillion, according to a Congressional Budget Office.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:12 pmPete, that’s good you have a good health provider. I believe we should keep the freedom to choose the best of them. That’s why I am afraid that a government option would lead to a goverment only plan and to worse overall care (e.g Canada, Great Britain).
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 pmconservative4ever @ 112
Your eloquent words were quite moving.
(Every American feels this in their heart, no monopoly for the conservatives.)
“BUT”
What is your definition of freedom and liberty?
This is where we get to the sticking points.
You have used a broad brush and stated nothing of any relevance to healthcare.
There is a very big probelm with healthcare!
Who’s healthcare system do we have presently?
Typical rhetoric; no action; standard Republican response.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm@ 117. conservative4ever says: I rarely acknowledge idiots by name … , but you don’t ruin an entire healthcare industry, bankrupt the country, destroy personal liberties, expand government, give the government more control of your life, and destroy your children’s futures, to help a relatively small percentage of citizens when there are much better, more economically-sound solutions. … . November 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I agree heartily with you, conservative4ever. You’ve written a perfect description of the outcome of 8 years of Shrub policies; Shrub and Darth Cheney did all of those things, with the possible exception of ‘ruin an entire healthcare industry’. Healthcare has been headed for the ditch and a rollover since about 1946, when Congress passed the anti-trust exemption for healthcare insurance corporations; that exemption allows that particular set of corporations to engage in collusive and other anti-competitive activities that would put other corporations into a fedreral court. Those insurance corporations are going to wreck our entire economy and society and no one, let alone Shrub and Darth Cheney, has done squat about it since the collapse of the Clinton initiative, until the present administration.
Every other thing you list can be directly attributed to, and shown to be, Bush #43 policy.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 ampete says:
“I paid my share and now I’m collecting. That’s how it works.”
I agree, Pete. Medicare has been in place for roughly 42 years. I paid into it as a full-time worker for probably 35 of those years. As a part-timer employee since 2004, I’m still paying into it, albeit not a whole lot.
My total contributions and my current monthly premiums may not add up to a great amount, but it isn’t exactly a government hand-out, either.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 amHyperMORON
SHUUUUUUUT the FCUK up
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 amI will repeat myself:
RELEASE THE IDIOTS!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:36 pm