Photo: bachmann.house.gov

Photo: bachmann.house.gov

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says “people need to melt the phone lines” of their representatives in Washington, D.C. over the next two weeks to stop legislation on health care and energy. If the bills pass, Bachmann predicts a dire future. “We’ve seen the end of this movie,” she warned Thursday on WCCO-AM (audio).

“Seminal bills” now before Congress could alter America for 30 years to come, said Bachmann. Cap-and-trade legislation will “double our electric bills every month,” she said. Gas prices will reach $5 to 6 per gallon. Private insurance will be outlawed. In 39 states, income tax rates will top 50 percent.

WCCO host Michele Tafoya asked Bachmann: What if your own phone lines melt from people who support the bills? Bachmann said she speaks to thousands of people in her district every week via “telephone town hall meetings” during which she “educates” constituents about issues like health care.

In any case, “I am hearing the opposite,” Bachmann said.

It wasn’t Bachmann’s only radio appearance of the day. Earlier she told the nationally syndicated “Dennis Miller Show” that private health care will be extinct within five years if the current House bill passes. “What you’re going to have is a government plan and a federal bureau to decide what you’re going to get if you get anything at all,” Bachmann told Miller.