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.














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Comment posted July 16, 2009 @ 8:40 pm
“Bachmann said she speaks to thousands of people in her district every week via ‘telephone town hall meetings’ during which she ‘educates’ constituents …”
The tele-townhall meetings are a senseless waste of taxpayer dollars, little short of a scam.
Links to a couple of first-person reports:
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-bachmann-tele-town-hall-meeting.html
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/06/tele-town-hall-thing-again.html
To the best of my knowledge, Rep. Bachmann has never held a real town hall meeting in all of the years she’s occupied a seat in Congress.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 12:17 am
Yes, melt that phone and keep over a third of Americans with little or no health coverage. That’s the way to keep the GOP’s version of “the good old days” alive and well. Let’s keep that Middle Eastern oil flowing into the country, lining the pockets of Exxon execs.
Bachmann isn’t listening to her constituents. There honestly can’t be that many completely ignorant voters in her district.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 5:37 am
Has a single prediction of Michelle Bachmann’s ever proven correct? She’s been yammering for years about gays taking over your church, electric bills doubling every month, gas prices going to $5–6 per gallon unless we drill everywhere and that Minnesota income taxes will be more than 50 percent if the Democrats hold power. All she is doing is cracking the fear whip on her own misguided supporters. That and pulling out the Jesus told me so card once and a while.
That twit is dangerous mostly because she is allowed to lie repeatedly without any one taking her to task.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 7:51 am
Apparently, it would seem that a great many Minnesotans desire a soviet style of society, if not outright socialism. Me, I love freedom and liberty, both of which have been decimated by recent politicos.
Cap and trade bill is a huge RIP OFF of the american people, based upon pseudo science of man-made global warming, and is written specifically to generate REVENUE (money to the liberal masses of overeducated idiots). It seeeks to make MONEY based upon how much co2 you might generate, which Al Gore has taught his followers is the gas of global warming. co2 is the gas of LIFE, not global warming! Supporting Bachmann in this case is a true act of american style patriotism, not the patriotism of recent years, but true patriotism. This bill is NOT good for we the people! Read, learn!
Amuseinc, I’ll take YOU to task by asking how much YOU know about the cap and trade bill and its ties to the big banking cartels? Why are you in the corner of the big bankers robbing we the people blind and creating a police state behind the phenomena of man made global warming?
Bachmann, as ditzy as she is, is RIGHT on this one. That don’t mean right wing batnuts. It means RIGHT.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 7:59 am
Per Bachmann supporter identified as “ZNOFOB” —
sound it out, Z-NO-FOB = Xenophobe: definition – intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 9:16 am
Which is what you are all exemplifying…fear of the unknown. Idiot.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 9:17 am
liberal is the new marxism, bring it on, minnesota. You are asking for a soviet style of government…
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 9:22 am
look at his name! It says it all!
Hahahahahaha
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 9:25 am
and john…john john john. What, besides my name, was I mistaken about?
Idiots like you can only reply to side issues, and ad hoc arguments. What about the statements above are lies? What about the ties to the world bank cartels? How will this be good for us? Hmmmm?
_crickets chirping_
That’s right. You can’t say SHIT.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 10:31 am
I wrote about Bachmann’s tele-town hall charade a year and a half ago:
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2008/02/13/863/bachmann_tele-town_halls_the_politics_of_exclusion
But as far as she’s concerned, that’s all she needs to do since it got her re-elected the last time without anyone holding her accountable.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 1:25 pm
Karl with a K – germanic. East or west? I ask because…well, you sound like a commie.
Comment posted July 17, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
My Germanic name has a Z in it. What’s that say about me?
Comment posted July 20, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
Let’s see: labelling people based on their names, rather than by their speech, actions or characters; making ad hominem attacks rather than addressing one’s arguments; fantasizing elaborate plots that are divorced from reality. ZNOFOB, what angry, exclusionary, white supremacist enclave are you writing from? We Americans out here in the real world can disagree with someone without having to resort to the politics of hate. It’s disappointing that you think everyone who disagrees with you must be Marxist, Socialist or worse, and that they don’t have the intelligence you have to understand the huge conspiracies underlying our entire society. Is that really what you believe, or did you just lapse in taking your meds ?
Comment posted September 23, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
And to think that this interview was conducted by Michele Tafoya. Ms. Tafoya, a sportscaster, fancies herself a political expert.
Listening to Tafoya, George (Dark Star) Chappel and Mike Max talk politics on WCCO is something like watching three baboons groom each other by picking fleas off one another and eating them.
Tafoya intensely dislikes President Obama. Today, she devoted a considerable part of her drive-time segment to whining that the President hasn’t achieved a degree of “transparency” that is satisfactory to her. She whines about health care reform. She makes snotty cracks about labor unions. What is truly transparent is that WCCO radio has decided to become another conservative talk radio wannabe, with the likes of Tafoya at the helm.
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