Video: Bachmann disses census some more on eve of trip to Israel

That’s funny. Michele Bachmann rips on the Census, yet she uses Census data to make her own arguments against health care for immigrants. I wonder if Bachmann ever stopped to wonder where the Census Bureau got those statistics?

http://michelebachmann.townhall.com/blog/g/d6ed4820-9759-48ad-a7ac-e77ecd5affe0

The relationship between illegal immigrants and our nation’s health care system is one that cannot be overlooked. In 2006, the Census Bureau reported that there were 46.6 million people without health insurance of which about 9.5 million were not United States citizens. The expense of illegal immigrants’ health care in California, for instance, has become so unbearable that many municipalities had to eliminate this benefit to save tens of millions of dollars. Texas estimates that illegal immigrants cost hospitals there $1.3 billion in 2006 alone.

In the video, Mrs. Bachmann again repeats that false canard about ACORN … that they’re engaged in voter fraud. Nonsense. In no state has ACORN committed “voter fraud” – that right-wing extremists like Bachmann accuse them of that it doesn’t make it so.

The ACORN issues have had to do with voter registration problems, where contractors submitted registrations for people who were not eligible to vote. That’s a voter registration problem, not a voter fraud problem. Bachmann knows the difference but her lack of integrity apparently prevents her from communicating that in public.

Karl …. while illegal immigration is a real problem, i don’t blame illegal immigrants for our health care cost problems … you’re talking 10 million of more than 300 million of us … they’re not a large percent.

The more than 100 million Americans who are obese, sedentary, and getting worse in their diet and exercise habits … that has a lot to do with our health care crisis.

And what should happen to some sick child who doesn’t have a legal right to be in the US? Deny that child medical care – let them die and decrease the surplus population (ala E. Scrooge)? Deny their parents that care because they’re adults and should know better than to sneak in here and be sick enough to need care?

Where’s the humanity in that?

Who is paying for her trip, I wonder.

Is she visiting Colorado because it’s just a skip and a jump away from Israel, so she might as well go there too while she’s in the neighborhood?

Bachmann’s August 2007 trip to Israel at a cost of $17,707 was paid by American Israel Education Foundation.

Bachamann’s November 2008 trip was sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council, (the trip will be what a Bachmann staffer referred to as “just your basic educational Israel trip.”)

This month, House of Representatives Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the only Jewish Republican in the Congress will lead 25 Republicans … the largest group of Republicans ever to attend. The group has scheduled a press conference for August 5 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will lead 31 Democratic members on separate trip. Both trips will be paid by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
I have lost count of how many times Cantor and Hoyer have lead trips to Israel.

And in case anyone forgot, Governor Tim Pawlenty just as the state’s financial meltdown was being reported in the news took a Jewish Community Relations Council trip to Israel.

Why would Bachmann make a third trip ? Well in 2008, she made the Top Ten in campaign contributions from Pro-Israel lobbying groups. http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/the-latest-figures-on-israels-2008-american-congress/