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In headlining Thursday’s “House call” protest against health-care reform, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann was going rogue on her own party’s leaders, who had hoped to focus the day’s attention on their own 12-hour, online health-care “town hall.”
David Weigel, of the Washington Independent (a Minnesota Independent sister site) writes:
This isn’t a surprising turn of events. In the run-up to the Sept. 12 march on Washington, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) were surprise guests at a Sept. 10 rally outside the Capitol. That event was actually identical to this one–protesters fanned out after the rally to talk to their members of Congress. But the crowd at that rally was smaller and more controlled, with most protesters holding FreedomWorks signs that had been passed out. The crowd at this rally was far less on-message. By the end of the day, the images that made it out of the rally were of protesters waving signs comparing health care reform to the Holocaust, and the video that made it out of the protest was heavy on Bachmann — one of the people Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) seemed to be referring to in a cryptic October comment about how to deal with a “problem member” who keeps making news.
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Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 10:53 am
If Representative Bachmann has an alternative plan for health care reform that cuts costs and insures everybody, now is the time to put it on the table.
It’s easy to say “no” to what ever others propose. “No” isn’t a policy. It’s what a 2 year old can say after all, with passion. But health care coverage is deteriorating – the current trends are unsustainable. We need solutions, not just obstruction.
Where’s the beef, Rep. Bachmann?
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 9:12 am
I am not sure of the reaction from America that they were after, but for my take on the whole thing was more than negative. I find it hard to relate to these people on any issue, although it probably has more to do with their presentation.
Comment posted November 8, 2009 @ 8:22 pm
I am hoping the voters in her district will send her a really big message next election. The woman is certifiable-and I’m talking funny-farm here. I wonder if the voters in her district that put her there realize that the rest of the country and even some not in this country, are wondering how it is that you people put this crazy woman in office and have kept her there? She is doing you no favors, she is the laughing stock of even most of the republican party and most definitely the rest of us. Every time I hear her speak I have to wonder what exactly is rattling around up there on top her shoulders. It doesn’t seem to be brains! Calling all of Congress un-American, calling the president un-American, talking about slitting wrists and blood brothers. Advocating that people break the law and not cooperate with census takers doing the census. Does she understand the states federal funding is based on the census? She may well have blood on her hands as it is, with the census worker that was killed. I certainly hope her district does a better job of choosing a representative next time around!
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