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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is giving Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” a new lease on life by helping death panels limp into 2010. According to Bachmann, “unelected bureaucracies will decide what we can and can’t get in future health insurance policy. That’s why they’re called death panels.”
Bachmann spoke Tuesday on Glenn Beck’s radio program.
Her comments are apparently proof that truth doesn’t travel upstream. U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa spent much of 2009 propagating the death panel concept, but by year’s end had disowned it. From a Dec. 10 communique (pdf):
Some commentators took my comments and twisted them and even quoted me as saying the House health care reform bill would establish death panels, and this was incorrect. I said no such thing.
Bachmann apparently didn’t get that memo.
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Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 11:23 am
A little off topic, but related to Michele Bachmann.
I read a year or so ago about Michele moving her campaign manager in with her into her DC residence. She then dumped her husband and now is “living in sin” with the new boyfriend/campaign manager.
Why isn’t anyone running with this story? Why do we have to put up with MB’s supposed Christian lifestyle when she is doing just the opposite? And what will it take for the MSM to finally open their eyes to what a hypocrite this woman is?
Thanks for your input. Apologies for pulling the thread off just a little bit.
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
Why?
because it’s a lie!
PROVE it!
Shame on you fro propagatuing such tripe. This refelects WAAAAY more than it does on those you try to deigrate.
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
There are death panels, they are called insurance companies!
Comment posted December 26, 2009 @ 11:50 am
Senator Grassley DID say – to elderly citizens at a meeting in Iowa – that people should be afraid of health care reform, when asked about the death panel nonsense.
He may be literally telling the truth, but it’s a very Cheney-esque duck and dodge, hiding his obvious intent behind the words he has used.
Bachmann, well, she’ll say anything that puts her in the limelight, on camera or a radio broadcast. Too bad, as there are serious issues for Congress to help resolve still. With her talking nonsense about health care reform, it clogs up the public conversation with Republican effluent that should only be drained out of the public discourse
Comment posted December 28, 2009 @ 9:44 am
Ahhh, the Bachmannator discourse…from the same old source…et tu, Brutus?
There will be death panels. so you say she lies…
There are death panels now. but again she lies…
These are polemics to attempt division. Of COURSE there are death panels, and there WILL be death panels. Money may not flow if there weren’t. Wake up, folks. You are being manipulated. Again.
Hegel lives yet again…
Comment posted December 28, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
People need to be informed that FOX News is NOT a credible source! Although it is absolutely apparent, many Americans lack the ability to interpret facts. Not only that, but they follow Bachmann, following her quotes such as “cutting your wrist to stop healthcare reform” and “pray for healthcare reform to fail”. It’s horrible!
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