Bachmann calls for constitutional conservatives to free ‘nation of slaves’
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 7:38 am
DENVER – Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was “giddy” on policy and heavy on appropriating comments from conservative pundits in her key note speech to the Western Conservative Summit in Denver Friday night.
Railing on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the health-policy adviser at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, for his support for rationing health care and what she saw as an Obama-sponsored takeover of U.S. industries, Bachmann said that the only way to escape the “tyranny” imposed by the last 18 months of Democratic rule was to elect constitutional conservatives to Congress. She then called for a multi-step program to cut government spending, taxes and a host of programs she said would help to get the country back on a constitutionally grounded track.
In a room of 600 conservative voters brought together by former Colorado Senate president John Andrews’ Centennial Institute, along with Liberty on the Rocks and Colorado Christian University, Bachmann brought the crowd to its feet more than once as she called for an end to the progressive agenda she said has taken over Washington.
“‘We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world,’” Bachmann read from founding father John Jay , ending her reading with the statement, “We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves.”
She reiterated her concern more forcefully toward the end of the program.
“I think this describes so well where we are right now,” Bachmann said before reading an excerpt from C.S. Lewis: “‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under a robber baron than under omnipotent moral busybodies… .’”
Bachmann urged the room to not only vote in constitutional conservatives like herself but also to make certain to implore their congressional delegation to vote them into leadership positions.
“I am not in leadership, but that is why I said in my remarks that it is extremely important that if the gavel turns, the leadership is made up of constitutional conservatives. All of you can put that pressure on them.”
Such a leadership, Bachmann said, would be able to implement a conservative shift in government that could, among many things, rein in federal spending. She pointed to numbers showing that when Obama took office the debt was $5.8 trillion, quickly rising to $13 trillion under his leadership.
According to the U.S Treasury Department on the day President Obama took office the total national debt stood at $10.62 trillion , and it has expanded to $13.2 trillion after massive spending on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to stave off another Great Depression.
Calling herself “giddy” with the notion of effecting change, she Bachmann laid out an agenda that has been the wish list for conservative politicians and pundits for years. She said first and foremost reforms to social security, Medicare, and welfare need to be addressed.
“We reform social security, then we reform Medicare, then we pare back welfare to the truly needy, for the truly disabled, because, yes, we can make that determination. No welfare for those who violate America’s borders. Close and secure American boarders, cut the budget, limit our foreign entanglements for America, then we massively cut spending first, then we cut taxes.”
Bachmann further said the military should not be used as a social experiment, called for the privatization of social security for those under 55, as well as the elimination of the capital gains tax, estate tax, alternative minimum tax, and the reduction of taxes to 20 percent for individual income and 9 percent for businesses. Finally, she called for the total repeal of “Obamacare” to thunderous applause.
Bachmann claimed the national health care reform package was implemented, in part, under the auspices of Rahm Emanuel’s brother Ezekiel, whom Bachmann, appropriating the claims of Betsy McCaughey, said supported the rationing of medical care to only those who were useful to the federal treasury. Bachmann, extending that claim to the administration, said , “It is about being useful not to you, not to others, but to the United States Treasury. How useful are you to the United States Treasury? These people are serious. It makes [Jack] Kevorkian look like Mary Poppins.”
While a number of sites have debunked claims against Emanuel, an ardent opponent of euthanasia, in a CBS interview he explained that he did not believe in rationing health care across the board but his contemplations as a philosopher found him looking at a situation where there might be one liver for three individuals. In those cases, he said he spoke of rationing, but that they did not apply to a larger system.
From the CBS interview:
Is he saying, as {Sarah] Palin and others have suggested, that those who aren’t “participating citizens” should have no guarantee to health care?“No,” Emanuel says, “and I think I made it pretty clear I wasn’t endorsing that view, I was analyzing that perspective and what it might mean in practical terms. The rest of the text around that quote made it pretty clear I was trying to analyze it and understand it, not endorse it.”
41 Comments
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 8:55 am
So when Tarryl Clark runs an ad criticizing Bachmann for calling Americans a “nation of slaves” will she deny that too?
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 9:38 am
There is serious talk about electing Bachmann speaker of the house if the republicans take over congress. She has become that powerful in conservative circles. She makes Newt Gingrich look like a liberal weenie.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Bachmann as Speaker would be forever a gift to the Democrats. Her stupidity, venality and spotlight chasing alone would offer citizens a real insight into the shallow end of the gene pool where republican leadership thrives. She is famous for some outrageous comment, off the cuff, which proves to be a lie she has to back off of later, then insisting that even though the lie is on videotape, it never happened. Even the GOP isn’t dumb enough to put this vile creature into a position of power.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 10:27 am
Does anybody really think they would make this nutjob the speaker over more entrenched, equally out of touch with reality asses like Boehner?
Not even the republican party is that crazy.
Just because she has a loud mouth does not make her important.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 10:57 am
“It would be better to live under a robber baron than under omnipotent moral busybodies…”
WHEW! Good thing we voted the moral busybodies out in the last election.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 11:35 am
Does this psychotic loser do anything for her district other than launch verbal insults at Obama?
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
Moral busybodies? Wouldn’t that be the Dominionist Republicans who are obsessed with what consenting adults do in their own bedrooms?
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 12:05 pm
“Does this psychotic loser do anything for her district other than launch verbal insults at Obama?”
She also collects subsidies from the government while decrying socialism and wealth redistribution.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 1:04 pm
If she were to become house speaker, she’d have to do some work and actually show up for votes. She’d have to learn the technicalities of how goverenment actually functions.
She wouldn’t take it if it was offered to her. It would cramp her style. She’d rather rant about conspiracies.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
Leave it to Troll Bagger Republicans to equate health care to “TYRANNY” .. We might have to replace stethoscopes and tongue depressors with ” The Hammer and Cycle”!! These Republicans are a bunch of brain-washed, lip droolers. It’s also hilarious when these cowardly little freaks bitch about deficit spending.. Was Ronny Reagan fiscally conservative?? NO!! Were ANY of the Bush mafia family fiscally conservative?? NO!! Was Republican Bill Clinton fiscally conservative?? YES he actually was… The ONLY thing good that Clinton did was to balance our budget.. Because the Dumb son of an Ex-President (“W”) , left obama an economic time bomb these Turd Ball baggers are all up in arms about DEFICIT SPENDING!! If our Country wasn’t so screwed by these little Trolls , this stuff would actually be funny ..
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Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 4:34 pm
I agree with marcus_w71. Are Democrats ever going to observe that Republicans are about spend, but don’t tax? It is so funny do hear them lecture on the need of a balanced budget. What a joke. Will any democrat get the up the nerve to point out that if we really want to balance the budget we need to cut our huge HUGE defense spending.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 5:18 pm
“Does this psychotic loser do anything for her district other than launch verbal insults at Obama?”
With statements designed to make the sheep feel like victims of Evil Liberals, she’s hoping to create more psychotic losers.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
It would be better to live under a robber baron than under omnipotent moral busybodies… .’”
And what, pray tell, are the Michele Bachmanns of the world but moral busybodies, peeking into loving relationships and condemning them, peeking into the marital bedroom and telling couples whether they must reproduce?
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
@Dave>> Your so right about Repubs.. They are ADDICTED to fear.. There afraid of God, Jesus, Satan, Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Queers, Revelations, Socialism.. HOWEVER!! If Corporate America overtakes our Government and makes Capitalism a form of government they are O.K. with that.. They don’t understand that “Fascism” IS a Corporate Takeover of a governmental entity..
@Rob C>>.. Right on dude! Unfortunately from what I am seeing from Obama is that he is a Center RIGHT Republican, like Bill Clinton was.. For some reason Liberals are afraid to admit that they are Liberal and they are too ready to “reach out across the isle” to all of these American hating Sociopath Republican Baggers .. We need F.D.R’s and Ed Kennedy’s NOT Clinton’s and Blanch Lincoln’s ..
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
This woman with the crazy eyes just is way out there. I would be embarrassed if she represented me. I am from Nebraska and it did embarrass me with Ben Nelson’s vote, but he is not really out their with these conspiracy theories. I hope for your sake Minnesota you elect someone who is legitimate and does not make you the laughing stock of the nation. You know we are conservative in Nebraska but wow she is something else.
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 7:42 pm
As she is a tyrant of religious persecution, with an agenda of reproductive slavery, I have to wonder *what* constitution she is committed to? Could it start out like this:
“We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederate States of America.”
Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 9:22 pm
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Comment posted July 12, 2010 @ 9:31 pm
I cant seem to get the Pawlenty Pic .. Lemme try again…
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Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 6:36 am
Michele was obviously channeling Friedrich Hayek, someone who they don’t teach in leftist academia, which explains your cluelessness.
Conservatives need to start dumbing-down their speeches and comments so democrats and other ignorant people can understand their context.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 9:42 am
Perhaps “the democrats and other ignorant people” know that all too often conservatives take things out of context and talk dumb.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 9:45 am
Unfortunately, Michele is correct. We are indeed becoming a nation of slaves…enslaved to ever-increasing government regulation, ever-increasing government control, ever-increasing taxes and ever-dwindling freedoms. Anyone who has been alive for a while can see it all around us.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 10:54 am
To Greg’s point, taxing a man’s labor at over 50% (which is where we’re heading), where someone else (the government) is benefiting more from that man’s labor than he is, is not unlike being a slave or at least a sharecropper.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 11:37 am
We have the lowest taxes since the 1950s, and as for dwindling freedoms and increasing government control — that happened during the eight years of W’s presidency. Government regulation has become less, which is why we have had all these crises lately — banks failing, oil dumping into the gulf, etc. Republicans are so stupid, but they still have their useful idiots to spew their talking points for them.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 3:25 pm
You know, she IS speaking the talking points of a lot of Americans right now. However, she is a POLITICIAN, just like Obama. Look where his “promises” have taken us. There really isn’t much “choice” in this farce of a two-party system, and ultimately, even Mrs. Bachmann with her Constitutional rhetoric is going to answer to many of the same corporate thugs, bankers, and union bosses that put Obama into office. Lose/lose.
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
Her analogy is nothing more than inflammatory hyperbole. Slaves do not get to vote for their masters. Dennis, Greg, are you claiming that the present goernment is somehow illegitimate?
Comment posted July 13, 2010 @ 10:06 pm
@Chayanov >> You are so right.. These Republi-Baggers ALWAYS talk about losing their “Freedoms” and NOT ONE OF THEM can even explain what the HELL they are talking about… The Corporatist Media has BRAIN WASHED these poor little Cristian Cultists into being ABSOLUTELY AFRAID OF EVERYTHING.. The scary thing about TAXES !! Is that 1/3rd of all Corporations in this country paid ZERO $$$ in taxes.. These same companies are the first ones to PROFIT off of WAR and they NEVER have to shed blood or Sacrifice this for our country.. I hope all of you “PROUD PATRIOTS” are happy sending our kids off to WAR for OPEC and General Electric..
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 1:45 am
THEY can determine who is truly needy? LOL. And what about war spending? When will that be addressed? Because right now all other spending pales n comparison.
Once again no care for the people in the US. But no resistance to sending money out of the country.
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 12:21 pm
Speaking of “nation of slaves” and the current deadlock over extending people’s unemployment, here’s a quote from David M. Kennedy’s Freedom from Fear (p. 352):
“Roosevelt went on in later weeks to speculate that the slowdown in investment was not economically explicable but was, rather, part of a political conspiracy against him, a “capital strike” designed to dislodge him from office and destroy the New Deal…In a reprise of his tactics in the “wealth tax” battle of 1935 and the electoral campaign of 1936, Roosevelt loosed Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson, along with Ickes, to give a series of blistering speeches in December 1937. Ickes inveighed against Henry Ford, Tom Girdler and the “Sixty Families,”…Left unchecked, Ickes thundered, they would create “big-business Fascist America – an enslaved America.”
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 8:42 pm
Last I looked, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs can’t put me in jail for not buying their products.
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
I can opt-out of my Wells Fargo accounts. I can’t opt-out of Social Security. So who’s the fascist organization?
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
You can too opt out of Social Security.
Just move to that Libertarian paradise, Sudan. No government enslaving you there!
Or maybe you could move with Rush Limbo when he moves to Costa Rica (he promised!)
I’m sure you can find something to whine about the government there.
Comment posted July 14, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
Dave – America used to be a libertarian paradise. Why should we have to move away when all we want is a nation that lives up to its own Constitution?
Comment posted July 15, 2010 @ 6:32 am
Denise,Constitution?Constitution??Man, you have more balls than Brunswick considering the fact that Bush,Cheney and the rest of your pals wiped their asses with it for eight years.
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Comment posted July 15, 2010 @ 7:52 am
@Bud Smith>> Bud.. Even if you find a reason to agree with with Dennis he’ll disagree with you.. Just remember in Republican World there are rules to follow..
Rule 1.. Obama Bad!!(even though Obama is a moderate conservative, but that doesn’t matter because Shhhhhhh!>>>>>>>>> he’s black)
Rule 2.. Common sense Makes NO SENSE…
Rule 3.. Vote for public servants that HATE public service..(just remove the word “public” from Re-”public”-an ~ and you spell the word “BAGGER”
Rule 4.. ANY social investment is COMMUNISM!!
Rule 5.. Americas public treasury should enhance benefit Corporate entities ONLY.. Even if those entities might be located in Communist CHINA!!
Rule 6.. Drill here Drill Now!!
Rule 7.. Environment Shmironment!! Oil is natural and the fish will clean up the oil spill.. Carbon Dioxide doesn’t naturally retain heat from the Sun!! Exxon told me so..
Rule 8.. Capitalism is a form of Government..
Rule 9.. Jesus is a Capitalist. AND a pro-War Republican.
Rule 10.. Life is Sacred.. Until that little bastard is born then well suit em’ up and ship him off to war or make them cheap factory labor..
Comment posted August 3, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
Its Funny to watch liberals imploding, their mouths open but nothing inteligent proceeds…just that little tinkling sound that we’ve heard for the last decades. Perhaps they will become educated one day… one can always hope.
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