Bachmann to headline ‘Rally to Stop the Lame Duck’

Rep. Michele Bachmann will headline a rally on Monday sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a tea party-related think tank founded by an owner of Koch Industries. The rally coincides with the final weeks of the 111th Congress, where Democrats will try to pass several of their initiatives before the Republicans take control of the House in January.

The rally, part of an AFP project called November Speaks, will attempt to dissuade Democrats from passing funding for health care reform, Cap and Trade, or the Employee Free Choice Act.

“Congress must respect the will of the people and refrain from passing any new legislation that supports or funds the left’s global warming agenda, the bailout for union pensions or funding for the Obama-Pelosi health care takeover,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity.

Along with Bachmann, the event will also feature Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana

An e-mail from AFP grassroots director Chris Marie Farr said, “Michele Bachmann wants you in DC, Monday!”

“Now that November is here, we must fight to protect what we’ve worked so hard for. We can’t let the Senate push through their big government agenda in the final hour,” Farr wrote. “We must stop their plans to implement policy rejected by the American people in a lame duck session starting November 15th.”