Bachmann warns of ‘insurrection’ if health care reform isn’t repealed

In an interview with CNSNews, a controversial Republican news outlet, Rep. Michele Bachmann threatened an “insurrection” against the GOP leadership if there isn’t a full repeal of health care reform in 2011. And she’s urging the GOP not to replace health care reform.

Bachmann spoke with CNSNews’ Terrence Jeffrey, a former staffer for Republican Pat Buchanan.

Jeffrey asked, “Are you confident that the Republican leadership in the new Congress will allow members to have a straight up or down vote on the complete and utter repeal of Obamacare?”

“If they don’t, I think there needs to be an insurrection here in Washington, D.C. against our own leadership,” Bachmann replied. “Because that is the message that’s come loud and clear out of this election — a full-scale repudiation and rejection of the federal government takeover of private industry, whether its private industry in health care, whether its the takeover of GM and Chrysler, the takeover the student loan industry, or the secondary housing mortgage market, or of banks.”

“This is completely antithetical to American history,” she said.

Later, she said, “If they decide they’re going to cave or go weak in the knees, you will see members of Congress who will stand up against our leadership because we’re going to stand with the people on this issue.”

She said that the GOP should not “repeal and replace” but simply repeal all aspects of health care reform.

“That’s where the problem will be,” she said. “Because if we want to replace it with Obamacare-lite where the government comes in and tries to have interventionist policies, we are going to continue to see failure. We need to return free markets to health care.”

Bachmann is no stranger to war-like or violent rhetoric.

Last year in Colorado she tried to rally supporters against health care reform: “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.”

And on Cap and Trade, Bachmann said last year, “I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing, and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country.”

Earlier this year, she called the Obama administration a “gangster government.”