MPR catalogues Bachmann’s ‘misstatements’

“Politifact, which has documented 13 false statements by the Sixth Congressional District Republican since 2009.”

Wow, I wonder if they ever got around to cataloging Obama’s false statements, including his insistence that we have 57 states in this nation. I bet not.

“For example, she suggested the new federal health care law is the main reason health insurance premiums have increased across the country.”

THEY ARE! duh

Insurance companies have begun to raise their premiums in preparation for having to cover their losses from having to “insure” people with “pre-existing conditions.”

In other words, they’re not going to be insurance companies anymore, you know, a company that won’t sell you a policy to pay for the damages to your car AFTER you’ve had the accident? How do I know this? I work for an insurance company.

Who the hell is MPR to say that’s not true?

Dennis – you never fail to amuse -

Wow, Dennis works? I don’t think that insurance company is getting its money’s worth.

Wow, Ambrose, good thing I didn’t tell you what my job is or you’d REALLY be pissed.

This rag is full of lies and deciet. Just another liberal yellow left leaner RAG using the “independent” title. And the writers are commie leftists, all.

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Rates didn’t increase (or we smaller) before the health care law?
” Today, the average cost of a family health insurance offered by an employer is $13,375. That’s up 131% over the last decade—a period in which inflation rose only 28%.” -TIME 2009

They are increasing now to cover their losses? When did insurance companies have losses? Do a google search for ” Health Insurance Industry Fudges Data To Downplay Its Astronomical Profits”

Bachmann missed the problem that because her fact lack credibility, her opinions and accusations also lack credibility. Dodging the questions only perpetuates her lack of credibility.

Bachmann doesn’t need FACTs as long as she’s got FOX.. She can just throw a bunch sh1t into the FOX meat grinder and their viewers eat it up like Fillet Mignon.. Yummy Yummy !! The Purdy Gurl on the TV said it… So it MUST be true!

It figures that commenter Dennis works for an insurance company. He really should have disclosed this a while ago and also should have disclosed what he does or at least which one.

I disagree with Ambrose. If you’re an insurance company, you want to have people like Dennis working for you who assume every policyholder-premium payer who makes a claim is a lying thief and a fraud. If you’re an insurance company, your job is to collect premiums and deny claims, cancelling people’s policies if possible. Which we know it is because they passed a law against it which Dennis wants to repeal. In the name of freedom of course.

Obviously, Dennis believes the propaganda about insurance being an honest business somehow engaged in free market capitalism. He probably wrote it.

Bachmann, is just the latest re-incarnation of the type of politician, that, this country produces from time to time. If anything, she reminds me of “tailgunner” Joe McCarthy. The same tactics, same bluster, and, same politics of fear and exclusion. I think that ultimately, the real powers in the Republican party will find a way to make her shut up. Putting her on the house intelligence committee was the first step. I can hardly wait for her to get up before a crowd, wave a blank piece of paper in the aid, and, state that she has evidence of the subversion of the government by lefty, terroist loving liberals. I can only hope that there is a Joseph Walsh out there to bring her down. Unfoortunately it seems that those sort of people are becoming a rare breed.

Unlike the political sheep of the democrat party, there is no “real powers” in the republican party to shut anyone up. We’re the party of freedom, remember?

Michelle Bachmann doesn’t need anyone’s permission to say whatever she wants and her supporters aren’t so intellectually bankrupt that all she has to say is “hope and change” to get them to cheer.

No, Michelle Bachmann’s supporters are so intellectually bankrupt that they believe anything she says “cuz sh’e a good Christian wumman who hates queers and commies.”

I doesn’t hate queers. As a good Christian woman she doesn’t hate anybody. I only ever hear that word come out of the mouths of godless leftists.

Apparently it’s the “Godless leftists” want people to be cared for when sick and the “good Christains” who see helping people as a for-profit endeavor. How much did Jesus charge a person for healing? Did he check if they were born with the condition before healing them, to be sure He wasn’t interfering with His Father’s will?

Dennis – That’s hilarious, considering with how much blatant dishonesty Republican officials roll out the newest talking points. Even if, as in Nineteen Eighty-Four, this week’s talking points contradict last week’s.

“This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning “to quack like a duck”. Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when the Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.”

If you support discriminatory laws or oppose laws aimed at reducing or eliminating discrimination, you hate the people against whom they discriminate. End of story, no debate possible.

For your information Dennis my health insurance premiums have gone up a steady 10% a year for the last 10 years, with some years going up 25% in one year alone……..If you have to pay for your own insurance you know what the truth is……it went up 10% for this next year starting in June…….This is nothing new…….

“There seem to be few, if any, consequences for politicians who repeat known falsehoods”

That is because of Goebbels` Big Lie Theory–repeat something that is known to be untrue often enough, and people will believe it. Like Obama is a Kenyan-born Marxist. I`ve lost track of how many times this has been debunked by impartial analysts. There now, if you`re running for a GOP nomination to public office, go ahead and repeat it.