Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Republican Conference, Flickr
Rep. Michele Bachmann. Photo: Republican Conference, Flickr

Bachmann: Time to end Obama’s ‘reign of error’

Republican says president 'ushered in socialism' with health care reform
By Andy Birkey
Monday, February 07, 2011 at 8:30 am

Rep. Michele Bachmann was in Montana over the weekend raising money for Rep. Denny Rehberg, who announced his bid to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Tester. Bachmann said that Republicans need to take over the United States Senate in order to shut down Obama’s “reign of error,” and she also said she’s become obsessed with repealing “Obamacare.”

“I take my first political breath every morning with one thought in mind — repeal Obamacare,” Bachmann said, according to the Missoulian. “That’s my motivation in life. … This bill is something else. It is the crown jewel of socialism. President Obama, and I’m willing to say it, ushered in socialism under his watch.”

“My opinion is we can’t shut this president down fast enough,” Bachmann said.

According to KRTV, Bachmann is still targeting Rep. Nancy Pelosi whom she still calls Speaker. “But to Speaker Pelosi, it’s 6 trillion more, so what, you’re gonna pay for it. That’s her attitude, and that is President Obama’s attitude. And for some reason we’re not compassionate if we’re not spending that kind of money. The compassionate people, I would submit, are those who are enough for the next 21 generations,” Bachmann said.

Bachmann’s trip to Montana comes on the heels of a visit to Hawaii earlier in the week. In two weeks, on Feb. 19, Bachmann will be heading to the early primary state of South Carolina for a fundraiser.

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26 Comments

Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 8:48 am

This will be a common theme for the republican candidate whomever it is. Reminding the people that Obamacare can’t be repealed as long as he sits in the White House with a veto pen in hand.

2012 will come down to who wants socialized medicine (forcing everyone into the government’s plan) and who doesn’t.


woodbuck
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 8:54 am

Hey Dennis, if it was that simple, national single payer health care/insurance would win hands down in a fair vote. That will never happen, because the corporate industrialized health care/insurance business own most of those who serve in congress, including Michele Bachmann.


nancy gertner
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 9:22 am

I think Ms. Bachmann needs to do more travel and experience life in other countries so she can truly experience “socialism” and a “reign of terror.” If she thinks living in the USA with President Obama is a “reign of terror,” she might want to seek her utopia in a different country, planet, or universe.


Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 9:36 am

woodbuck, the problem isn’t private health insurance versus government-provided health insurance. I have no problem with either. It’s forcing people into one or the other that most people oppose. As with all socialist programs, they only work if you require everyone to participate.

Maintain a system of choice and you’ve got a winner.


LadyKofOlmsted
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 9:57 am

Adding over 30 million people to the Health Insurance rolls with some Government help hardly constitues Socialized Medicine. Sounds more Capitalism to me than Socialism. The Health Insurance Companies will be making even more money than ever before.

Michele Bachmann has no concept of what Socialism is if it came up and bit her on the bum. She uses it in such a way that describes the US other than a democratically designed Republic.

Unless Michele Bachmann has been living with her head buried in the sand, Economic growth has been going on for over 13 months straight. Anything positive Obama has done, she sees as negative. With the Government aid to the Auto Industry, President Obama SAVED an entire industry!! Millions of workers are still working who are conected to this Industry!

It has become quite obvious that Michele Bachmann is running for President. The residents of the 6th CD should be used to the fact that they have been without representation since 2007. What’s another 2 years???


TSG
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 11:39 am

The more time Bachmann spends on the road and away from her office in Washington and the 6th CD here the happier I am. My most fervent hope is that when the redistricting happens I won’t be in her district anymore and I’ll get a representative who wants to represent all the people in the district and not just ultra right.


Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 12:51 pm

LadyK, of course she knows what socialism is. Do you? Adding 30 million people to the health insurance rolls subsidized by the government isn’t socialism.

Forcing people to participate in the government plan is. Because as we found out in the courts, without the mandates this monstrosity falls apart. It’s not workable without the mandatory participation. Like all socialist programs it doesn’t work if anyone succeeds in escaping from it.

She opposes it for the same reason that people risked getting shot scaling the Berlin wall or people risk their lives to leave Cuba in flimsey boats. People who never actually cared about being free don’t seem to care. But most people do.


Chad
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 12:54 pm

Dennis how come Bachmann refuses to give her congressional benefits, that’s closer to socialized medicine than “Obamacare.” You are such a big fat idiot.

I’m sure the resident’s of the 6th (sad to say I live there) are real impressed with her life mission to repeal Obamacare….I’m guessing they would rather have her work on job creation.

Finally Dennis, it’s been since December when I put this challenge out to your idiot brain, and you refuse to answer, I’m going to keep on it until you answer it….Name one, just one, right or civil libtery we no longer have since Obama took office……


Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 1:04 pm

Chad (if that’s your real name), getting job benefits from your employer is not “socialism.” I know you attended government schools that cut out civics and American history in favor of cultural inclusiveness and gender assignment 101, but take my word for it, it’s not socialism to accept a salary and benefits from your employer, even if it happens to be the government.


Chad
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 1:12 pm

Dennis,

A. Chad is my real name.
B. So you are telling me that government funded health care….which is what members of congress recieve, doesn’t count because you decided to call them an employer? Would that not make the Governement a private employer and not the governement? Which is it, is the governement a private emplpyer or are they the government? Also, since your dumb ass finally responded, Answer this question, name one, just one, right and or civil liberty we no longer have since Obama entered the White House….


LadyKofOlmsted
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 2:20 pm

Chad! Hell will freeze over before Dennis gives you an answer because he doesn’t have one. We will know if he makes something up, like Michele Bachmann does quite often.

As for Socialism,

1. A political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles
2. movement based on socialism: a political movement based on principles of socialism, typically advocating an end to private property and to the exploitation of workers
3. stage between capitalism and communism: in Marxist theory, the stage after the proletarian revolution when a society is changing from capitalism to communism, marked by pay distributed according to work done rather than need

The United States is not a Sociaslistic nation by description. Nor is our Government.


Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 3:54 pm

“1. A political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles”

LOL. Capitalism is a system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people … the people who own and/or work for the business. And market principles ARE based on fairness if you believe that the best product at the best price should be the one that succeeds.

“3. stage between capitalism and communism:” The truth is, the only difference between a socialist and a communist is that a communist has bothered to read the Manifesto.

In short, your leftist-written definitions are bogus as usual.


Dennis
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 4:10 pm

“Would that not make the Governement a private employer and not the governement? ”

Uh, no, that would make the government a “public” employer and still the government. Do you know any bureaucrats Chad? Their paychecks look just like Michele Bachmann’s.


Lane
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 5:32 pm

Noticing Democratic Sen. Jon Tester’s last name, I wonder if he and Dennis are related?

Some of us have known since Dennis revealed who he is at
http://minnesotaindependent.com/61236/walz-demmer-post-similar-fundraising-for-the-quarter#comment-63025. Using this revelation, I found out about his online learning systems business, too.

I mention this to encourage the cyber-curmudgeon to temper his comments here and elsewhere now that he is no longer anonymous.


Bauble Head
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 5:45 pm

Michele Bachmann is a “reign of terror”. If she has spent any time studying her history or living in any of several socialist European states, she would know that this country is not headed down a socialistic path.

And the fact that her two goals in life are to end this presidency and end Obama care indicates she is living a pretty shallow life. Get a grip Michele. Obama was elected – legally – and because of his health care initiatives. It’s okay if you want to weep and wail about it… but there are tens of millions of Americans who would take President Obama any day over you. You are just a bit too “out of the loop”… Are you from planet earth?


Lane
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 6:00 pm

All too often, a speaker’s choice of words is but a reflection of who s/he is. In this case, it is so true that Bachmann is a “reign of errors.”


ray
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 7:50 pm

we all seem to be posting as the story’s come out ,
dennis i got one very simple question for you
i am very ill thrue military service
my wife has some type of very rare blood disease where her blood clots
we both have worked our backsides off in the job force for over 30 years
we both cant get and wouldn’t even get in the front door of any insurance company
we still work, she works 50 hours a week
we have mn care , we pay a 3 digit monthly premium and copay
we would have been bankrupt at least 7 or 8 times in the last ten years with dr bills
we have donated more time and material to churches ,food shelves ,needy people
for a life time ,
ok Dennis the gloves come off ,
i guarantee Dennis by your post over the last week i have put more productive time ,into the military , political and community service , in one year then you have in a life time , i can tell , Dennis you and i have probably met , at public functions
i have had 100s of thousands of people walk by me
some listen some keep walking i would almost guarantee you, you’ve seen me

SO HERE IS THE QUESTION
my wife and i, in no way could ever afford any type of health care ever
we still try our best so Dennis what is your solution for a person like myself and my wife .
and do you think that is right to take us out behind the barn like a dog

that was your first thought Dennis don,t lie to yourself Dennis ,because you can,t lie to me

for the rest of you i really appreciate your kindness in allowing us to live , threw government supported health care
every single president since 1930,s has tried for a universal health care be it republican or democrat [ look it up ]
the only one that got one threw was Lyndon Johnson now obama so quit winning in your dish or take away medicare also your choice Dennis oh and make sure you take away the first two medicare cards issued , they were given to Truman
because he was the first to publicly endorse it


ray
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 8:32 pm

oh and one more thing Dennis , if you have studied any economics , such as nash with game theory ect or smith,
the best form of capitalism is\
he who helps himself and the group is ultimately the best theory/// nash
he who helps himself is ultimately the best form //// adam smith

simple theory,s with big ramifications the question to you then is why is nashes theory’s ,. so widely used today and haven’t been replaced except in the form of adding corruption in to the picture ,with white collar crime.
you see Dennis its takes growth for capitalism to work or some industry gets crushed . and people lose jobs
which the cocktail party word is called a bubble burst .
so some day when your bubble burst you will understand.

hey they made a simple movie a beautiful mind in which nash wasn’t to happy about because it was a bad portrayal of his great theory’s

until then just piss people off like a baboon does 2 hours to feed and 9 hours to just make other baboon,s life’s miserable, then sleep
that,s what you do my friend you don,t think thing threw


LadyKofOlmsted
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 9:20 pm

Then Wikepedia are liars, Dennis. Because that’s where I got the definitions on Socialism.!!


BSJ
Comment posted February 7, 2011 @ 11:24 pm

“Reign of error”? Really? Oh, that is RICH, especially coming from one of the most often “corrected” members of Congress. MB, please get YOUR facts in order before trying to correct your betters. Yes, I said that, and Yes, I meant it.


Chad
Comment posted February 8, 2011 @ 10:22 pm

Dennis,

Here is your quote

Uh, no, that would make the government a “public” employer and still the government. Do you know any bureaucrats Chad? Their paychecks look just like Michele Bachmann’s.

ummmmmmm…so if she works for a “public” employer than would she not get “Public” health insurance…..oh, wait, did u just make my point for me.


jonerik
Comment posted February 9, 2011 @ 9:11 am

Notice how Comrade Dennis defines “capitalism” : “Capitalism is a system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people … the people who own and/or work for the business. And market principles ARE based on fairness if you believe that the best product at the best price should be the one that succeeds.”

No, Comrade Dennis, that is a definition of “socialism” or more accurately “communism.” “Capitalism” is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned. In our system, “privately owned” by approximately 0.05% of the population, the rest of whom work for said 0.05%.

Comrade, you are obviously confused but if you think capitalism is socialism or vice versa, who are we “leftists” to disagree with what you call it? You are on the right track. Anyway, what Comrade Bachmann calls socialism is what every other western industrialized democracy has. And it works.

What you are complaining about is that the rather admittedly lame Rube Goldberg contraption called the Affordable Health Care Act, makes people buy health insurance. So you wouldn’t care would you if Medicare was just extended to everybody and if you get sick or injured, you don’t have to worry if you can afford the medical bills?


Heidi Hanson
Comment posted February 9, 2011 @ 9:28 am

Come on, Michelle. Haven’t you figured it out yet? You are being used! Your own party is trying to cut your salary and get you back into the house right now!


ray
Comment posted February 9, 2011 @ 12:16 pm

in the untied states most people dont even know the difference between capitalism
and socialism i have been calling it scaptalism for years

for my self i have not found a true and correct definition of capitalism
the one thing i do know in order for capitalism to work properly it needs corruption
and greed
if any one could recommend a good book or paper on an unbiased explanation
i would be indebted
i will guarantee bachman doesn’t know the difference


Dog Gone
Comment posted February 10, 2011 @ 12:35 pm

Michele Bachmann is the Queen of Error; the woman wouldn’t know a fact if she tripped over it. She has a dismal record with fact check organizations.

She spends almost no time in her district in Minnesota, and does nothing for them. When congress is in session, she has the worst attendance record of any Minnesotan – house or senate.

She says stupid things on a regular basis.

Her appeal, other than offering free booze, is to play towards other extremists.

Her appeal to anyone else? Nada, nil, zilch. She is the state joke.


Zera Lee
Comment posted February 13, 2011 @ 1:57 pm

Irrespective of the merits of H. R. 2, the language of the bill reads like something scrawled on a napkin on the way to class. There is no attempt to explain or justify the bill, or explain how to unwind the effects of the law it seeks to repeal.

H. R. 2, enthusiastically supported by Mrs. Bachmann, Was nothing more than an exercise in prejudice and incompetence. Just what we have come to expect from Mrs. Bachmann.

http://zerablog.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/112th-congress-hr-2-repealing-the-job-killing-health-care-law-act/


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