Bachmann: Democrats are ‘ripping the guts out of freedom’

DENVER — In a speech markedly less moderate than her Thursday forum in Lake Elmo, Rep. Michele Bachmann conjured visceral images as she addressed donors to a Colorado-based “free market think tank” Monday. Saying Democrats are “reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom,” she called on those who oppose health care reform to “make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing.”