Bachmann seeks blood ‘covenant’ to defeat health reform

Paul Schmelzer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:48:48 +0000

Rep. Michele Bachmann, in a fiery speech at a fundraiser for the Colorado-based Independence Institute, got downright biblical in her imagery today. Saying Democratic health care reforms “have the strength to destroy this country forever,” she roused her Denver audience, declaring:

“This cannot pass. 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.”

A week ago today Bachmann told listeners on a “teletownhall” that the health care “battle will be won — on our knees in prayer and fasting.”

Update: Read the Colorado Independent’s full report on Bachmann’s Denver speech.

‘A fascist movement’: Colorado doctor calls Tiller assassin ‘terrorist’

Paul Schmelzer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:44:09 +0000

After yesterday’s shooting death of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kan., a Colorado physician who provides abortion services said Tiller’s assassination was the “absolutely inevitable consequence” of decades of anti-abortion fanaticism, according to an interview with our sister site, the Colorado Independent.

“I’m profoundly sad and I’m furious and I think the American people need to understand that we have a fascist movement in this country,” Dr. Warren Hern of Boulder said Sunday. “We don’t have to invade Iraq to find terrorists. They’re right here killing abortion doctors.”

“Every doctor that does abortions has been under an assassination threat for decades,” Hern said. “The anti-abortion movement message is, ‘Do what we tell you to do or we will kill you,’ and they do. This is a fascist movement.”

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Bachmann seeks blood ‘covenant’ to defeat health reform

‘A fascist movement’: Colorado doctor calls Tiller assassin ‘terrorist’