Michele Bachmann Urges People to 'Pay a House Call' on Congress to Protest Health Care Bill
By Heather Sunday Nov 01, 2009 8:00am
So nice to see Sean Hannity isn't too concerned about ClusterFox being seen as an arm of the Republican Party with this latest hackery. On his Friday evening show on Fox he brought on Michele Bachmann to help promote her call for people to come protest the halls of Congress against the health care bill--as though they don't have enough problems with dealing with security as it is. If she wants people to show up in the Congressional halls next week, I hope they're showing up at her office to tell her to quit upping the ante with whipping up the crazies out there. The only time I've heard someone use the phrase "the whites of their eyes", it had to do with shooting someone.
Given Bachmann's lack of concern for her previous inflammatory rhetoric this is of little surprise. It seems she's not going to stop this stuff until someone gets hurt or killed out there. What's absolutely disgusting is the lack of will of from anyone in the GOP to tell her to stop it. While I certainly do not think that Michele Bachmann is hoping any harm will come to another member of Congress, she obviously is either oblivious to or just doesn't care what sort of response using this type of language might invoke.
From The Hill--Bachmann urges confronting lawmakers on healthcare bill:
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is urging Americans to come to Washington, D.C., next week to roam the halls of Congress and lobby lawmakers against the House Democrats' healthcare reform plan.
The strategy aims at resurrecting the momentum Republicans enjoyed during the August recess, when many critics challenged their members of Congress on healthcare reform. Since then, Democrats have regained their footing and have captured some political momentum to pass a bill.
During an appearance on Fox's "Hannity," Bachmann on Friday night said the plan can be defeated, but only if critics make their case face-to-face with legislators.
Bachmann told conservative commentator Sean Hannity, "The clock is ticking 11:59 ...I've never done this before but I am asking people to come to Washington, D.C., by the carload and next Thursday at noon I'll be at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol.
"I'd love to have every one of your viewers to join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don't take away my healthcare.'"
And from Think Progress--Bachmann Calls For Health Care Protest Rally In DC Next Week: ‘We’re Going To Have A Big Party’:
In an interview with the Washington News Observer, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) revealed that, next week in Washington, D.C., the right wing is trying to galvanize yet another mass protest rally against health reform.
Following in the spirit of the “tea party” protests in April and the Glenn Beck-inspired 9/12 rally, Bachmann announced, “We’re going to have a ‘house call’ and a big party out on the National Mall [next week], and we’re going to tell Congress what they can do with their health care bill.”
Fashioning herself as the leader of this mass protest, Bachmann exhorted everyone to “get off the couch, get in your car, get a van together, get a bus together, but get here! We’re going to have a ‘house call’ next week, and we need every American to be here.” She then issued this dire warning (infused with pop culture references):
The American people realize this is it. Just like that brand new Michael Jackson movie came out, ‘This Is It.’ This is it for freedom. If you believe in liberty, and if you’re rejecting tyranny, this is it. Dr. Mark Levin wrote a seminal book that really swept this country called Liberty and Tyranny. And that’s what this debate is about next week. Liberty and tyranny.
Newshounds also had a nice run down of the entire interview Bachmann did on Hannity's show and had this to add:
As the segment ended, Bachmann could barely contain her joy as she said that the Blue Dog Democrats “are clearly on the fence.” She added, “That’s why this is such an exciting opportunity for us… This is our liberty and tyranny moment. This is it! This is about patriotism and manning up. And if we can get Americans literally by the busload to come to Washington, D.C. next week, look their Member of Congress in the eye, pay a house call on Congress, and say ‘Don’t you dare take away my health care,’ … we’ll stop this.”
After another plug for her event, Hannity said, “Maybe I’ll have to show up and observe this so our cameras can see democracy in action.”
It's funny, but while Bachmann was crowing about patriotism and participation in democracy, and asking Americans from all over the country to visit different Representatives (not just their own, presumably), she refuses to accept emails from anyone outside her district. But you can telephone. So if you can't make it to Washington either to support the bill or to let Bachmann know she does not represent the country which consistently supports a public option for health insurance, you can call her office at (202) 225-2331.
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When did tyranny become all about people trying to get health care? Only in Bachmann's Bizarro World.
Boss Limbaugh on Foxanganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOqabbltWEE&fe...
My favorite parts are when Rushbo accuses Obama of having all the personality traits he himself has, and when this combat dodger who got out of war because of a cyst on his ass, tries to sound as though he knows more about war and cares more about this country than Kerry and Murtha, 2 war veterans.
Rush or Fox can't force anybody to watch or listen to this bullshit it's all voluntary.
I sincerely hope moderate swing voters listen.
Greedy millionaire TV commentators using their unethical political lackeys to kill health care for uninsured Americans. Both Hannity and Bachmann enjoy Cadillac health plans, so screw you. How unAmerican.
don't get to Bachmannized now.
it's about liberty and tyranny. Do we want to hold elected officals accountable to ourselves or do we want to turn over our lives to backroom beancounters accountable only to Wall Street?
...that she would stop once she got somebody hurt or killed? Seems to me that increase her morale somewhat.
So what kind of person gets off on getting others to commit violence? No flip answers, please -- I really want to know. I remember in Games People Play there's a game called "Let's You And Him Fight," but I can't recall the psychological need or motivation for this kind of thing.
I think you're right that she and others like her would not be satisfied with the first instances of violence; they'd need to escalate.
Any psychologists here?
Thanks.
That voice. It's like Fargo meets the wicked witch of the west.
Do they actually believe the uber wealthy Corporate Megalomaniacs accept them as fellows--as remotely wealthy enough to breach the exclusive jewel-encrusted walls of Richistan?!?! How absurdly arrogant!!
Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe these freaks...and, I long ago lost any capacity for sympathy or compassion towards them.
try to be rappers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVkKNW9GD0
I don't think it swept Hannity's America let alone the real country.
The right wing war on reality never ends .
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Fundamentalists rallying to defeat something the vast majority of people want is a good thing.
First, it shows people clearly who represents what, giving us the opportunity to vote them out starting in the midterms. Republicans and their corporate media opine as fact that there will be a huge backlash against democrats next election cycle. Truth be told I'm starting to enjoy watching them busily stoking their own funeral pyres. Of course the sad thing is they further destroy any legitimate political process along the way, which may very well be part of their strategy.
Second, all current health
insurancecare reform legislation is fatally flawed. So fundamentalist capitalists blocking it are actually doing us a favor. The very worst thing that could happen would be healthinsurancecare reform legislation written by this corrupt congress (dems and repubs alike) and signed into law by a president looking for a "victory".FLASH AND BURN MFer's
HEY MICHELLE !!! the floor of the cave called. it wants its batshit back !!
kudos to Bill Maher
Until all Repukes who are against the public option give up their "government run" health care they should be made to shut the f*!# up.
They should be told this to their face, close enough to see the whites of their eyes. F&^!ing hypocrites.
To post email for her on house website, go to house.gov,and input these cities/zip codes to leave comments: Woodbury MN 55125 Waite Park MN 56387 Can make up any address for that section as well.
Another method is to use 1-800-833-6354, follow the instructions then enter the zip codes shown above. This takes you directly to the office during office hours or to a voice message mailbox. I usually phone in evenings to leave a voice mail message as Bachmann's staff is as nutzo as she.
Does this idiot really think the Capital Police are going to allow large groups of protestors in the halls? Let's hope these idiots are kept 50 feet away, the same way they were during Pelosi's press conference. Perhpas they'll allow them on the Capital Steps but, I'm not so sure they'll be allowed in. Actually, I hope there's a monsoon!
they'll never even make it out of their cars/buses/vans. what they'll do is spend days, circling the capital building like vultures, looking for a place to park.
i hope all those vehicles have bathrooms onboard!
I need to go polish my shoe-throwing skills.
The Bachmann is in overdrive again. She loves this phrase and uses it for every piece of legislation.
Check out this Auto Tune the News segment where she does it again:here
Just another Fox Republican; a one-note rep without an original idea in her head. She actually prefers for the healthcare industry to keep looting the US economy
the logic and the reasoning of goofy flakes like this is an ill-advised primate activity. Throwing feces and banana peels if indifference has no affect is highly recommended.
would look into the whites of michelle's eyes and do a Larry, Curly and Moe.
You know, the two finger eyes thrust.
Her silliness is on the same par of the Stooges except that they were funny.
So when are you going on the Olbermann or Rachel shows to push your ideas, Michelle?
This bill is an abomination. Not for the reasons Bachman ascribes to it. But for the reasons Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich ascribe to it.
This bill is more corporate welfare disguised as feel good reform but pretty much just as toothless as every single election finance reform legislation congress produces.
if you trust Dennis Kucinich, then yes, you should protest this bill.
"...she's not going to stop this stuff until someone gets hurt or killed out there."
A Kentucky census worker already has been killed.
Please. Let these ignorant, mouth-breathing, paint-chewing Bachmann / Hannity / Beck worshippers grab their pitchforks and clubs and torches and guns and go right on ahead and "make a house call" to Congress.
And yes - PLEASE have Hannity and Fox Opinion Outlet (FOO) bring their cameras to document the carnage. And carnage there will be - unless he and Bachmann actually believe that anything remotely resembling this "mob" they seem to fantasize about is going to get within a block of the Capitol entrance before being met with a blockade of at least tear gas and water cannons (and likely worse).
To paraphrase of one of their many right-wing "manly men" memes: Bring It On.
And bonus points if that bunch of pseudo-patriotic, flag-adoring, beer-buzzed trucknutz can get their idols Ted "Polanski" Nugent and that home workout TV karate guy to lead the parade. May I also suggest a giant Macy's-style "Limbaugh" balloon? It'd look great on FOO-TV
Hell - I might have to get cable TV for this one.
By saying, "Bring It On', are you volunteering to lead a counter-protest? Or just intending to sit and watch it unfold on television?
And in the many, many words I'd typed into the reply that just got vaporized by an errant Delete/Backspace key... well...
this site - unlike some others I visit - doesn't seem to retain all that typing when I do the same dumb thing. So, unfortunately, that reply is gone.
Alas, I have neither the time nor the patience to try and retype that entire thing - which is a shame since I do so enjoy ripping into Bachmann and Hannity whenever possible (and I was in full-bore rip mode today :)
Oh well.
I'm sure there will be busloads of white senior citizens and their middle-aged allies coming to Washington. Lots of media attention. But I do wonder if Bachman actually intends to lead the throng
through the halls of Congress herself? Wouldn't put it past her.
And I do wonder if the organizers of this are going to be more selective about the kinds of signs
they permit. It doesn't do them any good when those Obama=Hitler signs make it on the airways.
Maybe it's about time that progressives and liberals made episodic appearances in mass in Washington. Of course, we tend to be somewhat lethargic and, of course, most of us have jobs.
The only organizations I see capable of mobilizing an impressive number would be the unions, in particular SEIU - but they would be attacked as being another communist rally - and/or the AARP. But it rarely gets involved in "in your face" demonstrations.
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For a second there I thought you said you wondered about bachman in a thong.
A Bachman / Palin mud wrestling match .
Or Cheney v. Limbaugh?
responsible for the death of 17,000 children a year. May God have mercy on her soul.
Michelle Bachmann's office.
Unlike Michelle Bachmann, I am in favor of universal health care - health care for all, paid for with our taxes or by some other means. I am not in favor of the current health care "reform", though, because it will require everyone, whether they can afford it or not, to purchase health insurance, with penalties for those who don't. It gives even more power to the insurance industry and people will still be denied treatment at the whim of the industry. A robust public option will help only a little, and it will likely not be honored by all doctors, particularly in right-wing areas of the country. And Obama's resisting even that.
Reading it right now. No mention of Michelle yet - but I'm not finished either.
It ALL MAKES SENSE how these people are destroying the GOP. Oh how I love it!
Drop in on the psycho in both DC and Minnesota offices. Let her and her staff hear OUR views on Healthcare. Surround her office, block her cars and assure her that mental health services will be available to her under the new plan.
(I know some of us prefer Single Payer - as opposed to Public Option - but that's a message to promote also.)
I didn't know that any one, any American could just walk into Congress and confront our Senators and Reps. Please, would some one comment on the reality of this proposal? Even if it were possible, wouldn't Fire Marshalls prevent it? Man, I was suspended in high school just for hanging in the hallway waiting for a ride! I was told I was a 'fire hazard' !
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