Michelle Bachmann’s Capitol Tea Party
Republican Whip Eric Cantor (VA):
Your efforts are being heard. We are committed to making sure that not one Republican will vote for this bill. We are going to pick up as many common sense Democrats as we can.
Rep. Steve King (IA):
I want to give credit to where the idea came from originally. It came out of the mouth of America’s most-decorated living hero, Colonel Bud Day, who has a Medal of Honor and 69 other medals, and giving a speech in Iowa he said, “I think we can’t save our freedom unless we surround the capitol building until they give us back our freedom.” That’s what I relayed to my friend Michelle Bachmann as we walked down the steps and she said, “Why can’t we?” Well, we can. We are. We’re here.
We own this hill. We’re the American people. You took this hill. Remember some of those other battles: Lexington and Concord, Breed’s Hill, Bunker Hill, Pork Chop Hill, Hamburger Hill. This hill is a lot easier hill to take. You’re on it. And you know what? We’re not going to leave this hill until we kill this bill.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (TN):
Women make the medical decisions for their families and they know this bill is bad medicine. … We want to be the Party of Know.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX):
When I was born I didn’t deserve to be born in this country. I didn’t deserve to enjoy all these great freedoms which others had paid the price for. You were told this bill would not pay for abortions. Read page 110, which states that they will be permitted. Were you told the truth? Joe Wilson was right. The truth will march on.
Rep. Joe Wilson (SC) was welcomed with the most applause given to any representative.
Rep. Roy Blunt (MO):
Government goes to those who show up. You showed up! Some day we will look back on this day and say, “That’s the day we killed the 2000-page health care bill.”
These are just sampling from the near-twenty speakers. Each kept the message short and to the point — that the government belongs to the people and that we need to work hard to take it back.
The crowd didn’t need to hear the facts and figures. They already were well-equipped — as exemplified by Janet Mullan, a senior from Rockville, Maryland, who presented a serious challenge to my shorthand skills. When asked why she and her husband had come to Washington, she said:
We are for real reform, not repression. Real reform would contain medical malpractice reform. This is not about health care, but government control. Real reformation would address medical malpractice suits, create a risk pool, and provide portability. Forty-five percent of doctors say they will quit if Obama/Pelosi care is passed. What then? This is an unconstitutional intrusion into the lives of citizens.
Phil and Shifra felt compelled to travel from New York for their first political event. Shifra said:
I feel like our country is disintegrating. Our grandparents fled czarist Russia. Now we confront those who want to shut down opposition, demonize their opponents. I thought dissent was patriotic, but I guess that’s only when it comes to liberals. Today all anti-Semitism is from the left. In the Orthodox community, people are nuts from this. It’s like pouring water on a hornets’ nest. Nancy Pelosi just poured water on a hornets’ nest and people who weren’t politically active are now on the phones for Christie [newly-elected governor of New Jersey].
I have no doubt that some of the voters I talked to might know more than those representatives poised to legislate the peons a clunker health care system while keeping their own congressional Cadillac care.
In a final sendoff, Bachman presented two copies of the Pelosi bill — each weighing in at 20 pounds — and suggested we each take a page to give to our representatives as we lobbied. “At least that way they can say they read it,” she laughed.
Then it was off to the Cannon and Rayburn buildings and another new adventure — including a dozen arrests for wadding up pages and throwing them on the floor outside Pelosi’s office — for citizens determined to re-enfranchise themselves.
Was this the forum where Boehner held up his “well read” copy of the Constitution and purported to quote the Preamble while actually quoting the Declaration of Independence? I think that’s an excellent representation of just how little the Party of No understands. When your leaders misspeak and outright lie, it’s no wonder so many conservatives fight against issues they don’t understand.
1.Aisling
“57 States”
1. Aisling: makes one wonder just how many Fascissocialist-Psychosis-suffering layabout quislings the mobbed-up murtadd-Muslim Mussolini-modeled modified-Marxist has, on the feral-gummint’s dole, for no better purpose than that they monitor every somewhat-patriotically-American site and post pointlessly and inanely to them.
Even one of them is way too many, that’s for sure!
I wasn’t there, but count me in this battle. These are my friends. And it’s now time to make the right kind of enemies.
Unfortunately, for you liberals, Aisling, I think the common man does UNDERSTAND what you and your ilk on Capitol Hill are up to. Why do you think so many former apolitical types are protesting now?
These formerly apolitical folks are protesting because they’re genetic defects who should never have been allowed to breed. I have in-laws who are ardent tea-baggers, and I’m sad to say they are at least as ignorant, smug, deliberately stupid, and religiously insane as Bachmann and her unbelievably swishy husband. As for her 23 foster kids, why are they NEVER at any of her political events to support her? Never. You’d think with 23 attempts you’d get one kid that thought well enough of you to publicaly support you. Bachmann is like Palin, a terrible and incompetent mother who is too busy making money and tooting her own deranged horn to actually spend any time with her family. Absolutely pathetic. You could go to the most backward district in Mississippi and not find an elected official as bat-guano deluded, vicious, and stupid as Bachmann. She is an embarrassment to the great state of Minnesota.
Is it just possible Sarah Palin might find a kindred partner in Michele Bachmann? Wouldn’t they become a dynamic duo?
Aisling,
You “educated” liberals came to power making little arguments like above. Your opposition is evil or stupid. Evil or stupid. Evil or stupid.
BUT YOUR IN POWER NOW AND THE NATION IS NOSE DIVING INTO THE GROUND.
All we get from the left is a wall of Propaganda. Green Jobs, Saved Jobs, Evil insurance people, Evil doctors, Evil power plants, Evil white cops, I can see Russia from my house. Bla Bla Bla.
Your in-power now Aisling. Please explain how higher energy taxes, higher fees on health care, protectionism, multitrillion dollar deficits nationalized businesses will enrich the nation? Explain or shut-up.
Aisling, sounds like you are talking about Obama.
There are no perfect “leaders”, Aisling and that’s why we are attempting to remain self-governed.
1. Aisling . . . No, no, no . . . it was the embarrassingly scant gathering where they screwed up the Pledge of Allegiance.
Well, at least Mr. Boehner knew some of the words from one of those important documents. I don’t think Pelosi bothered herself to read Constitution or the Declaration of Independence.
But, please, if you feel you are not taxed enough, there is a federal law that allows you send as much of your own money to DC as you would like. And if you honestly believe that the Federal government can run anything as large as a health insurance company more efficiently than the private sector, then it doesn’t matter what others say, since you are incapable of reason.
Aisling. How do you say ” I am going to take over as many of the private industries as I can, as fast as I can. That way my party and I will always remain in power” in Austrian?
I somehow fail to see the connection of those carrying signs displayed with visions of Nazi death camp victims to an “informed citizenry.” Even GOP Rep. Eric Cantor said is was going too far. We can have a spirited debate on health care reform, and we should, but I don’t think anything we deal with in American politics compares to the holocaust.
n&t: you are still a vile, less than human piece of garbage for your comments about Beck’s handicapped child.
that makes any comments by you not worthy of direct rebuttal.
#1 Aisling – What’s your point? It is a common mistake. What does that have to do with the article? What does it have to do with anything?
This is a typical Leftist tactic. Find one little thing wrong, and use it to dismiss the whole opposition. Deflect, distract, make the argument about something else. When all else fails, use argument ad hominem. Whatever you do, do not argue your case, because you can’t.
Personally, I have trouble dealing with Bachmann. I mean, she has her head on straight, she’s intelligent enough, and her values are right, but there’s something wooden about her. Kinda bugs me, but I guess I have to force myself to look past all that. Gotta give her props for doing this. She does a lot of good things.
jb wrote: “Is it just possible Sarah Palin might find a kindred partner in Michele Bachmann? Wouldn’t they become a dynamic duo?”
Oh yes indeed! It would be a gift from God. Most certainly!
Brian Richard Allen, I cannot stop laughing – something I needed to do all day. Thanks!
aisling….betcha a nickel if I locate Michele Bachmann’s pastor and listen to the last 20 years of his sermons, I won’t find a single one where he asked God to damn America.
so glad your god is staying away from Fort Hood today. His presence there would be a greater insult than his absence.
6. jb: “Is it just possible Sarah Palin might find a kindred partner in Michele Bachmann? Wouldn’t they become a dynamic duo?”
jb is obviously an agent of the Democratic National Committee.
I love to sux on a teabag.
Y’all are a hoot! That’s why I like to drop by sometimes. Believe me, if I held up a copy of the Bible and claimed to be quoting it, while reciting words from Will Rogers, it would be a very big deal. Boehner proved he didn’t know what he was preaching. But maybe for Republicans, that is a common error. I’ll concede that you would know that better than I.
What’s with how do you say “remain in power” in Austrian? Are you confusing Obama with the Governator?
Liberals are praying (yes we do) for a Palin-Bachmann ticket in 2012. The Republicans would be an even bigger joke around the world than when Bush was in office. And you’d lose so badly!
I’m not a gambler, Meryl, but all you have to do is listen to Bachmann to know she’s a nutcase. Is there a medical term for “fear of census”? And please understand this clearly, my God is a God of love. He is at Ft. Hood with all those who suffer and with their families. Why would you presume to tell me you’re happy that God isn’t there?
At least Praetorian has the grace to recognize that Nazi Death Camps do not equate to Health Care Reform. Too bad more of you and your leaders are unable to recognize the moral high ground.
Keep up the good work, guys. You’re going to continue to drive the intelligent, compassionate Repubs away with all this anger and hatred.
Aisling, the only political people who have to lie are you socialists and fascists. You have to get people to vote for things they are too ignorant to understand. Like you do.
Aisling says “What’s with how do you say “remain in power” in Austrian? Are you confusing Obama with the Governator?” So what is it Aisling the Obamanation dis not say Austrians speak Austrian or the Terminator is an Austrian so it must have been him who said it. Your pathetic attempt at diverting attention from your 57 State Messiah’s STUPIDITY falls flat.
14. blotto:
Your blatant anti-Semitism haunts you, and it should. Perhaps I can help you reconcile . . . is Glenn Beck a “a vile, less than human piece of garbage” for his comments about a friend’s miscarriage? Once you answer that, you can move on to bigger and better bigotry. It’s up to you, blotto. Only you can help you.
Actually, there is no word for “power” in Austrian language.
Nor is there a word for “in” or “remain”
I hope many will consider contacting Congresswoman Buchmann to thank her for her vision and leadership. Sadly, it’s a rare thing these days, especially among Republicans. If you don’t live in her district, you can use her web form but you can call, write, or fax and note of thanks. Her staff is, as you may imagine, incredibly gracious and appreciative.
http://bachmann.house.gov/
The trolls are making stuff up. Ignore them. The Democrat media complex will claim the barely won vote as a victory. The Japanese had a victory at Pearl Harbor. The one that led to their unconditional surrender. Palin/Bachmann? You betcha!
Bachman is a dunderhead
On Friday evening, I had the misfortune to sit next to two loud-mouth liberals at an otherwise pleasant restaurant. At first it was all the usual boilerplate ranting they all engage in, thinking they’re original. But then they started in on Michelle Bachmann and her “little stunt.” I realized how furious she made them, and I had to smile. I hope she gave them indigestion.
Thank you for publishing this. Rep Bachmann’s simple direct methods help her outshine every Republican in the House, including John Boehner.
I look forward to hearing more from her.
I for one am wishing for a Sarah Palin/Michele Bachmann/Mitt Romney ticket in one fashion or the other. The rest have been contaminated or compromised in my opinion. These two ladies might be the greatest political patriots since our founding fathers and Romney is just one of those people that was born to do great things, fix problems, and make great things happen. I think we have the reached a moment in our history where being “politically expedient and savvy” is going to help us get out of this mess we’re in. We need courageous patriotic leaders that will draw people to THEM and not leaders that try to pacify people so they vote for them in an effort to increase the numbers enough to gain control for a while. Let President Romney, President Palin, or President Bachmann send those guys to other countries to be ambassadors. We need leaders with guts and willing to sacrifice everything for our country and to do what is right despite the personal repurcussions. Again, I only see those three right now.