Michele Bachmann and the GOP embarrasses themselves by hosting ugly teabagger DC protest
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Michele Bachmann and the GOP embarrasses themselves by
hosting ugly teabagger DC protest
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Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:00 AM PST
The GOP has embarrassed itself once more. How can they
actively promote an event like their tea party/anti health
care protest in DC and watch silently as disgusting signs
and insane wackos fill their ranks? Well, it's easy to do
when you have Rep. Michele Bachmann telling the teabaggers
to "scare" her colleagues into voting against health care
reform during this "Super Bowl of Freedom." I mean, come on.
First of all she should be arrested for actively promoting
this type of hatred form a current member of Congress and
can she at least come up with a name that's not as
ridiculous as she is?
OK, that's asking too much.
http://the-classic-liberal.com/rep-michele-bachmann-activists-scare-congress/
In a conference call Wednesday night with bloggers and
activists for the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity,
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) called on protesters to
�scare� members of Congress into killing the proposed health
care reform bill.
If the protesters succeed in scaring lawmakers, Bachmann
said that it could cripple efforts to restructure health
care for a decade.
�Nothing scares members of Congress more than
freedom-loving Americans,� Bachmann said.
She said that members were frightened by the August town
hall meetings, but �then they came back to Washington, and
they got back in the bubble and Speaker Pelosi put the
hammer down on the Democrats.�
Rep. Todd Akin is also one of those special kinds of idiots
that occupy the rank and file tea party and he led the crowd
in the Pledge of Allegiance because the word "God," just
drives us all crazy. I guess he doesn't understand history
very well because the original "Pledge of Allegiance" never
had the word "God" in it at all, but nothing is allowed to
interfere with their conservative/religious talking points.
At the Capitol Hill Tea Party just now, Rep. Todd Akin
(R-MO) stepped up to lead the crowd in the Pledge of
Allegiance -- which he said drives the liberals crazy.
"And so as we now renew our commitment to the Red, White
and Blue, let us with boldness proclaim the fact that we are
one nation under God," said Akin. "It is altogether fitting
that we should do this -- and it drives the liberals crazy."
The crowd laughed, and joined Akin in the Pledge, with a
genuine shout given to the key words, "...one nation, UNDER
GOD, with liberty..."
And no matter what Eric Cantor says,
http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200911050007
signs that use images of Holocaust victims are just sick and
were not planted by anyone but his own. Has he not seen even
one teabagger protest? My God, (I used the bad word) that's
the norm at these astroturfed gatherings.
And our pal Dana Milbank fills us in even more.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504566_pf.html
Many of the demonstrators chanted "Weasel Queen," their
pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.); they were covered in fake blood and carrying dolls
representing aborted fetuses, as the Grim Reaper led them in
chains to hell.
In the front of the protest, a sign showed President
Obama in white coat, his face painted to look like the
Joker. The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked
into the cameras, carried a plea to "Stop Obamunism." A few
steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing "Obama
takes his orders from the Rothchilds" [sic], accusing Obama
of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the antichrist.
But the best of Bachmann's recruits were a few rows into
the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners
proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany,
1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust
victims, many of them children.
Immediately in front of this colorful scenery, various
House Republicans signed autographs and shook hands with the
demonstrators. Rep. Virginia Foxx (N.C.), who recently said
the health-care bill is more dangerous than terrorists, gave
out stickers saying "Govt Run Healthcare Makes Me Sick!"
"Who knew a casual comment on TV could generate this?"
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) exulted as he stood in front of
the Dachau banner.
Now, objecting to the health-care bill is one thing. But
doesn't it send the wrong message for House Republicans to
hold an event on the Capitol grounds full of hateful and
gruesome words and images?
"I'm not worried about the message of freedom,"
Hensarling replied, before joining his colleagues on the
podium to the beat of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
Technically, Thursday's GOP-sponsored rally at the
Capitol was a "press conference" (a Capitol Police
spokeswoman explained that the lawmakers didn't have a
permit for a demonstration). The speakers took no questions
at this news conference, instead calling, at least a dozen
times, for the Pelosi bill's death.
"Remember some of the other battles: Lexington and
Concord, Hamburger Hill, Pork Chop Hill?" said Rep. Steve
King (R-Iowa). "We're not going to leave this hill until we
kill this bill!"
"Who will kill this bill?" asked Rep. Paul Broun
(R-Ga.). "You will!"
"Let's kill this bill," proposed Rep. Jean Schmidt
(R-Ohio).
"This bill will be killed," agreed Rep. Bill Cassidy
(R-La.).
More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV
cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after
event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's
office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled
government-run health care -- rushed over, attaching
electrodes to his chest and giving him oxygen and an IV
drip.
This turned into an unwanted visual for the speakers, as
a D.C. ambulance and firetruck, lights flashing, pulled in
just behind the lawmakers. A path was made through the media
section, and the patient, attended to by about 10 government
medical personnel, was being wheeled away on a stretcher
just as House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) stepped
to the microphone. "Join us in defeating Pelosi care!" he
exhorted. A few members stole a glance at the stretcher.
Boehner may have been distracted as well. He told the crowd
he would read from the Constitution, then read the "we hold
these truths" bit from the Declaration of Independence.
As you'd expect at a political protest, the messages on
signs and buttons were provocative: "Waterboard Congress,"
"A Commie Is in the House."
But this protest was unusual because it was an official
House GOP event, and because some of the remarks on the
stage were as outrageous as those in the crowd. The actor
Jon Voight, standing with the lawmakers, said of Obama:
"Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming
by Reverend Wright to damn America?"
Even the Rev. Stephen Broden, at the microphone to
deliver the closing prayer, fumed about "death panels inside
this death care," adding: "It is tyranny! It is socialism!"
The lawmakers set the tone early, when Rep. Todd Akin
(R-Mo.) asked for the Pledge of Allegiance because "it
drives the liberals crazy" to hear the "under God" part (his
bravado was premature, for he left out the word
"indivisible"). The tone continued to the end, when Rep.
John Carter (R-Tex.) beckoned to the House office buildings
and shouted, "Go get 'em!" Some took him literally: Ten
people were arrested at a sit-in at Pelosi's office in the
Cannon Building, where they were crumpling up the
health-care bill one page at a time.
By the time it was over, medics had administered
government-run health care to at least five people in the
crowd who were stricken as they denounced government-run
health care. But Bachmann overlooked this irony as she said
farewell to her recruits.
"You," she said, "are the most beautiful sight any of us
freedom fighters have seen for a long time."
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