Congresswoman Michele Bachmann fired up the crowd at the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, calling Obamacare - the law Washington Senator Patty Murray helped write - "the crown jewel of socialism."
“And repealing it is the driving motivation of my life. The first political breath I take every morning is to repeal Obamacare,” she said.
Bachmann said the President has spent the last two years ushering in socialism with his policies, specifically targeting the massive health care law the House recently voted to repeal.
“Socialism might sell well in a Harvard faculty lounge,” she told the crowd. “But when it comes to finding a job, not so much.”
She warned that if President Obama won a second term in 2012, college-age adults would end up losing three-quarters of their pay in taxes, citing statistics from the National Center of Policy Analysis.
A post at John Goodman's Health Policy Blog at the NCPA website shows that in addition to premium increases of up to 111 percent, the "implicit marginal tax rate for workers earning as little as $25,000" could be as high as 60 percent, while those making $50,000 could see marginal rates of 65 percent.
Goodman writes that as many as 19 million people are predicted to lose their employer-provided insurance and approximately 8.5 million seniors and disabled people are at risk of losing their Medicare Advantage plan, despite the President's promises that people could keep their existing coverage.
A federal judge has ruled the law unconstitutional, however, Democrats like Senator Dick Durbin are determined to implement it anyway, claiming the judge did not issue an explicit injunction.
Liberals continue to claim that once people find out what is in the bill, they will like it, and they are using every trick they can to ensure it will be implemented.
Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the law, is set to publish a comic book to help people better understand the law.
Seventy four House Democrats, led by Anthony Weiner (D-NY), sent a letter demanding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any hearing on Obamacare. Washington Democrat Jim McDermott was one of the representatives who signed the letter.
The battle for Obamacare is far from over. The nine justices of the Supreme Court will likely decide the ultimate fate of what Bachmann calls "the crown jewel of socialism".
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