Official photo courtesy Michele Bachmann
Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN-6) has made an unusual request: she wants ordinary citizens to make a "House call" on Congress, and specifically the House of Representatives, as it meets to vote on its 1990-page health-care "reform" proposal.
The problem
Congresswoman Bachmann is one of the few people in the House that has any respect, or even concern, for the Constitution. In March she created a sensation when she demanded that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner provide the Constitutional authorization for several key elements of the Troubled Asset Rescue Plan, or "the big bailout."
Now her concern is about health-care reform, and for good reason. In this interview with Sean Hannity, she called the Democrats' proposal "the crown jewel of socialism":
That's bad enough. But the Democrats didn't even want the House Republicans to read the bill. So what did some of them do? They actually went to OpenCongress.org to read portions of the bill and even link to it on their official pages. Now it's a fine thing when our own legislators have to go outside of official legislative channels to read something that they're expected to vote on.
But all the reading in the world isn't going to make this any better. This bill would provide a means to regulate every aspect of people's lives. The proposed tax on fruit juices and soda pop was only the beginning. Now comes word that this bill would regulate automatic vending machines, requiring full nutrition-fact disclosure prior to any purchase. The National Automatic Merchandising Association takes this very seriously.
And to top it all: the Congressional Budget Office came out with an estimate that certain classes of Americans would pay $167 billion in fines rather than buy insurance coverage. A law that relies on its own violation for its financing is a law that, by definition, encourages lawlessness.
The solution
Rep. Bachmann has only one solution thus far: to have ordinary citizens come down to Washington, congregate on the West Lawn of the Capitol, and then fan out to all the House Office Buildings to track down their Representatives and raise their voices in protest. Everyone knows that about 1.8 million people crowded into Washington already, on September 12 of this year. But Rep. Bachmann wants people to do it again. It might not seem reasonable or even possible to get people from all over the country to drop everything and go to Washington on such short notice. But since she called for this "House call" less than a week ago, many people have responded. Americans for Prosperity has arranged for chartered buses to depart from four different States (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maryland) to carry protesters for Washington for this event.
This should be quite interesting, especially to see how great a crowd this draws--and what attitude the House takes toward this demonstration.
Comments
Does "everyone" know that 1.8 million people came to Washington on September 12 to protest? Really?
How can I be entirely sure Michelle Bachman isn't initiating this to round up all Liberals and others who are guilty of so called "anti-American" behavior and throw into some kind of gulag?
What are you talking about, Jason T.? Round up liberals? If you would actually follow the links, both to her call-to-arms and to her official House site, you'd know that it's conservatives and libertarians whom she wants to see in Washington, not those who want more of the same unworkable cradle-to-grave socialism. Why, if I weren't a Christian, I'd wager you never even played the embedded video--why do you think I published it?
Alas, I can't view moving images of Michelle Bachman. If I do, I will surely turn to stone.
I guess Liberals aren't allowed to have voice in the eyes of Medus...whoops, Ms. Bachman. Ah, freedom.
Jason T., frankly I'm surprised that anyone still possesses enough of a classical education even to know who Medusa was supposed to have been.
Anyway, I don't need a head full of snakes as a symbol. I'll settle for just one snake--a rattlesnake saying, "Don't Tread On Me."
"Alas, I can't view moving images of Michelle Bachman. If I do, I will surely turn to stone."
How fortunate that you manage to keep your eyes closed so often, then.
Says Jason T.: "I guess Liberals aren't allowed to have voice in the eyes of Medus...whoops, Ms. Bachman. Ah, freedom."
Care to provide an example of Congresswoman Bachmann doing anything in an attempt to deny Liberals (or anyone else) a voice, or saying anything to indicate she had such an intent?
I'll wait--for a rather long time, I suspect.
Michelle Bachman rants on about freedom, but she is an ultra-right wing nug job. She is studid, and she lies.
Michele Bachman is a frothing, ranting, right-wing lunatic, who is stupid, and who lies.
And...?
Funny, Liberals accuse conservatives of everything THEY plan to do in the future to control our society, that is, remove opposition by any means. They will surely stifle speech, punish thought and outlaw individualism. Best defense is a good offense, right. Their arguments usually rest on an insult and character assassination, never on bothersome facts.
I think those wonderful progressive, unselfish, collectivism states should enact their wonderful social programs with their own money and show us all how great it will be. When successful, we can all jump on the socialism bandwagon. Whats that? It only works when you get other people who don't want it to pay for it?
If young adults are covered up to age 29 on their parent's insurance, and Fed Health care kicks in at 55, then 30 to 54 yr. old Americans will be paying the cost/benefit gap for everyone else, right? And young people are going to support this?
A socialist democrat/communist/progressive will often times use stupid in reply to any argument.I believe it's part of their disease.Liberals are really sick.People are meant to be free and these libs make thousands of laws ,subsections etc to control everyone around them. I guess anal is the word.And no god but government goes with that.Pelosi would be a good example.
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