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Bachmann calls on protestors to use 'scare' tactics against Congress

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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.”

Bachmann said that last week, as it appeared a House bill could pass, “I was near despair.”

Last Thursday, she said that in desperation at the prospect of health care legislation passing, she happened upon the idea of a spontaneous meet-up of opponents of the bill on the steps of the Capitol.

Republican organizers are planning for activists to go into the House office buildings and the U.S. Capitol and confront members directly after a press conference at noon.

“Don’t bring your pitchforks,” Bachmann said, “bring your video cameras.”

Bachmann expressed confidence that such efforts would stultify the Democrats’ efforts.

“I think that will absolutely scare these members of Congress so much that Pelosi will not get the votes and it will kill the bill. I think it could be dead for 10 years. Why won’t we? Why won’t we go for broke?”

Last Thursday, Bachmann said she appealed to Republicans but “the conference didn’t pick it up.” The following day, she decided to take matters in her own hands and made her plea directly to Fox News viewers on Sean Hannity’s program. On Saturday, Bachmann said she received a call from actor Jon Voight who offered to join her in Washington, followed by a similar call from conservative talk-show host Mark Levin.

Bachmann reasserted a claim that Pelosi was considering tightening security in preparation for the activists, which she warned "would be a huge mistake."

"What's scary is that Rep. Bachmann will go to any length to protect the profits and abusive tactics of the insurance industry by working against meaningful health reform," said Kristie Greco, communications director for House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.).

“You can turn the anger on her,” Bachmann said. “It is not Michele Bachmann’s fault” if the activists are angry tomorrow – “it is Speaker Pelosi’s.”

Bachmann declined to answer a question on the conference call about the news that her chief of staff, Michelle Marston, was resigning.

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97 comments // Bachmann calls on protestors to use 'scare' tactics against Congress

  • Ihatethemall
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Michelle Bachman sounds like a terrorism inciter. Using scare tactics against the government sounds like home grown terrorism to me.

    • 2 years ago
  • chumbalong
  • JonRaymond
  • jubal
  • telcod
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      telcod  

    • Up the revolution and down with the democrats and republicans. The blood of millions are on their collective hands and yours also if you support them and fail to see a commonwealth in our future. God weeps at you supidity and fear.

    • 2 years ago
  • MRprez
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      MRprez  
    • telcod:

      i agree with your general idea, although a little too crazy for my tastes buddy. but honestly its true, thats basically what our forefathers did, start a revolution to separate for the government that was not helping them. and right now, to me, it sounds like a good idea to remove every entrenched, crazy and idiotic politicians out of their post and replace them with fresh, uncorrupted politicians. a little crazy but it might just work....

    • 2 years ago
  • chaos1
  • GoodGodGuy
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      GoodGodGuy  

    • She gets free health care for life and wants to deny it for the rest of us. Boy, that is a wonderful consideration. By the way, in France, the people vote and have 7 political parties and when the people vote, things get done. Their government is afraid of the populace.

    • 2 years ago
  • craigsaid
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      craigsaid  

    • Hopefully they get confused and light their video cameras on fire. Maybe when the pendulum swings back to Republicans in both chambers over the next 10-20 years we can scare them into fleeing the country with a Million Hobo Cross-dresser March and demand a solid punch in the face from the CEOs of America.

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • jubal
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Vierotchka
  • Ihatethemall
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      Ihatethemall - there is no accounting for extremely bad taste... whatever floats your cockroach- and rat-infested boat! My stud of a husband is repelled by these sorry excuses of women. I note that you don't include your poor wife in your sick fantasies!

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • ibrake4rappers13:

      See thats not even cool. Why did you have to start with personal insults to begin with. You dont know me and you have never had any interactions at all with my wife.
      Does everyone in your family make insults towards others that they have never met. Is this how you raised your children? Is this how you and your studly husband were raised

      I am pretty good a really nasty comebacks. With what you just said you really opened yourself up for a variety of great insults. None of which I will use because it violates community standards and brings me down to the level of those who initiates them in the first place.
      Have a good evening/day

    • 2 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • modeliste
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      modeliste  

    • Bachmann is part of the government! She is in the government. She's not an outsider... she's been part of the government for a long time now, including the disastrous last 8 years.

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • modeliste:

      Yeh and pretty much the only one in government to face down the Fed and ask him what the hell he is doing and where does he get the authority to do it.
      This woman is far from the status quo of fatcat beauracrats that are spending our money like it's stolen(it is).
      She will be one of the few allowed to keep her job. Way To Go Michelle!

    • 2 years ago
  • bike10
  • mako2424
  • VROTK
  • MRprez
  • Minus5scenePoints
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      Minus5scenePoints  

    • Le sigh, I have this feeling that being a conservative is a sickness. Symptoms: insanity, none-scene making, blaming Obama for everything, a skill at pulling utter shit out of your ass to attack any sort of Democrat, and I think worshiping the Devil, Im still looking into that one.
      This woman is horrid. Her and She-male Ann Colter are some of the most vile people that voice their opinions.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • LadybugLady
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      LadybugLady [removed]  

    • One day there will be some wako will go and do something so drastic as to kill somebody on the left. We are allowing people to carry guns to rallys which is crazy in itself. But Bachman is just adding fuel to the fire. She is nuts!

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • LadybugLady:

      What do you mean "allowing"? You don't have any sayso or authority to prohibit the bearing of arms. the central govnment doesn't either.
      We don't get the right to bear arms from the govnment. How audacious of you!

    • 2 years ago
  • VROTK
  • mario_a
  • Makavelli45
  • humanpasta
  • WakeUpPeople
  • pakazak
  • humanpasta
  • Vierotchka
  • zphoenixdownz
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      zphoenixdownz  

    • i love how people say things like "patriot" and "freedom-loving" with the implication that anyone who disagrees with them is a traitor or a supervillain in the making. i'm guessing only the people that she'd invite to her bbq get to be counted among the self-righteous. keep your potato salad to yourself, thank you very much.

    • 2 years ago
  • Wharf_Rat
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      Wharf_Rat  

    • Bachmann is crazy! She might be the Glenn Beck of Congress.
      If I had the time & money, I'd go to Washington & give her a piece of my mind today! I hope video of this, pops up on the Internet real soon. I want to know what happened ASAP! But that would probably mean I'd have to watch FOX "News" or be on their Web site all day ;-(

    • 2 years ago
  • pigmonkey
  • bdub4u
  • Maeveeo
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      Maeveeo  

    • It would be nice to do it from her backyard since it is her idea .......don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk , let it start from the home ,,,,HER HOME ! & lets see if she can deal with her IDEA !

    • 2 years ago
  • panichead
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      panichead  

    • She has a good idea! Everyone show up at her offices and demand to see this crazy bitches medical records, piss drop her to find out what type of dope she enjoys while thinking up this stupid shit. Her district should be rounded up and be de-programed. How do idiots get elected to public office?

    • 2 years ago
  • booksellergirl
  • WakeUpPeople
  • mojojuju
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • booksellergirl:

      Actually the Lifetime government healthcare she gets that is paid for with tax dollars is completely Free with No deductibles and cannot be cancelled for any reason and it covers ALL medical conditions. What a hypocrite!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • GoodGodGuy
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • they have no plan; nothing on healthcare, environment or jobs except no more taxes and let the money float to the top.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • pakazak
  • WakeUpPeople
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • pakazak:

      Wake -- this toaster not only doesn't work, it is a fake toaster.
      This fake toaster is just a way for the sellsman to get into our house so he can steal our other valueables

    • 2 years ago
  • tome_erau
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      tome_erau  

    • “Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving Americans”

      I think she meant gun toting disillusioned "Americans." And of course scaring people is much easier then trying to provide a valid conter argument.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • tome_erau:

      monte.... for the millionth time, the public option is NOT a govt takeover of healthcare. It is an option. The CBO estimates that less than 12 million people will participate in it. However, the competition that it creates and the safety net that it provides will benefit all Americans.

    • 2 years ago
  • mojojuju
  • Nephwrack
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  
    • tome_erau:

      nephrack - It's the govnments nature to increase itself to the point of despotism -- i think i rather take my chances by having free choice of where i buy my insurance.
      If you think this isn't the "foot in the door" of government holding peoples healthcare as a tool for control -- well then your just an idiot -- considering that they have already said they will put a foot in the door and then take all later.

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • WakeUpPeople
  • Varex_Sythe
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      Varex_Sythe  
    • montesooma:

      Wait, balls? You mean that organ on a male that produces testosterone, a hormone that among many other things promotes aggressive behavior while circumventing higher thought?

      Yeah, there's something politicians need, an organ that is a proverbial excuse to get into wars and ignite potentially violent fear in the public by using scare tactics.

      Why can't we say, "that's what we need, a politician that has brains?" Oh, wait, we already have one, and we have had them on occasion in the past. But for some reason a fair percentage of the United States population doesn't want a president that can think and keep the country in better shape and/or get it back in shape after it is in shambles. They want a cowboy who will go out and kick the world's ass until it sees things our way.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • montesooma
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      montesooma  

    • "When the people fear the govnment there is Tyranny -- When the govnment fears the people.... there is Liberty"
      Thomas Jefferson.

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • montesooma:

      I agree that the govt needs to fear the people and not vice versa, but that does not mean we should attack our govt when it is actually following the will of the majority of Americans. Bachmann is trying to get the few to overtake the many to serve her own purpose. I don't think Jefferson would approve of her subversive attempt at killing reform.

      "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." ~Thomas Jefferson (Care of human life)

      "Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." ~Thomas Jefferson (Equating health to liberty)

      "Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." ~Thomas Jefferson (Refer to happiness in top quote - govt has a responsibility to facilitate)

      "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear." ~Thomas Jefferson (Bachmann constantly uses religion and fear as a political tool)

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/19/AR2009101902451....

      "...57 percent of all Americans now favor a public insurance option, while 40 percent oppose it." October 2009

    • 2 years ago
  • zphoenixdownz
  • mojojuju
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      mojojuju  
    • montesooma:

      "I agree that the govt needs to fear the people and not vice versa, but that does not mean we should attack our govt when it is actually following the will of the majority of Americans."

      I disagree. What your statement implies is that we should not attack our government when it follows the will of the majority of Americans. And what if the will of the majority of Americans is to enslave minority groups? Is it inherently wrong to attack our government if they follow that?

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • montesooma:

      "Is it inherently wrong to attack our government if they follow that?"

      The sociological economist in me is inclined to say that it's wrong to attack the government for enslavement if industrialization cannot account for the value of slave labor, and would therefore plunge the nation into a depressive economic structure.

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  
    • montesooma:

      mojojuju.... That's the great thing about progress. You rarely if ever go back. You would never in a million years get the majority of Americans to vote to put people into slavery. Our laws that are written to protect people's rights will never be revoked.

      "Is it inherently wrong to attack our government if they follow that?" If your hypothetical ever happened (and it wouldn't), it would be the saddest day ever for America. I would have lost all faith and hope in this country and would have to expatriate. But if this country is a democracy as designed - majority should rule.

    • 2 years ago
  • Still_Falling
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      Still_Falling  

    • Ever since I were a child, I have been suspicious of religious people. No matter the religion.
      I have always found them disingenuous and hateful .... while operating under the guise of piety.
      Michelle Bachmann is one of these people. She runs around praying for the destruction of others while spreading lies .... is this not paradoxical, a religious person who spreads lies?

      I guess it does not matter to them, because religion is a lie within itself.
      Virgins having babies, give me a break. What is next, dogs that do linear algebra.

      Bachmann is a shill.

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
  • sidedish
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      sidedish  

    • more appropriate headline: republican uses scare tactics to hurt national security, secure health insurance political contributions in effort to exploit abundant american ignorance

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      Secondary headline: Liberals use scare tactics in what they perceive to be supreme benevolence to prevent any and all suffering on the part of fat, uneducated Americans.

      Why can't you guys see that liberals use just as much scare tactics as conservatives do?

    • 2 years ago
  • sidedish
  • pakazak
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      Please point out what name calling is irrelevant in that statement. You think that just because you agree with the more liberal viewpoint of this particular issue that representatives campaigning for the legislature you support are immune to bias and manipulative techniques to push the bill through?

      Liberals are good at voting for things, not so much thinking about them.

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      Thanks for the firefox article. Did you just stop reading when you saw "fat" and "uneducated" in the same sentence? Thank you for proving my point.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      No, see what you did there latching onto one part of a statement and ignoring the rest of it? That's the point. That's what liberals are good at, and the hell of it is, people buy into it.

      Look I'm not saying conservatives don't do that too, but it just baffles me that people (on both extremes) act like their side is immune to it.

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  
    • sidedish:

      here's your statement

      Secondary headline: Liberals use scare tactics in what they perceive to be supreme benevolence to prevent any and all suffering on the part of fat, uneducated Americans.

      am i missing some deeper meaning?

    • 2 years ago
  • sidedish
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      hahaha, yes, I said that. I also said:

      "Why can't you guys see that liberals use just as much scare tactics as conservatives do?"

      and...

      "You think that just because you agree with the more liberal viewpoint of this particular issue that representatives campaigning for the legislature you support are immune to bias and manipulative techniques to push the bill through?"

      and...

      "No, see what you did there latching onto one part of a statement and ignoring the rest of it? That's the point. That's what liberals are good at, and the hell of it is, people buy into it.

      Look I'm not saying conservatives don't do that too, but it just baffles me that people (on both extremes) act like their side is immune to it."

      It's like holding a piece of candy and talking to a 5 year old, holy hell...

    • 2 years ago
  • Ares
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      Ares  
    • sidedish:

      "wake up, these people don't care about you."

      That's the fundamental difference, dig? I don't WANT the government to be that invested in my life. I don't want them to have that much influence on my well being, and I certainly don't want to pay for the fed to take care of everyone else. I'm living my own life on my own terms, I could care less if you think you're entitled to the government wiping your ass for you.

    • 2 years ago
  • mojojuju
  • MRprez
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      MRprez  
    • sidedish:

      Jeeeeeeeez!!! Chill! honestly i agree with both sidedish and Ares but pakazack.. relaxxxx, everyone has their own opinion as long as you can prove it. You have not proved much so let it go. plus you're making sidedish look like an ass cuz it looks like he started it so really.... relax.

    • 2 years ago
  • pakazak
  • MRprez
  • pakazak
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      pakazak  

    • she's scary enough on her own.
      why didn't she go on network news?
      and don't these threats border on treason?
      she's aiding and abetting the enemies of the USA by undermining the unity of the country.
      at least that's what we heard between 9/12/01 and 11/03/08

    • 2 years ago
  • mario_a
  • Incredulous
  • retro_Syl
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      retro_Syl  
    • mario_a:

      Wow. Really? Do a little legwork!?!

      Another futile attempt at surreptitiously squeezing more work out of us by introducing these frivolous, fruitless incentives. Put some money behind that 'legwork' talk.

    • 2 years ago
  • bike10
  • kyackr
  • MRprez
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