House GOP Leadership Endorses Bachmann’s Call For Mass Rally To Protest Obamacare’s “Tyranny”
There’s been some debate over whether House GOP leaders are worried that Michele Bachmann’s antics are damaging the GOP — they say they aren’t — so it’s worth noting that they appear to be endorsing her call for a mass rally in the Capitol this week to protest Obamacare’s “tyranny.”
In case you missed it, Bachmann revealed late last week that the right — with the help of the anti-reform group Americans for Prosperity — is calling for a big rally in D.C. this coming Thursday to protest the reform proposals.
“This is it for freedom,” Bachmann said. “If you believe in liberty, and if you’re rejecting tyranny, this is it.”
I asked House GOP leader John Boehner’s office if he endorses Bachmann’s rallying cry, and Boehner spokesman Michael Steel emailed:
“We certainly encourage the American people to do everything possible, respectfully and within the law, to let Democrats in Congress know that they oppose “PelosiCare” — and that they will remember this vote.”
Meanwhile, Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for GOP minority whip Eric Cantor, added: “The American people know that Speaker Pelosi’s overhaul is the wrong answer to a national problem.”
With Bachmann, an increasingly national figure, thrusting herself forward as the public face of this latest rally, it’ll definitely be interesting to see what kind of turnout it musters.
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Update: Eric Kleefeld follows up with Boehner and Cantor’s spokesmen, asking them if they endorse Bachmann’s call for citizens to make their feelings known directly to members in the halls of Congress. Answer: Yes.
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ROFLMAO!
Michelle Bachmann is no Glenn Beck.
(I can’t believe I actually got to write that. Hahahahaha!)
We’ll see if anyone shows up.
Bachmann is a more religious Palin.
Is there some kind of House vote taking place that day? Will Bachman be speaking at the rally? If so, it seems like good PR to me – the news will have to counter the vote result with footage of the protesters and Bachman.
Michael Steele says…”and that they will remember this vote.” Does this moron not realize this cuts both ways. Since the majority are FOR HCR and one with a public option…I HOPE everybody remembers this vote.
In an era of national politics bigfooting local races as in NY23 I can assure you…while it’ll be a long wait..I’m adding money to a piggy bank that will go to Joe Leiberman’s opponent.
It’s really interesting that both Boehner and Cantor try to spin healthcare reform as Pelosi care. They seem to think the Speaker who is third in line to the Presidency is the sole author of the healthcare bill. It’s obvious that they think demonizing Pelosi works for them and it does but, only within their tiny little party. They hate Pelosi because she’s a woman with more power than the entire GOP combined. Something the GOP would never do is put a woman in that powerful position. Which is just one more reason why they’ll continue to lose elections. They have a healthy does of disdain for women as evidenced by their lack of female Senators. You’ll note that the only 2 are here in the Northeast. Southerners hold a special place for the women in their party and it’s to give them as little power as possible.
SBJ…surely you realize Bachmann is a national joke and an embarrassment to Minnesotans. If she’s at the head of the parade it’ll be perceived just as wacko…if not more…than if Beck led the march.
Actually, this protest takes place Thursday! I hope there’s a monsoon!
Now we have two michael steels in gop ? Not a good sign. (yes, before the wingnuts get their panties in a collective bunch, I know “that one” is steele)
“They seem to think the Speaker who is third in line to the Presidency is the sole author of the healthcare bill.”
Pelosi IS the sole author of the House h/c bill. (And Reid is the sole author of the Senate h/c bill.)
Let’s hope the wingnuts show up with their exremely offensive signs like the “Bury Obama Care with Kennedy” sign. Very classy. The media is most interested in the more outrageous and surly types that show up at these teabagging festivals! I hope there’s plenty of embarrassment and shame for the media to sift through.
“If she’s at the head of the parade it’ll be perceived just as wacko…if not more…than if Beck led the march.”
Obviously that’s how YOU personally perceive such things.
Will that be another “million people” march ?
@roxsteady…”Southerners hold a special place for the women in their party and it’s to give them as little power as possible.”
I’m afraid as a life long Southerner you are correct. My wife, dentist, was the ONLY female in her class of 80 at Emory in Atlanta. That was back in the late 70’s and things have certainly changed in the education system. And I’m hopeful things have changed amongst the youth of our nation even in the South. My wife has labored within her professional organization for over two decades. When I see the “good ole boy” system functioning up close and personal…well..I’m speaking for the over 50 demographic…ladies you have my total respect if you have achieved any position of power in the South. We have some notable exceptions…but..
# rukidding | November 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 am
SBJ…surely you realize Bachmann is a national joke and an embarrassment to Minnesotans. If she’s at the head of the parade it’ll be perceived just as wacko…if not more…than if Beck led the march.
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How could SBJ realize that, when he does not appear to realize that Bachmann hates him because he is g@y?. She considers SBJ to be a sub-human.
@SBJ….”Obviously that’s how YOU personally perceive such things.”
Certainly that is how I perceive things but if your implying I’m in the minority you haven’t noticed many polls lately..check out Sarah’s numbers…I can’t imaging Bachmann’s being any better.
Obviously that’s how YOU personally perceive such things.
You don’t think that someone who has called for the Congress to create a committee to examine the patriotism of the Congress’ legislators is a trifle odd?
After NY 23 fiasco, nothing the gop does (to rogue) surprises me.
sbj is the Michelle Bachmann of blogging.
Liam…forgot about the gay thing and I guess I feel guilty even mentioning it…although you are correct it must present quite a conundrum for SBJ.
In fact I believe there are a significant number of conservatives who are embarrassed that their movement has been hijacked and now intellectual lightweights (and that’s being incredibly generous) like Joe the Make Believe Plumber…Sarah “I can see Russia from my house’ Palin and Michelle (latest incarnation of Joe McCarthy)Bachmann are considered leaders. It’s actually pathetic and I’m not sure where SBJ can turn…bilgey’s just a loon…but I feel for SBJ…really Fox News? Beck? Limbaugh? Palin?Bachman…it must really suck to be a Republican right now…perhaps that’s why only 20% admit it.
“You don’t think that someone who has called for the Congress to create a committee to examine the patriotism of the Congress’ legislators is a trifle odd?”
Of course I think she’s odd. There are many legislators who I think are odd. I took issue with this comment: “If she’s at the head of the parade it’ll be perceived just as wacko…if not more…than if Beck led the march.”
I don’t think the Beck-promoted protest was poorly received by the general public. It’s my opinion that there is a very sizable chunk of folks out there who are opposed to the current h/c reform bills.
@rukidding: I’m no fan of Bachman – I pay no attention to her and I haven’t a clue about her stand on any issues. In fact, I’ve never voted for her! I did not defend her in any post here – merely pointed out that getting her face on TV in opposition to Pelosi’s h/c reform bill on the same day there is House vote on it is a good PR move.
I’m not a Republican. I don’t believe anyone has hijacked my movement – I know that’s the current “meme” – to use some Greg-speak – but I ain’t buying it.
Right Wingers think that they have something with this Bachmann Harridan. On PBS, John McLaughlin was talking her up big time, on this week’s show, and claiming that he did not understand why Progressives were going after her so hard. He thinks that she is wonderful. Of course he also keeps ogling Monica Crowley. Trivia fact: Monica is Alan Colmes’ sister-in-law.
Republican Party of the 21st Century:
Cheney in a dress suit.
*yawn*
Sbj has a point, just not the one he wants – it’s great PR if Bachmann shows up and I hope she speaks.
It’s great PR whenever Palin shows up, too.
We make money off of them, whether anyone else shows up to agree with them or not.
“getting her face on TV in opposition to Pelosi’s h/c reform bill on the same day there is House vote on it is a good PR move”
Yes. For Pelosi.
@tena: Aren’t you the one who thought that Joe Wilson’s outburst would be a net win for Dem fundraising?
Woopsie!
Pelosicare? Maybe they feel the President is too popular to call it Obamacare.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/65789-pelosi-prepares-for-healthcare-plunge
Speaker Pelosi plans on sending health care reform bill to the floor,in it’s final form, today.
Vote on it may happen as soon as this Thursday.
@SBJ Correct me if I’m wrong…but I do accept you’re not a Repub…if I recall you are a Liberterian. My point still holds…Ron Paul certainly would be embarrassed to be lumped in with Palin, Bachmann, Joe the make believe Plumber…
Where can the Liberterians turn now. Let’s face it Liberterians have always been a “fringe” party who generally had to align themselves with Repubs..
Of course there is one bright spot SBJ…at the rate the Repubs are jumping off the cliff like lemmings…the Liberterians may soon be the nation’s second largest political party.
Ron Paul is against sending Troops to Afghanistan. He signed a petition, to that effect, with about sixty other members of Congress.
Liam
Good, let’s get this show on the road, who cares about Bachmann and Tea Parties, there could be 10, 1000, or 10000 and it won’t do a thing to keep the bill from going forward.
They don’t represent mainstream America one whit and we all know it. Americans for Prosperity is behind all this and we all know where they stand and the lengths they’ll go to to forward their agenda.
“Ron Paul is against sending Troops to Afghanistan.”
Ron Paul may be the only TRUE conservative left. The Repubs are simply total hypocrites…watch out for the national deficit…unless we can start a couple good wars to enrich Halburton and the Cheneys…don’t spend a nickel to help the average citizen for something as basic as healthcare…but take care of the wealthy wall street bankers…
While I don’t agree with much of what Ron Paul espouses he may be the last conservative left with any real consistent convictions.
A must watch video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6YZ1wP1978&feature=player_embedded
A rape victim confronts Senator Vitter on his vote
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) voted against a congressional measure to prohibit the government from working with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to court.
Watch Vitter suddenly turn his back on the women, and just walk out of the place where he appearing.
@Liam…Thanks..that was a great link. How do scumbags like Vitter stay in office…ohhh yeah it’s Louisiana…aren’t they always one of finalists for most corrupt state governments in the Union along with Alaska?
“@tena: Aren’t you the one who thought that Joe Wilson’s outburst would be a net win for Dem fundraising?”
I don’t think I ever said it was going to be a net win. I generally don’t comment in those terms, sbj. I think you made that up.
Oopsie!
While gee oh pee is taking nutcase women as their mascots, Markos sez DeDe might switch party. Time snowe and collins to follow suit.
And what the hell difference does some comment I might have made a month ago make now? I never said Bachmann and Palin bring in more money for us than they do for the GOP, I said we raise money off of them. We do.
Quit splitting hairs.
Ooo I’d love that, amk.
Maybe she should have compared what the Dems are doing to the Holocaust. Then we would see ads that read “Bachmann has Guts”, like we are now seeing on left-wing blogs with the picture of Alan Grayson.
Anyone who calls Bachmann a loon or an embarrassment, etc and then turns right around and applauds a guy who compares the former VP to a vampire and states the goal of the Republican Party is to kill people is a hypocrite of such an incredible magnitude, that there is no adjective to yet describe it.
“And what the hell difference does some comment I might have made a month ago make now?”
It tells us something about your judgment and the value of your opinion.
“I never said Bachmann and Palin bring in more money for us than they do for the GOP, I said we raise money off of them. We do.”:
My point was that this was a good PR move for Bachman. You said, “Sbj has a point, just not the one he wants.”
Now you apparently agree with me.
Furthermore, if you think a Bachmann led protest is good PR for the GOP, sbj, then you’re apparently out of step with some of the GOP itself:
“‘Numerous GOP Officials Worry That The Party Has Been Hijacked By A Noisy And Powerful Minority’
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Let me just copy and paste a little something:
“Anyone who calls Bachmann a loon or an embarrassment, etc and then turns right around and applauds a guy who compares the former VP to a vampire and states the goal of the Republican Party is to kill people is a hypocrite of such an incredible magnitude, that there is no adjective to yet describe it.”
Bravo!
“Now you apparently agree with me.”
Nope, you are just doing your thang – trollus pilisplitticus
sbj, you keep whining (or lying, don’t wanna split hairs) that many amurikans are against HCR. Care to cite some polls supporting your claim (or lie) ?
“who compares the former VP to a vampire and states the goal of the Republican Party is to kill people is a hypocrite of such an incredible magnitude, that there is no adjective to yet describe it.””
See, the problem here continues to be a failure to communicate. The former VP is a vampire and close to 90% of America agrees.
You’re out of step with the majority, which means you’re out of step with the reality concensus.
More Bachmann. Wherever, however, in whatever guise.
Hey bob65 moran. Those things about darth and repugs are truth while tea-baggers like you indulge are lies and innuendos. Now FO.
Private Health Care Insurance Companies are engaging in Red Line Practices, in the Chicago-land area, so they are probably doing it, all over the country.
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/1859471,CST-FIN-ECOL02.article#
Excerpt:
” November 2, 2009
SANDRA GUY sguy@suntimes.com
Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that are 14.6 percent, on average, lower than their Chicago neighbors?
Based on major health-insurance carriers’ rates and policies, people living 15 miles to 25 miles from downtown Chicago pay 12 percent to 15 percent less on their monthly premiums, and those who live 25 miles to 40 miles outside of the city pay 20 percent to 30 percent less, according to data compiled by Norvax Inc.
» Click to enlarge image
Brandon Cruz, president of Chicago-based Norvax Inc., used his company’s software to compare health-insurance rates for Chicagoans and those living outside the city.
(Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
RELATED STORIES
Online sources give info on costs, coverage
DIFFERING PREMIUMSA 30-year-old man who stands 5-foot-11, weighs 155 pounds and is in good health would get these monthly premiums based on the lowest-cost $1,000 or $1,500 deductible health-insurance plan with any copay:
Insurance company No. 1
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $143.41
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 ……………………………………………. $126.92
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 …………………………………………. $106.22
Insurance company No. 2
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $106.24
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 ……………………………………………. $92.70
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 …………………………………………. $80.20
Insurance company No. 3
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $175.87
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 …………………………………………… $163.77
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 ………………………………………… $157.08
Source: Norvax, Inc.
Chicago-based Norvax makes software that lets people search for the lowest or best private coverage offered by insurance brokers and agents. Norvax’s public exchange, which boasts more than 80 insurance carriers, operates as GoHealthInsurance.com. Norvax’s consumer markets team culled the data by running GoHealthIn surance.com quotes using 3,029 ZIP codes and 963 plans in Illinois, and then narrowing the field to the Chicago area.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is that people who live in the suburbs south and west of Chicago, areas generally considered blue-collar, pay 24.5 percent less for health-insurance coverage than do Chicagoans. People who live north of the city pay 14.6 percent less.
LOL, Bachmann is a “national embarassment” and out of the mainstream, while Pelosi — approval ratings in the toilet where they belong — is the mainstream, along with Grayson.
Most Americans are self-identifying conservatives, with liberals trailing far behind. You folks are too much.
Private Health Care Insurance Companies are engaging in Red Line Practices, in the Chicago-land area, so they are probably doing it, all over the country.
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/guy/1859471,CST-FIN-ECOL02.article#
Excerpt:
” November 2, 2009
Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that are 14.6 percent, on average, lower than their Chicago neighbors?
Based on major health-insurance carriers’ rates and policies, people living 15 miles to 25 miles from downtown Chicago pay 12 percent to 15 percent less on their monthly premiums, and those who live 25 miles to 40 miles outside of the city pay 20 percent to 30 percent less, according to data compiled by Norvax Inc.
» Click to enlarge image
Brandon Cruz, president of Chicago-based Norvax Inc., used his company’s software to compare health-insurance rates for Chicagoans and those living outside the city.
(Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
RELATED STORIES
Online sources give info on costs, coverage
DIFFERING PREMIUMSA 30-year-old man who stands 5-foot-11, weighs 155 pounds and is in good health would get these monthly premiums based on the lowest-cost $1,000 or $1,500 deductible health-insurance plan with any copay:
Insurance company No. 1
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $143.41
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 ……………………………………………. $126.92
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 …………………………………………. $106.22
Insurance company No. 2
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $106.24
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 ……………………………………………. $92.70
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 …………………………………………. $80.20
Insurance company No. 3
Chicago, ZIP code 60607 …………………………………………… $175.87
Berwyn, ZIP code 60402 …………………………………………… $163.77
Kankakee, ZIP code 60901 ………………………………………… $157.08
Source: Norvax, Inc.
Chicago-based Norvax makes software that lets people search for the lowest or best private coverage offered by insurance brokers and agents. Norvax’s public exchange, which boasts more than 80 insurance carriers, operates as GoHealthInsurance.com. Norvax’s consumer markets team culled the data by running GoHealthIn surance.com quotes using 3,029 ZIP codes and 963 plans in Illinois, and then narrowing the field to the Chicago area.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is that people who live in the suburbs south and west of Chicago, areas generally considered blue-collar, pay 24.5 percent less for health-insurance coverage than do Chicagoans. People who live north of the city pay 14.6 percent less.
sBJ & Bob65… so is the reverse true? If you applaud Bachmann then you must applaud Grayson?
“Most Americans are self-identifying conservatives, with liberals trailing far behind. You folks are too much.”
See what I mean? The Right is psychotic. You gonna back that hallucination up with any proof? You poor thing…
“so is the reverse true? If you applaud Bachmann then you must applaud Grayson?”
Not a problem for me – as I have never “applauded” Bachman.
“See what I mean? The Right is psychotic. You gonna back that hallucination up with any proof? You poor thing…”
Before we back this up – because it is true – would you like to go on record here, tena. Will you concede that you are psychotic if we can show that more Americans identify as conservative?
sbj… thanks for clarifying.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx
Are you psychotic, tena? Or hallucinatory? Or … what, exactly?
Guano-brain Bachmann, MN’s humiliating wingnut cross to bear, babbles incoherently yet again! LMAO! What a delusional nutter.
sbj… doesn’t that poll show that more people identify themselves as not conservative? Liberals + moderates = 56% while conservatives is 40%.
“sbj, you keep whining (or lying, don’t wanna split hairs) that many amurikans are against HCR. Care to cite some polls supporting your claim (or lie) ?”
If you don’t understand that many Americans are opposed to the current h/c reform bills then I am not sure you are even reading The Plum Line! There’s a rasmussen poll out today but I know you won’t trust that. There have been so many polls showing significant opposition to the 5 previous and two current h/c bills that I can’t count ‘em. You are being ridiculous.
shorter sbj – I got nothing. Fvcking dishonest troll.
“Are you psychotic, tena? Or hallucinatory? Or … what, exactly?”
projection too much, sbj ?
Nice try there andy – we’re talking conservative versus liberal. (More clearly identify as not liberal, at any rate.) Silly game – the point is made and it is clear and it is backed up by polling.
Thanks for the assist, sbj.
People can quibble about how precise such polling is, but it makes these habitual claims that conservatives are “shrieking” extremists representing a tiny number of people ridiculous.
@amk:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/10/21/rel15f.pdf
sbj, read that poll again. Esp questions 21, 22 & 23. So, YOU LIE… AGAIN.
@amk: My point – a significant number of Americans oppose the current h/c reform bills. The poll question: “From everything you have heard or read so far, do you favor or oppose Barack Obama’s plan to reform health care?”
49% favor, 49% oppose
ouch!
Hello tena?
A Day in the Life of Joe Conservative
by Anonymous
Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised.
All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance — now Joe gets it, too.
He prepares his morning breakfast: bacon and eggs. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor.
Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe’s employer pays these standards because Joe’s employer doesn’t want his employees to call the union.
If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he’ll get worker compensation or unemployment checks because some stupid liberal didn’t think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe’s deposit is federally insured by the FDIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe’s money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.
Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the taxpayer funded roads.
He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers’ Home Administration because bankers didn’t want to make rural loans.
The house didn’t have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn’t belong and demanded rural electrification.
He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn’t have to.
Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn’t mention that the beloved conservatives have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: “We don’t need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I’m a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have.”
sbj
Question 22 on BO’s HCR plans – 53%-44% ouch.
Question 23 on PO – 61%-38% ouch, ouch
This despite all the tea-baggig, town howling, media shilling, sarah panelling..
See, This is why I call you a dishonest troll. Even cherry picking didn’t prove your point.
@amk: Even if I conceded your “point” – which I do not – I said that a significant number of Americans oppose the current h/c bills. You point out the 44% and 38% opposition on unrelated questions – do you consider those figures insignificant?
Seriously. He’s not even worth it. Ya’ll would be better off volunteering to call folks in the 23rd or NJ. I wish I had more time. Maybe this evening. But PLEASE ignore the trolls.
Hello tena? Any comment on being – how do you say it? – punked?
sbj,
Unrelated questions ? 53% is less significant than 44% ? 61% is less significant than 38% (that too on PO) ? Up is down ? ….
You prove once again your dishonesty. I can take stupidity in stride. But I hate dishonesty. FU.
Tena seems to be habitually willing to make extreme, categorical statements that are subject to being, and routinely are, disproved.
She punks herself like this on a weekly basis.
Didn’t know I was punked as you put it = sorry, my neighbor who has Parkinson’s called – she needed help and I’ve been gone for a bit.
And sbj, stop stalking Tena, you pathetic twer*p.
So now we need to define the term significant?
Sheesh!
@tena: Hope your neighbor is okay.
No moran. You need to look up the term significant.
“that too on PO”
Precisely my point – when did I mention PO?
Statistics: “of or pertaining to an observed departure from a hypothesis too large to be reasonably attributed to chance”
Generally: “important; of consequence”
QB, SBJ: You guys can wank all you want … poison ivy and heat rash are more popular than the GOP, and once you eliminate the poll results from the goobers and racists in the South, I’d put jamming-needles-in-your-eyes above the Republican party. Why deny it? You’ll gain a few House seats in 2010 then get crushed — again — by Obama in 2012. Your party is a sad, regional joke; history itself is leaving you in the dust.
sbj… your comment to Tena seemed pretty clear.
“Before we back this up – because it is true – would you like to go on record here, tena. Will you concede that you are psychotic if we can show that more Americans identify as conservative?”
You have not proven that more Americans identify as conservative. You’ve proven that more Americans identify as non-conservative.
Maybe Gallup or someone else will poll on what kind of conservatism you identify with. Newt? Palin? Pawlenty? Mitt? Ron Paul? Rush? Beck?
Oh, I should have been more precise — many more Americans are self-identifying conservatives than liberals. Which equally destroys your liberal “conservatives are a tiney hated minority” “meme.”
There, is that better, haters?
“You have not proven that more Americans identify as conservative. You’ve proven that more Americans identify as non-conservative.”
And I’ve proven that more Americans identify as non-liberal. And I’ve proven that more Americans identify as conservative than Americans identify as liberal.
Next?
My neighbor is progressively worse like most people with Parkinson’s. She calls me or the woman who lives next to her when she can’t manage and we go help her do whatever it is she’s trying to do. I repacked her luggage, found her keys and made some phone calls.
In the meantime I guess Andy answered the “punk’d” thing for me.
I’ll just co-sign Andy cause I have some other things to do now.
sbj… I am glad you agree more Americans identify themselves as non-conservatie and I concede you are right:
“And I’ve proven that more Americans identify as non-liberal. And I’ve proven that more Americans identify as conservative than Americans identify as liberal.”
I only wish there were some current data that destroys the “meme”, “conservatives are a tiney hated minority”. I guess first we would have to define conservatism, since that seems to be unclear these days.
Regardless of how the populace as a whole defines its political philosophy its willingness to be named “Republican” has done dropped significantly since before the end of the last administration, which hasn’t been the case for Dems.
(The results among likely voters are different, showing both Dems. and Repubs. increasing, and at roughly the same rate, but that’s the sampling of a different population than discussed in the Gallup poll above in the this thread.)
(”… has dropped significantly…”, not “has done dropped….”
I WISH THERE WAS A WAY TO EDIT!!)
As a practicing surgeon, retired US Army officer and small business owner, I have found the ObamaCare healthcare bill an appalling abridgement of good fiscal sense, good patient care and an egregious extension of the Federal govt’s unconstitutional grab for more economic and political power OVER the FREE PEOPLE of these United States. Darn Right, I’ll be there!!! Those who see the government as the appropriate source of food, shelter, healthcare and education for the majority of Americans are “back door” totalitarians and in the name of “compassion” are inviting Animal House into our precious Republic.
ENTDOC
I am with you on all fronts. Completely and 100% Unconstitutional. And I’ll be there, too. Supporting and defending til the end.
The people posting here that say Bachmann is ruining the GOP are ignoramuses and have not read the health care bill.
Why? Because since they want “free” health care, it doesn’t matter what the bill says. They are blindly supporting it, all the while away their freedoms and liberties. They don’t seem to understand that they will wake up as taxed and oppressed as the rest of us.
They are led to believe that the insurance companies are profiting hand over fist, but the truth is that cell phone companies and Tupperware are taking in more profit than any insurer. Yep. Read it and weep…the evil health care industry has profit margins of 3-6%. So who IS that benefits from this? Not the taxpayer. Nope. Our taxes will increase via that redistribution– sorry(cough) transfer of wealth via income taxes. Yes. Those of us who were promised no increases have been lied to. How many more bureaurcratic entities have been created with Red Nanny’s bill? 111. Google it.
There will be no tort reform…why? Because the lawyers are reaping the “Elect Obama” rewards. Yessirreee, Bob. California has a malpractice cap. It won’t be receiving any fringes for cutting costs. As a matter of fact, neither will any other state that enacts any kind of cap on malpractice.
Yeah, all you folks who discount standing up for what is right, take note. *We* will be the Americans who will be propping you up when you finally realize you have been duped by the Pied Piper. He does not give a rat’s *** about you. But the rest of us do, by default. We will not go quietly.
Drink more hopium, because when reality hits you’re gonna need it.
Boehner, Bachmann, Kantor et all are warning the Tea Party attendees to ‘dress down’. It appears they don’t want this rally to look like a Brooks Brothers fashion show! Bachmann is wacked.
meg… I would love to have a link to what you posted…the “dress down” comment