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Bachmann Jumps the Shark Again, Likens Financial Reform to Mussolini’s Italy

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), who can always be counted on for hyperbole and assorted fabrications chained together in to her very own special drivel-language, jumped the shark, yet again, during a Tuesday evening webcast with a Tea Party PAC. She likened the financial reform bill currently in Congress with the policies of the fascist government in Italy during Mussolini's reign:

Let's remember really what this is. This has a lot in common with Italy in the 1930s and they way Italy dealt with economics. It still continues private ownership of business but government is in control.

So government control of the private business, while it's private ownership, that's still at the end of the day the federal government virtually having a say over private business. We lose freedoms; we lose economic competitiveness.

And don’t forget, Italy is in tough shape financially, and that’s not what we want for the United States.

Sen. Tom Coburn tells seniors that they will die sooner because of health care reform

The outright lies, the myths, and the hyperbole flew during the battle for health care reform in 2009 and 2010. Including this fabricated myth from Sen. Tom Coburn (R- OK) who made this claim on the floor of the Senate in December.

I have a message for our seniors: “You’re going to die sooner.”

MICHELLE BACHMANN: A Covenant to Slit Our Wrists....

Speaking to the conservative group, Independence Institute, at a fundraiser in Colorado, Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) had this to say in reference to health care reform:

This cannot pass.What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.

Slasher movie, anyone?

Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.

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Source: Colorado Independent, August 31, 2009

MICHELLE BACHMANN: SBHC and THE BAD SEX CLINICS

Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has decided that health care reform will open up the schools for.....SEX CLINICS!

She has apparently interpreted a section in the bill as relating to "school based health clinics" (SBHC), to mean that schools will be offering abortions to students. Bachmann:

The bill goes on to say what's going to go on -- comprehensive primary health services, physicals,

treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care -- is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

Section 2511 of the bill Bachmann refers to, does not mention abortion. It further states/enjoins: 

SBHC services will be provided in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws governing-- (I) obtaining parental or guardian consent; and (II) patient privacy and student records, including section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and section 444 of the General Education Provision Act.

From HuffPost:

The concept of "school based health care clinics" was introduced under the notion that students achieve higher academic performance when they are healthy and receive adequate medical attention. According to the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, if implemented SBHCs would give schools access to physicians "so students avoid health-related absense and get support to succeed in the classroom."

Seriously, Bachmann has some sanity issues.

Sarah Palin on Barack Obama: I am just so fearful....

Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, regarding Obama and Bill Ayers at a rally in Clearwater, Florida on October 6, 2008:

  I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America, as the greatest force for good in the world. I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as 'imperfect enough' to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.

Sarah Palin, Republican, 1964-

Source: The Washington Post

Michelle Bachmann Wants Her Constituents Armed and Dangerous

Rep. Michelle Bachmann, on March 21, 2009

I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue

of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Republican, Minnesota, 1956-

Grassley Flip-Flops on Death Panel Claims

Senator Chuck Grassley | Republican - Iowa

On August 7, during a town hall meeting in Iowa, Grassley endorsed the right wing's false claim of death panels.

 There is some fear because in the House bill, there is counseling for end-of-life," And from that standpoint, you have every right to fear. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family. We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.

Today, Sunday, August 23, on Face the Nation, Grassley admitted that the government wouldn't be pulling the plug on grandma.  He admitted that the legislation didn't include the outrageous death panel provision that would allow the government to determine who should live or die. [fabrication by completely transparent Republican tools]

 I know the Pelosi bill doesn't intend to do that. It won't do that

Watch the video clip of Grassley on Face the Nation..

Image Source: WikiMedia Commons
Quote Source: The Iowa Independent & The Huffington Post

Wally Herger Calls Self-Described "Right Wing Terrorist" a "Great American"

 
Congressman Wally Herger | Republican - CA

At a town hall meeting on August 18 in Redding, California , Rep. Walter William Herger, Jr., speaking of healthcare reform and President Obama, intimated that the President, and/or his policies, are a threat to Democracy. [where was this loser when Bush 43 threw the Constitution in the toilet?]

 Our democracy has never been threatened as much as it is today.

And in another example of the craziness promoted by the far right, including people such as Wally Herger, at the same town hall, and in response to a man who said “I am a proud right wing terrorist.”, Herger had this to say:

 Amen, God bless you. There is a great American.

Your tax dollars at work.

Source: Mt. Shasta News
Image Source: Wikimedia Commons

Tom DeLay Calls the EPA the Gestapo

Tom DeLay | Republican

In 1995, DeLay had this to say about the Enviromental Protection Agency:

 The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major clawhooks that the government has maintained on the backs of our constituents.

Source (with audio): CNN 
Image source: MSNBC

TRANSCRIPT: SARAH PALIN FAREWELL TO ALASKA SPEECH JULY 26 - 2009

Sarah Palin (R) resigns as the Governor of Alaska after serving for less than half her term.

 Click to watch the video.

What an absolutely beautiful day it is, and it is my honor to speak to all Alaskans, to our Alaskan family this last time as your governor. And it is always great to be in Fairbanks. The rugged rugged hardy people that live up here and some of the most patriotic people whom you will ever know live here, and one thing that you are known for is your steadfast support of our military community up here and I thank you for that and thank you United States military for protecting the greatest nation on Earth. Together we stand.

And getting up here I say it is the best road trip in America soaring through nature's finest show. Denali, the great one, soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime such extreme summertime about a hundred and fifty degrees hotter than just some months ago, than just some months from now, with fireweed blooming along the frost heaves and merciless rivers that are rushing and carving and reminding us that here, Mother Nature wins. It is as throughout all Alaska that big wild good life teeming along the road that is north to the future. That is what we get to see every day. Now what the rest of America gets to see along with us is in this last frontier there is hope and opportunity and there is country pride.