This just what we need. A mob of Bachmann-inspired teabaggers and town hall screamers roaming the halls of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. From Crooks and Liars:
"I'd love to have every one of your viewers to join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don't take away my healthcare.'"
Interesting phrasing by Congresswoman Bachmann. Google the words "the whites of their eyes" and you will find that in 6 of the first 7 results, those words are preceded by either "Don't fire until you see" or "Don't shoot until you see."
"I'd love to have every one of your viewers to join me so we can go up and down through the halls, find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, 'Don't take away my healthcare.'"
Interesting phrasing by Congresswoman Bachmann. Google the words "the whites of their eyes" and you will find that in 6 of the first 7 results, those words are preceded by either "Don't fire until you see" or "Don't shoot until you see."
here is one of the main ways people like me wind up with taxation and no representation. who can go to washington" by the carload" like this nutjob asks? i could just as easily arrange a trip to the moon as to washington. we consider our entertainment to be the internet recently acquired in the home, vs used at family's or public. i cannot "call my representative" like commercial urges, because they give out a washington d.c. phone number. culberson my rep held a "online townhall" over the summer before i was able to afford the internet, and gene green (D) who is my mom's only allowed people with ID showing they live in his district. behind my mom's house is a trailer park where some people live without lights! so i always count my blessings, but lawmakers AND media are totally out of touch with reality, because so many do not have cars, bus fare, cable, internet, home phones, cell phones. combine the 200 to 400% BELOW federal poverty guidelines with living in a hardcore republican stronghold and you have an huge populace of forgotten people. i feel this is the silent majority who put obama in the whitehouse. also the very people we need to count in the census, which is outi-5000 with ALL media! the fox 912 rally was marketed like a vacation tour package, with expensive chartered bus fare or air fare, hotel & taxis. i'm sure the local restaurants and entertainment venues enjoyed the tourist spending. side note, tonight the "woodlands" tea party is hosting an early election watch night with entertainment, advertised all day on fox. was it hawked for free or can they really afford advertising on beck's show? no metro bus goes there like discovery green downtown, pretty clever of the tea people to hold their "public" events somewhere guaranteed that the public cannot get to.
THIS woman is not only crazy, she's president of the club. Geeeez....where do they GET this?
Scott - don't be too hard on the good people of Bachmann's district. After all, here in the 14th Texas congressional district, we repeatedly have picked Dr. Ron Paul to represent us. He's clearly not a circus clown. A principled man, but irrelevant.
What can we say? Are people in Minnesota that bored that they need this circus clown?
As would I.
"Don't take away our healthcare"? I'd like to see everyone who doesn't have or can't afford healthcare at all to meet these "I have mine" people on those steps.
This is what the GOP has come to: a bunch of batshit crazy people screaming at the top of their lungs about stuff they obviously know nothing about.
"Look at the whites of their eyes"?
Fucking insane, that's what she is.
And I'm sorry but that language is called for when dealing with people like that.
This woman is so off the wall that she scares the fire out of me. The fact that some people actually listen to her makes it even more frightening.
This lady is bona fide crazy. How the hell do people like this make it to Washington?
"Don't take away my health care"?
Uh, what?
Sounds like Ms Bachmann is every bit as uninformed (a nice word for ignorant) as our very own John Cornyn, who complained that he didn't know what the bill provided for because it was 1,000 pages long.