She is such an embarrassment.

--Ron White

I have watched Prime Ministers Questions.

There are luckily not too many people quite as bad as Bachmann in the UK parliament, but there are some serious nutters in non-Parliamentary politics: local government, the EU parliament, and just on the fringes. Look up 'UKIP' and, worse, 'BNP'.

Puh-leeze! You freakin' hypocrite!

"Let's love people*, let's care** about people."

* Including rich white Christian men and fetuses until moment of birth. Excluding minorities, women, children, the elderly, gay people and spouses, anyone with an income under $1 million a year...

** Terms and conditions apply.

He has not agreed to put his wife, children or grandchildren up for target practice. They are for forced birth but not for any assistance once born.

That is the only good thing she said. But if she goes back and reviews it, I am sure would say it differently.

The SCOTUS already spoke, and you R's in Congress have already tried to repeal it how many times now? I lost count but I believe the number of attempts is in the 30's. FOX News anchor Chris Wallace even told Paul Ryan it wasn't going to happen. What is it going to take. I do have one idea, if you hate the ACA so much, lets go with a single payer system/Medicare for all. That sounds good to me.

One less person pushing the cray-cray button every day.

Julie

Even on my computer. Rotten egg farts.

Actually, the rest of me does too.

"That woman is an IDIOT"

But, it definitely applies here, too.

There's no such thing as evolution. For her at least.

Well she can't be blamed for it all. Those same people voted her in for another term. They could have gotten rid of her last November.

Google the phrase "Stearns County syndrome" for more information.

Sterns County Syndrome referrers to the inter-family marriages that happened during and shortly after WWII and the resulting increase in children being born with birth defects and mental retardation. There was a study done on this but I don't know if it is available on the internet as it was done before PC's were around.

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/minnesota/1631609-there-still-something-stearns-county-syndrome.html#ixzz2ODYzbUto

It's all they can do.

These people keep saying this, but they don't say how it is going to kill people.
They seem to always leave that part out.

Kinda like Miss Moose starting up about the "death panels".
If they defined it beyond this vagueness, they'd become a target when the truth shoots them down.

Silly me!!!

...which are people, my friends.

It will use its God-given rights to own machine guns and mow them down for walking on its lawn.

Or so I've been led to believe by my ultra-conservative relatives...

She is loud, stupid, careless, mean, and bigoted--she's the modern Republican Party in a nutshell, and when she is gone Congress will be a better place.

Very nice lady from the office called to let me know that my insurance provider was going to be sending me a special offer. Special offer? From an insurance company?

It seems that they would like to offer me the opportunity to purchase 2014's coverage, for 2013's rates. Seems the company is all worried (concerned) that the ACA is surely going to cause my premiums to go up, and they don't want me to have to pay those higher rates. So, just for this one time, I am being offered a savings! Funny how my premiums did nothing but go up all these years, but now they want me to have a savings!

So, I keep talking to the nice lady from agent's office, and she starts confiding that "we don't know what we're gonna do, when all these people start leaving the insurance companies in droves (!) for the health care exchanges". I didn't tell her that I am planning to join the droves, but was absolutely silently fist pumping over and over at my desk. So, when I log on to DU today, I see all kinds of stories, like this one from Bachman, about how bad for us Obamacare is going to be.

I think the big companies are in full-blown panic mode.

Everyone needs to see it!

That I have no idea how to do that. But I would gladly give you permission to do that for me, Brigid, as I have only about 15 minutes to try to get caught up on the day's news before I have to go bowling.

I am almost certain that nice lady at the agent's office overshared! LOL!

Check it out when you get back. Happy bowling!

eom.

made people sign up for 3 years at a higher rate because "the prices are going up and you'll be locked in at this rate". Except prices went down and the poor suckers got stuck paying higher rates for 3 years.

I think it really would be a good idea that politicans start wearing corporation logos on their clothing. That way we can see who is buying our congress people. Sleeze bastards all of them. Both parties. Of course there are exceptions like Warren and Sanders.

speech. My reaction was that there is a way to assure that all people would be protected - and that is single payer - essentially Medicare for everyone.

If she truly wants to protect these vulnerable women, children and senior citizens that she was speaking of - that would be the solution. Someone should call her on that.

One thing that she said however, and I heard this before from others that don't have an ax to grind on ACA - is that employers under ACA are only obligated to offer insurance coverage to their employees and don't have to extend that to their families - wives, husbands, children. As as result the extended family could be left without health coverage and have to pick that up on their own.

I was going to try and verify that and I never did - and today that is one of the points she was attempting to make.

Does anyone know if this is true? If so that is problematic. If so - I believe that this needs to be attended to before 2014.

Can anyone provide me with some facts either supporting or refuting this.

I've been a big supporter of ACA since the talks began to formulate it. I want to make sure that it is going to help everyone.

Need Help Here!!!!!!

done an episode about her? If they haven't, it could write itself just quoting her verbatim.
She and her husband are scam artists who use fictitious titles and positions that extract tax payer money from the Treasury. His fraudulent psychology practice gets government money to treat homosexuals by praying away the gay. They also get farm subsidies for their property.

What a putz. I'm certain all those people that Obamacare would kill will live long, healthy, happy, prosperous lives with no access to health care whatsoever. Yes, that's a much better plan.

The best way to show people you love them and care for them, is to watch them suffer without health care.

Only in Bachmann's crazy, insane world. She is part of the reason things are so messed up. You can't have crazy people making decisions for the country and expect something other than insanity!

Seriously who let this idiot into congress?

She'd get bounced so fast it'd make her head swim if she had to face a legitimate district, but as it is she's pretty snug in her little RW evangelical zone.

Welcome to DU EmeraldCity. We're a horse of a different color around here.

Thank you I know I will like it around here.

Welcome to DU!

Jim Graves ran against her and had a tiny budget to work with. He almost beat her. He's a great businessman and has a fantastic history in her district. When he runs again against her, she will have absolutely no chance of winning.

Because I'm dying of laughter.

Though, I would like to see "Obamacare" replaced with a single-payer system.

We ALREADY pay more and get less.

There's the study that found the uninsured had a 25% mortality risk than those with health insurance, from ages 25 to 74. There's the study by the Institute of medicine that found that 18,000 people died in 2000 because of lack of health insurance. An update of the study found 27,000 died in 2006. The latest study by Harvard put the figure at 45K PER YEAR. Which ever study you cite, it can be argued that tens of thousands are dying every year from lack of health insurance.

http://factcheck.org/2009/09/dying-from-lack-of-insurance/

This woman us dumber than a bag of hair.

starting yet

Every time she goes on one of her crazy rants, she gets lots of campaign contributions

...the tougher it is to tell their run-of-the-mill hucksters from the literally deranged.

Yeah, Everything Bachmann says is stupid, mean or both, but not much more so than what you'd hear from their mainstream.

the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent speech were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this country is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.