The tele-town hall was hosted by Americans for Prosperity's Tim Phillips. (I had the opportunity to interview the Texas State Director, Peggy Venable, back in April for my Texas Starts With T mini-doc.)
Anyway, if you're a regular reader, you know how much I love Michele Bachmann, especially for her stand on Light Bulb Freedom of Choice. Unfortunately, with over 18,000(!) people on the call, I never got a chance to tell her so "in person".
The main topic of course was the Health Care bill 'n boondoggle. Here are my favorite statements from the hour, in bullet points, lady first.
Michele Bachmann
- We have 8 years before we face bankruptcy in so many areas, and Obama is wanting to add water to our sinking ship. But the rest of us don't want to say goodbye to the American Dream.
- Arrogance in Congress. Conyers's statement about not reading the bill, Pelosi and Reid trying to obfuscate by changing language. Co-ops are still the "public option".
- The bill would create 30 new government bureaucracies. Will you have more power over your healthcare choices, or will government?
- No tort reform... 1018 pages of a bill without one mention of it.
- However, among the American people we are witnessing a historic shift towards freedom.
- Despite what the media tells us, Republicans do have ideas. Health Care Freedom of Choice Act. But the Ds do not want bipartisanship.
- With the Comparative Effectiveness Research Act we see the truth behind Obama's red pill/blue pill analogy. Government wants to make these choices for you.
- Spending other people's money is immoral... we are in the right here, so keep the pressure on.
- The trouble Ds are having is that they have to decide whether they're willing to lose an election over this.
- As for Obama... he is! He met with the House of Reps early on and told them that he'd prefer to be a one-term president rather than not see his agenda through. We need to be as committed to freedom. We are enough of what is needed to make a tremendous difference.
Jim DeMint
- Major worry in Senate is that Ds will use procedural trickery to pass the bill, by using "reconciliation" whereby 51 votes are needed to pass it as opposed to 60. He believes that it would be political suicide for the Dems and that it would destroy the Senate. Harry Reid has stated, "Whatever it takes." But the Senate is the place where things get slowed down... more debate, not less.
- "Fannie Meds". "Cash for clunkers-type management."
- "I know you're being attacked and vilified. Be civil but insistent." "The power is with you."
- "They think Americans are asleep or stupid. They're wrong."
- The Health Care Freedom Plan
- Democrats voted against rollover Health Savings Accounts. They don't want to fix health care, they want to control it.
- Supports interstate competition, tax rebates for individuals like businesses have, wants to loosen gov regulations of what plans must include for those who aren't interested in those types of mandates.
- There will always be some who can't afford health insurance, but we are by nature a compassionate people.
- What can States do? He'd like to see them take the federal government to court for over-reaching their boundaries. Nothing gives them the right to do what they've been doing.
- He says he's using stronger language now than ever before. Says this is an exciting and defining time for freedom, that it only seems that the left is more organized with all their groups and things - especially because, by nature, conservatives are more independent - but he feels that it's the opposite. Democrats control all of government, and so it's really the grassroots outcry, not Republicans, that has slowed this thing down.
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