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Conservatives Rally Behind Bachmann’s Call For Anti-Health Care Reform Protest In DC
thinkprogress.org - 19 days ago
Conservatives Rally Behind Bachmann’s Call For Anti-Health Care Reform Protest In DC
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On Saturday, ThinkProgress reported that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was calling on conservatives to take time off from their jobs this week and to gather on the National Mall this Thursday for “ a big party ” in opposition to health care reform. In an interview with the Washington ...
Top Bachmann aide quits
politico.com - 18 days ago
Top Bachmann aide quits
— politico.com — The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting – just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. (more) Top Bachmann aide quits

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motherjones.com - 18 days ago
Is The Tea Party Over?
— motherjones.com — The tea partiers are launching the revolution. This week. But will anyone actually show up? On Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann challenged viewers of Sean Hannity’s Fox News show to join her last-ditch attempt to kill health care reform. The ... (more) Is The Tea Party Over?

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Bachmann Calls For Health Care Protest Rally In DC Next Week: ‘We’re Going To Have A Big Party’
thinkprogress.org - 19 days ago
Bachmann Calls For Health Care Protest Rally In DC Next Week: ‘We’re Going To Have A Big Party’
— thinkprogress.org — In an interview with the Washington News Observer , Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) revealed that, next week in Washington, D.C., the right wing is trying to galvanize yet another mass protest rally against health reform. Following in the spirit of ... (more) Bachmann Calls For Health Care Protest Rally In DC Next ...

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Political Animal:  Bachmann eyes 'insurgency' on the Hill this week

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Bachmann eyes 'insurgency' on the Hill this week
Political Animal — ... having been told it's time to take time off of work once more to wave some placards around, is likely to ask, "Again?" To be sure, plenty of attendees are bound to show up. Hannity, Beck, and "Fox & Friends" have been promoting the gathering, which will no doubt be worth something. But if attendance is weak, organizers run the risk of making it seem as if opposition to reform efforts has run out of steam. For her part, Bachmann has encouraged Rush Limbaugh to help with the effort, telling the host , "We'll have a meet-up at the Capitol steps and then the insurgency begins." ...

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If You Can Get to Washington On Thursday...
powerlineblog.com 18 days ago — Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is teaming up with Mark Levin and others to bring the town halls to Washington on Thursday, day after tomorrow, to protest the Democrats' intended takeover of the health care industry. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and ...
Conservatives urge 'House call' on Thursday
thehill.com 20 days ago — Some House conservatives are encouraging constituents to visit the Capitol on Thursday, the earliest day on which a health bill vote could be held. A group of five GOP lawmakers, led by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), are hoping voters make a "House ...
Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Helps Promote Her Former Nanny’s Health Care Protest
thinkprogress.org 17 days ago — In his Washington Post column late last month, George Will revealed that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was once Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson’s babysitter : When [Bachmann] was a teenager in Anoka, Minn., she was a nanny for a young ...
Signs at Bachmann’s anti-health care reform rally call Obama a ‘Marxist’ and question his birth certificate.
thinkprogress.org 16 days ago — Earlier today, ThinkProgress reported on a sign at the GOP’s anti-health care reform rally on Capitol Hill that used Holocaust imagery to attack health reform. But many right-wing activists carried signs that weren’t related to health ...
Michele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig.
slate.com 16 days ago — Whether it was billing the event as a "Super Bowl of Freedom" or challenging conservatives to "scare" members of Congress, it worked. Rep. Michele Bachmann got thousands of protesters to flood the lawn in front of the Capitol building Thursday ...
The week's most interesting Slate stories. — Slate Magazine
1) "Bachmania: Michele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig," by Christopher Beam. Thousands of fringe Republican protesters attended a health care reform protest at the Capitol and were embraced by many congressional Republicans. [ more ... ]  ...
Bachmann Claims Anti-Health Reform Rally Was ‘Organic,’ ‘Nothing That We Planned’ — Think Progress
Last Friday on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced that she was organizing an anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, calling on Americans “literally by the busload to come to Washington D.C.” to protest reform. The next day, Bachmann summoned everyone to “get off the ...
Protesters railing against government-run health care rescued by government-run health care at Hill rally. — Think Progress
Thousands of protesters came to Capitol Hill yesterday for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) protest against health care reform, capping months of fear-mongering about the dangers of so-called “socialized” medicine . However, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notes that ...
Did Hannity And Bachmann Just Make Up Their Account Of Bachmann’s Health Care Protest? — News Hounds
Sean Hannity took time out from covering the shootings at Fort Hood to give some PR for Michele Bachmann’s little tea party protest in Washington earlier yesterday (11/5/09). The two grossly exaggerated the crowd size, perpetuated a fiction that the astroturfing specialists, Americans for ...
The Christian Right Meets Tea-Party Might — The New Republic blogs
“We are turning to socialism and away from God!” Joseph Grab said as he stood amid the thousands who gathered on Capitol Hill today to attend Michele Bachmann’s “House Call” protest against the health care reform bill. Grab, a retired engineer from Hershey, ...
How To Join Michele Bachmann’s Protest Without Going To Washington DC — Say Anything
Rep. Michele Bachmann is urging people to join her on the steps of the US Capitol to protest the Democrat health care bill.  Obviously, Washington DC is a long trip for most Americans to make especially at a time when finances are tight and the holidays are looming. For those of you who ...
Join Michele Bachmann’s March On Washington — Right Soup
Late last week Michele Bachmann joined Glenn Beck to announce she’s holding a march against health-care on Thursday. Anyone who wants to join her in walking the halls of the legislature and letting our Reps know the Democrat’s health care plan is a NO GO…meet Michele on the ...