slate.com - 18 days ago
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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 afternoon, joining her for what was originally described as a "press conference" but turned out to be a full-blown rally against health care reform—a mini-sequel to the 9/12 protest of two months ago. [ more ... ]
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washingtonmonthly.com - 19 days ago
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washingtonmonthly.com —
NOTE THE DATE.... Today, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)
hopes to lead a small army of right-wing activists
around Capitol Hill, in the hopes of derailing health care reform. But let's not lose sight of the context here -- Bachmann has...
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Note the date
talkingpointsmemo.com - 19 days ago
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
Sigh, I knew this would get fun. As
you know, Rep. Michele Bachmann is planning her mega-Capitol
Hill Tea Party tomorrow followed by Bachmann leading Tea Partiers through the halls of Congress demanding Congress not take away their health care. ...
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Getting Whackier
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 19 days ago
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The scene today at the Capitol Hill Tea
Party probably worried incumbents of both parties. TPMDC was
there, following every "Kill the bill" refrain and impromptu "USA! USA!" chant from the many thousands gathered on the West Front Lawn of the ...
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Michele Bachmann invites tea partiers to Washington for another swig.
Slate Magazine —
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 afternoon, joining her for what was originally described as a "press conference" but turned out to be a full-blown rally against health care reform—a mini-sequel to the 9/12 protest of two months ago. [more ...]
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Embracing the Shouters
Blake's Think Tank —
... I’d like to ask him the question again after the rally this week on Capitol Hill where House minority leader John Boehner and House Republican whip Eric Cantor, two of the most visibile and influential national Republicans, stood with Rep. Michelle Bachmann and actor Jon Voight. If you recall, Ms. Bachmann ...
Just how out of touch with reality is the Obama White House?
Wizbang —
... , courtesy of White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, who was asked about the handful of distasteful signs that appeared at Thursday's impromptu "Tea Party" gathering in DC to protest the Democrat health care reform bill : "I will continue to say what I've said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see pictures about and depictions of individuals that are truly stunning, and you hear it all the time. People -- imagine five years ago somebody comparing health care reform to 9/11. Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked ...
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