GOP 'Mother Bears' Warn of Long Lines If Just Anyone Can See The Doctor
By Susie Madrak Saturday Jul 25, 2009 1:15pm
This is the GOP strategy? They're going to try to appeal to stressed-out soccer moms to stop healthcare reform? I'm stunned at the sheer brilliance - not to mention that smug attitude that some people's children are more important that others:
Why offer more people health insurance, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) asked at a press conference Friday, if they might lengthen waits for doctors and otherwise increase the "hassle factor" for her?
"That's like having a mother bear protecting her little cubs, and she's seeing that she has to move heaven and earth to get her child what her child needs," Bachmann said, referring to the health care reforms being debated by Congress. "We'll do it if we have to, but why put ourselves in that situation?"
Near the end of a tumultuous week of delays for health care bills in both houses of Congress, Bachmann and a handful of other House Republican women said at a press conference that as far as they were concerned, any reform would just make things tougher for them.
"I think most all of us here have had the opportunity to take our kids to a fast-food restaurant," said Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.). "We want to get a good dinner, and you walk in and there's 50 people there and it seems like everybody in line wants to buy food for their soccer team or whatever. The American people aren't particularly good at standing in line, but that's exactly what's going to happen if this health care plan goes through."
Uh, Judy? If I wanted to get a "good dinner" for my kids, I wouldn't be taking them out for fast food. Perhaps the clogged arteries explain the reduced oxygen to your brain?
"Any mother," Bachmann said, would do whatever it takes to get "the high-quality health care that her child needs... As a mother of five biological children and as a foster mother to 23 children, there is nothing more important to me than to make sure that my children have high-quality health care when they need health care."
Millions of other children, however, do not have the resources that Members of Congress enjoy. New U.S. Census data document that more than 8.1 million, or one in nine, American children did not have health insurance in 2007. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 20 percent of the uninsured in the U.S. are children.
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Let me get this straight. The taxpayers a footing the health care bill for Bachmann, her husband, 5 biological children and 23 foster children? Or am I missing something?
Here is my take on taxpayer funded Congressional Healthcare if a member of Congress has family coverage.
If the spouse has their own job that offers healthcare, the spouse should be dropped off taxpayer funded healthcare. Only single coverage should be paid for by taxpayers. Period. If there are children, put them on with the spouse's coverage. Why should we pay for family coverage for the whole family.
In Bachmann's case, I have said this before. There should be an investigation into the Foster Care Agency that approved her to house all those children.I do not know if she still has any under her care, but I do not believe she could pass the psycological testing as well as the fact that she is an absentee mother.
Yesterday at the Conservative Woman's Network, she said this
In an attempt to attack the public health insurance option, Bachmann complained that it would be subsidized, making it more affordable for many Americans. She added, “it would offer equal or better benefits than any plan — but cheaper.” Exactly — that’s the point.
... A foster mother to 23 children, there is nothing more important to me than to make sure that my children have high-quality health care when they need health care."?????
23 foster children,I thought that the state paid per month for each foster child.
How much does she make with 23children? and does she lives in a motel or a Chateau.
And, how many is she eating for Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts?
I would think that the state would hold their defenseless charges in better regard than to leave them in the care and influence of this crazed loonietoon.
Even being conservative in my estimate, and say she's getting 500/month per child- that's 11,500 per month.
Raise street urchins for fun profit and fine dining.
Lord knows, these poor kids need somebody to care for them, so I'm not knocking fostercare parents generally. But I've known a couple of people, like Michelle apparently, who went into the foster care system just to warehouse the kids for bucks. People like that are nothing more than fucking pimps.
were pregnant teenagers. No one is sure if her church was involved but one thing that is known is she didn't have them in her home all at one time as she always implies. As well no one knows how long each stayed in her home. Yes Bachmann was paid monthly by the state to take care of them which is hypocricy at it's highest. Bachmann and her husband purchased and $1.2 million home in 2008 during the last election. I would call that a Chateau..........
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. I'm not sure which group suffers the more severe type of sociopathy - GOP Men or GOP Women. This quote by Bachmann really gets me:
" As a mother of five biological children and as a foster mother to 23 children, there is nothing more important to me than to make sure that my children have high-quality health care when they need health care."
So, as a member of Congress, it's the American People who are forced to pick up the tab for your 5 Devilspawn, and the 23 other foster kids in your care (By the way, aren't foster parents compensated for their services? Just asking). But that's not socialism, is it Michelle? Naw, that's only when the tax paying peons demand healthcare coverage on a par with what the provide to the parasites in Congress. "Healthcare for me, but not for thee"
The foster care thing is a money maker....I know someone who does it, good parent but it rakes in the cash.
poster to sell the benefits of for-profit medicine. "Yes! you, too, can be a mutant psycho hose beast once we get our hands on you (and your bank account)!".
"mutant psycho hose beast"
Oh too cool, Paul! I suggest we start referring to Michelle Bachmann by that name, or MPHB for short. All in favor, say "aye"!
It's decided.
I say Aye!
What a great idea, Gene214.
Paul, kudos on your excellent description of she-wolf Bachmann!
Thank you, Calgarylady. Hence forth, Michelle Bachmann is mutant psycho hose beast, aka MPHB.:-)
I'm on board!
:)
made her look like she's representing "The Dark Side", but I think she looks pretty damn hot otherwise. I know women in Beverly Hills who would pay a pretty steep price for boobs like those.
Okay the fingernails are a little OTT, but generally I think the photoshop person did good by her.
Ha!!!!!
She's lookin' pretty hawt!
.....and nice pic. Now that's the real Michele I know.
I didn't know that a 'good dinner' was being first in line at a fast food place.
and not sexist?
No, ricky, none of us has the time to explain it. Sorry!
explanation, too. "Sorry, can't lose my place in the health care line."
Actually this photoshopped pic of Bachmann looks a whole heckuva lot better than any real pic I've seen of her.
Thanks C&L for sparing us the real picture!
. . . or neither.
Actually, Bachmann is pictured as a Harpy, a hybrid bird-woman from Greek Mythology who steals food from a blind man (Phineas) just as he's about to eat it, then crapping all over the rest of the sumptuous feast before him. So despite the plenty in front of him, he's constantly starving. Thus it is a rather fitting metaphor for her attitude about letting the little people crowd the doctor's office and the McDonald's line.
I'm thinking maybe that's 23 foster kids over a span of time, not all at once. She's loony enough as it is. We don't have to make her look back as she does it so well herself.
So, if what Bachman says has any truth to it, why aren't employment-minded Republicans thinking of all the new doctors and nurses that will be graduated: an employment boom. Think of all the doctor's offices and clincis that will open. Think of all the sales of medical equipment needed for 50,000,000 people not using the healthcare system now! Medicine will be booming!! Think of all those new jobs.
I gotta go to church tomorrow because that picture looks hot. I am so wrong......
Ha!!!!!!
"...more than 8.1 million, or one in nine, American children did not have health insurance in 2007. According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 20 percent of the uninsured in the U.S. are children."
OK, so the reason for not doing anything about this is that Americans are too lazy/impatient to stand in line?
Horse shit.
and inexcusable.
.
Hummm...Maybe Palin will pick up Bachmann for a running mate and we can make fun of them both at the same time instead of having to do it separately !! What a deal.... It still amazes me how the people she represents in Minn. actually RE-ELECTED her... I've seen IQ's shrink over time but overnight?? Yikes....
in a long time.
Unfortunately, reality is this evangelical fruit loop is far from attractive in any photo shop. She's an air head with the corporate lobbyist's hand up her ass. An ignorant shill...and she doesn't even know it.
Rush "I live in Palm Beach" Limbaugh claims he's not part of the conservative alite while acting as if he is the voice of the unsophisticated wing on the GOP.
You know Rush, you might could play that fiddle if you sold your home in Palm Beach, closed your station in New York City and moved and broadcasted from Topeka. For someone who claims to speak for and relate too the unsophisticated wing of your party, why don't you choose to live amongst them?
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907250007
Rusty likes to harden his arteries at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse then tighten them up good with a bootleg stogie from a communist country. He's just like you and me.
we don't need help. . . We are not invalids. . . We don't have limited mental capacity so good luck with whatever it is your trying to do.
So they understand perfectly that everyone wants the best care for their children. Wouldn't that be an indication that we should work to get health care for every child? And, you know, technically speaking, everyone is someone's child, so let's cover everyone. We shouldn't have health care for everyone because it's a pain to wait in line? To further the fast-food analogy, I'm sure the homeless guy on the corner would love to be able to scrape together enough change to wait in line for a Big Mac just as everyone who can't afford health care of who has lousy health care would prefer to have waiting for a doctor as an option. I'm sick and tired of of this attitude of being fine with allowing other people to suffer so that they're not inconvenienced at all. According to them, we're supposed to be the greatest country on Earth, but we're also proud to be lazy and selfish. Am I understanding that properly? I'm sorry if this is incoherent, but the massive greed I keep seeing from the Right tends to send me into a sputtering rage.
republicanism is a mental illness!
Standing in line for a loose meat sandwich is NOT a "good dinner". Save the tin foil for later. It makes a nice hat.
I don't care how hot that photoshopped picture looks, her face always looks like a vacant apartment--nobody home. And I can't say I'm surprised at her comments......she is a selfish be-otch who is screwing the taxpayers over and over pretending to be a godly woman taking in 23 foster kids. What a cash cow!
“let them eat cake” moment!
This lady has a crazy world view. Don't put her in charge of anything ever again. For now a vote of non confidence would be nice, until she can be replaced.
Rep. Bachmann is a tool like 99.999% of republicans, but this is a sexist image and you don't need to demean her as a woman to make your point.
Let's cut the through bs and realize what she is really saying is she doesn't want to see poor sick people in her posh doctor's office.
People like the thousands standing in line to be treated in barn stalls @ RAM's Wise,VA free health clinic. The pictures on Daylife.com are beyond frustrating and sad.
What is being said is that the lower castes should do without health care. The GOP will pit different castes against each other to protect the caste that benefits most from corporate profits.
Didn't we just have a "controversy" over an doctored Obama-doctor picture? What makes it OK for C&L to do it?
Last thing we need is more faux-controversy to distract the media/blogosphere echo chamber from health care reform.
The republicans are a soulless party. A ghost party. Otherwise this wouldn't be happening. They are thrusting their tentacles into the flesh of American voters like a bad fungal infection. They need to foment a whole new generation of soulless haters and fear-mongers to take their place and they are desperate. Hence Bachmann.
Well, in her defense, waiting in line sucks and it goes right on the List. http://putthatshitonthelist.blogspot.com/2009...
Then again, America just made it too.
http://putthatshitonthelist.blogspot.com/
Bachmann claims to be such a Born Again when she's really just a nut case.
I think the picture really captures her essence. I wonder how many of us would have to send her copies with that sentiment before she cracks and goes off on a _really_ crazy streak.
Maybe we can get her to resign. She could join the Palin 48 States Tour. Palin/Bachmann '12 -- two women and two crazies. Now that hasn't be tried yet. Listening, Republicans?
"Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore. It's too crowded."
- Attributed to Yogi Berra.
Why isn't the possibility that tons more people who haven't seen a doctor in years if not decades might actually get to see a doctor evidence of the success of healthcare reform instead of the failure of it? Isn't that the point?
Bachmann seems to want healthcare in America to be so expensive it'll price out everyone but her and her colleagues so they can stroll into a doctor's office on a moment's notice and catch a quick physical exam on the way to the Opera without having to wait for the dirty unwashed to get treated for cancer.
Do you think the health care reform opponents really think this, or are they just oblivious to the needs of other people? Honest question.
I agree that longer lines is a sign that more people are getting coverage. As it is the lines are pretty damn long though.
What a fantastic graphic! But, hey, you could put any of several faces in the harpy illo: Palin, Coulter, Ingraham...the list is long.
Echoing comments of derrp and jzebjjh, stop demeaning women with images like this. We completely undercut our criticism of racist photoshopping with this kind of image. Bachmann is crazy enough without resorting to sexism. Come on, commenters and Susie!
Somehow, I don't see viewing Bachmann as a classical image such as the harpy as being quite on the same level as turning Obama into a cannibal. Not all photoshopping is created equal, just like not all editorial cartoons are created equal.
Oh, it’s a classical reference. I had/have no idea what a harpy was/is, or looks like.
I thought it was a woman on all fours, half naked exposing her breasts and mons pubis. With horns and a tail.
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