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Bachmann To Hold Second 'House Call' Rally Same Day As SOTU

Rachel Slajda | January 22, 2010, 2:12PM

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced on Glenn Beck's radio show today that she's organizing a rally at the Capitol for Jan. 27, the same day as the State of the Union address.

She invited "patriots" and members of the public to come and sign a petition, which she called a "declaration of health care independence."

Bachmann is calling this rally a "press conference," apparently to avoid breaking House rules about participating in grassroots lobbying. At her last "house call" tea party in November, Bachmann and the House Republicans who joined her did the same thing.

Bachmann said the declaration says "we reject what they want, this centralized government approach, and what we want is no backroom deals, no political favoritism, no doing a bill behind closed doors. You read the thing before you actually vote on it. Some very simple things: don't add to the crushing debt, don't add to the state crushing debt."

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borneo

January 22, 2010 2:38 PM

What a complete idiot. A healthcare "bill of independence", as opposed to a bill of rights to survive a medical disaster.

Clearly, a bill of independence is free markets for these fucking insurer con artists. And bill of rights actually gives the insured a fair system.

Just rely on Republican's to exploit the ignorance of the sheeple. If you learn your social justice experience from Glenn Beck and other empty propagandist, this country will just suffocate itself.

God damn.

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