Bachmann’s ‘House Call’ obstructionist health reform policy as pathology

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http://coloradoindependent.com/41570/bachmanns-%e2%80%98house-call%e2%80%99-obstructionist-health-reform-policy-as-pathology

"Controversial Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is hosting a “House Call” urging Tea Party activists to storm the Capitol today to oppose health care reform. The underlying politics of this is simply pathology, says longtime journalist Marc Cooper.

We live in a country where 50 million people are one broken leg away from bankruptcy, where an annual health care policy costs $12,000 a year, where a cartel of insurance companies have entire departments dedicated to finding loopholes to deny what coverage they do extend, and what, exactly, is the Republican-Bachmann proposal?

“I think if we stop it, it could be dead for 10 years,” she gleefully told her supporters tonight. Why stop there? if you can stop it for another ten years you can also have 500,000 or so additional Americans dead.

Look, I have my own problems with Obamacare. And I certainly grant the right to those to my right to have their own set of objections. The pre-condition for my tolerance, however, is that you have some rational counter-proposal to the unacceptable status quo.

I heard the always comical RNC Chair Michael Steele on the tube today crowing over this week’s elections. He claimed that “left-wing nuts” in Congress were responsible for blocking national health care that Obama has promised and that his granny was in peril because of it. That’s pretty damn funny coming from the leader of the party that is unanimously united against all heath care reform. He’s right, of course, that it will be a bunch of nuts obstructing reform tomorrow."