Republicans in Congress have just a few more days to kill health care reform, and boy are they putting that time to good use. Tea Party activists who came to D.C. on Tuesday to demonstrate at the Capitol were greeted by Rep. Steve King of Iowa, and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas:
Reps. Steve King (R-IA) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) addressed the crowd to warn about perceived tyranny and to distort the contents of the bill. King claimed it’s a “fact” that the bill “does fund abortion” and “does fund illegals.” Gohmert elicited cheers from the crowd when he made a graphic and disturbing claim about the bill:
GOHMERT: I brought the bill that’s being talking about. Now I don’t want to offend anybody, I’m sure that there are people here who think abortion is okay, and I don’t want to make you sick, but I brought an abortion to show you today. […]
There’s a whole lot of demons going on. There’s a lot of demons around here apparently.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minnesota) was also present; she told the crowd of activists that her favorite sign in the rally was the one that said, “Grandma isn’t shovel-ready.” It’s perhaps not surprising that Tea Partiers still believe the health care reform legislation includes “death panels” to pull the plug on seniors — I guess Bachmann figured it couldn’t hurt to reinforce and underscore the lie.
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