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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (100048)	2/16/2011 6:35:34 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224722

Bachmann finally admits she can't defund health care reform dailykos.com "Of course, that wasn't what Michele Bachmann was saying before the election. Before the election, she was promising her fellow teahadists that if Republicans won the House, they could kill health care reform simply by defunding it, with or without the support of President Obama or Harry Reid. Here's what she said last July: We have the power of the purse - so we can starve ObamaCare. We don't have to fund any of these programs and that's exactly what we need to do - defund all of this nonsense and then unwind it. Sounded good, except she was completely wrong. Health care reform wasn't established as a discretionary program. That means it's not dependent on annual appropriations bills, so you can't simply defund it."