Michele Bachmann: 'The Obamacare Political Fight Isn't Ripe Right Now'

[DonViejo]

The Huffington Post | by Paige Lavender


Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said now's not the time to fight against Obamacare.

In an interview with the St. Cloud Times, Bachmann elaborated on comments she made earlier this month to the Washington Post, when she said "most of us don't think it's the time to fight."

“Obamacare is in effect now," Bachmann told the St. Cloud Times. "Sometimes a political fight is ripe, and sometimes it isn’t. And the Obamacare political fight isn't ripe right now on the debt ceiling.”

Bachmann said 2013's debt limit showdown "was our last chance" to fight against Obamcare before it went into effect. “We needed to keep fighting until the last possible opportunity, and that’s what that vote was about," Bachmann said.

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1. yeah, it's been rotten for a long, long time!

[calimary]

2. As has she.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. It's not going to stop them from running on it for November however

How much more mileage they can squeeze from it remains unknown, however. I hope that people have gotten as sick of it as we all have. In fact, I hope that it backfires on them. What is it about people having access to affordable healthcare coverage that makes them so mean and angry? They are spending all of their time and energy trying to outmaneuver President Obama and the Dems on the ACA that they aren't even pretending to come up solutions for covering people that they would "approve" of.

[unblock]

11. they run on emotion without logic. they could rail against the sun setting in the west --

-- and their loyal 30+% would still shake their tiny firsts and donate and turn out for them.

[marble falls]

3. The whackadoo finally got something right. They oughta stop fighting over what is undeniably law.

[Jamaal510]

4. And

they obviously don't even have the votes in Congress to win this fight, and probably will not get enough in the foreseeable future. All this seems to be is more red meat for their whackadoo base.

[marble falls]

5. I've heard some very crazy poop from the local Teabillies. "John Cornyn is an Obama Democrat".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Their next real "window" is going to be January 2017

by then I don't even think that there will be any will to repeal it by then unless it turns into a real disaster but then again I keep wondering exactly how it will be a disaster (or at least one that can't be fixed and tweaked here and there). I mean, the ACA IS the health care system right now and whatever the Republicans do to it are now (and certainly by then) going to cause significant disruptions that will make ACA's implementation troubles pale by comparison, not to mention that people whom are now covered by ACA are (likely) not going to feel the same "revolutionary zeal" about repealing it that the Republican Tea Party apparently does.

[Loaded Liberal Dem]

6. We happily accept your batshitty surrender, MB!

[davidpdx]

7. So what did they give her to stop making her talk crazy?

Whatever it is we need to force feed it to a bunch more people.

[idendoit]

8. Poor Bat Shit Shelly. She just can't help herself.

The secret FEMA re-education camps in the Minnesota 6th are almost finished. I live in the 5th and my Representative , who I am very proud of, is Keith Ellison. Go figure.

[libdem4life]

9. Translation: We Lost.

[Amonester]

13. Yep. "We lost but we will keep on talking batsh!t-crazy stuff because we never learn"

"anything from our past batsh!t-crazy stuff"

"and we don't realize we're drowning ourselves in shrinking demographics"

Yup.

[libdem4life]

15. Please proceed, Michelle.

[supernova]

14. Who told her to say that?

to use that expression, "ripe"?

It's an odd construct and sounds completely unlike her. Again, who coached her to say that?