Bachmann: Schiavo was Healthy

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Posted on: July 13, 2011 8:59 AM, by Ed Brayton

Here's a video of Michele Bachmann during a committee hearing when she declared that Terri Schiavo was a "healthy" woman who was put to death. Even the audience there laughed out loud. "From a health point of view, she was not terminally ill." Huh? She was in a permanent vegetative state and her brain was liquified, for crying out loud. She had only core brain stem functions, nothing else. And she couldn't even hypothetically have ever regained consciousness. That's not "healthy" and it sure as hell is terminally ill. This is absolutely delusional.

video at link

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2011/07/bachmann_schiavo_was_healthy.php

[LeftishBrit]

1. Apologies for being in horribly bad taste..

but since Bachmann has made medical history by being able to survive without even the vestige of a functioning brain, she thinks everyone else can too!

[gratuitous]

2. Bachmann had it on good authority

Dr. Bill Frist, then Majority Leader of the Senate, pronounced Terri Schiavo practically ready to run the Boston Marathon based on his in-depth study of carefully edited videotapes. Who is Ms. Bachmann to argue with such an eminently qualified diagnosis?

[TBMASE]

3. That chick is nuts

[NYC Liberal]

4. Yeah, "healthy":

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I had never seen this before

:wow:

[Lasher]

6. Maybe she helped Catkiller Fritz with his remote prognosis.

Not very bright of her to bring that fiasco up again.



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[sakabatou]

7. Where's my clue-by-four?

[damntexdem]

8. Well, from Bachmann's perspective, Schiavo DID have a healthy brain.

I mean, after all, she DOES have to judge in comparison to her own. ;-)

[okieinpain]

17. I think she meant she was capable of having kids. n/t.

[get the red out]

9. I think Bachmann has only a brain stem

There is really not a lot going on upstairs.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. I think her brain stem has gone to seed/Clabbered...

[get the red out]

16. Clabberd indeed!!!!

Love the word "clabberd", my grandmother used to use it.

[Change Happens]

10. Ohhhh, gooddy..

[Gemini Cat]

11. Not this crap again!

(Directed toward the dysfunctional Bachmann, not you.)

[krispos42]

12. Must have been worried about her base being able to vote n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Compared to Michele Bachmann a permanent vegetative state

IS a step up.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

15. The jokes on this one write themselves.

I foresee a great deal of comedy gold coming in the future. :D

[geardaddy]

18. So, now she's a doctor?

:puke:

[frebrd]

19. Simply a matter of perspective.......

From what I can gather, "brain-dead" and "vegetative state" are both part of the Republican definition of "healthy".

[scheming daemons]

20. PLEASE, Michelle... GO THERE!

This issue is what caused Santorum to be routed in 2006 in PA.


Please, please, please, Michelle. Make this an issue.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Giant spoons and Jeebus on a trailer hitch.

:banghead:

[Warren DeMontague]

22. "MY brain is liquified, and I'm running for President!"