Bachmann considering Affordable Care Act lawsuit

[Redfairen]

Source: Star Tribune

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and several House Republican colleagues have discussed suing President Obama for not consulting Congress before he decided to end the cancellation of health care policies under the Affordable Care Act.

After Obama's violated his promise that the health care law would allow people to keep their insurance plans if they liked them, he decided to allow companies, for one year, to offer policies that don’t meet the health care law's standards.

Bachmann, a leading opponent of the health care law, believes that Obama’s decision violated the Constitution's separation of powers doctrine.

“Congresswoman Bachmann is deeply concerned about President Obama’s pattern of bypassing Congress and issuing unconstitutional executive decrees, and she and some of her colleagues have had discussions about the best recourse to put a stop to his unconstitutional actions,” said Bachmann spokesman Dan Kotman.



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[Gothmog]

1. Bachmann is a very weak lawyer

I hate to admit the fact that she is a member of a bar association. I am not worried about her legal analysis on this issue

[question everything]

21. Ah, but it gets her name in the news, doesn't it?

And that's what counts.

[HughBeaumont]

2. Never have I meant this cliche more than now . . . YOU GO GURL!!!

Fucking moron.

[riversedge]

3. and taxpayers will pay for this frivolous

law suit no doubt.

[SoapBox]

4. And fuck the millions of Americans that will gain insurance....

Since this is all about her self-centered views.

[Scuba]

5. Go for it Michele, it'll be a sure winner in the 2014 campaign! Americans love that stuff.

[geardaddy]

10. She's not running.

I think this is her last hurrah. She never did anything in Congress for her constituents anyway.

[Scuba]

12. That's OK, it will still hurt the Repubs.

[geardaddy]

13. Yep.

I say keep on with the Batshit Crazy, Shelly.

[Chipper Chat]

6. I would like to sue Michelle Bachman

for impersonating a human.

[unionthug777]

8. i second your motion.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. What evidence do you have that she's trying to appear to be human?

[Chipper Chat]

22. Her 3 eyes.

[big_dog]

16. +1

and a member of the house

[unblock]

7. how is this not squarely in the executive branch's enforcement powers?

[Half-Century Man]

11. I am deeply concerned with Congresswoman Bachmann pattern of bypassing Earth

to go to where ever she gets her fresh bullshit

[tanyev]

14. So...Obama issued a decree to fix a problem that REPUBLICANS were complaining about,

and Bachmann wants to sue him for doing it?


I believe that's what you call choots-pah, Michele.

[LoisB]

15. Wait a minute. I thought the Rethugs WANTED him to allow people to keep those

"insurance" policies.

[davidpdx]

17. Bachmann should be committed to a mental institution

put in a straitjacket and pumped full of Thorazine.

[RBInMaine]

18. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO IT !!!! Then she'll prove beyond ALL doubt she's a certifiable LUNATIC.

[BadGimp]

19. agreed

[jmowreader]

20. Can we sue Bachmann for her share of what the 44 attempts to repeal Obamacare cost the US?

It costs $30 million per day to run Congress. If it takes two days to do an Obamacare repeal attempt, and there have been 44 attempts, it has cost the United States $1.32 billion to watch the Republicans go on their little partisan power trip. (Which is, in case you care, approximately twice what the government has spent on Obamacare so far.)

There are 231 Republicans in the House of Representatives. Divide one into the other and you get $5.714 million per Republican.

Memo to Michele: Pay up.

[Myrina]

23. Aaaah Christmas, so much for the GOP wanting to 'limit frivolous lawsuits' ...

What it WITH these people? (rhetorical question.)