Fresh from earning four Pinocchios for claiming at CPAC that the Obama presidency spends $1.4-billion on “perks and excess,” perennial wingnut Michelle Bachmann took to the House floor Thursday on the third anniversary of Obamacare to plead, once again, for its repeal.
Echoing the claim by her sister wingnut Sarah Palin that the original Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set up “death panels” (via a provision for voluntary counseling on living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options), Bachmann warned:
“That’s why we’re here: Because we’re saying let’s repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. Let’s not do that. Let’s love people. Let’s care about people. Let’s repeal it now while we can.”
While it wasn’t clear how she imagines such slaughter will ensue, there were studies in 2010 that showed that without coverage for the then 48.6 million uninsured, some 22,000 otherwise preventable deaths would occur.
You’d think that someone with a law degree from Oral Roberts University could provide a little substantiation for her wild claims every now and then. What do they teach there, anyway?
‘What do they teach there, anyway?’
(Adopts Clintonesque gravitas)…It depends on what the meaning of ‘teach’ is.
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The actual name of ORU law school was the O.W. Coburn School of Law. It was named after O.W. Coburn, father of future US politician Tom Coburn who is now the Republican junior senator from Oklahoma.
They don’t teach anything at Oral Roberts University Law School anymore. The ORU Law School went out of business in 1986. Bachmann was a member of the school’s first class, took a hiatus of four years, and then came back to complete her studies the year the law school folded. Her legal education was strongly influenced by far-Right conservative Christian legal theory, much of which might fairly be characterized as irrational and extreme. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bachmann-hopes-reshape-judiciary-according-her-biblical-view-law