{"id":1837,"date":"2009-11-04T18:40:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2009-11-04T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:47:43","slug":"bachmanns-house-call-in-opposition-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1837\/bachmanns-house-call-in-opposition-to-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachmann&#8217;s &#8220;House Call&#8221; in Opposition to ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) called on the American people to join her in making a \u201cHouse Call\u201d against the passage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s 1,990-page government-run health care plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is intended to emulate the effective August tea parties, takes place <strong>tomorrow at noon<\/strong>.\u00a0 It will begin with a rally featuring actor Jon Voight and Mark Levin on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.\u00a0 Following the rally, participants will descend on Congressional offices to lobby against the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing yesterday on <em>Fox and Friends<\/em>, Bachmann labeled this week the &#8220;Super Bowl of Freedom.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people need to stand up again and make sure that Congress hears them this time. Speaker Pelosi is putting her bill on fast track to a vote&#8230;\u201d said the Congresswoman.\u00a0 \u201cThe people need to make a House Call on Washington this week and tell their Representatives to vote no to a government take-over of one-fifth of our economy. This is gangster government at its worst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full <em>Fox and Friends<\/em> interview below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"mediumFlashEmbedded\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"305\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"FOX News\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"playerId=videolandingpage&amp;playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&amp;categoryTitle=undefined&amp;referralObject=11256692\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live\/current\/videolandingpage\/fncLargePlayer\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><embed id=\"mediumFlashEmbedded\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"305\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/foxnews1.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/foxnews1-foxnews-pub01-live\/current\/videolandingpage\/fncLargePlayer\/client\/embedded\/embedded.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"high\" name=\"FOX News\" wmode=\"false\" flashvars=\"playerId=videolandingpage&amp;playerTemplateId=fncLargePlayer&amp;categoryTitle=undefined&amp;referralObject=11256692\"><\/embed><\/object>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s crunch time, folks.\u00a0 House Democrats have scheduled a vote on Pelosi\u2019s government-run health care bill for this Saturday.\u00a0 Join Rep. Bachmann and thousands of concerned Americans in making a \u201cHouse Call\u201d against ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not in the Washington, D.C.-area and are not able to\u00a0attend\u00a0this important event, please be sure to call your Representative in Congress and demand he or she vote \u201cNo!\u201d\u00a0 Call today, call tomorrow, then call again on Friday and Saturday.\u00a0 Get your friends and family to do the same.\u00a0 We must light up the telephone switchboards in Congressional offices in opposition to ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To be patched through to your Member of Congress, call 202-224-3121.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Or, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/take-action?path=cfif\/dbq\/officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to find your Representative and his or her direct contact information.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) called on the American people to join her in making a \u201cHouse Call\u201d against the passage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s 1,990-page government-run health care plan.\u00a0 The event, which is intended to emulate the effective August tea parties, takes place tomorrow at noon.\u00a0 It will begin with a rally featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,439],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-michelle-bachmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}