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David: Hey, real quick, Michele Bachmann now, this is just hilarious, she was being talked
to by... or talked at, I don't even know the term, by George Stephanopoulos, who is a good
friend of Louis's, and it was brought up who does Michele Bachmann compare herself to,
mostly in the context of Sarah Palin. Why? Because they're both women. And Michele Bachmann
is brilliant. She says she compares herself to who? The president. Take a listen.
Michele Bachmann: ... lot of contenders, and I think there's no question, in 2012, the
Republicans will field a wide bench of contenders against President Obama, and I think the comparison
will be very favorable.
George Stephanopoulos: What is the one thing that sets you apart from Sarah Palin?
Bachmann: Well, again, I compare myself to Barack Obama, not to any of the other Republican
candidates.
David: Right.
Bachmann: First of all, I want to say that I like Sarah Palin a lot. We're friends.
David: Yeah, they're very friendly. So, you know, it's brilliant. It's great that Michele
Bachmann compares herself to Barack Obama...
Louis: I compare her to Barack Obama too.
David: Yeah, and it's a pretty sad comparison, ladies and gentlemen. I mean, you know what?
I tell people that I compare myself to Ghandi, but you know what? I actually did a side-by-side
comparison, it's pretty bad. It's really pretty... it's not a good comparison that I want to
be making day in and day out, because Ghandi has me beat on most fronts. So it's great
that Michele is making the comparison. If it's an honest comparison, I can't imagine
she'll want to continue making it too much longer.
Louis: I guess we'll have to find out.
David: Yeah.
Natan: Well, she's comparing herself to Barack Obama to contrast herself with him.
David: Apparently. Yeah, well, that's the other issue. The comparison is such that she
thinks she could be qualified to be president, but the comparison really should bring up
the fact that she shouldn't be running at all. I believe she will. I think she's already
scheduled to be somewhere in Iowa, which she states over and over again is her home state,
and I think it's pretty clear she will be running. I still don't think Sarah Palin will
be running, and we just heard that Mitt Romney will be running.
Louis: I'm glad Bachmann's running. I still think Palin might.
David: I just don't think it's going to happen. I really don't think it's going to happen.
Natan: Do you think Mitt Romney is going to have his record in Massachusetts stricken
from the record?
David: Oh, there's no question that Mitt Romney is going to have a lot of explaining to do
about when he helped get the health care reform bill passed, Romneycare, in Massachusetts,
which is so similar, in many ways, to the Obama health care bill, which he opposed.
We have a preview already of what the argument will be, Louis, which is he's OK with that
type of legislation if states decide to pass it, and when he was governor here in Massachusetts,
his state decided to pass it. But what he's not in favor of...
Louis: Is government...
David: Is the federal government imposing it.
Louis: Right.
David: Which is really kind of incredible, because you know, if you really believe that
it's such a good plan that you would pass it as governor, are you really going to hold
back health care from millions of people because you would prefer the states pass it, when
they, for a variety of reasons, they may be in no condition to do so? It seems almost
insulting. It's... and the people who would suffer and have the lack of care as a result
of Romney's decision should all be furious, and none of them should be voting for Romney,
even though you know what? A lot of them will if he is the nominee.
Louis: We'll see how he explains it when he's confronted with that during debates.
David: Yeah.
Natan: Also, you know, Mitt Romney, I think the Republicans are trying to make it seem
like supporting a plan, a specific health care plan that the federal government would
initiate, is socialist, but if the same plan is enacted by a single state, it's not socialist.
David: It's not socialist as a federal government, but it makes the state government socialist.
Natan: But the-- yes, that's the thing. That's the thing, it's state socialism.
David: Right.
Natan: So how can you be against the plan federally and for it...
Louis: There's something they don't even mention.
David: Hold on, we're all talking over each other. Yeah, right, how could you be...
Natan: All I'm saying is this does not negate... if Mitt Romney thinks that this is a socialist
plan, a federal socialist plan, Obamacare, say.
David: It's socialist at any level.
Natan: Exactly.
Louis: Yeah, but there's no dialogue about socialism when it comes to state and local
governments, there's only dialogue about socialism when it comes to the federal government.
David: Do you know why? Because of the Republican obsession with states' rights. So in other
words, anything a state does, by definition, is great, and it's conservative, because...
Louis: Yeah, unless you're Vermont trying to pass single-payer health care.
David: Oh, yeah, they're Commies. Absolutely.
Louis: Yeah.
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Show. Back after this. Am I offended, as a Jewish person, by Sarah Palin wearing the
Star of David necklace? Hmm. We'll see what Louis thinks, too. Back after this.
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