-—”He was also the chief author of the individual health care mandate and that is what is (now) known as Obamacare”-—
Michelle Bachmann, you are a dirty liar, and you should apologize. This is not an honest mistake.
I honestly don’t know if she “lied.” She may have simply regurgitated this attack line from something she heard or read. She SHOULD know better.....or someone on her staff should.
Unfortunately for her....the buck stops at her desk.
Bachman did not lie. This article was posted on FR at the time:
Snippet from Newsmax, May 2011:
“Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gingrich told host David Gregory that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.
Gregory played a clip of Gingrich speaking during an appearance on Meet the Press in October 1993:
“I am for people, individuals — exactly like automobile insurance — individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance. And I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals have health insurance.”
Gregory asked Gingrich if he would criticize GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney, whose “Romneycare” health program enacted during his time as Governor in Massachusetts mandated that all uninsured purchase health insurance.
Gingrich replied he would not make it an issue in the campaign and said he agreed with key aspects of Romneycare.
“I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay—help pay for health care,” Gingrich said, adding, “I’ve said consistently we ought to have some requirement that you either have health insurance or you post a bond ...”
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gingrich-health-care-insurance/2011/05/15/id/396426";