She has a point about the government knowing better and enforcing (Perry going around the legislature) it’s the best to give the girls the shot. That was a overdo of his power-red flags there-Bachmann should had focus on that. She got emotional about giving 12 year old these shots, now, the media is blasting her. She made a mistake but it’s not worth destroying one of our own. IMO. We’ll see what happens..
She seems to lack a certain discipline in her public statements and her preparation of supporting background evidence, which ends up working against her.
That is something that could have been cured with practice and attention (along with adequately doing her homework), but the time to have done that would have been before things started spiraling out of control.
And in agreement with drawing the line in a sensible place, notice absence of news about Santorum's pile-on? He not only said implementation via EO was wrong, he also said the mandate was bad public policy.
SANTORUM: I think we need to hear what Governor Perry's saying. He's saying that his policy was right. He believes that what he did was right. He thinks he went about it the wrong way.I believe your policy is wrong. Why -- ladies and gentlemen, why do we inoculate people with vaccines in public schools? Because we're afraid of those diseases being communicable between people at school. And therefore, to protect the rest of the people at school, we have vaccinations to protect those children.
Unless Texas has a very progressive way of communicating diseases in their school by way of their curriculum, then there is no government purpose served for having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government. This is big government run amok. It is bad policy, and it should not have been done.