Michele Bachmann Parrots GOP Talking Points

Huffpo:

The following excerpt from Tea Party Caucus leader Rep. Michele Bachmann's website is a particularly florid example, however, of the tight connection between Tea Party leaders and GOP leadership:

Bachmann On Health Care
As the American people struggle to make ends meet, too many also live with the challenge of affording basic health care for themselves and their families. Any time a child or a parent goes without the care they need, it is a personal crisis for that family.

That bears a canned resemblance to lines served up by Republican party strategists:

GOP Party Talking Points
As the American people struggle to make ends meet, too many also live with the challenge of affording basic health care for themselves and their families. Any time a child or a parent goes without the care they need, it is a personal crisis for that family.
This sort of parroting may seem harmless. But the copying continues when the dialogue turns to policy prescriptions.

Bachmann (R-Minn.) goes on to cut and paste a full seven paragraphs from the GOP talking points. The only efforts to rework the language were to switch the order of two paragraphs, add a sentence and slip in three extra words.

Bachmann is just a GOP cheerleader. Here's a video of Bachmann talking up the GOP "Pledge to America" which "was put together with oversight by a House staffer who, up till April 2010, served as a lobbyist for some of the nation's most powerful oil, pharmaceutical, and insurance companies."

Watch: