Michele Bachmann

Minnesota Embarrassment: Michele Bachmann And Tim Pawlenty!

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The state of Minnesota has had many distinguished public figures serve in its state government and in Congress.

Among famous Minnesotans in politics have been Harold Stassen, Henrik Shipstead, Orville Freeman, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Walter Mondale, and Paul Wellstone.

Now, unfortunately, we have a Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, only in Congress since 2007, but already notorious for outrageous, divisive, and often crazy public statements and actions, including reasserting this week that President Barack Obama is “anti American”!

We also have outgoing Governor Tim Pawlenty, a likely seeker of the GOP Presidential nomination in 2012, who is wasting taxpayer money by signing on to a federal lawsuit being brought by at least a dozen Attorneys Generals, to prevent enforcement of the new Health Care reform legislation. Pawlenty is exploiting the situation, therefore presenting himself as a hard line conservative, joining mostly with southern leaders who want to promote “states rights”, an image that reminds one of slavery and segregation and nullification, terms that should be only referred to as part of our history’s sad record. Pawlenty has, apparently, no concern for people with pre-existing conditions, or for those dropped by their insurance companies, or those who receive a tremendous jump in premium costs, or for young people who will have no coverage after college, or for many others, altogether 32 million Americans, who do not seem to matter, as long as others have health care!

Minnesota cannot be proud of either Bachmann or Pawlenty, and hopefully, Bachmann can be removed from office as not being concerned that her district in Minnesota is the poorest, most deprived when it comes to health care and employment and foreclosures! And it seems highly unlikely that Tim Pawlenty will make very much progress in his quest to become our President! Certainly, Minnesota and the nation can do much better!

The New Face Of The GOP : Sarah Palin And Michele Bachmann Together In Minneapolis! :(

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The Republican Party has become a party more and more image driven by two women, who have become highly controversial by their words and actions.

Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor and 2008 Vice Presidential nominee, and Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Congresswoman, have both contributed to an atmosphere of deceit, lies, fear mongering, confrontation, and extreme right wing propaganda!

Sarah Palin talked about “death panels”, and Michele Bachmann conjured up images of “internment camps”. Both women have done everything possible in the past two years to divide America, and to distort and destroy the Presidency of Barack Obama by any means necessary, showing an amazing lack of ethics in their false attacks, and showing no concern or solutions for the many domestic problems we face!

Both women also have shown an unbelievable lack of understanding of our basic civil liberties, and a belligerent attitude toward other nations. It could be said that what both have advocated borders on fascism and nativism, marking them as being as dangerous as other fringe spokesmen have been in past periods of American history!

Neither one contributes anything positive in public affairs, but rather sets out to confuse and obstruct!

Seeing pictures and video of the two women together, it makes one think that this is a great opportunity for the Democrats to promote commercials designed to defeat Bachmann for her congressional seat and to undermine the GOP for congressional races and the Presidential campaign of 2012.

While it is great to see more women in American politics, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are NOT an asset to the Republican Party. Rather, they are an albatross around the Republicans’ necks, but they will offer a great opportunity to the Democratic party nationally, as well as locally.

We will see many commercials starring Sarah and Michelle, and hopefully, we will soon see both disappear on the horizon of American politics! We deserve better than this!

The Census, Michele Bachmann, And The GOP Future

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is at it again, warning Americans that complying with the Census will promote the sharing of information with the FBI and other government agencies, and will lead to internment camps, similar to what happened to Japanese Americans in World War II!

She and other Republicans are promoting distrust of the federal government, and so far, the effect has been that many citizens, particularly noticed in Texas in GOP areas of strength, are slow to fill out the Census forms that are due back by April 1.

The irony of Bachmann and other GOP leaders encouraging noncompliance with the Census will be the undercount of the citizenry, and will lead, potentially, to fewer seats for Republican areas and states, and therefore benefiting Democratic strongholds which will gain more seats and funding over the next ten years.

So the anti government mood of many Republicans will result, if this continues, with loss of power and influence for the GOP. And it will be due to their paranoia and stupidity, but it will be richly deserved! 🙁

For people who serve in government and get paid by government to condemn our government is a true example of maniacal, lunatic behavior. But then again, don’t we all know that Michele Bachmann and her ilk are a detriment to their party and the people they serve? When, oh when, will the GOP realize they are self destructive in their behavior? 🙁

The Futile GOP Attempt To Repeal Health Care Legislation

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The Republican party is moving ahead to attempt a repeal of the just enacted Health Care reform legislation. It is an exercise in futility, and further disgraces the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and even Ronald Reagan!

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Congressman Steve King of Iowa in the House, and Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina have introduced bills to repeal the legislation.

For them and other Republicans, including John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Eric Cantor to endorse such action, only further marginalizes them in history and in the future political debates!

In order to accomplish the repeal over President Obama’s veto would require a two thirds vote in both houses, meaning a swing of 26 Republicans in the Senate and 113 Republicans in the House in the midterm 2010 elections.

That kind of swing has NEVER happened, and is not about to occur under the most optimistic scenarios! While there will be some gains by the GOP this November, to believe that history and the political atmosphere is on their side to bring about the impossible–a turnover of the legislation–is delusional, to say the least!

If the Republicans had any dignity, they would stop their ridiculous behavior! But what it comes down to is that the GOP has met its “Waterloo”, as Jim DeMint predicted Obama would meet. The tables have been turned on the GOP, and they are Napoleon, and Obama and the Democrats are Wellington!

To promote fear and hysteria, and to expect they will win power on such a basis, is a false strategy that the GOP will come to regret, unless its leaders are smart enough to move on and stop a bitter fight that cannot be won!

Michele Bachmann Promotes Breaking Of Tax Laws!

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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann continues to be a right wing firebrand.

Now she advocates in public gatherings that people refuse to pay their taxes if the Congress passes health care reform legislation! She also calls for immediate lawsuits to prevent the legislation from being put into effect!

This is very interesting, as she has already in the past year declared that people should not fill out the census forms that are coming in the mail this week, even though filling out such forms promotes government aid to all congressional districts over the next decade!

So Michele Bachmann is promoting people breaking the law, which requires that we file tax forms and pay our fair share of taxes, and that we fill out the census forms as another of the basic responsibilities of living in the United States!

So Michele Bachmann is advocating lawlessness, and defiance! Doesn’t that make her no better than a common criminal, provoking reactions by citizens who might think it is fine to disobey the law and act in an anarchistic way? And isn’t anarchism a form of terrorism, Michele? Do we maybe need to arrest you for breaking the law, and not upholding your oath as a Congresswoman to obey the Constitution and the laws? And you have the nerve and gall to talk about others being not “good Americans”? What does that make you, Michele, heh? 🙁

Michele Bachmann Assesses Barack Obama: Again Wrong!

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota gave a speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and as usual, her comments were off the mark.

Bachmann claimed that President Obama is leading America into decline. She cited conservative author Charles Krauthammer complaining that the President has undermined America because of his stands against continued use of Guantanamo Naval Base, against unilateralism in foreign policy, criticism of lack of respect for the Muslim world, condemnation of the refusal to respect views of European allies under President Bush, and advocacy of torture and a tone of arrogance under Bush.

The problem with what Bachmann said is that these policies of the Bush administration totally undermined America’s world position, and made this country the most unpopular world wide it has ever been. And since we must somehow coexist with the Muslim world, it is essential to have basic respect for their cultural differences with the Christian world, and work to build bridges to moderate Muslims, because, just like in the Cold War years, learning to coexist is mandatory or mankind will be destroyed!

Repeal Of Social Security And Medicare Promoted By Marsha Blackburn And Michele Bachmann

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The Republican Party has been promoting the view that Barack Obama is a Socialist, and they have been bitterly resisting any health care plan.

But now two of their “illustrious” women members in the House have gone one step further: They are promoting the privatization of ” Socialist” programs such as Social Security and Medicare! 🙁

Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has introduced such legislation, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has also endorsed it. How crazy is this, that two women who have to know that women are more the beneficiary of both Social Security and Medicare since women tend to live longer than men, are so mean spirited and ideological as to want to end all government involvement in these programs, which have meant so much to the promotion of a safety net that protects the middle class and the poor!

One has to wonder how the GOP manages to recruit these women, who are, along with others, among the most extreme members of the party! These Congressmen are absolutely crazy, nutty, nasty, vengeful women who have no care about the poor or those less fortunate!

If this represents the Republican party, which I fear it does, then the GOP is doomed to be a minority party for a long time, UNLESS they can somehow promote enough fear and hysteria and panic to convince Americans foolishly to vote for a party that gives not a damn for anyone except the rich and the powerful! 🙁

The 2010 Census And Michele Bachmann

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was railing against the 2010 Census last August as possibly a conspiracy to gain personal information about families that might be used against them. She was advising families in her district to avoid answering any questions other than how many people lived in their residences. She seemed to have been unaware that the census every ten years is provided for in the Constitution, and was therefore set up by the Founding Fathers, and that compliance with the census forms is a legal requirement of all Americans, in order to provide for the best services to the American people for the decade ahead.

This crazy, loony conspiracy theory only added to Bachmann’s image of being a loose cannon, attractive to the Freedom Works/Tea Party people, but no one with any common sense or normal psychological behavior.

But interestingly, Bachmann has been very quiet about this issue lately, as it became evident that Minnesota might lose a congressional seat, and based on what happens in the 2010 state elections, it could very well be that her seat might be affected by reapportionment, and she might be the unfortunate one to loser her seat in 2012, if not by her own crazy antics in 2010.

Those who want to see Bachmann eliminated from Congress should support her Democratic opponent, and hope that if that does not work, that the state legislature sets up district lines that will do the job of silencing this embarrassment to the Republican party and the state of Minnesota!

The Big Lie Revived As Last Ditch Effort By Critics Of Health Care Reform

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Earlier today, I wrote about the number one political lie of 2009–the claim by Sarah Palin that the health care legislation under consideration provided for “death panels”.

As the year ends and the health care legislation is about to pass the Senate, the opponents are reviving this ridiculous, completely unfounded lie!

At this late moment, Sarah Palin is reasserting her belief in this total fabrication, and she has been joined in this effort by Michele Bachmann, and Fox News Channel!

Why is it that these women and the so called “news channel” have no decency and dignity, and are willing to perpetuate a lie, and promote fear and division and uncertainty and insecurity among the American people?

In the long run, these sources of division and manipulation will suffer in the public estimation once the health care legislation is in full swing and seen as a positive development for the American people. That day coming cannot be soon enough!

The Hypocrisy Of Michele Bachmann: Government Handouts For Her Family Farm

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Conservative Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a major critic of the Health Care Reform legislation, and a leading firebrand accusing the Democrats of being “socialistic”, has now been shown to be a true hypocrite.

While she opposes government “handouts”, it turns out her family farm received a subsidy of $251,000 under the agricultural subsidies program from 1995-2006. At the same time, she has voted against every foreclosure relief bill designed to help families in danger of losing their homes!

So it is fine to take a government subsidy, collect a full salary as a Congresswoman, and get federal health benefits, but deny any kind of assistance to Americans in trouble. Is this anything else other than hypocrisy? 🙁

The hope is that Bachmann can be defeated in 2010 because even many leaders of the Republican party think she has been a detriment to the GOP message with her firebomb throwing types of statements!