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Just the idea of the words “Michele Bachmann” and “intellectual” appearing anywhere together is funny to me.
In addition to calling herself “intellectual,” Bachmann told the crowd that just as America was able to overcome other threats to its survival, “we will survive Barack Obama too.”
I can’t imagine that Ms. Bachmann would take another run at the presidency. But if she does – BLOGGING GOLD!
(via Right Wing Watch)
Michele Bachmann appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Wednesday and used part of her time to urge “tolerance for the community of people who hold sincerely held religious beliefs.”
While the congresswoman said she respects both sides of the debate, she said she did not think Governor Jan Brewer should veto the bill as other conservatives have been urging her to do.
Asked by Blitzer if the bill will “open the door for less tolerance for gays,” Bachmann answered, “In fact, it’s just the opposite. This is a decided level of intolerance. It’s effectively eviscerating the rights of freedom of speech, expression and religious expression for the people of Arizona and it sets a terrible precedent.”
Blitzer pushed back, calling the bill “discriminatory” and not “respectful” to the gay community. Blitzer also corrected predicted that Gov. Brewer was going to veto the bill.
Michele Bachmann throws out some more lies for her followers.
Ms. Bachmann says that President Obama “waived a ban on selling arms to terrorists.”
No.
What she’s referring to is this (via press release):
Today, the President signed a Presidential Determination exercising his authority to waive certain restrictions under the Arms Export Control Act.
This action will allow the U.S. Government to provide or license, where appropriate, certain non-lethal assistance inside or related to Syria. This includes:
1) chemical weapons-related personal protective equipment to international organizations, including the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, for the conduct of their operations;
2) chemical weapons-related life-saving assistance for organizations implementing Department of State or U.S. Agency for International Development programs to strengthen local Syrian health care providers’ ability to prepare for and respond to any use of chemical weapons; and
3) defensive chemical weapons-related training and personal protective equipment to select vetted members of the Syrian opposition, including the Supreme Military Council, to protect against the use of chemical weapons.
This action is part of longstanding and ongoing efforts to provide life-saving chemical weapons-related assistance to people in need in Syria.
The action was to help the Syrian opposition with NON-LETHAL ASSISTANCE – not chemical weapons.
Good lord, Michele. You just can’t get anything right, can you?
If it doesn’t make your ears bleed…
Rep. Michele Bachmann on CNN says she never said GOP wanted government shut down, even after her own words are quoted back to her.
You know the GOP is splinted when Bachmann is getting back on TV. Clearly no one’s watching the inmates back at the asylum.
(via Mediaite)
A top aide for Michele Bachmann has been arrested and charged in connection with a string of burglaries in the Rayburn House Office Building, one of the office buildings for the House of Representatives.
According to Fox News and ABC News, Javier Sanchez, a senior legislative assistant to Rep. Bachmann, was arrested July 11 for theft.
Ultra-conservative Congresswoman Michele Bachmann released a statement today on the marriage equality rulings by SCOTUS:
“No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted,” Ms. Bachmann said in a statement. “For thousands of years of recorded human history, no society has defended the legal standard of marriage as anything other than between man and woman.” She said the court action “will undermine the best interest of children and the best interests of the United States.”
Asked to react to Bachmann’s statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi summed up what increasing majorities of Americans feel about such strident opposition with a dismissive “Who cares?”
Here’s the video:
(source)
Oh, well.
Good.
As many of you know, Michele Bachmann announced a few days ago that she would NOT be seeking a fifth term in Congress, thus ending our great national nightmare.
Above seems to be the “original, shorter” version of her video announcement – albeit just a bit “remixed.”
I like this one better. Seems much truer to the spirit of Michele Bachmann, don’t you think?
(tipped by TRR reader Jon)
With a voice that made my ears bleed in only 3 seconds, Michele Bachmann has announced she will not be running for a fifth term as congresswoman from Minnesota.
She especially makes clear that this decision TOTALLY has nothing to do with the fact that her 2012 campaign in currently being examined for ethics violations. She also mentions that even though she ran a clean campaign and has “no reason to believe that that was not the case,” she knows that she can wear as a badge of honor that the media hates her:
“I fully anticipate the mainstream liberal media to put a detrimental spin on my decision not to seek a fifth term. Since I was first elected to Congress many years ago they always seem to find a dishonest way to disparage me. But I take being the focus of their attention and disparagement as a true compliment of my public service effectiveness.”
I will note that she does look into the correct camera this time.
Who knows what she’ll say in her remaining year and a half in Congress now that she isn’t concerned about reelection.