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Among other statements made by third tier GOP candidate Michele Bachmann in the past several months, she has said the “ACLU is running the CIA” and “we have no jail to hold terrorist prisoners.”
Of course the CIA is being run by General Petraeus, and Guantanamo is still open and able to hold prisoners.
Watch her make her statements then be challenged by responsible members of the press.
Bravo!
Michele Bachmann’s campaign claims it has proof that CBS snubbed the Minnesota congresswoman during the latest Republican presidential debate.
Keith Nahigian, her campaign manager, posted an e-mail on her official Facebook page that was accidentally sent to the campaign from CBS News political analyst John Dickerson. In response to an e-mail about Bachmann appearing on a CBS webshow, Dickerson wrote, “let’s keep it loose though since she’s not going to get many questions and she’s nearly off the charts in the hopes that we can get someone else.”
CBS later defended the e-mail to CNN, calling it “a candid exchange about the reality of the circumstances — Bachmann remains at 4% in the polls.” Dickerson also stood by his e-mail, tweeting “she’s at 4% … I was reflecting that.”
“If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
Pretty clear now, yes?
Staff members in New Hampshire for presidential candidate Michele Bachmann have resigned en masse, a Republican familiar with the situation said on Friday, in a fresh blow to her 2012 hopes.
All of the staffers, said to number six, resigned on Thursday, the Republican said.
New Hampshire’s WMUR television said the reason given was due to the Bachmann campaign’s lack of focus on New Hampshire, which holds the country’s first primary election.
“It certainly underscores the impression that New Hampshire isn’t a priority for her. She’s totally written us off,” said former Republican state legislator Fran Wendelboe.
More at Reuters
The GOP debate on Tuesday lit up Twitter with an entirely unexpected topic: Michele Bachmann’s white jacket.
There were hundreds of tweets about the jacket in question, but I’ve posted my top 10 Tweets about Michele Bachmann’s white jacket:
thomastowell
Michele Bachmann is rockin’ that strait jacket tonight.
chrismeekins
Bachmann “I’m the most different candidate from Barack Obama” just look at my jacket
THEJason_Turner
Michael Jackson is rolling in his mausoleum for Bachmann wearing his Dangerous jacket
jemelehill
I just want Michelle Bachmann to pop-lock right quick since she’s wearing the same jacket Janet had on in Rhythm Nation
softjunebreeze
Did someone tell Bachmann the #GOPdebate was a costume party? Maybe that’s the reason for the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band jacket
3x1minus1
I just really wish @andersoncooper would ask Bachmann “WHAT is UP with that JACKET?”
markdavis
Has Michele Bachmann joined the Lithiuanian navy? What is thatjacket?
JeffLassiter
Michele Bachmann looks like she’s running for President of the Love Boat in that jacket
JoeMyGod
I can’t hear Bachmann over the loud jacket from JCPenny’s Lady Dictator line.
MikeDrucker
Michele Bachmann looks like she’s running for Space Emperor.
From the StarTribune: Business entrepreneur Herman Cain shocked the political world by winning the Florida GOP’s influential presidential straw poll Saturday, while Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann finished dead last in the field of eight candidates.
Cain, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO who appears to have caught fire in recent weeks, topped the GOP field with 37.1 percent of the 2,657 votes cast.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the current leader in most polls, finished second with 15.4 percent of the delegates’ votes in Florida, edging out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who won 14 percent.
Michele Bachmann’s poor showing in Florida – receiving only 40 ballots, or 1.51 percent of the vote, seemed to further diminish the fast-waning luster of her campaign.
Unlike the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, nearly all candidates running were included on the Florida ballot, and delegates representing counties throughout the state paid their own way to the event. The last three Florida GOP straw poll winners have become their party’s nominee.
Among the rest of the field, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a perennial favorite among grass-roots GOP activists, came in fifth behind former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, each receiving a little more than 10 percent of the vote.
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich finished sixth at 8.4 percent, and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman finished seventh with 2.2 percent.
If you don’t know Andy Borowitz’ work, get over to www.borowitzreport.com – hysterical.
I love that he addresses full on the sad “fail” of Michele Bachmann trying to be funny on Jay Leno’s show recently.
Funny stuff…
Michele Bachmann got into some testy waters earlier this week when, after confronting Gov. Rick Perry on his executive order in Texas to require 12 year old girls to get vaccinated for HPV, she said she met a mother who claimed the vaccine caused her daughter to become “mentally retarded.”
Now an $11,000 offer has gone out to anyone who can prove the child Michele Bachmann mentioned repeatedly on television this week actually became “mentally retarded” from the HPV vaccine. One of the scientists is from Bachmann’s home state of Minnesota.
From the StarTribune: Steven Miles, a U of M bioethics professor, said that he’ll give $1,000 if the medical records of the woman from Bachmann’s story are released and can be viewed by a medical professional.
His offer was upped by his former boss from the University of Minnesota, Art Caplan, who is now director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. Caplan said he would match Miles’ challenge and offered $10,000 for proof of the HPV vaccine victim.
“These types of messages in this climate have the capacity to do enormous public health harm,” Miles said of why he made the offer. “The woman, assuming she exists, put this claim into the public domain and it’s an extremely serious claim and it deserves to be analyzed.”
As others have said, words are very powerful – especially those spouted in a public forum that parents may respect. I don’t know the science, but it’s possible some parents may not get this vaccine for their little girls because they heard Michele Bachmann say this in public.
I’d hate to think, if proven wrong, that an important medicine was demonized because of some possible politicking.
After a rousing speech to a joint session of Congress where President Obama presented a job growth plan comprised mainly of Democratic/Republican backed ideas (that are almost completely tax cuts) to promote job growth, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she felt “deeply disappointed” by the president’s jobs speech Thursday and called on Congress to avoid passing his plan.
“Clearly what we saw was just a sequel of all of the failed policies that the president has put forward in the past,” Bachmann said in a post-debate speech.
Bachmann, who said she listened to the speech in the car while stuck in traffic (if that isn’t a metaphor, I don’t know what one is), gave her own response in the House gallery in the Capitol Thursday.
She said she was offended by President Barack Obama’s remarks asking Congress to “stop the political circus” and do something to help the economy.
Specifically, she blasted the president’s plan to prolong unemployment benefits, calling them poor incentives for people to get jobs.
“Not only should Congress not pass this plan,” Bachmann said. “I say, ‘Mr. President, stop. Your last plan hasn’t worked, and it’s hurting the American economy’.”
The GOP presidential candidate laid out her own nine-point plan, which included measures such as repealing Obama’s health care reform, repealing financial regulation reform, and increasing exports.
In other words, anything “anti-Obama.”
What is sad is Bachmann has devolved into the kind of political “character” that can be counted on, that when the President says ‘white’ – she says ‘black.’
It has little to do with actually helping the people of the United States. It has become an ugly play of gamesmanship.