Tag: Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann put jobs ahead of government spending cuts on a day in Des Moines that included private meetings with area business owners.

Bachmann urged the federal government to allow companies with cash holdings overseas to reinvest the money at home without paying taxes on those profits. She claims the change could quickly inject billions in investment into the U.S. economy.

“They want to bring it back into the United States and create jobs here in Iowa, all across the country,” Bachmann said while appearing at a tea party rally in Des Moines. “Wouldn’t the smartest thing to do be to say to all of these companies, `Zero repatriation tax?’ “

But according to the Wall Street Journal, a 2009 study from the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research found that for every dollar companies brought back to the U.S., they invested less than one cent more domestically. Businesses that repatriated profits primarily used the funds to reward shareholders, largely through dividends and stock buybacks.

Michele Bachmann has found herself in the middle of a public disagreement with other Tea Party members in a case of NIMBY – ‘Not In My Back Yard.’

Last week, Michele Bachmann during a campaign appearance suggested a possible solution to energy independence might be to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades:

“The United States needs to be less dependent on foreign sources of energy and more dependent upon American resourcefulness. Whether that is in the Everglades, or whether that is in the eastern Gulf region, or whether that’s in North Dakota, we need to go where the energy is,” Bachmann said.

Both of the Florida Republicans running to defeat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 adamantly oppose energy exploration in the national park. So does Florida Rep. Allen West, a member of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus, which Bachmann founded.

“There is no current plan to drill in the Everglades and nor should there be,” former Florida Rep. Adam Hasner said when asked about Bachmann’s proposal. Hasner is currently running against former Sen. George LeMieux for the Republican nomination to unseat Nelson. LeMieux also opposes drilling in the park, his campaign spokesman said. Both Hasner and LeMieux support energy exploration off-shore.

At a town hall meeting in Palm Beach Gardens this week, West said that Bachmann had made “an incredible faux pas,” when she voiced support for energy exploration in the park.

“When I see her next week, I’ll straighten her out about that,” West said, according to a report in the Palm Beach Post.
(source: Yahoo News)

Speaking in Florida, Michele Bachmann assigned political motive to natural disaster as she told a group that recent events like Hurricane Irene were messages to her to cut the federal budget:

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

Bachmann’s campaign later insisted the congresswoman was joking.

The full measure of Hurricane Irene’s fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 38, New England towns battled epic floods and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity.

Quite the “joking” topic, isn’t it?

Can I say the only good thing about Rick Perry is he will save us all from a Bachmann Presidency…

Via The Atlantic: The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006.

Peter E. Waldron spent 37 days in the Luriza Prison outside Kampala, where he says he was tortured, after being arrested along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals for the weapons, which were described variously in news reports as having been found in his bedroom or a closet in his home.

The charges, which could have led to life in prison, were dropped in March 2006 after a pressure campaign by Waldron’s friends and colleagues and what Waldron says was the intervention of the Bush administration.

In an article titled “Evangelicals v. Muslims in Africa: Enemy’s Enemy” and published in the US news magazine The New Republic in August 2004, Waldron says he is a friend of the first family of Uganda and a friend of Pastor Martin Ssempa. Ssempa, as many of you probably know, vigorously backed Uganda’s proposed death penalty for homosexuality known as the “Kill the Gays” bill.

So – to be clear – Rep. Michele Bachmann, a leading Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, has a high-ranking aide who was arrested for allegedly smuggling assault weapons to a foreign regime that is presently working to legalize the executions of gay people.

Ummm, wow.