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From Towleroad: The boos during the question from the gay soldier during last week’s GOP debate are still resonating.
Today, VP Joe Biden appeared on The View and called the booing “reprehensible” and Joy Behar scolded the panel for not speaking up or chastising the audience.
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is making hay of the incident in a new attack ad against the GOP.
(via joemygod)
In a sharply worded essay, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips — a former Memphis, Tennessee prosecutor and current criminal defense attorney — comes to the defense of GOP presidential hopeful Michelle Bachmann, who, along with her husband Marcus, have come under intense scrutiny by the media and LGBT critics for their family-owned Christian counseling business, and allegations that it performs controversial gay-to-straight “reparative” therapy.
Phillips accuses progressives of resorting to fear, intimidation, violence and mob rule.
The liberal freak show is coming after Michele Bachmann. That is not much of a surprise. Bachmann is running a very disciplined campaign, encouraging conservatives and running with a conservative agenda.
The left wants to use the gay rights issue against her.
Marcus and Michele Bachmann, according to Politico, have a history of battling gay rights groups in Minnesota. That is enough for the gay rights groups to go after her.
Phillips goes on to say that liberal and LGBT advocates resort to “intimidation” tactics because they can’t win a debate of ideas.
Via LGBTQnation
From the AP: A New Jersey teenager says she’s received threats since challenging U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate over the Constitution.
Ann Myers challenged the tea party favorite in a letter dated April 29. After it started getting media attention last weekend, commenters on tea party websites have threatened to publish her home address and some have threatened violence.
The 16-year-old from Cherry Hill says several commenters have called her a “whore.”
Her father, Wayne, says he’s concerned for his daughter’s safety.
But Cherry Hill Police Lt. William Kushina says anonymous online threats like these are usually empty.
Myers says the Minnesota congresswoman misstates or distorts facts about the Constitution. Bachmann’s office told The Courier-Post of Cherry Hill that it won’t respond to the debate challenge.
One week ago, the Kansas House Federal and State Committee held a hearing about in-state tuition being granted to the children of undocumented immigrants, which has been the policy in the state since 2004.
Speaking in favor of repealing the law, Tea Party Rep. Connie O’Brien (R-KS) began telling an anecdote at the hearing about how her son had difficulty in getting financial assistance to attend college. She explained that she took her son to a financial aid office, and as she was waiting in line, she believed there was a girl waiting in line with them who was “not originally from this country.”
REP. O’BRIEN: My son who’s a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn’t qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn’t think that was fair. We didn’t ask the girl what nationality she was, we didn’t think that was proper. But we could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country. […]
REP. GATEWOOD: Can you expand on how you could tell that they were illegal?
REP. O’BRIEN: Well she wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion.
There you go folks – if you aren’t black or asian, you must not be from this country originally. Whatever that means.
I also think it’s rich that she didn’t think it was “proper” to ask the girl in question her nationality, but it’s fine to decide she’s an illegal. That’s “proper.” This is the Tea Party kids. Party on…
Listen below:
With the focus of the conservative Tea Party movement squarely on CPAC this week, I thought it would be interesting to hear from them in their own words.
Great video allowing the Tea Party folks to answer questions unfiltered.
The movement speaks for itself.