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Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann may be delivering a speech after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tomorrow, but a top House Republican was careful on Monday to emphasize that hers is not the GOP-sanctioned response.
"Paul Ryan's giving the official Republican response,” said Majority Leader Eric Cantor at a pen-and-pad briefing with reporters. He added that Bachmann will have an opinion about what the president has to say "just as the other 534 members of the House and Senate [are going to."]
Bachmann’s response, which is sponsored by the Tea Party Express, will be broadcast online, while Ryan’s remarks will be carried by major television networks.
Per a House leadership aide, Ryan is expected to focus on spending cuts – a message underscored by the fact that he’ll deliver his remarks from the committee room of the budget panel he now chairs.
Asked what he hopes to hear from the president on Tuesday night, Cantor reiterated his message from his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend.
"The question is, is he going to decouple himself from what we have seen over the last two years and what he has been selling? Is he going to continue to sell that ... or will there be a new direction." Cantor said. "And I think that the success of this Congress will rest on that question as will, frankly, the outcome of the election in November 2012."
While Republicans and Democrats continue to pair off with bipartisan “dates” to sit with during the president’s speech, it’s unclear where exactly Rep. Cantor will end up. An initial plan for Cantor to be seated next to his Democratic predecessor, Rep. Steny Hoyer, appears to be up in the air now as members of the House leadership teams hammer out their exact seating arrangements.
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All they care about is Power, how to keep it or gain more in the next Election. Why can't they just do their job and focus on what's best for America?
By "All", I mean Republicans and Democrats.
Not all of them do. The separating the sheep from the goats can be pretty difficult, the goats are pretty aggressive about calling everyone goats so you can't tell the difference !
Where are the Jobs, Eric Cantor?
They focus on what's best for America's wealthy, while leaving enough crumbs out to keep them in power.
Bachmann, "Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church!"
I agree . . . Let's work for the American public . . . Not for some self-centered goals.
There are many conscientious senators and representatives. I still rue the day I was redistricted out of Washingston-1 (Jay Inslee, definitely one of the good guys) to Washington-8 (Dave Reichert, photo in the dictionary next to the entry for "dim bulb).
King Dave
Bachmann, "Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church!"
You sure gotta laugh at Tea Party Express Queen and dingbat Michelle Bachmann. She's so much of of a joke she can't even get broadcast time. The GOP/Tea Bagger Party is giving those who support them a lot of problems.
The Tea Party Express Queen claims progressives hate the rich. Well, it looks like dingbat Michelle Bachmann's little Tea sipping party is getting to be more and more like Alice in Wonderland.
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to" said the Cheshire Cat.
Take the Cheshire Cat 's advice Michelle Bachmann; keep grinning like the Cheshire Cat and fade away. In other words Darling return to your Tea Party Express in the tree house and enjoy you tea.
To grin like a Cheshire Cat are the rules of Wonderland. Michelle Bachmann is doing just fine with that.
Looks like this Tea Party thing might not be working out so well for the GOP. But that's what you get when you sell your soul to the devil!
Which one is the devil? The Tea Party that has been led down the path by the Republicans to gain their votes in the last election or the Republicans who are in the process of selling the country out to the mega corporations?
This is ridiculous. We all know that the official response will come from Rush Limbaugh.
sms29s66 -
You are soooooo right on. The free market has spoken. The Republicans can choose whomever they want to give the "official" response. But millions of Republicans get their marching orders from Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Beck. !
LMAO... the House Republicons are starting to see just how crazy Michelle Bachmann. WHAT SANE person ignores the "chain of command" just so she can punish this country with her nonsensical.... and well... I'm pretty INSANE SOTU response - even though she knows full doggone well the reason she was not picked by the Republicon establishment to do it.
That's how INSANE people act... they don't listen to anything anyone else has to say, because they are usually "cocooned" in their own little zone - their own GIGANTIC DELUSIONAL world.
This is great news for the Republicans/GOPers, because they thought that that dude Michelle Bachmann and her baggers 'n wingers would be easy to get rid of. Only to realize they are seeing a "whole 'nother level" of c-r-a-z-y, mixed with DELUSIONS of granduer that is off the scale.
The Republicons/Gopers laid down with a bunch o' fleas, and are now seeing that they will not be able to simply "shake out the carpets" or "shake the batsh*t crazies our of the batfry to get rid of 'em.
I am so excited in anticipation of the day that this all erupts in an all out war between the establishment Republicons/GOPers - and the Teataliban 'n wingers. Oh what a time that shall be. Oh joy!!
Well, here we go again ... another demonstration of tolerance shown by 8 of the last 10 Lefty posts on this site.
It is truely unfortunate that those on the left are so tone deaf. They continue to misunderstand that the bulk of the Tea Party members are independents. It represents the center-right nature of the population. 80% of our population is center-right in the way they live their life, regardless of party association. What is wrong with reaching out to 80% of the population? The only relationship it has to the Republican party is that in this election, it has responded to the assault on the Constitution by the one party ram-it-home rule of Democrats over the last 2 years and Congress over the last 4 years by overwelming voting Republican in repudiation of the behaviour of the Dems.
So although the left makes the cry for civility in dialogue now, they slander one person after another SOLELY because they are associated with the Tea Party.
... The left just cannot help themselves ...
Really? The tea-party represents the center right? Wouldn't that be the moderate republicans? The tea-party is the new christian right. Where are your data points? Are you just another brain dead righty making up stats... 50% of the time it works every time. If 80% of the party was center right, McCain wouldn't have lost by such a massive margin...
ricky the democrats had four years of terrorizing this nation with thier like it or not policy I think we can give equal time to the republicans face the fact they certainly cant do worse then the last four night mare years of the democratic majority.
Frankly either could our schools. While i wouldnt want preachers in our schools that is was we do have now far left preachers Endoctinating our children with lies that havent ever been proven.
Well, well sandyshores10. What are you drinking, a Sarah de cudda Palins cocktail? Have you and mental retarded Bachmann got a thing going behind Sarahs back?
What I want to know is who votes for Michelle Bachman? She is worse than Palin. She never says anything that makes sense. She is pretty I will give her that. But is that the only requirement to get votes. some one please tell me what she stands for besides her antiAmerica, antiDem statements.
Bachmann who is so fond of accusing the Obama administration of foisting socialism on an unwilling America — has apparently been the recipient of about a quarter of million bucks in government handouts.
Is Michelle Bachmann the Welfare Queen? She is simply just another example of a hypocrite who goes by; "Do as I say, not as I do!"
There will be a time when it will be Palin vs. Bachmann and the true "friendship" will face a painful death. There will be some knives stuck in someone's back...
Astonished: Perhaps you mean to explain the majority political sentiment in your own house and among your own friends, because that does not come anywhere close to the facts about party affiliation in the United States.
Only 13% of Americans say they identify with or are members of the Tea Party and almost 75% of those are registered Republicans (Quinnipiac University national poll: 2010).
Only 29% of all voters nationwide according to Gallup, say they identify themselves as Republicans or lean toward the Republican party (compared to 31% who identify as Democrats). Identification of Independents with either party is roughly split , while a slight majority of Independents (33%) say they do not lean toward either party.
No Ap, you completely misread my post.
tell you what ... go to this link http://www.nolanchart.com/ and take then take the 10 question survey. If you are like approximately 80% of the population of U.S. Citizens you'll be in the Libertarian, Conservative, or Centrist region by the way you think about things. My statement was 80% population is center right in the way they live ... independent of party affiliation. In the Nolan chart, that region is along the boundary line of Libertarian and Conservative. Likely most of you would fall in that area.
You're right that in this election 80% of the Tea Party voted Republican. What you continue to misread is what that means. Right now the independents are aligned with the Tea Party. 4 in 10 Tea Party supporters in some polls in 2010 are Democrat or Independents. Why did that happen? Because the Democrat party is radically Leftist in philosophy which is counter to 80% of the populations inate way of thinking about things. If the Repubs go too far to the right ... well then the Tea Party will probably swing again.
Take the survey, you might be surprised.
But my statement about the Leftist noise on this site stands.
It looks like everyone's embarassed to have the biggest liar on on their side. Whether you're Demo or Repub, intelligent people can easily see that Bachmann is certifiable.
Republicans have a TWO-EDGED sword on their hands. They need Teabaggers' votes, but the Teabaggers' CRACKPOT, fanatical representatives drive mainstream American voters away......
Man, there is NO sword, just a bunch of loons that will split the gop. Go Bachmann, please please please speak to all of us as you spoke to your district. It will be like the end of the "Caine Mutiny", for those of us that know good movies. Can't you see Backmann with the marbles going? They were surgically removed from her head a few years ago. She keeps them around to remind herself of what a mind should do. Looney Tunes couldn't have done better.
trex-2979376
Can't you see Backmann with the marbles going? They were surgically removed from her head a few years ago. She keeps them around to remind herself of what a mind should do.
HaHa Ha Ha; that's because a mind is a terrible thing to waste!!!
I wish that Bachmann's response was going to be broadcast by the networks. As Trex pointed out, it would be a moment worthy of The Caine Mutiny and Americans would finally realize what a nutty, fringe element the teabaggers have become. In state capitals, legislators who campaigned on the basis of jobs, jobs, jobs have now decided that voters want them to institute conservative social policies, too. And they have the nerve to complain that Obama is out of control!
Super comment, Steve A, and trex I love the Caine Mutiny reference. Bachman is well at home in the land of loons.
Fun to see the GOP leadership running from the crazy.... pass the popcorn tea party screaming is back.
I am sure the popcorn is taken from someone who had to work for it. Cause thats what communists do.
Now who would the Communists be,,,The Baggers or the GOP,,,hummm.
Brad, the old cold war screed "Better dead than Red" is so yesterday! Today's screed is Obama is a socialist, marxist, dictator-in-waiting who wants to bring down America (and not a real American). Get up to date! <grin>
I mean, how many communists are there in the United States? Twelve? Thirteen?
Bruce, I think officially Obama is a Marxist, Hitler, Muslim, Communist who hates America and wants to bring America to it's knees and then destroy liberty while going back in time and roughing up the founding fathers. Plus, he's not white, so he must be illegal, and he isn't the kind of Christian *I* like, so he must be an Islamic terrorist. Also, he's black. And a democrat. This makes him incapable of leading true patriots. WE THE PEOPLE. Liberty. America. USA! USA! Jesus!.... uh..... tax and spend.... um..... communist.... did I already say communist?
goparefools
Bruce, I think officially Obama is a Marxist, Hitler, Muslim, Communist who hates America and wants to bring America to it's knees and then destroy liberty while going back in time and roughing up the founding fathers
That's where you made you mistake you thought.
Brad I worked and paid for my own popcorn.
I think they should put Bachmann's response on TV so we can all have a front row seat. It's going to be like one of those B-move horror flicks that leaves you rolling on the floor from laughing so hard. Why let that go to waste?
"Island Claws - starring Michelle Bachmann"!
No, wait - it's "Cave Women on Mars"! hahahahaha
I choose to think that my calls to The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan,Michelle Bachman and others had an effect on this recent post.
I felt Michelle Bachman would energize the "liberal press" and take over the news cycle if she responds to
the Presidents State of the Union in addition to Paul Ryan. I expressed that thought to these people.
I expect a reasoned,concise response from Paul Ryan. Michelle's comments will serve to dilute the
official Republican response and that is unfortunate for Republicans.
Just when we have a very articulate Republican spokesperson we Republicans manage to find a way
to drop the ball.
At least they clarified exactly who is giving the official response. In my firm Senior Citizen opinion
Michelle could easily have her say a day later. Jill Levenhagen
I recall, with MUCH fondness, Lil' Bobbie Jindal's "response" to the State of the Union. (I laughed harder than when I watch a Three Stooges Movie.) Undoubtedly, Ms. "Do My Eyes Make Me Look Crazy" Bachman will entertain us almost as much......
MB won't be televised
What's so great about Paul Ryan? I've read his Roadmap for the Future pretty carefully. If that's the future, I'll pass. He wants to put anyone born after 1955 behind the health care 8-ball from the get-go, then make it tougher on them.
Citizen K.
What's so great about Paul Ryan? I've read his Roadmap for the Future pretty carefully. If that's the future, I'll pass.
It's headed for a crash literally and figuratively.
@ MG from IL
MB won't be televised
That's a big blow to the crazy lady. Michelle the revolution won't be televised. Get it?
CNN announced last night that they have been invited and will televise Bachmann's "little" talk. She will be on TV, so we can all have a great belly laugh!
<TAKING A POLL: Who's the nuttiest?
A) Michelle Bachman
B) Christine O'Donnell
C) Sarah Palin
Vote for just one.
Why limit it to just one? It's virtually impossible to choose? I don't know witch one to choose, I feel like a momma grizzlie choosing between her cubs.
But I guess the number one choice ( and sponsored by Peter Paul Mounds "Sometimes ya feel like a nut.......sometimes ya don't")................................................ Michelle Bachman!!
Tough choice, but I'm going to say Michelle Bachman. Reason for that is that she says things just as crazy as Christine O'Donnell but is smart enough to know when she's in a friendly environment while keeping her mouth shut when it could hurt her most.
This is getting to be very interesting. Rep. Michelle Bachmann is going to exercise her right of free speech and give a non-GOP / non-sanctioned response to President Obama's speech. Hmmmm, I wonder who in the GOP was suppose to give the green light? On second thought, why does she need to have "permission" from the Party in the first place? What do they plan to do if she goes through with it? Sanction her? I think that things are going to continue to get very interesting from now to the Presidential election. Between Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and the Tea Partiers, I think we're all going to be very entertained.
Peace and God's blessings to all this day.
Throw in Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and you have a receipe for a real disaster.
TC hun? They're not speaking. Ms. Bachman has chosen to insert her whole left leg in her mouth....it's going to be comedic.
TC,
You may not like Pelosi or Reed but they got more done in two years than anyone since Alf Menard and Mike Mansfield.
Have them sit on their hands. They have been doing it for years.
watch how fast and far they run from the bachmanns and palins and the rest of the crazies. that was okay during a midterm. gearing up for a presidential election is another matter. the problem, and what will be enjoyable to watch from the sidelines, is how they rein in the nutjobs that they gave way too much leeway. they drove the message while the leaders on the right sat back and let them whip up the faithful. now they have gotten too big for the mcconnells and cantors to dial back down. i cant wait to see a presidential candidate arguing about how obama wasnt born in america. should be interesting.
Throw in your nut jobs such Waxman, Waters, and Barney Frank; yes it will be very interesting.
TC? HUN? Those people are NOT speaking. That's because they're SMARTER than Bachman, understand Hun? So is the GOP leadership, that's why they're ALREADY disavowing her comments....
I'd like to see you in a debate with Barney Frank. He'd have you standing on your head and babbling incoherently in five minutes. See, there's a difference between a genuine weirdo like Bachman and able guy like Frank who you don't like because he's smarter, funnier, more thoughtful, and more articulate than you are.
aND who the "F" gives a damn about what Michelle Bachman Overdrive has to say? She's a bird brain ideologue who can't see past the nose on her face. She's a walking encyclopedia of conservative talking points. She reminds me of robot.
That's Michelle Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Raymond's rant is taken right out of the Communist handbook.
You go girl, Bachman for President...
Don, If you had to listen to this absolute nut case daily you wouldn't have said that! She is a wacko!
Don your name should be DUMB if u believe that Bachman is presidential , her and palin together can do .....................LOL,LOL
hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah, backmann, if that is her real name, is such a total loser. hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Michelle Bachman has as much of a chance of being elected president as you do and I'm certainly NOT voting for you!...hehe
Don-2316123
You go girl, Bachman for President...
Michelle, girl go to the nuthouse where you belong.
I hope and pray Michelle Bachman is the 2012 Republican VP nominee, or runs for Pres. herself. Either way its a win for President Obama. Same thing for Sarah Palin. You GO girls!
yeah god forbid they get down to business and take care of us.... no they are going to drag this out forever or at least until the next election we are so screwed .....
Diann you are part of the problem- they are supposed to represent us, not TAKE CARE OF US! Step up to the plate and be responsible for taking care of yourself!!!
First thing TC has said probably in his life that I agree with.
TC, we should be telling our representatives things like, "We cannot afford taxcuts for ANYONE when we have TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS".
And, "Why can we afford $10 BILLION DOLLARS a week to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan and support thugs and thieves, but we cannot secure our own borders and make sure our kids have health care and a good education so we can compete with China in the future?"
You know, TC, stuff like that!
Thankyou, I already did!
Let me clarify that, You go girl....we want you as the GOP candidate for President.." And name any other teabagger for VP......
I can see you want to vote for a communist.
Brad its the cold war again! The commies are coming! You better build a bomb shelter!
This could be a lose-lose for Obama. If he cuts the budget, a lot of jobs will probably be lost and people will be mad at that, as the economy is the #1 concern of most people. Or he won't cut the buget (enough) and the Republicans and a lot of other people will then say he's not being "responsible" because of all the big budget items.
Rural Washington - I agree with you. It seems that a solution to one problem exacerbates another problem.
Rural Washington. You are absolutely correct. It's kind of like giving a tax break to people who don't need it and generally don't want it because they're wealthy. And in so doing, diverts Billions from reducing the deficit.
On the other hand, although it hurts the economy, it has a stronger potential to get you re-elected. And after all, isn't that what this is all about!
Here is the lesson that the leadership in the Republican Party has not learned. "You gotta dance with those who brought ya." You used the "teabaggers" an easily manipulated group, because they simply are not too bright. Now, Bachmann, one of the head nuts of the group has delusions of importance. This is what you don't get Republicans, Bachmann thinks SHE is mainstream, and will be the next candidate from your party. Isn't karma fun?
Add to that they have John (Yosemite Sam) Bolton also claiming to be mainstream Republican with an eye on the presidency. Nothing but laughs coming up.
I'm reminded of a line from Keith Olbermann about the GOP's relationship with the Tea Party: "They're having to deal with the monster they created in their basement now coming upstairs to sit with them in their living room."
Golly NewDay, is it true that all us conservatives are just stoooopid? Palin is an idiot, now Bachman and Ryan? But it's ok because it seems that the closer we get to tax day the more "conservative" everyone gets, at least as it relates to the amount of taxes they pay.
And didn't Bachman graduate from college and law school? She also passed the bar, right? Seems like that'd be hard, especially for someone who is stupid and crazy. Think you could do it?
But thanks for telling us who our candidates will be. Karma is fun, but your abilities to predict things have seemed a little off. You were a little off regarding Loughner and his motivations. Then there's that boycott against Beck, here in MSNBC-Land you periodically advocate, which seems a little misplaced. I mean, Beck's still kicking it Fox style whereas Olbermann just got kicked to the curb. You want to advocate for an effective boycott of a Fox personality, you may want to go somewhere where the folks watch them. This here is the house that Maddow built.
Wait, I just got your Karma reference. Brilliant.
One might think it would be hard for someone who's stupid and crazy to graduate from college and law school, but many of Michelle's own recorded statements of pure idiocy and ignorance have proven it's not impossible, and trump any credentials you might want to attribute her for graduating. Obviously didn't do Palin any good either...
Beck showed his True colors, he went on the Today Show to push his book. All he does is demonized NBC, MSNBC, ABC CBS, ect.. but he'll go on those networks to push his book. Quite a charactor.
Spanky, I've heard plenty of ODumbo comment too. Doubtfull Obama is dumb. Harvard Law School, hello.
Certainly Obama is not dumb. I don't know how hard or easy any law school is, butI have heard the Bar exam, which is an objective test, is a tuffy. And I don't know, perhaps 21st Century Patriot and NewDay were able to get through the bar exam. Heck, maybe Mr. Patriot here understands the difference between subjective statements he or she deems to be crazy and or dumb, from a test like the Bar, which measures knowledge objectively.
Hey, maybe Olbermann can write then peddle a book. Beck, Hannity, O'Riley and others seem to do pretty good off book sales.
Backing up Obama's intelligence with passing the bar really doesn't help all the arguments on this website. Guess what profession Michelle Bachmann used to be in????????
I agree with you 100%. She has delusions of grandeur and her warped mind is going to help dismantle the Republican party in 2012.
Look, Michelle Bachman is not dumb. But her ideas are WAY, WAY out of the mainstream, like lots of Republicans these days (Democrats too, but they are out of power in the House so who cares?).
The problem for Republicans is that the lunatic fringe, which Bachman cheerfully represents, tend to paint the Republican party leaders into a corner. Its going to be difficult for the Republican House leadership to make the kind of deals that are necessary in a democracy to get anything done.
Oh well, the Democrats will give them some cover I'm sure.
If anything, things are going to be interesting and give all of us something to write about. Ain't democracy grand?
We hear a lot of comments on MSMBC that tea party people are crazy but I never hear anyone cite specific examples of craziness for consideration. It seems that someone posting comments on MSMBC would at least try once to point out some specific craziness to back up their opinion - at least once in 2 years of name calling is not too much to ask of you , or is it?
If you have not seen or noticed the crazy rhetoric from Tea Party, then the example we give you will not prove a point since you see the Tea party as sane. There are too many to count, but will do no good to site them to you.
Bill Randall is a Tea Party candidate seeking the GOP nomination for the 13th district Congressional seat currently held by Democrat Brad Miller. The other day Randall offered a new theory for the cause of the Gulf oil spill: The Obama Administration and BP conspired to make it happen.
Christine O'Donnell of Delaware, by just being
Three cornered hats. Straw hats with dangling tea bags clipped on
“There is no problem that abortion can’t make worse. I have good friends who were the product of rape” insists Glen Urquhart, Delaware,
Sharron Angle, Nevada, who has gone on record saying that she would deny an abortion to a girl who had been raped by her own father.
And on, and on, and on......
yo Steve......if you want proof of crazy listen to Michele Bachmann tomorrow night. I am not sure how this lady ever got elected. there must be something odd in the water in her part of Minnesota. Bachmann is kind of like Sarah Painful Palin's half- sister. she is also one of these whacknuts that brings up 2nd amendment remedies to cure this country's woes.
How about " take the government hands off my Medicare"! or 'Obama's a Racist', or he's Nazi or Kenyon or not born in this country or a sociaist.... communist. Death panels or "God told me to run"......ect, ect, ect....
Steve, for additional TP craziness, don't forget...
the "Keep government out of my Medicare" signs.
the "death panels" that never were.
advocacy of "2nd amendment solutions"
"if ballots don't work, bullets will!"... have you ever heard a more slam-dunk advocacy of violent overthrow of our democracy?
Here's one steve:
"We hear a lot of comments on MSMBC that tea party people are crazy but I never hear anyone cite specific examples of craziness for consideration. It seems that someone posting comments on MSMBC would at least try once to point out some specific craziness to back up their opinion - at least once in 2 years of name calling is not too much to ask of you , or is it?" -Steve-2978665
Just look for the crazy nut-jobs who's spelling/grammar has nothing on a third-grader, calling Democrats every name in the book, and you've found yourself a Teahadi!!
Bachmann is most famous for telling Chris Matthews that members of Congress (Dem only) be investigated for being Un-American
If you can't spot it, you got it!!
111pct,
Thank-you, I am laughing so hard my stomach hurts and have tears rolling down my face.
@ DieHardLib
She keeps being elected because she found the one district in the state that will vote for ANYONE who has an "R" after their name on the ballot even if they show clear signs of being escaped mental patients. If she ran for any office outside of that district, she would have been voted out by now. I suspect the sudden push for her to run for president is coming mostly from Minnesotans who are anxious to have her GONE.
''I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say, 'I'll paint your house.' I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system.''
—Sue Lowden, Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, articulating her vision of how the American health care system should work, interview on Nevada Newsmakers, April 19, 2010
''Marriage is not a civil right. You're not black.''
—Ann Coulter, arguing in front of a group of gay conservatives that the 14th Amendment only applies to African-Americans and that it does not, in fact, apply to women, LGBT people, or other minorities, Sept. 26, 2010
''Death panels are the bureaucracies that President Obama is establishing where bureaucrats will make the decision on who gets health care and how much.''
—Michele Bachmann, Newsmax interview, Sept. 10, 2009
''Exercise freaks ... are the ones putting stress on the health care system.''
—Rush Limbaugh, June 12, 2009
''We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?''
—Sarah Palin, admitting that her family used to get treatment in Canada's single-payer health care system, despite having demonized such government-run programs as socialized medicine that will lead to death-panel-like rationing, March 6, 2010
''I've always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things.''
—Ohio GOP House candidate and Tea Party favorite Rich Iott, explaining why for years he donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments as part of a group that calls itself Wiking (Atlantic interview, Oct. 2010)
''This was a war of Obama's choosing. This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.''
—Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, rewriting history while speaking at a Connecticut fundraiser about the war in Afghanistan, which President Bush launched following the 9/11 terrorist attacks (July 2, 2010)
''Our nation was founded on violence. The option is on the table. I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.''
—Tea Party-backed Texas GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden, suggesting the violent overthrow of the U.S. government if Republicans don't win at the ballot box, interview with Dallas's WFAA-TV, Oct. 21, 2010
Why this coverage on Bachmann's response? I suspect all members of the House and Senate will give some sort of response on their websites. Bachmann's response is relevant only because she seems to come out of such extremist and certifiable thoughts that it is relevant only for its entertainment value, and to the extremists on the right who believe all the nutsy hyperbole and conspiracy theories and cover ups by the Democrats - in case the media hasn't paid attention, a poll came out over the weekend showing Palin and Bachmann at the bottom of potential Republican candidates for a presidential run in 2012 - this is because most Americans, right of left, see these women and think what a couple of women representing America - Palin, who is nothing more than a political diva who thinks the world is enamored of her, and Bachmann, who almost everybody thinks is a true nutjob who, like Palin, takes innuendo and extremist accusations to the extreme - the Republican Party better get over being so scared of its extremist base and move back to the center-right if it ever expects to win the presidential elections; they shouldn't read too much into the past election because the only people excited about that who got out and voted were the Tea Partier types - unless they can get a handle on the Tea Partiers who got elected who now have to govern and start to not be so afraid of the talk radio and Fox News (?) crowd, of which some of their commentators said such crazy things that totally turns off a lot of independents they will need to win the big elections, they will continue on the path of becoming an irrelevant party - they need to realize we need to get our ducks in a row regarding education, infrastructure, health care, etc., to remain a world power, as we are presently in the process of seceding our place as a leader in the world to the Chinese and Indians -
Bachman has guarrenteed she won't spend $200 million per day on any of her trips. She's also committed to using India's newspapers as her information source on all policy matters....
Where are the Jobs, Eric Cantor?
Rick, They are right where Obama left them before he spent over a year on healthcare!
watt, But we've had a Republican majority in the house for 2 weeks now, stop blaming Obama,where's the jobs!
Steve 60- We've had Obama in the WH for two years, when is he going to stop blaming Bush for all of his failed policies?????
TC, there you go again! (Apologies to Ronald Reagan)
Let me ask you a question, TC. Let's say your 1st wife MAXED OUT ALL OF YOUR CREDIT CARDS AND THE LINE OF CREDIT SECURED BY YOUR HOUSE between 2001-2008. You divorce wife No. 1 in November, 2008. You marry wife No. 2 on January 20, 2009. Over the next 2 years you and your new wife try to get your finances in order but have difficulty because the economy is so bad, and you ultimately lose your house to foreclosure. In January, 2011, wife No. 2 leaves you because you keep blaming her because you lost your house.
Moral of the story: IT'S THE ONE WHO CREATED THE DEBT THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. (Hint: Wife No. 1)
It will be appropriate to blame G. W. Bush for the next SEVERAL YEARS.
Watt75==George hid the jobs too well. In fact the jobs were hidden so well that they will never be found.
Steve you want crazy, how about Sharon Angle's claims that a town in Michigan and Texas were taken over by Sharia Law...or Obama's spending $200 Million per day on his trip overseas....
From Sharon Angle : Dearborn, Michigan, and Frankford, Texas are on American soil, and under Constitutional law. Not Sharia law. And I don't know how that happened in the United States. It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States."
sit down and figure up a hourly wage we pay these people. then figure out how many people & hours to have the leadership teams??? hammer out their seating arrangements. if it takes a committe and plan just to seat these idiots, how do we really expect them to deal with anything else? the problem is the system, too much showtime - too little serious work.
Any Kindergarten teacher can figure out a seating chart... Alphabetically, by last name, starting at seat number one.. How hard is this? Do we really need to spend this much time and energy figuring out who is sitting next to who? What is this, the high school cafeteria??
You could get assigned a date for a dance, also. But the process of choosing your date has A LOT to do with how much fun you have!
Its the process of these folks getting together that will (hopefully) create the working relationships we need for the next 2 years.
So calm down folks, and let nature take its course!
If there is a god (if there's not, then, Santa) please: Bachman/Palin 2012.
That certainly would be, must see TV!
I'd love to see a Palin/Bachmann Republican presidential ticket! The debates against their opponents would be ratings bonanzas!!! And Tina Fey would get to do more comedy bits!!! I just wonder who would be nutty enough to portray Bachmann? (The late Gilda Radner comes to mind!!!)
What this nation needs is a good laugh. Palin/Bachmann for President.
the republicans and baggers are useless. All talk-with no plans and no action. Take chicken$hit boehner and all his mouth about jobs. Said jobs were his # 1 priority. He lied. His # 1 priority is to hassle Obama about healthcare. When Obama said "it would take time" to create jobs chicken$hit laughed. How much time are we supposed to give him??? No one cares anymore what the republicans or baggers think or do.
It ought to be insrtuctive to see the two reponsesof Republican side by side. I'm no fan of eitherone-and if they want to put agendas on the table That go beyond just saying no, I'd love to hear them. It's taken them 2 years, and with a 3 Trillion dollar budget they still, after all this time can't even come up with $100 Billion in cuts. That should show everyone in a nutshell they don't know much about the budget, it's processess or why the when was put in place to begin with.
They are not called Known othings for nothing.
All my life I have been a dyed in the wool republican. Then they got crazy, and began insulting my intelligence, and tied their horse to the teaparty, and I said "enough is enough" I now consider myself a true democrat. However, I will not change my registered party of affiliation which is still republican because I plan to vote for whoever is the crazyest bat@!$%#, nutjob, teabagger who runs in the republican primary for president,...Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin or rand paul. whoever it is I will vote for him or her, then I will vote for pres. Obama in the general election.
Yep, your a democrat alright.....lying, name calling cheat with no integrity.
It's "you're" not "your," dummy. So you think that the Republican promotion of the claim that Obama was born in Kenya and there's part of a the new health reform act that requires or authorizes the termination of patient care for elderly citizens was based on fact, not fiction? While Republicans were whining about the number of pages in the law, not a single person has pointed to even a single sentence to support the notion that there's a Death Squad. Do you really believe that Obama's parents and grandparents knew he'd be running for President 47 years after his birth, so they falsely planted an announcement of his birth in Honolulu in Honolulu's newspaper to ensure that he'd qualify as President? So you think that global warming is an anti-business fiction cooked up by wild-eyed scientists who know nothing about what they're saying? So you think we didn't water-board kidnapped people in far away dungeons or that, even if we did, that didn't count as torture even though our own military history labeled waterboarding torture for many years? So you think that, although Republicans maligned "too big to fail," they would not join in legislation that would have prevented it in the future? So you think that Senator Ensign wasn't lying when he said he had no tryst with that female companion who was his companion on the plane, and Senator Larry Ensign really just had a "wide stance" in that Minneapolis restroom? And you believed every word spoken by Richard Nixon?
Paul, you not only have bad grammar, but you're also a political neanderthal.
oh paulie, maybe this mind has the power to THINK, ................you moron