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Subscribe to RSSRep. Michele Bachmann attempts to energize a largely conservative crowd in Iowa on Saturday.
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
DES MOINES, Iowa -- The one thing missing from this budding presidential cycle, is a candidate who really fires up the base.
Mike Pence, a congressman from Indiana, had potential, but he decided against a presidential bid. He opted to run for governor of Indiana. Sarah Palin obviously has a deep, enthusiastic following, but she looks less likely to run. Mike Huckabee won here last cycle, but he, too, looks less likely to run.
It was Michele Bachmann today who showed the most promise in filling that void. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) and Newt Gingrich (R) were politely and well received, but it’s Bachmann who really fired them up with criticisms of the administration, an artful weaving of audience response, and backing up her points with a litany of “statistics.”
She ended her speech here at Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) Conservative Principles Conference by provocatively asking if the crowd was “in” for 2012. And then to rally-like applause, Bachmann declared, “I’m in! You’re in, we’re going to take this country back in 2012.”
So was that an announcement for president? Not quite. This past week, she said she’s in… for the “conversation,” that she wants to have influence – at least – in the race. Sources close to Bachmann this past week told First Read that she is leaning toward a bid and that she will make a decision in June.
Bachmann connected with the audience not just in words, but also tried to do so in genealogy.
The congresswoman from Minnesota, who was born in Iowa, touted, “I am an Iowan!” She rattled off the seven generations of her family that emigrated from Norway to Iowa, a “land of milk and honey.” And she lavished Iowans with praise, calling them intelligent, good natured, and even good looking.
She drew laughs from the crowd, cracking wise on President Barack Obama, a fat target of today’s confab. She started with his NCAA bracket, making fun of his inability to pick Final Four teams. And then pivoted to saying the U.S. is “engaged in a third Middle East war. Talk about March Madness. Can anyone else see Jimmy Carter?”
She joked about the number of waivers granted for health care. She said Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) had lobbied for one, and added, “If he gets one, I want mine, too, and I don’t know about you, but I want one from the last two years from Obama.”
Bachmann noted the debt to China, mentioned that a man named Hu is the president of China, and delivered this line: “We know now, Hu is your daddy.”
It’s a line she’s used before, notably at CPAC, but it was the first time for this crowd, and it played much better here than the last time.
She invoked the Founding Fathers, Lincoln, and even light bulbs.
“I think Iowans ought to be trusted on the choice of their own light bulbs,” she boasted to a mix of laughs and applause. “Iowans are really smart people.”
And Bachmann, who noted that she is a child of divorce, gave this socially conservative crowd a little of the policy they want to hear about -- mentioning that “an in-tact two parent family” can do more than a stimulus bill or a revamped education bill.
She praised King, whom she described as a teammate – a “Cage-match team.” She said they vowed not to vote for another spending bill without the president giving “the money back” on health care.
“Give the money back!” she said.
We asked Bachmann as she was leaving: "Does your speech today mean you're running?"
"No, I asked if YOU'RE in," she responded.
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Maybe Bat Cr@p CRAZY Bachmann is an "Iowan", because, she certainly isn't a historian!
Given her lack of knowledge on SO many levels, you have to hope she didn't home school those kids of hers!
Where they taking their 'country back' from again?
Me?
My preference is to take this country FORWARD!
Look at you...coming out of the woodwork to attack Bachmann.
Will no one defend Geraldine Ferraro against Keith Olbermann's dreadful, disgusting "Special Comment"?
Not even today, of all days?
Yet another example of why I love First Read.
Mixed Bag
Look at you...coming out of the woodwork to attack Bachmann.
Will no one defend Geraldine Ferraro against Keith Olbermann's dreadful, disgusting "Special Comment"?
That would include just about the whole internet. No one is coming out of the wood works. She gets slammed daily for being dumb and stupid even by some in own party; unless, of course, you're a tea bagger. For example--Bill O'Reilly Unimpressed With Rep. Bachmann: 'She Doesn't Know Where Lexington And Concord Are'
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/bill-oreilly-unimpressed-with-rep-bachmann-she-doesnt-know-where-lexington-and-concord-are.php
Personally, I think she is a cross between a bat and a zombie that comes out at night. She always seems to be in a trance; and bats are nocturnal .
When and what did Keith say?
Noted, Bev-
Now...
On to Olbermann's disgraceful "Special Comments" about Geraldine Ferraro...and even Secretary Clinton.
And, all of Keith's "Special Comments" are available on YouTube, Bev...since you're playing dumb.
In your case, I'll take your word that you're blissfully unaware, so check them out.
I missed your views on the ones regarding Secretary Clinton, but especially Geraldine Ferraro.
Today, especially...I'd love to hear them.
Feisty,
Exactly, the GOP, taking the country Back....wards!
As for Olbermann and Ferraro, how long ago was that!
Feisty,
Do you rather Newt running with Bachman?
No matter who is the candidate for the Tea Party or Republicans the liberals are going to grind them. Therefore, it does not matter.
You mean like those 57 states Obama has been to, with one more to go? Would you agree Obama lacks knowledge on SO many levels?
If they would like her, I would certainly be happy to point her south. I wonder one thing though... Every time I hear her speak, she is shouting. Does she feel as though that is how she gets the attention of the voting audience? Perhaps she should try saying something insightful, interesting and intelligent for a change - food for thought instead of fodder for the late-night comics.
Mixed Bag - I did not see those "Special Comments," and I'm glad that I did. I was very happy when he was fired from MSNBC. While he may be intelligent and articulate, he is bad or worse than most commentators anywhere.
google...WHO'S REALLY BEHIND REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE... you might find what bachman is all about.
what does olberman and ferraro have to do with bachmann in Iowa
"I am an Iowan"
Does she think she's JFK now??
She spoke to a group almost totally GOP/TP.
How would she be received by a bipartisan group? Like the United States of America?
Why the Muslim comment? I fail to see the relationship. A statement with a lot of name calling and no substance. Oh, I guess freedom of religion means any of them you agree with.
bzzt wrong. the correct answer was crazy. not iowan. crazy.
I was surprised to hear she was from Iowa. Iowans must not be all bad. They managed to ship their mutant witch all the way to Minnesota. I give them a thumb's up. I would not have been nearly as surprised if she had said, " I am an alien."
She may have been born in Iowa but she is suppose to be representing MN. That's a laugh! Her record speaks for itself. Not worth a @!$%#! She is ass kissing in Iowa to get set up for 2012. I would vote for Broom Hilda before I would vote for her. If she is an Iowan then what's she doing here obviously they didn't want her. Just another BS Politician!
AZChump
When Candidate Obama mentioned "57 states" it was clearly a slip of the tongue, since there were 57 primary election contests during 2008, including the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and a few others. You and others constant repeating of the incident clearly shows that you have very little substance upon which to base your criticism.
Michelle Bachmann's geographic mistakes, on the other hand, reveal her ignorance. She also loves to talk about the founding fathers' "relentless fight against slavery, in spite of the fact that they designated that blacks be counted as three-fifths of a person for census purposes and be denied both freedom and the right to vote. Bachmann is a mental train wreck.
MixedBag
It's like you are suggesting that Olbermann was speaking ill of the dead. His Special Comment about Ferraro's racist comments occurred in March 2008 when Ferraro, who was at the time working on the Hilary Clinton primary campaign, said that Obama "would not be in the position he is in" if he were not black. Strange that she would say such a thing because when she ran for VP in 1984 she was very sensitive to comments that she was only selected as the running mate because she was a woman.
No, it doesn't matter what she says! If she "landed" in Iowa at birth, it was because she crashed! She is an ALIEN.
Has to resort to attacking Obama and making jokes. So what is she going to do if by freak accident she is President? And by freak accident, I mean she ran as Vice President, and then the newly elected President died from dressing up as a bloody steak and walking into a lion's den. Anyways, what's she going to do when the top elite have gained 80% of the wealth, unemployment is 30%, more jobs go overseas, people are starting to protest in huge numbers, a horrible strain of flu, etc. What is she going to do? Tell jokes? Say Obama sucks? Show up on Dancing with the Stars? Ride on a tandem bike with Palin around the country?
So now she's an Iowan eh. "Ich bien Eine Iowan Michelle?"
What she is is the ambassador of a proven failed, warped ideological political scheme that will be purged from the stage in November by political Darwinian mechanics.
Wisconsin teachers and their kindred will scorch politics of all things Republican, or in her case, pretend Tea Party. The Republicans got so bad, and destroyed this country and its economy so deeply that they literally had to pretend to be something else in order to be reelected. Fool America twice? Good luck with that!!!
Don
After you dont even have the respect to properly address me, you want me to read and respect what you have to say? Typical liberal.
AZ
Only a chump would still be using that tired "57 states" strategy after three years. Do you really, in your heart of hearts, in your irrational mind, believe that President Obama, honor student, does not know that there are 50 states? Does it even seem remotely logical? If you really believe it you have more problems than just me.
Maybe if you followed along, you would realize that I was merely suggesting that the left wingers are immune to their own party's gaffes while steadfastly pointing out the mis-steps of the right. So, I pointed out a few gaffes, which were intentional, or not.
Obama, Ivy League? Not many people, if any, seem to remember the guy at any of these schools. That says alot. It is very doubtful if Barack Obama could have been an Ivy League student in the pre-affirmative action era. A very high number of soft science credentials awarded by these universities today are more fraudulent than a three-dollar bill.
Barack Obama is not only poorly read and intellectually shallow—he is also a postmodernist. It’s all relative to him. Getting the facts straight is not deemed to be particularly important. Adherence to progressive ideology is what really matters. Postmodernists are inherently intellectually lazy. One only needs to worry about pleasing the zeitgeist. Everything else will fall into place.
What rock do you live under! President Obama was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, "not many people, if any, seem to remember the guy". How did your application to Harvard Law School go?
These comments just certify that you know nothing. Do some research, and less blogging!
AZ - He was freaking president of the Harvard Law Review. "not many people know him" Did you take a survey? "pre-affirmative action era" now your colors are showing.
Obama, Ivy League? Not many people, if any, seem to remember the guy at any of these schools. That says alot. It is very doubtful if Barack Obama could have been an Ivy League student in the pre-affirmative action era
az's making a new conspiracy group. the birther thing has gotten old and tired so he's making a graduate conspiracy. obama, produce your diploma or it didn't happen.
AZChzhd, you're crackin' me up here.
I think a Bachmann and Trump ticket could lead to only comical results. Better than what is on tv lately lol.
Actually; i was thinking: Bachmann and Palin (she has the experience on her side as a VP candidate); Donald Trump as GOP Chief Hair Consultant, and Haley Barbour as head of Political Correctness for all medial appearances. Although, it's a tough year, the Republican Party has really got a stacked talent pool for 2012 - this must be causing considerable confusion over at SNL. But, I have some faith that the Democratic Party will respond in kind.
Seriously, anyone who would trust the strategic, economic, and intellectual assets of the United States to Michelle Bachmann is beyond the help of anything or anyone I could suggest. I know quite a few people from Iowa and they have always impressed with their intelligence and pragmatic approach to things - they aren't going to fall for her nonsense. She'll garner a few votes from that percentage that "lives off the beaten path" in every state and the rest from people who like a good joke. Bachmann's real goal is follow the Palin model and burnish her credentials to enable a media / pundit career after the people in her home district figure out how ineffective she has been in Congress and hand her her walking papers.
Seed Art, Michele Bachmann and the State Fair.
At a Minnesota State Fair a couple of years some pegged her well. Obviously, Minnesotans think she is nuts. Seed art is a long tradition at the Minnesota State Fair. It is art made from corn kernels.
5th slide...
Michele Bachmann, Patron Saint of Wingnuts
http://thejournalofamericanrocketscience.com/2009/09/seed-art-michele-bachmann-and-the-state-fair/
I wonder did Minnesotans figure out back then the reason she was never in Minnesota and always on the national scene because her plan was to run for president?
Let's see, if Bachman would win (fat chance) the White House and the right wing finishes off the Senate and House (huge wish there too), the Republicans can finish cutting the Dept. of Education's budget. Then Michelle can give us a lesson in how to home school our kids. No need for public education, we can just allow millions of kids to be illiterate. That is the way the Rep. govs in MI, WI, IN and OH want it, right?
What is interesting is that like Sara Palin, Michelle is lacking in common sense and even a fair rudimentary public education. Her ideas are so far out there (like outer space), sane people just can't embrace them as making any sense. Like Palin and the rest of the Republicans (who are waiting for orders from the Koch Bros, as well as undisclosed foreign governments and the world's CEOs), poor Michelle couldn't figure her way through a first grader's maze puzzle.
Of course because she runs for the Retarded nomination, it doesn't mean that she will get it. As a matter of fact the "candidates" attending this Iowa morals love fest are there to get some attention from people who have the same attention span and reasoning abilities as the rest of their supporters. It really is a good test ground for their candidacies among their base.
Ever been to rural Iowa? It isn't very exciting. There are too many people who love extreme gossip and like to have their ministers tell them that they are "saved" if they just "walk this way". That's coming from a guy who lives in downstate Illinois, where it's only a couple of steps up the excitement ladder from Iowa. But there is a real difference between rural IL and rural IA that you can readily detect. Iowa is kind of like being in a bad B horror movie, when I have to go visit a brother-in-law, who took a job in western IA. It's like you got put down in the middle of another dimension. My b-in-law isn't too impressed with the scene there either. Oh well, let the right wingnut Iowans have their fun and five seconds in the sun!
Peoria, you really need to get a clue and learn some history. Are you stupid enough to think there has always been a Department of Education?? Do you even have a clue that the Department of Education wasn't even launched until 1980?? Do you understand that this country did just fine for over 200 years without a Department of Education?? Do you understand that we became the greatest nation the world has ever known without a Department of Education?? Do you understand we put a man on the moon before there ever was a Department of Education?? Do you understand that, with this brilliant Department of Education, America has continued to fall further and further behind in education?? And do you understand that if we did away with the Department of Education and enforced the 10th amendment, as the founding fathers had intended, that it does not mean that you would have to home school your kids??
You are obviously are a proud product of that public education system because you know so little. God help us.
Quit being a weakling who depends on the damn federal government to hold their hand all of their life.
By the way, the liberals suffered their largest loss in 70 years in 2010. The senate will definitely be taken over in 12, as there are far more liberal seat in play than there were in 2010, and what the real fat chance is that the economy will improve enough between now and then to give people any reason to vote liberals back in. I don't know who will be in the White House after the next election. But I do know the only person who won't be the White House come Jan. 20th, 2013, will be Obama.
The Department of Education was established in 1867. It became a cabinet-level agency in 1980. It has served this country for a long time.
Additionally, the first federal education legislation was passed in 1958, the National Defense Education Act. It was developed in response to Sputnik. If memory serves me correctly, Dwight D. Eisenhower was president at that time.
By all means, rant against the Department of Education. Just do so with correct information.
madden michele bachmann's trip to iowa is costing taxpayers 210 million dollars a day.
Once again, bat sh!t crazy Bachmann has misspoken, what she meant to say was:
I'm an IDIOT!
Go Feisty!
Palin and her ignorance was laughable but this broad scares the bejesus out of me. She will calmly look into a camera and lie to the American people about important things and not only that she beleives what she is saying is the truth. She tells lies and then talks herself into beleiving them. That is the kind of person some Americans want to give the launch codes to??? I guess democracy does have a down side. When does the Sith Lord show up?
Bachmann will never ever be the President of the United States. However, I would love to see her run so that she will be defeated badly. Also, her running will be a great entertainment value.
Youpeople obviouslydon't know your own history in the RepublicanParty. The first land grant colleges where passed under the Morril Act in the Civil war Era. This provided vast amount of land grants thatunder the Big 10 unversites. It was the Smith-HUghes act of Charels Evert Hughes that proved for thefirst job training programs..It was under Eisenhower that GI bills were fully funded to get veteran in college after the Korean war-and many people who couldn't afford college suddenly could. They became the back bone of themiddle class. It was Richard Nixon who proposed a guaranteed anual income program-andthe Democrat repoded with an looser Families with Dependect chilrens program that actually paaed.
A gauanteed anual income-from a Republican!
If you compared, as Erza Keln of the Washigton post did Obama's prorgran and Senator David Durenburger's in the 1980s and Nixon's program in the 1960's you would notice they are almost virutally identical in comcepts.
As usual Republans don't know what they are talking about-and have no idea of their heritage.
Conservative,
You might actually want to read US history as opposed to taking the standard Right Wing method of just making it up. Other posts have dealt with federal involvement since just after the Civil War which coincided with increased literacy rates and levels of secondary and college graduations. We by the way have dropped to tie for 22 in literacy and are behind virtually every other Western Nation in all measurable statistitics. All other nations have federalized systems and publicaly fund post secondary school education. We have been a success as a nation for many reasons but it hd littlr to do with the quality of our eduction. We had a relatively small population with amazing quantities of natural recourses at our disposal.
jkh
The day Michelle Bachman is elected president is the day I move to Canada!
Glad to see you go, but is that all the further you'll go, just want to hang around and come back for good medical care, huh?
Just so you guys know... "I AM CHINESE"...just kidding, ...I'm actually black.... just wanted to pull a M.Bachmann...
...why does it always look like this lady is starring into head-lamps? is she trying to play to her base, with the dumb look? or is this just an act?
... mmm... to dumb or not to dumb... that is the question.
... I wonder how Michael Steel felt, when she yelled out "You be da man"... I think she was trying to get the black vote with that outburst.
Bravo Feisty!
A more truthful and correct statement for Michele would have been,"I am a nit-wit!".
2.15
You moving to Canada if Michelle wins?
Yeah, the History is repeating. Many movie stars, et al said the same when #43 became our President. No one moved.
Tunde Akins
Yes, I've noticed that myself about her and Sharron Angle. Looking straight into their sappy kissers they look as though they've had a few too many ice cold baths and electric shock treatments! Maybe they have... "Families that bathes together stays together!"
Tunde Akins
"ARE YOU CHINESE? ...... NO, I'M JAPANESE!" Woody Allen from: "What's Up, Tiger Lily!"
Good evening Tunde Akins
...why does it always look like this lady is starring into head-lamps? is she trying to play to her base, with the dumb look? or is this just an act?
... mmm... to dumb or not to dumb... that is the question.
I think she is too dumb due to her zombie like qualities. After all, she is controlled by the Koch money; unlike Sarah who decided to go rogue.
Mike Huckabee Koch Blocks Sarah Palin’s Path to 2012
March 27, 2011
http://www.politicususa.com/en/mike-huckabee-sarah-palin-2012
Oh what a rat race, it is really too bad Sarah thinks she is so bright. Now the queen of bats and zombie land, Michelle Bachmann, has shown what it is truly like to be controlled by money.
Not as little as you seem to know, apparently. The Department of Education was created as an independent agency from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1980; HEW was split into the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education.
I AM a proud product of public education, and I knew that -- AND I know how to research such things, something they apparently don't teach in whatever "school" YOU attended.
She's an Iowan.
I'll bet that makes her Minnesota constituents feel very secure.
I was surprised to hear she was from Iowa. Iowans must not be all bad. They managed to ship their mutant witch all the way to Minnesota. I give them a thumb's up. I would not have been nearly as surprised if she had said, " I am an alien."
Because there certainly havent been any leaps in technology the previous 200 years? Do you not understand how an education in 1890 wouldnt require the same fundamentals as an education in 2011?
Did anyone ask to see her "long form birth certificate" to prove she was from Iowa ?
Bachmann: "I am a Dumbass"....I agree bachman and you're also a complete shame to your state and our country!!....bachmann and palin = Dumb and Dumber.....TEA Party = Tax Evading Americans Party
Was she in Nebraska when she said it?
Iowa can have her back!!
Dude, no thanks. We've already got King, after all, we don't need another cross to bear.
Hey!! Wasn't Palin in Iowa a while back?....and she thought she was in Ohio because they both have so many vowels she really wasn't sure?.....If the Iowans are as smart as I think they are they'll plow both of those miscreants into the ground, this spring, along with last fall's dead corn stubble.
JC - Rep. King is a disgrace to the Republican party and to the House of Representatives.
As I have mentioned before, Mary, I think that the majority of the rest of the state considers his district to be Eastern Nebraska rather than Iowa. If all Iowans were polled, I suspect his seat would be the one voted "Most OK to lose" in the upcoming re-districting.
He and Bachmann are birds of a feather: They both spew ridiculous nonsense for the purpose of garnering attention, their followers give them a pass on it, and the media loves them because they're good for sales.
the entire Iowa Tea Party was at the rally and she sure got them fired up and ready to take away your rights
those aren't rights your talking about timewonttell, they're what libs call entitlements.
Just made it through Michelle's Entire speech, and I find myself..... Underwhelmed. She seldom if ever contributes anything new to the discussion... ObamaCare, ObamaCare and Light bulbs.... If I have to listen to her continually between now and 2012 election, I may have to puncture an eardrum.....
"underwhelmed" such a polite way of saying that Michelle's speech was "monumentally stupid"
I too just got done listening to the speech. First thing I have to ask, when eliminating the tax code, what do we use in the time it will take to write a new one? Also, wasn't it President Bush who signed in the light bulb transition bill? Isn't this $105 bil she keeps talking about needed to impliment the Affordable Health Insurance Bill? This stuff is done for free? Does she have just ONE original thought? Hasn't her mother taught her it is NOT ok to lie? Just wondering here in Nazi Michigan.
Hey I have been replacing my incandescent bulbs with the new LED ones for a while--before that the CFCs, they supposedly last for upwards of 15 years and the power usage is about 1/9 that of the old ones. So I will save a ton in the long run, conserve energy lowering our dependence on foreign oil. and risky environmental drilling/mining. Not to mention climbing up on ladders gets scarier every year. And no longer filling trash dumps with old incandescent bulbs is another plus. Oh yea and since they are not hot, my AC won't have to fight as hard to keep us cool (Remember the cooking element in the old Easy Bake ovens was a 60 watt bulb), kids are safer against burns and they are more durable so if the kid knocks over a lamp, they are not as likely to shatter.
There is no downside here. And as the number of people buying the LED bulbs increases the price will continue to drop...they were only $20 at HomeDepot anyway.
Oh wait it is not about facts to idiots like Bachman, it is just a silly whipping boy soundbite. Of course in her 'brain' the lights are fairly dim anyway--of on at all.
Puhleez, we do not want her back. Oh, except in my district for Congress, which is held by Rep. Steve King, who Michelle Bachmann thinks is "just awesome!" This stuff scares me to death, weirder things have happened than getting someone like her in power.
She is from the planet "I Owe"?
Mountainmike: Brilliant!!!
Where's Waldo
Why don't they just feed 'em to the pigs? Or would that be cannibalism?
Raising 23 foster children is not necessarily impressive. Without taking anything away from many good, decent and loving foster parents, I have visited two "kid farms". There was hard work for all of the kids,very stern rules, harsh discipline and absolutely no sign of love. The "parents" merely issued orders as the kids took care of animals and crops that paid a handsome profit. The state also paid a very generous monthly check. I saw this as a lessor of two evils considering kids living on the streets, but felt there had to be a better way.
That's best described as a way to get around child labor laws. It is despicable!
mountainmike-
That should be "I Owe, Eh?" After all, Minnesota is close to Canada.
Palin was in Israel. She thought she was in Iowa. So much for the geography lesson.
Why shouldn't she run? She is unlikely to win, but she is an interesting candidate. Raised 23 children in foster care, impressive.
Besides, she drives Chris Matthews over the edge, that is reason enough.
Question is, can she run for President, not win the primaries, and still jump back in to run again for her seat in Congress?
No, the real question is can she get the nomination and so guarantee a GOP loss in 2012.
Bob-1887910
Why shouldn't she run? She is unlikely to win, but she is an interesting candidate. Raised 23 children in foster care, impressive.
Besides, she drives Chris Matthews over the edge, that is reason enough.
Rightfully so, she is so dumb and stupid. That would drive anyone with the brilliance and intelligence of Chris Matthew crazy. Why would anyone expound a woman who is noticeably a crackpot and lacks of intelligence as well as compassion?
Chris is hyper and out of control in his show.
Sarah and Michelle are his obsession.
One of the primary authors of Obamacare is requesting a waiver for his district. A Democrat congressman from Georgia thinks Guam will capsize and tip over if we put troops there. Obama says he was just in 57 states, with one left to go. Pelosi wants to pass a bill the size of 1/6th of the economy so we can finally see whats in it.
Ahhhh, yes, the brilliance of the left wing.
AZ - Yes, the Democrats have their share of dopes. However, no one is close to Michelle Bachmann. My husband is a former Republican, and people like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin is why he no longer wants to be associated with the Party.
That being said, I hardly think that you can compare President Obama's mistake about the number of states with the Guam statement and Sarah Palin's comment that the space race bankrupted the Soviet Union.
Mary...I agree, you just cant win. However, despite the people making the most noise in the GOP, I still believe in the basic principals of less taxes and less government. I do think bigger government makes bigger problems. While I agree the Republicans have their share of nutcases, its not a reason to abandon my beliefs and ideals.
Your husband is simply trading one set of nutjobs for another on the political spectrum, his own beliefs and ideologies be damned. If your beliefs and morals are swayed by a couple loud talking heads, then those beliefs must have been pretty fickle to begin with.
My husband has not abandoned his conservative beliefs. He just no longer wants to be called a Republican; he is embarrassed by them. That is not to say the he will not vote for a Republican in the future. He is a conservative at heart and soul.
Bet she didnt take a dime of tax money to raise them 23 kids .. like all the other foster parents do
Also, there are so many "nutjobs" in the Republican party, it makes it difficult for him, and me, to take them seriously. And, the "establishment" Republicans are certainly no conservatives.
Mary...now THAT I can relate to! I have said time and time again that Reagan and Bush and the Republicans of the past 40 years or so, were not conservative. Like your husband, just because I am conservative doesnt mean I heart Republicans with everything they do. In fact, lately, I find myself scratching my head at where these establishment Republicans are trying to go. Outside of a few social issues, I cannot tell the difference between them and Democrats. Its really a shame. In that sense, I will have to agree with your husband.
Bob1887910: M. Bachmann can and will do whatever she wants. Can she win? Probably not. The girl will be able to run for President, Congress, local Mayor and Mother of the Century all at the same time. She knows she can do it all. God speaks with her. She said so on Glenn Becks show. As far a winning, I'll retract a bit. Yeah, she can win. All she needs are the funds and the votes. With the funds she can buy the votes. And I'm sure the funds are waiting for the picking.
Actually the left wing commentators on MSNBC love to showcase her on their shows. She is great fodder for their shows. You might say she is a poster child for what voters don't want in a politician, or at least those who can think for themselves and who don't get caught up in the excitement of stupid comments and ideas!
Hey, who writes her stuff? It's actually pretty entertaining when you try to make sense of it and realize that wasn't the point of it-it wasn't supposed to make any sense at all. Her stuff is just to get the juices flowing on Tea Baggers sitting at home in their vinyl recliner, seething with anger, sipping a beer and getting out their cleaning equipment to clean their SKS carbine.
Being a conservative is one thing but being a corporate lackey like most of the republican party and a few democrats is not The whole teaparty while founded on ideas with some merit is full of people to stupid to know that they are being sold down the river, like throwing a fit over teachers police and fireman having a union but not saying a word about corporate welfare. The government gave ge a 3 billion tax rebate on top of paying nothing and a teacher or cop trying to bargain for a cost of living increase is a terrible thing
jgpol - I agree. The "establishment" Republicans are hardly conservatives. And, as you said, the Tea Party stands on some good, conservative beliefs. But, while they don't have a leader, as such, the prominent Tea Partiers are clueless.
Gee the idiocy of the right wingers (Again just silly soundbites) Obama was clearly referring to the number of primaries and not to the number of states, but hey being silly and acting if he does not know how many states there are makes for childish play-talk to amuse TeaReps.
timewonttell -
I believe she did take the foster care money just like she takes the farm subsidies when she isn't the one farming. She is part of a Limited Liability Corporation which has received over $200,000+ in farm subsidies.
Er... Tea Party=Faux News... They not only funded/facilitated the building of the ball, but also organised/advertised the events intended to push the body into being a body in motion. I remember this from the summer/fall 2009... Funny how not having a TV can prevent that TV from convincing you that the "News" has anything at all to do with the news. Initially, I remember them being "FOX News-sponsored events." I also remember that after a few weeks of loud, ridiculous, utterly fictional rhetoric, FOX suddenly had these series' of (video)"articles," bemused in tone, "trying" to discern "Who" started the TEABAGGER movement... I feel soory for tea baggers. They are the most snowed under the bootheel of corporate oligarchy; Seconded only by the blind sheep following the wolf in neoliberal clothing.
Put the "57 states" slip up to bed finally all naysayers. . .
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp
All politicians make flugs it is the number of times that it happens. At this point I'll take Obama's flubs which included PR, Am Soma, etc. as opposed then Palin's, Bachmann's, Gringrich's, Huckabee's, Romney's, etc.
80% of you don't even understand the meaning of 57 states, it wasn't just stupidity it's because it's muslim meaning which he is and gets confused easily.You're happy with your idiot usurper bastard in the white house, you're brain dead.
Wayne...you lost...suck your tea bag....or mine.....
Please name current politicians on the left that rival Bachmann - Palin - ODonnell.
Just one.
Whatever tea bagger. You're close to irrelevant.
timewonttell, would you mind furnishing documentation?
A Wonkette operative says Bachmann has five kids of her own and raised an astonishing 23 foster kids. A nice person would say, “Oh, that’s a nice thing.” But our cold-hearted operative notes that Minnesota pays $30 a day, tax free, per foster kid.
“So if Bachmann has fostered 23 children, let’s say for an average of five years, that would come out to a non-taxable $1,259,250,” the Wonk-Op writes. “No wonder she’s anti-abortion. Children are a cash crop for her.”
And did you know it's a fact that her Iowa visit costs American taxpayers at least $200,000,000 a DAY!!!! I know it's true because I think I read it on some website that a guy in some foreign country heard it from a reliable source's second cousin. And as for taking "our country back in 2012," she unfortunately means back to the 19th century.
Now THAT'S funny!
You have to love the way people get their information, do you? That's America!
The real comedian is already in the White House. Obama and Biden? Dumb and Dumber. As far as change? It looks like we are headed to be a Third World Country sooner then planned. After all the Presidente is third World material.
"After all the Presidente is third World material."
Just your basic racism there buddy! As a white Southern male who rarely discusses his views publicly I have been privy to far too many racist conversations about OUR President. Beyond repulsive. It is as if nothing has changed here under the surface since the pre-Civil Rights days.
Would seriously love to see someone like you have to debate Obama on the issues. Then we would really see who is "dumb". You can't make a real argument so you resort to slander.
Issues such as Libya are beyond complicated. The president would be attacked no matter his stance. As we see with Gingrich even when they initially agree with the policy, once it is put into play these GOP clowns change their position and attack anyway. Knowing full well that the hatred of Obama amongst the racist GOP will trump the truth and reality every time.
If you think Bachmann is any sort of solution for America then you simply are not thinking!
Racism at it's lowest.Funny but I don't recall Mr.Bush being referred to as "THIRD WORLD". As for Bachmann,I guess her plan is to joke her way to the Presidency,because that's all she's got.(And not very good ones.)
Arizonatime
The real comedian is already in the White House. Obama and Biden? Dumb and Dumber.
I take it you have a weird sense of humor. Nothing is more bizzare than twin sisters Sarah and Michelle. The whole world thinks Sarah is a joke.
On the other hand, President Obama and his administration is viewed positively and has improved America's image.
THIS POLL SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once again is out in front.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028609.php
And that my friend is a effing big deal
That's because the rest of the world doesn't understand "American Exceptionialism".
"Exceptionally stupid" would be more accurate.
LOL
her next stop is AZ .. where she can fit in .. and declare herself an Illegal .. because her great great great grand ma was not a natural born citizen
I think that Bachman and Brewer would out do Obama/Biden in the Dumb & Dumber contest hands down....
It was the republican house that voted to defund border patrol. Go figure. Yes, she will fit right in Az.
Beverly
When you go referring to some article as proof of your point you really should point
out who the messenger is! Whenever people like you make some kind of comment
about any "proof" first thing I do is check out their reference... in your case...
THIS POLL SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once
again is out in front.
LINKS OMITTED
The writer is Steve Benen...for the rest of you out there look him up! He is a left wing
writer. He only writes articles critisizing the right and giving kudos to the left and plenty
of them. The word "bias" is too kind to use with him. If you were honest you should
only refer us to the actual report... that would be fine. Comparing a President having
held office for 8 years (not to mention what all happened while he was in office, like it or
not) to a new President of 2 years who went on an "appology tour" to the world when
he first took office. Now add to that ... Obama simply hasen't done anything else until
now (Libya). How old are you?.... In your 20's, I'd guess. You will change as you grow
wiser as will Obama's world rating.
By the way... why don't you accept links on peoples comments to you? Why don't you
want to let anyone show a link so they can "prove" their point as you did? very
one-sided.
Dig Deep for all your ranting about sources, I note you did not supply one refuting the claims you took such umbrage at.
Perhaps instead of a ad-hom attack on the source presented, you should provide a reputable one contradicting his. One you could say was not partisan, but you failed to provide even one which could be considered tainted of your own.
Here are some supporting what Beverly stated:
BBC (Conducted by BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8626041.stm
GALLUP
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_7368.shtml
CNN/Opinion Research
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/31/poll-americans-believe-world-leaders-respect-president-obama/
PEW
http://pewglobal.org/2009/07/23/confidence-in-obama-lifts-us-image-around-the-world/
Of course you will scream and call all these 'liberal' I tried to find one from FOX but did not see it after reviewing 15 pages of search results.
FYI I did find a poll that says Americans are the 5th worst lovers in the world (Germany #1) but I am sure my ex had a lot to do with dragging us so far down the list...but that is a another matter.
@frankly - wow, now that was funny stuff! Thanks for the moment of levity, nicely done there.
danwill
That's because the rest of the world doesn't understand "American Exceptionialism".
LOL
America Exceptionalism ?
Like most of the world's ordinary people, as opposed to their governments, are convinced that the past U.S. foreign policies were aimed at dominating the rest of the world. Most countries do not want to be dominated by the U.S. They want help yes; but, not domination.
I suppose you're right.
franklytrue
Thank you so much. Some people need to use their head for than a hatrack. I'n not surprised FOX didn't mention a poll.
@dig deep
When you go referring to some article as proof of your point you really should point
out who the messenger is! Whenever people like you make some kind of comment
about any "proof" first thing I do is check out their reference... in your case...
THIS POLL SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once
again is out in front.
The first President to have been born in Hawaii, Barack Hussein Obama, aassumed office January 20, 2009 We are presently in the 3 month of the year 2011. I'd said the as close to accucary as anyone get. It's been 2 hrs approximately 3 months.
Obama, is the worst thing that could ever of happened to this great country. Jimmy Cater is now safe.
do you know Arizona tea is made in NY.....seems just up your alley.
By third world material you mean, of course, black.
Did you know that a loser like you, is what is wrong with this country. Step back, get a life, and remember there is no free lunches in life. Maybe drug counseling or therapy may help. But I think not, because you cannot fix stupid. A lemming is a lemming. You keep following the temporary President in office. In 2012 you will see a change.
Wow, that's a lot of snottiness spewed at the same time! Your momma should be so proud.
Arizonatime....
To think you felt the need to post a useless message like #6 twice....
Arizonatime is a troll DNFTT
That was an ignorant comment. I do not mind ignorance, but arrogant narrow-minded ignorance is intolerable.
If there was ever any risk of our being a third world country, that national demise would be directly attributable to the conservative right whose hypocrisy, intolerance and sheer stupidity as regards keeping this country viable and successful in this century and beyond is unmatched.
"But I think not, because you cannot fix stupid."
Gee, look who thinks they are Mr./Ms. Superior? Your side is rudderless. You have no leader that is capable of widespread popularity. The most powerful Right winger is now Rush Limbaugh and has been for some time. The Tea Party segment of the GOP has no platform because should they produce such a thing their intentions would be all too obvious. Just as Rand Paul told them to Rachel Maddow months ago. Just as was shown when Judge Roy Moore was the choice to represent the religious views at the one and only official National Tea Party Convention. The GOP now has the choice of becoming extremist or facing a divided party with a potential third party candidacy from the likes of Palin or Bachmann that would ensure defeat.
Mr. Limbaugh pimps for Bachmann and has done the same for Palin. Yet he could not run for Palm Beach dogcatcher with the skeletons in his own closet. He is an "entertainer" in his own words. It appears that is the job Mrs. Bachmann is also seeking. She cannot be taken seriously. While she can draw from a specific segment in places like Iowa once most of America realizes she runs (like Palin) on slander and hate and not innovative ideas, she will, like Palin, be rejected by the vast majority.
Arizonatime, does your no free lunch comment apply to corporations and ceo's too?
Funny how Bachmann tries to appeal to the idea she is some sort of Iowa everywoman and that she is just like them. Yet her policies would support huge agri-business over family farms everytime.
You want to see the middle and lower classes suffer more than they are today, elect a Republican or Tea Partier. You want to see the top 1% of Americans accumulate an even greater percentage of wealth, vote Republican. When she says she wants to "take America back", she really means backwards!
For sure Michelle Bachmann is a community disorganizer!!!
By the way what about her farm subsidies? I believe she gets $10,000 a year as her cut, must pay for her Neiman Marcus Account, she and Sister Sarah gets the goodies
danwill
That's because the rest of the world doesn't understand "American Exceptionialism".
LOL
America Exceptionalism ?
Like most of the world's ordinary people -- as opposed to their governments -- are convinced that present U.S. foreign policies are aimed at dominating the rest of the world, and most of them do not want to be dominated by the U.S.
I suppose you're right.
franklytrue
Thank you so much. Some people need to use their head for than a hatrack. I'n not surprised FOX didn't mention a poll.
@dig deep
When you go referring to some article as proof of your point you really should point
out who the messenger is! Whenever people like you make some kind of comment
about any "proof" first thing I do is check out their reference... in your case...
THIS POLL SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once
again is out in front.
The first President to have been born in Hawaii, Barack Hussein Obama, aassumed office January 20, 2009 We are presently in the 3 month of the year 2011. I'd said the as close to accucary as anyone get. It's been 2 hrs approximately 3 months.
franklytrue
Since Arizonatime post collapsed which would collapse others including mine and yours I thought I would post an opinion from a different source
dig deep was trying to tell me about finding sources and you found others substainting the poll I cited which was...
THIS POLL SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once again is out in front.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028609.php
Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama
[snip]
Obama, like every other person on the face of this planet, doesn't know if bombing certain targets in Tripoli, and Benghazi, and Misrata, is going to get rid of Muammar Gaddafi, or if it's just going to strengthen his resolve. He doesn't know if the bombs will just destroy machinery, and kill soldiers, or if they're going to kill men and women who are used as human shields. He doesn't know if the so-called rebels, who said they didn't want international help, and then that they did, but might change their minds again, and who are mostly about as experienced in using AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades as I am, will be able to stand up against a trained army, and highly paid mercenaries, and massive supplies of arms that the West sold them, and now wishes it hadn't. He doesn't know if this is the kind of military action that can be done quite quickly and cleanly, or if, like most military action, and even military action that looks as though it can be done quickly and cleanly, it can't.
It is, presumably, because he doesn't know these things that he took a while to weigh them up. He may have thought, like David Cameron, that a "no-fly zone" sounded like a good idea, but he probably also thought you didn't get one just by telling the people who would have flown there that they shouldn't. He may have thought that what you had to do to stop people flying there may have been too risky, or too complicated, or too likely to lead to things you couldn't control, to be worth doing. This may be why, when he said he had decided to take action to impose one, he didn't sound like a hero who was going to save people from a terrible situation, and who expected a round of applause. He sounded like a man who had had to make a very, very difficult decision. And who knew that you couldn't know whether some decisions were right or wrong, but that you just had to live with the consequences of the one you'd made.
He also sounded like a man who knew that everyone was saying that he'd been dithering, but who thought that there were more important things in life than whether people thought you were dithering. He sounded like a man who knew that, whatever people said about him, and however much the Right might think he was a socialist who was trying to destroy the country, and however much the Left might think he was someone who had promised the sun, the moon and the stars and delivered instead a country that was in the grip of a massive economic crisis, there were certain things that had happened since he'd become president that had made the world better.
He might, for instance, have been thinking about the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was the first Act he signed when he became president, and which offered basic protections against pay discrimination for women and older workers. He might have been thinking about the healthcare reform bill, which he passed a year ago, and which meant that 32 million Americans who didn't, in the world's richest nation, have access to a doctor, now did. Or the START treaty he signed with President Dmitry Medvedev, which cut, and committed both countries to continue to cut, the world's stock of nuclear weapons. He might also have been thinking of the $798bn economic stimulus plan he launched in 2009, which almost undoubtedly saved America from greater economic disaster, or the Wall Street reform bill he passed last summer, which aimed to protect ordinary Americans from abusive financial practices, and taxpayers from future bailouts, and which represented a victory over some of the most powerful lobbying forces in the land. He might have been thinking of the fact that he created more private sector jobs last year than George W. Bush did in eight years.
The 44th President of the United States, and first black leader of the Western world, who has, arguably, done more for the majority of Americans than any president since Roosevelt, and who has been careful to send out the message that America is no longer seeking swashbuckling adventures on the world stage, and who has done more for gay rights than any president in history, may well have been thinking that politics is a difficult, and complicated, and stressful business, and that it means you have to make impossible choices, while working with people you don't like, and whose political views you abhor. And that the results are unlikely to set people cheering, because people tend not to look at politicians who are in office, and cheer.
I'm not sure that when I see Obama, I want to cheer. I want, instead, to say that in the very imperfect world we live in, with the vested, and opposing, interests that make any kind of change a compromise, this thoughtful, pragmatic and sometimes irritating politician is probably as good as it gets.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-patterson/why-in-spite-of-everythin_b_840966.html
I don't care if she was or wasn't born in Iowa,
She is NOT the example of an Iowan Woman.
She is a joke
MJL - no one really wants to claim her. I sure would like to hear from someone in her district that actually thinks she is a good congresswoman and is proud to have voted for her. -- Anyone?
IOWA
Idiots Outdooors Wallking Around.
Fits her perfectly.
beverly in chicago:
you got it perfectly!
danwill
beverly in chicago:
you got it perfectly!
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Isn't it interesting danwill?
You admit similarly as the "Dopes of Nope" do who have no idea WTH is going on when not just the poll I posted but others franklytrue said--
THE PRESIDENT HAS VASTLY IMPROVED OUR GLOBAL STANDING.
In 2009 and 2010, the first two years of the Obama administration, the U.S. now once again is out in front.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028609.php
Worst you have some dopes who refuse to accept other Polls that franklytrue posted which say practically the same thing.
This is what franklytrue said.
franklytrue
Dig Deep for all your ranting about sources, I note you did not supply one refuting the claims you took such umbrage at.
Perhaps instead of a ad-hom attack on the source presented, you should provide a reputable one contradicting his. One you could say was not partisan, but you failed to provide even one which could be considered tainted of your own.
Here are some supporting what Beverly stated:
BBC (Conducted by BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8626041.stm
GALLUP
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_7368.shtml
CNN/Opinion Research
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/31/poll-americans-believe-world-leaders-respect-president-obama/
PEW
http://pewglobal.org/2009/07/23/confidence-in-obama-lifts-us-image-around-the-world/
Like I said some people need to use their heads for more than a hatrack
This is what you think but.......charity begins at home and more people are not working and sit down at home without any hope.
About polls......Forget it......they just place the questions in Yes or No.
determined0a1
This is what you think but.......charity begins at home and more people are not working and sit down at home without any hope.
Of course I do. I'm an unabashed Obama supporter.
About polls......Forget it......they just place the questions in Yes or No.
That's the problem with low information voters like you. You honestly think "yes or no" requires no depth.
Why don't you click on one of the polls and see for yourself that saying either "yes or no" requires thought; something Fox lovers fail to posses.
One more thing, here's something to think about. Why were there more yes answers than no?
Nah - whole state isnt like that. Iowa, as a state, is the most competitive scholastic and collegiate wrestling state in the country - some real tough cookies came out of there. And not lip service, political tough cookies - real athletes.
da...da.....da..........dah..
church and state is all they want.......everything else is uncivilized.
 Bachman/Palin
B/P for Pres, One of us is almost smart!
Jimmy Carter/a third Middle East war/March madness/Obama's basketball picks--all linked in one short paragraph. Now that is creative.
I think she'e been watching Beck way too much..otherwise I just can't explain it. Perhaps ignorance is a virus...
MICHELE is living, breathing proof that if you send a jackass to college when it comes back it will still be a jackass.
No one with even a modicum of education is going to vote for Bachmann for Presdent, particularly if she is going to run on the same old, tired principles of voodoo economics that got this country into the mess it is in now.
I would like to agree with you, but look at how many teabaggers wet their pants listening to Palin during the election (and some since). The followers really don't care that BOTH spew such lies and NOBODY calls them out (from their side). Facts just get in their way of a good rant... or joke
How much did move on pay you to post that lie?
wives fan: maybe you can you can call them out with some "facts". cus all I've heard so far from the "if I say it enough, it makes it true, ""educated libs." is unintelligent lies, name calling and innuendos
''If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.'' recent quote of hers.
"President Obama’s trip to India will tie up an aircraft carrier and 33 other warships, cost taxpayers $200 million a day for 3,000 staffers booked into more than 870 rooms at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, and so forth." not really ever retracted.
She either created or helped further spread a lie that Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent $100,000 of tax-payer money on liquor during flights back to her home district (Pelosi does not drink;
created the myth about "death panels" and said HCR would increase abortions 40% even though the law prevents any fed money going to abortions including exchanges (even it they pay private premiums).
"17 million illegal aliens would have access to govt provided health care with HRC". (the law provides for NO access for illigals.
"private insurance policies would be gone in 5 years" (law states specifically if you like your current policy, it would be grandfathered in.
Do you need more?????? I can link/quote all day. All on record. I wont EVEN start to print the idiotic comments she makes in general (founding fathers worked tirelessly to do away with slavery, etc)
No reply Twistedfister??? Hmmmm, maybe cause I provided your requested proof?????
Figures....
wives fan
You rock!
I love it when the facts are stated.
I too am so sick of people just ranting and raving in the hopes of swaying opinion. The facts are the facts.
I thought she was an idiot
and she proved you right.
Yes, she is still an idiot.
Uh, I didnt see any twists or lies. Maybe you guys clicked on Limprag by accident. And, if you call a fish a fish I don't think thats name calling. A fish is just a-----fish. No big thing.
To each his own uaw.
I feel bad for the people of Iowa. Most are well-educated but they have to put up with the fact-free nuts in their midst.
Please, God. Let Palin run. Us liberals haven't had much going our way lately. Please.
Oh brother, Bachmann didn't get anyone fired up - how do you get a room full of senior citizens fired up anyway - tell then your all out of prune juice? Bachmann screamed into her mic and waver her hands around like the circus clown she is - repeating over and over Obama care, Obama care! She's void of any ideas. Has never passed any meaningful legislation for all her years sucking on the tax payer teet, collecting her government check. Just another GOP complaining and whiner.
Some Sanity: Give the poor girl a break. She's got 23 kids. You'd be whining too. Besides, she gets paid, has a pension and socialized health care for life. Heck, sometimes the taxpayers even pay for her travel. The girl is just trying to get by the best she can. Forgive me, I should do standup.
barry-barry don't forget the farm subsidies and her husband's clinic to get you religous- and birthing- and not a homo- and all the other good crap they spew, I believe the school they started - she resigned because they were forcing creation to the kids and the parents revolted - by the way you get paid for raising foster children - don't know about Minnesota but its substantial per head - way to go lady
Do we really know that she raised 23 foster children and home schooled her kids? So far, unless I've missed something, she is the only one who has said it. I haven't seen anything from any of her kids. I wonder how her kids felt about being one of 27+. Must have been "great" for them to have such personal time with their parents.
Maybe I'm wrong but somehow this sounds like an exaggeration for a woman who has been working as hard as she has while home schooling and raising all those kids.
Anyone have any first had knowledge of her family? Pictures? I got tired to wading through the internet and couldn't find much that seemed authentic.
As an Iowan, can we check her birth certificate? I don't want her, you can have her, she's too crazy for me.
To all of you: The birth certificates are in Kenya. The family photos were lost in the tsunami. And she wants to cut foster care funding for all except those with crazy eyes who are also Christian Taliban.
@Barbara A. Jackson: I wanted to mention all that too, but I figured it would hurt my chances at getting a job at Faux News.
Can you just imagine 17 more months of that screechy noise? Same old drivel we've heard before.
" Can anyone else see Jimmy Carter?” Hmmmm. Palin in Israel making secret deals with Netanyahu... Yeah, I think I see an October surprise coming.
I'm shocked that she could even find Israel on a map.
Furthermore, As a Nobody in American politics, She has absolutely no business going there and discussing anything at all regarding America.
Probably still couldnt. After all - the pilot flies the plane.
Mike
lol. I love it. That's the best reply I've had in weeks.
Thanks
I don't understand how people like Bachman become so popular. I am not Repub or Dem, but this woman scares me. She is so far right, religious freak that she reminds me of a story about Jim Jones. I just hope people wake up before she pours the koolaid down their throats.
Just a few examples of Bachmanisms, also known as verbal vomit.
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
"[Gay marriage] is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that."
"Normalization [of gayness] through desensitization. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders is take a picture of 'The Lion King' for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: 'I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.'"
"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States."
"And what a bizarre time we're in, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it."
"There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design."
Comedians are rejoicing all across the country.
The people of Norway would like to say "I'm so sorry" to the entire USA.
''If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.''
You forgot THIS one... Seems Kansas was paying attention. Does she have an F'n CLUE????? It aint like minimum wage is allowing people to travel the world and eat caviar......
Sorry, too many to list and greatest hits always miss favorites.
In your guts, you know she's nuts!
What is the credibility of Bachman on anything approaching reality or real courage?...not so much...The future's so dark, I have to wear coal miner hats with lights. Lord help us...somebody help us...
...cannot fix stupid...
sir you finally hit the nail on the head!
She acts as if Obama has been president for the last 10 years. Isn't funny how these Republicans conveniently forget that they were in charge just 2 short years ago? Afghanistan, Iraq, ballooning deficits, financial meltdown due to lack of regulations, tax cuts for the rich... they act as if Obama caused these problems. If Obama says the sky is blue, they say it's green (she may actually believe that)... truly the party of no. This dimwit may be the worst of the bunch... what bright ideas does she have to offer? It's easy to go to Iowa and preach to the tea party choir... leading and having ideas to move this country forward... well they will need to check with the rich and their corporate masters and get back to you on that. The real sadness is these backward, small minded tea party chumps buy the bull they feed them.
Thank's Mark you are 100% right. Is simply unreal to look at President who is so calm with the job he does.Whole world changed,,- Americans just don't get it .Her,Palin,Trump and FoxNews thats what they listen .Really scary.
@Mark and Maryla: They don't wish to move forward, thats too progressive and gets under their skin. Besides, there would not be a (Tea Party) if it weren't for billionaire funding. These folks want an Democratic Oligarchy government. Poor Tea Party folk will get thrown into the grinder if that comes to pass. Look for a change when they (Tea Party) discover they're being prostituted by money. And in all honesty, do you really believe Faux News is supported by advertisers? The Oligarchy is real and its coming if we don't stop it! The scary thing is that its coming and waving a bible while draped in an American flag. That is really scary. Reminds me of Munich, 1933.
Bachmann: "I am an idiot"
Seems like she is channeling Palin's style, one liners with nastiness, outright lies, distortions and such. Fire folks up and see where it goes. A group in Fairbanks got some 'fired up' about their freedoms and went a step over the edge in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Last Frontier. Just saying ....
They are both sickening.