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Joshua Lott / Reuters
Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Minn., a Republican presidential candidate, receives a mobile phone from an aide to make a campaign phone call Saturday to a supporter from her office in Urbandale, Iowa.
URBANDALE, Iowa – During remarks to supporters inside her campaign headquarters Saturday, Michele Bachmann linked President Barack Obama to a large protest that had been unfolding outside the building only minutes before.
"You may have seen all over Des Moines the Barack Obama re-election advance team is already out there in the various parking lots of all of the campaigns," Bachmann told about 70 volunteers.
"This tells you that he is nervous," she continued. "He doesn't want me on the stage. I want you to know, I'm not nervous. I'm fearless."
The rhetoric signifies a heightened effort to paint Obama as out of touch, something the campaign acknowledges is an element of Bachmann's closing argument to voters three days before the Jan. 3 caucuses.
About 100 protesters from anti-Wall Street "Occupy" groups around the country descended on Bachmann’s headquarters Saturday, prompting campaign staff to lock the front doors and block the entrance.
Police, stationed outside the building, arrested 10 people on trespassing charges.
The protesters called for "an end to corporate money in the political system," according to a press release sent Saturday morning.
They also visited the campaign headquarters of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.
Bachmann, at the direction of police, entered through a side door, and was greeted with cheers from volunteers, many of them college students from Oklahoma.
"I appreciate your Christian faith," said Afame Ooceeh, a 29-year-old pre-med student. "I support you with all my heart."
Ooceeh, originally from Nigeria, is part of a contingent of 42 students from Oral Roberts, a Christian university where Bachmann attended law school. The group, which arrived Thursday, is chaperoned by Winston Frost, a professor who was in Bachmann's class.
"She was one of the most diligent students in the class," Frost told NBC News.
Later, Bachmann sat at a table and placed several calls as a scrum of television cameras rolled.
She reached one voter, Bob Johnson, telling him, "Let everybody know – come on out and caucus for me on Tuesday."
After she hung up, a volunteer urged her to ring the bell that signifies a voter won.
"We’re going to ring it a couple times," Bachmann said to cheers, "because Bob is going to go on a recruiting mission."
NBC's Anthony Terrell contributed reporting.
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How are those halucinogenics working out for you Michele? Why don't you just go home? Guess you haven't noticed. You lost!
Yeah, she hasn't quite got the message yet, maybe she should ask for Dr Paul's advice again?
Idiot and her followers are the same.
smh
Talk about making no fricking sense.
Actually no, Ms Bachman. If you win the primaries, that will be a very easy win for him. Don't believe me? Ask your gay husband.
"I'm not nervous. I'm fearless."
No, Michelle, you're just garden variety dumb. That is no where near the same as fearless.
Someone pull Michele's string, she's stuck on stupid...
Bachmann is making a fool of the Tea-ReTards that supported her !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, and the Devil is her campaign manager . . .
The problem with Bachmann is that other Teabag candidates "out hated" her. For example, Santorum wants gays jailed. Gingrich wants 5-year-olds scrubbing toilets at Motel 6. Perry wants jail women who have miscarriages.
What would propel Bachmann back to the head of the pack would be if she called for non-Christians to be machine-gunned down by National Guard. Or she could call for gays to be executed on pay-per-view. Or she could call for mandatory euthanasia for elderly people since they can no longer serve corporate interests.
If she said any of those things, she would be instantly back in first place with devout, family-values, Christian Republicans.
Obama did support them
LiberalLies, President Obama understands their frustration with the system that allows corporate greed to run rampant while villifying workers' ability to earn a decent wage and a clean environment as anti-business.
Is Bachmann channeling Forest Gump?....................................
Right wing extremists are Bachmann's advance team...
Any American who is of sound mind and who wants this country to economically, politically and socially advance does not want Bachmann on the stage. Her hysterical and non-viable political platform is dangerous and disturbing to listen to.
However, Obama would love to have Bachmann on the stage.
If Bachmann is Obama's political contender, a second term for him is in the bag.
Ron Paul 2012.... A President for All of us....
Somewhere in the middle of Iowa, there came together in one place 70 of Bachmann's supporters to hear and cheer what she had to say, of which 42 were bussed up from Oklahoma.
Meanwhile 100 people who could have stayed home with nothing to cheer, showed up outside her speaking event to let her know that they had a different point of view.
Imagine opponents outnumbering supporters at any kind of celebrity gathering - much less an event at which one is trying to promote one's public support.
The article quotes one Bachmann supporter as saying that he/she supports Bachmann "with all my heart".
This is exactly what Bachmann depends upon, supporters who vote with their hearts rather than with their brains.
Ron Paul has too much racist and homophobic political baggage. He may be able to claim he didn't pen those articles himself, but his name is on them. If he has no concern about what's printed in his name, then he doesn't deserve the benefit of doubt.
This stuff is jaw dropping and even worse that folks are just hearing about it. I guess the fact that he was never a front runner before this let it slide.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/9110-a-collection-of-ron-pauls-most-incendiary-newsletters
Paul is unelectable. It will never happen, and for good reason. The emperor has no clothes.
Very good observation GreenTimer.
LiberalLies
That's what we like to call "Missing the whole f'ing point", LiberalLies. The Occupy crowd would be proud to be called Obama's front team (although they have protested at the White House as well), and Obama has supported their notion of a fairer playing field for all. It was the GOP that demonized the occupiers... they're just afraid of losing their power and control of this country.
Talking about out of touch. This takes the cake
Just drop out before you embarrass yourself anymore. Broke and humiliated - go out with a little dignity at least...
Lie, I am an "Occupier" and I hold Obama accountable for the mess, Just as much as the Obstructionist Republican Party. Both are fat, lazy and incapable of running the country. Until we get Corporate People back out of Citizens Affairs, the better off we shall be. Vote for new blood, fresh and radical Ideas.
Obama's staff IS corporate America, and you dolts who believe he supports the OWS fools only speaks to your delusion, or worse, idiocy.
Anyone who believes that Obama is not dependent on, and appreciative of, Big Pharma, For-Profit Health Insurance, multi-millionaire trial lawyers and other big business is truly dimwitted.
Can't somebody just shut her up? This Bachmann thing is just too stupid.
"Bachmann doesn't know she lost, this is beyond stupid"
Michele Bachmann and Bob Turner have a lot more in common than political aspirations . Bachmann & Turner are underdogs, both determined to succeed in what they have set out to do.. Bachmann Turner are the Republicans, leading the insurgency that is causing mayhem and upheaval. Bachmann Turner are caught between a hard rock and a place. The time's real short, you know the distance is long. I'd like to have a jet but it's not in the song. Drove so fast that my eyes can't see. Look in the mirror, is she still following me?
Hmmmm, I wonder if the useful idiots in the OWS, Occupiers, 99%er's or, whatever they want to be called this week ,are so concerned about the
uniongoonion money that corrupts the election process?The miscreants protesting against corporate greed have no idea that the "greed" they are so concerned with is created and enabled in the halls of our criminal government. If they realistically believe that protesting against the "Wall Street Fat-cats" is going to do anything they're sadly mistaken. They don't do anything illegal, they just use the system as it's designed by the legislature.
When our corrupted government creates 72,000+ pages of tax code to be abused by the army of accountants, lawyers and consultants by those able to afford it, what do you expect? The first question the OWS buffoons should be asking is, why? Why do we need 72,000+ pages of tax code? Do most average Americans use that many avoidance instruments? Nope. Do most Americans even know that loopholes are not a written code but rather it's an ambiguity in a system, such as a law or security, which can be used to circumvent or otherwise avoid the intent, implied or explicitly stated, of the system? Nope.
When our corrupted government creates 146,000+ pages of regulations, most of which never get enforced, which cripples the private-sector with over $1.75 Trillion dollars in compliance costs, what do you expect? Businesses with 20 employees or fewer pay 36 percent more than their larger counterparts (defined as those with 500 or more employees), says a report, called "The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms", from the SBA's Office of Advocacy. This is because a lot of costs are fixed, the same whether you have two employees or 2,000. Total annual cost of following the rules for a small business: $10,585 per employee, or about $2,830 more than big business.
Remember, 89% of all businesses in the U.S. employ less than 20 employees. Large businesses account for only 0.3% of all businesses. Guess where the majority of the taxes on the "RICH" and regulatory costs are going to come from? Yep, the true engine of our economy, the small businesses.
It’s amusing listening to the Occupiers rallying their pathetic cabal for “fairness”. Perhaps the unwashed masses can define what they mean by fairness. Perhaps they can show us who they would assign the benevolent job of how to define their “fairness”. Who will it be? Our corrupt government? Our incompetent president? Maybe we need a “Fairness Czar”?
No one in their right mind pays any attention to this mob of enviers. Their efforts would be better spent purging our government of its waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. Instead they support it and ignore its effect on their and everyone else’s freedoms and liberties. Hundreds of billions of our tax dollars are wasted every single year by a massive bureaucracy created with no concern for its effect on our economy.
But then again, when all the 99%er’s are just looking for their next free handout that ultimately comes from the productive members of our society it’s not difficult to understand their true agenda.
Bachman is blonde, she thinks she is tops on all issues ..... NOT. She is part of Washingtonian era, channeling stimulus money to her husband biz, vetoing others from having part. Bachman is part of corporate greed
She cannot even win her own state ...
Green Timer,
Thinking the same thing. 70 supporters and 100 protestors. How pathetic. Get a clue Michelle, the party is over!
Oh, so when conservatives do the same thing its people expressing their First Amendment rights, but when a more liberal anti-Wall Street group do it it's a "political maneuver??" Strange how one man's mob is another man's revolution. Apparently, my dear useless Michele, the Tea Party is the movement of the right wing idiots who screwed up this nation in the first place. At least OWS can attract people from all over the political spectrum. Can't wait to see your sorry face when the Democrats retake Congress and Obama is reelected!!!!
GOP=EVIL
OBAMA BIDEN 2012
ANYBODY BUT GOP FOR CONGRESS 2012
She misspoke again she said "I am fearless" What she ment to say is I am clueless
Unfortunately, that's the only setting she has.
The problem with Michelle is that she never ever ever had the brains for the job. She's a downright goofus roofus and that's all there is to it. She even made comments like "We need to do away with the minimum wage so that businesses can prosper once again", that one lost her a bunch of support.
Now, when she comes on all teary eyed and sniffle nosed as she walks out of the race later with little to no dignity at all, she may try to endorse a different candidate, and that poor bastard will inherit all the twit twats that were stupid enough to support Bachmann in the first place. It one huge CF folks.
Someday, I am sure campaign laws will change to where when a situation arises where a candidate such as her gets so lame brained and heading down the virtual death row of their campaign, at least donors and contributors can file for a mandatory bankruptcy and try to get SOME of their funds back for such poor @!$%#ty job performance. Can you imagine if she had of really gotten into office, and the scary part is just how much damage she would have done before the impeachment process could have been fully legally carried out. You right wingers have got little to be proud of, so go ahead and shout your diatribe about Obama as we sit back and laugh, and I'm not even a Democrat.
it's all in how you spin it, i guess. If she can somehow convince her few and naive supporters that she is a threat to Obama, then they might support her more.
Related News: Kardashian celebrated New Year in Las Vegas.
DJ-422465, Thank you for the link on Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is totally bereft of the humanitarian and intellectual qualities that the U.S. presidency requires and demands. He is a neurotic extremist. As president of the United States he would command significant domestic and global power. Paul's "wipe out the people" policies would make Ivan the terrible look like Santa Claus. If this unenviable man should slink his way into the White House, he would prove himself to be a people purging despot. Do not vote for this Fascist.
Michele Bachman is correct the OWS movement is against her and for Obama. They are also against all the other 3 ring circus clowns masquerading as presidential candidates. The results may not be 99% for Obama to 1% for the GOP/TP candidate but it will feel like that to the Republicans after November 12, 2012 election! Can any serious GOP'er believe this loon could be the leader of the free world?
A loony Bachman is.
Worst is that her arrogance has lead her to believe that she should be the president of this country.
Our citizens are struggling with lost freedoms.
Under a Bachmann regime, the constitution would be entirely meaningless.
Oppression of the populace would be the order of the day.
Deservedly like Cain, she will soon fall off of the political stage.
This is rich, I am now dealing with this same issue in the voice of the people in my local news paper. I ask the Teapublican just who are we supporting.
Still waiting for the answer so my friends, just make them prove what they say, they get very quiet fast or change the subject. The whole GOP party is in dyer straights.
Michelle Bachman is lying to you.
The Mainstream media is lying to you.
I have spent time in the camps of OWS and Occupy Boston.
THEY DO NOT SUPPORT OBAMA!!!!
They aren't all a single voting bloc, but most of the protesters I spoke with who had a political candidate....
Well, they want Ron Paul.
They are disillusioned with Obama, as am I. Obama is like Bush on steroids. He cut Food Stamps by 29 Billion to give the money to the states to "save or create jobs". He cut Medicare by 500 Billion as part of his healthcare reform. His tax cut specifically targets funding for Social Security, and according to the center for Tax Policy, 60% of the benefit of the tax cut will go to people makinf 100k or more per year.
And now he signed the NDAA. It repeals the Posse Comitatus, so The President is now allowed to deploy US Soldiers in the US, against US Citizens. It allows for indefinite detention, in direct violation of The Constitution.
Do you have more than 7 days worth of food in your house? Congratulations! You ARE now a terrorist!
All returning US Servicemen and women will now be placed on a terrorist watch list. Thanks for your service!
Ron Paul has strong support among the youth, among democrats, and among independents. All people who were previously Obama's voting base. He will also get the Republican vote if he wins the nomination.
Fox news is smearing him. OMSNBC/GE is smearing him. All the Senate and House are against him.
That should tell you all you need to know.
The Big Money hates and fears him. GOOD!
Ron Paul will end corporate money in politics. Ron Paul is against abortion, but he is also against the Federal Government imposing that opposition on you. He will never meddle in your reproductive rights, regardless of his personal views. Ron Paul is NOT RACIST!!! When he was practicing medicine in Texas he was one of the only doctors that would deliver black babies or provied pre natal care to black mothers. Ron Paul IS NOT AN ISOLATIONIST! He just wants us to bring home the troops, and spend our money at home, to make things better for the American People. He believes in WAR, we should go in, kick a$$, and get out again. Only when Congress declares war. No more "police actions". No more nation building, unless it's the US. 75% of military personnell support Ron Paul's foriegn policy. The people who actually fight our battles agree with his foriegn policies! Think about that for a second.
Ron Paul cannot be bought or sold. He has been saying the exact same things for over 40 years
Ron Paul BELIEVES IN WHAT HE IS SAYING!!!!
He does not flip flop, he does not pander, he does not say different things to different groups of people, he does not say he was "misquoted"... he is consistent as hell!
A vote for Obama or Romney is a vote for more of the same.
Only Ron Paul can deliver the change we thought we were getting the last time around.
Wouldn't Ron Paul's policies destroy America as we know it??? I mean, I'm all for investing in America and bringing troops home, but don't you think we should a keep a few out there if people want them there??? And how about Ron Paul's proposition to the cut the deficit and debt by $1 trillion EVERY year? Now at first, that sounds great. Problem is, he's not very balanced on doing so. Granted, the government is spending too much, but in order to solve the deficit problem you have to include spending cuts AND increases in revenue. He wants to CUT the budget by $1 trillion every year, about 27%. He also plans to do that WHILE keeping the Bush tax cuts, a tough job considering that they add about $4 trillion to the debt every decade. In addition, he wants to END your entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Will cut out a lot of the deficit, but it will increase poverty among the elderly. And sure, he plans to keep it for the baby boomers, but my generation is gonna have to rely on the free market, which is as trustworthy as Fox News and Huffington Post put together, for retirement. Not good. And he also wants to layoff hundreds of thousands of government employees. Sure, we may have some fat in our government, but to do that would jeopardize our entire economy and send the unemployment rate soaring. And eliminate FEMA??? FEMA has helped millions of people recover from natural disasters. It is a necessary part of our government, even though it is not specifically stated in the Constitution. Ron Paul also wants to remove numerous regulations that keep the welfare of the United States high. Some may need tinkering, but most are necessary, like the ones that keep our air and water clean. I highly doubt that the free market can correct that problem. And the most idiotic thing he plans to do is to withdraw us from the UN. WTF?????? The UN is a necessary tool to maintain peace in the world. Sure, it can be biased at times, but that is because the West has hijacked it. Ron Paul will drive this nation off the cliff. His ideas may be great for the 1800s, but they are at best idealistic and kooky and at worst insane and radical.
Enough with this wacko. Doesn't she know that she dropped out yesterday?
Hey, Michelle beat it already. Oh, and here's your tin foil hat.
I just hope coach dan that you are not trying to turn my children into a low life communist and take away their dreams of being a profitable and tax paying member of society. The marxist way of life that is a leech on society and redistribution are a false dream that has failed for decades. Tell me how great Germany and Russia have done since the fall of communism.
Michelle who???
What a sick, desperate woman.
No more sicker or desperate than the other girl in the race (perry)
egil...thats the best you can do leftard?
LiberalLies, "leftard", that's the best you can do?
The Tea Party has forced the GOP so far right they will never get any independent votes.
liberallies if your going to defend her you need to defend her. Tell us her greatness if any? You republican/tea baggers/rightwingers if you don't put up a reason to vote to the right don't comment. Put up some real facts not your scripted lies.
randal wypt talk of desperate your coming to a Democrat site if you think your going to change any minds your wrong. It doesn't make you look look real smart.
"You may have seen all over Des Moines the Barack Obama re-election advance team is already out there in the various parking lots of all of the campaigns," Bachmann told about 70 volunteers.
Stupid, Stupid remarks like this is why she will be no more after Tuesday! Goodbye and good riddance but I will miss the entertainment value though...Bye Stupid!!!!!
And of course Obama didnt sell his soul to corporate money./s/
Randall, (4 posts above) No such "same post" on Nov 1 2010 for Eric.
LiberalLies wants to have Rick Perry's baby!! Of course, Mr. Bachmann is also vying for the honor..
I'm an avid President Obama supporter.
Yes he do go to wall street to get money for his campaign, but you say it as if no other candidate does the same thing. We all know they do, as well as your savoir Ron Crazy Paul. This election year will see 2 or more billion dollars spent on advertising. President Obama needs all the help he can get and I'm happy to give it to him based on the crazy women rights, voting laws, attach on Social Security, Medicare, Police, fire fighters and all unions and public workers as if they started the greatest financial collages since the great depression.
And any Tea bag republican right wing nut job who does not make a million or more dollars you will be voting against your own interest period. you make 80,000 a year as you approach 65 years old you will count on social security even if you tell yourself a lie like "no i don't need social security" especially if you have children. Your vote will end social security there for you are voting against your own interest dumbazz.
Three possible scenarios in 2012,
1. Obama wins, and liberals win back control of Congress (right after hell freezes over, but possible) at which point blaming the Tea Party or conservatives for anything becomes 2 year-old baby babbling
or
2. Obama wins, and both the Senate and House are won by Republicans, at which point Obama becomes Clinton, or he becomes the biggest Presidential failure in US history.
3. Republicans win Congress, and either a Republican or an Independent win the White House.
Not a single pundit actually believes liberals will control Congress, and many are betting that Republicans win both houses. What does that tell you liberals? This should tell you that people know who spends the money and makes the laws, and that they are failing miserably.
And if by chance liberals win it all, just look at California, and you will know what American will look like in 4 years. A total, complete, unmitigated economic disaster being overrun by illegals and their champions.
As for the coffee-bag left wing nutjobs who support a flagrant liar and con-man, well, good luck with that.
Actually, Solutions59, Ron Paul hasn't taken any PAC or corporate money. I'm definitely not a Ron Paul supporter, but let's at least try to stick to facts.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?id=N00005906
However, with the Citizens United decision, the corporations no longer have to give directly to a candidate to provide support. I have not seen or heard of this kind of support for Ron Paul, yet, but really do not expect any, even corporations understand that his economic ideas would crater the US economy, and a cratered economy isn't good for anyone.
Randal Wypt, pack your bags, rereg! I have a copy of your posts under all your names! Now, go read the user agreement and self delete. Bon Voyage! tic, toc, tic, toc.....;-)
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Cynthia - get a new hobby.
Paul F #2. 12, in your opinion
"And if by chance liberals win it all, just look at California, and you will know what American will look like in 4 years. A total, complete, unmitigated economic disaster being overrun by illegals and their champions."
Don't know what state you come from, but unless it's Texas or Alaska (maybe temporarily ND), there's probably more folks still moving from your state to CA than from CA to your state. And the thing is, once they move to CA, they never go back.
Full disclosure: I live more than a days drive from CA, and was assigned to CA for 4 months once. It's got a lot going for it in education, research, business, geography, weather and sports - and maybe even politics.
@GreenTimer....
The fact is that California IS losing population.
The fact is California had a republican governor for most of the last 20 years. Republicans held the governors post from 1983-1999, then from 2003 until 2011.
"He doesn't want me on the stage."
Yeah, right. Michele, honey, you're a gift to progressives everywhere.
EarlyOut
I think you're absolutely right. Few things could say someone is out of touch more than ignoring the people's frustration with things today. I'm not an Occupy participant, but there's no denying something's fishy. And if people don't think things will get smellier when someone like Ms. Bachmann is in office, well, we get what we deserve. Re-elect President Obama.
C.W. - While I am no fan of Michelle Bachmann, the Occupy participants were there to protest the presence of corporate donations to political campaigns. Before pulling that re-elect lever you might check out how much corporate money Obama received in 2008 - quite the tidy sum. From the Occupy perspective, he's no cleaner than the rest of them. Of course he isn't nearly as stupid as Bachmann, so he has that going for him.
Joe He has done a lot of good things if your would fact check.
Pictures from Occupy Iowa Caucuses...
democraticunderground.com/10174033
as one sign read, "Listen to the People Not Wall Street" -- Michelle, its not the other Donkephants that you need to worry about. Rather, it's the 99%, the small business and working class.
I will wear that label with pride - Ms. Bachmann..
Just as the Tea Party is the front for the 1%ters. And they carry guns! (Just for self protection of course) But if it keeps everybody in line with the 1%, then that is a good thing?
It's called the second amendment. Welcome to the United States.
Time for Bachmann to pack it in and slink home to the suburbs of Minneapolis. Isn't she going to be surprised when she is not returned to office in November 2012. Increasing numbers of voters in her district have finally realized that Michele is only in this for herself. She has virtually no legislative record. She is a joke. And the rest of the country had to let her constituents know just how big a joke she is.
please do not let this frickin moron back into minnesota she is an iowan keep her we do not want her here
She was making idiotic rantings before November 2008 and they put he back in office. He constituents are like her. "above it all"
@ Don, LMFAO......Happy New Years!!!!!!
You can have her, we don't want her, she's too crazy for us!!!!!
Oral Roberts is not a law school, it is a school that teaches religion. Not exactly a stellar recommendation for Bachmann. Dont know why these religious nuts think it is fine to force everyone to believe as they do! Freedom from Religion is a basic right granted by the Constitution, but these nuts keep trying to change that.
Believe it or not ORU had an accredited law school until 1986.Not the most reputable one around obviously, but it did exist.
Actually James, the right acknowledged in the Constitution is the right of the people to practice any religion they choose without government interference. The first amendment tells the government what it cannot do, it does not tell religious organizations anything at all.
The Constitution also tells us that we have the right to our government being free FROM religion also! Thankfully those provisions are there as well or America would already be a theocracy!
Who in the history of the U.S. has ever introduced legislation to amend the Constitution establishing a religion?
No one. The left is delusional.
The separation of church and state is to keep the government out of the church, That is why they are tax exempt. It is not meant to banish all religious expression from government or public property.
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and elliot to keep the church out of government. That is why these political active churches should be taxed.
The very IDEA that she attended any school associated with O. Roberts is bad enough!
You do realize that Harvard was started as an instructional school for preachers? Care to comment on its quality?
Joemike....apparently you've never heard of Lemon vs Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 1971. In a SCOTUS ruling a little thing called the "Lemon Test" was put into effect and added to the Constitution under the ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE.
The Court's decision in this case established the "Lemon test", which details the requirements for legislation concerning religion. It consists of three prongs:
If any of these 3 prongs are violated, the government's action is deemed unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
This ruling and amendment make it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR that gov't and religion have no relationship.
I've not heard about the Lemon Test but agree religion has no place in our government policy. Our nation represents a cross section of religions from around the world not entirely christian. Our government was established to represent the people not entities. GOP contenders have provided fresh examples and reminders of the past. Each has proven themself clueless about the plight of America's vast majority a testament to President Obama's advantage.
As Geogre Carlin use to say, "Keep thy religion to thyself"
He also said that being rich is a big club, but you are not in it.
Michele bitchmanm is one advanced ho!
I'm really looking forward to the day this dumb cow is out of the national spotlight. She can't open her mouth without mentioning Obama.
Soon she'll be blaming him for losing her job.
She'll be collecting unemployment soon.
Nothing more than a legend in her own mind, she'll be done soon, when reality sets in. Of course she'll have to have one of her staff tell her the news, cause she sure as hell isn't going to figure out she's done on her own.
You are correct Cyphers; but if past behavior is a predictor of the future, her immediate reaction will be to fire her staff upon being so informed. Congresswoman Bachmann does not take honest evaluation or bad news well. Truth and Michell Bachmann are two words that are seldom used in the same sentence, unless it's that well known, and oft-repeated phrase: "The truth is, Michelle Bachman is an incompetent moron."
What a sad, strange woman this poser from Minnesota has turned out to be. She sees a few curious people milling around her campaign headquarters and thinks she's going to be the Republican nominee. She's really nothing more than a back-bencher with a very short shelf life. If the people of her district keep sending this poor excuse for a representative to Congress, they will be sorely disappointed in what they're paying for. She's accomplished virtually nothing so far except insuring her "farm" continues to receive subsidy at taxpayers expense. Minnesota, you can do much, much better.
C'mon Minnesota. Send a message and send her packing. How can one honestly keep voting for this embarassment? No experience, no credentials, questionable stability, borderline insanity.
All I can say is lol....over and over again.
I'm going to miss her so much when she is gone, I'm actually thinking of sending her a few bucks ... probably what the DNC and the writers at SNL are thinking too.
How anyone could have ever supported this insane example of a pseudo candidate is totally beyond me. Did her supporters listen to her spew her 'ideas' (be as supremely selfish and try to justify it... and hate everyone else while pretending to be a Christian) for any more than 5 seconds? She makes Palin sound normal... and that's an amazing accomplishment!
I would agree glimmmerr; but have you ever met any of Bachmann's supporters? I have and some of them even scare her I suspect - they certainly disturbed me; they have more conspiracy theories than Glenn Beck has chalk to diagram.
Bachmann and Palin held a rally together in Minneapolis, MN in April 2010; it was $10K for a picture together with them. Needles to say, NASA was not holding a job fair for rocket scientists in conjunction with this event.
You can all laugh, (And I don't give a crap about her) but what she says about the protesters rings somewhat true.
Think about it, did Obama order any of this nonsense to be shut down?
Nope.
He silently condoned it.
WHY?
Because everyone who was in those stupid "camps" is a liberal.
so we should have shut down glenn beck and his rich tea folk when they went to Washington huh
Elvi, I don't give a crap about crazy Beck either.
I just want liberalism gone from most high levels of government so we can all get back to work.
The money will run out soon, and only conservative values will bring back jobs.
You can't keep giving away "government money" it's not theirs to GIVE!
It belongs to ME, I work and pay taxes.
so banks who caused this recession and borrowed socialist money...we are the ones WHO are going to suffer..our benefits are to pay off the dept..its not our fault..its there's no tax breaks to the rich anymore done its over..the banks need to pay off the debt not us its there recession
NO, Elvi, it's OUR recession for following Clinton's lead in the housing industry.
The "Home for Every American Program" was his idea.
The conservatives were into it so deep by "inheriting" it that they had no time to get out before the bomb went off.
Lessons were learned, and this time around it will be made right.
BY the right.
Viewer, keep drinking that republican kool aid and keep spinning.
I work. I pay taxes. I'll also bet I've worked and paid taxes a lot longer than you have.
You don't speak for me, and don't assume that you speak for anyone else.
And you point is Rorschach?
I wasn't speaking for you, I was speaking the truth.
AND if you have worked longer than me and pay taxes, by now you should have grown out of liberalism.
The koolaid is damned cheap compared to welfare, WIC, food stamps, and the government cheese.
How does that liberal crap they keep feeding you taste?
I often wondered.
that "nonsense" as you call it is FREE SPEECH. Please read the Bill of RIGHTS! Maybe you should have critized him when he didn't order pepper spraying TEA party members when they disrupted the town hall meetings!
The Bill of Rights says nothing about protesting for nothing, but I suppose idiots have those rights too.
OH, and Rorschach, I suppose you are prepared to let slackers have all the taxes you have paid?
View_Ready, yes everyone has rights. That too is in the BILL OF RIGHTS! AND no one gets to decide who is a idiot and who's not. Lucky for you huh?
Viewer person...seems kind of smart to me, tactically speaking. Sort of like leading from behind, right. That stuff works don't ya know.
Yep, lucky for me.
Because I will not be judged as one.
Some people on the other hand will.
AND already have.
I mean't kind of smart on Obama's side, not yours..
To stick with Obama is not very smart.
But, hey, this is America.
Knock yourself out, before he does it for you.
@ veiwer ready I think someone ate a lot of paint chip's growing up
The ironic thing is that it's the Occupy protesters who pay the free handouts to the Tea Party Social Security recipients.
Woah, you believe Obama is having protesters protest Bachman? She isn't extremist or inflammatory enough to just attract protesters on her own?
And why in the world would a few hundred protesters annoying Bachman be on the top of Obama's list of priorities?
Have you actually been to one of those occupy protests? The first signs i saw, back when they hosted the occupy around the world thing, were all anti-Obama. Of course having a realistic view of world events would require you to actually research beyond what the media tells you.
So yeah, I'm laughing, probably with a good number of readers, but not at Bachman.
Viewer Ready is out of touch. The banks caused this recession. Yes during the Clinton and Bush years there was a push for people to get houses. But guess who lobbied for the deregulation of the banking industry? The banks! Our government is comprised of ex bankers who lobby from the inside. Where was our anti trust legislation to break up these banks that were too big too fail? Where was the laws that kept investment banking and commercial breaking seperate? Deregulated away in the name of higher profits. These protesters have nothing to protest about? What about how rich people can now donate unlimited sums of money to the candidate of their choice? They can effectively "out-vote" the rest of us because they have more money to spend.
Welfare? What about corporate welfair? Many of the largest companies not only don't pay a single cent in taxes, they get billions in tax payer dollars!
Conservatives hardly live up to their name. They got us into two wars that have cost us trillions and were/are pointless. Even there propositions in the super committee were BS. All they offered to cut was projected spending. Meaning the rate of growth in government programs would just be slowed and nothing would actually be cut. We are all on the Titanic and it is going down and neither party gives a flying @!$%#. The only thing they care about is getting endorsement deals and making money off of insider info. It's all a scam.
Viewer randy, name one thing that Obama has done that is so bad. He got handed a economy that was driven to point of absolute breakage. And who was in charge at the time of this, your socially and fiscally conservative fools. They have driven up our national debt more than any democrat ever has, with Reagan (Mr Voodoo economics). he tripled our national debt. In today's dollars it would have been going from ten to close to 26T.
While living in Santa Fe, I was invited to hear a lecture at the Santa Fe Institute on the chaos theory. Right before the lecture was to start it, the news stated that Bush was going to fire his economic advisers. The lecture was put on hold, we all discussed how we could have not see this coming. many of us made phone calls on clarification on the facts. About an hour later we got back together and we came to a rel large realization. The economy was in such bad condition, we were not aware that he had any advisers at all. In all his eight years in office, this bozo did nothing to help the average small business owner. This is what your Bush did for us
Current Administration will leave the nation with largest deficit in history — The
Administration’s 2009 budget will leave the country with a $482 billion deficit, trumping
its previous $413 billion record set in 2004.
• Debt balloons under Administration policies — Since the President took office in 2001,
the debt held by the public has swelled by $2.0 trillion, an increase of 59 percent – with
most of it financed by foreign investors.
• Economic growth is anemic — GDP grew just 1.9 percent in the second quarter of 2008
– mainly because of the economic stimulus Congress passed. This follows growth of just
0.9 percent in the first quarter of 2008 and revised negative growth (a contraction) of -0.2
percent in the last quarter of 2007, fueling the argument that we are already in a
recession.
• Thousands of jobs lost — Private payrolls have lost 578,000 jobs since December. To
date, this Administration has created just 58,000 new jobs per month on average
compared with 237,000 per month under President Clinton.
• Household incomes have fallen — Real median household income has decreased by
almost $1,000 under President Bush. During the Clinton Administration, real median
household income rose by $6,000, or 14.0 percent.
• The President’s fiscal policies impose heavy debt burden on America’s families — The
$2.0 trillion added to the public debt under this Administration equates to $26,000 in
additional federal debt for every family of four in the U.S. – far more than most families
have received in tax cuts.
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viewer_ready LOL Thank You for my morning laugh. The only point you made was you are one selfish S.O.B.. Your a good example of the right. Again thank you for representing the right so well! Here is a good example why not to vote republican/tea bag party. Your all choking on grover norquist's tea bags!
Well, VR, it's like this.
I use the services provided by this country. I've benefited from opportunity available in this country. I don't expect a free ride, so paying taxes doesn't bother me.
"Slackers", at least not the people you're referring to, aren't the cause of this country's financial breakdown. Greed from the top down is the cause of the problem. Obviously you believe that, given the opportunity, "slackers" will take something for nothing.
Know what? Same's true at the top, and don't you think their opportunity and access to get things finagled to their liking rather exceeds that of the street-level "slacker"? That's the result of the kind of deregulation you likely favor, you know. If they can bend the laws, or have the laws bent on their behalf, to enable amoral rape of the free markets, that is taking something for nothing.
If you truly believe in the free market, then shouldn't you have issues with those powerful enough, and well-connected enough, to bend and break the rules at your expense? If a privileged few can drop all the risk inherent in the free market on everyone else -- how is that a FREE market?
Simple because they listen and learn.
And don't collapse ideas, they work with and take advantage of them.
It's a stretch to call anything you have posted an actual idea. It's more like regurgitated right wing dribble.
Obama paying people to protest Bachman? LOFL .... it's probably the Democratic National Committee that's been bankrolling her all this time. The more credible the GOP makes Bachmann, Perry, Paul, and Pailin look, the better the Democrats look. The Democrats certainly have their share of buffoons (there's X amount of responsible politicians in the world; unfortunately there are 10X job openings in this field); however in the last few years, they have been quicker to "cull the herd" than the GOP. Partisans of both ilks would take issue with my statement, but most independents are not impressed with the reality TV feel that the current GOP presidential field has presented. The GOP is a serious political party at it's core, but the way the debates and campaigns have played out in 2011 have not served their brand well among the swing voters they need to win the next election.
good what do we call her tea party..duh team
where is my George Washington hat when i need it
better go and eat some pizza with your brother of a brother
How the right went wrong
'Obama's advance team'
Sheesh, if only!
is that her new years speech
her advance team is now Two Men and a Truck and they're pointed to the Land of 1000 Lakes
Isn't there a Soccer Game your are missing?
sorry pretty women..its over buy buy
What a load...Then again, this IS Mrs. Bachmann! I do know that of some of the Occupy protesters, I know at least one who supported Ron Paul. I'm sure there are probably some Romney supporters too. The fact is to just paint with a broad stroke a section of America is pretty insulting, but again, this IS Mrs. Bachmann. She really should be focusing on her own campaign...Ron Paul is not only taking her votes, he's taking her folks too, as many of her staff are defecting.
What the heck does she know. She had a meet the candidate meeting today with the district representitive in attendance and she drew a whole 15 people!
Total bull@!$%#. I support the OWS movement, but I am no fan of Obama. He is a BIG part of the problem. That is not to say that Bachmann is anything close to a solution. If anything, she would be 10X WORSE than Obama.