Michele Bachmann: “Obamacare Is Crown Jewel of Socialism… We Won’t Stop Until We Repeal this President” (Video)

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told members of the House of Representatives today that, “Obamacare is the crown jewel of socialism… We won’t stop until we repeal this president.”
Republicans are going to vote to repeal Obamacare today:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN):

“Obamacare as we know is the crown jewel of socialism. It is socialized medicine. The American people spoke soundly and clearly at the ballot box in November. And, they said to us Mr. Speaker that in no uncertain terms, “Repeal this bill!” So today this body will cast a vote to repeal Obamacare. And, to those across the United States who think this may be a symbolic act, we have a message for them. This is not symbolic. This is why we were sent here and we will not stop until we repeal a president and put a president in the position of the White House who will repeal this bill. Until we repeal the current senate. Put in a senate who will listen to the American people and repeal this bill. Because what has been the result Mr. Speaker? It’s been this. It’s been job loss. It’s been increases on costs to the American people… This will break the bank and we won’t let that happen to our country. So make no mistake Mr. Speaker. We are here to stay and our resolve is firm. We will continue this fight until Obamacare is no longer the law of the land and until we can pass a bill that will actually cut the cost of health care.”

#1 January 19, 2011 at 4:25 pm
moonbatkiller commented:

i get orgasms with rhetoric like this.
#2 January 19, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Gman commented:

Its sad that the republican in congress with the biggest balls is a woman. No offense to women, you’d think that at least a man would have the cajones to act like this.
#3 January 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm
sybilll commented:

I love the strength of the women on the right. Marsha Blackburn is taking on the FCC, too.
#4 January 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
donh commented:

Repeal the President??? The left will cross hair these words as a veiled death threat violation of the post Tucson PC civility speech code. Very courageous woman. I like how she makes direct eye contact with the camera when pledging the fight goes beyond this vote.
#5 January 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Alana commented:

Don’t you mean precedent?
#6 January 19, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Well, she must be a racist then. Natch. Clyburn said so.
#7 January 19, 2011 at 4:48 pm
valerie commented:

There is nothing about health insurance that requires a socialist system to make it work.
#8 January 19, 2011 at 4:49 pm
patman commented:

The Dems are really going to have their cross hairs on MB.

She’s their #2 target next to SP.

It’s cuz Repubs is racist Nazi’s.
#9 January 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm
Spider commented:

Oh, man, that was just fantastic.

We don’t have to parse Ms. Bachmann’s words like a Wall Street Journal Op-ed piece; we know what she means.

And she means what she says.
#10 January 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm
bg commented:

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if ObamaCare does not get “repealed”,
then Congress & the President will be..

great message Michele, thank you..

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#12 January 19, 2011 at 4:54 pm
ar05075 commented:

valerie commented:
There is nothing about health insurance that requires a socialist system to make it work.
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No, but there is something about a socialist system that requires they control healthcare– in order to control the peasants.
#13 January 19, 2011 at 5:00 pm
joscefi commented:

#5 January 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Alana commented:
Don’t you mean precedent?

No, Michelle Bachman said President, and I’d say she meant to say President!

“This is not symbolic. This is why we were sent here and we will not stop until we repeal a president and put a president in the position of the White House who will repeal this bill. Until we repeal the current senate. Put in a senate who will listen to the American people and repeal this bill.”

She’s targeted the White House! And the Senate.

“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
#14 January 19, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Fionnagh commented:

Oh my G-d, this was so REFRESHING – refreshingly clear, refreshingly honest, refreshingly straightforward. I’ve heard lies so often for so long now, that perhaps I’m over-reacting, but….what a great way to over-react!
#15 January 19, 2011 at 5:01 pm
bg commented:

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valerie #7

tell that to Obama & Sharkowsky et al..

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#16 January 19, 2011 at 5:03 pm
joscefi commented:

My error, it should read “No, Michele Bachmann said….”
#17 January 19, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Redwine commented:

Bachmann in 2012 – a true conservative and constitutionalist.
#18 January 19, 2011 at 5:18 pm
befuddled commented:

if Bachmann can go from a Carter loving campaigner to an anti-socialist crusader, than i have hope for the future. to michael steele, i would say i would rather have less brothers and more sisters like Bachmann.
#19 January 19, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Alana commented:

Thanks, Joscefi!
#20 January 19, 2011 at 5:41 pm
theBuckWheat commented:

Socialism is the fraudulent offer by the State to have its citizens live at the expense of others. Christians should know it is institutionalized coveting, and is funded by theft from some citizens. This is made worse by assurance that it is “fair” and will make us all prosperous, which is a lie.

Having government intrude in private economic decisions destroys the ability of all participants in the economy to be able to know if a particular activity will actually be to their economic benefit. Thus, the more a government intrudes, the less prosperous the economy will become over time. Austrian economists like Ludwig von Mises call this the “information problem” and the “calcuation problem”. von Mises declared that a socialist economy is impossible given enough time.
#21 January 19, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Ross commented:

A woman whose family farm received $250k in government handouts rallying against socialism; that some barefaced hypocrisy. Clearly she only considers socialism a problem when it benefits the poor, not when she and her cronies are lining their pockets with taxpayers money.
#22 January 19, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Rock commented:

The woman nails it, now if more of her male colleagues would man up maybe these Socialist slime can be exposed for what they are.
#23 January 19, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Rock commented:

Just what is it these lefties find so attractive in a Socialist regime? They can’t honestly believe they will get to be part of the ruling class, I mean really that is reserved for the elitist with the power and money.
#24 January 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm
OC Rick commented:

I think the crown jewel of socialism was the Bank Bailouts under Bush/Cheney. Coorporate Socalism seems to be Just Fine with Neocons. Like the 45 Billion we give to Oil co’s every year. That would be the second “jewel”
#25 January 19, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Rock commented:

@ OC #24

While not technically accurate, I kind of like thinking the crown jewel of the Democratic Socialist Party was Nancy Pelosi and she got her scrawny tail kicked handsomely.
#26 January 19, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Chisum commented:

Rock,

Yep! She most certainly did.

Loose the flying monkeys….
#27 January 19, 2011 at 7:11 pm
OC Rick commented:

There you have it, Private Profits for the corporations, Public Risk if it goes sour. Neocons are bigger Socialists than Pres. Obama could even dream of. You just witnessed the biggest Theft in the History of the World by banks in 2008 and that is ok? sick.
#28 January 19, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Chisum commented:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101213110520AAGTU6I

And there you have it.

Obviously we are currently entertaining one of Pelosi’s flying monkeys.
#29 January 19, 2011 at 7:18 pm
nhale commented:

Michelle Bachman is an embarrassment to conservatism. She has made up so many “facts” and told so many half-truths that she has no credibility outside the far right whackos who post here.
#30 January 19, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Amanda commented:

I no longer have much use for her. After Palin helped her raise millions of dollars
for her campaign, she had no public support for her when Palin was falsely accused
of complicity in murders in Arizona.
#31 January 19, 2011 at 7:41 pm
sck commented:

Look at that crowd hanging on her every word!!
#32 January 19, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Bunni commented:

Michelle Bachmann was great! I love it, We’ll take his crown jewel and he won’t have it, just like MEshell took his family jewels He’s still looking for them. He won’t find them on his knees in front of Hu.
#33 January 19, 2011 at 8:03 pm
mike bromell commented:

Seems Bachmann would know all about SOCIALISM:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) — so fond of accusing the Obama administration of foisting socialism on an unwilling America — has apparently been the recipient of about a quarter of million bucks in government handouts. Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006

Bachmann isn’t alone in her selective socialism: EWG found that the top four districts receiving the largest ag payments are represented by conservative Republicans.

1. 3rd district of Nebraska (Rep. Adrian Smith – Republican) – $1,736,923,011 in subsidies go to 51,702 recipients.

2. 1st district of Kansas (Rep. Jerry Moran – Republican) – $1,315,979,151 in subsidies go to 75,802 recipients.

3. 4th district of Iowa (Rep. Tom Latham – Republican) – $1,288,622,912 in subsidies go to 35,696 recipients.

4. 9th district of Texas (Rep. Randy Neugebauer – Republican) – $1,227,192,312 in subsidies go to 21,290 recipients.
#34 January 19, 2011 at 8:05 pm
mike bromell commented:

Bachmann and Associates, Inc., a Christian mental health clinic founded and run by Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband, has been taking money from Minnesota’s coffers since it was founded in 2003. It’s the latest example of a disjuncture in Bachmann’s rhetoric: the Sixth District Republican has seen her star rise in Tea Party circles for fiery rhetoric opposing government “handouts” and “socialized medicine,” while, again, she’s found to be directly benefiting from government funds. Since 2007, the clinic, run by Marcus Bachmann, has taken in nearly $30,000.

According to the transparency project, Bachmann and Associates took $1,419 in public money in 2007, $13,140 in 2008, $12,493 in 2009 and $512 so far in 2010.

Jim Duffett of the Campaign for Better Health Care called Bachmann’s words and actions hypocritical.

“Yes, she is taking money from government programs, which she calls ‘socialism,’ and at the same time taking taxpayers money to help cover the clinic’s health care costs,” he said. Her family business is taking in taxpayer money, he said, “and at the same time demanding that taxes be cut.”
#35 January 19, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Fionnagh commented:

Wow, the trolls are out in full force over this! Gladdens my heart, because they only tend to post comments when something, or someone, might actually succeed in reversing the Dems’ catastrophic socialist policies.
#36 January 19, 2011 at 8:50 pm
bg commented:

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mike bromell

ooh wow, you’re good!!

can you reaearch Obama’s??

thanksinadvance..

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#37 January 19, 2011 at 9:03 pm
bg commented:

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mike bromell

Scandal: Michele Bachmann’s Father-In-Law Took Farm Subsidies

[December 23, 2009

The left has made it clear that they hate conservative women, particularly outspoken and popular conservative women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann. The latest manifestation? A “scandal” over the Bachmann family farm, managed by Michele Bachmann’s father-in-law until his recent death, taking farm subsidies.

First, barring some evidence of Michele Bachmann’s participation in operating the family farm beyond it being managed by her father-in-law, I’m not sure it’s fair to hold her accountable for these subsidies.

Second, let’s not pretend like farm subsidies are always optional. Farming, much like any business, is a competitive enterprise. That enterprise has long been distorted by government involvement in the agriculture markets in the form of subsidies, regulations, mandates, etc. For many farmers, taking subsidies isn’t a choice. It’s a part of business. If you want to keep up with competitors you have to take subsidies or go out of business.

This is a bit like saying that people who are on Medicare can’t be against government health care. As though Medicare were a choice and not a government program we’re all forced to participate in by penalty of law.

But the liberals love these games. Their goal is government dependence, and they love that Americans often find themselves in situation where they’re forced, either by circumstance or law, to participate in the very programs they oppose. So they can obfuscate the opposition to these programs and they ill they do with cries of “hypocrite.”]

here’s another one we haven’t (and we apparently never
will because it’s another Dem deal per se), heard about..

Scandal Not Ready for Prime Time

[Jamie Gorelick was Deputy Attorney General under Clinton. Fannie Mae board member Jack Quinn was the attorney for pardoned tax evader Marc Rich. Fannie also has one of the largest lobbying budgets in Washington. A Feb. 24, 2005, article in The Washington Post reported that Fannie “paid its lobbying corps about $5 million in the first six months of last year.”

According to Jeff Bliss of Bloomberg.com, Fannie Mae spent almost $8.7 million on lobbyists in 2003. In May of 2004, Citizens Against Government Waste criticized Fannie for “heavy handed meddling in the legislative process to protect the company’s congressional protected status and its lavish corporate welfare program.”

The connections were there, but broadcast news was uninterested.]

much much more @ link..

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#38 January 19, 2011 at 9:10 pm
notjenna commented:

Fionnagh commented:

Wow, the trolls are out in full force over this! Gladdens my heart, because they only tend to post comments when something, or someone, might actually succeed in reversing the Dems’ catastrophic socialist policies.

Please call me a Moonbat. Troll… that’s a little crass isn’t it? I’m not trying to disrupt things, just trying to understand the thinking of Hoft and his acolytes. So I’m curious Fionnagh (I like your name!), how do you see this vote today reversing “Dems’ catastrophic socialist policies“? All it is is House Republicans throwing a bone to the TeaParty™ using misleading language fed to them by Frank Luntz. It’s all show, no go. Unless you or others can show what the “replace” part of “repeal and replace” is it’s farting in the wind.

I’m curious too what y’all think about the (accurate) claims upthread about the Bachmanns being on the receiving end of government largess. That’s a lot of scratch they’ve gotten from Uncle Sugar. Socialism for me but not for thee? How does one explain that hypocrisy?
#39 January 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Helen commented:

I’m so proud to know Michele. She did her Lord and His people proud today, as did many.
#41 January 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

great someone who knows there is nothing just about social justice.
#42 January 19, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

notjenna, if you are truly curious, why don’t you read some of the subsequent responses?
#43 January 19, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

You can start with #28′s link. Then you can work on digesting #37′s links.

Then you can get back to us?
#44 January 19, 2011 at 10:25 pm
Redwine commented:

Looks like some of Soros’ bought-and-paid-for trolls are in for a little visit. Time for them to trundle on back under a bridge. Shoo, now.
#45 January 19, 2011 at 10:59 pm
notjenna commented:

Fair enough Taqiyyotomist. BTW, #37 went up as I was writing my comment.

Re: #28- following the link, then following that link, I find Will Folks (presumably) saying this:

While the government likes to portray farm subsidies as helping alleviate farmer poverty, the reality is that they are helping fund takeovers of family farms by large agribusiness concerns. They also represent yet another example of government picking winners and losers in the marketplace and engaging in functions that clearly fall outside of its core responsibilities to citizens and taxpayers.

That’s a view I’m sympathetic to. But I’m not sure that someone as close as an in-law offers the separation needed to insulate Bachmann from her constant invoking of “socialism.” I mean, she speaks of it an untenable evil and I think an honest person would disclose and explain such a close connection. That at least would leave us with the impression that she acknowledges that it’s a complex world we live in and that her all-or-nothing view of (what she calls) socialism vis a vis the complex problem that is the US health care ~~mess~~ system is a weak argument. Or maybe she has distanced herself from her FinL. I dunno.

Still doesn’t explain the state money that Marcus Bachmann has availed himself of. It’s money he’s taken from the state for treatment of low income clients (I’m sympathetic to that too) and if Ms. Bachmann is hell-bent against anything resembling (what she calls) socialism, well, she’s a beneficiary of it. I don’t believe she’s disclosed that money either. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that she hasn’t disclosed the dough in tax reporting, etc., I’m saying that if she’s speechifying in absolutist terms about the evils of (what she calls) socialized health care on the floor of the House, she ought to be honest about her being on the receiving end of some of it.
#46 January 20, 2011 at 4:03 am
ogee commented:

Don’t answer the trolls. Their questions are phoney and you’ll fall into their trap.
Blogesphere rule as of last month. Do not engage in any conversation with trolls flaming on rightwing blogs.
#47 January 20, 2011 at 5:09 am
Mike C commented:

I love her…
#48 January 20, 2011 at 5:50 am
gary gulrud commented:

Ross, bitter clinger: “A woman whose family farm received $250k in government handouts rallying against socialism”

My parents and a sibling(perhaps their greatest success by a number of standards) voted for Obama.

I warned them he was a Bolshevik thug but to no avail. I respectfully do not discuss the steaming POS with any of them. They are adults and have otherwise done well with their lives.

I blame NPR.
#49 January 20, 2011 at 7:11 am
Corey Mondello commented:

Red State, Republican, T-Bag, “Right-wing” & Conservative Christian Hypocrisy: Republican Conservative Christian Rep. Bachmann’s clinic takes in thousands from “socialized medicine” http://www.americanindependent.com/9517/bachmann%E2%80%99s-clinic-takes-in-thousands-from-%E2%80%9Csocialized-medicine%E2%80%9D
#51 January 20, 2011 at 12:50 pm
mike bromell commented:

Bachmann and Palin have the perfect crowd to sell their lies to as both Bachmann and Palin
are full blown SOCIALISTS and love how Bachmann won’t give up her GOVT RUN HC pgm

Bachmann and “Good Christian” gal Carrie Prejean – Bachmann is as phony as Prejean’s breasts
#52 January 20, 2011 at 12:53 pm
mike bromell commented:

Michele Bachmann lies about Nancy Pelosi’s “$100,000 bar tab”

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/09/17/michele-bachmann-lies-about-nancy-pelosis-100000-bar-tab/

The Values Voters Summit sure represents some odd values.

According to First Read, Michele Bachmann is accusing Nancy Pelosi of spending a big wad of taxpayer money on alcohol. In her military jet. Her military jet that is simply bursting with bottles and bottles of military jet alcohol. Military jet alcoholism is obviously a Democratic value, albeit one that apparently doesn’t exist.

The Pelosi camp had a thing or two to say about that:

“Speaker Pelosi does not drink alcohol. There is no alcohol service on the domestic flights the Air Force operates for travel from Washington to San Francisco for the speaker.”

Michele must have been a little tipsy herself when she blurted out that lie. Of course, her fine conservative value system will require that she retract such an embarrassing whopper, as it is very immoral to spread nasty rumors, especially false ones.
#53 January 20, 2011 at 12:55 pm
mike bromell commented:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwLcYUC7u0

Michele Bachmann lies about her step-sister
#54 January 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm
mike bromell commented:

More from this lying SOCIALIST from Minnesota:

During a weekly conference call with constituents today, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., said she has lost her health insurance as a result of the health care bill signed by President Obama today. She offered it as proof that President Obama’s “promise” that no one would lose their current plan under the bill “was not a true promise.”

But it’s not like she’s losing coverage. Under the bill, members of Congress will receive coverage either through a health care plan created by the bill (without the public option, that doesn’t exist) or purchased through the health insurance exchange that was created by the bill. So she’s not losing coverage, but the federal government is providing Congress with coverage purchased through the exchange.

Here is the relevant language:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after the effective date of this subtitle, the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff with respect to their service as a Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be health plans that are–

(I) created under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act); or
(II) offered through an Exchange established under this Act (or an amendment made by this Act).
#55 January 20, 2011 at 12:59 pm
mike bromell commented:

Her district is filled with right-to-lifers who will vote for anyone who claims to be anti-choice, and she’s a true believer so she’ll keep getting re-elected until she gets caught doing something sexual. Those folks hate sex. She also might get kicked out if the state party runs a pro-life democrat against her like they have successfully elsewhere. First the state party ran an idiot radio personality against her, which I never understood. Then they ran a nice local lady who lost her child in an abduction, but she was unpolished and unable articulate a plan to win in 2006. She was also pro-choice, which is a deal-breaker in Bachmann’s district.

Bachmann was a state rep for many years and had plenty or entertaining gaffes. She rode on the light rail system with a video camera trying to prove no one used it and that those people who clearly were using it weren’t paying. She ran away from a gay person who tried to ask her a question in a bathroom. Here’s a good article to get some context who this person is: http://www.citypages.com/2006-10-04/news/the-chosen-one
#56 January 20, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Chisum commented:

I read somewhere that if you want to know who the left fears most you have only see who they attack. The more fiercely they attack, the more they fear that person.
#57 January 20, 2011 at 2:19 pm
notjenna commented:

I read somewhere that if you want to know who the left fears most you have only see who they attack. The more fiercely they attack, the more they fear that person.

Whoa! Did you really say that Chisum? Does it not apply to the right or are there a different set of rules?

If it’s not obvious, who is it that is attacked 24/7 around here? In fact, what is the mission of this blog? Need I say more?
#58 January 20, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Chisum commented:

notjenna,

Sure, notjenna. That’s why the left is 24/7 attacking a woman
(and her family) who holds no office.

The people we criticize are responsible for making policy and laws for this country.

Don’t you have some more strawman arguments to make?
#59 January 20, 2011 at 2:44 pm
notjenna commented:

@Chisum

What? Since your comment @56 references no one in particular and the comments preceding it were about Bachmann and the OP is about some silliness Bachmann said, I know it’s a stretch but I thought you were speaking of Bachmann. If you were actually referring to Ms. Palin, you should have said so. It would still have been a non sequitur but we at least would have known who you meant.

Two other possibilities, I guess. Either she resigned and I haven’t heard about it or that’s an actual strawman residing in your #58.
#60 January 20, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Chisum commented:

notjenna,

Obviously the left is also scared spitless of Michele Bachmann.

Regarding your strawman argument, I was referring to this comment that you left at the UK Prime Minister Gave Obama $16,500 Gift In Exchange for 25 DVDs thread.

I can imagine, had Colin Powell been elected to the presidency in 2008, the cries of “RINO, RINO, RINO” ’round these parts. He’s pro-choice, pro (some) gun control, opposed to bayonets first foreign policy, pro DADT, pro immigration, and otherwise socially moderate to liberal. Many here would have turned on him even before he was sworn in.

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/uk-prime-minister-gave-obama-16500-gift-in-exchange-for-25-dvds/#comment-243465

But, it’s good that you responded to my comment you claim, in your circular fashion, not to understand. Obviously I struck a nerve.
#61 January 20, 2011 at 3:37 pm
notjenna commented:

@Chisum

I’m a libtard (as y’all like to say) who took the short bus here so help me out. And please type slowly so I can understand.

I’m unfamiliar with the practice of responding to comments with an oblique reference in an entirely different thread (subject of my post over there wasn’t about Palin either). I went back over there to see if you had responded and, nope, nothing from you there. So lemme ask, are there special mind-reading skilz required around here for responding to particular comments. Should I have gone over there with this comment?

Maybe the answer to this conundrum is the key to entry into your world. As I said elsewhere, I’m here to try to understand the Hoft-hive mind. Help me out.

Also, too. What you see here is not a lefty “scared spitless.” I like to think of myself as a connoisseur of teh crazee. IOW, it ain’t fear, it’s amusement. If you think Bachmann is some kind of force, just take a look at how she was treated by House Republican leadership when it came to committee assignments and/or leadership positions. She was relegated to backbencher status by that same leadership, a caucus she shares with folks like Steve King, Marsha Blackburn, Louie Gohmert, et.al.

Or were we talking about Palin?
#64 January 20, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Chisum commented:

Let me see if I understand your circular logic. I’m not permitted to take your comments in aggregate. I must contain my response to your comment in the current thread. And I’m not allowed to refer to a previous comment unless I responded to it personally.

Makes perfect sense.

I’m not here to amuse you nor to try to make sense out of your nonsense. Apparently the group think you espouse is common on leftwing sites. Probably why I avoid them.

As far as committee assignments, Bachmann’s time will come. What’s your reaction to how Charlie Rangel was treated? He has far more seniority than Bachmann can ever hope to have.

Perhaps you haven’t heard. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47842.html

Oh, another reason I don’t visit lefty sites. Scroll down, I’m certain you’ll recognize yourself and many of your friends.

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/20/lib-radio-talker-attacks-gop-lt-gov-of-wi-she-performed-fellatio-on-all-the-talk-show-hosts-in-milwaukee-and-pulled-a-train/
#65 January 20, 2011 at 4:41 pm
notjenna commented:

I’m not permitted to take your comments in aggregate. I must contain my response to your comment in the current thread. And I’m not allowed to refer to a previous comment unless I responded to it personally.

No, no no. I’m not here to tell you what to do, you can do whatever you like. I’m simply trying to understand the disjointed method.

What’s your reaction to how Charlie Rangel was treated?

Don’t really have a problem with it. I like Rangel but he should have been more attentive to the matters he was sanctioned. I also don’t think that being a senior elected official gives one cover for misdeeds. While we’re at it, what do you think about about the (non)treatment of Sen. John Ensign?

Oh, another reason I don’t visit lefty sites. Scroll down, I’m certain you’ll recognize yourself and many of your friends.

Never heard of John “Sly” Slyvester ’til now. I don’t listen to much talk radio (although I’ll often tune into some righties for brief moments just to see what the poutrage du jour is*), don’t find it informative, there’s way more heat than light and about as useful and informative as wasting time watching the gasbags on the cables. It’s interesting though, that you would lump me in with these gasbags when you know very little about me. Do all lefties look the same to you? I haven’t, and wouldn’t, compare you to excreable gasbags like say, Mark Levin or Michael ~~Weiner~~ Savage. Speaking of those two, having regularly sampled them, who listens to these angry authoritarian liars, and why? Their anger and namecalling send me to the shower after almost any listen.

*Hey! Have you heard that the FLOTUS is the cause of the uptick in pedestrian deaths according to the Governors Highway Safety Association?

Not so much, though.

“That makes it seems like we’re blaming Michelle Obama’s program,” GHSA executive director Barbara Harsha told TPM. “That’s ridiculous.”

(The Daily Caller has now added Harsha’s objections to the story and added a question mark to the end of its headline.)

“We want people to walk more, and to exercise,” she said. “We just want people to be aware, to pay attention to traffic and traffic signals.”

Harsha also noted that the GHSA has no data to show that more people are walking — it’s just a theory.
#66 January 20, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Lentenlands commented:

Repeal this marxist insanity!

http://smashabanana.blogspot.com/
#68 January 21, 2011 at 1:43 pm
mike bromell commented:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/politifact-bachmann-… /|PolitiFact: Bachmann’s claims ‘false’ more often than any other politician>

Only a day before the congresswoman’s Friday visit to Iowa, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact noted that she had made false statements more often than any public official.

“We have checked her 13 times, and seven of her claims to be false and six have been found to be ridiculously false,” PolitiFact editor Bill Adair told Minnesota Public Radio.

He added that no other politician had been fact checked as often as Bachmann without saying something that was found to be true.

The republicans have pinned their political fortune on the lies they tell. Doesn’t matter if those lies are about the economy, about healthcare, about foreign affairs the republicans are lying about it. Of all those republicans none of them are as fact challenged as Bachmann. Not only does this endear her to the republican base in Minnesota but it makes her the “goto” republican for political fascism. She has long surpassed Palin’s lie about death panels or the GOP’s lies about balancing the budget.

Given her propensity for lying there is very little chance she won’t be their nomination for president in 2012. She’s certain to “save” America from any hope of recovery.
#69 January 21, 2011 at 1:46 pm
mike bromell commented:

The folks in love with Bachmann are the same assclowns who touted Joe “the Socialist” Plumber who didn’t pay taxes and have lived off govt handouts numerous times in his
adult life

Bachmann is NEARLY as sharp as Christine O’Donnell … key word: NEARLY
#70 January 22, 2011 at 7:38 am
mike bromell commented:

Ghees… one would think Bachmann’s good bud Hannity would be all over this story:

Source: Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report his wife’s income from a conservative think tank on financial disclosure forms for at least five years, the watchdog group Common Cause said Friday.

Between 2003 and 2007, Virginia Thomas, a longtime conservative activist, earned $686,589 from the Heritage Foundation, according to a Common Cause review of the foundation’s IRS records. Thomas failed to note the income in his Supreme Court financial disclosure forms for those years, instead checking a box labeled “none” where “spousal noninvestment income” would be disclosed.
#71 January 22, 2011 at 8:37 am
Chisum commented:

mike bromell.

Is that you Sgt. Special Ed Schultz?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ed-schultzs-attack-on-bachmann-ignores-glaringy-obvious-fact/