Bachmann’s statements on stimulus raise a few eyebrows

As a Minnesotan I can only apologize for her remarks. She has a knack for saying stupid things and sticking her foot in her mouth. Why was she re-elected? Who knows. She didn’t get my vote. I think she is clueless.

The Congresswoman is a religious zealot nut case! Like Palin

How the Hell this woman was re-elected is beyond me. Are the people in Minnesota that stupid to put this ignorant woman back in office? God Help Us All!

Alright Michelle you idiot liar, WE the Dems owned the economy, because you and your buddies who have money, prefer to see more families commit suicide and fall into homelessness.

We warned you we would replace you and now since the lies are still coming, the action will begin.
First you order investigations on who’s really for America, well we see your party isn’t unless they get a cut.
Pack your toothbrush, your pink slip has been filled out. Join the rest of the unemployed.

bye bye shelly

Hey Minnesota:
You knew who this idiot was, when you voted for her again. This is what your wanted? IF it wasn’t for her stupidity, her racisism and Hoover ideas would be scary. Liar, Liar, pants on fire.

This woman is IG…NO…RANT!

> “We’re running out of rich people in this country.”

But our Strategic Dumb Reserve is well stocked.

Michelle Bachmann again proved how unintelligent she is. She says that this new stimulus bill has enough money in it to write a check to every man, woman, and child in the world for the amount of $1,430. So I got my 50 cent calculator out and divided 787 billion (amount of dollars in the stimulus bill) by 6.5 billion (amount of people currently in the world) and I came up with $121.08. I calculated it three times to make sure I was correct. I’m not sure how Michelle learned to do simple math but she really needs to go back to elementary school to get it right. This is why I won’t ever vote for her and I hope you won’t either. We need intelligent people who can not only do simple math but can also comprehend stimulus bills far beyond our expertise in office.

As someone from Illinois, it’s embarrassing to have someone who represents your state make a fool of themselves.

Why the people of Minnesota voted for Bachmann again is beyond me though, especially during her “lets hunt for people who are unamerican” segment.

She is a wack job….She needs help for her delusions!

“…to which Benen responded, “Congresswoman, you’ve literally lost something, but I don’t think it’s your country.”…”

LOL

Rush Limbaugh called….he wants his word for word talking points back.

WTF was MN thinking re-electing this whackadoodle?

She is a total Anti-American as all conservatives Wacky Wacky Wacky

Wow! Disinformation at it’s best. Can we get some fact-checking here?

The more republicans talk the more they show how dishonest and crazy they have become. This women has more than 1 screw loose. I will never vote republican again. I didn’t leave the republican party they left me and many others who once believed in what they had to say. They will do anything lie, cheat, steal using smear and fear to accomplish, what? Get and hold on to power with their narrow “know-nothing” non-vision.
I am totally for President Obama and pray that he can save us from the disaster that republican “governing” has wrought.
I hope the party gets so small that it can be drowned in the bathtub.

Godspeed President Obama
Peace

They will have to steal from each other now;Oh that’s right,they already are.

Is this woman for real? I live in one of the most conservative states in the US and even we get our facts straight. She seems to a) get the facts wrong b) not understand the issues (!) or c) just plain make up fairy tales. Can she read? Has she read anything about the stimulus bill? Or is she just plain nuts. She has the largest feet in the US Congress and the mouth in which to fit them.

I’d like to give her MY stimulus package!

do her constituents believe this stuff? is if the flouride?

Minnesota did not vote for this woman, the 6th District did – they are famously conservative but due to their location in the state they cannot be nudged over the border to one of our neighboring states, alas. Apologies to ND, SD, IA, and WI for even thinking about that.

What I don’t understand is how an elected official can just FLAT OUT LIE over and over and over?
I am a former 42 year GOP voter and I supported Obama for one reason. I am tired of the FAR RIGHT and FAR LEFT running their mouths off and running our country into the ground in the name of their ideologies. President Obama is a centrist and it is evident that he will work from the center to the joy of most moderate Americans.

The NUT-JOBS on both ends of the spectrum need to wake up, shut up and try to do some good for ALL Americans, not just their base.

Michele Bachmann rocks, I love how she keeps tweeking the libs too bad her, Sarah Palin and Ann Colture are the “men” of the GOP

so the rich people are backing the democrats?

I think she had overdosed on Prozak and she has gone from depression to full-blown delusional schizophrenic psychosis.

Yes, fact-checking would be nice, but first you need real reporters. What’s at least as sad as what bachmann said is the fact that it went unreported in the two major metropolitan daily newspapers and all tv and radio stations serving her district–with the exception of the decrepid, hate-mongering station where she first spewed these lies. It’s been the work of volunteer bloggers to report it to her constituents.

As for those blaming Minnesota for re-electing her, please restrict your finger-pointing to that portion in the northern part of her district inhabited by inbred KKKhristians, anti-abortion zealots, creationists and homeschoolers. The more enlightened parts of her district soundly rejected her in both her congressional elections.

For my fellow progressives and liberals that do not understand how Bachmann was re-elected, I give you this spot on characterization of Minnesota’s Sixth District:

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/11/the_battle_for_bachmanns_seat.php

We’re running out of rich people? Yes, and I guess that’s why the Republican party is falling out of favor.

‘Blizzard of words, not just wwords, blizzard of lies’, not a single original intelligent word comes from this woman…………

You just can’t fix STUPID!

LIAR

Don’t worry Minnesota everyone I have ever met from your state has been nice and educated. She might be right on the Federal money and that’s what happens when the President asks you to dance against the advice of his own and you won’t give him the time of day. If we are going to spend money spend in this country and if the Republicans or Wall Street doesn’t like it don’t take the money.

This woman really doesn’t have any common sense. She and the majority of republicans are such sore losers. I predict this sore loser attitude is going to cost them dearly in the future. More Democrats will be elected and overall the RNC is on the self fulfilled path to extinction. I would love to see America vote each and everyone of them out of office.

It’s wonderful to have a voting member of congress who actually believes everything she reads in the National Review, Weekly Standard, etc.

Sod Bless Michelle. I just listened to the whole intervierw and can not find a thing wrong with what she said. I guess the truth is tough to take. God Bless Michelle for speaking out against the insanity!!!!!

I know for a fact that ACORN is included in the stimulus bill so that just proves that Steve Benen is lying and i am pretty sure thats not the only thing he is lying about. Wow. I can not believe how oblivious so many people are to the ideas and plans that Barrack Obama has!

this is right wing radio at it’s best,misinformation is their only concern.a gr8 reason for the fairness doctrine,as progressive talk is being dropped all around the country by conservative corporate ownership.the devil is in the details.

This dangerous lying liar has been elected twice by Minnesota. Does anyone think for one minute she doesn’t represent what Minnesotans believe? That’s how she was elected!

Wow. She is awesome. Maybe the 6th district voter her in for the entertainment.

Doesn’t the state use CENSUS totals to determine those districts ?? And isn’t there an option in the census to “estimate” urban areas ?? Don’t urban areas vote mostly liberal ??

Get with it people…. 2010 is right around the corner !!!!!!!

Maybe she was referring to “rich” people who actually spend money (not debt), and not referring to the ones who hoard it. We have plenty of those. If that is the case, I would agree with her.

I just did a document search of the final Stimulus Bill (HR 1) and there is no mention of ACORN. To be thorough I also searched under “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now” and again no mention of it.

I do believe it was in one of the early versions of the bill but it was removed in the compromise version that eventually passed. This is where I found the version that was checked:

http://www.finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/020209%20complete%20legislative%20text%20of%20American%20Recovery%20and%20Reinvestment%20Act.pdf

“the recovery package is part of a Democratic conspiracy to “direct” funding away from Republican districts, so Democratic districts can “suck up” all federal funds”

And just in today from the White House, figures showing that the three Republican-held districts in Minnesota are predicted to be the top three districts in the state for job gains under the recovery plan.

In fact, Bachmann’s district is at the top of the list.

Thank you Minnosota for giving us Michele Bachmann! Here’s why!

Michele Bachmann represents a brain dead world view where facts are meaningless. As congresses least articulate member, her half witted, stream of conscious musings fly out of her mouth completely unfiltered. This gives us all a window into what Republicans are really thinking! Americans who might be thinking “how in the heck did we get into this mess” can listen to Michele Bachmann and immediately know how we got to where we are. Her existence is a poignent reminder of just how stupid we can all be.

Michele Bachmann has some gaping flaws, one of which is directly beneath her nose, but this is not a total lose for the American people. In their infinate wisdom the people of the 6th district in Minnosota choose to reelect Representative Bachmann, giving us all an exciting spectacle to stare at with our mouths open! You just don’t know what she is going to say next.

She is a Democratic strategists dream come true, just put a mic on her and leave it running. She is not only a gift to the Democratic party, but the whole nation, and in the big picture, the whole world. Thank you people of the 6th for giving us Michele Bachmann!

Palin Bachmann 2012

Michelle Bachmann represents her district very well..Have you ever read of the Jukes and the Kalikaks..This is her district–Inbred for years.

The people that voted her back in again aren’t likely to be bothered by the fact that she lives in an alternate reality.

First, not that many are really that aware of the news down to this level of detail. There’s a lot of right wing propaganda victims out there.

Second, in my experience living in the 6th, a large number are already living in an alternate reality and don’t understand any problems with that. Remember, Jesus told her to run.

I guess we are stuck with her for a while. At least there’s some entertainment value to the jewels that fall out of her mouth occassionally.

look no further then your congressmen who got us into this mess.. both sides. they wont impeach bush because it will drag down quite a few from both sides, including leading party members.

Bravo, Minnesota Bravo!!!
I just can’t believe we have a THING like that in a position of power in a civilized society like ours. Of course with an animal like her it will be very easy for the talibans or any other enemies of our country to convert young Muslims into radicals. All you have to do it’s to show them on youtube like she represents all americans as shameless and racists. It’s more than obvious that people like Bachman don’t have any sense of decency but to embarrass a whole state like that or worst, the whole country, it’s unforgivable.

I live next door to Bachman’s district in MN (Betty McCollum the fine Dem Congresswomen is my rep). I worked very hard to defeat Bachmann with donations and footwork. It was a close race in a jerrymandered Republican district. Four years ago I was introduced to Michelle Bachman at a Rotary dinner where I was meeting my new boyfriend’s old college friends. I stood up and said that I didn’t shake hands with fascists and I went off to the salad bar. Boyfriend followed behind me. Boyfriend and I are still together. Unfortunately Bachman is still around too but Minnesotans aren’t all so stupid.

How could the people of Minnesota vote for Al Franken? He owes taxes in more than one state. Shameful!

Probably taken out of context. All I can add is the DNC is doing a fine job of dividing America by having supporting radicals. Bachmann don’t seem to bad to me. I ‘m not a radical.

Of course she is going to blame the Democrats for everything. But she needs to be reminded that letting the psychopaths in her own party have a say so is just wrong.

Letting republicans try and fix the economy is like letting a pedophile watch the children.

It just shouldn’t happen.

2 words partisan idiot

Ted Haggard in a skirt. The coalition that Rove put together is falling apart. The Harper Valley PTA took over the republican party. It is sad. With Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin and Bachmann as spokespeople for the party, how long can it really last?

I live in Minnesota. I can assure you all that she was only re-elected because her district is insanely conservative. Were it a statewide election she would lose by 15%. Here’s hoping the census redraws her district.

She’s a nutcase. Thanks voters for sending another crazy person to Washington.

Michelle, dumb belle
These are words that go together well,
Why Michelle?

Michelle, dumb belle
Don’t know why you have to be a shrill
Why Michelle?

We loathe, we loathe, we loathe you
That’s all we want to say.
Until we find the way
We will say the only words we know that
You’ll understand.

Michelle, dumb belle
Don’t know why you be have to be a shrill
Why Michelle?

Don’t need you, don’t need you, don’t need you.
Someday soon you’ll see,
Just how mean you can be
Until you do we’re hoping you will
Know what we mean.

We’ll get to you somehow.
Until we do we’re telling you so
You’ll understand.
Why Michelle?

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Michele Bachmann (R – Crazytown)

Of course ACORN isn’t in the bill. It never was. ACORN however can aplly for grants and loans under the bill like everyone else. ACORN does more than just register voters. They are also involved in starting new low income housing developments and rehabbing run down housing.

As someone who lives in Bachmann’s district, I am so embarassed. I did my best to get her voted out, and we fell short. The 6th district needs to be “re-zoned”, parts of it are so conservative, but Bachmann doesn’t speak for ME and many of my friends and neighbors.
I’m telling you, she won her election because she had the big letter “R” next to her name, and nothing more. People don’t even follow politics, or understand what she stands for, or realize she HAS NO BRAIN. They just went to the polls in November and voted for the Republican.
And because of their idiocy, we are stuck with this moron who exposes herself as BRAIN-DEAD every time she opens her mouth.

Disgusting and of course it’s a bunch of lies. I’m in her district and I’d like to round up everyone who voted for her and kick them in the butt. What an appalling and idiotic woman she is. To the rest of the country: We are so sorry. I campaigned for her opponent.

“I can assure you all that she was only re-elected because her district is insanely conservative.” from Derek.

Derek, I live in her district, it’s not insanely conservative. But it’s insanely religious, and she appeals to that. It’s the born-again syndrome. I’d still like to kick them all in the butt but even if I did, it wouldn’t knock the religion out of them. I wish. Bachman is crazier than anyone else in Congress and worse than crazy she is completely dishonest. I hate that she represents my district. I deeply resent it. But like Bush didn’t represent all Americans, she doesn’t represent at least half of her district. I think the students at SCSU were too busy to vote on election day. I can’t believe even the students here supported this super-religious nutcase. And she is religious–but not Christian. More like Satanic.

Palin/Bachmann 2012

Because the Raped must Birth

Congratulations to Mr. Benen for, delicately, describing the mental condition of the Senator. Would to god the media had developed that attitude in 2000 when the bush regime seized power.

I was watching some post election coverage on a local channel and that “Reality Check” guy said he called various people in the 6th and asked them about Bachmann and her statement about the whole “pro american or anti american” and he said that the majority of them agreed with everything she said. That is how she got re elected. And the statements she said the other day, I would have to say a lot of people agree with that as well. This is how she gets re elected. The 6th district is a sponge for republican propaganda. Just like the cities is one for democrat propaganda.

I’m also from Minnesota. I don’t live in her district but used to work there. I think the key to her election & reelection is due to the crazy jerrymandering of her district. It wraps around the twin cities from the Minnesota/Wisconsin border going west in a swath across the state. It picks up conservative northern suburbs and central MN. At the same time, she actually lives in the most liberal area of her district. To top that off, in this past election her democratic opponent had barely campaigned at all until she made the unamerican comments and it was too little, too late.

Barack Like Me wins the thread with the “Strategic Dumb Reserve” comment. LOL.

I gave money to her opponent in the last election after her McCarthy-esque gaffe about anti-Americanism within the Congress. She’s absolutely crazy, completely out of her mind. If she was 80 years old people would think she was senile.

The point is that this “losing our country, the commies are taking over” crap is spreading like wildfire on the right — along with the Obama is a fascist meme (it took me four years to figure that out about the Cheney Administration; these guys have reached the same conclusion in four weeks).

We’ve seen this movie before. It is going to end in violence, just as the last round of right wing hysteria ended in Oklahoma City.

If she does not believe what she says, then she is a liar.

If she does believe what she says, then she is demented.

Either way, she does not belong in Congress.

Anyone here from the 6th district? Its time to recall Bachmann.

Lets get the ball rolling.

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[...] as a joke, or a humorous comment, was actually meant in earnest.  Congresswoman Bachmann made a statement the other day that just doesn’t add up.  American, it seems, is “running out of rich [...]

I’m Minnesotan…born and raised…and there’s simply no explanation as to how this woman got back into office. I didn’t vote for her, no one I know voted for her… Please don’t hate us T_T

Her base is in Stearns County (St. Cloud). If you haven’t heard of “Stearns County Syndrome” Google it!!!!

Nuf said!

Bachmann and Palin are the democrats’ secret weapons. They keep sqawking and we are sure to win in 2010, 2012…

She may be right. We are running out of rich people in this country – thanks to the inevitable results of the Republican Party destroying the underpinnings of a wealth-creating society, i.e. places where people can invest their excess income with the realistic expectation of getting it back, together with some increase, at some future date.

The Republican Party wrote the present estate tax law when they had unrestricted control of all three branches of government back in 2002. And that law gives a complete, total, and unconditional freedom from any and all federal estate tax to the heirs of anyone dying during calendar year 2010. Come January 1, 2011, and then anything over about $850,000 gets taxed – at rates starting at 55% and going up from there.

Given the results of their unregulated and unrestricted financial shenanigans, it doesn’t look like all that
many people will be affected, does it?

Even so, a fair number of elderly wealthy folks are going to find themselves invited out to the fantail of their cruise ships after drinks late at night, come Thanksgiving and Christmas, 2010. Maybe they’ll still be wearing their little diamond-and-ruby American flag lapel pins alongside their Palin/Pawlenty campaign pins as they wonder why they are the only ones without lifejackets.

how sad: he is barely in office, and she just won’t even give him a chance… and why not be part of the healing rather than play the villain?
it’s all reminding me of an opera buffo….

There are good reasons why we see Rep. Bachman in the 6th and it is not all because of not right wingers and/or Republicans. I think many of those people are as embarrassed as anyone. I think the first reason is an old DFL problem that has manifested itself statewide. Wrong candidates! How can the DFL not have a handle on the strength and history of Stearns County. This is the area that provided the most strength for electing a religious ant-abortion zealot. Look back in your history, the west central part of the county did not have a public high school until app. 1970. My grandparents lived in Stearns County for over 50 years and I was raised Catholic, so I am not clueless to this area. Why was the DFL? There had to be stronger candidates, than what we have seen, who can appeal to this group of voters with intelligent conversation.

I am glad I am in the west and we dont have people representing us beyond stupidity.. if this lady was to be in Idiocracy movie she would be the queen of the world.. please,,. dont make me think that Minessottas are in the idiocracy world by re electing this nutty lady???

Please don’t take her comments to be representative of all Minnesotans. The vast majority of Minnesotans see her as crazy, and, as she is a member of the house of representatives, she is elected only by the people in her districts, not everyone in minnesota.

>Her base is in Stearns County (St. Cloud).
>If you haven’t heard of “Stearns County Syndrome” Google it!!!!

Interesting.

So this is what happens when cousins marry.

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[...] groups are criticizing her for some statements that she made. What’s new? Here’s one of those attacks: ACORN is “under federal indictment for voter fraud,” but the stimulus bill nevertheless gives [...]

Attention Democrats: Let Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin speak. They will assure destruction of the Republican party. I wish we had them in Illinois.

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Hey Minnesota, what happened? Used to be the “Land of Sky Blue Waters”, now it is the land of wackos and miscreants; you got Ventura, Ellison, Franken, and Bachman. And you guys voted for each of them! Is it something in the water? Then again, wackos are less dangerous than the crooks you get out of Illinois…where the governors make the license plates…..

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[...] running out of rich people”, comment on their latest broadcast. Minnesota Independent has an interesting piece  as well as the MN Progressive Project, and of course Dump Michelle Bachmann has all the [...]

[...] Bachmann alert! “We’re running out of rich people!” [...]

Here is the answer to running out of Rich people comment. Maybe Bachmann and Republican Colleagues caused it. Maybe the Republicans shouldn’t had sent out Checks for 8 years. I just want to say Boo Hoo to Bachmann because she is a moron. Who reelected this Woman a bunch of stupid foos.

Oh yes may the Bunch of Morons who re-elected Bachmann please stand up and say why you were stupid into re-elected this jerk. Anyone who didn’t vote in the Senate Election please stand up because of you the Recount trial is going because of you.

Why or why did Bachmann get re-elected? I’m from Minnesota but thankfully not from her district. I would also like to remind everyone that Minnesota is a liberal – educated state, so where did this ignorant woman come from? She has no idea what she is talking about. I would think even the Republicans would be laughing.

Michelle Bachmann: the Republicans version of Maxine Waters.

Between that idiot woman from Lakeville, Norm Coleman and Bachman, its becoming more and more embarassing to say your from Minnesota.
We’re a liberal state, but we do have our share of clueless conservatives.

Sorry but, Maxine Waters go on facts…
This lady is over the chain. Minnesota do you have any people from earth in your state.

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Congresswoman Bachmann is the best thing we have going in this wacky state. What’s wrong with you crazy people?

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Partisenship can be defined as the “Haves” and the “Have Nots”. The bottomline is the Republican party is all about taking care of #1…themselves. Every political issue is defined by “what’s in it for me?” THEY are only interested in increasing their personal wealth and the hell with everybody else. The only time they support spending is when they are putting it into the pockets of their constituents (i.e., Halliburten, arms manufacturers, etc.) In the case of Health Care, the last thing they wanted to do was take any profits away from the hospital administrators, doctors, etc. who are usually their golf buddies and cocktail party guests. Just take a look at the “right” vs. the “left” in the House of representatives. On the “right” are stereotypical White Anglo-Saxon Protestants while on the “left” is a true representation of the majority of this country. The bottomline is that the typical Republican can afford whatever they may need, so the suggestion that some unfortunates may need some assistance, or protection from the government does not apply to them.

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