Bachmann, Paulsen make Roll Call vulnerable list

I live in the 3d District, won by Mr. Paulsen in the last election. He fits very well with the Republicans in the 3d, and the 3d has been Republican for a long time. However, there has been a noticable shift away from Republicans as we’ve come to know them in the last decade; Mr. Paulsen’s Democratic opponent in the last election was a US military veteran, credible, but inexperienced and utterly unknown in the District. If the Democrats can find a more visible and well-funded centrist from among their ranks, they may yet take the 3d.

St Cloud Times editorial board had some harsh words about Representative Bachmann this past Sunday. I wonder if things like that have any effect at all on her base of supporters. They seem as detached from reality as their Representative. I hope the indepedents and Democrats in the 6th see fit to support someone more sane and coherent for Congress in the next election – she serves no one’s interests it seems

Ms Bachmann is not caught up in the cycle of lobbyist get campaign funded, rep secures oodles of earmarks for lobbyist clients, lobbyists and their clients take that money and funnel back to reps campaign, over and over with the winners being the lobbyists, their clients and the representative ALL at the expense of the taxpayer.

Don’t be misled by the fact that Ms Bachmann looks so different than you are used to because she is actually representing real people, real taxpayers who are forced to pay for everything that happens at the capital. She represents real individual people and not your favorite group or someone elses favorite interest group.

Finding 225 more Bachmanns would lead to a princpled government that just might start abiding by the constitutional restraints set up by our founding fathers instead of being drunk with power and leaving all of us citizens with the hangover for generations to come.

“she is actually representing real people”

Are you talking about the real people who think Americorps is a re-education camp? Or the real people who want us to be “armed and dangerous” as a response to cap and trade? Or the real people who are alarmed because “we are running out of rich people in this country”? Or the real people who want a MacCarthyesque witchhunt of Congress? Or are they the real people who like being lied to about earmarks? Or the real people who want to be lied to about the cost of cap and trade (a lie which was printed in the Star Tribune in Bachmann’s op ed, and they later had to retract)?

I guess I don’t know the “real people” she represents, the ones who actually like being lied to on a regular basis. The real people I know want honest representatives who actually work for them on real issues like jobs, housing, and healthcare.

Rep Bachmann has opposed legislation designed to reduce the number of mortgages in default that result in foreclosure and eviction of families from their homes.

That is not representing well the Americans in the 6th who face lenders uninterested in keeping people in homes.

And the idea that there are “real” Americans … suggest others are not, though citizens and taxpayers. That language is factually wrong, divisive, and counterproductive.

I’m liberal, atheist, independent, and just as patriotic an American as Rep. Bachmann and her supporters. This Sarah Palin idea that “real Americans” aren’t found on the east coast … or anywhere else where people hold political views at odds with hers … is the thinking of a demagogue, someone unworthy to lead in our great nation