Bachmann: Obama to leave far-left legacy even if it means losing in 2012
Monday, August 31, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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Paul Demko, MnIndy
Rep. Michele Bachmann hit the stage at the Steamboat Institute’s first Freedom Conference in Colorado on Saturday. Ross Kaminsky of the Denver Post — who says he publicly commended Bachmann at the event for “kicking so much ass” — recaps her “brief but dynamic talk.” He writes that the 6th district Republican said President Obama told her he’d “be perfectly happy to leave a far-left legacy even if it means losing his second election for president”:
Bachman [sic] spoke about the political climate in DC, about the follies of “bipartisanship” at this time, and about the fact that conservatives should not assume that the Democrats will not find a way to pass a truly terrible health care bill. Bachmann talked about her background with a PhD in federal tax law [Bachmann has a J.D. from Oral Roberts and an LL.M. from William & Mary]. She told a story of needing to get a clarification on a 14-word section of the commercial tax code: She eventually found someone at the IRS whose whole job was intepreting [sic] that 14-word section. Bachmann said that the experience made her realize that “the average citizen doesn’t have a chance.”
One of the most interesting things Bachmann said was confirming something I’ve said to many people: When people tell me that Obama will back off the policy proposals that the public most hates, I generally reply that Obama is a committed ideologue and, unlike most politicians, will be perfectly happy to leave a far-left legacy even if it means losing his second election for president. Bachmann said that Obama said that very thing to her and a group of Congressmen (and Congresswomen) that he was meeting with earlier this year. Bachmann believe [sic] Pelosi falls in this same camp, though Pelosi’s risk is “losing the gavel”, not losing her seat.
While Bachmann shared the stage with the likes of Grover Norquist and Michael Reagan in Steamboat Springs, she’ll be the star attraction in Denver today: She’s headlining a fundraiser there for the Independence Institute.
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Comment posted September 1, 2009 @ 12:36 am
Boy, good thing there’s no work AT HOME to do, huh?
Comment posted September 1, 2009 @ 6:20 am
On Aug. 2, the St. Cloud Times reported a pledge by Bachmann that hydrocephalus was “among the issues she will focus on … in her district during the House’s August recess.”
The article can be read on Rep. Bachmann’s congressional website:
http://bachmann.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=141034
Has Bachmann followed up on that commitment? Bachmann has a long history of taking up causes, promoting them in the media for political gain, and then abandoning them when they cease to pay off for her.
Remember her top campaign issue of the 2008 election? Drill-drill-drill for $2 gas.
Or, her top issue last spring: lightbulb freedom of choice.
No word on those issues of late, which makes no difference one way ir the other, but the hydrocephalus pledge is different; Rep. Bachmann made a pledge to families with hydrocephalic children that she would be a champion for them this summer and I’d like to see her follow through on her pledge.
Comment posted October 11, 2009 @ 11:25 am
Uh, Obama has sent billions of US tax dollars to a George Soros owned offshore drilling company that operates in Brazil.
So we can’t drill here but our new President is in bed with the drill there crowd.
Obama is also sending 1/2 a trillion dollars to Al Gore for a foreign auto manufacturing company that builds 100k dollar cars, so much for job stimulus here in the US. Where are we now?17% unemployment and counting. 9.8% is just those lucky enough to be getting unemployment benefits.
We need people like Bachmann to shine the light on the anti-American activities of the Obama Administration.
Sorry haters.
Go Michelle Go.
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