Bachmann’s district continues to lead state in foreclosures

I knew Michele was a leader!

Michele shows leadership!

She is more interested in representing the right wing of the Republican party than her constituents.

Leadership? This woman has no idea what some of her consitituents are going through, or doesn’t care. I hope they remember this at election time.

[...] district had 1,097 foreclosures in July, August and September of 2009, according to the Minnesota Independent, which crunched the [...]

She will blame it on the Democrats and many of her dyed-in-the-wool conservative “family values” unquestioning supporters will believe it and still vote for her. Those people deserve what they get, not the rest of you.

ahh yes… Michelle.
The woman that brings shame to our great state’s political representation.
How she keeps getting re-elected, I do not know.

I actually saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read:
“Minnesota – 10,000 lakes and one Batsh!t crazy congresswoman”.

The people in her district were STUPID enough to vote her into office a second time, so there’s no reason why they wouldn’t vote her in again. The majority of poor, uneducated, white christians, don’t want to associate themselves with the party that represents a black president. I don’t agree with everything Obama is doing like escalating an illegal occupation in two countries or his decision to help out wall street at the expense of main street. There’s no helping people who are blinded by stupidity and racism.

she defiantly leads her constituents…into foreclosures!

You people are all COMUNISTS!!!

Our districked will never vote for SOCIALISTS POLICIES!!!

I would rather live in a box!!!

What is her appeal? It’s beyond me.

Commenter Lisa Kimple is obviously insane…and so is Bachmann and her christer co-hort.

I hope Lisa Kimple is joking (in which case, awesome comment). Its tough to take someone seriously who cannot spell Communism.

I am just impressed this woman got elected again. It’s clear she has no concern for her constituents nor the current foreclosure epidemic.

@Lisa: But would you live in a box if it had been made by a COMMUNIST? Better not risk it … maybe under a bridge? D’oh built by socialistic taxes. Rough life.

Perhaps the 6th District would get the message that Bachmann is hurting their interests if there was a boycott of businesses in the district. Stop spending your money there and supporting the fools who voted for her. When their pocketbooks are affected, they might wake up. On the other hand, maybe not.

Lisa, on the one hand, I hope you are just a crank pulling everyone’s leg. Otherwise, you’re a truly damaged woman. Do you even know what a “socialist policy” is? Will you decline to take Medicare when you’re 65? Have you had the good fortune to lose your employment and your home?

Why don’t you put away the computer and go back under the bridge from which you came. You and your ilk have no idea what true socialism is. And, perhaps you should invest in a dictionary. It is not okay to be willfully ignorant of the world outside your little town. All you know is what people tell you. I doubt you’ve looked anything up or done any research on any of these issues. Otherwise, you wouldn’t say such dumb as a box of hair things.

What are you doing in your location to ease the burden on a homeless family, children who may go for a day or two without food? These are the people who are suffering. These are the people who need help. Michele Bachman is a pig-ignorant harpy with paranoid delusions who wraps herself in God and the flag as if it makes her somehow superior. It’s funny — well perhaps funny isn’t the right word — the awful things that you and your friends accuse liberal’s of happen to the be the things you would do if left to your own devices.

It’s uncharitable of me to think such a thing, but I certainly hope that you face all of these dreadful things that are happening to honest, hard working Americans personally. Maybe then you’ll have the decency to keep your trap shut.

Correct spelling and grammar are not simply for the “elites” — it’s very egalitarian. It’s for everyone equally.

You got what you paid for – Bachmann si an utter fool

I feel sorry for the people of the 6th District. At this rate, Bachmann can not possibly be re-elected, there won’t be anyone left to vote for her.

Bachmann’s cry: “Let them eat cake”.

I don’t think Lisa Kimple is kidding. She misspelled both communist and district, a common trait among right wing tea bagging dumb conservative.

the poor in so many places vote against their own interests because of identity politics, so I have no hope they won’t vote for her again

but if anyone is supporting her because she claims to be a Christian, I would ask her what Jesus would want. And he said to take care of each other without any preconditions.

The misplaced anger of the moronic right is infinitely amusing. They blame their problems on East Coast, latte drinking effeminate elites instead of laying the blame where it belongs: with the collusion of government and big business. Their professed “leaders” shill for big business tax breaks and other policies that regularly shaft Joe Six-pack, yet Joe gets all riled up on Glenn Beck about “elites” who have no real power whatsoever. The town hall this summer where the old timer yelled “keep your damn government hands off my Medicare” is a perfect example. Just keep them confused with flag banners, platitudes about patriotism, God and about the anti-American liberals who actually have some decent ideas on fixing some of the problems of this country, all the while undermining them economically, educationally and environmentally. Stupid is as stupid does.

I happen to live in California and I’ve been watching this woman from afar…I am convinced Michele Bachmann’s deranged and in addition has a wild hair up her bum.

They were stupid enough to vote for that loon they deserve what they get.

Lisa Kimple writes:
You people are all COMUNISTS!!!
Our districked will never vote for SOCIALISTS POLICIES!!!
I would rather live in a box!!!

Dear Ms. (S)imple,
Firstly, there are two m’s in communist. And though I do agree your district has been ‘tricked’ by M.B., there is still no K in district.
And as for wishing to live in a box, well seeing how M.B. district has the highest forcloseures rates in the state, me thinks you may get your wish.
just saying……

Stupid is as stupid does.

Maybe she thinks those who are in foreclosure represent the anti-American portion of her constituency.

Posted by Lisa Kimple You people are all COMUNISTS!!!

Our districked will never vote for SOCIALISTS POLICIES!!!

I would rather live in a box!!!

(Let me help you a little here. First you misspelled Communists and District. The term is Socialist Policies and I think you already live in a box of ignorance and intolerance. I doubt you even understand the term Socialism. Some might consider our postal, medicare, school and transportation systems socialistic.)

@Lisa Kimple

“I would rather live in a box!!!”

Why don’t you grow up and look around you? We already have socialist policies. For the rich who can take advantage of offshoring and otherwise sheltering their wealth to avoid paying their taxes. We pay their taxes. Specifically, you pay their taxes.

For the largest corporations that are insulated, by your taxes, from failing no matter how bad their decision-making. At this very moment you are paying the interest on money borrowed by our largest banks. They’re not paying it and someone has to.

And by the end of the year your taxes will have gone to paying tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in bonuses to people who earn in a year what you will earn in your entire working career.

So enjoy living in that box. Fat cats on Wall Street will be pleased because it means they have succeeded – through their writing of the laws and making of the rules – in squeezing every last penny out of you that you have. They would like it if we all lived in a box.

Again, wake up and stand up for your own interests and not some slogan that represents you pay while they play.

Cheers!

I live in the 6th district.
We tried in the last election to get rid of her. In fact, she was crapping her pants because it was so close. We all thought, OK, she didn’t lose. But maybe she will see how much her constituency is fed up with her antics, and change. As you can see, she didn’t.
We’ll get her out of office next election!

Kline and Bachmann top the list.

The big free-market-knows-best loud mouths, and their constituents get thrown under the train.

At least there might be some justice if the foreclosures hit the very people that elected these “nay sayers” to office.

Were it Patty Wetterling and Colleen Rowley, in DC instead, there would be caring for the plight in the districts.

Instead, there is Kline. There is Bachmann. There is sadness. There is stress, on families, families that can become torn apart when the stress mounts to undermine the foundations of trust between these families and the community banks and mortgage brokers and others in the housing trade. Democrats care. Republicans vote against whatever is proposed to lessen strain on families.

Go figure – who REALLY represents family values, and who deals in falsehoods and hot-button rhetoric that helps nobody, and is only divisive and devoid of any solutions.

If you are not part of a solution, you are part of the problem – and until voters fix things, problems will remain.

So when are you bozos going to vote this slime ball out of office.

Are you people crazy in Minnesota or did the cold freeze your brains

Hey Lisa Kimple. You are precisely one of the stupid idiots who keep voting for her. Go back to school and learn how to spell you sorry excuse for a human being.

I live in the sixth district, too. There are a lot of bible thumpers here but, even so, the majority in St. Cloud voted against her, probably because of the university population. Still, the number of seriously ignorant people in this district is incredibly high. Anyway, she is an absolutely worthless representative and an embarrassment to this lovely state.

I have mixed emotions about Michele. On the one hand, I am frustrated that a person so grotesquely ignorant can get elected to anything, much less the congress of the United States. But on the other hand, I’m from the South, and it’s gratifying to know that we have no monopoly on world-class kooks. In fact, Michele makes our historical standard bearer crazies, such as Lester Maddox or Jesse Helms, look pretty common sensible by comparison. And I thought Minnesota was a progressive state. Is it just the 6th district that’s dazed and confused?

According to http://names.whitepages.com/Lisa/Kimple, there is only one Lisa Kimple in the US and she lives in PA. I think you’ve been duped, y’all. Brilliant post, “Lisa Kimple”.

@empi:
Is there a reason you feel the need to insult all Minnesotans? Perhaps you need to go back to school and learn a few things, hmmm?

You know, this woman says she believes in god. I guess they teach you to damage people at their core, and this is what she does. People lost their homes and she didn’t even care. What a F$$$ing animal. Bachmann should be embarrassed to call herself a Christian. Of course when your a menopausal lunatic you loose sigh whats right and wrong.

Hey aporter….Good luck
we’re countin’ on ya!!

[...] Bachmann’s district had 1,097 foreclosures in July, August and September of 2009, the highest in the state and almost three times as many as Rep. Tim Walz’s district, which had the state’s lowest number of foreclosures, at 396. READ MORE… [...]

How much money did Bachmann Inc. take last year in farm subsidies?

They got what they deserve. I’m sure these home losers will be able to pull themselves up by their boot straps without any help what so ever. I hope she gets re elected. So more conservatives can lose their homes. Or they could stop voting Republican and still lose their homes all the while getting taxed higher and higher via the Democrats. Either way it’s a win win for the Bankers. Isn’t Democracy great?

Lisa Kimple with a rep like Bachman you will be living in a box…literally.

[...] Bachmann’s district continues to lead state in foreclosures By Andy Birkey 12/1/09 6:00 AM [...]

Perhaps this sort of information will help Mn 6th voters to vote for Tarryl Clark, the likely Democratic Party candidate for Representative from the 6th. Ms Clark – a Mn State Senator – would definitely have supported reforms to reduce foreclosures forcing people out of homes, had she represented Mn 6th instead of the vote-skipping Michele Bachmann in Congress now. And Tarryl Clark will support foreclosure relief should she win election in November, 2010.

C’mon, give Lisa Kimple a break! How could that post not have been tongue-in-cheek? Those of us who poke fun at the wingnut fringe always use mispellings like that. True teabaggers/fringe nuts are also never concise and to the point. They always rant and their letters to local papers always have the postscript “edited for length.” Finally, why would one of those nut jobs even be here? They would fear that God would smite them for dancing with the devil! That’s my bet anyway.

Minnesota independent????? What, was “minnesota left wing loon progressive” already taken. False advertising!

Can we all somehow just pretend that she doesn’t exist? When I get frustrated with my dog I ignore him. It’s much more effective than yelling…
Now, my dog is quite a bit more intelligent than Michelle Bachman and I’m sure he would be upset if he knew I made this comparison.

I know it sounds cold hearted but so the hell what? These people continue to vote against their own interests why should anyone feel sorry for them. They had the oppurtunity to get rid of her in ’08 and they sent the nut job. How anyone who works for a living can vote for Republicans is beyond me.

As a person that has taken in 23 foster children, I am very surprised at M.B.’s any social programs attitude. The foster care system is one of our many “socialist” programs in which adults take in children and get PAID by the state. These same children get Medicaid, so the adults who foster them do not have to pay any medical expenses of any kind. The foster parents also get checks twice a year to buy clothing for these kids on top of the monthly checks they receive. Pretty darn good money to be had if you can get enough of those foster kids. 23 sounds like a pretty good number to me.

She and her husband run a mental health clinic. I’m willing to bet they take in a lot of those “socialist” dollars there as well. Medicaid pays for counseling.

Oh and yes, as a congresswoman, she and her family enjoy, at taxpayer’s expense the best health care coverage money can buy. Just another one of those silly “socialist” programs she is always on about that we don’t want and don’t need.

So glad to see she can suck it up and suffer all those things and more that she feels the rest of the populace simply does not need.

[...] foreclosure, gop, michele bachmann, minnesota, minnesota independent, mortgage reform, no The Minnesota Independent is reporting today that the 6th Congressional District that Rep Michele Bachmann (R-MN) represents continues pace as [...]

I have mixed emotions about this one. On the one hand, I want her the hell out of there because she is a brain dead idiot.

On the other hand, I love having her, Sarah Palin, Miss California, Ann Coulter, et al. around, just for the comic relief they provide anyone who has a bit of character, a reasonably strong intellect, or even a bit of intellectual curiosity, for that matter.

[...] measure that crossed her path has paid off for Michelle Bachmann’s constituents. Her district leads her state in foreclosures. I wonder if They’ll remember that little tidbit come election [...]

What’s her appeal? Sex. Women want to look like her, men want to hump her. It’s the same thing Sarah is selling.

To Lisa Kimple: Your spelling is really bad, but funny too… “districked” was a good laugh, although I will say this, your congresswoman has DIS’ed her people and TRICKED you into believing she represents the people of her DISTRICT.

I like Michelle, I live in calif and am grateful for all the political crazies that pop up in other places and distract attention from the embarrassing insanity that is calif politics, Thank you Minnesota.

This woman may be the stupidest person in Congress and, as we all know, that bar is set pretty high.

Does it really surprise anyone that Michelle Bachman’s district led the State in bad decisions? Look who they elected.

HECK – The United States must be starved and destroyed in order to create the utopia.

The theocratic state.. …pure bliss awaits…
..we can put carpenters and electricians to work to build the death camps for the SATAN worshipers. Fornicators, Homosexuals and Liberals ..you know that you are criminals.

Rejoice in the UTOPIA,
God Bless.. M

I live there, Dist. 6, and did not vote for this crazy woman. I am Liberal and very very frustrated with this State and this country. While occasionally humerous, people like MB are very dangerous and more prevalent in our political system than most realize. And yes, there are a LOT of dumb voters out there.

We need to change the election process dramatically or we are all doomed, i.e. get the Money out of it, make it State subsidized! Run offs, etc.

NewsBusters: Schultz Uses Questionable Foreclosure Data Generated by Agenda-Driven Newspaper to Blast Bachmann Voting Record
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/12/03/schultz-uses-questionable-foreclosure-data-generated-agenda-driven-paper-

I am not very, shale we say political. I would be best described as a “Unitarian Conservative Independent”. I keep my mind open, my mouth closed usually and my purse strings tight, not closed. I believe as a GOD fearing white male that everyone has the right to be equally judged by his or her peers by his or her actions. I try my best to see everyone’s side and not take sides due to sex, race, age or opinion. However, MB has failed to lead or help our district in any positive way. In fact I believe that she is deliberately trying to destroy this district and has blinded the public to such course. She is like the politicians of old who get further and richer on the backs of their constituents. There is no other reason or excuse for her words and her actions that she has taken over the last years. Politicians in the past have been run out of office for fewer offenses. Is it worth impeaching her or will she be the bigger person and step down? You tell us Michelle Bachmann, are willing to face you public and stand down or will you continue to lead your people into ruin.?

Regarding StewartIII’s link to a “newsbusters.org” post. Here is a link to a post about “newsbusters”.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/09/10/newsbusters-is-bullshit-and-they-spread-lies-about-americans/

I have conservadem, Jim Marshall (GA-8), Suxby Chambliss, and Johnny Isakson representing my district and state. All of them voted with Bachhmann not to help homeowners, and they cited “fiscal responsibility” as the reason for not supporting the bill.

When does people getting kicked out of their homes, taking salary cuts, losing their jobs, applying for and getting social assistance = fiscal responsibility, when the federal and state governments have to turn around and help them in the end anyway?

My point is that, either way, it’s going to cost money, and since the people I cited don’t like spending on social programs, why would they do something that causes spending on social programs to increase?

They’re hypocrites. As long as they, their families, friends, associates, and the corporations are happy, the rest of us don’t matter.