Bachmann at CPAC: Watch out for ‘Obama’s thought police’

By Andy Birkey
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3:03 pm

BachmannCPACAt the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)  in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann talked about the founding fathers, the President Bush “Miss me yet?” billboard spotted in her district, and what she calls President Obama’s “thought police.”

Minnesota blogger Ed Morrissey introduced Bachmann with a swipe at Sen. Al Franken. “The state bird is the loon, which explains why the the state question is: Al Franken? Really?! ACORN. Yeah… We have things to apologize for, Al Franken being chief among them.”

“Michele Bachmann was a tea party activist before the tea arrived,” he said, praising the Sixth Congressional District Republican.

Bachmann approached the podium to the strains of Tom Jones’ “She’s a Lady,” to which Bachmann quipped, “Thank you, Senator Specter,” a reference to Sen. Arlen Specter who recently asked Bachmann to” act like a lady” when she kept interrupting him.

“We really have a great sense of humor in Minnesota,” she said. “We are very good humored people.”

At one point, Bachmann showed a slide of a billboard recently spotted near Wyoming, Minn., — which she proudly noted is in her district — showing President George W. Bush and the words “Miss me yet?”

She slammed Obama’s policies. “This is intending to fail,” she said. “In a matter of months, we have watched as the Obama administration has accumulated more debt than in all previous 233 years of American history, taking us from $10 trillion to $14 trillion.”

After Bachmann made the same claim in North Dakota last week, Talking Points Memo interviewed Concord Coalition policy director Joshua Gordon, who said Bachmann’s number don’t stand up to scrutiny.

Then on President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she said, “He turned what was a manageable recession and turned it into a 10-year depression.”

She spoke about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

“These are rights that government can never take away from us,” she said. “What does that say about Obama’s thought police and Obama’s speech police. That is not what the founders meant.”

And, as she did at a speech in North Dakota last week, Bachmann wept, this time telling the story of the “Four Chaplains,” chaplains on the World War II troop ship the USAT Dorchester gave up their life jackets — and perished — so others could escape the torpedo-damaged vessel.

Watch her speech:

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Comments

20 Comments

Thomas Butler
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 3:08 pm

I’m pretty sure that Michelle has absolutely nothing to worry about from the thought police.


T-Bag Jones
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 3:29 pm

How is Wyoming in her district? I live in Chisago County, between Stillwater and Wyoming. Bachmann is not my representative. So how is Wyoming in the 6th District???


Eric
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 3:56 pm

I’m agent #K365KM from the National Security Agency, Marxist Takeover Division. I’m authorized to inform the MN Independent, Andy Birkey and his editors that unauthorized reposting of anti-Obama speech is unlawful under the new National Security statutes. An ACORN democracy advisor will be visiting your offices shortly to advise you on the proper conduct of a deferent press.

Can I be frank with you as a fellow American? The new liberal/socialist/fascist/communist order (and yes, I’m authorized to inform you that they’re all the same concept) means a radiant future for all of us.

I’m afraid Bachmann will have to be voted out of office for not complying with the new program. ACORN activists trained in speech and thought policing are being reassigned to the sixth congressional district as I type this.


akcoyote
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 5:42 pm

Can’t help it. I like this ‘lady’.

Palin / Bachmann 2012


GadZooks
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 7:19 pm

Michele really knows how to kick moonbat asses, doesn’t she? But if you thought that was good, wait until she is part of a GOP majority next year! Wo0T!


Wowwow
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

What a bunch of freaks – scary!


majii
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 8:46 pm

There was nothing substantive in her speech. It appears to me to have been a mishmash of buzzwords and catchphrases she thought the CPAC attendees wanted to hear.


Lazercat
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 9:58 pm

Michelle, the thought police already checked out your attic and found only bats.


cyberaim
Comment posted February 20, 2010 @ 7:18 am

So we have an opinion here how we believe people should behave and act, and because it is nothing like she protrays – we are of the “Obama thought police”?

News for Bachmann, my own opinion may overlap some with Obama, but I know how to think for myself and it isn’t overlapping with anything you are protraying.

She needs to go. No more Minnesota nice. The sixth district may have some very good Republicans, but there are not in the same light as this M. Bachmann.


George Hayduke
Comment posted February 20, 2010 @ 5:09 pm

Hate to inform you, Ed Morrissey, you worthless POS, but Al Franken has accomplished far more in 6 months in the Senate than Bachmann has in three years in the House AND 5 years in the State Senate.


Frank
Comment posted February 20, 2010 @ 5:14 pm

I really wish that I could think of a sublime comment like Lazercat’s above. All that I can add to the chat would be a report on my emotions whenever I have to travel thru District Six. I get frozen spasms going off along my spine and a leaden feeing in my guts. The same feelings that I had in the Sixties when I had to drive thru Alabama & Mississippi. That was during the wingnut reaction to the Civil Rights Movement. I knew that there were decent, sane people living in the Deep South, black people. But the majority were rabid, frothing wingnuts who liked Ross Barnett, George Corley Wallace & Sheriff Bull Connor. In District Six there are doubtlessly a few sane people, but the majority are obviously quite comfortable with Madwoman Michelle.


Anna
Comment posted February 20, 2010 @ 5:56 pm

“In District Six there are doubtlessly a few sane people, but the majority are obviously quite comfortable with Madwoman Michelle.”

No, they are not. She won with less than a majority (47%) in 2008 (there was an independent candidate who cut into her vote).


T-Bag Jones
Comment posted February 20, 2010 @ 5:58 pm

The Sixth District is full of people from up north who don’t want to move to the integrated “Cities”. Most of them are former farmers who were put out of work by Reagan, and were forced to move to civilization. But they still have their racist homophobic beliefs. They don’t like the gays, the blacks, the asians, the Mexicans. Basically anyone who didn’t emigrate from Scandinavia are suspect and not to be trusted. And women should be barefoot and pregnant, and shut the hell up. And if elected, be a nutjob do nothing waste of skin like Bachmann.


sueinmn
Comment posted February 21, 2010 @ 8:43 am

Who ever votes this woman in, needs a mental eval. She is truely nuts!


bud dingler
Comment posted February 21, 2010 @ 11:35 am

Does Bachmann do anything with her tax paid salary other then bash Liberals?

I thought she was supposed to be representing the people and working on legislation that helps people. You know like take away their SS and Medicare.


T-Paw Is A Jerk
Comment posted February 22, 2010 @ 11:43 am

If she is against the thought police then I am all for them.

I want the first person they lock up because of what they are thinking to be that woman. She does not deserve the right to open her mouth and speak when everything she says is hateful.


Norman Teigen
Comment posted February 23, 2010 @ 8:32 am

I have never heard Congresswoman Bachmann speak before. She has a certain demagogic style that is apparently appealing to many. As an amateur American historian I observe say that she tries very hard to re-write history in her own manner. I find that her historical re-write is not convincing. By combining her historical revisionism with emotional anti-administration flourishes she has created an image for herself.


melissa
Comment posted February 24, 2010 @ 9:24 am

This women is so out of touch with us in her district.


WTF?
Comment posted March 4, 2010 @ 10:30 am

Did anyone read the post from Eric, agent #K365KM from the National Security Agency? Is that for real? So much for the first amendment. That post stinks of a tyrannical government at work.


Paul Schmelzer
Comment posted September 28, 2010 @ 10:45 am

“Monk Wranczic”: You’re commenting using multiple usernames in violation of our comment policy, so I’ve deleted your comment. As I’ve alerted you to this policy before, I’ll be blocking your IP address the next time you use a new username. Thanks.


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