Bachmann founds and chairs new House Tea Party Caucus
Friday, July 16, 2010 at 7:49 am
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Rep. Michele Bachmann filed paperwork on Thursday to create the House Tea Party Caucus, formalizing the movement within the federal government. The caucus will “promote American’s call for fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and limited government.” The caucus joins numerous others in the House including the Congressional Black Caucus, the Liberty Caucus and the LGBT Equality Caucus, for example.
In a letter to the Committee on House Administration, Bachmann wrote:
I would like to register the House Tea Party Caucus as a Congressional Member Organization for the 111th Congress. The House Tea Party Caucus will serve as an informal group of Members dedicated to promote American’s call for fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and limited government. Presently, I will serve as the chair of the House Tea Party Caucus.
In a statement announcing the creation of the caucus, she said, “The American people are speaking out loud and clear. They have had enough of the spending, the bureaucracy, and the government knows best mentality running rampant today throughout the halls of Congress.”
“This caucus will espouse the timeless principles of our founding, principles that all Members of Congress have sworn to uphold,” she continued. “The American people are doing their part and making their voices heard and this caucus will prove that there are some here in Washington willing to listen.”
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Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 8:07 am
I’m wondering who is going to join this caucus. Virginia Fox? Steve King? Love to be a fly on the wall in their meetings. Will it be a contest to see who can come up with the wildest CP? Or will they be whispering to the person next to them that the person sitting across from them is really too crazy to be in the caucus? There’d be lots of whispering going on!
More likely, they’ll be trying to figure out how to direct federal funding to their pet causes – keeping gays and minorities down, shifting power from the government to multinational corporations, and keeping labor really cheap by keeping undocumented workers illegal so they will continue to work for lower pay – under the table.
Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 8:19 am
I love how Michele is differentiating conservatives from the RINOs. At least you won’t have to have a certain skin color, favorite sexual act or other similarly irrelevant characteristic to get in.
Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 8:24 am
Again Michele!! Fiscal responsibility??? PLEASE!!
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Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 8:25 am
Life imitating art (or comedy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU
Unfortunately, it’s not funny in real life.
Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 9:39 am
Would she be willing to join a “Representing the Needs of the People in the Sixth Congressional District of Minnesota” caucus?
Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 11:57 am
They have had enough of the spending, the bureaucracy, and the government knows best mentality running rampant today throughout the halls of Congress.
So when will she stop pushing for a repeal of Roe v Wade and push for a repeal for DODA? Oh that’s right, she only wants to limit the “government knows best mentality” when it’s about something she disagrees with.
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Comment posted July 16, 2010 @ 9:34 pm
Doesn’t joining this caucus just kind of automatically identify you as pointless to negotiate with? Does the club t-shirt say ‘I’m with stupid’? Why not just go sit in a treehouse with a ‘no brains allowed’ sign on the door?
Comment posted July 17, 2010 @ 8:37 am
More likely, gbear, the t-shirt would say “I’m with the Founding Fathers.”
Comment posted July 17, 2010 @ 3:55 pm
Whatever, as long as they wear something that identifies them as belonging to this little, self-marginalizing club.
Comment posted July 17, 2010 @ 11:40 pm
“I’m with the Founding Fathers.”
Here’s one:
“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.”
Comment posted July 19, 2010 @ 12:17 pm
Here’s a better one:
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Francois D’Ivernois, 1795.
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