Bachmann a conservative kingmaker?
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 7:40 am
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MinnPost’s Derek Wallbank caught an interesting quote by Rep. Michele Bachmann during her district-wide bus tour on Wednesday. Bachmann wants to emulate Sen. Jim DeMint, who has been pouring money from his political action committee into the coffers of staunch conservatives around the country.
“My goal in the House is to do what Jim DeMint has been very successful doing in the Senate. He’s been trying to bring like-minded conservatives into the U.S. Senate.”
That elicited an interesting comment from University of Minnesota political expert Larry Jacobs.
“What it suggests then is that [Bachmann’s] role is not the legislative process and bill passing, but rather the political electoral part. She’s not trying to be elected speaker or majority leader — this is about her trying to build a movement across the country.”
Bachmann has started her own leadership PAC and has begun to give funds to candidates. Politico notes that her PAC, an acronym for her first name, actually spelled her name wrong. The paperwork filed with the FEC read “MICHELLE” — with two Ls instead of one.
Bachmann has been a fundraising dynamo for her own campaign thus far, despite her online form being somewhat incomplete:
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Comment posted August 26, 2010 @ 12:01 pm
Looks like she’s joining Glenn Beck’s nutfest this weekend where 30-40 million people will converge on the Lincoln Memorial.
Comment posted August 26, 2010 @ 8:27 pm
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m wondering if those who support that so-called Tea Party Movement really know where Republicans are leading them? It seems like the Tea Party rank & file are being USED by a bunch of vain, self-serving, evil, power mad, greed stricken, K-Street Con Artists. Paid for by wealthy silver spoon trust fund babies who want to turn the American PEOPLE into peasants. The scum of the earth who hide their hideous faces by using Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin as spokespersons. SUCKERS!
READ: (“Covert Operations, the Billionaire Koch Brothers who are waging war against Obama” by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker
Just look at their agenda items. It‘s like wet dream for Ken Lay, Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich or Jack Abramoff:
1) Repeal Health Insurance Reform
2) Privatize Social Security or abolish it.
3) End Medicare
4) Extend Bush Tax Cuts for wealthy and Big Oil
5) Repeal Wall Street reform
6) Protect all those responsible for Gulf oil disaster and future environmental catastrophes
7) Abolish or cut funding to Department of Education
8) Abolish Dept. of Energy
9) Abolish Environmental Protection Agency
10) Repeal 17th Amendment
11) Rewrite Bible and school textbooks,
12) Replace JESUS with Glenn Beck, Frank Church with Joe McCarthy…
13) After USA is destroyed by Republican Party low grade thought processes, BLAME Democrats/Liberals
14) be flunkies, soldiers and slaves for silver spoon trust fund babies like George W. Bush, Saudi Prince Bandar and the Koch Bros.
REALITY NOW! What leadership, character or morals have Republicans displayed since Obama was sworn in? NO solutions, NO rational plans, clear agendas or common sense policy… JUST Sarah Palin/Glenn Beck groupies parroting talking points! (I heard rumors someone in the Palin entourage is smuggling meth/coke on the tour charter flights)
COME ON, are you right-wing wackos #*~/‘n INSANE? Am I missing something here but didn’t Conservatives just have 8 YEARS of Bush/Cheney and Republican controlled Congress (1994-2006) to put their warped ideology into practice? AND IT ALMOST DESTROYED THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH!
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