At Values Voters Summit, Bachmann praises tea party, predicts GOP wins
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 11:27 am
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Speaking at the Values Voters Summit on Friday morning, Rep. Michele Bachmann defended the tea party and predicted a Republican takeover of Congress in 2010. “I am so eager for November to come I can’t wait!” she said as she greeted the crowd.
Expectedly, she bashed Democrats, pointing out excesses by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
“These high and mighty types, part of the ruling class here in Washington, D.C. — they live at wine and cheese parties. As for me, I prefer tea parties, just so you know.”
Bachmann neglected to mention the $500-per-person fundraiser she held in July 2009 at Washington’s Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar, an event journalist Chris Steller noted today on Twitter.
She spoke at length about the tea party movement. “The tea party is not a political party, it’s not a red party, it’s not a blue party,” she said. “It’s really about red, white and blue and the spirit of 1776 and the nobility of the founders of this country.”
She also said that people have been spreading misinformation about the tea party.
“And to those who would spread lies and to those who would spread falsehoods and rumors about the tea party movement let me be very clear to them: If you are scared of the tea party movement, you are afraid of Thomas Jefferson,” she said.
She criticized health care reform and the bailout of Chrysler.
“In record time the American people have roundly rejected the government that they thought they were going to get,” she said. “Because for the last two years, the government has been busy trampling on the rights and on the values of the people who voted for them.”
“Barack Obama’s government has clearly betrayed our trust, the trust of the American people,” she said, adding, “But in November, the voter is going to speak again and this time I think they’re going to shout in 2010 and once again I think the government will be fearing the people and liberty will be refreshed in our country.”
She then took a swipe at Pelosi.
“Speaker Pelosi, who has been busy sticking the taxpayer for a $100,000 bar tab for alcohol on the military jets that she is flying.”
She ended her speech with an tearful anecdote about the Four Chaplains, an anecdote she has used frequently in the past.
She ended with, “God has shed his grace on the United States of America.”
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Comment posted September 17, 2010 @ 12:36 pm
There are rumors that Bachmann has more support for the Speaker’s job than John Boehner does.
Comment posted September 17, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
Bachmann is referring to one of those right-wing emails that is going around when she speaks of a “$100,000 bar tab” on the Air Force planes that fly Nancy Pelosi to California and other destinations. It turns out that members of Congressional Delegations who fly with her incur non-reimbursable expenses.
The $100,000 amount is fairly accurate, but it is not for booze, or even food, alone. It includes baggage fees and meeting room costs.
FactCheck.org found that the amount spent per participant traveling with Pelosi was similar to the amount spend by participants traveling with her Republican predecessor, Denny Hastert (Pelosi-$310 and Hastert-$302).
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 12:37 am
Is it possible to get the complete text of Michele Backmann’s speech at the 2010 Values Voter Conference?
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 7:17 am
Just another distortion by an ultra right wing christian whack job.If this scewball is an example of what is going to be in heaven when I die,I have no desire to be with the likes of her and her christian values.I guess hell is the only alternative left,but it’s better than being with people like her!
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 9:57 am
What’s the matter, Bud, the standards too high? Fortunately for you, the left has none.
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
Denise,I don’t need a book full of phony diatribe and bullshit that tells me how I should treat my fellow man or woman.Maybe you enjoy being manipulated and controlled by these half baked screwballs,but I personally find it reprehensible.The only people that adhere to this control are individuals that haven’t any control or purpose with their own self serving miserable lifestyle.Heh DENISE!
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 8:23 pm
Dennis, all that talk of morality, values and standards still doesn’t get the job done. The Republicans is the former; most of the Democrats is the latter despite the obstructionism of the Party of “No.”
As for the teabaggers, they do not have the best interests of America at heart; I distrust their destructive ways.
Comment posted September 18, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
What are these Values I hear so much about? As far as I can see the values Bachmann and her ilk proselytize about are all focused on money. All this BS about taxes is nothing more that an excuse to be selfish.
Bud: I’m with you, if heaven is full of these so called “Christians” I’d rather not be there. Can you imagine how annoying that would be. It would be hell. Of course we use the Christian term lightly as they focus more on the old testament than the new so Christian may not be an accurate description.
Ghandi said: “I like your Christ, but I don’t like your Chirstians, they are so unlike your Christ.”
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Comment posted September 19, 2010 @ 12:35 am
Dennis is a person who gets his dwindling kicks in life from pissing off “liberals” with his comments. It’s called “baiting” so don’t be taken in by them. Dennis is either not as extreme in his actual beliefs as he makes out or he is very seriously disturbed and needs compassion and to be pitied.
I don’t usually watch any TV anymore but I happened to be at a hotel which carried C-Span on Friday, so I tuned in and found that it was carrying the Values Voter Summit. I just happened to catch a bit of Alabama GOP candidate for state dog catcher Dale Peterson and then Family Research Council scold Gary Bauer’s speeches. What a pathetic spectacle.
I’m very, very disappointed in Obama. But for somebody like Gary Bauer to say in one breath accuse liberals of being “morally relativistic” and then in the next claim that “Obama hates America” along with a string of bald faced lies is the epitome of hypocrisy. The tepid, barely polite, applause he got from his audience tells me even the deluded faithful are not completely taken in by his lies and bamboozlement.
Bachmann is just the same. All she and the other angry right wing demagogues do is parrot a bunch of empty rhetoric for a few simple minded people to stand up and applaud.. She has no solutions for anything. \
What is depressing is that we have two political parties neither of which is providing any solutions to the real problems faced by its people. I don’t know how this is going to turn out but it cannot, except for the grace of God, turn out well.
Comment posted September 19, 2010 @ 2:25 am
For Bachmann to criticize ANYONE for lying is insanely ridiculous. It would be most difficult to find a miniature needle of truth in her haystack of “free speech”.
Comment posted September 19, 2010 @ 11:58 pm
>>>> What are these Values I hear so much about?
Above all else I’d say: liberty. Despite the secularist diatribes, the concept of liberty appears to be a gift of the teaching of Jesus. Accepting Christian theology or not, Jesus’ approach to winning coverts was through appeal, words spoken and eventually written. Not force. His flock was of FOLLOWERS, not RULED. (Other religions are also “free” but they are less relevant factors in western civilization.)
America was founded on that principle. Freedom for each person to contemplate and decide for themselves. The common thread amongst “right-wingers” is a love for freedom. Mistakes are made, some conclusions are mistaken, but liberty is still the guiding principle. Liberty is antithetical to the left, who rule, by force.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 10:43 pm
A quick wiki-check indicates that the political concept of freedom/liberty started to develop as long ago as 24th century BC in Lagash, a Sumerian city-state. So much for J/R/R’s lame attempt especially given that all Americans of all political stripes share a love for freedom and liberty.
Weasel words are hardly a substitute for informed discussion of complex issues with an eye towards constructive resolution of those issues in the best interests of everyone.
From what I’ve read on this Summit, all the speakers were just full of hot air. Yawn.
Comment posted September 30, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
help us all if this woman ever becomes speaker of the house, she would be worse than Newt Gingrich was and that is saying something because he was the worst speaker of the house that we have ever had.
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