Tea party to Bachmann: You don’t speak for the tea party
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 9:15 am
Rep. Michele Bachmann has been steeped in tea party politics for the last two years, but she may be overstepping her bounds as she increasingly attaches herself to a movement that insists it has no party and no leader. Bachmann is set to give a response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening in concert with the Tea Party Express — a move that has prompted local tea partiers to cry foul.
“Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has confirmed with us that she will broadcast her response to Barack Obama’s State of The Union address this Tuesday,” Tea Party Express leader Amy Kremer told supporters over the weekend. “You’ll be able to watch her rebut Obama via her address which will be broadcast on our website: www.TeaPartyExpress.org.”
That has caused some consternation among the Tea Party Patriots of the Twin Cities. The group sent out an email Monday evening that said, “Please call Michele Bachmann’s Office and tell her that she does not speak for the Tea Party. Michele has announced she will be giving the ‘Tea Party Response’ to the President’s State of the Union Address. The Tea Party Patriots Organization is a grass roots organization. One person has no right to speak for the whole organization.”
Her response also means she may steal some thunder from the official Republican response, which will be given by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor downplayed Bachmann’s plans to NBC on Monday. “Paul Ryan’s giving the official Republican response,” Cantor said, adding that Bachmann will have an opinion “just as the other 534 members of the House and Senate [are going to."]
Bachmann has carried the mantle of the tea party for quite a while, organizing the House Tea Party Caucus, hosting constitutional classes for tea party–affiliated Republicans in the House, and being named a Tea Party Express “hero” in 2010.
Last year she tried a similar strategy when she hosted a tea party event on the same day as Obama’s State of the Union address.
27 Comments
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 11:25 am
“The Tea Party Patriots Organization is a grass roots organization. One person has no right to speak for the whole organization.”
Then who is this person to say that Bachmann doesn’t speak for the Tea Party? He doesn’t speak for the Tea Party either. heh
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 12:03 pm
Michele Bachmann speaks for one person only…HERSELF!!!
It’s about damn time people recognize that! Bachmann is a USER. She is USING the Tea Party as a stepping stone to further her own ambitions. If then Tea Party doesn’t realize that, they are as naive as she is.
Not to mention, STUPID!! DAMN!! Michele Bachamann can’t erbrn get her Ameican History right!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/anderson-cooper-bachmann-american-history_n_813695.html
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
I agree with Dennis. (do you believe it?)
Let her speak. Let her flap her lips until the cows come home. Go girl go!
Especially during these dull, drab days of winter,we all need a good belly laugh on a daily basis. Michele does that for us. Please don’t take that away.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 12:29 pm
This is hilarious. OK, I’ll humour you.
What objections to Michele Bachmann could the teabaggers possibly have? She spouts vicious lies and other untruths, just like they do. She represents primarily aging, wealthy white people. I don’t get it.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 1:46 pm
According to The DumpBachmann blog today she said the the meeting with Scalia on Monday never happened. This woman is delusional.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 1:47 pm
I just heard from a reliable source (Twitter) that she’s going to bite the head off a live chicken. Maybe that’s why CNN will cover her speech and MPR is not. Got to have the visuals.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 5:40 pm
Who speaks for the Republicans OR the Tea Bag ( Pate-Ree-Uhts )?? It’s the SAME F*CKING PARTY!! Yee Haw!! .. This is gonna be fun!! It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion… MARK MY WORDS!!! The EEEEVIL word for the Republi-Baggers tonight is the word…………..” INVESTMENT”… Just my prediction….
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Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 8:05 pm
Michele Bachmann speaking about our first settlers, “it didn’t matter the color of their skin, it didn’t matter their language, it didn’t matter their economic status.”
She is delusional…..unless she was talking about the people those settlers were shooting at and enslaving.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 9:54 pm
Ms Bachmann speaks for the Tea Party members of congress. So shut up and listen to her response.
Comment posted January 25, 2011 @ 10:24 pm
Will Bachmann note that unemployment was 10.4% 2 years into Reagan’s administration? Just curious if she will tie current unemployment to the sitting President’s responsibility, both for Obama and retroactively for Reagan.
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 12:06 am
Um,
Does Eric Cantor not know the # of Representatives in the House?
Or is that a typo by the newspaper/website?
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 12:29 am
I agree with Barrett.
God bless Michele Bachmann, a true American Patriot in the order of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
It is time to take away the credit card that the Democrats are looting our Treasury with to buy votes at the expense of future generations!
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Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 1:24 pm
No Tea Bagging Liars. Michelle Bachmann IS your spokesperson. You own every bit of stupidity that comes out of her mouth because it is YOUR stupidity. Death panels, cencus concentration camps you name it, you own it. Too bad teabaggers are too stupid to see their own philosophy on display. Teabaggers are proof of a failed education system.
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 1:34 pm
http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201101250021
Insisting that she was not upstaging the official GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) offered a combative and highly misleading speech of her own following the president’s address. In her “Tea Party Response,” Bachmann repeated a litany of false right-wing talking points about everything from the Recovery Act and job losses to the debt and “16,500 IRS agents.
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 1:38 pm
Vern
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 12:29 am
I agree with Barrett.
God bless Michele Bachmann, a true American Patriot in the order of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
It is time to take away the credit card that the Democrats are looting our Treasury with to buy votes at the expense of future generations!……………………………………………………………………………..Vern, you must be talking about the guy you voted for TWICE. Your close personal friend GEORGE BUSH.
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 4:01 pm
The Judean People’s Front denies any connection to the People’s Front of Judea!
When did American politics come to resemble a Monty Python sketch?
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 7:32 pm
Michele Bachmann did not say how we got here from eight years of poor leadership, two wars without end, diminsihed Civil liberties. Its like she crawl out from under a rock just to complain about our current President. We all know that Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works started the Tea Party, grasroots, please. She like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle and Linda McMahon, they are just not right but funny. I especially like the clip of Bachmann saying that the founding fathers abolished slavery, wow, what a liar, not the first or last time that will happen. Does anyone with self-respect real believe her?
Comment posted January 26, 2011 @ 11:06 pm
The following link is Bachmann over the weekend and Chris Matthews on Hardball talking to the supposed “head” of the Tea Party that wanted Bachmann to speak for them and will not admit she is as dumb as a rock. You need to watch the entire clip- it is 8 or 9 minutes. Gotta love Chris Matthews in this one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/41261376#41261376
Comment posted January 27, 2011 @ 12:38 pm
Did anyone notice that Bachmann blamed 2009 all on President Obama??
The Bush 2008-2009 Budget was already in place before Obama was sworn in. The jobs that were lost in 2009 was NOT Obama’s fault.
The Federal Fiscal year runs from October to October.
On CNN.com, Sarah Palin mentioned that there were many “WTF moments” during the SOTU Speech. Really??? What speech did she bother to watch. Every time Sarah Palin opens her mouth, it’s a “WTF moment”!!! Same goes for Michele Bachmann.
Michele Bachmann stated in her STOU TEA Party rebuttal that “the IRS will be hiring 16,000 more Agents to collect fines(referring to the HC law). That”s A LIE!!! The IRS and CBO debunked that statement so many times, they have lost count.
The same lies continue with Michele Bachmann and her revisionist History concerning the Founding Fathers’ abolishing slavery. How convenient that Bachmann forgets about the Dred Scott Decision, the reasons for Secession, the Emancipation Proclimation, the Civil War itself, followed by the forming of the KKK, and abhorrent events that enacted Jim Crow laws that would end with the emergence of Civil Rights movement. Not to mention Brown vs. the Board of Education that ended segregation in schools.
If Michele Bachmann wants to classify herself as a Constitutional expert, she needs to retake US History from the very beginning. If not, everytime she speaks, it’s a WTF moment.
Michele Bachmann is a legend in her own mind. That is all.
Comment posted January 27, 2011 @ 10:08 pm
Don’t you read those special history text books the right wing is rewriting?
You know, the ones that claim that the Bush years were filled with rainbows and unicorns and cherry lollipops. There was no unemployment, no sickness, the economy was booming and every day was sunny. Everyone had a wonderful job, Katrina was the name of the waitress at your favorite diner and there were no criminals, no terrorist attacks, and the whole big, wide world loved us. The folks in Afghanistan and Iraq were really just having picnics in the desert and wore camo to make it more of a challenge when they played hide and seek. And Guantanamo Bay was for square dancing! And finally the Virginia and Texas Board of Education just approved the book and its use in their public schools.
Didn’t you read that part yet???
Comment posted January 29, 2011 @ 12:33 am
Just look for the “666″ behind the right ear, and you will only then, know why “nobody” wants her!
Comment posted January 31, 2011 @ 10:03 am
I don’t know who’s dumber; Michelle for saying the Founding Fathers eliminated slavery, or Sarah for saying that the Soviet Union collapsed because of Sputnik.
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Comment posted February 3, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
i’m convinced that people like Bachmann don’t know what they believe in; they’re simply trying to capitalise on conservatives’ righteous indignation after the 2008 election.
i don’t remember who said it first, but it’s a case of being sore losers, as opposed to having a legitimate grievance pertaining to any one issue. As i’ve said many times in the past, conservative Republicans are chagrined because they had such high hopes for Bush, and when he couldn’t deliver, the inevitable consequence was Obama, and the Democrats’ takeover of Congress. That’s what happens in a two-party system. Love him or despise him, Obama’s election in 2008 was far more an eventuality than it was a victory. The GOP ran McCain–and especially Palin–as a crapshoot; they knew it was doubtful they would win, but they wanted to see what would happen. Today’s teabaggers, and pols like Michelle Bachmann, are merely manifestations of conservative hand-wringing; recalcitrant children whining about their decline in power. However, just as entertainers (take Marilyn Manson, for example) are blamed for the sometimes overzealousness of their fans, the outlandish rhetoric and apocalyptic tone employed by people like Bachmann, and does make an impression upon those with compromised intellects. Consider the so-called ‘Hutaree’: it’s impossible for any rationally thinking person to take a group like this seriously, and my guess is even the FBI didn’t seriously give shrift to the notion that they posed any legitimate threat to the government, however, if a few far-right nutjobs decided they could catalyse a revolution by gunning down government employees or blowing up a post office, that’s more than enough reason to intervene. Bachman, Palin, Beck, etc. should consider the volatility of their audiences’ mental health, and avoid feeding the animals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qideaIA_NpI
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