Bachmann: Franken stole election, gave us ‘Obamacare’
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 1:29 pm
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During her speech at the Iowa-based Family Leader on Friday, potential presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann made a bold claim before the gathering of social conservatives: Sen. Al Franken, she said, stole the election against Sen. Norm Coleman, and that election is to blame for the passage of the national healthcare reform law.
Bachmann spoke of taking the Triple Crown in 2012 — Republicans taking the House, Senate and White House — and getting to 60 Republican votes in the Senate. (Public Policy Polling, releasing a new survey Thursday [pdf], questioned that possibility, noting “strong movement back toward the Democrats right now” among the public and adding that “it’s entirely possible Democrats could take control of the House back next year.”)
“What do you get when you get to 60 seats in the Senate? You are filibuster-proof. You can pass anything you want,” she said. “That’s why an election was stolen in Minnesota, and yes, I will tell you, it was stolen.”
She continued, “And Al Franken became the 60th Senator to give Barack Obama a filibuster-proof majority in the United States Senate and that’s how we got ‘Obamacare.’”
She said, “But for that stolen election, we wouldn’t have ‘Obamacare’ today. That’s how important every vote is.”
Bachmann didn’t elaborate on how she thought the election was stolen.
Election watchers on both sides of the aisle have dismissed claims and conspiracy theories that the election was stolen.
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Comment posted April 12, 2011 @ 2:49 pm
The significance of this claim goes beyond its intrinsic merit, of which there is none.
Its significance is as a barometer of how irrational and irresponsible the Republican party and its supporters have become. It’s a test of whether it’s possible to lie in the most blatant manner and not have to pay any electoral consequences for it. It’s a test of whether our culture has sunk to a level in which ‘anything goes’, regardless of reason or evidence, as long as it’s directed at the right target and said with enough force.
If public discourse in this country becomes unhinged from all intellectual standards, a possibility made more likely by the debased right-wing media machine, then we’re in serious trouble.
Has conservatism in this country sunk so low into its fear and unreason that Bachmann might actually be the nominee for Pres.? Time will tell.
Comment posted April 12, 2011 @ 3:54 pm
She must be running for Senate after all. This is an attempt to appear senatorial by following the lead of Sen Kyl – telling lies and excusing it by saying “the remark was not intended to be a factual statement’”. In other words, it was an intentional lie.
Sorry Michelle, you don’t appear senatorial. You also don’t appear Christian or adult.
You do appear pathetic and desperate.
Comment posted April 12, 2011 @ 3:54 pm
Michele gets her speeches from the Jon Kyl School of Information. If it feels right it must be Right.
Praise Jebus, God hates an informed electorate, Amen.
Comment posted April 12, 2011 @ 9:49 pm
“If public discourse in this country becomes unhinged from all intellectual standards”
If? Little late for that, doncha think?
Comment posted April 12, 2011 @ 10:27 pm
Even if Bachmann decides to run against Amy, Amy will trounce her. Becuase Amy sees that Bachmann is a DO-NOTHING member of Congress. Voting NO every time and shooting one’s mouth off is doing anyone any good.
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Comment posted April 15, 2011 @ 11:58 am
NUTS a famous Fraze from ww2
she wont give up so nuts on her as she is nuts
Comment posted April 15, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
AS I have opined time and time again, Michele Bachmann suffers from Attention Deficit Syndrome. If there is a deficit in her getting attention, she makes something up in order to get it!
Comment posted May 13, 2011 @ 11:52 am
This woman infuriates me… The problem is that politicians – probably both sides but most egregiously exploited by Republicans – can say anything they want when they deliver a one-sided address, make a statement, or give a speech. They are never held accountable or challenged to defend their statements.
When they are challenged – for example to a debate by a high school student – they decline because they know it will only hurt them politically.
The fact that people like Bachmann spew endless lies and falsehoods in order to dumb down the discourse and scare Americans is embarassing, shameful, and most of all, totally pathetic.
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