Video: In Iowa ad, Bachmann promises no-vote on debt ceiling
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:00 am
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) launched a new television ad in Iowa Wednesday, coinciding with meet-and-greet events she held throughout the Des Moines metro.
In “Courage,” Bachmann vows to “not vote to increase the debt ceiling. It goes completely contrary to commonsense and how I grew up in Iowa. So here I am in Congress watching these people borrow more money that we don’t have, so that my children can be further indebted. We have to deal with the economic reality and I have the will and I have the courage to see this through.”
Bachmann returned to Iowa the same day, hosting a morning backyard chat — akin to the kind held last fall by President Barack Obama — at a private residence in Norwalk, followed by a scheduled lunchtime meet and greet at the Palmer’s Deli in West Des Moines.
The new ad did not go unnoticed by Bachmann’s Democrat rivals. Iowa Democratic Party spokespeople denounced her stance on debt limit, calling it “catastrophic.”
“Failure to raise the debt limit would be catastrophic for our economy and would likely send us into a tailspin worse than the last,” IDP said in a release after the TV ad launched. “If Michele Bachmann isn’t willing to put the best interest of the country ahead of partisan politics on a critical issue like this, she isn’t ready to be President.”
Watch the new ad:
5 Comments
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 9:40 am
Lady Birch Bachmann, her Tealiban Constitution Party are bordering on treason. But then all of that just falls nicely into her dominionist/reconstructionist cult strategy.
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 10:27 am
I thought she grew up in a Democratic household. This revisionist history is very 1984 where tracking the truth is a fluid proposition.
Big Hair Bad Makeup Bachmann with family photos on daddy’s knee is the new national standard on political prevarication. MN Senator Limmer is gonna’ have to step it up to keep pace.
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 1:12 pm
Two unpaid for wars (R)and tax-cuts for the uber-wealthy(R) and a stimulus all under her favorite prezzie, Bush. Now she doesn’t want to pay for any of it.
Sure…
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 8:01 pm
So why did she vote to raise the debt ceiling in April?
She voted for Paul Ryan’s budget which raises the debt ceiling 8 times.
Flip-flop!
Comment posted July 23, 2011 @ 1:47 pm
It is ironic that Bachmann, a graduate of Oral Roberts University, claims that G*d tells her what to do. Oral Roberts claimed to have had a vision from a 900-foot-tall Jesus who told him to build a hospital and medical center to discover the cure to cancer. Someone with insight asked, why did not Jesus just tell Robert what the cure for cancer was and save the scientific research? To both Bachmann and Perry, if G*d is speaking to you, why do you not give us his solutions to the world, verbatim from G*D? If neither of you can do this, it is evidence that G*d is not telling you anything meaningful.
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