In an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America Wednesday, Rep. Michele Bachmann, a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2012, told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the certificate of live birth issued by Obama presidential campaign more than three years ago “should settle it” and that she “takes the President at his word.”
With roughly an hour to spare before a midnight deadline, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama struck a deal to avoid a shutdown of the federal government — at least for this week.
The same morning President Obama announced he’s running for re-election, Tim Pawlenty countered with a video rebuttal. Like his previous Hollywood-style offerings, this one combines a cinematic soundtrack with quick-cut editing. It’s a compilation of doom-and-gloom footage — complete with a shot of lightning ominously striking the White House — about unemployment, foreclosures and high gas prices that concludes with Pawlenty’s response to Obama’s “win the future” rhetoric: “How can America win the future when we’re losing the present?”
This week President Obama ordered the resumption of military trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees and the continued detention of prisoners who don’t have enough evidence against them to be charged or convicted, effectively breaking his campaign promise to close the facility after his first year in office. It’s a promise that several policy analysts and media outlets believe the president might never fulfill, at least not before 2013, when his first term expires.
ANKENY, Iowa — Appearing at a book signing at a Christian bookstore Sunday, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty criticized President Obama for not significantly addressing spending cuts during his State of the Union address last week. “He stepped to the plate, he swung the bat and he whiffed badly,” Pawlenty said.
Rep. Michele Bachmann will be giving a response to President Obama’s State of the Union address through the Tea Party Express. It’s not an official Republican rebuttal, but many are calling it the official tea party response. Her speech will follow Obama’s and the official Republican response given by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. The Minnesota Independent will be live-blogging Bachmann’s speech this evening providing our readers with highlights.
The White House will be live streaming President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. Watch here, starting at 8 pm CST; transcript of the address inside.
In a recent speech in Troy, Mich., Rep. Michele Bachmann made the claim that President Obama has made the country less safe and that he doesn’t believe America is an “exceptional nation.” Her address has led to some speculation that Bachmann might jump into the 2012 presidential race.
Rep. James Oberstar, chair of the powerful House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, had big plans for transportation in the nation, and in Minnesota in particular: a proposed high-speed rail line from St. Paul to Chicago and a high speed rail line from Minneapolis to Duluth, to name but two. But how well will these projects fare after the 18-term congressman’s defeat last week and a shifting of leadership in Congress?
CNN’s Anderson Cooper had a straightforward question for Rep. Michele Bachmann last night: Now that Republicans have the majority in the U.S. House, what spending cuts will they make to balance the budget? Republicans have talked about dismantling the Department of Energy, the Department of Education and doing away with corporate income tax. While Bachmann refused to name any specific programs she’d cut, she did have one case of “massive overspending”: President Obama’s upcoming trip to India. One problem with that: The cost of the trip she repeatedly cites is massively overestimated.
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