Michele Bachmann

At a Republican Jewish Coalition event in Los Angeles last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a candid view of her positions on Israel: Support for Israel is handed down by God and if the United States pulls back its support, America will cease to exist.

In a fiery fundraising pitch for the American Conservative Union Strikeforce, Rep. Michele Bachmann asks supporters, “Will you let Barack Obama KILL conservatism?” Calling the president a “political street fighter,” she says his “agenda is a dagger pointed right at the heart of conservatism.”

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) organizers announced on Twitter Thursday afternoon that Rep. Michele Bachmann will be speaking at its annual conference in late February and will be introduced by Minnesota blogger Ed Morrissey. Bachmann joins Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who will also be speaking at the conference.

Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sen. Amy Klobuchar are among the members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation who attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday morning. As co-chair of the event, Klobuchar got some laughs, while Bachmann turned to Pat Robertson’s CBN News to define the event strictly in Christian terms.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee went after Reps. Michele Bachmann, John Kline and Erik Paulsen on Wednesday for their votes last year against taxing bonuses of bank executives who received TARP funds from the federal government. The DCCC jumped on news today that AIG leaders will be getting $100 million in bonuses this year.

A New Policy PAC, whose motto is “Peace in the Middle East is in America’s National Interest,” put out a scorecard rating Congress members’ commitment to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison is ranked number one.

Just after hiring former Republican Party of Minnesota chairman Ron Carey, Rep. Michele Bachmann lost her press secretary, Politico reported Tuesday. Debbee Keller, who had been working for Bachmann for less than a year, sent this email announcing her departure:

At an event with First Congressional District candidate Allen Quist on Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that it’s possible that critics of health care reform could get on a list that would single them out for denial of health care services.

Ron Carey, former chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota, has been hired as Rep. Michele Bachmann’s chief of staff. Carey replaces Michelle Marston, who left Bachmann’s staff in November.

One of the weirder products bearing Rep. Michele Bachmann’s name: toilet paper. DemStore.com is featuring the toilet paper alongside rolls for Sen. John McCain, President Bush, Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney.