Ron Paul

It’s becoming standard poli-sci practice: watch when U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann applauds. Former Minnesota journo (and now “The Hill” editor) Albert Eisele did it for President Obama’s Sept. 9 address to Congress and was aghast at Bachmann’s feeble “patty-cake applause.” On Friday Smart Politics’ Eric Ostermeier applied the method to Rep. Ron Paul’s pronouncements at the [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann had a chance Friday morning to question the top lawyer for the Federal Reserve Bank during hearings into an audit of the Fed proposed by Rep. Ron Paul (with whom she’ll share a stage at the University of Minnesota tonight). “The Federal Reserve seems to have the power to do anything [...]

It’s a big day for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul. His bill to audit the Federal Reserve gets its first hearing this morning before the House Financial Services Committee. Then tonight, he and committee colleague Michele Bachmann host a “student town hall” at the University of Minnesota. But will Paul and Bachmann willingly enter Northrop Auditorium, [...]

When we reported two weeks ago that Ron Paul will be joining U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann for a town hall meeting, the date hadn’t been set. Now it has: the duo will host a forum for students at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium on Friday, September 25.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s talk of stopping health care reform by fasting, praying and wrist-slitting has prompted not only lefty pundits but a top Democratic colleague to question what’s going on between her ears. Jim Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, remarked Tuesday: “I don’t think God’s talking to her anymore. I think she’s hearing other [...]

In an interview with AM 1280 on Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced that she will have Rep. Ron Paul as her guest for a September town hall forum in St. Cloud.
“I’ll be doing another town hall up in the St. Cloud area in September and we’ll do that on monetary policy. Ron Paul is going [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is “intelligent” whereas Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a “trained monkey” in the estimation of Libertarian scribe Karen De Coster, writing at Taki’s Magazine.
Takimag has a paleoconservative/Libertarian take on the world, which Bachmann’s fundamentalist Christian approach rankles. But most everything else – from her alarm over light bulbs, world currency and forced government [...]

U.S. Rep. Tim Walz decided to co-sponsor a bill that requires an audit of the Federal Reserve Bank after a chat with the bill’s author, Ron Paul of Texas, last week. “I agree with the bill,” Walz told a constituent on Thursday. “I’ve been a strong champion of transparency and I just wanted to sit [...]

A funny thing has started happening to Texas Rep. Ron Paul since his long-shot presidential campaign ended quietly in the summer of 2008. More Republicans have started listening to him — including Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.

Chanting “End the Fed” and “Audit the Fed,” at least 100 protesters marched around the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Minneapolis Saturday to kick off a three-hour rally. It was the third protest at the Minneapolis Fed since U.S. government bailouts of the financial industry began last September.