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Bachmann: America Won't Be The World Leader 'If We Dis Free-Market Capitalism'
Eric Kleefeld | September 28, 2009, 12:17PM
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) appeared late last week on Neil Cavuto's show on the Fox Business Channel, to voice her objection to the political culture of economic bailouts -- and to demonstrate her ability with street slang.
"Again, I hope the United States will not be the leader for government control of not only just the national institutions, but of non-financial institutions as well," said Bachmann. "We won't be the leader anymore in the world if we dis free-market capitalism."
"Dis capitalism," Cavuto responded. "I like the way you phrase that."
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cycl06
September 28, 2009 12:23 PM
it's spelled "diss"
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johnmccsf
September 28, 2009 12:27 PM
You feel me?
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Walter Mitty
September 28, 2009 12:31 PM
She also refused to answer questions about her opinion on the Census worker murder and if she felt any responsibility according to a HuffPo article.
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714Day
September 28, 2009 1:04 PM in reply to Walter Mitty
Michele doesn't feel responsible for much of anything; let alone what her incendiary rhetoric fosters for her "armed and dangerous" peeps or her followers who fell in line with her crackerjack nonsense about the census being a ruse for the government to steal private info from her pea brain.
This bovine knucklehead couldn't care less.
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PorkBelly
September 28, 2009 12:52 PM
Dissing capitalism is wack, yo.
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nova voter
September 28, 2009 1:07 PM in reply to PorkBelly
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cwnidog
September 28, 2009 4:50 PM in reply to nova voter
True dat
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Ann Arbor
September 28, 2009 1:08 PM
Let us now mourn the passing of dis as urban slang. Cause of death: Irreversible contamination by right-wing pol and talking head on Fox Business Channel.
Too bad Mitt ("Who Let the Dogs Out") Romney couldn't have been part of the scene
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matyra
September 28, 2009 1:28 PM
So, is anyone sick to death of Michelle Bachmann yet?
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
September 28, 2009 2:12 PM in reply to matyra
Not me. If they're smart, the Democrats will start running commercials in every state or district with a potentially competitive race in 2010 to make it clear that people like her, Steve King, Inhofe, DeMint, Paul Broun, Ginny Foxx, and Joe Wilson, are the face and the vital voice of the Congressional Republicans. Thirty second spots spotlighting the crazy stuff that constantly pours out of their mouths and a "Here's what the Republicans in Congress say about "x." They could throw in that lovely advice Cantor gave to a constituient about trying to get charities to pay for her chemo, too.
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NitPicker1
September 28, 2009 2:58 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Agree with your point, but in the interest of keeping the record straight, the woman Cantor callously referred to seek charity was told she needed surgery, not chemo, and by the way it's not clear to me that she had cancer or even suspicion of cancer. Which is not to say she doesn't need the operation, uterine fibroid tumors for instance, while not cancerous, can in some instances cause quite severe symptoms.
But in any case, there's no doubt Cantor was a jerk.
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CT Voter
September 28, 2009 3:18 PM in reply to NitPicker1
Cantor is a prick, to be sure--and your point about accuracy is well-taken. The woman in question (Patricia Churchill) wasn't sick--she was, in fact, describing a family member who had recently lost insurance.
Though I do admit that "tumors in her belly, tumors that are growing" does sound like cancer. . .
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fcleff
September 28, 2009 2:14 PM
Yo, homies! Dat bitch be layin' it down. Give it up fo da sista!
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CT Voter
September 28, 2009 2:32 PM
"We won't be the leader anymore in the world if we dis free-market capitalism."
'Cause that's just the way we roll. . .er, or something.
Can anyone explain what this:
means?
Seriously? Not the leader for government control of national and non-financial institutions? WTF? WHAT IS SHE SAYING?????
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storm
September 28, 2009 2:35 PM in reply to CT Voter
i think what she is saying is that she can see Russia from her house in Minnesota.
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VivaAmerica!
September 28, 2009 3:13 PM in reply to CT Voter
You are not supposed to know what she says. If you knew then you would ask questions that she couldn't answer. Sarah Palin is a master at this.
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ohyeathatsright
September 28, 2009 5:43 PM in reply to VivaAmerica!
You Betcha!
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cwnidog
September 28, 2009 4:52 PM in reply to CT Voter
You mean that there's supposed to be meaning in her rantings?
Hell, all this time I thought it was performance art.
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Duck Stab
September 28, 2009 3:01 PM
There is nothing more painful to witness than watching dimbulb conservatives like Bachman try and act 'hip'
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nellieh
September 28, 2009 3:51 PM
If this were a 'free market' system there would have been no bailout. This woman makes Glenn Beck look like a sane soothsayer.
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Texas Aggie
September 29, 2009 12:48 AM
Has anyone mentioned to this nutcase that we are fast becoming nonleaders because of dragging the whole world down with our misadventures on Wall St.? Helping our slide from leadership is the Republican opposition to the government forcing the internet providers to be responsible about their service (see KB Hutchison). We are almost last in the industrialized world in connectivity (% of people hooked up, % hooked to broadband, cost of being hooked up). Also greasing the track on the downward slide is her anti-intellectualism that has caused a marked deterioration in our scientific production. And more, Republican support for off-shoring jobs and money so that rich Americans can live high off the hog while the rest of us fight with the pig for the scraps.
This woman and the philosophy she represents are major factors in the decline of the US over the last quarter of a century, since the time of Reagan who initiated the idea that stupidity was cool and that bosses should be catered to by everyone including the workers.
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