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Bachmann: '100% Of Our Economy Was Private' Before September 2008
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is continuing to denounce what she says is a pattern of government takeovers of the economy -- going so far as to say that the economy used to be totally private.
"And what we saw this Tuesday, once the president signed the health care bill at the 11th hour in the morning on Tuesday, that effected 51% government takeover of the private economy," Bachmann said on Wednesday, during an interview with North Dakota talk radio host Scott Hennen. "It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy."
Before September 2008 -- presumably in reference to the TARP bailout of Wall Street -- one hundred percent of the economy was private? Bachmann has previously made the tautological statement 100% of the "private economy" was private at a given time, but now she's starting to go even further.
Bachmann also accused the Democrats and the media of smearing the Tea Partiers who came to Washington for the health care vote last weekend, by fabricating claims of misbehavior. "The media wants you to believe that tea party patriots are toothless hillbillies," said Bachmann, who instead cast the tea partiers as intelligent, educated and professional people. "This is a very sophisticated crowd. And then these charges from Democrats that they were spit upon, that there were racial epithets -- there's no one who saw anything."
(Via Minnesota Independent)
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nova voter
March 26, 2010 11:30 AM
i don't care how right wing her district is -- she's the best they could send to washington???????????
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JEP07
March 26, 2010 12:57 PM in reply to nova voter
She and Palin make dumb blond jokes obsolete.
They are giving brunettes a bad name in the IQ department...
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JEP07
March 26, 2010 1:26 PM in reply to JEP07
THIS is a very sophisticated crowd????
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applenj
March 26, 2010 1:36 PM in reply to JEP07
Apparently she hasn't been paying attention to Karl Rove recently.....
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/rove-unsophisticated-tea-partiers-responsible-for-unfortunate-incidents.php
I mean, c'mon. Even ROVE is debunking the Bachmann BS?
Interesting choice of words on her part, actually.... do you think she was consciously pushing back at Rove's characterization?
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Msinformed
March 26, 2010 3:20 PM in reply to JEP07
They are sophisticated compared to her?
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JNagarya
March 27, 2010 5:29 AM in reply to Msinformed
"From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008,"
What I want to know is the percentage of the economy that was "taken over" by the Bushit gov't between September, 2008, and the inauguration of President Obama on January 21, 2009.
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fsudirectory
March 26, 2010 6:03 PM in reply to JEP07
I would go with women overall, they are starting to reach into the broad brush territory, moving outside of haircolor
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 5:44 AM in reply to JEP07
yeah cuz hair color determines intelligence...WTF!!!!!
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JNagarya
March 27, 2010 7:59 AM in reply to obamaSUX
Hair die is a topical poison that causes brain damage, lowers IQ, and converts one to Republican't.
You'd know that if you weren't a brain-damaged low-IQed Republican't.
Instead, you oppose the Big Gov't oppression of preventing corporations from secretly poisoning us. Live Free AND Die!
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 3:59 PM in reply to JNagarya
no dye here, just a bit of gray. & i am not a democrap or a republicant. but i will watch out for those 'evil corporations' that want to poison me! thanks so much for the tip...i might have died without knowing that!
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Sailormarlowe
March 27, 2010 11:42 AM in reply to JEP07
OooohhhWoW, the ineffable hotness of Michele Bachmann. That lady know she fine!
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mJJ
March 26, 2010 10:14 PM in reply to nova voter
As a mlderate Republican soon to re-register, I find this ditzy woman totally embarrassing. I just have to get out of the party of these ditzy candidates. Between Bachmann and Palin, Republicans show no class these days. How humiliating to even be distantly associated with these goofs. Now, I simply can no longer stay in the party. So a bunch of us here in Arizona are splitting with all due speed!
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Marinus van der Lubbe
March 27, 2010 12:54 PM in reply to mJJ
So what's your plan of action? Independent?
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mJJ
March 27, 2010 2:16 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
No I plan to re-register as a Democrat. their righteous and gutsy passage of the healt care legislation and the demogogery of Republicans sealed the deal for me. I am a retired RN who supervised in a huge State run hospital and saw first hand, the horrors of the uninsured. Ever since retirement, I have campaigned for a universal health care plan. Now I am so disgusted with Republican behavior during the health care legislation that it is a moral issue that makes it simple to make the shift even though a life long Republican.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
March 27, 2010 5:05 PM in reply to mJJ
Cool....take 3/4 of the State with you.
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Voodoo Woman
March 28, 2010 7:46 PM in reply to mJJ
Welcome, mJJ. More of you will be coming soon.
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greylox
March 28, 2010 9:04 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
**One of my oldest friends just told me he was NOT a Republican. He's been one for 20 years, but NOW he's running from that label as fast as he can. Claims to be "an independent." (And the Republicans are thinking they're picking up a HUGE number of seats.) It's happening everywhere.
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storm
March 26, 2010 11:32 AM
neo-math
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joejustice
March 26, 2010 11:34 AM
Bachmann has always been 100% a moron and 100% a liar, so...
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Richard L. Adlof
March 26, 2010 11:40 AM in reply to joejustice
Your post is offensive to lying morons everywhere . . . They have called to state that they refuse membership to the Bat-Shit-Crazy as a rule of thumb.
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Rick Jones
March 26, 2010 12:02 PM in reply to Richard L. Adlof
At the end of the day, when she's all alone - does Michele Bachmann think "Why did I say something so stupid again?" or "Boy, I was really on my game today." Or does she have any thoughts at all?
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Minne sconsin
March 26, 2010 12:07 PM in reply to Rick Jones
"I was really on my game today".
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JEP07
March 26, 2010 1:00 PM in reply to Minne sconsin
"when she's all alone - does Michele Bachmann think" ?
'nuff said...
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Calouste
March 26, 2010 2:10 PM in reply to JEP07
"does Michele Bachmann think ?"
We can leave it at that one, and we all know the answer to that.
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JNagarya
March 27, 2010 5:32 AM in reply to Calouste
If Michelle Bachmann had a thought in a forest, would it make a sound?
I'm beginning to miss Oily Titz.
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public.takeover
March 26, 2010 4:01 PM in reply to Rick Jones
I got a laugh out of this! Thanks.
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sbv
March 26, 2010 12:13 PM in reply to joejustice
as forrest would say, "stupid is as stupid does," or in the case of ms. bachmann, "stupid is as stupid says." she, vivian foxx and ms. palin are something aren't they? interesting to note, sad to say, how many of the threatening and defamatory phone calls are from women....
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An Outhouse
March 26, 2010 12:37 PM in reply to joejustice
110%
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Cal Gal
March 26, 2010 5:06 PM in reply to An Outhouse
Her stupid goes to 11.
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JNagarya
March 27, 2010 5:34 AM in reply to Cal Gal
That's not 11. It's Bachmann counting from 1 to 1.
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elle a
March 26, 2010 4:52 PM in reply to joejustice
i'm starting to think she really believes the shit she says...she's a good representative for the tea part crowd as she is as ignorant as they come...question is, who voted for her? and how could they?
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Progressive Party
March 26, 2010 11:43 AM
"The media wants you to believe that tea party patriots are toothless hillbillies," said Bachmann, who instead cast the tea partiers as intelligent, educated and professional people. "This is a very sophisticated crowd. And then these charges from Democrats that they were spit upon, that there were racial epithets -- there's no one who saw anything."
Compared to the intelligence of Bachman this could be an accurate observation! She is idiot of the GOP!
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Dogger
March 26, 2010 2:37 PM in reply to Progressive Party
I never saw any report that the Tea Baggers were toothless; to the contrary, it's hard to spit on others when you have no teeth.
I saw plenty of reports that they were angry, ignorant hillbillies. Not that any journalist actually said that; the reports I saw were simple videotapes of Tea Baggers spewing like the bigoted morons that they are.
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draa
March 26, 2010 4:06 PM in reply to Progressive Party
Yeah, the same crowd that cheered 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths. Shitty bunch IMO.
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shooter242
March 26, 2010 11:45 AM
Well, I have to say the part about private economy is off, but the part about the tea party people is letter perfect. One right out of two is better performance than I've seen from Democrats these days.
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Icon
March 26, 2010 11:49 AM in reply to shooter242
Yeah, the Democrats aren't at liberty to lie through their teeth about what's going on in the country.
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Ugg the Repug
March 27, 2010 8:51 PM in reply to Icon
Ugg like shooter2 man. Much like Ugg. Stay dark cave safe. Know all we need. Go away smart uprightwalk peoples you facts. We stay frozen. Like much that way. Happy mad. Mad easy. Think hard. Brick easy to throw. Lying also, too.
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jsdc007
March 26, 2010 11:49 AM in reply to shooter242
Apparently the teabagger who spat on the man with Parkinson's apologized in person yesterday. So, MB's comments are now tracking: lies 100%, truth 0%. I guess in MB's empty head and your even emptire head the N-word and the F-word are terms of endearment.
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LarryMo
March 26, 2010 1:16 PM in reply to jsdc007
You have your right-wing assaults mixed up. Very understandable due to the sheer volume, though.
The spitting was on a congressman, last Saturday.
The gentleman with Parkinson's was intimidated/mocked/harrassed/had money thrown at him the week before, as I recall. The idiot who tossed the dollar bills claims that he has not been able to sleep ever since.
He didn't say if that was "since" he publically made a fool of himself, or "since" the video of it went viral and now his family and neighbors know what an asshole he really is.
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Barry Champlain
March 26, 2010 1:26 PM in reply to LarryMo
LarryMo, I missed this... they finally made the asshole, who threw the dollar bills at the Parkinson's victim?
I wouldn't have the slightest idea where to look for that (the MSM helpfully kept what you just wrote out of the light). Could you point a finger, perhaps? Thanks!
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CT Voter
March 26, 2010 1:55 PM in reply to Barry Champlain
Here ya go:
TeaBagger sorry for mocking man with Parkinson's
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JeffersonSmith
March 26, 2010 2:07 PM in reply to Barry Champlain
Barry,
Here it is (via the Huffington Post):
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/03/24/dollar-bill-throw.html?sid=101
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anelder
March 26, 2010 5:22 PM in reply to Barry Champlain
No they didn't - and neither did Huff Po
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jeffgee
March 26, 2010 1:30 PM in reply to LarryMo
Nothing like a mob to stir up passions.
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oskieoskie
March 26, 2010 12:07 PM in reply to shooter242
Yep, the tea bag people are such geniuses that they can simultaneously worship the U.S. Constitution and loathe the federal government it creates.
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Ann Arbor
March 26, 2010 12:18 PM in reply to shooter242
Hard to square your comment with the spitter who was arrested by Capitol police but released when the congressman who was spit on declined to press charges.
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Brownbagger
March 26, 2010 1:11 PM in reply to shooter242
"Off" is the looniest number.
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LarryMo
March 26, 2010 1:19 PM in reply to shooter242
Hey shooter - how about that START treaty?
Or do you prefer more nukes in the world?
Among other recent achievements...you know, being overlooked by the fools who hate hate hate our President.
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Brownbagger
March 26, 2010 1:23 PM in reply to shooter242
Yes, those TeaNazis are a fine group, including the brick throwers:
"Ugg throw brick at window, it break, run away, hide. Funny. Me show smart walkupright peoples I mad. Go eat cow now."
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Kimj29
March 26, 2010 3:24 PM in reply to Brownbagger
I like you. :-)
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Brownbagger
March 26, 2010 3:37 PM in reply to Kimj29
Too me. You walkupright person? Ugg like much.
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mcrose68
March 26, 2010 1:45 PM in reply to shooter242
I take that to mean you think that it was sophisticated people spitting on, yelling at, and threatening the lives of Representatives.
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 6:41 AM in reply to mcrose68
yeah, like the union thugs that intimidate voters & beat up people for passing out flags
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Brownbagger
March 26, 2010 1:48 PM in reply to shooter242
Yep, Peashooter, here's another one of those upstanding TeaNazis.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032501722_pf.html
I think you and Moonbat Michele might be a little "off" on this one too.
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sharonsj
March 26, 2010 11:48 AM
Boy, do I wonder about her constituents. If they are as loony as she is, what does this mean for the rest of America? What was the last estimate--25% of people think Obama is a foreign-born Socialist and the Dems are out to destroy America? Give me strength.
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Kimj29
March 26, 2010 3:17 PM in reply to sharonsj
Actually, though it doesn't seem possible, it's worse than that:
* 57 percent of Republicans believe that Obama is a Muslim
* 45 percent of Republicans agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
* 38 percent of Republicans say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
* Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-22/scary-new-gop-poll/
The nutters and idiots have pretty much taken over the GOP.
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Brownbagger
March 26, 2010 4:39 PM in reply to Kimj29
So, when Obama nears 66% approval, read that as 100% because a third of America will never approve of the black man in the White House.
--Bad news: We have a serious loonie problem in America
--Good news: Half of the loonies are beyond breeding, so we'll see fewer and fewer larva
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 2:03 PM in reply to Brownbagger
yeah, it's because he's black & not because they disagree with his policies...way to play the proverbial race card! you should be so proud. and hmmmm...seems that obama is white as well, since his mother was white. so if a black person disagrees with obama they are a rascist?! and how about black people that have disagreed with white presidents, they are rascist too?! it doesnt matter if you are black, white, brown, yellow, red or purple with pink polka dots-if someone does not agree with anothers views, policies or morals that does not make them a rascist. and if you want to call 'em that then you are ignorant!!!
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Brownbagger
March 27, 2010 3:55 PM in reply to obamaSUX
Yes. I am. Yes. Yes. No. You know purple people? No, I am not!!!!!!! (7 exclamation marks. I win.)
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 4:31 PM in reply to Brownbagger
hahaha! you are funny too...well at least YOU think you are hehehehe
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Brownbagger
March 27, 2010 5:43 PM in reply to obamaSUX
Yes, I am funny. And you are way too serious, dude. Chill out. You guys have many more butt kickings coming. Don't blow a gasket just yet. It's only just begun. Kind regards.
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 7:14 PM in reply to Brownbagger
i am hehehe-ing & hahaha-ing & you think i am too serious? who needs to chill out here?
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Brownbagger
March 27, 2010 7:17 PM in reply to obamaSUX
Good for you, Scooter. Keep smiling.
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 7:36 PM in reply to Brownbagger
thanks for the funny, man :-)
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anelder
March 26, 2010 5:34 PM in reply to Kimj29
But that's not so bad - I mean from the view of the total citizenry. When only 23% of voting age adults will admit to being republican; and I'm sure there's a portion of them who are reasonable thinking adults, we winnow the crazies down to a number we can ignore.
Keep an eye on them yes. But don't exactly hide them since it's their antics that turn those reasonable thinking republicans to independents.
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eratosthenes8
March 26, 2010 11:50 AM
Is there really no way to commit her to a mental hospital?
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billpaustin
March 26, 2010 1:20 PM in reply to eratosthenes8
The Republicans in Congress ARE a mental hospital! No one really takes them seriously, it is just an act to make them feel important.
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cambridgeMR
March 26, 2010 11:50 AM
I wonder if she believes what she says. I can't decide if it would be worse if she knows that she is lying, or if she has no clue.
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Nandemosan
March 26, 2010 12:11 PM in reply to cambridgeMR
This has always been my point about much of the "public face" of the extreme right. I think O'Reily and Limbaugh are honestly afraid of empowered women and minorities. But on the whole, I don't believe that they or Beck or Bachmann really believe 90% of the nonsense they spew. It's just part of the political theater needed to appeal to the stupidest portion of their audience/constituency. And in both cases, it's all about making money - FOX's ratings stay up so that they can maintain their seven figure incomes, and Bachmann getting re-elected so she can wield what power she has. Like Palin, I see her fading from politics in an election or two and, because she is an attractive woman, ending up on television. She'd be a fool not to as there is a lot more money in it than being a member of the House.
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lvdragonlady
March 26, 2010 11:52 AM
Good grief, what planet does she represent again?
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JEP07
March 26, 2010 1:10 PM in reply to lvdragonlady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI
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stan
March 26, 2010 1:40 PM in reply to lvdragonlady
You asked, "Good grief, what planet does she represent again?"
It's called Blaine, and it's a scary, scary place. (I used to live there)
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jsdc007
March 26, 2010 11:53 AM
Much in the same way that Oklahoma exists only to make Texas look sane, Bachman exists only to make Palin look like a genius. Dumb and dumber. A shameless liar and a congenital one (to borrow the words of William Safire).
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Minne sconsin
March 26, 2010 12:09 PM in reply to jsdc007
I disagree. I think Bachman is scarier than Palin. She is more articulate (OK, that's a low bar) and a heck of a lot smarter (OK, also a low bar).
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bvd
March 26, 2010 12:04 PM
Just wait - next week she'll be saying it was 200%.
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ohyeathatsright
March 26, 2010 12:08 PM
Wasn't she a federal tax attorney? She's making money from that...that's not 'private' money.
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BeeClone
March 26, 2010 12:13 PM
Michele Bachmann, Winona State University, Oral Roberts University Law (not Regent University)and the College of William and Mary want their degrees back.
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Nandemosan
March 26, 2010 12:33 PM in reply to BeeClone
The Oral Roberts law degree explains it all. You probably just have to be able to recite the Ten Commandments in order from memory to gain admissions.
William and Mary doesn't compute, however.
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LarryMo
March 26, 2010 1:23 PM in reply to Nandemosan
That was in the old days.
Now, a candidate only has to remember the commandments that the GOP considers of value.
Out go lying, stealing, coveting thy neighbor's wife, killing, and about six other irrelevant ones.
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yellowdogD
March 26, 2010 3:17 PM in reply to BeeClone
When Oral Roberts U. law school shut down they sent their
library to Pat Robertson, who used it to start Regent U. law.
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psyclone
March 26, 2010 12:14 PM
At last, Bachmann finally has quantified her stupidity. And how cute is it that shooter the attack chihuahua quickly rushes to her defense! Yes, you could say that "she's off", oh master of understatement.
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heraldsquare
March 26, 2010 12:33 PM
Obviously, she's just a commie - because I know that prior to Sept 2008, 150% of our economy was private. WHY IS SHE SKEWING THE NUMBERS?
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nellieh
March 26, 2010 12:39 PM
She must make her constituents so proud. Obviously, she doen't think or fact check before she blathers. If stupidity was a snowflake, she would be a blizzard.
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mcc
March 26, 2010 12:39 PM
I guess what's mostly confusing me here is how Obama managed to take over so much of the private economy between Sept 2008 and Jan 2009
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billpaustin
March 26, 2010 1:25 PM in reply to mcc
That one is easy. It was Obama's stealth nazi-commie-muslims that infiltrated the media. The takeover was done before the election, the MSM was just controlled by the liberal-commie-nazi Hitler/Stalinist Muslims. From Africa.
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obamaSUX
March 27, 2010 6:09 AM in reply to mcc
obama SUCKS! he is destroying our country! why do libs want bigger government & to pay higher taxes???!!!
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An Outhouse
March 26, 2010 12:46 PM
Maybe she and Palin are having a contest to see who can state the most idiotic and outrageous things and have them unquestionably reported. Bachmann is going to need to step up her game and encourage her followers to cause violence against he opponents.
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cube3u
March 26, 2010 12:49 PM
Don't see tea-baggers that way at all. These folks either are--or were hired to be--one end of our economic inequality divide who want to keep their money and to heck with anyone else.
I'm ashamed to share their demographic--older and white. I share nothing else with them.
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pmccoy
March 26, 2010 12:54 PM
Maybe MOCs should be required to pass a ninth-grade civic class equivalency test before being seated. Looks like Michelle would need some remedial tutoring. No Wingnut Left Behind!
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ejg3
March 26, 2010 1:08 PM
As far as the nuttiest of the nutters award, don't forget Iowa's own Congressman Steve King. We are thankful that Bachmann moved as a child to Minnesota.
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Matt Jones
March 26, 2010 1:29 PM
So apparently, the tens of thousands in farm subsidies that Bachmann's been collecting every year for quite a while are "100% private". I'd be interested in hearing how that works...
Oh, and apparently she's decided to run with the "kill your parents and then cry about being an orphan" strategy regarding the HCR vote. In her special world, her party pointlessly extending debate has *no connection* to the vote being held late.
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Basspotamus
March 26, 2010 1:33 PM
100% private, like those farm subsidies she took?
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Velo Solex
March 26, 2010 1:51 PM in reply to Basspotamus
What is even more amazing is that her husband runs a mental health clinic. A real stand up kind of christian one, where they can hug the gay out of ya!
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Cal Gal
March 26, 2010 6:20 PM in reply to Velo Solex
Or that money the Dark Lord directed to Halliburton?
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The Lone Apple
March 26, 2010 1:44 PM
I find it easier to believe that she's crazy rather than that stupid.
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AirBoss
March 26, 2010 1:44 PM
Better to keep her mouth shut and her thoughts 100% private and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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jeffs
March 26, 2010 1:46 PM
Now that Romney is toast due to his implicit video endorsement of HCR, I'd like to see a Bachmann/King ticket in 2012.
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dustbunny44
March 26, 2010 1:51 PM
Of course this statement re: the private economy is ridiculous.
But as she says it, does she expect people to forget that her uber leader GWB was in the white house in 2008? Does she expect people to not notice that she is saying it started with her own party?
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Velo Solex
March 26, 2010 1:54 PM in reply to dustbunny44
Look at the targeted market, of course they are going to believe it!
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Backcountry
March 26, 2010 1:52 PM
She spouts so much crazy crap that if she weren't a member of Congress, she'd be taken away to a home for the mentally disturbed.
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An Outhouse
March 26, 2010 3:54 PM in reply to Backcountry
Didn't Reagan get rid of those? I think she would just be homeless.
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toshiaki
March 26, 2010 1:55 PM
Even her prior 100% of the private economy of 100% private was bullshit. Someone might want to figure out how much of the annual revenue of Defense Contractors comes from Uncle Sam and how much comes from other customers. That $600B+ we spend a year on Defense has to go into some company's pockets.
How about Farm Subsidies?
She's just an idiot. Sadly, a large chunk of the country happens to be idiots as well and buy her bs.
John
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Marinus van der Lubbe
March 26, 2010 3:20 PM in reply to toshiaki
To date she has made 250K from federal fam subsidies.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1209/Antisocialist_Bachmann_got_250k_in_federal_farm_subsidies.html
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JefferyK
March 26, 2010 1:56 PM
Just how do these idiots get jobs?
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BeeClone
March 26, 2010 2:00 PM in reply to JefferyK
The people of MN voted her in more then once, how about that.
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bibimimi
March 26, 2010 2:02 PM
Good Lord. How did this woman make it out of grade school?
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Prof Wagstaff
March 26, 2010 2:08 PM
No surprise. She also believes the earth is only 6000 years old.
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cent
March 26, 2010 2:13 PM
hahaha...
Bachmann is on the House subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises...
Schmuck.
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AbqMike
March 26, 2010 2:30 PM
I try my best to avoid ad hominem comments, but this lady acts and talks like an imbecile.
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bluestatedon
March 26, 2010 2:35 PM
C'mon, everybody knows that Obama inherited a huge budget surplus from George W., and is busily squandering it on Viagra for welfare cheats and forced abortions for white people.
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BoogAlou
March 26, 2010 2:37 PM
I am so tired of the Redneckilization of America!
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larsvanness
March 26, 2010 2:50 PM
O K, I think this is what Bat-Shit Bachmann is trying to say here: In the U.S. economy, total government spending at all levels represents about 28 percent of GDP. Private spending makes up the other 72 percent.
United States Federal, State,
and Local Government Spending
Fiscal Year 2006 [3]
Function Amount
(billion) Percent
GDP
Overall government spending
Federal, State, Local $4,704.1 36.1 of GDP
Spending by major government function
Pensions $747.1 5.7
Health Care $783.8 6.0
Education $900.8 6.0
Defense $622.2 4.8
Welfare $411.4 3.2
Interest $312.3 2.4
As you might be able to guess different sources show different percentages.
1995 8.2 3.7 3.7 1.9 3.2 20.7
2000 7.6 3.0 3.3 2.2 2.3 18.4
2001 7.9 3.0 3.4 2.1 2.0 18.4
Source: Congressional Budget Office.
The last figures on the rigth represent percent of GDP.
Bachmann is a frightening figure in our government:
"The great enemy of the truth is not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."--John F. Kennedy
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dougom
March 26, 2010 2:52 PM
How "sophisticated" can the tea-party crowd be if one of their leaders in the House is such a thoroughgoing idiot? Seriously.
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Lucieann
March 26, 2010 2:58 PM
No wonder!! Now we understand what the problem was~
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Daddy Love
March 26, 2010 2:59 PM
With apologies to Atrios, I'm so old I remember when breaking windows for political protest was just something that dirty fucking hippies did.
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JEP07
March 26, 2010 3:54 PM in reply to Daddy Love
who you calling dirty?
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draftedin68
March 26, 2010 3:00 PM
"...really quite sobering..."?
If you were to take a quart of very fine vodka and directly inject it into someone's brain, they still wouldn't say anything close to what unendingly passes through the lips of this stupid, stupid person.
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MassDem
March 26, 2010 3:08 PM
"I have a list here of 10/20/30/100/200/hundreds/thousands/pick a number known Communists in the United States State Department/Government/New Jersey"
The New McCarthyism For The New Millennium
Thanks Joechelle
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MollyNYC
March 26, 2010 3:43 PM
I'll say this for her and her fans, they're entertaining.
In a Let's-make-fun-of-the-village-idiots sort of way, but still.
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public.takeover
March 26, 2010 3:58 PM
Michele "The Pretzel" Bachmann can't get anything straight. That's one of the reasons I find her so refreshing. You never have to worry about understanding what she has to say. It NEVER makes sense.
What is confounding, though, is how some Republican leader or the HRCC is failing to get these wingnuts to shut up before they ju-jitsu themselves right out of the political arena for good!
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Rugosa
March 26, 2010 4:24 PM
This is a little OT, but given her rants in June about the intrusive nature of the 2010 Census, her claims that it might be used as a base to round up segments of the population and her threat that Acorn members will show up at your door, I think that the attacks on census workers, and one murder, should be placed squarely in her lap.
She held up the 28-page version, which, according to the 2010 Census website, hasn't been used since 1995. I'm sure she didn't know that...
Michele, the census is done by MAIL. I filled out the one page that applied to me in 5 minutes and sent it off. No one will come to your house unless you don't send it back and don't respond to several attempts to contact you by phone and mail. If you are skeered of them govmint workers, send it back. Piece of cake!
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BluGrass
March 26, 2010 4:28 PM
Except for her husband's counseling practice, of course, which accepts federal medical reimbursement programs... and her own salary which is 100% government-funded... and except for the farm subsidies, the highways, the bridges, the social security her constituents have, the FAA that protects the planes she flies in, the military she says she supports, and so on and so on and so on...
She's the poster girl for hypocrisy.
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CranialRectalLoopback
March 26, 2010 4:43 PM
Yeah, why did the commie Bush seize control of the private sector IN 2008!
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Cal Gal
March 26, 2010 4:48 PM
oooooo teh stuupid! It HURTS.
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chitowner
March 26, 2010 4:50 PM
Where in God's name did this woman get her law degree - from a mail order catalog? Either not in touch with reality or completely dumb.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
March 26, 2010 5:07 PM in reply to chitowner
Regent U, as I recall. So basically you're insulting mail order catalogs.
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decisivemoment
March 26, 2010 5:11 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Bit more complicated than that. Oral Roberts U's law school eventually got rolled over into the Regent University empire.
But then something much scarier happened.
She got an LLM -- a postgraduate law degree -- from the College of William and Mary. An A-list law school for an A-list cynic.
She's not stupid. She's just very, very manipulative. And very good at it. Don't underestimate her, but also don't underestimate the stupidity of those she is leading on.
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
March 26, 2010 9:41 PM in reply to decisivemoment
Wow! That I did not know. Now I'm scared.
On the other hand, I've known some staggeringly stupid people with advanced degrees from good schools.
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decisivemoment
March 26, 2010 5:08 PM in reply to chitowner
Oral Roberts University.
Next question, please!
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GTFOOH
March 26, 2010 5:34 PM
100% of Bachmann is batshit crazy before and after 2008.
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The Ouroborus
March 26, 2010 5:57 PM
Huh? What? Who now? Wat zit? Wha? WTF?!!!
The irony is that if she were working for a private company and spewed those kinds of stats and rhetoric at a board meeting, she'd be fired.
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Mr.E.
March 26, 2010 6:44 PM
When I hear Cantor, Boehner, McConnell, McCain, Jindal and most of the rest of the team lie and make stuff up I know they are just following the Atwater/Rove playbook and being sleazy politicians. But I have to put BSC in the same place as Orly, a place with padded walls, meds to calm their fears, and people to pat their hands and wipe up the drool.
Hard to say where Joan of Alaska fits though. My guess is that her unique combination of narcissism, arrogance and utter faith makes her a natural born grifter and put her somewhere in line between Swaggert, the Bakers and Jim Jones. I would include Manson and Bundy, but I think they were both way out of her league intellectually.
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nfbloch
March 26, 2010 7:11 PM
The scary part of it is, there are people out there that vote for her. Does this mean they are that stupid too or they just don't care? Surely there can't be more than a few people in her district that are that ill informed.
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Antineocon
March 26, 2010 7:22 PM
Always remember that Michele was one of those who stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and stated they were reciting part of the U.S. Constitution when they uttered: "We hold these truths to be self evident...." I hope somebody on her staff eventually told her she was reciting a portion of the Declaration of Independence.
They won't listen, They never will. She humiliates herself every time she opens her mouth and she is too ignorant to realize it.
The problem is with the idiots who actually believe her.
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Heron
March 26, 2010 7:36 PM
The sad thing is she can get away with saying such easily check lies and she knows it. How do you deal with people who willfully choose to treat as fact what they know is false?
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Dessalines
March 26, 2010 7:53 PM
And these are the people who feel so superior to all who do not look like, act like, and think like them. Talking about self delusions of grandeur. These people are a national and international liability. Our whole nation looks bad simply because we can produce these people in large enough numbers to get elected.
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jt307
March 26, 2010 8:33 PM
What baffles me is how she is not the governor of Texas. Seriously, Texas and Bachmann would be a perfect marriage.
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bw
March 26, 2010 11:19 PM
The Tea Party is nothing more than the far right fringe of the Republican Party. These people would never vote for a Democrat to begin with and should not be counted as a force other than being just a bunch of nuts who can't adjust to the fact that they lost the power to govern. They may pick up some seats in heavy Republican districts but they will never regain the White House. Most of these people for lack of a better word are just plain dumb, not in the since of intelligence, but in reasoning.
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sherrybb
March 27, 2010 12:45 AM
Don't forget that the Bachman family has received over a quarter of a million dollars from the gov't in farm subsidies from 1995 thru 2006. Was that " private" ?
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AlanP.
March 27, 2010 1:34 AM
"Nobody saw nuthin'!" ;)
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lotl
March 27, 2010 4:59 AM
Michele's brain used to be 100% private. Then it got taken over by neuron-devouring microbes from Planet Batshit.
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jonez
March 27, 2010 7:40 AM
What has she been smoking. Our economy has never been 100% private.
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ivy22
March 27, 2010 8:54 AM
Bachmann = RSG
What you ask is RSG?
Random Shit Generator
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toodumb
March 27, 2010 9:04 AM
You don't see any toothless hillbillies out protesting with the teabaggers or at Rep Bachmans speeches. Maybe that is an indication of who is sophisticated. Toothless hillbillies have enough sense to keep their mouths shut and be thankful for the medical benefits that will save their children's teeth. Toothless hillbillies would be insulted by Rep Bachmans comments but they just consider the source. Maybe if there were some toothless hillbillies in Rep Bachmans district this gross aberration would not have a pulpit to spout this crap.
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Glix
March 27, 2010 9:56 AM
The Republicans, the teabaggers and the rest of the far right are all a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards. They spend half their time hiding under their bed and the rest putting on a show of false bravado, all because there's a new law forbidding insurance companies from taking people's premiums and then refusing to cover their claims. Ooooh, so scary!
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JNagarya
March 27, 2010 4:28 PM in reply to Glix
In non-Republican't accounting terms that is called pickpocketing.
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Sailormarlowe
March 27, 2010 11:46 AM
Minnesota Michele
The Midwest belle;
We follow her to hell & back.
You better listen to her, Jack!
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Spiffarino
March 27, 2010 12:56 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
You listen to her. We'll see how it works out for you.
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Brownbagger
March 27, 2010 7:05 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Go ahead, Sailor, follow her to hell. Hit the road, Jack! You know the rest.
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Prefabfan
March 27, 2010 12:27 PM
A CRY FOR HELP: People, just want you to know, as an Obama supporter, and Bush hater, I am voting for Christine O Donnell. Even though I live in Agoura California. God, what a hottie.
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MyMy
March 27, 2010 12:27 PM
She's simply abut the stupidest public figure I've ever even heard of.
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Spiffarino
March 27, 2010 12:59 PM
The DCCC should make her the GOP poster child. She'd make Eric Massa electable.
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labman57
March 27, 2010 1:24 PM
Get back to me when Bachmann says something that is actually intelligent, cogent, and insightful.
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FDRdog
March 27, 2010 3:49 PM
She rivals jim inhoffe for sheer stupidity. As the German reporter said to inhoffe - you're ridiculous, Michelle. I have to think that Minnesotans simply get bored to death during the long winters and need bachman for entertainment.
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jorovsky
March 27, 2010 6:25 PM
OK - Here is some good news on the Bachmann front.
I attended the DFL convention in MN-06 today and delegates endorsed State Senator Tarryl Clark on the first ballot (62.8% to 37.2% for her opponent).
I know Tarryl and she's really going to have a good campaign against Bachmann.
It's a tough district - historically trends against us - but if anyone can win it, it would be Tarryl.
If you would like to know more you can visit www.tarrylclark.com.
There was a lot of enthusiasm at the convention today, and while her opponent is going to run in the DFL primary, Democrats are going to unite overwhelmingly around Tarryl's candidacy.
Don Jorovsky
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Ugg the Repug
March 27, 2010 8:47 PM in reply to jorovsky
Ugg like shooter2 man. Much like Ugg. Stay dark cave safe. Know all we need. Go away smart uprightwalk peoples you facts. We stay frozen. Like much that way. Happy mad. Mad easy. Think hard. Brick easy to throw. Lying also, too.
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kunda311
March 28, 2010 2:08 PM in reply to Ugg the Repug
Well, to that bunch, one white person's death equals about 1,000 brown people's deaths. So that's only about a thousand Iraqi people dead, as far as their brain can comprehend it.
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Ugg the Repug
March 28, 2010 2:47 PM in reply to kunda311
You no understand Repug math smart walksupright person. Long ago white peoples can sell brown peoples. Worth more then. Then war between blue meanies and noble ancestors of Teanut Gallery. Teanut ancestors lose. Market drop. Want Ugg go cave and scratch this on rock for you remember?
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NerdRage
March 27, 2010 8:13 PM
generic sexist statement about women having smaller brains than men
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Bitter Water
March 27, 2010 8:58 PM
Good Grief-
Between 1907 and 1914, 43 States adopted policies governing Electric Utilities. This is basically what we have done with the health insurance industry 100 frigging years later. Where the hell did this woman learn her Junior High Social Studies. She should be spanked...and I should probably spank her.
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Frank
March 28, 2010 2:13 PM
This womans stupidity knows no bounds!
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Ugg the Repug
March 28, 2010 4:01 PM in reply to Frank
Har har har. Even Ugg know she sound so stupid she BOUND to be lying. But also Ugg bound to hit her. Then boinky boiny all night in cave.
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Leftflank
March 29, 2010 12:33 AM
I uess the spring thaw hasn't begun in Minnesota. It's pretty much a perma-frost for bachman in the brains department, so there's no hope, at all.
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Tosh
June 6, 2010 6:17 AM
Indeed, it's readily apparent that Gladney seems completely unhurt. He wanders out to the crowd, chats with the cameraman, flags down a cop, and saunters back to where police decide to handcuff the man who knocked him down. As you can hear, the man protests that he was just keeping Gladney away from his fallen friend.
The next day, Gladney is at the press conference in a wheelchair. He claims to be too medicated to speak, so his lawyers and fellow tea partiers do it for him.
Does this seem real to you? Sure looks fake to me.
m65 kamagra
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