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In light of the British Foreign Ministry pulling all U.K. nationals out of the British embassy in Tehran after students stormed the building in protest, GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann told a crowd in Waverly, Iowa, today that she would close the U.S. embassy in Iran.
One small, tiny note: The U.S. hasn’t had an embassy in Tehran since 1980. Following the Iranian Hostage Crisis, where 52 Americans were held for 444 days, the United States cut all diplomatic ties.
According to reports, Bachmann applauded the U.K.’s move, adding, “That’s exactly what I would do [if I were president]. We wouldn’t have an embassy in Iran. I wouldn’t allow that to be there.”
Recall just a few weeks ago when Bachmann bragged to Fox News that she had a squeaky clean record.
“I haven’t had a gaffe or something that I’ve done that has caused me to fall in the polls,” she said.
I know it’s been a while since our last post, but damn, she’s still just as stupid.
Let’s reiterate what we just witnessed: a contender and one-time frontrunner for the nomination of the Republican Party declared that America should eliminate food stamps, Medicare and the expansion of Social Security, before stating that America should emulate China’s social safety net. And the Republican audience cheered her.
At some point the pearl clutchers and bipartisan fetishists are going to acknowledge that there is a political civil war in this country, that the right wing is going off the rails at an accelerated pace, and that these people represent a grave threat to democracy should they ever take power again.
It’s not just the Bachmanns of the world are living in a dystopic fantasyland. The GOP base is living there, too.
Michele Bachmann made a curious suggestion during Saturday night’s Republican debate.
Fielding a question about which social programs she would cut if president, the Minnesota Congresswoman said that China provided a good example of a society without a social safety net. The fact that China’s government is resolutely socialist appeared to be lost on her.
Bachmann said that Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society has “not worked, and it’s put us into the modern welfare state…If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps.”
Michele, you really make it too easy for me.
Michele Bachmann responded to the suggestion by a Tea Party group that she quit the presidential race by accusing Rick Perry of dirty tricks.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday, the Minnesota congresswoman blamed the Perry campaign for a blog post by American Majority calling for her to bow out of the 2012 race, though she admitted she had no evidence.
“Well, of course, we found out that this is really a misstep on the part of the Perry campaign because these are Perry supporters that came out,” Bachmann said. “This was a clumsy move. This was meant to be a stealth move to make it look like this was Tea Party, and apparently, these are Perry supporters that came out and it was just a clumsy move on their part to make this statement.”
“If Gov. Perry has something to say to me, he can come out to the debates and he say it. But this was clearly — this egg on the face, unfortunately, for the Perry campaign. It certainly isn’t a blow to my campaign because I’ve had non-stop support coming out of the woodwork from Tea Partiers all across the country ever since this came out,” Bachmann continued.
On Wednesday, American Majority’s president, Ned Ryun, wrote in a blog post that “It’s time for Michele Bachmann to go.”
“Since her meteoric rise this summer and win in the Iowa Straw poll, her campaign has been plagued by losses of top staff, lackluster fundraising and a seeming lack of direction,” he wrote. “It is clear that the campaign has become less about reform and more about her personal effort to stay relevant and sell books; a harsh commentary, but true.”
Blitzer asked Bachmann whether she had an evidence that the Perry campaign was behind the criticism.
“No, this is something that people have told us, that these are Perry supporters and they went out with this and this was meant to be a stealth move and it was clumsy,” Bachmann replied.
I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around this. The only thing I really can take away from this entire interview is that one of Michele’s new talking points is “Perry is clumsy”. Seriously, if she read the transcripts of her speaking she’d have to realize she sounds like an absolute moron. I also love how her own party is telling her to quit, and all she can do is blame other people, really shows her true character.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann criticized a directive by President Barack Obama to ease student loan debt as an “abuse of power” that will give people incentive to dodge debt.
The candidates reacted Thursday to a decision Obama announced a day earlier to cap required payments for some college loan borrowers at a lower percentage of their income and forgive payments for others after 20 years. He used executive authority to accelerate a law that wasn’t supposed to go into effect until 2014.
“I believe it is abuse of power from the executive to impose via an executive order a wholesale change in the student loan,” Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, said during an education forum in New York put on by The College Board and News Corp.
“There is a morality in keeping our financial promises, and I don’t think we should push that off onto the taxpayer,” she said. “The individual needs to repay and be responsible for repaying their student loan debt.”
There’s also a “morality” in making education affordable to everyone, but that’s something that is probably WAY over your head.
GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann isn’t shy about her desire to build wall on the U.S.-Mexico border fence. She even said the other day that she wants a “double-walled border” fence.
So when Bachmann was in San Francisco Thursday we — and the Shaky Hands Productions — crew asked her how she could consider herself a fiscal conservative who wants to slim down government when she advocates building a wall that is costing $21 million a MILE to build and $6.5 BIlLION more to maintain over 20 years.
(No, the Bachmann handlers didn’t physically block me or the Shaky Hand — as they did in Iowa – but they did cut me off when I asked the dreaded follow-up question: What is the source of the statistic you just cited?)
Following Tuesday night’s GOP debate in Las Vegas, Rep. Michele Bachmann picked up an endorsement from perhaps the Strip’s biggest star – Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton.
During a post-debate interview with Fox’s Greta Van Susteren, Newton, who kept his arm around Bachmann’s shoulder for the entire spot, twice called the Minnesota congresswoman a “beautiful lady” and endorsed her candidacy.
“It looks like you’re on a date,” Van Susteren said of the pair.
“I am an entertainer but first of all, I’m an American and second of all, I’m a Nevadan, and third of all, I will support this beautiful lady as long as she wants to go,” Newton said.
“I watched the entire debate, and I don’t have to tell you how proud I was of this lady because not only did she hold her own, but she kind of stood alone, and I’m not talking about being female,” said Newton, who was in the hall where the debate took place. “I’m talking about the wonderful things and views that she has for America.”
“It’s going to take electing this beautiful lady as president for things to really change because what it means is we have to get everybody back to work and we have to get people back in their homes,” Newton said.
Asked if she’d be cruising the strip looking for additional celebrity endorsements, Bachmann said: “Hey, why not?” she said. “We’ll take support everywhere we can, and it doesn’t get better. This is a picture of America right here. This is like John Wayne, Wayne Newton, so I’m just thrilled.”
(Video from Fox News, Commentary from ABC News)
First off, Michele, John Wayne and Wayne Newton are no where near the same thing. Secondly, telling retirees to invest in Las Vegas real estate has to be the single worst piece of financial advice I have ever heard. Seriously, you’re a fucking idiot, and have no business giving out investment advice, kindly STFU.
(Source: abcnews.com)
