STFU Michele Bachmann

It’s been a pleasure to share so much batshit crazy with you. 

But this isn’t the end. It’s a new beginning. There is so much more batshit crazy to be had.

So stay tuned for STFUSantorum….

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.

revolutionary-fawkes:

I really did not need to see this, but I really did need to post this.

Between this and the hot dog picture, it’s like she’s trying to fuck with us. 

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williamholman:

Conversion therapy — a controversial psychotherapy that tries to help gay men and women become straight — is in the news again. Marcus Bachmann, the husband of Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, runs a counseling clinic that reportedly provides the therapy. His wife has had to face many questions about it lately, prompting her to say Thursday, “My husband is not running for the presidency … neither is our business.”

-NPR

Excuse me, but I feel that though your husband is not running for the presidency, what you and your business does clearly demonstrates in a LOUD and CLEAR manner what the business of your presidency could be comprised of.  With that, I think it is an important issue that people bring up because they need to know a person’s background and beliefs in order to make an educated decision as to who shall be running the White House.

^^^^^

abaldwin360:

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In case you needed any more evidence that a principle tenet of the modern GOP is to transfer ever-increasing amounts of wealth upward from the poor and the middle class to the economic elites, along comes Michele Bachmann to provide all the evidence you could ever need. And you know it’s especially bad when Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal feels the need to weigh in:

Republican presidential candidates have been resolutely opposed to tax increases in the debate over the nation’s budget straits, but Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann this week suggested there’s one group that needs to be paying more: poor people who pay nothing now.

At a town-hall meeting Tuesday given by the South Carolina Christian Chamber of Commerce in Columbia, a questioner noted that major U.S. corporations are paying “very few dollars of federal income taxes, if any.” He prefaced his point by saying the Bible advises us to render unto Caesar what Caesar is due.

Ms. Bachmann turned the conversation elsewhere: “Part of the problem is today, only 53% pay any federal income tax at all; 47% pay nothing,” the former federal tax attorney said. “We need to broaden the base so that everybody pays something, even if it’s a dollar.”

This is Bachmann logic: wealthy corporations paying no income taxes isn’t a problem, but poor people who don’t even make enough to pay income taxes or who have their tax burden wholly offset by deductions like, for example, taking care of children—well, those worthless losers had better start funneling more money up the supply chain, in Bachmann’s worldview.

The best part? Raising taxes on the poor will be good for them, because it’ll mean the rich won’t have to pay as much—which is good for poor people, because:

Doug Sachtleben, a campaign spokesman, said Ms. Bachmann believes “everyone benefits from taxes paid into the system, and everybody should participate.” But, he said, that would ultimately redound to the benefit of the poor. A fairer, simpler, flatter tax system would ease the hit on “job creators” and boost the economy, which would raise all boats, he said.

Got that? If you’re struggling to get by, your problem is that not enough of your money is going to pad the coffers of rich people. Just a little bit more, says Bachmann, and they’ll create a better job for you. Because it’s exactly like the Heritage Foundation says: if you have a ceiling fan and a microwave, what the hell are you complaining about?

Heh… maybe the fact that the middle class carries more tax burden than the “upper” class?

But hey, I’m not allowed to complain about anything because I have a car, an apartment and a television.

thebluekeystone:

Public Policy polling has Michele Bachmann leading home-boy Rick Santorum and all other GOP contenders in Pa. Their latest report:

Santorum is in a distant 3rd in our Republican Presidential polling in the state, with only 14% of GOP primary voters saying he’d be their top choice. That puts him behind Michele Bachmann’s 24% and Mitt Romney’s 17%. Santorum does run ahead of Herman Cain at 10%, Ron Paul at 9%, Rick Perry at 8%, Newt Gingrich at 6%, Jon Huntsman at 3%, and Tim Pawlenty at 1%.

Bachmann’s lead in Pennsylvania reinforces the advantage we showed for her nationally in numbers released this morning. As is the case everywhere she’s leading primarily based on her strength with the far right, and she seems to be squeezing Santorum out with that group of voters which should be his natural base of support. She gets 30% with them to only 15% for Santorum. Bachmann also leads Romney 25-18 with ‘somewhat conservative’ voters, a group that he has tended to have the advantage with nationally. Romney does crush Bachmann with moderates by a 33-6 margin, but they only account for 16% of primary voters so that doesn’t take him far.

Be very afraid, people.

Romney is clearly the front-runner for the GOP nomination. But as Michael Tomasky notes, Bachmann’s fundraising prowess places her at the head of the anti-Romney pack.