STFU Michele Bachmann |
Mrs. Bachmann, please STFU. |
Michele Bachmann says that Cain’s plan is dangerous because if you turn “9-9-9” upside down it reads “666.” “The devil is in the details,” she said with a cold smile.
What’s truly scary is that she probably believes the shit she is saying….
Michele Bachmann speaking to a group of students at New England College
Uh, Michele, that’s like blaming McDonald’s for having to pay Sales Tax…just STFU, please.
(Source: cbsnews.com)
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) reiterated that she would reinstate the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy if she were elected president on a conference call with Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, reports the Minnesota Independent.
Bachmann took calls from supporters, including one who said that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would “destroy the armed forces,” before being cut off.
“I think of all the candidates that are running in the race, I have been very vocal about this,” said Bachmann according to the Independent. “I would reinstate the don’t ask, don’t tell policy. It worked before and what it says is the issue of sexuality is one that doesn’t come up and people aren’t allowed to be open about it because the United States military, it’s not a social experiment.”
Folks, please read the rest of this article. Later on it discusses how she is “extremely proud” of the amendment, she wrote and sponsors, that will change the Minnesota state Constitution to say that marriage rights can only be given to a heterosexual couple. This homophobic bigot needs to pull a Sylvia Plath and end herself, honestly, the last thing this country needs is more hate.
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would force women in the early stages of pregnancy to have a physically invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound procedure before they can legally consent to having an abortion.
The “Heartbeat Informed Consent Act” requires doctors to make the fetal heartbeat visible and audible to the woman prior to the abortion procedure and to describe the ultrasound image to her in detail, even if she prefers not to hear about it. If the woman is between four and five weeks pregnant, the doctor has to perform a “transvaginal ultrasound” in order to hear the heartbeat, which involves a probe and can be physically uncomfortable for the woman.
So, Michele, let me get this straight, a mandatory HPV shot for girls in Texas is invasive and unlawful, but forcing an actually invasive ultrasound procedure and emotional trauma on a woman isn’t? God damnit I cannot wait for you to be out of my life, forever.
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered muted support Sunday for Sarah Palin’s recent call to eliminate all corporate taxes, noting that she’s “open” to the idea of cutting corporate tax rates to zero percent - but not calling for it outright.
The Minnesota Congresswoman, appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday, said “we could go that route” on corporate tax rates, but she noted that “we’d have to have a fundamental restructuring of the tax code” first if taxes paid by companies were to be eliminated altogether.
“What we would have to do then is re-jigger other elements to define revenue and what revenues would be needed to the economy,” Bachmann told CBS’ Bob Schieffer. “We certainly could get down to a zero percent corporate tax rate.”
Translation of bolded text: We’ll tax the shit out of the middle and lower class, and then we’ll give as many tax break to the corporations, and the rich, as possible.
On the campaign trail in Iowa, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s response to the argument that she lacks the experience to run for president has been to turn the argument on its head. The Minnesota congresswoman rattles off her resume: She was a federal tax litigation attorney; she and her husband started “a successful small company”; she fought the establishment in the state Legislature and Congress.
But there was one résumé item that was missing: a Ph.D. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Bachmann traveled the state as an education activist, she went by “Dr. Michele Bachmann,” even though she had never obtained nor sought the advanced degree that’s a prerequisite for the title.And one more thing: Lest you think she doesn’t have the brains to do battle with Obama, she rattles off her degrees. “I’m not only a lawyer, I have a postdoctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary,” she told Fox News’ Chris Wallace in June. “I work in serious scholarship.”
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This isn’t the only instance of Bachmann exaggerating her résumé. She continues to call herself a “tax attorney” or “tax litigation attorney” even though, according to the state of Minnesota, she is not currently authorized to practice law in the state. In an effort to prove her bipartisan appeal, she has stated that Minnesota Democrats squeezed her out of her old Senate district and put her in a new, liberal-leaning one—but the districts were drawn up by the courts, and her new district actually leaned red.
On occasion, she has also stretched the truth about her foster children (she had 23) to make a political point. In a 2008 interview with Politico, she noted that she was feeling the squeeze from high gas prices because she has such a large family. “Energy will be the big focus right now,” she said. “Every weekend now when I go home, I will go to the grocery store, I’ll buy food for the family. We have five kids and 23 foster kids that we raise. So I go to the grocery store and buy a lot of food.” The catch? She didn’t have any foster children in 2008; her permit to take in foster children had expired in 2000 and she had taken in her last child, a teenage girl, in 1998.
(Source: Mother Jones)
So, there was apparently a minor kerfuffle in Iowa when Michele Bachmann claimed that an appearance at a family reunion caused her to be late to a GOP event in Waterloo, Iowa, at which Rick Perry and Rick Santorum were also present. Then it came to light that she never attended that family reunion. Now her campaign is saying, “Oh, you meant that family reunion! No, no, we were talking about an entirely different one!” To wit:
“She was visiting with family. Her husband and daughters went to one reunion and she met with family members at a different location,” [campaign spokewoman Alice] Stewart told POLITICO’s Molly Ball. “There was a family member that was a shut-in and other family members she met with privately elsewhere. I’m not going to tell you details of who and where she met. She was meeting with family members at a different location. There was more than one family reunion that weekend, more than one family reunion that day. Her husband and kids went to one and she met with family members elsewhere.”
Two things:
“That’s right — nice decision by S&P to downgrade our credit rating to a AA+,” Bachmann said. “It’s historically significant. It is a serious event for the United States because our country has had a AAA rating since 1917. That rating has never been downgraded. It has endured the Great Depression, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and terrorist attacks on 9/11.
Michele, you realize WWII ended the depression, right? You also realize the depression had no effect on the governments ability to pay their bills, right? Oh wait, that’s right, you can’t read, I wouldn’t expect you to know simple history.
Also, btw, 9/11 has no place in this argument, just thought you should know.
In my previous story on Michele Bachmann, one thing I neglected to mention is perhaps one of the weirdest bits about her: her connection to “heavy metal ministry” You Can Run But You Can’t Hide International, run by Bradlee Dean, who plays drums for a Christian metal band known as Junkyard Prophet and has a conservative political radio show in the Twin Cities called “Sons of Liberty.” Bachmann has helped out You Can Run But You Can’t Hide (YCRBYCH) as a keynote speaker at their 2009 fundraiser, and the group has also been supported by former Minnesota Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer (who is the reason why gays are boycotting Target and Best Buy). While it’s no surprise that Bachmann would throw money at conservative Christian ministries, she may want to sever her link with this one before the presidential race heats up. Because if you think Bachmann is crazy and full of hate, you should get to know Bradlee Dean.
Bradlee Dean is on record of saying that President Obama is no different from Osama bin Laden, and when asked to make an opening prayer for a session of the Minnesota Legislature, used it as a chance to insinuate that Obama is not a Christian: “I know this is a non-denominational prayer in this Chamber and it’s not about the Baptists and it’s not about the Catholics alone or the Lutherans or the Wesleyans. Or the Presbyterians, the evangelicals or any other denomination but rather the head of the denomination and his name is Jesus. As every president up until 2008 has acknowledged.” It was enough to cause the House to get their regular chaplain to offer a new prayer, and was condemned by both Democrats and Republicans.
But of particular notice is Bradlee Dean’s remarks about gay people. He has claimed, among other things, that gays are responsible for the Holocaust or that gays “on average…molest 117 people before they’re found out.” He also seems to have a poor understanding of the legal status of homosexuality, believing that the 2010 nomination of Sharon Lubinski to U.S. Marshal for Minnesota was illegal because Lubinski is a lesbian. Even stranger, he believes that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress, is trying to “advance Sharia law” through his support for gay equality. Yet perhaps his most troubling comments are these he made in the same show where he accused gays of being molesters:
Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America. This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination…If America won’t enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that.
Not only is Michele a raving lunatic, but so are her friends. Awesome.
