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• $4,700 the amount she spent on a stylist source

» Most people don’t make that in a month: For a candidate that is championing lower spending to conserve taxpayer dollars, that seems quite a lot of money to spend on herself. It’s also far more than she spent on stylists than during her Congressional campaign. Appearances may be important when running for president — don’t get us wrong, anything to help her prevent a Nixon moment — but this seems a tad excessive. And it’s an excess not uncommon to Democrats, either — John Edwards famously got $200 haircuts in his pre-scandal days.

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Senator Michele Bachmann, on what will happen if her same-​sex marriage ban amendment fails to pass in 2004, appearing as guest on radio program “Prophetic Views Behind The News,” hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-​AM, March 6, 2004

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Both of these quotes are from Senator Michele Bachmann, speaking at EdWatch National Education Conference, November 6, 2004.

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According to Videogum, the clip above features Michele Bachmann and Lou Engle at the Family Research Council’s 2009 “Prayercast” event, held to stymie the passage of Obama’s healthcare reform.

Bachmann leads the prayer with a bowed head and steady, practiced voice. She doesn’t bring up Healthcare or Obama by name, but begs God’s forgiveness for herself and as a “stand in for others” who failed to look to God as leaders.

Hearing a politician imploring God to take sides on a partisan issue usually feels a bit like watching football players asking God to take their team’s side before a game. If an omnipotent God exists and is watching the game, one can assume that he’s expending his energy preventing concussions, rather than taking sides.

But, while the Bible’s God is surely neither a Republican or a Democrat, healthcare may be one of the few partisan issues where he actually does take a side.

Last November Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholic church leaders said at the international papal conference on health care at the Vatican that it is the “moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.”

Yet various religious politicians who purport to be acting out God’s will are vocally opposed to healthcare reform. According to New York Times, last summer Sarah Palin called Obama’s proposal “downright evil.”

I don’t usually side with the Pope— it bugs me that he’s against gay marriage and contraceptives—but I’m with him on this one. God would most likely support a bill that tries to provide affordable healthcare to everyone. At the very least, it would make his job of preventing brain damage on high school Football fields a little bit easier.

Michele, you can’t pray away ‘the gay’, and you sure as fuck can’t pray away affordable healthcare. 

P.S From 2:30 on it gets REALLY weird

timetruthhumor:

Republican Candidate Michele Bachmann: ‘I Hope’ Higher Unemployment Will Help My Campaign

| Appearing on CNBC this morning, presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was asked about this morning’s dismal jobs report and whether higher unemployment rates might help her chances of winning in 2012. “Does it strike you that as the unemployment rate goes up, your chances of winning office also go up?” host Carl Quintanilla asked. “Well, that could be. Again, I hope so,” Bachmann replied.

While it’s of course acceptable for Bachmann to campaign on wanting to turn the economy around, it’s another matter entirely when she actively pursues policies that make the economy worse — while hoping it will help her campaign.

By Alex Seitz-Wald of “Think Progress”

OOOOH MICHELE, YOU’VE DONE IT NOW! It’s one thing to be an ignorant bitch, but it’s another thing to be an EVIL ignorant bitch. I honestly hope only the worse for you and your campaign.

P.S. Tell your master (her words, not mine, folks), he needs to teach you some fucking manners.

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Michele Bachmann (via hotlikebea)

Michele, it’s me again, Kevin. I was wondering why you hadn’t opened your dick trap recently, and then I sign on to find this gem…perfect. I knew you couldn’t keep from being an absolute cunt for a week.

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leftish:

BACHMANN HAS LONG EVOKED “BI-PARTISAN” DISLIKE and DISTRUST by Colleagues from both sides of the aisle.

Now in just her third term in Congress, Michele Bachmann, the leader of the House tea party caucus, has earned a reputation as one of the lower chamber’s leading bomb-throwers, lobbing overheated rhetoric at Democrats and needling establishment Republicans. Her Minnesota colleague, Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison once accused her of “psycho talk”; in an interview with Politico, a Pawlenty aide was just as blunt: “She’s a real pain in the ass.” Former state senator Dean Johnson, who was the Republican minority leader during Bachmann’s stint in St. Paul, has said, “I don’t think I ever served with anybody who I mistrusted more, from either side of the aisle.”

via Alternet.org

Psycho Talk: The 32 Craziest Things GOP Presidential Contender Michele Bachmann Has Said

 “I don’t think I ever served with anybody who I mistrusted more, from either side of the aisle.”  — That right there says it all.

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Glenn Beck doesn’t like a lot of things. You’re probably one of those things, and so is Michele Bachmann’s Good Morning America performance yesterday. But it wasn’t her fault. It was the “hack” journalist’s — George Stephanopoulos.

Stephanopoulos, or as Beck calls him, “Mr. Snuffleupagus,” asked Bachmann the question: “You said ‘my voice is part of a movement to take back our country.’ From whom?” To which Bachmann replied: “Well from the people all across the nation.”

Seems pretty black and white to me.

Beck insists Stephanopoulos ”did not follow up because he’s a dishonest journalist” and he “aired this to make her look stupid.” Oh, and he also thinks, “Stephanopoulos and ABC television is such a hack.”

First thing’s first, Beckapagus, Michele Bachmann doesn’t need anybody — not George Stephanopoulos nor Bozo the clown — to make her look stupid. If she’s been wildly successful at anything, it’s looking stupid. From her John Wayne Gacy flub to her inappropriate usage of a Katy Perry song, Bachmann has been batting a thousand in the idiocy department from the get-go.

Katrina & The Waves – whose 1985 song “Walking On Sunshine” was played by Michele Bachmann at a South Carolina campaign rally on Tuesday – have issued a statement on their website:

Katrina & The Waves would like it to be known that they do not endorse the use of ‘Walking On Sunshine’ by Michele Bachmann and have instructed their lawyers accordingly.

Michelle Bachmann’s Holy War

The group is the second musical act this week to object to the Minnesota Congresswoman’s usage of their music. Tom Petty sent the Bachmann campaign a cease and desist letter after she used his song “American Girl” at her campaign kick-off in Iowa on Monday. At a rally the following day, she played 29 seconds of “American Girl” before “Walking On Sunshine” kicked in. Looks like she’ll have to find a third song now. Any suggestions? 

UPDATE: Rolling Stone has received a statement from Katrina Leskanich, former lead singer of Katrina & The Waves:

As the singer of ‘Walking on Sunshine’ I don’t endorse its use by Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign.  I’ve performed ‘Walking on Sunshine’ for so many years in so many different countries that it’s become the one constant in my life and the one thing I can count on to bring happiness to myself and others. The song is used in commercials and movies as a vehicle for a feel good moment or empowerment but if I disagree with the policies, opinions or platforms for its use, I’ve no choice but to try and defend the song and prevent its misuse. Music can be both powerful and moving and sometimes even a little dangerous.