STFU Michele Bachmann

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.

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 thinks children should be free to get HPV, tetanus, hepatitis, menangitis, chicken pox, and more. (via supcakes)

That’s really beautiful, Michele. Innocent little 12-year-old girls shouldn’t be forced to have a “government injection” against their will, but they should be forced to carry a pregnancy to term in an abusive or dangerous situation. I’m happy to have my liberty infringed upon if it means I won’t get cancer and genital warts. If you’re so concerned about my medical freedom, stay the hell away from my right to my own uterus.

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Michelle Bachmann at the GOP Debate

FUCK U.

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Yeah but that doesn’t help lady. Working for pennies doesn’t mean you’re gainfully employed, it means your work is of little or no value. And you certainly can’t support yourself, so the welfare system would have to be larger than it already is, which I was led to believe is something you are against, no?
tl;dr Michele Bachmann is an idiot.

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Opening a tea party-backed forum in this first voting state in the South, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann is criticizing President Barack Obama’s understanding of the Constitution and is pledging fidelity to the nation’s founding document as she woos the grassroots activists who could deliver her the GOP’s nomination.

The Minnesota Republican on Monday said the 2012 presidential election would hinge on each candidate’s understanding of the Constitution, which she called “that sacred document.”

Branding herself a “constitutional conservative,” the former federal tax lawyer-turned-congresswoman challenged Obama’s understanding of his powers. She cited Obama’s political and policy advisers, whom she called “czars,” the Justice Department’s decision not to appeal a court’s overturning of a federal marriage law, and his immigration policies.

She says all were unconstitutional.

Uh, Michele, I see nothing “sacred” about a document created by a bunch of slave owning, misogynistic, racists. But then again, I’m not a member of the Tea Party.

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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)

theatlantic:

Bachmann Staffer Arrested for Terrorism in Uganda in 2006

The evangelical organizer who helped Michele Bachmann win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa Saturday was previously charged with terrorism in Uganda after being arrested for possession of assault rifles and ammunition in February 2006, just days before Uganda’s first multi-party elections in 20 years.

Peter E. Waldron spent 37 days in the Luriza Prison outside Kampala, where he says he was tortured, after being arrested along with six Congolese and Ugandan nationals for the weapons, which were described variously in news reports as having been found in his bedroom or a closet in his home. The charges, which could have led to life in prison, were dropped in March 2006 after a pressure campaign by Waldron’s friends and colleagues and what Waldron says was the intervention of the Bush administration.

 Read more at The Atlantic

 Tim Albrecht, a spokesman for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, told me that the line for food at the Bachmann tent is the biggest he’s seen at any tent in four straw polls.

“And they’re actually going to vote for her. It’s amazing. Never seen anything like it,” Albrecht said.

A Pawlenty adviser, standing off stage minutes before Pawlenty spoke, downplayed the line, saying the Bachmann operation was less efficient and didn’t move people through as quickly, exaggerating the size of her crowd. — Jon Ward

Folks, it’s time to get worried.

This just in, from Iowa…

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Bob Schieffer (CBS) called out Bachmann for her lies on “Face The Nation.” She responds by blaming Obama. 

SCHIEFFER: I want to ask you about something else. A lot of your critics say you have been very fast and loose with the truth. You know, the po— PolitiFact, which is a website that won a Pulitzer, did an analysis of twenty-three statements that you made recently. Of these twenty-three, only one they said was completely true. Seven they call pants on fire kind of falsehoods. Four were barely true and two were half truths. How do you answer that criticism? Because here’s one of them, you know, you said on the record there had been only one offshore oil drilling permit during the Obama administration and, in fact at that time they had been two hundred and seventy. How do you explain that?

BACHMANN: Well, you know, I think that what is clear more than anything is the fact that President Obama does — has not been issuing the permits, that he should have been issuing on offshore drilling that’s—

SCHIEFFER: Well, it’s more than three hundred now.

BACHMANN: Well —

SCHIEFFER: At— at that time there had been two hundred and something. And you said there had been only one.

BACHMANN: But as far as drilling goes, we hadn’t been drilling what we need to— that’s why we just this week—

SCHIEFFER (overlapping): But that’s different, isn’t it?

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