Michele Bachmann
gregladen | June 9, 2011"I gotta make a choice and go with the intelligent woman who's every bit as attractive"
That's what Michele Bachmann's new high-powered advisor, Ed Rollins told Politico the other day.
This is perfect. We are being asked, by the Bachmann campaign, to chose between Bachmann and Palin using the following decision chain:
1) Is the candidate attractive? (Yes/No)
...2a) If No, reject candidate.
...2b) If Yes: Is the candidate intelligent?
......3a) If no, reject candidate.
......3b) If yes, vote for candidate.
And this is supposed to lead us to select Michel Bachmann over Sarah Palin? And that…
gregladen | May 31, 2011Her statement:
Well, every decision that I make I pray about as does my husband and I can tell you, yes, I've had that calling and that tugging on my heart that this is the right thing to do and because it's such a momentous decision, not only for myself, my husband and our 28 children, it is a momentous decision what ideas will I bring to bear? What are the resources that I have to marshal in terms of people, assets, the message and also the finances, the amount of time this will take, what this will mean for the nation. Am I the right person for the job? Every decision and every endeavor…
gregladen | April 5, 2011The rest of the country is starting to learn something about Michele Bachmann that those of us in her home state (and district) have known for some time: The woman is not only ultraconservative and of questionable judgment, but she also has a very weak grip on reality and truth. Her grip on reality was questioned some five or six years ago with Bathroomgate. I find it interesting that very few people talk about Bathroomgate these days ... I think the national press and wider blogosphere is simply unaware of it. And more recently, a speech she gave in Iowa was loaded with untruths about…
gregladen | January 25, 2011And yes, Michele...
the Civil War was indeed fought to end slavery.
Your average teabagger probably thinks that the American Civil War was not fought to end slavery. I'm guessing that they subscribe to one of those revisionist versions of American History in which the Civil War was about something else and slavery had nothing to do with it. That idea always perplexed me until now. Now, because of comments made by Michele Bachmann last week I understand that they don't link the Civil War to slavery because they think that the institution of slavery was ended by the Founding Fathers.
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gregladen | January 12, 2011
"Literally, if we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
gregladen | December 19, 2010John Boehner has appointed Michele Bachmann to the house intelligence committee.
OK, let's have a contest. I'll start.
Appointing Michele Bachmann to the Intelligence Committee is like ...
... giving a Nobel prize to the Three Stooges.
gregladen | December 14, 2010
"It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents will lose the right to protect and direct the upbringing of their children .... They will be required to learn that homosexuality is normal, equal and perhaps you should try it. And that will occur immediately, that all schools will begin teaching homosexuality."
gregladen | December 12, 2010
"Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."
gregladen | November 29, 2010
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country."
gregladen | November 12, 2010
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." (The swine-flu outbreak of 1976 occured when Gerald Ford -- a Republican -- was president.)
gregladen | November 10, 2010
"I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?"
gregladen | August 9, 2010Or, more specifically, will my rep, Erik Paulsen, vote against the Recovery Act extension today which will fund, in part, Medicade and Education (167 mil in Minnesota)? We need this. But we don't meed Erik that much. If he votes against it, I may have to do something about that.
Which will probably consist of spending a bit of time working on the campaign of his hopeful replacement, Jim Meffert. Meffert supports the bill, and generally, education. Paulsen, on the other hand, does whatever Michele Bachmann tells him to do, or so it would seem.
gregladen | July 30, 2010Both Erik Paulsen, my representative to the US congress, and Michele Bachmann, the infamous insane person who represents my neighbors a few blocks away, have elected to vote against worker's health compensation for 9/11 first responders.
And they dare to call themselves Americans!!!
According to my other neighbor, Jim Meffert, who happens to be running against Paulsen:
It absolutely sickens me that Representatives Paulsen and Bachmann were among those who turned a blind eye to the health needs of 9/11 rescue workers. These two should be ashamed of themselves. They denied critical help for…
gregladen | June 26, 2010It is hard to prove, but the evidence certainly leads in that direction.
The former Bachmann campaign official in question is Luke Hellier, previously featured on Quiche Morain here. There is no doubt whatsoever that Hellier's commentary on the Minnesota Democrats Exposed blog, regarding editing of Jim Meffert's Wikipedia entry was dishonest. I had not mentioned this in my earlier post at QM, but Ed Kohler of The Deets clearly and painstakingly documents that Hellier "quote mined" the Wikipedia change log to make it look like a Meffert volunteer was acting inappropriately. It turns out…
gregladen | May 3, 2010Michele Bachmann might be the stupidest person who can still breathe.
Do you know what net neutrality is? It is...
...a principle proposed for user access networks participating in the Internet that advocates no restrictions by Internet Service Providers or governments on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed etc. etc.
-Teh Wiki
President Barack Obama once said of Net Neutrality that he is "a big believer in net neutrality. I campaigned on this. I continue to be a strong supporter of it." (source)
Therefor,…
gregladen | April 7, 2010People keep asking this question, and now I know the answer.
Minnesota State Senator Tarryl Clark. Clark has raised, in a fairly short amount of time, a good bit over one million bucks to run her campaign representing the Democratic Party (locally known as the DFL) against Bachmann. (source)