Not Everyone‘s Happy About Bachmann’s Bonus ‘Tea Party’ SOTU Response
- Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:49pm by
Meredith Jessup
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As we’ve pointed out, it’s not unheard of to have more than one response to the president’s State of the Union address from within the same party. Nevertheless, ever since the Tea Party Express announced that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., would deliver her own “tea party response,” the media have speculated that the “unusual” tactic could “scramble” the GOP’s message, to be delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.
According to early reports, Bachmann’s message will focus on condemning an “explosion of government spending” in recent years. “After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks that the President signed, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don’t have,” Bachmann plans to say, according to excerpts of her remarks. “But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt at President Obama’s direction — unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.”
Bachmann will also briefly touch on Obama’s support for a cap-and-trade energy policy and urge support for a balanced budget amendment.
The repeal of President Obama’s signature health care law will also be a topic of scrutiny. “Last week we voted to repeal ObamaCare,” Bachmann will say, “and each day going forward, we must work hard to dismantle the massive government expansion that has happened over the past two years.”
Fox News reported Tuesday that Bachmann’s online “post-game show“ has the potential to ”distract from Ryan’s fiscal-focused message and revive last year’s narrative of a GOP house divided between establishment leaders and an untamed Tea Party network tugging at its seams.”
“I think the real question is who’s really running the Republican Party?” Democratic strategist Mary Anne Marsh said Tuesday. “I mean the fact is, we may find out tonight it’s the Tea Party.” …
[T]he rebuttal-after-the-rebuttal seems to have perturbed some Republicans, who at least passively betray a hint of annoyance on the timing, even while downplaying its significance.
During a breakfast with reporters Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner wistfully called the move “a little unusual.” …
“Whether it is through a press release, Twitter, the internet, on television, radio, via Facebook, or by other means, virtually every member of Congress will share their thoughts on the president’s State of the Union,” concurred Boehner spokesman Michael Steel, in an e-mail to FoxNews.com.
Indeed, representatives from the Tea Party Express have insisted Bachmann‘s response is not meant to overshadow Ryan’s in any way. Sal Russo, the organization’s co-founder, told Slate‘s Dave Weigel that the decision present a tea party perspective was made well in advance of the party’s plans to have Ryan deliver the GOP’s rebuttal.
“I think [Ryan] is great. The Republicans couldn’t pick a better person to make their response,” Russo said. “But we thought the Tea Party should have their own, and Bachmann is a perfect match for that. We are going to do our response after Ryan so we don’t step on his remarks. I am sure they will be hitting similar themes because Ryan has views that are closely aligned with the Tea Party.”
Sure to add to the debate, CNN has announced it will broadcast Bachmann‘s live remarks as they are streamed online via the Tea Party Express’ website.
While some political pundits debate what impact Bachmann’s remarks will have on GOP-tea party relations (and some even speculate the congresswoman is laying the groundwork for a 2012 presidential run), MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough chose to poke fun at the Minnesota Republican:
In contrast, South Dakota Republican Congresswoman Kristi Noem — a tea party favorite in her own right — appeared on FNC Tuesday afternoon and casually shrugged off the speculation.
“I think it‘s great that she’s going to give a response,” Noem told host Neil Cavuto. “I think that she‘s going to make sure that we’re holding our president’s feet to the fire, that he doesn’t just stand up and give a really nice tug-at-your-heartstrings speech, that we‘re going to make sure in the future that he doesn’t tug at our wallet anymore,” she said.
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Oathkeeper1775
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:16pmOur country needs more people like Rep Bachmann. Honestly, very few people that I have seen in politics are as brave as she.
Go, go, go Rep Bachmann, I admire and respect your bravery. You would have my vote in a nano-second.
The republicans better get the hell out of our way.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:00pmMy sentiments exactly
Report Post »Ron_WA
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:15pmWhat’s the big deal w/ Bachmann’s response? The media treats it like it is a civil war within the GOP or some unprecedented rouge move – how soon we forget it was then Senator Barry Obama who in JAN 2008 offered his own response the then President Bush’s SOTU. There’s enough room in America for many voices.
Report Post »Capt_Spalding
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:15pmGO Michele Bachmann! So good to see a Republic standing up and speaking up and meaning it!
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:13pmI’m not unhappy about Bachmann giving a TeaParty response – but I think she needs to formally leave the Republican Party and tell the Congress that she is now a Tea Party representative – not an independent nor going to the other aisle – but in fact a third REAL party – the Tea Party. IF and I’m NOT Boehner (sp?), I’d remove her from any position in the Republican controlled house if she put an (R) after her name. IF she wants to give a Michelle Bachmann (R) response, and the media (any of them) want to listen – that’s fine, just about every Congressman who has any standing or reputation will be asked what they thought over the next few days or hours as the case may be. But she has NO business making it a “Tea Party” rebuttal.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:17pmBy the way – did I tell you that I like and support Michelle Bachmann and if she runs for Pres or VP, I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
Report Post »YouMayFireWhenReady
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:49amI can see where you might think that the Repulican’s need to stand united. But a vast majority of American’s (Tea Party members & like minded individuals) need someone to hold our elected official’s feet to the fire. In the past, Repulican’s spent our tax dollars as if they were Drunken Democrats, virtually unchecked. NOW, we have a voice…and someone (Bachman) to say “hey, the spending is out of control!!!“ ”The people don’t want more debt!!”
Report Post »Spawnomite
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10pmThe Republicans are too stoopid to find a true representative of their party that the people want so America turns to Michelle, Sara, Glenn and Rush among the few since the “Republicans” are incapable of doing it themselves.
Twitter an invite to “come sit with me”?
Seriously?
Go ***k yourselves you dip$#it Republicans. No better than the Democraps.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:08pmWell the LSM will all have their own Democratic taking points response so it is 2 right and 100 left.
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:07pmMaking a mountain out of a molehill.
Report Post »orcainohio
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:07pmhuray for Rep. Noem and Rep. Bachmann I hope they keep the fire to the dems and Pres. Obama. The leftist press will have a hard time demonizing these fine ladies as they did Newt and the boys from the 94 sweep against the clinton and dem expansion of the fed and all thier regulators.
Report Post »Keep up the great work ladies!!!!
Marylou7
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:32pmYeah!!!
Report Post »patriot 2008
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:06pmdemocrats and rino’s alike are threatened by the tea party patriots, Mrs. Bachman and Governor Palin as well as Governor Brewer. (hmmmmm all women, where are the men?) But we do have the mcshames and amnesty grahams, turncoat scott brown, and now maybe rubio??? Any tea party candidate kind of gets tossed to the back, ie., Colonel West.
Report Post »No worries, 2012 will be here and if we still have an election process, there will be even more tea party candidates. Don’t laugh, look at the chicago ilk, that’s who is running the country.
NickDeringer
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:06pmConservative women doing the job conservative men won’t do. It will be interesting if only for the fact that Bachmann could up stage the Prancing Prince of Illinois.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:18pmExactly .. .the women are the ones with guts in the party.
Report Post »Oathkeeper1775
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:43pmStrongly agree.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:47amWon’t do?
Pardon me?
Marketing plays a big role in this. It’s not “can’t do” it’s “not selected to do” by the behind the scenes people. Rand Paul is doing a hell of lot of good, and his father has been doing yeoman’s work for decades, but they weren’t “selected” by the behind the scenes people to be the party front, so they’re being more or less ignored.
It is becoming almost a mirror of real life. The guys sit behind the scenes pulling the major weight of the load and the women are put in the driver’s seat and are said to be “leading” and “doing the work”.
Please understand, I like Bachmann, this isn’t a slam on her. I’m just a bit tired of the “but but but the men aren’t doing anything” crap. The hell they aren’t.
Report Post »bigdaddybrown
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:05pmBachmann has more chops than Palin (4 years as a congresswo¬man, an attorney with a LLM in tax law), more business acumen than Palin (she holds stakes in several successful business ventures), she is a better public speaker than Palin, and she has more of a compelling family narrative than Palin (5 children, 23 foster children, no Bristol). If the tea party people get behind her, she could rise up quickly. I suggest Palin, due to the utter hatred that the left has thrown at her would be easier to defeat in an election than Bachmann.
Report Post »wodiej
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10pmI like them both but don’t see how Bachmann has anything on Palin. Bachmann has not been subjected to the hate that Palin has. Palin also has executive experience-Bachmann doesn’t. Why it matters how many children each of them has is beyond me. Palin and her husband also run a fishing business, Palin has brought herself up by hard work. I suspect Bachmann had some advantages Palin didn’t.
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:33pmI would have no problem having a Palin/Bachmann ticket in 2012.
They would in my opinion be the best either party could offer. It’s time for an all female ticket!!!
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:07pmI don’t agree so than with you 100% but I see your point. I like Bachmann’s ability to speak more conversantly and not in sound bites. Palin‘s sound bites make it hard for her to translate to alot of people if they don’t really follow her and just see what the mainstream media will play of her.
Bachmann has the ability to bring people to her side more than Palin has been able to so far. Palin is stronger right now with the conservative base but maybe only because she has had more exposure.
Lastly, the fact that Bachmann makes Chris Matthews crazy is a definite plus in her favor.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:05pmThe tea party(per se) is NOT the Republican Party. It is people who get together, or network together with a similar political philosophy. This is a reminder. Bachman is clearly in line with tea party thinking as of today. A libertarian may be next years choice. People need to remember, the tea party is not a political party. It is the conscience of all the parties, the will of the people. We are united by ideal, we draw the politicians to us because we are large and powerful. Today The Republicans are the closest we have to our ideal. May not stay that way. Do NOT take us for granted.
Report Post »Proud American in Buffalo
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:21pmThe problem many people have with the TEA Party is that it is looked at as an political party and not a political movement. They are afraid the Republican party will be torn apart by the differing views of “Mainstream” Republicans and Republican who favor the ideals of the TEA Party Movement. The fact of the matter is you can be registered as a member of the Republican Party and still follow the tennants of the Tea Party movement. This is a vital point that I believe can not be stressed enough.
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:16amExcept… that the Tea Party pretty much is the Republican party’s ugly cousin. They are the Cousin Eddy’s; they are invited, but they have to stay outside in the camper.
Seriously, lets face reality. Most recent polls have shown that the majority of TP’ers identify as Republicans, so lets not kid ourselves. Hell, look at the people on here. What do the parrots do the minute that this chic is attacked by Republicans? They just call them RINOs. Gee, wonder why they’d do that…
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:56am@Malachai
Well, my guess is that the people on the GOP side who attack Bachmann are, through demonstrated voting records, RINO’s almost exclusively. I’ve yet to see a libertarian-Republican like Ron Paul attack her. So it has nothing to do with “they’re the ugly cousin”. We’re 70% of the nation bub, we invite *them* to our events now and only if we feel like it, not the other way around.
The times, they are a‘changin’.
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 11:17amWho is 70%? Certainly not the Tea Party, if that‘s what you’re claiming?
Also, Ron Paul doesn’t tend to attack people unless he thinks they are grossly wrong about their policies (Bernake.) She‘s not laid out any actual policies so I don’t think he’s really given him anything TO attack.
PS: Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »Beckaj
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:03pmThe more the merrier. Both Ryan and Bachmann are great and they will deliver the conservative message. We need to have as many people as much as possible spreading that word.
The media is just trying to manufacture infighting. Everyone will be giving their response and they are waiting until after Ryan.
Report Post »prairiegirl
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:00pmI will not watch the buffoon. But I will watch Ryan and Bachmann. I still (emphasis on still) get to listen to and fill my world with what I choose to.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59pmI like Michele alot her voting record speaks for itself. She didn’t vote for TARP, GM bailout or 6 billion for Service Act. Ryan voted for all those. Hes really a RINO, I’m affaid to say.
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:17pmShe did vote for the Patriot Act!
Report Post »Pyx
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59pmOnly democRATs and RINOs don’t want Michelle Bachmann to speak.
Report Post »wifezilla
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:11pmExactly. And if she is prepping for a 2012 run… FANTASTIC!
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:58pmtime to hear from the 80 percent of the population that gets brushed under the carpet usually… GET USED TO IT .. we aren’t going away
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:14pmMore GOP Welfare Queens. It seems that the hypocrisy knows no bounds with The Tea Party
1. 3rd district of Nebraska (Rep. Adrian Smith – Republican) – $1,736,923,011 in subsidies go to 51,702 recipients.
2. 1st district of Kansas (Rep. Jerry Moran – Republican) – $1,315,979,151 in subsidies go to 75,802 recipients.
3. 4th district of Iowa (Rep. Tom Latham – Republican) – $1,288,622,912 in subsidies go to 35,696 recipients.
4. 9th district of Texas (Rep. Randy Neugebauer – Republican) – $1,227,192,312 in subsidies go to 21,290 recipients.
Kurty C Wipe
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:34pmBroke is Broke…..game over
Report Post »idrathermisstotheright
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:01pm13th oh I mean Keith obermann please go away. Just because you are unemployed doesnt give you the right to bother us here. We all turned your channel so do us a favor and leave.
Report Post »Massey-50
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:16pm@13th,
You implying that only the GOP has subsidies.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:07am13th, Libs like you you are the blame. History: 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act. DemoRat Franklin Roosevelt’s “The New Deal” is a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term. So what is your point 13th?
Report Post »Waltermelon
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 3:19amI think the point he is making, is that all farm subsides should be cut. It doesn’t matter who passed what and when, we are broke. And no offense, but Bachmann is a political reptile. I don’t want to be ruled by lizards again, we tried that a million years ago.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:06am@WALTERMELON
Report Post »Reptilian: 1846, from reptile. Transf. meaning “malignant, cold, underhanded” is from 1859. I see how this applies to Obama and his crew & some R‘s but Bachmann wouldn’t be first to come to mind. And No his point is anyone getting government money is a “Welfare Queen” even though this people work and produce products. While Obama voting “ Welfare Queens ” produce babies and crime, leeching off the system every step of the way.
HillBillySam1
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:57pmIsn’t a “Representative Republic” supposed to have more than one or two voices speaking for the “people”?? These jerks had better get a grip on things. The more that they realize that their political careers are in the hands of the voters instead of the “D” and “R” political machinery in Washington, D.C., the better off as a country we will be. The American people understand how the system works….and we will use that knowledge to vote them in or out.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:08pmYeah, I second that. There should be even more responses. In my opinion each Rep. in Congress should speak with their citizens on how they interpret what Obama says. Let us know just how stupid they are.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:32pmHillbilly and Marylou Both of you…well said!!!
Report Post »BlackMan
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:46pm@HillBillySam1 (is there a 2? ) I think U are right buddy, these Politcal Elitists on the Right and Left, both seem to think that is their job to RULE us! No! We do not wish to be RULED by the Right or the Left, we Americans of the Tea Party Persuasion wish to GOVERN ourselves!
Report Post »HillBillySam1
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:43pm@ BLACKMAN
Report Post »Yeah….there was a “2”, a “3”, and a “4”….all the way up to “10”. Since I am the eldest, I got the “1”…..my pappy wasn’t very creative with our birth-names but he sure could make some fine pure-grain alcohol! Not a very stable mixture of ingredients, though……Which is why there “was” a “2”…..very sad story…..
MJ1025
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:56pmGet over it, cry babies.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:56pmIt would do the Republicans good to remember why they got another chance but then they don’t need the Tea Party at the moment..
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:16pmAre you Suzanne Somers?
Report Post »We The People have the Tea Party, with every party affiliation…Obama has his unions with…uh, prominently democrat affiliation. I think we have the upper hand.
Kurty C Wipe
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:56pmBroke is Broke …. game over
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:05pmOh really. like the fact that she is a Socialized Farm Welfare Queen who had received over 250 thousand in Farm Subsidies. Who is she to talk about anything?
Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized — or “socialized” — businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls.
icediva
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:12pmYea good point! her father-in-law took an average of 22,000 a year. I‘m surprised but probably shouldn’t be. Time to wipe-out all the farm subsides. That pales in comparison to the Pigford settlement and all the fraud that came from that settlement. Murders were committed for 50,000 dollar fraudalent checks.
Report Post »Massey-50
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:11pm@13th,
You realy need to get your facts straight concerning Farm Subsidies. That is just a bill to ensure cheap food for the stores and all the Free Government programs for WIC, Food Stamps ect.etc.etc
If the Gov got it’s damn fingers out of farm comodities as weel as most other markets, the farmers wouldn’t need subsidies. Ever heard of CRP. Paying to not farm land.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:40pm13th Her Father-In-Law ???? Come on, what does that have to do with her? Grasping at straws.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 12:01am13th: 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act. DemoRat Franklin Roosevelt’s “The New Deal” is a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term. So what is your point 13th?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 8:42am*sigh*
Tu quoque fallacy, rejected. Please, try to do better in the future, your “side” seems to be almost exclusively hung up on that particular fallacy and it is getting tiresome to keep pointing it out. Thanks.
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:55pmI don‘t recall those who are complaining this time around complaining when Obama had his own special response to Bush’s SOTU speech in 2008 when he was a presidential candidate. Hmmmmm……………
Report Post »nptden
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 1:50amYou got that right. Wonder Boy had to make a ‘debut’….I mean who had ever heard of him?.. I think Michele did it to keep her TP backers and make a splash after the Palin loss….I’d like to see neither of these girls run and back someone like Allen West or Paul Ryan…maybe include Rubio… The Romney, Gingrich power boys should be ignored. Love to see Obama debate Allen West.
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:53pmMichele is going to kick their commie butts with the truth.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:01pmShe will be a breath of fresh air.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10pmNice to see that the women R’s have “a pair” … most of the men do not!
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:25pmWell, her “Teabuttal” will at least be good for a laugh.
Report Post »IFIWEREPREZ
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:31pmFinally a real Republican is doing something! Like the article stated, the Tea Party already planned to give a rebuttal before Ryan was selected by the elites to give the GOP rebuttal. I really like Ryan but he’s just standing up now that the Tea Party has forced the elites out of their comfort zones. He voted for TARP just like my idiot rep Thornberry (voted against it the first day when we were all shouting at them to stop, but then voted for it the second day). We are not sleeping any more, neither are we cattle to be led. This is our nation and we are tired of being lied to.
Why does it take a woman like Bachmann or Palin to get the men in the GOP to stand up. Are they all afraid of the PC police? What is up with the prom date garbage? I understand that we are the real good guys and that when you win an overwhelming victory like we did last Nov, you should be a gracious winner but this is going too far! The progressives always say that the GOP has to be flexible and inclusive but whenever they grab power, they go hard left and exclude even those in their own party who aren’t progressive enough. No, we need Bachmann. She is articulate and intelligent. Come on men of the GOP. Act like MEN and rise up from the dust. You‘ve done enough sitting by trying not to hurt other’s feelings. It’s time to lead this nation back to greatness before the Chinese start gobbling us up.
Report Post »RojBlake
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:53pmWhat difference does it make, they’ve been picking apart the speech for days now…& they’ll be picking it apart for days more.
In the meantime REAL NEWS gets shoved to the back burner.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:57pmFox needs to mention that BHO did the same thing after Bush’s SOTU in 2007. I don’t believe he was representing any group except BHO.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:37pmTrump is a rino populist.
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:51pmGet used to it.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:55pmExactly XCORI8R. I think the American people will make sure the Republicans stick to their promises. Unlike what they say in the mainstream media, the Tea Party is not going away anytime soon. If promises are broken I think they will become even stronger. I think it’s great that she is going to give a speech. Maybe it will send a message to the rest of the Republican party.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – Great site for Tea Party news
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59pmGood! More reason to do it. Tell those that disagree to kiss where the sun don’t shine. Times is running out. Its not business as usual in Washington so let’er rip. Then tell them what they don’t want to hear….but need to. YOU GO GIRL!..
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 7:59pmGood! More reason to do it. Tell those that disagree to kiss where the sun don’t shine. Time is running out. Its not business as usual in Washington so let’er rip. Then tell them what they don’t want to hear….but need to. YOU GO GIRL!..
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:09pmGuess what R’s .. I’m not happy about your sitting with the Dems in order to not show the loss that we caused in November 2010 … you disregard the TEA Party at your own peril … TEA!
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:10pmMichelle Bachman will not step on toes…she knows the program.
Report Post »She’ll run for president, no doubt, along with a host of other great candidates. I can’t wait!
Secret Squirrel
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:21pmWho’s unhappy?
Newt, Rove, McCain, and the ruling class RINO’s.
You go girl!
Report Post »The republicans would sell me a RINO and tell me it’s a Unicorn!
Stuck_in_CA
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:29pmMichelle Bachmann’s appearance is an added bonus. We’ll get two conservatives, to one of their socialists. Usually just the opposite, in most cases.
Report Post »DeMint/Bachmann 2012
GONESURFING
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 8:57pmYou go girl. Give em hell.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:28pmTRUMP-BACHMANN in 2012?
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Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:34pmI think she‘ll only reinforce Ryan’s statement, and I must say I like what I’ve heard of it so far. In fact Hatch and Cornyn have a are floating the idea of a constitutional amendment limiting the federal budget to 20% of the GDP. They will make raising the debt ceiling conditional on passing this amendment!! One of the BEST ideas I’ve heard yet!!
However, I’d like to see them reduce that number to 18% of GDP to help PUSH the progressives into releasing the regulatory stranglehold on the private sector to get the economy growing again. If the progressives/liberals want to SPEND money, and we all know they love to do that, they’ll have to let the economy grow through the private sector.
Even Germany has hit a new low on their unemployment rate at 7%. They also had economic growth of 3.4%(not sure of the exact number) in 2010, WITHOUT a stimulus spending bill.
Report Post »Okieflyover
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 10:47pmWe have been told for years that the Republicans can’t create a “big tent” environment. With the Republicans plus the Tea Party, this looks like alot bigger tent than the Libs can present with their 20% of the population.
That is what scares the crud out of them.
Report Post »GUT_CHECK
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:05pmjust remember the tea party began inside the Ron Paul presidential campaign.
Report Post »giving credit where it is due, Ron Paul has done more than any recent polititian in D.C. in shaping the changes so long in coming. no one is more mature in hope and expectation as he.
Ron Paul 2012, A Chance For All Of U.S.
Ezekiel38
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:09pmWe are a three-party government!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:26pmbring it on Michelle…hey America lets really get crazy…Palin/Bachman 2012
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:48pmThat was fast .. got an email from the RNC wanting money .. after they sat with the dems … really guys! Get a Backbone!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:48pmI like Palin / Bachmann for 2012. That would really drive the looney left nuts.
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:50pmTrump talks the talk, but behind the scenes donated $50K to Rahm Emanuel for Chicago Mayoral race. Seems a bit fishy doesn’t it?
Report Post »exdem
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 11:57pmI am very disappointed that Fox did not air Bachmann’s speech. I could only find it on CNN. I thought she was great and will surpass Sarah Palin as the left’s punching bag.
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:13amI think most Tea Partiers should be unhappy that she‘s speaking since she’s just shown the world who didn‘t already know her that she’s clueless. I had no idea who she was (barring hearing her name here and there.) By the time she was done, my hand was firmly affixed to my forehead while it shook slowly back and forth. What a cretin.
The teaparty seriously needs to get someone who isn’t a dolt to take the torch…. and fast.
Report Post »roguetea
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:28amrogue, Trusting Exceptional Americans
foxnews.com has the Bachmann linked to their lead page… though it is a bit hard to stumble into. A matter of fact, it gets a left handed point, by the left handed lefty that we wish was simply left out. Follow the left hand to ‘Video’ and then the end of that line to ‘GOP Response.‘ Now that is where it gets tricky cause ya gots to take it as ’GOP Responses.‘ Click on ’GOP Response’ which features Ryan but if you look below his mug, you will see a number of other responses, Michelle being among them. Right now I also have fox on catching the reruns. Greta is up and I believe she is going to play some of Bachmann later.
To say the lest, the tea party has not gone away and some historian in a few years is going to do a paper on how much the tea party impacted the 2011 State of the Union. He cannot join us, but he can no longer ignore it. I am loving it, as he deploys the jargon of free enterprise and tea party to say he going to keep doing his same old, more socialism. He is a skit.
Bachmann uses the simple bar graph to burn historical truth towards the momentum of 12.
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KICKILLEGALSOUT
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:56amExactly, of course the Socialists aren’t going to like it, who cares what they think anyways, and the RINO’s might not like it but they need to wise up that they are exposed and old news, the Tea Party is not going away and will keep growing stronger as more people get informed about what is really going on and start getting active and involved in the future of their country.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 5:06amHer speech sounded good to me, but I had to go to You Tube to hear it. She made some very good points about unemployment, the deficit and spending.
Report Post »taxed
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 6:28amBachmann was right on… She wants to de-Marxify Hussein so bad…
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:47amThis is another example of the leftists media trying to confuse and trap the dimwitted RHINO’s into playing their game. It seems the RHINO’s are the same kids who pulled the fire alarm in school because the “cool kids” told them to. Everytime a RHINO talks, all I hear is: “Have you seen my baseba….er weiner?”
Report Post »TurnRight
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:05amA beauty with brains, topped off with comonsense…something the left don’t have.
Report Post »indy1
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:06amIf the Republicans are doing the right thing they should welcome the Tea Party scrutiny. Plus any woman that drives Chrissy the Drooler crazy is a woman we need to hear from.
Report Post »historyguy48
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:13amThey are finding out, slowly but surely, that an awful lot of Americans that the “farmers” considered to be mere cattle are actually a bunch of ticked off wolves. When the “elites” figure out that they work for us, not the other way around, some sanity may prevail in Washingtongrad. If it doesn’t we can, and will, do what is necessary to regain control over these people.
Report Post »They may not like what can happen.
JGP
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 9:21am@ Malachai
Report Post »What did she say that got you to shaking your head?
Miguelito
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 10:25amWhy don‘t we get rid of parties and become ’We The People” with different beliefs and ideas. There is good Dems and good Repubs but there is some bad Dems and bad Repubs. Some people do not like the Tea Party because people are awaking! Some people will attack Mrs. Bachman not for what she says, lets have a debate but personal attacks which women’s groups should be outraged. If people can not win the Common Sense argument they resort to name calling. That’s grown-up?
Report Post »Clive
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 2:44pmshe’s about as smart as obamas toe.
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on January 26, 2011 at 7:08pmCLIVE, you are wrong about that, she has more smarts in her little toe than Obama has period.
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