U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R.-Minn., at the Conservative Political Action conference Feb. 10 in DC
Posted on 04/10/2011 5:16:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The crowd undulates as the tea partiers on the Capitol's front lawn make way and pull out their cell phones for a photo. The professionals move in, too, snapping stills and rolling video. Whoever is speaking to the rally at this moment has been forgotten.
The source of the commotion is too short to see from afar, but it's obvious that Michele Bachmann has arrived.
Tim Phillips, the president of rally organizer Americans for Prosperity, asks the several hundred people if they know whose birthday it is. Of course they do. Michele is 55, though she could pass for far younger, and she revels as they sing "Happy Birthday."
"I'm here to thank you and applaud you," she says, "that you cared enough about your country that you got on buses and came up here or down here or from the side." She pauses for laughter.
"Because we are one."
The third-term Republican U.S. House member from the Minneapolis suburbs is, indeed, one with the tea party. She spotted the movement in its infancy, saw its conservative outrage was the same as her own, then used bold pronouncements and a sophisticated way to distribute them to put herself at its vanguard.
Now her travel schedule looks like that of someone with an eye on the White House: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina. She's said she wants to be a part of the discussion, at least, and she's getting plenty of encouragement from a nationwide network of activists who flood her political action committee with donations and urge her, as they did at Wednesday's rally, to: "Run, Michele, run."
In the middle of the crowd, Tom Rogers, 65, of Westampton, N.J., hoists a sign with Ms. Bachmann's picture that reads: "Tea Party Thanks Conservative Leadership."
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Short background of Bachmann for those who don’t know her already.... this from the Post Gazette itself
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Born in Iowa — a fact she is fond of mentioning on the stump in the first presidential caucus state — Ms. Bachmann moved to Minnesota when she was young. Her pre-political life has three critical planks. First, Ms. Bachmann was a tax attorney, giving her broadsides against the American tax system intellectual heft.
In addition, she and husband Marcus own a Christian mental health practice, allowing her to speak from the perspective of the “small business owner.” At Wednesday’s rally, she used it to demean the president’s background in community organizing. “You try to make a profit, President Obama, I don’t think you have before,” she cried, to cheers.
And perhaps most spectacularly, Ms. Bachmann has been a mother to five children and foster mother to 23 more. “That’s a lot of pasta,” she quipped Wednesday.
If Sarah Palin was Everymom, Michele Bachmann is Supermom.
The two are often compared, but their political rises have followed different trajectories. Ms. Palin was an executive as a mayor and then governor of Alaska. Ms. Bachmann was a legislator, winning election to the Minnesota state Senate in 2000 then Congress in 2006.
In both bodies she clashed with her party’s leadership. She was stripped of a GOP leadership post in Saint Paul amid disputes over abortion and tax policy. In Washington she has nurtured a power base outside the Republican leadership by founding the Tea Party Caucus, and she even gave a nationally televised “tea party response” to Mr. Obama’s State of the Union Address that stole considerable thunder from the official Republican response.
Looking at that picture she looks every bit 55
when everybody else was sheepish, she spoke out... God Bless Michelle Bachmann.
Michelle: POTUS
Allen West: VP
Sarah Palin: Energy Sec.
Paul Ryan: Anything He Wants
Dude layoff the bold and the large text Stop your yelling
Yawn.
Bachmann was one of the few who actually tried to defund Obamacare while the rest were ducking under the table...
I beg to differ. She vacillated on the budget deal. She voted for it even though Obamacare was not defunded.
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Everymom? I saw a video of her at her church (as governor) where she pointed out and thanked the woman who was her kids' nanny since Track was young. I didn't know supermoms used nannies.
Not sure what the facts are or the strategy... but I know shoe wouldn’t just cave for the sake of getting along... to what exactly are you referring... I’ve been out of the news loop for half the weekend.
“Make no mistake: I oppose this negotiated deal,” Bachmann said in a Twitter message sent out at about 11:00 am on Saturday. “It does not: Cut enough spending, stop funding Planned Parenthood, or defund Obamacare.”
Bachmann also expressed her opposition to the deal in a statement put out in a press release.
“The deal that was reached tonight is a disappointment for me and for millions of Americans who expected $100 billion in cuts, who wanted to make sure their tax dollars stopped flowing to the nation’s largest abortion provider, and who wanted us to defund ObamaCare,” Bachmann said in the statement. “Instead, we’ve been asked to settle for $39 billion in cuts, even as we continue to fund Planned Parenthood and the implementation of ObamaCare. Sadly, we’re missing the mandate given us by voters last November, and for that reason I voted against the Continuing Resolution.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k
Everymom is not a Governor of a state. How would you propose doing that job and raising several kids at the same time. Dad works, too, if I recall.
I read somewhere at FR that she voted for the CR. From post #14, she did not. My mistake if that post is true.
What was she doing when Track was a tyke, other than paying a nanny to raise him?
Here it is again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k
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