Posted on 06/28/2011 11:54:56 AM PDT by Nachum
Funny you should ask. I posted this today on an earlier thread. ___________________________________________________________
http://theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/michele-bachmanns-flair-tea-party-clout-could-derail-romneys-gop-hopes/article2059800/
Excerpt
Some close to Ms. Bachmann privately refer to her as a "light switch." She flips on the charm to dazzle audiences or nail TV interviews, they say, then takes on a drill sergeant persona in private, where questioning her decisions draws suspicion of disloyalty. She's described as meticulous and worried about the finer details, such as soundtracks played to pump up rally crowds.
Ms. Bachmann has experienced frequent top-level staff changes in her congressional office since 2007. She's had six chiefs of staff in four years, five press secretaries, five legislative directors and three communications directors.
Ms. Bachmann discounts the staff churning as "growing pains" in an office that "moves at a fast rate of speed," and she stresses that many left for more influential jobs elsewhere.
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So pending any firings/departures re: the John Wayne Gacey flub, she and Newt are tied at 19 staff gone, Newt however retains the speed record as well the Voluntary Departure Count at 19-0. GOPers that's a record that's going to stand for awhile.
Give us a break.
Backstabber Bachmann, robot of Mitt Romney and Rollins,
was TOUGHER on Gov. Palin (without public apology)
then she was on Obama.
I also prefer executive experience. But right now I want someone who knows & loves the constitution & intends to RESTORE it. I want someone who intends to dismantle all the unnecessary & unconstitutional departments & agencies & get us back to a reasonable level of gov’t.
I’m also hoping that the Republicans have a series of constitutional amendments ready to push through (assuming they have a veto proof majority in House & Senate) & the necessary number of red states to kick things through quickly.
It seems to me to be a plus. She knows how it works and is a better position to dismantle the IRS.
Furthermore, despite what anyone thinks about lawyers, they are trained in critical thinking, logic and reason. Hopefully a Conservative lawyer can win cases for Conservative principles.
Add her long-term employments as an IRS tax attorney - just don?t sit right with me among many other concerns.
It seems to me to be a plus. She knows how it works and is a better position to dismantle the IRS.
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That’s highly doubtful as she was there for barely five years. And that was her first job, so she had no real world legal experience until then. And it doesn’t matter where the degree comes from, you’re a rookie for at least two years, working from checklists and culling references, and doing the grunt paperwork and court filings.
Guaranteed she was no where near the top executive and administrative centers of power and certainly had little if any discretionary power herself. So that limits her knowledge of the “tax system” as whole, said experience confined to the view from her cubicle.
Her hired gun tax litigator job no more qualifies her as an expert on tax policy than does her CPA qualify her as an economist. It’s just ticket punching.
Thanks for that explanation. I didn’t know you were a tax expert.
Is there any Bachmann thread you don’t spam? Does Bachmann need to be spammed in order for Palin to look good?
Not an expert, just had a lot of friends in NYC with sterling academic records describing their experiences in the Manhattan DA’s office, DEA, white shoe law firms and international banking over martinis. Typical dewy eyed over achievers hitting the pavement hard in the real world after graduation. All of them took the bit in their teeth and overcame I’m happy to say.
But enough about me, tell us about yourself.
;>)
Executive experience is lacking in our current President. But something to consider is that NONE of your Founding Fathers had any real executive experience. Most of our Presidents lacked it. So obviously there is more to the job than knowing how to manage people. In reality a head of a company only deals with a few people. The people below him deal with a few more, and so on. It is like the military. The Supreme Military Commander deals with about 10 or 20 Generals. The Generals with 4 to 10 Colonels, each Colonel may have 2 to 4 Lt. Colonel, and so on down the line till you get to a Corporal who may be in charge of 2 to 5 Privates. To put this in perspective. Divisions have 10,000-to-15,000 soldiers divided in three-to-five combat regiments and a number of support units. Regiments have 3,000-to-5,000 soldiers and include several combat and support battalions. Each battalion has three-to-five line companies of 100-to-150 soldiers apiece. Companies break down into three-to-five platoons of 20-to-40 people, which in turn break down into squads of eight-to-12.
Executive experience is lacking in our current President. But something to consider is that NONE of your Founding Fathers had any real executive experience. Most of our Presidents lacked it. So obviously there is more to the job than knowing how to manage people. In reality a head of a company only deals with a few people. The people below him deal with a few more, and so on. It is like the military. The Supreme Military Commander deals with about 10 or 20 Generals. The Generals with 4 to 10 Colonels, each Colonel may have 2 to 4 Lt. Colonel, and so on down the line till you get to a Corporal who may be in charge of 2 to 5 Privates. To put this in perspective. Divisions have 10,000-to-15,000 soldiers divided in three-to-five combat regiments and a number of support units. Regiments have 3,000-to-5,000 soldiers and include several combat and support battalions. Each battalion has three-to-five line companies of 100-to-150 soldiers apiece. Companies break down into three-to-five platoons of 20-to-40 people, which in turn break down into squads of eight-to-12.
She said she was going to beat Sarah Palin like she was a red headed stepsister.
Bachmann does not need anything to look bad.
She has no judgment. Want a few examples?
Here she had an opportunity to say something.
Or to apologize to Gov. Palin.
The IRS agent Bachmann did neither.
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Oh, dearie, me. That's such an unusual trait in people so ambitious they'd entertain becoming President of the United States.
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