Posted on 12/14/2014 12:36:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
hould anyone have been surprised that Michele Bachmann would go out with a bang, a big bang? On Tuesday, in what the retiring congresswoman from Minnesota figured would be her last White House holiday party, Bachmann used the grip-and-grin moment when she got her picture taken with President Obama to raise a reliably grin-killing topic. “The U.S. needs to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities today,” she informed him.
His response?
“A condescending smile and laugh,” she tells Politico, making a little pat-on-the-head gesture. “‘Michele, it isn’t that easy, but that’s OK,’” she remembers him telling her. To which the gentlelady from Minnesota replied that it would be on him, then, to have failed to keep Iran from wiping Israel off the map.
Merry Christmas!
Bachmann, who, amid a probe into possible campaign finance violations during her 2012 presidential run, announced last year that she would not seek a fifth term, put a lot of thought into that final “substantive word with the president,” as she puts it, even if it did make her the holiday guest from hell. “I made the conscious decision I was going to run hard through the tape at the end” of her time on the Hill, she said in a long interview in the borrowed committee room where her staff has been camped out since they packed up her office before Thanksgiving. And using even those few seconds with Obama in the most provocative possible way is just one reason the 58-year-old firebrand feels “like an accomplished person” as she exits stage right.
“I feel almost like my life is over, in a positive way,’’ she says.
Bachmann, after all, came to Washington to fight—and she did, summoning thousands of tea partiers to protest at the Capitol, questioning the president’s patriotism, and “tirelessly,”
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My hope is that Israel has told Saudi Arabia that the - if the first nuclear explodes over Jerusalem, the second nuclear weapon will explode over Mecca.
The third nuclear weapon will explode over Medina.
And a hottie!
“Only due to severe redistricting, which Democrats literally drew up to her front porch, to cripple her.”
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Umm, no. Redistricting gave her a 2% more Republican district than before (its McCain percentage increased from 53% to 55%), and is by far the most Republican district in the state. If anything, redistricting saved her in 2012, since she only won by 51%-49% and, under the old lines, she likely would have lost by 51%-49% (all things being equal).
“She’s a wonderful woman.”
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That is certainly true. But it doesn’t change the fact that she barely won reelection in 2012 in a very Republican district.
Bachmann is not an “accomplished person” - like Cruz, she speaks loudly, but never managed to lead a serious challenge to the forward(!) march of socialism in the US. These guys are personalities. TV celebrities.
We need leaders capable of leading — as in. people who can turn things around.
;-)
Lots of good song titles to use too:
Takin Care of Business
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Take it Like a Man
Shotgun Rider
Sledgehammer
Four Wheel Drive
I think you may be on to something...
Who do you think has “turned things around” in the GOP?
Romney? McConnell? Boehner?
Bachmann was very effective from her position in the House, better than 95% of the GOP squishes.
Did anyone hear her interview this morning on Laura Ingrahm? She was seriously spilling the beans on Mr Bleepin’ Speaker.
Maybe it’s online, I’ll see if I can find it.
Her comments confirmed a lot of what has been said here on FR.
Iran hates Saudi Arabia almost as bad as they hate Israel. It’s the Shiite/Sunni squabble.
Bookmark. Thanks.
“Bachmann, who, amid a probe into possible campaign finance violations during her 2012 presidential run, announced last year that she would not seek a fifth term...”
IIRC, when she was elected for her first time many years ago she said she would only run for a few terms. I thought she had said two terms - but perhaps it was four.
Regardless - the “amid a probe” may be true - but it has nothing to do with her keeping her promise of not becoming a life-long politician.
Thanks for the ping and link.
Bookmarked for later listening.
B^)
Thanks, but it must be because I block ‘disqus’, that after 15 minutes of my life, waiting for the non-existent video, I stopped.
“...seriously spilling the beans...”
Someone needs to. And that’s precisely why she SHOULDN’T go.
Is that you with Michelle? You touched her waist?
She could call Jim De mint and work with him in DC
I touched her. I whispered to her.
I even took off my hat for the lady.
Good for you. I guess I would be a little Star Struck. She seems at ease around the voters. I hope to see more of her on TV, making the RINOs all grumpy and nervous.
“Who do you think has “turned things around” in the GOP?
Romney? McConnell? Boehner?
Bachmann was very effective from her position in the House, better than 95% of the GOP squishes.”
She’s more capable than those guys, but that’s not saying much. My point is, none of these people have moved the needle, including the celebrities people here like to talk about.
Bachmann, like Palin, is a celebrity. Not a Thatcher.
We need a Thatcher.
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