Posted on 12/24/2014 5:22:23 PM PST by Libloather
Outgoing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says President Obama has embraced the “agenda of Islamic jihad” at every turn.
“I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the president of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad,” she said in an interview released Wednesday with "Washington Watch," a radio show produced by the socially conservative Family Research Council.
Bachmann criticized the president for writing to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to encourage a deal on Tehran's nuclear program. “This really is a spiritual battle that we’re dealing with,” she added. “And while the president continues to say that this is not about the religion of Islam, I beg to differ.”
Her comments were first reported by BuzzFeed News.
Bachmann said she spoke to Obama at this year's White House Christmas party and encouraged him to take action against Iran. But she said the president mocked her concerns.
“And he laughed at me condescendingly, and he said, ‘Well, Michele, it isn’t that easy. But that’s OK.’ Like patting me on the head, like I didn’t know what I was talking about,” she said.
It's not the first time Bachmann has made controversial comments about Islam. In 2012, she said that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had ties to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood.
Her decision to retire leaves House Republicans without one of their more outspoken conservative voices.
She regularly pushed the conference to take a harder line against President Obama, including working with Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to seek a vote on legislation to challenge executive action deferring deportations for millions of illegal immigrants.
She was probably tired of it all, especially being attacked, her and her husband (the faggots really went after her husband).
She always underperformed in her seat (the most GOP in MN). She ran behind the top of the GOP ticket (Governor in 06/10, POTUS in 08/12) in all of her elections, nearly losing in 2012 even as Romney easily took the district with 56.5% of the vote.
Thank you so much for your reply.
I’m happy to learn about her successor!!!
Tom Emmer sounds GOOD!
They ALL claim he has NO LEGAL RIGHT to do the things he's doing... but NO ONE STEPS UP to LEAD against him.
Plenty of "pontification" but no "action heroes" to be found.
No one challenges Obozo. They just continue to spew words.
Could that be at least in part because she was "targeted" to extremes by the 'Rats?
None dare call it treason.
From a book that used to be fairly famous called
“None dare call it conspiracy.”
It’s pretty hard to succeed as a constitutional conservative when both wings of the Uniparty are gunning for you.
Very true. But it always takes courage to represent constitutional conservatism in the vast ideological wasteland that is now Washington, DC. Unless there are compelling personal reasons for Bachmann to step down, consider her departure a disappointing loss for the cause.
” controversial “
I do not think that word means what she thinks it means. :-)
I agree with that. It’s disappointing.
Puts her in a nice spot to be the 2016 VP candidate.
That fact might be controversial, but Bachmann's comment about it is not.
Expect to see her more on FNC next year.
Maybe substituting for Hannity.
I'd like to know, too.
I don't agree with everything she has said and done but I do like her courage.
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