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Bachmann throws Bush under bus
Politico ^ | September 29, 2010 | Kasie Hunt

Posted on 10/01/2010 1:48:37 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn

Michele Bachmann famously couldn’t let go of George W. Bush during an encounter with the president following his 2007 State of the Union address. Now, however, she can’t seem to get far enough away.

In a new ad out Wednesday, Bachmann distances herself from Bush and lumps him in with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Barack Obama.

“That’s why fought and I voted against the Bush Wall Street bailout, the failed Pelosi trillion-dollar stimulus and Obama’s government takeover of healthcare,” she says in the ad.

It’s a far cry from Bachmann’s warm embrace of Bush after his annual SOTU address three years ago. After that speech, in a moment memorialized on YouTube, Bachmann took Bush’s arm and held on even as he shook another congresswoman’s hand—and continued to hang on for at least 30 seconds until she received a hug and kiss from the president as well.

The Wall Street bailouts — formally the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP — passed with some Republican support in 2008 at the end of Bush’s second term. The vote helped galvanize the tea party and has helped spell doom for several Republican House and Senate incumbents who have lost primaries, including South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis.

Bachmann is running against state Sen. Tarryl Clark in Minnesota’s 6th District. She’s raised more than $4.7 million this cycle, in a contest that ranks as one of the most expensive House races this year.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachmann; bush; leftwingnews; porkulus; spending; tarp
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To: Truthsearcher

Terrible Tarryl is around 10% points behind, so expect many more stories like this ...


21 posted on 10/01/2010 2:13:23 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: SharpRightTurn

give it a break Michelle!

I know I will now get flamed by the Michelle fans...I like her too. and flamed by the Bush Bashers too.

But you don’t need to join the left and bash Bush. give it a break..Just move forward. Its always ugly when conservatives start to tear down other conservatives.

Ok, now everyone on board and all at once” But, but she was JUST being HONEST’. Yeah, right.
Guess I am just getting fed up with all of them and their egos.


22 posted on 10/01/2010 2:14:56 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie ( Ok, Joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: scory

“Bush was a mediocrity as president who got elected because the alternative in both cases was far worse. He is no conservative and many of his actions went far to discredit his party and give Hussein the White House and the leftists control of the congress. That said - compared to the buffoon we have now Bush looks like a statesman of the first order. I was right to vote for him twice because Gore is a proven lunatic and Lurch a seditious, pompous fool. But it sure would be nice to be able to vote for someone because I thought he/she was really the best one for the job.”

BUMP


23 posted on 10/01/2010 2:15:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Me too! Have one of her campaign signs in my front yard right now.


24 posted on 10/01/2010 2:16:22 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: hampdenkid

BTTT


25 posted on 10/01/2010 2:16:54 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: Spok

So was his not securing the border and not dealing with amnesty.

He’s not suffering; just the people are suffering.


26 posted on 10/01/2010 2:17:38 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I like Bush in many regards, but some of his policies and programs deserve loud criticism.

Hell, even the Patriot Act was a mistake in my mind. Too much open-ended power given to every administration. What happens when bad guys wield that power?


27 posted on 10/01/2010 2:20:19 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: SharpRightTurn

Michele Bachmann - Savage's favorite elected official.

TSN agrees wholeheartedly!

28 posted on 10/01/2010 2:20:36 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Spok
Bush (Dubya) now admits the bailout was a mistake. So is Bush throwing Bush under the bus?

Politico is a totally liberal site that tries to pretend like they are not...hoping to sew discord among conservatives in every little way they can think of.

If you keep this in mind while reading their stuff, it's pretty easy to spot the pattern.

29 posted on 10/01/2010 2:21:56 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: Cicero

“he had some major flaws. Among them: Amnesty, big spending, big government, and failure to stand up and speak the truth to Dem lies.”

Very true.

Also his proclivity to pick SC justices as reflected in his first choices: “Al” Gonzalez and Harriet Myers. Much in the vein of his old man’s picking Souter. Fortunately conservatives raised enought Cain to shame him into picking Roberts and Alito, two very good picks.


30 posted on 10/01/2010 2:22:28 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: scory
“..lunatic and ....seditious, pompous fool....” tends to describe every democrat in political office.

I am not so hard on Bush, he made some horrible mistakes, but I he was the best conservative the voting public would accept. And he got in but the thinnest possible of margins.
He had little political capital because of the margin of his election victory. The “public” was still too much in the “mushy middle”. We tend to forget here on FR we are preaching mostly to the choir. I think we can thank Zero, Reid & Pelosi for waking up the “public” to what's exactly at stake. We either be the USA or at best some warmed over lack luster dysfunctional version of Sweden. Worst case (which is where is possible!) would be unthinkable!

31 posted on 10/01/2010 2:24:56 PM PDT by Reily
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To: SharpRightTurn

GW needs to be thrown under the bus.


32 posted on 10/01/2010 2:25:02 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: hampdenkid

Respectfully, Bachmann has been a target of the left since before Sarah became governor of Alaska.

Her being smeared has nothing to do with Palin.

But your larger point is correct: Politico covers for Obama and smears Palin.


33 posted on 10/01/2010 2:27:08 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: SharpRightTurn

Voting against the bailouts is worth bragging about.


34 posted on 10/01/2010 2:27:34 PM PDT by FourPeas (Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Medicare Part D


35 posted on 10/01/2010 2:28:05 PM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: hampdenkid

“Politico is turning harder left by the day — and even they must know this story is fully contrived.”

BTTT


36 posted on 10/01/2010 2:29:47 PM PDT by 1035rep
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To: SharpRightTurn

Bush sold us out and he deserves to be under the bus.


37 posted on 10/01/2010 2:31:03 PM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Altura Ct.

I don’t agree that Bush should be thrown under the bus but his support of the Wall Street Bailout was just plain wrong and because of it we got Barack Obama.


38 posted on 10/01/2010 2:32:44 PM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: listenhillary

“Medicare Part D”

How could I ever forget MediPill? When no one was asking for it, none of the Seasoned Citizens demanding it, out of the blue Jorge proposed, and the Republican Congress passed, the biggest welfare program since the LBJ administration.

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Thanks for the reminder.


39 posted on 10/01/2010 2:33:02 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: 1035rep

This station is owned by Allbritton communications who also owns Politico.

WJLA-TV fires veteran anchor Doug McKelway, cites insubordination, misconduct (For mentioning Obama’s ties to BP)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606645.html


40 posted on 10/01/2010 2:34:03 PM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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