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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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Michele Bachmann BUMP.

Outing Republicans who want to play Diamond Jim Brady with taxpayer money.

1 posted on 10/01/2010 1:48:42 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
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To: SharpRightTurn

She and DeMint should be proud of their anti-TARP credentials.


2 posted on 10/01/2010 1:50:18 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SharpRightTurn

3 years ago when that embrace occurred W had just become a lame duck President who rolled over for every spending need...


3 posted on 10/01/2010 1:51:10 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: SharpRightTurn

Bush (Dubya) now admits the bailout was a mistake. So is Bush throwing Bush under the bus?


4 posted on 10/01/2010 1:51:42 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: 9YearLurker

She’s my Congresscritter and I’m glad.


5 posted on 10/01/2010 1:52:04 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

Michele Bachman, one of my hero’s.

She didn’t throw Bush-o-socialist under the bus, he shoved conservatives over the cliff of socialism.

And her ad is right on!


6 posted on 10/01/2010 1:52:17 PM PDT by stockpirate ("......When the government fears the people you have liberty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SharpRightTurn

I heart Michele Bachmann


7 posted on 10/01/2010 1:53:37 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (I can see November from my house. Christine turned me into a Newt. I got better. Go Joe DioGuardio)
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To: 9YearLurker

In my district we renominated our former congressman who voted against TARP. The geniuses in the NRCC tossed him overboard in 08 after he voted against the bailout and he lost by 2%. Now he leads by around 10%.

Funny thing is, the democrat incumbant is trying to claim the vote against TARP was his even though he wasn’t elected for another month after the vote.


8 posted on 10/01/2010 1:54:09 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SharpRightTurn

I’m not one of those folks who blame Bush for everything, but he did make some doozies and TARP was the worst.


9 posted on 10/01/2010 1:56:37 PM PDT by justsaynomore (Please help us put Herman over 30K fans - www.facebook.com/THEHermanCain)
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To: cripplecreek

Good for you—and him! It would be a nice story to have him back in.


10 posted on 10/01/2010 1:57:44 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SharpRightTurn
All that she did was tell the truth about how Bush screwed up and let his inner socialist out.

LLS

11 posted on 10/01/2010 1:59:29 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: 9YearLurker

As far as I know, he’s the only former congressman to be nominated in the “anti incumbant” atmosphere these days.

Tim Walberg MI-07 BTW


12 posted on 10/01/2010 1:59:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: WOBBLY BOB
And damn proud! She is mine CC as well.

How could the state that gave us Ventura, Wellstone, Ellison, Klobuchar and Franken have a district smart enough to elect Michele?

I'm just glad to be on the Isle d'Intelligence here in the DumbAsso Sea.

13 posted on 10/01/2010 2:01:48 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Fear God and Government - especially when one tries to become the other!)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Unlike liberal Dems who turn blinded eyes to their foibles the real conservatives call it like it is. GWB was conservative in some ways but liberal in others. He tried to appease the Left side of the aisle way too often. MB calls it like it is.


14 posted on 10/01/2010 2:02:32 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: SharpRightTurn

This is pure Politico misleading headline trying to drive a wedge among Republicans.

She voted against the bill in 2008, was she “throwing Bush under the bus” then?

No, she was simply against the bill, she was then and she is now.


15 posted on 10/01/2010 2:03:50 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Spok

“Bush (Dubya) now admits the bailout was a mistake.”
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He knew that at the time, but he caved to the pressure being exerted on him as he was about to exit office.


16 posted on 10/01/2010 2:07:02 PM PDT by Canedawg (...still not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

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.


17 posted on 10/01/2010 2:08:39 PM PDT by scory
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To: SharpRightTurn

just because...


18 posted on 10/01/2010 2:10:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: SharpRightTurn

Politico is turning harder left by the day — and even they must know this story is fully contrived. If you read Politico carefully (with safety pin on nose firmly attached), you see they have two primary goals: (1) Puff Barack Obama, and (2) Savage Sarah Palin (or anyone, like Michele, who happens to align himself or herself with Sarah).

In short, Politico has become a predictable leftwing rag.


19 posted on 10/01/2010 2:12:09 PM PDT by hampdenkid
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To: SharpRightTurn

She didn’t flip flop. She likes Bush on some things, and faults him on others.

Bush was excellent on the right to life. He was excellent in the early days of the war on terror, although he later got bogged down. Although that may have been the constant undermining of the war effort by the Dems and the press.

Bush was also a decent and likeable guy.

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


20 posted on 10/01/2010 2:13:11 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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