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GOP Leaders: Bachmann’s Speech Is Not the Party’s Response
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 25, 2011 | Danny Yadron

Posted on 01/25/2011 5:14:42 AM PST by ejdrapes

GOP Leaders: Bachmann’s Speech Is Not the Party’s Response

By Danny Yadron

Republican congressional leaders say they have no problem with Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann giving a response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. But they point out she’s not delivering the party’s official reaction

That privilege was given to Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, one of Congress’s biggest budget hawks. House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Mr. Ryan on Friday, and hours later, Ms. Bachmann, a favorite of the tea party crowd, said she would give her own response, live-streamed on the Tea Party Express website.

The Bachmann speech won’t start until Mr. Ryan finishes, a Tea Party Express spokesman said. Still, Ms. Bachmann’s address underscores the division between the Republican establishment and the party’s activist wing.

“We at the Tea Party Express felt that the tea party movement needed a strong voice in Washington, and to know that our views are being heard no matter what President Obama says in his address,” the group’s spokesman, Levi Russell, wrote in an email. At least parts of Ms. Bachmann’s speech will be carried on network television.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bachmann; bachmann2012; michelebachmann; paulryan; presidentbachmann; sotu; teapartycaucus; teapartyexpress
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To: sand88

In destroying some ideology, politically of course,

you must totally take away any power they have over other people.

This MUST include removing the ABILITY (positions of power) to ever attain that power again.

We have to get this feral gov’t dismantled.


61 posted on 01/25/2011 6:16:10 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: ejdrapes; Doogle

I don’t think it is inappropriate...she is another voice in the mix. She likely will NOT be refuting Paul Ryan, but standing up against Obama.

Paul Ryan is an excellent choice—I respect him very much, but I don’t think Michelle’s opinions are to be dismissed either.


62 posted on 01/25/2011 6:16:14 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SharpRightTurn
How about Ryan/Bachmann, or Bachmann/Ryan for Prez? That sounds even better. Fresh clean faces whithout all the baggage or lightening rods sticking out where ever they go.

That's what we really need here.

63 posted on 01/25/2011 6:16:50 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Michele Bachmann is not speaking for the GOP? Last time I checked she ran and won her seat in congress as a Republican. So it will be treated as a second GOP response, competing with Paul Ryan. I love Michele, but she's creating division where it's not necessary.
64 posted on 01/25/2011 6:18:03 AM PST by ejdrapes (Run Michele Run Sarah needs some competition)
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To: Doogle

Rush is on tonight? Where? Golf channel?


65 posted on 01/25/2011 6:18:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: pissant; indylindy

*ping*


66 posted on 01/25/2011 6:18:56 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: P-Marlowe
I've heard some networks are going to cover her response. Not sure if it will be Fox or the MSM but she will get national TV time.
67 posted on 01/25/2011 6:19:19 AM PST by ejdrapes (Run Michele Run Sarah needs some competition)
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To: SoFloFreeper

eyeppers...ep #3


68 posted on 01/25/2011 6:20:28 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: hennie pennie

I think I just heard on FOX news that Cantor has said there will be no bailouts and no bankruptcy for states.

Stuart Varney says it opens the door for backdoor bailouts.

I hope I heard wrong.


69 posted on 01/25/2011 6:21:43 AM PST by dforest
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To: albie

golf channel 9pm est Haney Project


70 posted on 01/25/2011 6:21:49 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SoFloFreeper; albie

http://www.thegolfchannel.com/golf-videos/haney-project-rush-limbaugh-episode-3-sneak-peek-15059/?ref=26000&rsec=605


71 posted on 01/25/2011 6:24:25 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: MrB
We have to get this feral gov’t dismantled.

Feral is the correct term. The bureaucrats is D.C relish their brutal control over our lives. The laugh as they regulate us into poverty.

Dismantling large portions of non-Constitutional agencies is key in restoring our Republic. However, I seriously doubt much at all will happen to turn us towards Liberty. The GOP leadership will do what only begins to appease us (conservatives) and not what is truly needed.

72 posted on 01/25/2011 6:25:38 AM PST by sand88
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To: SoFloFreeper; pissant; indylindy
>>>> "I don't think it is inappropriate...she is another voice in the mix. She likely will NOT be refuting Paul Ryan, but standing up against Obama.

Paul Ryan is an excellent choice—I respect him very much, but I don't think Michelle's opinions are to be dismissed either." <<<<<

Yeah, I agree with you, there's nothing inappropriate with the TEA PARTY EXPRESS asking Rep. Michele Bachmann to give a response to BHO's SOTU.

I think it's wonderful that what otherwise is a "TURN OFF THE TV EVENING" will metamorphose into hours of commentary on Ryan & Bachmann.

And really, the only inappropriate response is the obvious hostility directed towards Rep. Bachmann for accepting a speaking engagement on the TEA PARTY EXPRESS website.

Not that any of this silly bickering about her will impact her or her platform & goals even one little bit, LOL - but really, it's about time that the LIBERAL MSM don't own all the airwaves all the time, right?

73 posted on 01/25/2011 6:25:42 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: ejdrapes

I understood it as an observation of the GOP and their “official”Party politic. I am not interested in what McCain—or any other incumbent politician has to say— they say one thing to get elected then they cozy up to the Democrats-and live in their Log Cabin fantasy world. I want to hear Ms.Bs comments-regardless of if it is the “official”crap.


74 posted on 01/25/2011 6:25:42 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: indylindy; FromLori
omg.

Thank you for the heads up!

75 posted on 01/25/2011 6:27:48 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Wonder if she’s setting herself up as part of a third party ticket should the Republican nominee in 2012 not meet all the ideological purity tests of her perceived constituency (which is all but certain).

The she'll wind up out of office and irrelevant.

76 posted on 01/25/2011 6:28:32 AM PST by K-Stater
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To: ejdrapes

>> Paul Ryan was graded higher than Michele Bachmann from the National Taxpayer Union <<

Please don’t confuse us with the facts. We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!


77 posted on 01/25/2011 6:32:06 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: ejdrapes

Well....obviously the Democrats are afraid of Paul Ryan. In this article, he is already being referred to as the Democrats’ new “chew-toy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/us/politics/25cong.html

Again, both responses will be good. Both Michelle and Paul Ryan will elucidate the common sense of the conservative solution. And the more people hear it....the better.


78 posted on 01/25/2011 6:32:23 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: ejdrapes; pissant; indylindy
>>>> "I love Michele, but she's creating division where it's not necessary." <<<<

I emphatically disagree with you, but I presume that all the far left leftie libbies of the MSM will quote your sentiments many times tonight.

Rep. Bachmann accepted a speaking engagement from the website of the TEA PARTY EXPRESS and although Mr. Chrissy "Bo-Tingles" Matthews will throw a hissy fit, as he very honestly hates Rep. Bachmann, millions of conservatives are interested in hearing BOTH the GOP response from Rep. Paul Ryan and also the SOTU response by the founder of the Tea Party Caucus, Representative Michele Bachmann.

LOTS of people don't particularly care for Michele Bachmann, it doesn't phase her, this isn't a popularity contest, it's not about HER, it's about conservative principles, NOT the Cult Of Personality.

79 posted on 01/25/2011 6:34:39 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: privatedrive
>> She might will dilute Ryan’s message and serve as fodder for the MSM. <<
80 posted on 01/25/2011 6:38:54 AM PST by Hawthorn
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