Posted on 01/26/2011 10:29:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's decision to give a second response to President Obama's State of the Union -- after the official GOP response -- draws fire and revives talk of Republicans as split into mainstream and 'tea party' factions. CNN's decision to televise her critique also is criticized.
If Michele Bachmann had hoped to introduce herself to America as a potential candidate for the White House -- well, it could have gone better.
First was the small controversy the Minnesota congresswoman sparked by accepting an invitation from a "tea party" group to provide a second response to President Obama's State of the Union address, which made it appear she was delivering an alternative Republican viewpoint.
The official GOP response was given by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Bachmann's remarks came afterward, about an hour after the president finished speaking. The conservative, known for her unapologetically inflammatory rhetoric and her strong ties to the tea-party movement, reportedly is considering presidential bid and will make a second trip to Iowa next month, CNN said Wednesday.
In terms of substance, there wasn't much of a difference between Ryan's critique of the president and Bachmann's -- Ryan's was more conciliatory and Bachmann's more aggressively negative -- but that didn't quell widespread media coverage Tuesday that revived talk that the Republicans were again divided into a mainstream wing and a tea-party faction. It served as distraction on a day when the GOP sought to portray itself as firmly united against much of the president's agenda.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters Wednesday that he didn't watch Bachmann's response. ""I had other obligations," Boehner said.
Then, after Obama finished his speech and Bachmann departed the House chamber, she got stuck in a traffic jam caused by the presidential motorcade, forcing her speech to be delayed.
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One suspects this is a case of actual diversity existing in a political party; diversity in the true sense, in which people think for themselves and develop individual ideas, while remaining members of a party, in tune with the basic philosophy and goals of the party.
As opposed to the democrat party, where any deviation whatsoever from the orthodoxy is strictly enforced, a la Joe Liebermann. To them, diversity is a mis of skin colors and sexual orientation. Period.
RE: Tell the LA Times we also had multiple theaters of war when fighting the Nazis and the Japanese. Rep. Bachmann is just commanding another theater of war in the battle with our country’s common enemy, the left.
First, a gun metaphor (see post #2 above), now a WAR metaphor. This is really going to get the haters going. Expect them to mark messages like this as a “cause” of the next mass shooting.
But they will make it synonymous with Bork: to Bork, Borked, etc.
How is this? I willo use all the “violent” metaphors I can and make their heads explode! The left are those that believe words have no static meaning. It depends upon what the definition of “is” is.
How is this? I will use all the “violent” metaphors I can and make their heads explode! The left are those that believe words have no static meaning. It depends upon what the definition of “is” is.
I’m glad to see that Rep. Michele Bachmann is giving the libtards at the LATimes some heartburn. I hope she keeps giving much more.
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