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Bachmann won't commit to 'Cut, Cap and Balance' pledge
CNN ^
| June 29, 2011
| Peter Hamby
Posted on 06/29/2011 6:44:09 PM PDT by ejdrapes
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I'd love to defund Obamacare right now but it won't happen until we get him out of office.
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:44:13 PM PDT
by
ejdrapes
To: ejdrapes
No politician should sign pledges. It’s all show and worthless.
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:45:44 PM PDT
by
magritte
("There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
To: ejdrapes
Wow. The Communist News Network (CNN) is really afraid of her! Yes, not much can get done until Obama is thrown out of the Oval Office — cannot happen fast enough.
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:47:24 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: ejdrapes
IMHO, it’s a huge strategic error to pressure all GOP candidates to commit to a rigid position, with no wiggle room on tactics. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
To: ejdrapes
So why not sigh and go farther on her own?
For many, pledges may well be for show but not to those who sign them with a sense of honor and decency.
To: magritte
These pledges get ridiculous. Signing a pro life pledge is easy to hold firm on but others can be too restrictive.
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:49:58 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ejdrapes
She says that this pledge doesn’t go far enough. Fine, but then she should propose her own plan. It is easy to say that some pledge doesn’t go far enough, coming up with an alternative is hard.
She could also sign the pledge, and then say she will go further.
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:54:25 PM PDT
by
ABQHispConservative
(There are still some rinos left for 2012. Let's get them and the fake tea partiers!)
To: ejdrapes
Delay Delay Bachmann
Rollins Bachmann
No Apology Bachmann
Cap and Trade Bachmann
“President Romney” Bachmann
IRS Agent vs Americans Bachmann
................. NO SALE
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posted on
06/29/2011 6:59:05 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
To: ABQHispConservative
Neg, newb.
She came up with an alternative, gutting obamacare. Pledges are ways to let others choose your battleground. A good commander chooses his own ground.
/johnny
To: ejdrapes
Maybe she'd sign a
"Defund, Disband, and Demolish" pledge instead?
Apply it to the Departments of Education & Indoctrination,
Enviro-Whacko Procreation Agency,
Health & Human Subjugation,
Foreign Energy,
Commerce Clause,
Agri-business,
Interior Decorating,
Labor Union,
Homeland Insecurity,
Transporters,
Housing Bubble & Urban Decay, etc.
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:02:18 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: ejdrapes
I'd love to defund Obamacare right now but it won't happen until we get him out of office.Nonsense...
Attach a complete and inseparable Obamacare repeal to the debt limit... dump the whole smelly pile right into Harry Reid's lap...
Done deal.
To: DTogo
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:11:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ejdrapes
I agree with those that think the pledges are silly. Half of it is a way for the liberal media to say “she’s not conservative enough for you GOP primary voters”.
To: magritte
Thank you! This is all pandering to the voters. Look at me! I'm signing a pledge and he/she isn't! That makes me a better candidate! It is bordering on asinine. These stupid things are not legally binding so who cares.
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:14:27 PM PDT
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:25:56 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: DTogo
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:29:28 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: ABQHispConservative
She did, basically. Cut, cap and balance, but the cut includes defunding Obamacare.
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:34:36 PM PDT
by
ejdrapes
(Chris Wallace is a jerk)
To: Diogenesis
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:35:38 PM PDT
by
ejdrapes
(Chris Wallace is a jerk)
To: ejdrapes
"Her reason? It doesn't go far enough."
She's right.
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:37:02 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in a thunderous avalanche of rottenness smelled across the universe.)
To: ejdrapes; xzins; wmfights
The pledge, backed by more than 150 conservative groups and a dozen GOP Republican senators, demands that Congress not raise the debt ceiling unless ..... The key word is "unless". If they put a period after "ceiling", then I think she might sign it. The "unless" basically makes the pledge a useless symbol.
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posted on
06/29/2011 7:40:36 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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