No politician should sign pledges. It’s all show and worthless.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Delay Delay Bachmann
Rollins Bachmann
No Apology Bachmann
Cap and Trade Bachmann
“President Romney” Bachmann
IRS Agent vs Americans Bachmann
................. NO SALE
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.
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.
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”.
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.
On the one hand, that's a lame excuse.
On the other hand, politicians should announce that they will sign no pledges and that their spoken promises and past actions can do their talking for them.
On the third hand, if Jim DeMint is behind a pledge and asks you to support it, then you support it, period.
Bachmann desperately needs new handlers.
I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to oppose any debt limit increase unless all three of the following conditions have been met:Cut - Substantial cuts in spending that will reduce the deficit next year and thereafter.
Cap - Enforceable spending caps that will put federal spending on a path to a balanced budget.
Balance - Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- but only if it includes both a spending limitation and a super-majority for raising taxes, in addition to balancing revenues and expenses.
On this issue, I cannot fault Bachmann.
The whole thing is just an attempt to cave in on holding the debt ceiling.
A meaningful pledge would be simply “We see no cause to raise the debt ceiling; cuts must be made to work within the already over-generous existing debt ceiling.”
Her reason? It doesn’t go far enough. “
Oh brother!
I was warming up to her, but obviously she lacks a simple component of logical thinking. A promise to do “X and Y” does NOT prevent you from doing “X and Y and Z”.
She can sign the pledge and sign another demanding repeal of obamacare.
repealing obamacare is about as unrealistic as the Democrat pipedream of raising taxes.