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Bachmann aide no longer taking care of business (Update on Thursday's "house call")
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| 11/4/2009
| Jonathan Allen
Posted on 11/04/2009 6:37:33 PM PST by markomalley
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To: bustinchops
I honestly don’t think these facts, at least as in this story, tell us ANYTHING about why the staffer is leaving. She could be getting a divorce and having to uproot her home. Her husband could just have been diagnosed with cancer and she wants to have more flexibility in her schedule. She could just be tired.
Yes, she could be in some sort of difference of opinion on how to do things in Bachman’s office, but I honestly don’t see any clues in the reports so far.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:06:24 PM PST
by
fightinJAG
(Mr. President: Why did you appoint a Communist to your Administration?)
To: woweeitsme
I disagree respectfully.
I think you do both.
And I think the willingness of the peeps to go to D.C. is a very, very important development.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:07:46 PM PST
by
fightinJAG
(Mr. President: Why did you appoint a Communist to your Administration?)
To: CharacterCounts
Or maybe the member is just “conservative” according to the author’s views. Or maybe he is made-up altogether.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:08:33 PM PST
by
fightinJAG
(Mr. President: Why did you appoint a Communist to your Administration?)
To: Nephi
An aide quitting at an inopportune time is not us "eating our own." We don't know the motivations of the untimely departure - we have no idea if she is one of us.If I understand your post, I believe you missed the point of my comment. I was referring to the "conservative Republican House member" who referred to Bachmann with the comment: When your captains crazy, its time to find a new ship, the lawmaker said.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:09:02 PM PST
by
CedarDave
(FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
To: woweeitsme
I think the media is going to portray this as conservatives are nuts.They have been doing that for 40 years, ever since Goldwater. Being polite will not stop them.
Something like this will give the Democrats ammunition to use...especially if someone gets in a shouting contest with a Dem Congress-critter.
There will be Democrat congress-critters within ten mile of the Capitol on Friday. Heck, they couldn't even face a few angry voters at town hall meetings.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:09:47 PM PST
by
CharacterCounts
(November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
To: woweeitsme
Im just hoping that conservatives overplay their hand now. So by using the third person, you admit that you are not a conservative?
Freudian slip, or...?
Cheers!
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:12:05 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: CharacterCounts
A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachmanns views and her willingness to state them make it hard for her to keep staff. In other words, a fictitious house member.
Politico has long been a leftist hit-piece machine, at least as far back as Fred Thompson and the primaries.
Cheers!
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:14:01 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: woweeitsme
You don’t have to go so butt out!
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:15:46 PM PST
by
lonestar
(Obama and his czars have turned Bush's "mess" into a national crisis!)
To: markomalley
Funny how conservative lawmakers. . . Palen and now Bachman. . . . are the target of anonymous, thinly sourced, put downs. Amazing that intrepid reporters seemingly can’t find similar anonymous put downs of Pelosi, Reid, Obama.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:16:44 PM PST
by
vekzen
To: markomalley
This is a non-story meant to discredit what appears to be a major show of grassroots muscle on short notice to fight ObamaCare.
Don't worry Michelle, we are going to be there tomorrow in force to support you. From what I have heard from my brethren in the Northern VA Tea Party movement, the turnout tomorrow is going to be huge. See you at noon at the Capitol.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:18:55 PM PST
by
kabar
To: CedarDave
A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachmanns views and her willingness to state them make it hard for her to keep staff.
When your captains crazy, its time to find a new ship, the lawmaker said.
Guess this member forgot Reagan's 11th Commandment.
A RINO House member, to be sure.
AND THIS IS WHY MIKEY STEELE AND THE GOP MUST SET A CONSERVATIVE AGENDA AND HAVE EVERY REPUBLICAN SIGN OFF ON IT. AND AGREE TO KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT WHEN ASKED FOR CRITICISM OF OTHER REPUBLICANS.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:19:17 PM PST
by
HighlyOpinionated
(Abortion-Euthanasia kills the very people for whom Social Justice is needed.)
To: CedarDave
Oh, that guy. He is definitely not “one of us,” either.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:19:20 PM PST
by
Nephi
( Bush legacy: "I had to sacrifice free market principles to save the free market.")
To: woweeitsme
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
To: CharacterCounts
Yep. Silently waiting for democrats to give us a turn is about as intelligent as a steer waiting for slaughter. The democrats have gone round the bend and are bent on the extinction of all future political opposition.
The pressure needs to increase steadily.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:19:53 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: CedarDave
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:20:12 PM PST
by
A. Morgan
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. Lawrence)
To: CedarDave
conservative Republican House member
Yeah right...Who? Dede Scozzafava?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:20:40 PM PST
by
eleni121
(For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
To: CedarDave
Whoever it was, it was no conservative. Just another rino coward speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:23:55 PM PST
by
lara
To: markomalley
The image of travel-ready conservatives flooding the hallways of the Capitol complex to confront members of Congress may not be one that Republican leaders are too keen to project>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh we know THAT! Which is why we are taking our party back. We told them we were coming months ago, we showed them we are coming in New Jersey, Virginia and NY - 23.And tommorrow we will show them that they are not to carry water for the Obama Junta socialization of our nation. If they continue to not listen, we will oust the lot of them.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:25:09 PM PST
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (.Member NRA)
To: markomalley
Where do I send my resume?
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:25:12 PM PST
by
stratman1969
(IMPEACH OBAMA for putting terrorist security ahead of American security)
To: woweeitsme
This strikes me as an act of desperation...and it very well might be. I just think that yesterdays results will get us further than going around the Capitol and showing up Congress-critters.You are wrong. We must keep the momentum up and strike now while the scent of victory still lingers in the air. The blue dogs and other Dems fearful of being reelected must understand that we will not relent or stand down or rest on our laurels. Pelosi wants to put ObamaCare up for a vote on Friday. We must let them know that the people are still angry and watching and will hold them accountable. 912 was the opening salvo, not a one shot affair.
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posted on
11/04/2009 7:25:18 PM PST
by
kabar
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