Posted on 01/27/2011 11:28:33 AM PST by bigbob
CHICAGO (WLS) - A Tea Party-backed congressman from the Northwest suburbs is criticizing a leading figure in the Tea Party movement.
Joe Walsh told Roe and Roeper that Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann should not have delivered a Tea Party response to the president's State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Walsh says her message took attention away from the main Republican speech by Congressman Paul Ryan.
"I mean there is no more Tea Party freshman on the planet than myself, but I'll be the first to say, respectfully, Michele had no business making that speech last night,” Walsh said. “I mean Paul Ryan gave the Republican response. We're all Republicans. I think it was a distraction that she did it, and it was just fodder for the media to do as you just said. To try to create this separation within the party."
Walsh was recently sworn in as a freshman congressman replacing Democrat Melissa Bean.
Its a good thing that CNN gave Bachmann the chance to speak. Ryan’s speech was weak on all the critical issues except the deficit.
>> “She rocks out loud!” <<
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Amen!
‘it wasn’t meant as an official rebuttal. CNN shouldn’t have been airing it.’
Any other conservative opinion you wish to suppress?
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