Posted on 12/14/2014 12:36:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
hould anyone have been surprised that Michele Bachmann would go out with a bang, a big bang? On Tuesday, in what the retiring congresswoman from Minnesota figured would be her last White House holiday party, Bachmann used the grip-and-grin moment when she got her picture taken with President Obama to raise a reliably grin-killing topic. “The U.S. needs to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities today,” she informed him.
His response?
“A condescending smile and laugh,” she tells Politico, making a little pat-on-the-head gesture. “‘Michele, it isn’t that easy, but that’s OK,’” she remembers him telling her. To which the gentlelady from Minnesota replied that it would be on him, then, to have failed to keep Iran from wiping Israel off the map.
Merry Christmas!
Bachmann, who, amid a probe into possible campaign finance violations during her 2012 presidential run, announced last year that she would not seek a fifth term, put a lot of thought into that final “substantive word with the president,” as she puts it, even if it did make her the holiday guest from hell. “I made the conscious decision I was going to run hard through the tape at the end” of her time on the Hill, she said in a long interview in the borrowed committee room where her staff has been camped out since they packed up her office before Thanksgiving. And using even those few seconds with Obama in the most provocative possible way is just one reason the 58-year-old firebrand feels “like an accomplished person” as she exits stage right.
“I feel almost like my life is over, in a positive way,’’ she says.
Bachmann, after all, came to Washington to fight—and she did, summoning thousands of tea partiers to protest at the Capitol, questioning the president’s patriotism, and “tirelessly,”
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She’s free now, can tell the truth, say what she wants.
So she does.
Liberation.
She barely won by the skin of her teeth in 2012.
My mother counseled to always leave the party while you are still having a good time. I’m tired of lifetime politicians. Good on her! I wish her much luck in her next endeavor.
Iran wants to bomb Israel, yes...
but Israel is just iran’s Little Satan
Iran’s number one target for destruction is USA, their Great Satan
just as soon as Iran’s IslamoNazis finish building their nuclear ICBM arsenal
(under O’s protection and with money he’s giving them..)
Well aimed parting shot, Michelle and best wishes for a successful literary career in the field of big time politics.
She will continue to do well in the private sector. She will always be known as a former Presidential Candidate. Physically, Bachmann is going to age well. I predict she will be back into holding some sort of public office before seven years has past. The drama, the high stakes, and all the excitement, it’s in her blood, just like show business.
Maybe she can form Bachmann Palin Overdrive.
LOL
Which means she would probably have held it in 2014.
I like her, and I hope she succeeds in whatever comes next, but I don’t see that being public office. Hope she can turn her national stature into a few million bucks for her family and have some fun in the process, like another lady is doing.
Only due to severe redistricting, which Democrats literally drew up to her front porch, to cripple her.
She’s a wonderful woman.
She is still a hottie and I like her politics.
Then they really will be ‘taking care of business’ everyday!
In spite of a massive RAT/media effort against her. She could have held that seat as long as she wanted it. The left has lost a favorite punching bag. Who will Pissy Matthews call “that stupid woman” now?
Michele will give Political plenty of reasons to hate her more and more in the coming years... she said she will be even more involved and effective as an outside the beltway leader.
NOPE!!!!
I believe that, like Mdme. Palin, she will be in the forefront, writing her op-eds for all to read, without regard to whose toes get stomped on!
Somebody needs to get that to the congressman...she’d love it!
Thank you to the for standing strong for what is good and right for America, Ms. Bachmann.
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