Bachmann Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year
By GERRY MULLANY
Published: May 29, 2013
New York Times
Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, announced Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.
She made the announcement just six months after being re-elected in what was her most challenging Congressional campaign since she was first elected to the House in 2006. Her announcement also comes as her former presidential campaign faces inquiries into its fund-raising activities. “I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth Congressional term,” she said in a video on her campaign Web site.
'This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,' she added.
And when she leaves the House of Representatives, its average IQ will increase to twice what it was while she was there.
Here are some of her idiotic Bachmannisms:
BACHMANN CLAIMED THAT SCIENTISTS ARE SUPPORTERS OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN: During a 2006 debate, Bachmann said, “There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.” This was, and is, not true.
BACHMANN SUGGESTED GAY SINGER SHOULD REPENT AFTER GETTING CANCER: Bachmann saw Melissa Etheridge’s cancer as a teachable moment: “Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers,” she said in November 2004. “This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”
BACHMANN CLAIMED THAT GLENN BECK COULD SOLVE THE DEBT CRISIS: During a February trip to South Carolina, Bachmann told a South Carolina audience, “I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].”
"I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection, and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter." –Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), on the HPV vaccine, Fox News interview, Sept. 12, 2011
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009
"But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. ... I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forbearers who worked tirelessly -- men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country." -Rep. Michele Bachmann, botching American history while speaking at an Iowan's for Tax Relief event in January 2011. The Founding Fathers did not work to end slavery, and John Quincy Adams was not one of the Founding Fathers.
Good riddance to an embarrassment to this country.
MORE HEADLINES WE LOVE TO READ BUT KNEW ALL ALONG:
Study: Media Fact-Checker Says Republicans Lie More
"One of the most prominent political fact-checkers has shown Republicans to be much less honest than their Democratic counterparts, according to findings from a study released Tuesday by George Mason University.
The study, conducted from the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term in January through last week, found that PolitiFact.com has rated Republican claims as false three times more often than Democratic claims.
According to the study, 32 percent of GOP claims were rated as "false" or "pants on fire" by PolitiFact, compared with 11 percent of claims by Democrats."
h/tTPM
17 comments:
I read this blog often, but never comment, as I myself do not run a blog.
To attract as much hate, vitriol, and damnation as you have, Ms. Shaw, over at the Tea Party blog "Always on Watch" and over at "Free Thinke" blog means you have gotten so far under their skins that you're gnawing at their very bones.
Relentless as they have been in attacking you at AOW and FT, Ms. Shaw, their behavior points to the fact that they read you almost every day, and you enrage them.
This is good.
While it is not pleasant to read such illiterate and juvenile prose, it should give you a sense of pride that people of such small intelligence do not like you.
Wear it as a badge of honor, Ms. Shaw. You are doing a great job of nettling them and keeping them in a constant state of hysteria. They can do no harm while they continue to run here, read your fine blog, and complain in their own devious way that you've gotten to them.
Well done.
A. Reader.
You Go Girl!
Check your email.
well, I will kinda miss her. Somehow, though, I do not think she is going away...thin ala Sarah Palin. But I will miss the fun things she would say, like;
“And what a bizarre time we’re in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can’t say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.”
hhhmmmmm.....I mean, gosh, I wish more Judges would give advice from the bench like that......
"Hey Kid, try a little thermo-nuclear War....it's normal"
She has been the face of the extremists who took over the Republican Party. And that's why they're in trouble.
I've seen that sort of twisting of other people's words on Tea Party blogs. They misrepresent what people say and write as though it were the truth. They do this because they've a twisted idea of anyone who isn't like them.
So which is it:
1. She retires from public view and joins her husband "praying them straight" (as long as they have insurance).
2. She does a tag team with Sarah Palin on Faux Snooze trying to revive both careers.
Glad to see her give it up. Extremists don't last that long in the limelight. Palin, Santorum and Bachmann are all bad for the party and bring out the extremists who capture most of the press.
The republican party has become to liberal fiscally and too batshit socially. Maybe some sanity will return before the next elections, na forget that I was just joking.
I could forgive Bachmann her thoroughgoing ignorance. Ignorance can be remedied, after all. But in her it's entrenched and amplified by a know-it-all attitude and a sense of entitlement to have her airhead notions and blatant lies accepted as facts. Her attitude and lying are unforgiveable.
Congress' approval ratings are at their lowest ever. Last time I heard, about two months ago, Democrats were a solid 10 points above Republicans (32/22 IIRC), but still abysmally low. It would be interesting to know how many points have been lost to Bachmann's incumbency, airhead bloviating and outrageous lies.
Re: The GMU study of Politifact findings. Only three times? Only 32 percent?!! The people at GMU need to get a more on top of it, more accurate watchdog. Obviously, Politifact is missing more than it's catching.
If you look at the list of Tea Party caucus members there really isn't any name that pops up as a logical candidate to replace her as chair not that Todd Akin has left politics (or been asked to leave).
She will e missed.
I always wondered about the voters in the 6th District in Minnesota. They have reelected her 5 times. That says something (negative) about the people in that District.
As a fiscal conservative and social libertarian, or Classical Liberal if you prefer I applaud Representative Bachmann for arriving at perhaps her most rational decision yet.
She came. She saw. Alas! She was conquered.
Another braying, overly assertive Midwestern female voice quelled, but at least she was good looking and kept her figure after bearing five children. (It was five, wasn't it?)
Yet Hillary, the loudest, least attractive, most dishonest, most abrasive and offensive braying Midwestern female of them all, flourisheth still like the green bay tree.
How I'd love to see the end of braying altogether in the public and private sector everywhere.
But, of course, I know full well that I dream in vain.
//She came. She saw. Alas! She was conquered.//
she showed up, she shot off her mouth..... she is under investigation from ethics and campaign violations.
//at least she was good looking and kept her figure//
//Yet Hillary, the loudest, least attractive,....//
hmmmmm sexist, are we? I was unaware that appearance made for a good leader.
"I was unaware that appearance made for a good leader."
It does for the shallow minded. That explains why Governor Quitter is adored by the TeaPartiers.
OKJimm wrote:
"'I was unaware that appearance made for a good leader.'
"It does for the shallow minded. That explains why Governor Quitter is adored by the TeaPartiers."
FreeThinke responds:
That's probably true, Jimm. It certainly accounts for JFK's defeat of Richard M. Nixon -- by the slimmest of margins -- in 1960, doesn't it?
Everyone, even the NYT, said at the time: "Jack Kennedy has more SEX APPEAL than Richard Nixon, and THAT is what swayed the vote."
But so what?
Are we going to have to be reduced to the level of staging a series of Public Prick Measuring Contests in order to decide who should sit with his knees spread far apart behind the desk in the Oval Office before we wake up to the shallowness, inanity, vapidity and sheer STUPIDITY that now defines the American electorate?
Either we stop indulging in these petty spitefests that pass for political discourse these days, or we will lose our SOVEREIGNTY and our IDENTITY as a people --- and deservedly so.
//OKJimm wrote://
gees, I know what I wrote. I called you on making juvenile sexist comments and your reply...
'but so what?"
gees, how asture.
Enter Political Correctness..
Or is it just over sensitivity...
Maybe they are one in the same..
Or.. maybe, just maybe we have MUCH larger fish to fry at this time.
Hard to say because up is down, left is right, and insanity seems to becoming more the norm rather than the exception.
Just sayin...
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