Congress, Politics

Bachmann-Tea Party Overdrive

Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger

Next Tuesday, President Obama will deliver his 2011 State of the Union Address.  Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee, has been selected to deliver his party’s “official” rebuttal.  Not one to let a media opportunity slip by, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota and founder of the Tea Party Caucus, has decided that she, too, will deliver her own post-State-of-the-Union-Address address. Her speech will “supplement” Ryan’s GOP rebuttal with a “Tea Party” perspective. It will be webcast on the Tea Party Express Web site and will follow Congressman Ryan’s speech. Anyone wondering why Bachmann is planning to do this?

According to The Note, an ABC News blog, a source close to Bachmann has hinted that the Congresswoman has presidential ambitions. In fact, she was in Des Moines yesterday speaking at a fundraiser for “Iowans for Tax Relief.” Bachmann certainly sounded like she was buttering up folks from the heartland of this nation when she said: “It isn’t all the office seekers coming through here that will decide whether America will go on being an exceptional nation. It will be Iowans that make that decision. You will be the ones to decide. That is why I am so excited. Because I feel like I know you. Because I was born here. I was raised here. These are my values. I feel we understand each other.”

So…the Congresswoman from Minnesota who said she wanted people in her state “armed and dangerous” may actually be considering a run for the presidency of the United States. I wonder who she’d choose as a running mate? Glenn Beck? Sean Hannity? Louis Gohmert?

Do you believe Michele Bachmann has serious presidential aspirations? Do you think she would be a viable Republican candidate in 2012?

Sources:

The Washington Post

ABC News

The Atlantic

The Atlantic

WHO TV

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A Bachmann Concerto (my previous post about Michele Bachmann)

77 thoughts on “Bachmann-Tea Party Overdrive”

  2. eniobob

    Marie A. said “Let them eat cake”. “Then they’ll starve” just doesn’t have the same je ne sais quoi.

  8. She’s an idiot so of course she has aspirations for the Presidency. She’s a Tea-Bubble-head.

  9. Very timely, Elaine.

    As George Bernard Shaw said:

    ‘But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms.’

    Too bad George isn’t here to give us his take on today.

    Who will vote for Ms. Bachmann? The same people that like the looks of Ms. Palin and of all the blonde, long haired, short skirted, female (thought I should add that 🙂 ) anchors at FOX “News”.

    If the other networks could just get their lady anchors to dye their hair and shorten their skirts, we might have a chance. It doesn’t seem to matter how inane or stupid their remarks, a portion of the population will be willing to please them hoping for God-knows-what in return.

  11. HenMan:

    “Are the American people any smarter than they were 10 years ago? ”

    How about 55 years ago?

    Comments made in the year 1955!

    ‘I’ll tell you one thing, if things
    keep going the way they are,
    it’s going to be impossible to
    buy a week’s groceries for $10.00. ‘

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘Have you seen the new cars
    coming out next year? It won’t
    be long before $1, 000.00 will
    only buy a used one.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘If cigarettes keep going up in
    price, I’m going to quit; 20 cents
    a pack is ridiculous. ‘

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘Did you hear the post office is
    thinking about charging 7 cents
    just to mail a letter.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘If they raise the minimum wage
    to $1.00, nobody will be able to
    hire outside help at the store.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘When I first started driving, who
    would have thought gas would
    someday cost 25 cents a gallon.
    Guess we’d be better off leaving
    the car in the garage.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘I’m afraid to send my kids to the
    movies any more. Ever since they
    let Clark Gable get by with saying
    DAMN in ‘GONE WITH THE WIND’,
    it seems every new movie has
    either HELL or DAMN in it.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘I read the other day where some
    scientist thinks it’s possible to put
    a man on the moon by the end of
    the century. They even have some
    fellows they call astronauts
    preparing for it down in Texas.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘Did you see where some baseball
    player just signed a contract for
    $50,000 a year just to play ball?
    It wouldn’t surprise me if someday
    they’ll be making more than the
    President. ‘

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘I never thought I’d see the day
    all our kitchen appliances would
    be electric. They are even making
    electric typewriters now. ‘

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘It’s too bad things are so tough
    nowadays. I see where a few
    married women are having to
    work to make ends meet. ‘

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘It won’t be long before young
    couples are going to have to hire
    someone to watch their kids so
    they can both work.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘I’m afraid the Volkswagen car
    is going to open the door to a
    whole lot of foreign business.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘Thank goodness I won’t live to
    see the day when the Government
    takes half our income in taxes. I
    sometimes wonder if we are
    electing the best people to
    government.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘The drive-in restaurant is
    convenient in nice weather,
    but I seriously doubt they
    will ever catch on.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘There is no sense going on short
    trips anymore for a weekend. It
    costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay
    in a hotel.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘No one can afford to be sick
    anymore. At $15.00 a day in
    the hospital, it’s too rich for
    my blood.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    ‘If they think I’ll pay 30 cents
    for a hair cut, forget it.’

    ——————————————————————————–

    Know any friends
    who would get a
    kick out of these,
    pass this on!

    Be sure and send it
    to your kids and grandkids, too!

  13. Buddha-

    Point well taken-but it was the re-election that put the frosting on the unpalatable cake. Are the American people any smarter than they were 10 years ago? After all, they’ve been drinking the fluoridated water for ten more years.
    (You will have to forgive me for that-I recently read a comment on a Yahoo! News article by a guy who was ranting about Commies in Washington and fluoridated water.)

  14. HenMan,

    “The ethically and legally compromised SCOTUS appointed and the American people elected and then re-elected the most stupid man in America to be President of the United States. What’s to prevent the American people from electing the most stupid woman in America?”

    Let’s give credit where credit is due.

  15. The American people elected and then re-elected the most stupid man in America to be President of the United States. What’s to prevent the American people from electing the most stupid woman in America?

  16. Yes, and No respectively. She may be “viable” in the sense that she could win the GOP nomination, but Much like Palin, she hasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of winning a general election. She’s more of a dimwit than Palin, and as the last election showed, educated Republicans did not like that about Palin. What else sets her apart from the “Disasta from Alaska”?

  17. I can only wish for a Palin/Bachmann ticket.

    One man’s dream could be a nation’s nightmare.

  19. She does have aspirations, but if she or Palin runs, President Obama will beat them like a drum. Either of those two in a debate will implode when real questions are asked of them. Bachmann’s past rhetoric will come back to haunt her. I would enjoy seeing Bachmann run for President because seeing her face when she gets asked her first tough question will be hilarious.

  20. I think she does have presidential aspirations. She has a lot of competition from Palin though.

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