Bachmann on MSNBC Gives Canned Response to Question About her Gaffes

Bachmann responds to question about her "facts" on MSNBC: >> congresswoman, all the statements have one thing in common, that is that they were rated as false by politifact. my question to you is if you want to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, do you feel the need to be more precise in your statements so that people recognize you are a person of substance? >> well, i am a person of substance. i have a law degree. i have a post- doctorate degree in tax law. my husband and i have started two clinics. we own both of our businesses. we have been married 33 years. we have five biological children. we've raised 23 foster children. we together with -- >> do you agree with the facts sometimes? >> we started the first charter school in the united states for k-12 students. i have a very substantial background. yes, it's important that we have accuracy, but take a look at president obama's credibility. he's the one who said if we pass the trillion-dollar stimulus package, that we wouldn't see unemployment go up to 8%. >> but congresswoman, i asked about you in some of your statements. but in the interest of personal responsibility, those were your statements that were ultimately deemed to be inaccurate. so my question is to you, how will you change your rhetoric so that people understand you are a serious person who has credibility on the big issues? >> well, people know that i do have credibility on the big issues because here in washington, d.c., i have said that i am not a part of the political establishment. i came here as an outsider. for five years i have fought against big government and against the political insiders. and i've stayed true to my convictions. what i've said i was going to do, i have done. and people back home are extremely grateful that i've been trying to fight the system here in washington, d.c. that's what people want. they want a fighter who's going to continue to fight for them and against the big interests here in washington.>> well, people know that i do have credibility on the big issues because here in washington, d.c., i have said that i am not a part of the political establishment. i came here as an outsider. for five years i have fought against big government and against the political insiders. and i've stayed true to my convictions. what i've said i was going to do, i have done. and people back home are extremely grateful that i've been trying to fight the system here in washington, d.c. that's what people want. they want a fighter who's going to continue to fight for them and against the big interests here in washington. >> are you more likely to run for re-election to congress or for president? >> well, we'll make that decision by early summer, and we'll let you know. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Michele Bachmann: "the United States is the number one nation in the world in energy reserves"

Somebody uploaded videos to You Tube of some idiotic rally with Bachmann blabbering away. Bachmann has the Gaffe-a-Matic cranked up all the way: This year, the Congressional Research Service issued a report that again says the United States is the number one nation in the world in energy reserves. If you take all of America's sources of energy and you convert it to barrels of oil, we're number one in the world! That's great news! Note also that Bachmann has been claiming recently that she has "raised" the 23 foster children she mentions every time she gives a speech or interview. Is it a fact that Marcus and Michele raised those kids? Since Bachmann always talks about the foster kids, maybe a reporter can ask her about that. Bachmann also talks about light bulbs and explains why the government shutdown is no big deal (in her opinion).

Karl Rove Talks About Bachmann Running for President

Rove gives some pretty lame reasons why he thinks Bachmann won't win... Rove is a pal of Bachmann. Did a fundraiser for her in 2006:

Bachmann Complains About the "Vicious Press" in Minnesota

Yep, that's what Bachmann told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: “I am used to vicious press — I come from a state that is, what you might call a liberal state — and the press hasn’t necessarily been on my side,” Well, as we have noted many times before, Bachmann has rarely been the subject of good, investigative reporting. Much of what we have read about Bachmann in the local MSM are puff pieces. Maybe that will change when she makes her campaign for POTUS official... maybe not. The fun part of the interview is when O’Reilly tries to get Bachmann to admit who is responsible for her history gaffe in New Hampshire... Bachmann refused to answer, saying she wouldn't throw the person responsible "under the bus". Bachmann has never had a problem throwing people under the bus (hello? - Frank Vennes Jr.?)... so who is she protecting? Is it that "man behind the curtain" Ron Carey claimed he saw when he was part of the Bachmann team?

Audio: Glen Beck wants to "make sweet telephonic love" to Michele Bachmann

Cover your keyboard and keep that barf bag handy...

Is Serial Liar Bachmann Lying About Her Own Family History?

That's what Chris Rodda writes at Op Ed News: In her speech at the April 24 and 25 Rediscover God in America conference in Iowa, Michele Bachmann, like the other potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates who spoke at this conference, lavished praise on their fellow speaker, Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton. Bachmann also revealed that her involvement in the history revisionism game goes back even further than her association with Barton. As a student at Oral Roberts University, she met John Eidsmoe, and worked as a research assistant on his 1987 book, Christianity and the Constitution. Eidsmoe is another Christian nationalist history revisionist, whose Christianity and the Constitution book predates the first edition of Barton's book The Myth of Separation by a year. In fact, some of Barton's lies are adaptations of Eidsmoe's lies and half-truths, a number of which are debunked in my book. But I had no idea that Bachmann had been involved with Eidsmoe or his book until she talked about it at the Rediscover God in America conference, or that it was Eidsmoe who introduced her to Barton's material. But Bachmann's admiration of history revisionists wasn't the thing that really caught my attention in her speech at the conference. It was her detailed account of her family history, aimed at emphasizing her Iowa roots to this audience of Iowans. It was when Bachmann said she was a 7th generation Iowan, descended from Norwegians who immigrated to Iowa in the 1850s, that I started paying attention, simply because it would be mathematically impossible for a woman in her mid-fifties to be the 7th generation descended from people who immigrated in the 1850s unless each of their direct ancestors from every generation had had a child when they were still a child themselves. After catching this one obvious lie, I just couldn't resist doing a little fact checking on the rest of Bachmann's story. What I found was that Bachmann's version of her family's history was as much a work of fiction as anything found in one of David Barton's books. She wants the people of Iowa to see her as one of them, so she simply changed her family history. Read the whole thing.

Video: Bachmann Talks God, Gays and Guns in Speeches to Home-Skoolers

Bachmann returns to her "earthquake issue" - the Marriage Amendment and more theocratic bat-sh*t stuff in two speeches to the NICHE home-school conference in Des Moines, Iowa on March 23, 2011:

Why Isn't "Treason Media" Calling for the Impeachment of Michele Bachmann?

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Republicans screeched when Louise Slaughter attempted to push a “deem and pass” strategy for ObamaCare a little over a year ago, arguing that the notion of deeming the bill as passed in the House without a direct floor vote was an affront to democracy and the Constitution. Democrats agreed — in 2003, when Republicans tried the same thing on a tax-credit measure. In the end, Democrats abandoned “deem and pass” as a strategy after less than a week and held a floor vote on ObamaCare instead, which passed. Republicans swore to restore Constitutional processes if returned to the majority in the House. They’re not off to a great start. They have revived deem and pass, with a twist — instead of claiming that a bill has passed, the GOP voted that a House bill would be deemed as effective law if the Senate failed to act -snip- Republicans need to stop the foolishness and act in accordance with the Constitution. Guess who voted for the "foolishness" - yep, Michele Bachmann. Roll call HERE. Remember this? Last Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) began freaking out that House Democrats are considering the use of a common parliamentary procedure known as either a “self-executing rule” or “deem and pass” to finish health care reform. “If they do that then American citizens have standing to sue against this bill,” said Bachmann on Friday. The next day, Bachmann suggested that citizens “don’t have to follow” the health care law if it passes using that procedure. (In fact, there will be an up or down vote on the bill.) On Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday, Bachmann went even further by accusing the media of “treason” for “not telling this story” that Speaker Nancy Pelosi “would even consider having us pass a bill that no one votes on.” Bachmann then suggested that if health care passed through “deem and pass,” it would warrant calls of impeachment: BACHMANN: Well, yeah, and the other thing is treason media. Where is the mainstream media in all of this not telling this story? This is a compelling story. HANNITY: Right. BACHMANN: That the Speaker of the House would even consider having us pass a bill that no one votes on. HANNITY: Yep. BACHMANN: That should laugh her out of the House and there should be people that are calling for impeachment off of something like this. That’s how bad this is. I mean trust me, Dennis Hastert never could have gotten away with this. And she is running for President...

Saturday Nite Dump Bachmann You Tube Double Feature

Yep, she really said President Obama wants Americans to be poorer: Maher on GOP Birth Certificates: Bachmann 'Stupid Even for a Baby':

The Stunning Strategy of the Fabulous Marcus Bachmann Revealed

weeks ago we learned that The Fabulous Marcus was his wife's top aide and strategist (as well as fashion consultant). In a Time profile of Bachmann on Thursday, Ron Carey confirmed it: Bachmann may also have trouble building a complex campaign operation. She has burned through four chiefs of staff in five years, often preferring her own counsel or that of her close-knit family. She writes her own speeches and relies heavily on her husband and her oldest son, a Connecticut doctor, for advice. Such an arrangement usually makes for a rocky crusade. Ron Carey, a former Minnesota party chair who quit as her chief of staff last summer, says he will not support Bachmann despite their long friendship. "I agree with Michele Bachmann 99% of the time on policy issues," he says. "But just like Dorothy, I've been to Oz and I've looked behind the curtain." Today, Phoenix Woman at FDL gives us an idea of what the man behind the curtain is up to.

Ripple & Dump Bachmann on the Shannon Files Tomorrow

The Shannon Files: Karl Bremer, writer of the Ripple in Stillwater blog, joins us to talk about the proposed St. Croix bridge project. Holly Cairns, creator of MN Blue Blogs, will be on to talk about the idea of bringing together a collage of progressive bloggers from across the state. Finally, we go through the list of cuts the Minnesota GOP is planning for heath and human services. Ken Avidor returns with his "Dump Bachmann" segment, and we open with the "Lightning Round," a quick look at some of the top stories of the previous week. And I'm going to be doing it live!

Arizona Tea Party Not Happy With AZGOP's Family Values: Divorce & Sex Offender?

Bachmann will be visiting her district in Arizona this weekend. From the press release: Who: Congresswoman Michele Bachmann Arizona Republican Party Chairman Tom Morrissey Sheriff Joe Arpaio What: Event for the Arizona Republican Party When: Saturday, April 2, 2011 10:00 a.m. – VIP Reception & Program ($250 per person) 11:00 a.m. – General Reception & Program ($35 per person) Where: Scottsdale Plaza Resort 7200 N. Scottsdale Road Scottsdale, AZ 85253 Apparently, Tea Partiers in the Grand Canyon State are no too happy with AZGOP Party Chairman Tom Morrissey and his recent hire. This is from the blog of the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots: Bruce Ash Responds to Hiring of Convict Mark Spinks by New GOP Chair I've read the devastating allegations by Morrissey's 3rd and 4th wives that attack not only his conservative credentials but his moral values in a number of ways. Now Morrissey appoints and is paying a convicted sexual offender in a management position at the state party? Are we a party of family value's? Are we telling the Hispanic community come join us because we have the same value's? The state party is the very definition of hypocrisy and I can not nor will I support them as long as this insanity continues. WTF? There's more at the Political Mafioso blog: When Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, brings her tea party to Scottsdale on Saturday, she needs to be on the lookout for Stranger Danger and Captain America. Neither Bachmann nor her aides utilized a simple GOOGLE search in an effort to scrutinize all of the crimes and illegal/immoral acts committed by both past and present officials of the Arizona Republican Party and her host committee. One guy would have stood out (no pun intended). Ahwatukee’s Mark Spinks is now a $1,000 per month “party consultant” to Chairman Tom Morrissey and the AZGOP. Spinks, the newest AZGOP “Chairman’s Pet” likes to get naked in front of women – without their permission. He even has the criminal record to prove it. Between October 2005 and April 2006, the Phoenix Police Department charged Ahwatukee’s failed congressional candidate, Mark Spinks, with NINE counts of criminal INDECENT EXPOSURE. Indecent exposure is a sex crime according to Arizona Revised Statute 13-1402. In April 2006, Spinks pleaded guilty to one count of indecent exposure. The other eight charges against Spinks were dropped by the Phoenix Municipal Court. He served a 30 day suspended jail sentence and completed three years of probation. UPDATE: More on Tom Morrissey at the Phoenix New Times blog: The Arizona GOP elected Tea Bagger extremist Tom Morrissey to be their new state chair. Morrissey emerged the victor in a four-man race that included the far more qualified Ron Carmichael, who's from the non-crazy wing of the Republican Party. For Dems, Morrissey will be fun to have around. Already there have been some ugly accusations leveled at him under the name of an ex-wife on the conservative Sonoran Alliance blog. Sadly SA has already taken them down. The post has this hilarious response from Morrissey to allegations about his private life: From the desk of Tom Morrissey My twenty years of honorable service as a United States Marshal, culminating as the Chief Deputy Marshal for Arizona, taught me that false charges must be answered decisively. Therefore, I will "cut to the chase." With the exception of the fact that I have had unsuccessful marriages, including one that I had to place a restraining order, all other charges, innuendos and accusations recently placed by person or persons unknown in the Sonoran Alliance under the name of the above ex-wife who lives more than three thousand miles away, are totally and unequivocally false.... And this observation from a blog at the Tucson Citizen: Nothing says sanctity of marriage like multiple divorces and a display of force against females, which really speaks to the Christian Conservative values of the party that holds its state conventions in a mega-church and yet never sees the irony. Image from politicomafioso.blogspot.com

Will President Bachmann Continue Socialist Ethanol Subsidies?

Real Clear Politics: Romney, Palin and Huckabee have all stood on the austerity soapbox in recent years. But all three supported ethanol subsidies during the 2008 campaign. Barbour has spoken approvingly of ethanol in the past. Michele Bachmann, from corn-centric Minnesota, reportedly said she would consider reexamining ethanol subsidies. But Bachmann, head of the House tea party caucus, would still not directly answer whether she backed ethanol subsidies. It's a low bar. But Daniels appears positively brave by comparison. His state, Indiana, has the fourth most corn-ethanol plants.

City Pages: "Bachmann video censored by bogus copyright complaint "

Read about it on the City Pages Blotter.

New Questions Arise Over Settlement For Victims of Bachmann Donor Frank Vennes Jr.

From the Petters-Fraud Website: Its been more than 30 days since the Frank Vennes settlement ( here ) with "selected" investors was approved by the Court. Of particular interest is the deal to give Chase Holdings $1.9 million dollars - Charles Chase was Vennes's right hand man; - since Chase held meetings telling everyone they would get back 70/ 80% - many are wondering if they will get their monies Now! It has been this webmaster's contention that Mr. Chase is in this mess up to his eyeballs! Specious as it is - that Frank Vennes has never been charged; additional questions of mendacity abound. Such as the fact that Chase Holdings would have only rec'd $500,000 - yet with NO attorney - Chase Holdings was granted over $1.9 million dollars. (see Exhibit from court documents ( here )) Why does Chase not need any counsel - Frank Vennes is in charge! Evidence that much is amiss - because Frank Vennes donated much to political candidates such as Bachmann and Coleman. So much so these politico's sought a pardon for Vennes ( see Pardon-Gate ( here )) Interesting questions... I'm still wondering why Bachmann hasn't renewed her support for a pardon for Frank Vennes Jr. for crimes committed back in the last century. Vennes has not been charged for ANYTHING he did in connection to the Petters Ponzi scheme. The man is INNOCENT. It is unfair and disloyal for Bachmann to throw this deeply religious man under the bus. Let's listen again to a speech by Mr. Vennes in February of 2007 called the "God and Money Dinner".

Bachmann: Two-Parent Family is the Key to Economic Recovery

Bachmann interview with right-wing Media Research Center. At 13:00: "Historically the family is the basic unit of government. Before government gets involved, you have the family unit. And we've seen a marked growth in the number of children born out of the benefit of marriage between a mom and dad. In 1960, as recent as 1960, 5% of all births in the United States were out of wedlock births so 95% of babies were born with the bensfit of a married mother and father. When you have a married mother and father, you have stability for the child. And you tend to have the financial wherewithal to pay for the upbringing of that child albeit at different economic strata." Bachmann goes on to say the greater persentage of children born to unmarried mothers is a "fiscal" problem. Bachmann does not offer a solution and the "reporter" doesn't follow up. UPDATE: Reader Anna remembers the "good 'ol days": Would she ban divorce? I grew up in the 60's, and divorces were hard to come by. A lot of women stayed with abusive husbands. Is she suggesting we go back to that model? It was pretty ugly in my town. Domestic assaults were common. When I was in grade school, in 1965, I watched a guy beat his wife and kid at the bus stop one day . . . the wife couldn't get a divorce and there were no shelters for battered women back then. Bachmann also says she is worried about President Obama supporting terrorists in Libya. But, Bachmann has spoken publicly of her support for the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI, MEK, MKO).an organization on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations.