Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will remain a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence during the 113th Congress — despite leading a widely discredited anti-Muslim witch huntagainst government personnel last year.
According to the committee list released Friday, Bachmann will stay on the powerful committee despite calls from People for the American Way and others for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to remove her. Instead, Boehner in his statement making the announcement praised the lawmakers “charged sacred task of supporting that mission by ensuring the intelligence community has the resources and tools it needs to stay ahead of the evolving threats we face, and by conducting effective oversight of the administration.”
she only supports the argument for more records on the mentally challenged, or is it she has that perfect quality the love in their ranks, inability to buy a vowel or get a clue. maybe Marcus can pray away the delusion.
i still look at those who pledge allegiance to aparty the pleges allegiance to big money
Dismay towards Bachmann's continuing presence on the committee stems from her use of that position to lead a witch-hunt against then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin and other U.S. government personnel. In the letter sent to the State Department, Bachmann suggested that Abedin and others were allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, seeking to infiltrate the U.S. government and affect policy decisions. The charges were clearly false, based mostly on the conspiracy theories of noted Islamophobe Frank Gaffney.
Bachmann's actions split the Republican Party, with several prominent members — including former Speaker Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton — signing onto her conspiracies. Many other Republicans — including Boehner himself — abandoned Bachmann to her quixotic pursuit of imaginary infiltration. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), then-Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and others joined President Obama and Clinton in condemning Bachmann's scare tactics.
why would anyone want to be associated with such a cuckoo's nest of faux politicians? they keep voting against their own well being get screwed and join the republican chorus in blame the Pres. misled at best, bigoted haters at worse.
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