One of the tea party’s most controversial lieutenants, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) of Minnesota, will not seek a fifth term in Congress in 2014.
“I’ve always strived to be first and foremost a public servant, and do what is best for the people – never acquiesce to being a political servant,” Bachmann said in the video. “There’s a difference.”The problem for Bachmann is – and always was – that her congressional career was more of the latter than the former.
IMO the people of Minnesota woke up and realized how stupid they looked to continuly elect this riht wing wingnut. she never knew what she was quoting or the meaning of those same quotes riminesent of Palin before and after 2012. in case you differ in opinion here is a list of Bachmann's top ten hits.
must run in the family don't forget 'ol "pray the gay away" Marcus.
“Love her or hate her, there is Michele Bachmann the candidate, and then there is Michele Bachmann the national media personality,” wrote the Cook Political Report, describing her close reelection race in 2008. “The candidate can come across to 6th [Congressional District] voters as polished, down-home, and cheerful. The media personality can sometimes come across to a national audience as extreme, abrasive, and even incendiary. Both personas are fiercely conservative, but on occasion, the second has become the enemy of the first.”
and yet the put her on the intelligence committee wasthat a cruel joke played on her that was over her head or was this another secret plan by the traditional conservatives to do away with the Tea Party? my favorite quote from her was,
Another day, another Michele Bachmann gaffe. Actually, the original gaffe took place in January, when Bachmann claimed that the Founding Fathers had worked "tirelessly" to end slavery when, in fact, they had enshrined it in the Constitution and didn't do a whole lot afterward to abolish it."We know we were not perfect. We know there was slavery that was still tolerated when the nation began. We know that was an evil and it was scourge and a blot and a stain upon our history. But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States. And I think it is high time that we recognize the contribution of our forebears, who worked tirelessly, men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."
John Quincy Adams did eventually become a leader of the anti-slavery movement. But he's not a good example of an abolitionist Founder, since he was not a Founder. He was born in 1767 and didn't participate in crafting or signing the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. Nobody — NOBODY! — considers him a Founding Father. Except, apparently, Bachmann, one of the foremost champions of a movement based on a reverence for colonial history, the tea party.
Bachmann insisted on this point in an interview with George Stephanopoulos this morning, although, eventually, when pressed, she called Adams merely "part of the Revolutionary War era," which is setting a pretty low bar. (Slavery discussion runs from 0:59 to 2:30)
those documents does she know the name of those documents or was that just a hidden "i don't know WTF i'm talking about moment?
