Bachmann: 'All we should do' is issue subpoenas and hold hearings

startribune.com ^ | July 22, 2010 | Jeremy Herb

[Berlin_Freeper]

Should Republicans take back the House in November, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she wants the GOP to focus all of its attention on issuing subpoenas and holding hearings investigating the Obama administration and Democrats.

“I think that’s all we should do,” Bachmann said at the GOP Youth Convention in Washington on Thursday. “I think all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another and expose all the nonsense that has gone on."

Bachmann said that Republicans have all their chips on the table in November. “This is the year — this is it,” she said.

Republicans need to gain 39 seats in November in order to retake the House, which even President Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has admitted is possible.

By winning the House, Republicans would be able to issue subpoenas through controlling the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has subpoena power.

[bytesmith]

I think we just found President Palin’s Attorney General, folks!

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This is beginning to become exciting.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Why don’t you just attack your real target, Ronald Reagan? Most freepers think he did the right thing fighting the Sandinistas even though commie traitor RATS supported them.

[plain talk]

While I agree the hearings should take it should not be the focus and should be done in parallel with fixing the crap legislation that these bozos have passed

But what strikes me is how utterly stupid a statement for a politician to make. I like her a lot but if she actually said this she must have somehow rattled loose a few screws upstairs.

[nomad]

"No more reaching across the aisle", more like getting a reach around as it gets bent, lets hope the party of the bend over is tired of getting it up the wazoo, can grow a spine and act like it deserves some power.

[allmendream]

The Constitution doesn't make exceptions for our guys, even if they did work for Reagan and in support of his goals.

What if someone in the 0bama administration sold arms to Iran and used the proceeds to fund a rebel army, would that be OK to you or wrong to you based only upon the letter beside his name?

[crazydad]

HEAR HEAR JOE!!!!!

[PA Engineer]

Why don’t you just attack your real target, Ronald Reagan? Most freepers think he did the right thing fighting the Sandinistas even though commie traitor RATS supported them.

Ditto.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Michele assumes the GOP will have the ‘nads to go after these crooks.

My hope is that if the GOP does retake the House, Bachmann will wind up in a leadership position.

Boom. Instant 'nads'.

[meadsjn]

She is correct. We don't need any new laws, and 90% of the existing federal laws can be declared unconstitutional by a simple majority on a joint resolution, defunded, discontinued, and foreverafter ignored.

Then, the next day, issue criminal indictments and start building gallows.

[Non-Sequitur]

Should Republicans take back the House in November, Rep. Michele Bachmann said she wants the GOP to focus all of its attention on issuing subpoenas and holding hearings investigating the Obama administration and Democrats.

Nothing on the Bush tax cuts. Nothing on spending. Nothing on Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing on Obamacare. Nothing on financial regulations. The woman can't be that complete an idiot.