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Tea Party freshman: Bachmann 'had no business' giving a speech Tuesday (Joe Walsh, IL)
The Hill ^ | 1/27/11 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 01/28/2011 2:59:51 AM PST by markomalley

One freshman House Republican is unhappy with Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) decision to give her own response to President Obama's State of the Union address.

Rep. Joe Walsh (Ill.) — who rode a wave of Tea Party support into Congress — said that Bachmann's speech was a "distraction" that gave the media fodder to speculate about division within the Republican Party.

"I mean, there is no more Tea Party freshman on the planet than myself, but I'll be the first to say, respectfully, Michele had no business making that speech last night," Walsh said Wednesday, according to Chicago radio station WLS.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bachmann; barnstorming; clevelandrocks; constitution; joewalsh; rockymountainway
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To: P-Marlowe

Amen and amen!


81 posted on 01/29/2011 7:09:48 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: fortheDeclaration

Michelle Bachmann is progressivism’s worst nightmare.

Now they have several.


82 posted on 01/30/2011 6:26:36 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Rules will never work for radicals (liberals) because they seek chaos. And don't even know it.)
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