Posted on 03/07/2011 6:16:41 AM PST by GlockThe Vote
Bachmann Stands by ‘Gangster Government’ Description By Melanie Starkey Roll Call Staff March 6, 2011, 1:39 p.m.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) refused Sunday to retreat from her characterization of the Obama administration as a "gangster government."
The House Tea Party Caucus founder said, "I don't take back my statement on gangster government," a phrase she used at a tea party gathering in April. "I think that there have been actions that have been taken by this government that I think are corrupt," she said during her appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."
She hammered at the administration Sunday for $105 billion included in last year's health care overhaul law for its implementation, regardless of the questions put to her. Bachmann called on the White House last week to apologize for the funding, which the Congressional Research Service reported in October.
The money was "hidden in various parts of the bill," she said Sunday. "Members of Congress didn't even know this money was in the bill, because we couldn't read the bill before it was passed, because it wasn't given to us but hours before we had to vote for it," she said.
Bachmann said she hasn't "made a decision either way about plans for" entering the 2012 presidential election.
"We can do so much better, she said. "And that's what I'm talking about with people in the next few months. We need to think very strongly. A second administration of Jimmy Carter wouldn't have done this country any favors. We need to make sure we don't have a second Barack Obama administration."
When asked if she had a timeline for making a decision about running, she responded, "I think there's a normal course of events when a decision like that will be made. And if I choose to go down that road, I'll make the decision."
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-203887-1.html?ET=rollcall:e9939:80104117a:&st=email&pos=epol
Gangster Govt.
Michelle Bachmann is amazing. Totally love this woman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY&feature=player_embedded#at=115
Awesome!! Good on ya, Michele!!!
Very strong performance.
“We can do so much better, she said. “And that’s what I’m talking about with people in the next few months. We need to think very strongly. A second administration of Jimmy Carter wouldn’t have done this country any favors. We need to make sure we don’t have a second Barack Obama administration.”
Palin/Bachmann 2012
We need more leaders like her who will actually state what’s what, state what’s true, and refuse to back down because someone finds it “offensive”.
I rhink Sarah Palin would agree, though in politer terms.
rhink => think
Get in line!
She is awesome.
Palin/Bachmann 2012
I could sleep easy with those two in charge.
Palin allowed the Democrats to force her out of office and permanently brand her as one who can't stand the heat.Palin can be a very effective spokesperson but I truly doubt she will ever win another election.
I have fat fingers.
Just telling it like it is. Go Michelle. Never apologize.
While Sarah has more raw star appeal, she is not even on the same radar as Bachmann in terms of being able to operate in hostile enemy territory and come out ahead in spontaneous situations.
Ditto! A Chicago style “Protection racket”...(Al Capone, John Gotti would be green with envy!) you don’t do business unless CapoObama gets his “PisaDaAction”!. From ObamaCare to “financial” reform thru strangling regulations to prevent the dreaded “Climate Change”... it is all sold as being for our “protection” against big bad Wall Street and EVEEELL corporations! Thanx Godfather Barak... I feel SO safe and warm... well, at least till you ration my energy (but just maybe... I’d prefer to take my chances with Wall Street). Rep. Bachmann is ON TARGET!!! God bless her!
Betcha David Gregory never has her on MTP again.
They only ask Conservatives to appear when they think they can get them with “gotchs’s” or when they can use something they say to drive a wedge between other Conservatives.
Michele made a fool of Gregory and he knows it.
KLEPTOCRACY
Bachmann is a national treasure. I just can’t decide between her and Allen West which of the two I like more. It’s a nice problem to have.
I agree. Obummer is the reincarnated Frank Lucas. If you watch the movie “American Gangster” you could imagine the Kenyan in the lead part and he does it well!
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