Posted on 12/13/2011 12:46:24 PM PST by TBBT
Bush didn't stop them!
It's arguable that Bush speeded up Iran's time table of getting them.
Obama hasn't stopped them.
Iran will get one unless little Israel says, NO!.
There is nobody else willing to take the risk of starting a war over it.
After the VFW opposed her..she backtracked...it is on the VFW, Military.Com and other sites...Why I would NEVER support Bachmann. She tried to screw our veterans.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/28/141412/bachmann-veterans/
In her tea party-fueled quest to cut government spending and social programs, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has unveiled a plan to cut $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing the Veterans Affairs Department’s health care spending and cuts veterans’ disability benefits. The Air Force Times reports her plan would slice $4.5 billion from the VA, including reducing 150,000 veterans’ disability compensation and the amount they receive in Social Security Disability Income.A host of veterans groups slammed Bachmann’s plan:
–Veterans of Foreign War national commander Richard L. Eubank said, “The only discussion the VFW wants is to tell the congresswoman that her plan is totally out of step with America’s commitment to our troops.
Bachmann has House’s 11th WORST record for missed votes...she is not fulfilling her duties to her constituents
Of 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, only ten have missed more votes this session than Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to the Washington Post’s tally. Bachmann has missed 105 votes, or 13.6 percent of all votes. Fellow Republican Rep. Erik Paulsen had the state’s best record, missing only six votes in the 111th Congress, just one less than Rep. Tim Walz missed.
While California Democrat Rep. Hilda Solis had the highest rate of missed votes — she missed 59 of 78 possibles votes — the number of missed votes by party is roughly the same: Democrats missed 3.5 percent of votes, while Republicans missed 3.3 percent.
Another Minnesotan high on the list: At number 23, Rep. Keith Ellison missed ten percent of the votes, casting 695 and missing 78. Here’s how others in Minnesota’s delegation fared:
Rep. Betty McCollum: 16 missed (2.1 percent of all votes), 757 cast
Rep. Collin Peterson: 25 missed (1.9), 758 cast
Rep. Jon Kline: 12 missed (1.6), 761 cast
Rep. James Oberstar: 10 missed (1.3), 763 cast
Rep. Tim Walz: 7 missed (1.3), 766 cast
Rep. Erik Paulsen: 6 missed (0.8), 767 cast
Bachmann’s Farm Subsidies...more will come out on this..and NO the questions have not been fully answerd.
Bachmann has said that the farm’s founder, her father-in-law, Paul Bachmann, is the only member of the Bachmann Farm Family Limited Partnership who ever applied for farm subsidies — a statement borne out by federal documents. He last applied for federal payments in 2007, and he died in 2009.
But federal documents and courthouse entries in Alma, Wis., show that a neighbor has picked up where the patriarch left off. The Bachmann family partnership signed a lease agreement with the neighbor in April 2008, and he is actively enrolled in the same FSA aid programs.
From 1995 through 2007, the FSA paid $259,000 in commodities and disaster subsidies to the Bachmann farm. Since 2008, FSA payments to the neighbor’s expanded operations have totaled $52,921, records show.
The Bachmann for President team didn’t respond to the Star Tribune’s inquiries about the farm, but a campaign statement given to Politico last month said her share of income from the farm is wrapped up in the family partnership, which she said was formed for estate planning purposes. Bachmann, her husband, Marcus, and their five children belong to the partnership but documents don’t say how much of it they control. Marcus has two brothers, and his mother, Elma, is still alive.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/130509053.html
Not to mention she violated Reagan’s law and attacked Palin via her campaign manager; Perry, Newt and Cain’s 999 plan which she referred to as being more like 666. She also mentioned Trump as a potential vice president.
However, MORE than anything..I won’t forgive her for trying to take our disabled veteran’s benefits away ...she can go to Hades.
Mitt and Newt - leading contenders! What a lousy couple of leading candidates we have! Sure hope that things change soon.
Numbers have changed, yes... However, when Cain pulled out, he urged his people to go to Newt.
And Newt got a bump right after that = Bachmann/perry didn't for some time after = so how you prove the Cain votes all went to Bachmann/Perry and Newt gets Establishment votes from Romney.
It does make a contrived talking point against Newt - but if you 've been listening, the Establishment Republicans do not now - did not then - like Newt,
Why? Newt is NOT a member of the Ivy League Establishment elitists Cabal that ha chosen our candidates for decades - EXCEPT for Reagan, another non Ivy League clique trained candidates.
Newt is a Reaganite Republican - the Cabal is seeing the bubbles seeping out of their champagne.
He’s a Rockefeller Republican.
He stated, very clearly, many times, that he believes that Roosevelt is the greatest president of the 20th century - not Reagan.
He supports anthropogenic climate change.
He rejects what the Catholic church teaches on abortion.
He’s supported Obamacare and the health care mandate.
caww, Paul is way out there but he has a strong organization that gets his signs up and makes a lot of noise. Just heard on Fox News that according one new poll ..he is within ONE point of Newt! Fox just had Krauthammer and Ann Coulter bashing Newt.
It is going to be a roller coaster! looking forward to the debates this Thursday and hoping Gingrich gets a hike in the polls.
Well I guess that's to be expected since he has leftovers from his run before to tap....like Romney the two have managed to fool even those who should but don't know any better.
It doesn't help that our education system has all but dumbdowned independant thinkers who follow the first Pipe Piper who tickles their fancy....they've been programmed to respond as we saw with Obama.
You are right it's going to be a ride! and we have yet to see the Obama machine in force....aside from the OWS crowd....which has not proven successful by any means. So Obama is going to have to do something really big....and unfortunately I see another war coming he will use as his big gun if things don't perk up for him.
Well I guess that's to be expected since he has leftovers from his run before to tap....like Romney the two have managed to fool even those who should but don't know any better.
It doesn't help that our education system has all but dumbdowned independant thinkers who follow the first Pipe Piper who tickles their fancy....they've been programmed to respond as we saw with Obama.
You are right it's going to be a ride! and we have yet to see the Obama machine in force....aside from the OWS crowd....which has not proven successful by any means. So Obama is going to have to do something really big....and unfortunately I see another war coming he will use as his big gun if things don't perk up for him.
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