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Does Bachmann Support Herself?

Mike Bryant — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:23:00 GMT

The US Census is underway at this time. One of the results of the numbers is the distribution of congressional seats for each state. There is again discussion that Minnesota could lose a one of it's eight U S House seats as the population continues to shift. Many people suggest that it will be the Sixth district that would be the seat which is eliminated.

You would think that the Congressperson from the district would be championing the census efforts. One of the most underrepresented populist is college students. So maybe head over to the colleges in your district and remind the students to fill the forms out.

Not Michele Bachmann, she is continuing her fight with ACORN. She declared that her family is only going to answer one question: the number of people in her household. I would think that this is the message that she is spreading to others. It makes you wonder what it is that she doesn't want to disclose. Wouldn't you think that most if not all of the information is already out for a sitting congressperson? Odd thinking indeed.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Mike Bryant

Bachmann Who Believes This Stuff?

Mike Bryant — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:09:00 GMT

The Minnesota Republicans held their central committee meeting last Saturday and elected their new party leaders. It's an event to half pay attention to for me. Seemed like many of the speakers at least tacitly admitted that the party has a problem. With the two term governor Tim Pawlenty stepping aside, they are facing some of the same leadership issues that the national party is and the Democrats have over time.

The speaker who shocked me was Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. I guess it shouldn't, she's been spouting off crazy things for some time. I've even taken the time to blog about a couple of them.

But, it seems to me that she is going to a whole new level of fantasy words.

Her take on the economy is that the world is now in chaos and capitalism is being killed by the Obama Administration. I guess it's possible. But her view seems to be based on such a one sided view. Wasn't she in Congress for a couple of terms now? Didn't she see what a rotten economy the Bush administration created? The recent ironic Pravda article about the death of capitalism seems more in touch with reality. This is after a week where she called the President a gangster and continued her ongoing battle with the truth.

Next was her ongoing attack that ACORN is going to be running all of our elections? I doubt they have the numbers. It might solve some of our problems like the Senate race here in Minnesota and the butterfly ballots of Florida. But, she means this to be a bad thing. It all goes to her claim that ACORN gets money that it uses to register voters. The reality is that the money is Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) and goes to ACORN Housing, an affiliate of ACORN that offers home ownership counseling to low-income families.“CDBG rules list eligible uses of the money, including such things as building sidewalks, sewers and affordable housing, mostly. Specifically ineligible: ‘political activities,’” said Politifact ,a Pulitzer prize-winning operation of the St. Petersburg Times . “In other words, ACORN can’t use the money for voter registration.”

Finally, a new favorite as she claimed that American soldiers now had to read Miranda rights to Al Qaeda. I first have to wonder if she believes anyone should get their Miranda rights? But, back to the point, where does she get support for this claim? An O'Reilly report tnat misquotes another Congressman? It is an absolute untruth. The whole Guantanamo debate is whether we can just lock people up without charges, if they should get a hearing at some point and if we should at least treat them like prisoners of war.

It seems like she says enough that she actually believes this stuff. Hopefully, at some point she will stop getting chances to say them.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Mike Bryant

Interesting Questions Come Up After Michele Bachmann Donation

Mike Bryant — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:15:00 GMT

This video is worth watching for all of those who are interested in following the ongoing tale of Michele Bachmann exploits. At the heart of the issue this time is campaign contributions she received from Frank Vennes Jr . Following these contributions, she requested that President Bush include Mr. Vennes in his late pardons. Unfortunately, Mr. Vennes was caught up in a Peder ponzi scheme around the same time. So no pardon and Representative Bauchmann attempted to pass the money or at least part of it on to Minnesota Teen Challenge. They said thanks but no thanks. " We didn’t want to be involved if it was dirty money,” said Rich Scherber, executive director of Minnesota Teen Challenge.

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This smells bad. On top of everything, she failed to report the money being returned to her campaign until her first quarter 2009 campaign filing, a possible violation of Federal Election Commission rules. Maybe with her no earmarks pledge she should also refuse political favor money. Oh, and maybe don't try to pass it off to others either.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Mike Bryant