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By David Edwards
Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:51 EST
Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Sunday defended the tea party movement, saying that it had “been only a force for good.”
“The [Republican] Party has changed so much for the better,” Bachmann told CBS host Bob Schieffer. “The tea party has infused the energy and excitement. And really, it’s bringing the Republican Party back to its basic values, which is limited government, cutting spending, being smart, and making the government more efficient.”
“Has the tea party made compromise a dirty word?” Schieffer wondered. “And is that why Congress can’t seem to get anything done?”
“Not at all!” Bachmann replied. “The tea party has been only a force for good in Washington, D.C., because otherwise we continue to go farther and farther to the left, which is redistribution of wealth. That’s why [President Barack Obama] will be a one-termer, because all he has been about is redistribution of wealth and the rise of socialist principles, and the Tea Party rejects that.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/29/bachmann-tea-party-has-been-only-a-force-for-good/
Watch this video from CBS’s Face the Nation, broadcast Jan. 29, 2012.
"Watch out BO, the Tea Party is out to make you a one term President!!!"
'LMAO!!!! Poor Michele Bachmann'By David Edwards
Sunday, January 29, 2012 14:51 EST
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"Ok BO!!! You 'Announced' all kinds of BS, but in the light of Day, Honestly, what have You and Your Administration really Done???"
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"Yeah I know, I may be crucified, but really, is your life better today than it was 4 years ago????""Ok BO!!! You 'Announced' all kinds of BS, but in the light of Day,... more
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Newt Gingrich has an ego as big as all outdoors, or at least a big as Donald Trump’s. He’s a historian with only a nodding acquaintance with text book history and his own self-professed place in it. The other thing Newt has is a propensity for pissing people off. People like voters and political allies in his own party. While this isn’t an altogether useless skill in an election, it isn’t so great when a President has to work with people rather than through them. If cockroaches will survive nuclear holocaust Newt will be right there tossing garbage to them.Newt Gingrich has an ego as big as all outdoors, or at least a big as Donald... more
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By David Edwards
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said on Sunday that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s thumping of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in South Carolina Saturday showed that the Republican base was “revolting” against the party establishment.
During a round table discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd explained that Gingrich’s win was “about Mitt Romney.”
“He hasn’t made the sale to conservatives,” Todd observed. “And losing in South Carolina, he can’t dismiss it. This is the heart and soul of the conservative movement, the folks that show up at telephones, that knock on the doors — and he doesn’t have their support.”
“There’s no doubt about it,” Scarborough agreed. “The party base is revolting, but they are revolting against the Washington Republican establishment anointing Mitt Romney.”
“Just like Herman Cain was not about Herman Cain. It was a rejection of Mitt Romney. Rick Perry, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Michele Bachmann, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich wave one, a rejection of Mitt Romney. Now we have Newt Gingrich wave two, a rejection of Mitt Romney.”
Scarborough continued: “Mitt Romney could attack Newt for not being a conservative because Newt is not a conservative. Google it! We [Republicans] ran him out of Congress in 1998 because he sold us out on taxes, he sold us out on spending, he went to the floor and he sided with Democrats on his last speech, calling us the perfectionists caucus. He called us jihadists. He’s not a conservative, he’s an opportunist. But here is the problem: So is Mitt Romney.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/22/scarborough-gop-base-is-revolting-against-romney/
Watch this video from NBC’s Meet the Press, broadcast Jan. 22, 2012.
"They still don't have the Balls to say they do not support Mitt because he is Mormon!!!"By David Edwards
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Ep 2 of Kill The Propaganda Machine
Michele Bachmann's Huge Penis
You didn't know? It's HUGE!
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Michele Bachmann's Huge Penis
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Rick Santorum is still leading the Change of the Christian Brigade. No one would describe Rick as sex-savvy, so he'll need some help talking to the non-Fundy voters out there. Herewith: Sex Terms for Dummies.Rick Santorum is still leading the Change of the Christian Brigade. No one would... more
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLPgTbltFn0
Michele Bachmann is to pull out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination after a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucus, according to US media reports.
Bachmann, who had polled well among Christian conservatives in the early days of the campaign to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in November, gained just 5% of the vote to finish .
The first state-wide party nominating contest ended with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney finishing first, ahead of Rick Santorum, a former US senator from Pennsylvania, by just eight votes.
The Video's are her best bits, she'll be missed, made me laugh for sure until there was a possibility she could actually become President!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLPgTbltFn0
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This blog tries to present stories that fly under the radar of mainstream media but in this case I will make an exception. This will be the only time I will write an article about the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidates because I feel that none of these people will win the presidency- no matter how hard they try. To make my point – here is a quick summary on the candidates so far.This blog tries to present stories that fly under the radar of mainstream media but in... more
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What is a true conservative?
By Dwight C Douglas
When I watch television, I hear all the Republicans say they are the “true” conservative. They argue that what America needs in the White House is a conservative. This word has been reshaped by those who claim they alone make sense and know how to improve America.
Dictionary.com says that conservative means disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change. But when I hear the candidates talk, they talk about changing things and “taking their country back” as if they are somehow ordained to control its destiny. And as the say, that is why they play the game, or in this case, why we have elections.
Most politicians truly believe in their heart of hearts they are doing righteous public service. They promise they have a vision to make things work better in Washington. Along the way, they discover deep-pockets of beliefs and interests they need to please to get endorsements or contributions.
We enter this election year, we slide further and further away from the “existing condition.” The idea to preserve and limit change seems rather myopic. I love when I hear the neo-cons talk about same sex marriage, choice and values. They misquote the constitution and use their misinformation to deceive the public. They somehow forget that the original document permitted slavery and set up a rich white American male powerbase – women were not allowed to vote. Without amendments, this country would be living in the dark ages of democracy. Someone must have bucked those existing conditions and institutions. Was it zealous liberals, or just smart Americans?
These wild accusations of Obama being the “great divider” and this myth that he doesn’t meet with people to compromise is just plain oxymoronic. Some of the conservative candidates have decided that a person’s religious beliefs should be the basis for different treatment by the TSA. Is this what they mean by taking back “their” country? Are we going to select and divide the citizens into groups we can control?
The true conservative is someone who has already decided what is right and what is wrong. They see things in black and white. They want to lecture me and show me the way to think about issues. A true conservative tells me that the government has gotten too big, without any seeming understanding that the government is an employer. They cut budgets and cheapen our educational efforts and turn thousands of real public servants into unemployed statistics. Do we really want fewer police, firemen and teachers? How is that limiting change?
I may be a liberal-radical Democrat, but I am into restoring traditional institutions. I would like to see more things built in America. I would like to have call centers where I talk to an American, who gets my jokes and understands my frustrations. I believe the US Postal Service needs to be preserved. What’s wrong with a real letter?
We need to understand that the rich are getting richer and the middle-class is being debt-ridden into depression. We need a strong middle-class that gets raises based on their performance. The true conservative says we need to lower debt and lower taxes. That makes no sense. That is like telling Dad, hey, make a smaller paycheck and we’ll spend less money. FACT ALERT: if you make less money you will spend less money. We need more revenue, which means more workers paying taxes. And that includes those 13+ million illegal immigrants not paying taxes now.
We need to do something about our most important “existing condition” – our ever-growing population. According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of foreign-born population has grown from 4.7% in 1970 to 12.9% in 2010 (that’s 40 million people). The country is changing and those who hold onto this notion of limiting change will be left behind. We need to change Washington, we need to change Congress and we need to change the way America handles its taxation of the general public. Again, we need revenue. We need our government to be strong, not small.
I have never met a true conservative who didn’t bother me. I ask myself, why is this? The first thing that puts me off is this aurora of knowing what is right for everyone. The next thing that generally surfaces early in the conversation is this notion that other people are not pulling their fair share. A naiveté that somehow a person working two jobs to get by is less than those who have gotten a “good” education and “pulled themselves up by their bootstraps” to beat the system. And they accuse Obama of class warfare, what?
Another thing that ruffles my feathers is this feeling that non-Christians are not the rightful owners of our country. When these politicians are slightly less true in their conservative views, they might use the phrase “Christian-Judeo nation” as if there are no other value or belief systems than those chosen two. I mean, Hollywood is full of successful people who believe that a spaceship will rescue the righteous; are they not America? And Utah is full of people who wear sacred underwear; are they not part of the great country of freedom of speech and religious belief? There are large neighborhoods in this country where people face a place in the middle-east and pray five times a day; are those citizens not worthy of our respect? There are millions of people in America who don’t want to go back to the witch hunts of Salem, Massachusetts. We like the separation of church and state. It makes sense for America today.
We need to think about the words these people use. We need to comprehend the meanings and actions behind those words. When Rick Santorum said on national TV that Muslims should be handled differently by the TSA when clearing security at our airports, I couldn’t believe the only candidate to demonstrate disbelief was Ron Paul. Rick’s opinion is not a true conservative viewpoint. This would be racial profiling and a racist attitude that would be no different than slavery, female voting restrictions and ruling that only landowners could vote. Those were the original institutions. Would a true conservative in the White House really go back to that existing condition?
We will probably find that true conservatives are just nostalgic fools, who in a sense, are out of touch with America. Professional politicians and true conservatives are keeping us from righting the ship. Even Ronald Reagan raised taxes almost every year he was in office. What would Reagan do today? A true conservative doesn’t acknowledge that good decisions and compromises move things forward. They focus on a rewritten history, the opinion of the pack and their insecure need to appear holier than thou; with the “thou” in this case being the American middle-class.What is a true conservative?
By Dwight C Douglas
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Sectarian tensions rose yesterday as the UN International Dateline Commission convened its 2012 session. At issue was determining how to move the tiny Pacific Island nations of Samoa and Tokelau to the opposite side of the International Dateline.Sectarian tensions rose yesterday as the UN International Dateline Commission convened... more
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There is no shortage of Americans full of crackpot ideas and imagined conspiracies. They're usually part of an unknown cast preaching to like-minded goobs. But occasionally someone with a not-so-unknown name takes to the bloody pulpit.There is no shortage of Americans full of crackpot ideas and imagined conspiracies.... more
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Michele Bachmann said Wednesday that it made no sense to heed influential Iowa conservative Bob Vander Plaats’ call to drop out of the race in Iowa, and added that she was the one with the momentum in the first caucus state.
POLITICO earlier reported that Vander Plaats had called Bachmann, asking her to drop out and endorse former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.
“Yes, there was a call that was made,” said Bachmann on CBS’ “The Early Show.” “But it didn’t make sense, because my numbers have always been above those of Senator Santorum’s - it makes no sense for me to drop out.”
Bachmann insisted that she had the most support in Iowa among the religious voters that make up a crucial part of the state’s caucus-goers.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70747.html#ixzz1hBqJjYwwMichele Bachmann said Wednesday that it made no sense to heed influential Iowa... more
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Poll watchers are writing the obituary for Newt "I Got My Ass Kicked Over That Name A Lot When I Was a Kid" Gingrich. Pundits are screaming at each other with full-throated vigor and the public stands agog that none of the punditocrisy saw this coming.Poll watchers are writing the obituary for Newt "I Got My Ass Kicked Over That... more
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By Andrew Jones
Monday, December 19, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) received another uncomfortable moment on the campaign trail about her anti-gay views Sunday evening.
According to CNN, the congresswoman and her husband Marcus encountered Kathy Schnell, a woman wearing a Bachmann sticker and holding up a sign saying “Gay-friendly Iowan.”
While smiling to sign the poster, Bachmann asked “Gay-friendly Iowan?”
Schnell proceeded to pick Bachmann’s brain on the number of America gays.
“I wonder if you’re aware that 10% of the population is gay?” she said. “And if you have 28 children, then 2.8 of those kids are very likely gay.”
Thinking that the GOP presidential candidate wasn’t listening to her, Schnell told her friend “She’s not listening to me.”
That prompted Bachmann to reply, “Well, that’s according to the Kinsey Report.”
A few seconds later, her husband Marcus jumped in and told Schnell, “Your facts are wrong.”
“That’s not valid?” Schnell replied back.
“No it isn’t,” he said. “No, it’s not at all. It’s been a myth for many years.”
The Kinsey reports are based on the two books written by Dr. Alfred Kinsey about human sexual behavior in 1948 and 1953. It is widely considered groundbreaking research that helped change popular perceptions about the size and make-up of America’s LGBT population.
This isn’t the first time Bachmann has been confronted on the campaign trail about her views on LGBT rights and the community at large.”
Two weeks ago, Bachmann encountered a 8-year-old who told her, “My mommy’s gay but she doesn’t need any fixing.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/19/bachmanns-husband-kinseys-research-on-homosexuality-is-a-myth/
WATCH: Video from CNN, which was broadcast on December 19, 2011.
"A Half Ass answer and she is Off!!!" =)By Andrew Jones
Monday, December 19, 2011
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I still dream of the days when I mustered the strength to pop someone's head like a zit, to just let the vitriol fly and let the pus-covered words land where they may. That day has come.I still dream of the days when I mustered the strength to pop someone's head like... more
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Rematch- Women’s Division #1 Contender Match
‘American Girl’ Sarah Mae Smith (R) vs. Kathryn Randall Collins (D)
Smith and Collins had an epic battle Thursday night on PCW Politics is War on P-SPAN and KRC picked up the win with a little tug on Smith’s tights. Smith vows to even the score next Sunday night in a match that current PCW Women’s Champion Valora Salinas (I) will be keeping close tabs on.
Grudge Match #1
Charlie Blackwell (American Heartland Coalition) and Average Joe (Tea Party) vs. The California Teacher’s Union: ‘Foul Pole’ Andy Golatta and Malibu Dusty (D) vs. Corporate Might: Big Oil and Kirk Walstreit- the Wall Street Market Analyst with the man crush on ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit (R) w/Texas Tex and CEO Gordon Guyko
Blackwell and Big Union have fought for several months over just who is the crusader for the middle class. Big Union has been fighting with Corporate Might over just about everything. The feuds converge into this three way tag team dance. Who will come out ahead- Big Union backed by the Democrats? Corporate Might backed by the Republicans? Or Charlie Blackwell and Average Joe?
PCW Women’s Tag Team Title Match-Three Way Dance:
(c) The Korver Sisters: Kelly and Korey (D) vs. The Mercenaries: Dawn McGill and Svetlana Kovelevski (I) vs. Merchants of Death: Angel Scott and Angel Casey (R)
Well, at Jesusland vs. Progressiveville the feud between the Korver Sisters and Merchants of Death was already going to explode. Adding the always dangerous Mercenaries to the mix?
Grudge Match #2
‘The Alaskan Pitbull’ Sarah Palin (R) vs. Current TV’s Keith Olbermann (D)
They’re on the cover of the upcoming book Jesusland vs. Progressiveville. It’s fitting that Palin and Olbermann have another epic match at the J vs. P PPV.
PCW Men’s Tag Team Title Match:
(c) Big Union: ‘The Self Proclaimed Savior of the Middle Class’ Big Labor and James the Jeep Worker (D) vs. The Schmidt Brothers: Jack and Joe w/Ron Paul (R-TX) and Jim Schmidt
Big Union won the title from Ron Paul’s protegees on November 21nd. The Schmidt Brothers, three time holders of the PCW Tag Team Titles, shoot for a fourth title reign at J vs. P.
Grudge Match #3
PCW Men’s Champion ‘The One Man Hollywood A-List’ Stone Chism (D) vs. PCW Women’s Champion Valora Salinas (I)
Chism has held multiple titles in PCW. Valora has held multiple titles in various promotions. Does Chism truly know what he’s getting himself into? Or will Valora be overmatched by Chism and his political friends.
The Final Republican Rumble of 2011
‘American Citizen’ Kevin Scott (R) w/Mitt Romney (R-MA)
K-Roy (R) w/Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
Texas Jack (R) w/Rick Perry (R-TX)
Farmer John (R) w/Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
Jim Schmidt (R) w/Ron Paul (R-TX)
The Right Rev. Randy Richardson (R) w/Rick Santorum (R-PA)
PCW Title Match:
(c) Daniel-San (I) vs. Magnum P.O.’d (R) w/Robyn Masters and Newt Gingrich (R-GA) vs. O’Beck Bahama (D)
The bellwether match headed into 2012. Nuff said.Rematch- Women’s Division #1 Contender Match
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Unfortunately, there are still many teens that grow up in conservative households and in small towns and other rural areas that being gay can be much like it was when I was growing up. Just imagine what it would be like to grow up with a mother like Michelle Bachmann who would rather believe that “being gay” is something you can overcome, or even pray awayUnfortunately, there are still many teens that grow up in conservative households and... more
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All voting blocks - left and right - have fallen for the charlatans' siren song at some point. As a result, they make such counter-intuitive deviations from common sense they end up hurting their causes more than helping them. Evangelicals are taking their turns this time around.All voting blocks - left and right - have fallen for the charlatans' siren song... more
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