Michelle Bachmann

[Riot]

Hey, she at least deserves her own thread, for the remaining few weeks of her political campaign for President.

You know all that government money her family farm took? The government money her husbands clinic took for employee training? That she lied about and denied?

Guess what, NBC is reporting tonight there is even more:

By Michael Isikoff
National investigative correspondent
NBC News

While Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

A health clinic run by the husband of presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering "quality Christian counseling" for a large number of mental health problems ranging from "anger management" to addictions and eating disorders.

The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.

Questions about the Bachmann family's receipt of government funds arose this week after a Los Angeles Times story reported that a family farm in which Michelle Bachmann is a partner had received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies.

More to the story at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552...decision_2012/

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...iowa-poll.html

A clinic owned by GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, is being accused of telling homosexuals that they can "pray away the gay."

Andrew Ramirez was a patient at Bachmann & Associates, a Christian counseling clinic in Lake Elmo, Minn., in 2004. He claims he was told by one of the clinic's counselors that if he read the Bible and prayed to God, he "would no longer be gay," according to ABC News.

Ramirez told the Nation that the therapist tried to "cure" him of his homosexuality. “He basically said being gay was not an acceptable lifestyle in God’s eyes,” and offered the assistance of an ex-lesbian as a mentor, Ramirez said.

Undercover video at Bachmann's clinic taped by gay rights advocates reportedly showing therapists engaged in treatment similar to what Ramirez claims will be shown on "Nightline" on Monday, ABC says.

Bachmann is no stranger to anti-gay rhetoric. Her strategist-husband last year said homosexuals were barbarians who needed to be disciplined.

"We have to understand: Barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps," Marcus Bachmann said as a guest on the Christian-based "Point of View" radio talk show on May 12, 2010.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...tatements.html


interesting that she acknowledges she can get things wrong, but refuses to recognize when that happens.
i agree with one of the people who commented-can't they get a woman to run for pres that's knowledgable, not just pretty?

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...tatements.html


interesting that she acknowledges she can get things wrong, but refuses to recognize when that happens.
i agree with one of the people who commented-can't they get a woman to run for pres that's knowledgable, not just pretty?

I think many of us said that once she enters the race, the public scrutiny of her radical beliefs would expose her for what she is...a mean spirited, homophobic, far right wing nut. Obviously we can add hypocrite to that. She has appeal to folks who think the way she does and unfortunately there are quite a few but the Republican Party will soundly reject her.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...tatements.html


interesting that she acknowledges she can get things wrong, but refuses to recognize when that happens.
i agree with one of the people who commented-can't they get a woman to run for pres that's knowledgable, not just pretty?

No doubt that she is pretty. You need that in the age of TV. Nobody wants look at someone grotesque. But yeah, of course you have to be knowledgeable too. It will be easier for people to advise her and evolve her platform than it would be to get better looking.

[dino]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

I think many of us said that once she enters the race, the public scrutiny of her radical beliefs would expose her for what she is...a mean spirited, homophobic, far right wing nut. Obviously we can add hypocrite to that. She has appeal to folks who think the way she does and unfortunately there are quite a few but the Republican Party will soundly reject her.

Radical beliefs? We have a racist socialist FAR left winger in office and you are complaining about her. I wouldn't vote for her because if there is one thing our current Bozo has proven to me is we need someone that has experience running a business or at least a state.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by dino

Radical beliefs? We have a racist socialist FAR left winger in office and you are complaining about her. I wouldn't vote for her because if there is one thing our current Bozo has proven to me is we need someone that has experience running a business or at least a state.

Our current President is FAR from being a FAR left winger.

[dino]

Originally Posted by GBBob

Our current President is FAR from being a FAR left winger.

Quit goofing around

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by dino

Quit goofing around

He is far from far left on social issues..Gay right, gun control, immigration, DADT..

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by joeydb

No doubt that she is pretty. You need that in the age of TV. Nobody wants look at someone grotesque. But yeah, of course you have to be knowledgeable too. It will be easier for people to advise her and evolve her platform than it would be to get better looking.

she's repulsive.


I wouldnt touch her with a ten foot poll.

palin, on the other hand...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by joeydb

No doubt that she is pretty. You need that in the age of TV. Nobody wants look at someone grotesque. But yeah, of course you have to be knowledgeable too. It will be easier for people to advise her and evolve her platform than it would be to get better looking.

i dont care what the president of the us looks like. that has nothing to do with being qualified at all. what a preposterous statement.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dino

Radical beliefs? We have a racist socialist FAR left winger in office and you are complaining about her. I wouldn't vote for her because if there is one thing our current Bozo has proven to me is we need someone that has experience running a business or at least a state.

lol
far left?
obama has done as other dem presidents before hime-move to the middle. his continuation of many bush policies also indicates he's far from left wing. his first two years in office left many dems very unhappy with him, and his lack of true change-which is what he ran on.
when you attempt to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. i don't think many are happy with him at all-but many still think he's better than an alternative.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._Homosexuality


oh.
boy.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...iage-pact.html

Michele Bachmann, the Republican presidential candidate, signed a Christian conservative pledge that stated that African American children were more likely to grow up in stable families during the era of slavery than under President Barack Obama.

The controversial linkage of slavery to family values was made in the preamble to a pro-traditional marriage pledge given to White House contenders by The Family Value, a group in the first-voting state of Iowa, where Mrs Bachmann is the joint Republican front runner.

"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President," the opening statement introducing the pledge read.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...y-war-20110622


Michele Bachmann's Holy WarThe Tea Party contender may seem like a goofball, but be warned: Her presidential campaign is no laughing matter


By Matt Taibbi
June 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.

It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. Fans of obscure 1970s television may remember a short-lived children's show called Far Out Space Nuts, in which a pair of dimwitted NASA repairmen, one of whom is played by Bob (Gilligan) Denver, accidentally send themselves into space by pressing "launch" instead of "lunch" inside a capsule they were fixing at Cape Canaveral. This plot device roughly approximates the political and cultural mechanism that is sending Michele Bachmann hurtling in the direction of the Oval Office.

Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."




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Regent was unabashed in its desire that its graduates enter government and become "change agents" who would help bring the law more in line with "eternal principles of justice," i.e., biblical morality. To that end, Bachmann was mentored by a crackpot Christian extremist professor named John Eidsmoe, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society publications who once opined that he could imagine Jesus carrying an M16 and who spent considerable space in one of his books musing about the feasibility of criminalizing blasphemy.

[dino]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

she's repulsive.


I wouldnt touch her with a ten foot poll.

palin, on the other hand...

If she's repulsive then I'll take repulsive all day.

[dino]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...y-war-20110622


Michele Bachmann's Holy WarThe Tea Party contender may seem like a goofball, but be warned: Her presidential campaign is no laughing matter


By Matt Taibbi
June 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don't laugh.

It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. Fans of obscure 1970s television may remember a short-lived children's show called Far Out Space Nuts, in which a pair of dimwitted NASA repairmen, one of whom is played by Bob (Gilligan) Denver, accidentally send themselves into space by pressing "launch" instead of "lunch" inside a capsule they were fixing at Cape Canaveral. This plot device roughly approximates the political and cultural mechanism that is sending Michele Bachmann hurtling in the direction of the Oval Office.

Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions. She believes that the Chinese are plotting to replace the dollar bill, that light bulbs are killing our dogs and cats, and that God personally chose her to become both an IRS attorney who would spend years hounding taxpayers and a raging anti-tax Tea Party crusader against big government. She kicked off her unofficial presidential campaign in New Hampshire, by mistakenly declaring it the birthplace of the American Revolution. "It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world!" she gushed. "You are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard."




further down:

Regent was unabashed in its desire that its graduates enter government and become "change agents" who would help bring the law more in line with "eternal principles of justice," i.e., biblical morality. To that end, Bachmann was mentored by a crackpot Christian extremist professor named John Eidsmoe, a frequent contributor to John Birch Society publications who once opined that he could imagine Jesus carrying an M16 and who spent considerable space in one of his books musing about the feasibility of criminalizing blasphemy.

Anybody want to make a wager on if Mark Taibbi is a Left Wing Liberal who highly endorsed that scumbag we have in office now. I'll bet he is.
Too bad Bachman isn't black because bozo's like this wouldn't have the balls to say anything bad about a black woman.

[Dahoss]

This woman is scary. Takes direct orders from God.

I still get a laugh out of her making up the stuff about Obama's trip to India and how quick those enlightened conservatives were to believe every word she said.

Hopefully the right can find a better candidate than this, the American people deserve that much.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by dino

Anybody want to make a wager on if Mark Taibbi is a Left Wing Liberal who highly endorsed that scumbag we have in office now. I'll bet he is.
Too bad Bachman isn't black because bozo's like this wouldn't have the balls to say anything bad about a black woman.

and you prove yourself to be a right wing hater with no concept of reality beyond the sound bites of the radical right.

[lord007]

Originally Posted by dino

Radical beliefs? We have a racist socialist FAR left winger in office and you are complaining about her. I wouldn't vote for her because if there is one thing our current Bozo has proven to me is we need someone that has experience running a business or at least a state.