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Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 1:44:13 PM   
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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 1:52:00 PM   
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She was one of Americas best hopes but the thugs have ruined her too. There is no hope for this country. People have become weak, unable to fend for themselves, pandering to the government and losing all sense of purpose an honor.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 1:57:30 PM   
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I am so so disappointed that she wont be around anymore.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 2:16:38 PM   
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She's "retiring" in the hopes that the many different investigations into her misbehavior, theft fraud etc., will be dropped. She will start raising money for her defence fund as soon as she leaves office. I'd assume she will get a gig on FNC and will join the church speaking circuit, avoiding Iowa where her misdeeds are well known in the fundy community.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 2:27:17 PM   
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Nonono Ken she stated several times in her 8 minute explanation, that we can be rest assured that it has NOTHING. To do with any of that. She wouldnt tell fibs.... she is a good honest to god Christian woman!!!!!!
Her detractors will try to make out thats the reason, but it really isnt

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 2:29:40 PM   
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Nonono Ken she stated several times in her 8 minute explanation, that we can be rest assured that it has NOTHING. To do with any of that. She wouldnt tell fibs.... she is a good honest to god Christian woman!!!!!!
Her detractors will try to make out thats the reason, but it really isnt

Sure it doesn't. She's looking at both state time in Iowa and federal time over the theft of that mailing list and the subsequent cover up.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 2:41:38 PM   
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Ok.... you got me.... I ve sprained my tongue with it being stuck in my cheek for too long.

I was hoping the sock would bite .....its just NOT M
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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 3:01:03 PM   
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I've put out enough chum for the sock. He must have come to his senses.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 3:25:19 PM   
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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:10:24 PM   
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Meh, who cares.

Anyone who actually cares about the truth. PolitiFact rated 72% of her claims during her brief presidential campaign as being "Mostly False" or lower.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jan/04/farewell-michele-bachmann/

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:11:03 PM   
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I am so so disappointed that she wont be around anymore.



I am also so so disappointed that I didn't pay enough attention to her to be so so disappointed that she is gone.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:12:55 PM   
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Meh, who cares.

Anyone who actually cares about the truth. PolitiFact rated 72% of her claims during her brief presidential campaign as being "Mostly False" or lower.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jan/04/farewell-michele-bachmann/


Imagine that, nobody seems to care about Benghazi, The IRS, or Operation Fast & Furious though... But hey, a Tea Partier is calling it quits... Let's blow this way out of proportion.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:14:13 PM   
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You should look her up. I never thought I'd see a politician dumber than Sarah Palin, but someone managed to find one (Only in America).

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:15:31 PM   
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Meh, who cares.

Anyone who actually cares about the truth. PolitiFact rated 72% of her claims during her brief presidential campaign as being "Mostly False" or lower.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jan/04/farewell-michele-bachmann/


Imagine that, nobody seems to care about Benghazi, The IRS, or Operation Fast & Furious though... But hey, a Tea Partier is calling it quits... Let's blow this way out of proportion.

That's because those are manufactured scandals being pushed by the biggest bullshit salesmen on the planet, with only the lowest common denominator believing in their validity.

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:18:17 PM   
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PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature of the St. Petersburg Times that checks whether statements made by politicians are true, has repeatedly determined that Bachmann's claim don't ring true.

"We have checked her 13 times, and seven of her claims to be false and six have been found to be ridiculously false," PolitiFact editor Bill Adair said.

Adair said no politician has been checked as often as Bachmann without saying at least something that's true.

"I don't know anyone else that we have checked, more than a couple times, that has never earned anything above a false," he said. "She is unusual in that regard that she has never gotten a rating higher than false."

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/21/michele-bachmann-iowa-misstatements

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:19:38 PM   
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Meh, who cares.

Anyone who actually cares about the truth. PolitiFact rated 72% of her claims during her brief presidential campaign as being "Mostly False" or lower.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/jan/04/farewell-michele-bachmann/


Imagine that, nobody seems to care about Benghazi, The IRS, or Operation Fast & Furious though... But hey, a Tea Partier is calling it quits... Let's blow this way out of proportion.

You've got to stop listening to Rush and watching FNC. The above are not actually very major in the grand scheme.

Bachmann wielded an outsize power in the House where her various insane ravings often led to action by the House, Including action against raising the efficiency standards of light bulbs. 

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:20:02 PM   
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omg, I could not get through the full video. I'm sure many Minnesotans are glad to see her go. Can't imagine otherwise. If only this meant she would not be in the national press ever again....but like Sarah Palin, I'm sure she will continue to resurface....in the usual places....with the usual suspects....

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:20:20 PM   
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Bachmann's presidential ambitions may have cost her

...Political observers say the self-described Iowa girl's attention to presidential politics cost her support at home, as did embarrassing presidential campaign trail gaffes.

Eleven months after losing the Iowa Caucuses, Bachmann barely won re-election to the House. She defeated Democrat Jim Graves, a political newcomer, by just 4,200 votes in a solidly conservative district.

But the legacy of the presidential campaign lingers in the form of ethics investigations, even though Bachmann insisted today they are not the reason she decided not to run.

"Rest assured this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff," Bachmann said in an online video.

There are two complaints before the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee. One alleges that Iowa State Sen. Kent Sorenson accepted thousands of dollars to chair Bachmann's campaign in violation of Iowa Senate rules. According to a sworn statement by former campaign staff member Andy Parrish, Bachmann approved indirect payments to Sorenson.

The other complaint in Iowa accuses Sorenson of stealing a list containing contact information of parents who home school their children. Local police in Urbandale, Iowa, are investigating that claim which is also the subject of a civil lawsuit.

On the federal level, the Office of Congressional Ethics is looking into Bachmann's alleged misuse of campaign funds.

Read more: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/05/29/politics/iowa-pivotal-michele-bachmann

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/29/2013 4:22:11 PM   
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31 of Michele Bachmann's greatest hits. Enjoy

1. ''(Gay marriage) is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that.''

2. “During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed … The government spent its wad by April 26.”

3. ''I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?''

4. ''I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.”

5. ''Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.''

6. “But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.”

7. ''Does that mean that someone's 13-year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus? That night, mom and dad are never the wiser.''

8. ''Not all cultures are equal.''

9. ''[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said she has even said she is trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that 2,000 years ago.''

10. ''A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.''

11. ''I think there is a point where you say enough is enough to government intrusion. …Does the federal government really need to know our phone numbers?''

12. “Unelected bureaucracies will decide what we can and cant get in future health insurance policy. Thats why theyre called death panels.

13. ''This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass.''

14. ''Unfortunately, the Census data has become very intricate, very personal, a lot of the questions that are asked. I know for my family, the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that.''

15. ''And what a bizarre time we're in, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.''

16. ''Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!''?

17. ''It is horrific to know that in the African American community, 50 percent of all African American pregnancies in the United States end in abortion, 50 percent. That is a genocide of African Americans of the United States. It should not be. There are Americans all across this country who would love to adopt African American babies, but they can't because 50 percent of all African American pregnancies today are ending in abortion.''

18. ''If we took away the minimum wage — if conceivably it was gone — we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.''

19. ''I'm very concerned about the international moves they're making, particularly … moving the United States off the dollar and onto a global currency, like Russia and China are calling for.''

20. ''Normalization (of gayness) through desensitization. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of 'The Lion King' for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.''

21. ''There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.''

22. ''I don't know where they're going to get all this money because we're running out of rich people in this country.''

23. ''This is an earthquake issue. This will change our state forever. Because the immediate consequence, if gay marriage goes through, is that K-12 little children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal, natural and perhaps they should try it.''

24. ''We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves.''

25. ''I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.''

26. “If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.''

27. “Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.”

28. “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. Its all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”

29. “Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occuring in Earth.”

30. “The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.”

31. “I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I'm not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I'm not a scientist.”

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RE: Michele Bachmann retiring - 5/30/2013 7:29:42 AM   
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Bachman retires.........................Democratic strategists go into mourning.............film at 11

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