Michele Bachmann: Pull my string and watch me go! |
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| By: newtonusr Friday October 17, 2008 9:41 pm | |
On Hardball today, Chris Matthews sat still for a very long time while this vile creature spewed a deeply disturbing concoction. In truth, he did attempt to interject here and there, but the insanity was thick like Guiness. Chris – this happened on YOUR SHOW.
Here it is, all Michelle.
Not a career highpoint, Tweety.
"I’m focusing on Barack Obama…"
No kidding, Congresswoman. No kidding.
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she’s batshit crazy
Good Morning newtonusr,
MN-06 is a tight race, she’s up 52% to 48% with 15% undecided and her opponent El Tinklenberg hasn’t even started TV ads although they have been slotted.
before she opened that pie hole on Tweety, Tinklenberg had only rec’d $2,500. to date on his Act Blue Page – overnight it has grown to $64,454.00
Keep talkin’ Crazy Lady, keep talkin’ !
Tinklenberg sends mad love to the blogisphere
Thanks newtonsur.
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Great catch, as per usual, on the donations.
Tweety just let her spew and now Eli her challenger is over 100k on Act Blue.
He allowed her to expose her wacko self, which is always to our benefit.
She’s only the first of many that will expose themselves this way if Obama wins.
I thought Tweets did a pretty good job! If he had shut up and let her talk more, it would have been even better.
I sent some change to her opponent!
I don’t think it takes a great deal of critical thinking to put Chris Matthews down for allowing her to spew. Many of us yesterday thought he did a good job, allowing herself enough rope to hang herself. Didn’t her opponent raise a lot of money right after that?
Whatever, Newton. You can, continue. Go for it.
PS — I’m just wondering how all the put down / hate smack moves the conversation forward.
I do think she is wrong, misguided, maybe even evil. But, I also believe that too much energy focused on the “wrong” might possibly be negative to the Universe, in the long run.
Nothing personal.
Seems that the Bachmann interview actually not only worked out to be an advertisement FOR Eli Tinklenberg, but it actually may give him more than enough to start a TV ad camapign against her. In addition…maybe, just maybe, the DNCC may start to give him a little attention.
He’s almost beating her without any help from them though. Maybe he’ll say…”thanks, for nuttin’”
GO ELI!
I was on my way out to see W last night when I caught her clip. It was GOP lunatic overload last night.
Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin cut from the same fundamentalist cloth. When Bachman smiles as trash is pouring out of her mouth you know there are mental health issues.
Ooops! El (as in Elwyn), not Eli!
To Michelle Bachman: “El’s a Comin’…Hide Your (Evil) Heart Girl!”
check out how many responses to the Bachman lunatic tirade at Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
What’s with the folks in Minnesota electing this fruit cake? (nothing against fruit cakes..butt)
I was just reading an Ed Morrissey column over on Hot Air and he said he is not impressed with Michelle’s statements. Of course, in the comments, the readers were saying if Obama gets in then those with Obama signs in their yards now will be the ‘enemy’ after the election and the neighborhood will make sure ‘these people’ follow the law and don’t make any mistakes.
WHAT THE HELL!
http://hotair.com/archives/200…..ericanism/
Read this section of the post over at Huffington Post
“What makes the incident even more bizarre is that Bachmann is in a close congressional race and just this past week offered warm words to the Illinois Democrat. “If the presidency would somehow go to Barack Obama, I would welcome him to the 6th District as well,” she said after a debate. “As a matter of fact, I would put my hand on his shoulder and give him a kiss if he wanted to.”
LET’S HOPE THAT THE VOTERS IN HER DISTRICT THROW HER UNDER THE BUS. MAYBE FIREDOGLAKE SHOULD BRING HER OPPONENT ON TO THE SITE FOR A LITTLE DISCUSSION AND FUNDRAISING.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..35735.html
Jane Hamsher are you there? Do not know anything about Bachmans opponent but you would think they would have to be a hell of a lot better than Bachman. Firedoglake could help give Bachman the shove.
Here’s Elwyn Tinkelberg’s Act Blue page…
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18660
He’s running against Michelle From Hell and since last night, he’s received over $125,000 in contributions!
Now it’s over $149,000!
Raised across ActBlue: 3,549 149,177
He’s basically raised it all since last night. I think someone at The Great Orange Satan said before last night .. he’d only raised $3,000 through Act Blue .. and Tinkelberg has now posted at TGOS(DailyKos .. aka The Great Orange Satan) thanking everyone
I used to live literally across the street from the District that the lunatic Bachman represents (Minnesota’s 6th District).
I wasn’t aware of the community’s “strangeness” prior to my moving there, but it didn’t take long to find out.
I used to joke to my relatives, that my neighbors were so far gone into Fundie Fever, they used to get down on their hands and knees to pray prior to mowing the lawn.
Seriously, one particular community in the 6th is Blaine. Everytime Junya and Deadeye came to Minnesota, they always headed right for Blaine.
Blaine, where burning witches (makes for a helluva Halloween), speaking in tongues, and the usual insistence in a 6,000 year old world is de rigueur for the community’s populace.
If you’ve seen Michelle Bachman, she’s got those “crazy” Fundie Fever eyes. Lot’s of folks in Blaine are the very same way.
I was watching Hardball when this wackadoo was on. At first I was getting pissed that Chris Mathews didn’t say much of anything to slow her down, but as she blithered and blathered on and on, I realized she sounded totally and sincerely nuts. Then I worried that in the past I seemed to be one of only a few who thought these people were nuts. I am hoping this year is different, our country can’t take much more of crazy, we are all full up.
Hey, I get your drift.
But this: If Tweety had invited Bachman on so she would embarass herself, or drive fundraising for her opponent, it would be both too much to hope for and highly improper from a broadcast standpoint. But this is his slot, his house, and he should be compelled to make it a worthy platform for discussion, and not a soapbox for the gray-matter challenged. When he has hosted lying, thieving, wretched guests over the years, where no immediate electoral stakes were in play, we howled until we were hoarse.
Now it looks like we will have a Democratic majority in Congress and a Democrat in the White House. Do we really want that kind of crap loose on his show, or would an honest broker, someone who had enough self-esteem to recognize when he’s being sucked into the goo, be a better idea?
If I could make Tweety dance to my highly biased tune, he would scald every damned Republican who visited his show, or turn their Gooperdom™ against them. And he would be courtly and genial to Dems and make up for some of the abysmal performances of Malkin and Buchanan and fucking Kate O’Beirne and company, which he has blithely permitted to air from his no-longer-esteemed platform.
But that will not happen. And in any case, unless shameful displays (however profitable they may be in the short term) are condemned as unacceptable, and treated loudly and fiercely as such, we lose.
He should have jumped her shit in 30 seconds and demanded that she lay her cards on the table – “Are you calling the Democratic Party, Liberals, Progressives, Leftists, Barack Obama – un-American? Or are you quoting lines from a FAX? Which is it?” We would expect no less from people in media who we admire.
Michelle Bachman IS Joe McCarthy, and the fact that the last lines in her appearance were the sound-bite we gleefully celebrate to the tune of thousands of campaign dollars:
…is cold comfort. We either shut the McCarthys down or we let them make the politics we have today. Yeah, it was at the end, but it was at the beginning and in the middle, too. And at this rate, next year, and the year after that.
I’m with you.
Totally agree!
If Tweety pie had done a news report/analysis of Bachman, that would have been one thing.
To continue to provide a platform for the most deranged folks you’d never like to encounter, and to legitimatize these folks in the furtherance of MSM’s faux “balance”
con-gamephilosophy, shows how rotten to the very core the instruments of our public discourse have become.You can also swing by Michelle’s Facebook page & tell her what a sweetie she is..
http://www.facebook.com/pages/…..7658849357
seems a few already have. =)
that is very very useful information. going to donate now. isnt this the same lady who david shuster “was mean to” a while back? as i remember it she didnt know the name of a single dead troop in her district.
I think that Tweety now has the responsibility to be fair and invite El on to rebut Crazy Michelle and explain why his supporters in Minnesota are patriotic Americans and that the proposal to investigate Americans is one more reason that Minnesotans will repudiate Bachman on November 4th.
Yea, I think Tinklenberg can win the 6th this year. What follows is an odd lot of what this long term Minnesota DFL’er makes of Bachmann and the 6th.
I always recommend that when we talk about districts we look at maps. You need to know about the place and space you are talking about — so get a map out please.
The 6th District begins on the Wisconsin line on the St. Croix, just east of St. Paul. The 6th, and the 2nd curl around the more upscale suburbs and exurbs of St. Paul, meeting on a line that dodges around Lakeville (where the woman called Obama an Arab) Afton, Bayport and Stillwater. It then swings north of the cities, taking in northern suburbs of both cities, and goes out all the way west to St. Cloud — in the center of the state. The towns along the St. Croix and a bit west, are solid little Swedish Burbs — look for places like Taylors Falls, Lake Chisago, Forest Lake. If you have read Wilhelm Moberg’s “The Emigrants” novels — the Swedes made a movie about it in the 70’s — that’s the place. The area usually votes Republican, but they are not social conservatives — they are solid Swedish Lutherans, now merged into the ELCA. Michelle Bachmann is out of the Wisconsin Synod, a decidedly more conservative form of Lutheranism not part of the Lutheran Merger. (Moberg, by the way is a cousin by marriage of Orville Freeman’s wife — former MN Governor and Sec of Agriculture in the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations.)
Now what makes this relevant is that El Tinklenberg is, among other things, a Lutheran Supply Pastor, meaning he steps into parishes when their pastor gets sick, dies, travels, and takes over until a permenant pastor can be appointed. He’s been doing this for years, and as a result has roots in all these ELCA Swedish parishes. This is a below the radar net of connections that makes him a good candidate in the district.
Now, the far west of the District, look for St. Cloud and Collegeville on your map, that is Roman Catholic. Collegeville has a large Benedictine Abby, and two Catholic Colleges, and for generations has influenced the area. Recall that Gene McCarthy’s roots were in St. John’s in Collegeville, (and he considered becoming a monk). The settlement of the area was very much influenced in the late 19th century by Bishop Ireland of St. Paul who was concerned Minnesota would turn out too Lutheran, so he ran an emigrant program, with the help of Hill of Northern Pacific RR to bring in Irish and German Catholic Farmers. They built many of the institution of that area. It is very rich farmland — some of the best in the world.
Of course most of the people who live in the district are relative newcomers, they live in the suburbs and exurbs of the Twin Cities, and if you follow 94 and 694 on the map, you will see the towns. Yes, Blaine, but also Anoka and Wyoming — places like Big Lake, and even famous Saulk Center. (Saulk Center was the hometown of Sinclair Lewis, it is Gopher Prairie in Mainstreet.) And it was also the home of Charles Lindberg, that famous American Fascist flyboy. (His dad was an elected official in what now is the 6th District.) And while you won’t find it on the map, Garrison Keillor’s fictional Lake Wobegone is also not all that far from Big Lake, lost in the crease of a map. The suburbs north of the cities are the locus of the power center for Jesse Ventura, who is best understood as a libertarian who started his own Independence Party. Two years ago when Bachmann was first elected, the Indies had a very decent candidate on their line on the ballot, who ended up with about 9% of the votes. This year they endorsed Tinklenberg, and left their line blank. Ventura is actively supporting Tinklenberg who is DFL endorsed.
In the 80’s and early 90’s Tinklenberg was a DFL’er, but he was selected by Jesse Ventura to be Commissioner of Transportation in his bi-partisian Cabinet, and there were some DFL’ers who found that hard to swallow. But El did a great job as Commissioner, he did all the heavy lifting on the North Star Commuter Rail line, that is just about to open — and will be a great alternative for all those in the NW part of the 6th district who work in the cities. He is a strong advocate for transit, and also for alternative fuels — he did a good deal to establish corn ethanol back in the 90’s, and now is advocating a range of bio-fuels. He believes in Government investment in all this, Michelle refuses to seek either earmarks or work on funding such enterprise. It is a point of honor with her to believe in drilling, big SUV’s that use lots of gas, and she is not even so sure Government should fund interstate highways. Socialism, mind you. This is a key issue in this campaign. She wasn’t all that hep on paying for the new 35W Bridge, and not at all interested in the one designed just like it in St. Cloud, that is now being taken down and will be replaced next year. She is also opposed to Public Schools — much of her campaign money comes from the Voucher-privatize the schools folk — and of course she is opposed to anything in Health Care. El Tinklenberg is such a riot, he believes in public schools, public roads and public health.
In 2006 the DFL endorsed candidate was Patty Wetterling, who was best known as an advocate for exploited children. While I doubt if anyone in the 6th really disagrees with that position, it isn’t a good fit for a political campaign. Moreover, in 2006 all sorts of national progressive groups put lots of effort into Patty’s campaign, DCCC put in millions, and it became an issue that Bachmann used against Wetterling — she was some sort of tool of the ugly progressive anti-Americans. It worked in 2006, in part because the Ventura-Indies had a very decent alternative who went after Bachmann on Education, but Wetterling could not, for some reason, join that chorus. Won’t happen this year as Ventura is supporting his former Commissioner of Transportation.
The district is also changing. I have a friend who works in a Community Hospital in the center of the 6th District, and who has been working on labor organizing for about 5 years in the district (Hospitals, Nursing Homes, working with Service Workers) and until the last year or so, they lost all their recognition elections, but now they are winning them by a nice margin. It has been a switch of perhaps 40% of the workers from no union to strong pro-union in two years. Tells you something. Not only that, they went to DFL caucuses for Obama, and are strong for Franken. It is ground level change, and they’ve stopped drinking the Bush Kool-Aid.
And no — I don’t live in the 6th — my district is 70% or so DFL, and we sent to DC that African American Defense Lawyer who is also a Muslim. In Minnesota you just learn that what works well in the 5th, doesn’t necessarily go in the 6th. You gotta understand each district on its own terms.
The Voters continue to speak with their wallets!
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On the October 17 episode of MSNBC’s Hardball, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota claimed that Barack Obama and other members of Congress share anti-American views.
Bachmann thinks that anyone who disagrees with her personal political agenda is unpatriotic. But she is the one who has a lot to learn about what it means to love America.
Her fellow members of Congress need to take a stand and tell Michele Bachmann that her disgusting accusations have no place in our country. Tell Congress to censure Rep. Bachmann.
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Michelle Bachman getting her ass kicked down the field
24 hours ago, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announced that all those who disagree with her are “Anti-American.” Since then, the outpouring of support for my campaign has been extraordinary. Since Congresswoman Bachmann’s outrageous remarks, my campaign has raised $438,346.57, and we’re working to reach $500,000 by 5 p.m. today. Congresswoman Bachmann’s extreme ideology divides people, but her comments on MSNBC’s Hardball have united all of those who believe that I will jump start the ecomomy on Main Street by creating jobs and rebuilding our infrastructure. As a Minister and Mayor, I brought people together. I believe that we build by addition, not division. I want to thank you all. It is now clear that we have the momentum to win and I ask for your financial support. I will keep everyone posted.
Thank you,
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..18/…
24 hrs ago :
Help Kick Michele Bachmann out of Congress. NOW. (UPDATED with ActBlue goal!)
by thereisnospoon
Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 02:52:10 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..17/…
This post by thereisnospoon has the following item :
DCCC Poll Shows Bachmann Kissed up to Bush Too Many Times
Tinklenberg Holds Bachmann to 4 point lead; Her Approval Ratings Plummet
Last Friday, Minnesota Public Radio reported that the National Republican Congressional Committee planned to pull its television ads in Minnesota’s third congressional district to defend Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s sixth congressional district. They did so with good reason if their polling at all matches a poll the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released today showing Bachmann with only 42 percent of the vote to Elwyn Tinklenberg’s 38 percent, and 15 percent are undecided. Elwyn Tinklenberg has won the endorsements of both the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the powerful Independence Party of Minnesota. The poll was conducted by Grove Insight, from October 10 thru 12, of 400 people with 4.9 margin of error.
The four point spread in the race comes after the Alliance for a Better Minnesota television began running a television ad highlighting Michele Bachmann’s close ties to President Bush including her infamous kiss at last year’s State of the Union address. According to the DCCC’s poll, President Bush’s approval rating in the district is at an abysmal 18 percent and Bachmann herself isn’t fairing much better with only 34 percent. Additionally, 82 percent of respondents said that the country is “off on the wrong track.”
Brilliant thread. Kudos all.
As Sara said, ya gotta look at the map:
Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District & Map