Posts Tagged ‘Michele Bachmann’

Michele Bachmann explains White House’s willingness to take heat

–SNIP– Americans, she said, should be wondering whether Obamacare, which is to be enforced by the IRS, will target conservative voices opposed to President Obama with delays or denials of medical care.

Read more by Bob Unruh at WND.com

As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. Meanwhile, the actually consequential acts of the U.S. Government and the permanent power factions that control it — covert endless wars, consolidation of unchecked power, the rapid growth of the Surveillance State and the secrecy regime, massive inequalities in the legal system, continuous transfers of wealth from the disappearing middle class to large corporate conglomerates — drone on with even less attention paid than usual.

Because most of those policies are fully bipartisan in nature, the election season — in which only issues that bestow partisan advantage receive attention — places them even further outside the realm of mainstream debate and scrutiny. For that reason, America’s elections ironically serve to obsfuscate political reality even more than it usually is.

This would all be bad enough if “election season” were confined to a few months the way it is in most civilized countries. But in America, the fixation on presidential elections takes hold at least eighteen months before the actual election occurs, which means that more than 1/3 of a President’s term is conducted in the midst of (and is obscured by) the petty circus distractions of The Campaign. Thus, an unauthorized, potentially devastating covert war — both hot and cold — against Iran can be waged with virtually no debate, just as government control over the Internet can be inexorably advanced, because TV political shows are busy chattering away about Michele Bachmann’s latest gaffe and minute changes in Rick Perry’s polling numbers.

Read more by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com

Michele Bachmann was the first GOP presidential candidate to demand Eric Holder’s resignation. Last Monday Rick Perry published an op-ed in The Washington Times demanding Mr. Holder’s resignation and yesterday morning Jon Huntsman also remarked that Mr. Holder should resign, yet the majority of the Old Media ignore them and the other congressmen who think Mr. Holder should resign.

Read more by Mary Chastain at BigJournalism.com

Straw poll results for Presidential GOP race for Monday September 5:
Walker 40%.
Perry 30%.
Paul 15%.
Ryan 5%.
Cain 4%.
Palin 4%.
Romney 2%.

Straw poll results for Presidential GOP race for Monday September 5 (without Ryan & Walker)
Perry 54%.
Paul 27%.
Cain 7%.
Palin 7%.
Romney 5%.

Overall numbers for Presidential GOP straw poll (without Ryan & Walker), both days
Perry 55%.
Paul 28%.
Romney 7%.
Palin 6%.
Cain 3%.
Bachmann 1%.

Straw poll results for GOP US Senate race for Monday September 5:
Neumann 67%.
Thompson 33%.
Lasee 0%.
Fitzgerald 0%.
Kanavas 0%.

Overall straw poll results for GOP US Senate race, both days
Neumann 71%.
Thompson 15%.
Fitzgerald 14%.
Kanavas 0%.
Lasee 0%.

Thanks to all who stopped by our booth!

Presidential Straw Poll Results:
Perry 38%.
Walker 21%.
Paul 18%.
Ryan 16%.
Romney 2%.
Bachmann 1%.
Palin 1%.
Cain 0%.

Presidential race results without Congressman Paul Ryan & Governor Scott Walker:
Perry 57%.
Paul 29%.
Romney 10%.
Bachmann 2%.
Palin 2%.
Cain 0%.

United States Senate Straw Poll Results:
Fitzgerald 25%.
Neumann 75%.
Thompson 0%.
Kanavas 0%.
Lasee 0%.

Come visit the RPMC booth at the St. Martin’s Fair and vote for your favorite candidate!

The fundamental facts of the presidential race at this moment are that unemployment is high, the economy is by far the most important issue to American voters, and President Obama’s handling of economic questions is overwhelmingly unpopular. Republican presidential hopefuls Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and others are hammering the president daily on matters of job creation and economic growth.

Now some of Obama’s activist allies and supporters in the press are engaged in a sharply focused effort to change the subject. Even as economic anxieties continue to rise, some of the nation’s premier political journalists are consumed with the alleged influences of obscure religious philosophers on Republican candidates; on questions of creationism, evolution, and the age of the Earth; and on the fantasy that a Republican president might transform the United States into an Iranian-style theocracy.

by Byron York Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Examiner

by Roger Simon, politico.com, 8/15/11

I admit I do not fully understand Ron Paul and his beliefs. But I do understand when a guy gets shafted, and Ron Paul just got shafted.

On Saturday, the Ames Straw Poll was conducted in Iowa amid huge media interest and scrutiny. The results were enough to force one Republican candidate, Tim Pawlenty, out of the race, and catapult another, Michele Bachmann, into the “top tier.”

–SNIP– Paul’s name was not mentioned in this piece nor in many others. A Wall Street Journal editorial Monday magnanimously granted Paul’s showing in the straw poll a parenthetical dismissal: “(Libertarian Ron Paul, who has no chance to win the nomination, finished a close second.)”

But “close” does not fully describe Paul’s second-place finish. Paul lost to Bachmann by nine-tenths of one percentage point, or 152 votes out of 16,892 cast.

If it had been an election, such a result would almost certainly have triggered a recount. It was not an election, however, and that is my point. Straw polls are supposed to tell us, like a straw tossed into the air, which way the wind is blowing.

And any fair assessment of Ames, therefore, would have said the winds of the Republican Party are blowing toward both Bachmann and Paul.

Read more at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61412.html

The following straw poll numbers includes Congressman Paul Ryan & Governor Scott Walker. Paul Ryan was added to poll on August 5, and Governor Walker was added on August 8. Both Ryan and Walker were added because of the demand of State Fair attendees who visited our booth.

Walker 24%.
Perry 20%.
Ryan 20%.
Paul 13%.
Bachmann 10%.
Palin 7%.
Cain 4%.
Romney 1%.
Christie 1%.

Perry wins Wisconsin State Fair GOP Straw poll

Perry 36%.
Paul 23%.
Bachmann 18%.
Palin 13%.
Cain 8%.
Romney 2%.