A Case for Michelle Bachmann

Damn Yankee said:
They elected a conservative who they knew would cut through the union bullshit, and that's what he did. If they don't like it, then they can vote him out next election. *shrug*
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SO, WHY didn't Walker TELL the people of Wisconsin he was going to strip collective bargaining right away from unions that didn't support him, and leave them in place for unions that did? WHY didn't Walker TELL the people of Wisconsin he was going to try his damnedest to bust unions in Wisconsin? If he really believes that is what is best for Wisconsin, WHY didn't he have the ethics, honesty and courage to RUN on those policies?

You KNOW why...he couldn't be elected Dog Catcher...

You right wing authoritarian followers are totally devoid anything that resembles ethics...
 
Bfgrn said:
SO, WHY didn't Walker TELL the people of Wisconsin he was going to strip collective bargaining right away from unions that didn't support him, and leave them in place for unions that did? WHY didn't Walker TELL the people of Wisconsin he was going to try his damnedest to bust unions in Wisconsin? If he really believes that is what is best for Wisconsin, WHY didn't he have the ethics, honesty and courage to RUN on those policies?

You KNOW why...he couldn't be elected Dog Catcher...

You right wing authoritarian followers are totally devoid anything that resembles ethics...
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Nice distortion of the facts. Government unions lost and the people won. Get over it and move on.
 
Damn Yankee said:
Nice distortion of the facts. Government unions lost and the people won. Get over it and move on.
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Spoken like the devout anti-democratic authoritarian follower you are. There is NO distortion of the facts. Provide anything Walker said during the campaign about stripping collective bargaining rights or busting unions?
 
Bfgrn said:
Spoken like the devout anti-democratic authoritarian follower you are. There is NO distortion of the facts. Provide anything Walker said during the campaign about stripping collective bargaining rights or busting unions?
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Provide for us where Obama campaigned that he would circumvent Congress with a recess appointment to the NLRB who would then in turn carry out a strictly pro-union agenda.
 
Superfreak said:
Provide for us where Obama campaigned that he would circumvent Congress with a recess appointment to the NLRB who would then in turn carry out a strictly pro-union agenda.
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Show me ANY Bush appointments that were held up by Congressional obstructionism 3 years into his first term.

FYI...

Recess appointments made by President George W. Bush

The following relates to recess appointments made by President George W. Bush.

A. Paul Anderson to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner August 22, 2003. [1]
Michael J. Bartlett to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board January 22, 2002. [2]
Warren Bell to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in December 2006. [3]
Andrew G. Biggs was named to be Deputy Director of the Social Security Administration April 4, 2007.
John R. Bolton as U.N. Ambassador in August 2005, after having been blocked by the Senate. Bolton was Bush's 106th recess appointment. (FSRN 1 Aug '05)
William B. Cowen to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board January 22, 2002. [4]
Susan E. Dudley to be Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on April 4, 2007.
Eric S. Edelman as undersecretary of defense for policy to replace Douglas Feith in the No. 3 position in the Pentagon. "Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee led by Carl Levin of Michigan, their ranking member, stalled Edelman's nomination to force the release of documents related to a specialized intelligence unit Feith set up before the conflict." [5]
Gordon R. England to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, January 4, 2006. [6]
Alice S. Fisher to head the Criminal Division in the Department of Justice, after the "nomination stalled over tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility." [7]
David W. Fleming to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Public) August 22, 2003. [8]
Peter Flory as an Assistant Secretary of Defense, after having been blocked by the Senate. [9]
Sam Fox was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenifotentiary of the United States of America to Belgium on April 4, 2007.
Cynthia A. Glassman to be a Member of the Commission of the Securities and Exchange Commission January 22, 2002. [10]
C. Boyden Gray to be the Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the Rank and Status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary January 17, 2006.
Jay Phillip Greene to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Academic) August 22, 2003. [11]
Floyd Hall to be a Member of the AMTRAK Reform Board, January 4, 2006. This is the second time that Hall was appointed in a recess appointment. [12]
Tracy A. Henke to be Executive Director of the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness at the Department of Homeland Security. [13]
Isacc C. Hunt, Jr. [14] to be a Member of the Commission of the Securities and Exchange Commission January 22, 2002. [15]
JoAnn Johnson to be a Member of the Board of the National Credit Union Administration January 22, 2002. [16]
Peter N. Kirsanow to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, January 4, 2006. [17]
Charlotte A. Lane to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission August 22, 2003. She was nominated on June 7, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [18]
Robert D. Lenhard to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [19]
Deborah Matz to be a Member of the Board of the National Credit Union Administration January 22, 2002.
Ronald E. Meisburg to be General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board, January 4, 2006. [20]
Steven Kent Mullins to be United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, vice James E. McMahon, January 9, 2006. [21]
Julie L. Myers to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), January 4, 2006. [22]
Daniel Pearson to be a Member of the United States International Trade Commission August 22, 2003. He was nominated on November 14, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [23]
John Richard Petrocik to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (Academic) August 22, 2003. [24]
Charles W. Pickering, Sr. to Federal Appeals Court January 17, 2004, from which he had been blocked twice by the Senate. [25][26]
Daniel Pipes to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace August 22, 2003. [27]
Benjamin A. Powell to be General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 4, 2006. [28]
Anthony J. Principi as chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, as well as eight members of the Commission, April 1, 2005.
William H. Pryor, Jr. to 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals February 20, 2004, "in the face of a Democratic filibuster of the nomination." [29][30]
Otto Juan Reich to Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs January 11, 2002. [31]
Ellen R. Sauerbrey to be Assistant Secretary of State (Population, Refugees, and Migration), January 4, 2006. [32]
Eugene Scalia to Solicitor of Labor in the U.S. Department of Labor January 11, 2002.
Peter C. Schaumber to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, for the remainder of a five-year term expiring on August 27, 2010. [33]
Dorrance Smith to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, January 4, 2006. [34]
Enrique J. Sosa to be a Member of the AMTRAK Reform Board, January 4, 2006. This is the second time that Sosa was appointed in a recess appointment. [35]
Michael E. Toner to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission March 29, 2002, for the remainder of a term expiring April 30, 2007; first announced November 21, 2001, and nomination sent to Senate March 4, 2002. [36]
Juanita Alicia Vasquez-Gardner to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. She was nominated on July 24, 2002 and again on January 9, 2003. [37]
Hans von Spakovsky to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [38]
Dennis P. Walsh to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, January 17, 2006.
Steven T. Walther to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, January 4, 2006. [39]
John Paul Woodley, Jr. to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) August 22, 2003. [40]
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Dixie said:
Okay, I have officially stated that I support Herman Cain for the GOP nomination, and I am sticking by that pledge as long as he remains in the race. However, I am most interested in hearing from all the candidates, and evaluating who I think could be a suitable contender to Obama in 2012, and I have to say, Michelle Bachmann has really impressed me. She has been able to handle the petty criticisms from the left, the media, and even some on the elite right, who have thrown everything at her you can imagine, and she has done so with complete grace and composure, as she remains tenaciously focused on the conservative message and core conservative first-principles.

Looking ahead, I think she would make a very formidable opponent for Obama, because she exposes a very weak and distasteful underbelly of liberals, the contempt they have for women in general, when it comes to conservative women. Oh, they are fine with their Nancy Pelosis and Hilary Clintons.. Ruth Bader-Ginsberg or Sonja Sotomayor... those LIBERAL women are up on a pedestal, and honored like Liberal Queens... it's when you get to the Sarah Palins and Christine O'Donnells... the Michelle Malkins and Ann Coulters... that's when their REAL feelings toward women come out. Bachmann would be no different, the Liberals would expose themselves as a bunch of petty sexist bigots on almost a daily basis... Biden might even slip up and address Ms. Bachmann as "sweety" or something... you never know! Heck, Obama would have to struggle not to appear to be 'patronizing' her during a debate, and I think it would be a struggle for the Dems to find a way to attack her during the campaign without appearing sexist to a whole lot of voters they will need to win the election.

Sarah Palin has played an instrumental role in setting this up for Bachmann, because much of the petty sexist stuff has already been thrown at Palin, when it all comes rolling back out again, people are going to say... wait, isn't that what you said about the other woman too? It has become too much of a pattern, to predictable.. here is a bright intelligent woman who resounds with the people, and all they can come up with to criticize her for, is personal, petty, trite... nothing of substance. One of our own posters likes to refer to her as "Bach-to-mom" ...supposedly a play on "Octo-mom", the cable reality mom with 8 kids... because, you see, Bachmann, aside from being a U.S. Representative, is also a foster parent to a bunch of foster children. This is apparently seen as some sort of "insult" to make fun of her for being a foster parent. That's the kind of idiotic vitriol we can expect from the Liberal base, with Bachmann as the GOP nominee, and I think it plays very well FOR the GOP.

Of course, the GOP Elites, they are all telling us.... Nooooo.... Bachmann can't beat Obama! We need Romney...or maybe Pawlenty... but Bachmann just can't win the General election... But here's the thing... We ain't doing too well with who the GOP Elite pick for us. Think about it... they told us McCain was the guy, he's the moderate maverick who can bridge the gap between left and right... he's who we need! They told us...Dole is the man! Dole has all the experience and statesmanship... my god he even LOOKS like a president, don't he? Hell, the GOP Elite's Crowning Achievements are George W. Bush and his father! I think it's safe to say, they aren't doing well with who they pick for us. It's time for the voters to take charge and pick someone the GOP elite DOESN'T want, because they won't tow the party line and march in lockstep with the establishment. This narrows the field down a good bit, and leaves Bachmann as the best possible choice for the GOP nomination.
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Obama is toast:nuke:
 
Bfgrn said:
Spoken like the devout anti-democratic authoritarian follower you are. There is NO distortion of the facts. Provide anything Walker said during the campaign about stripping collective bargaining rights or busting unions?
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Dude, he ran as a conservative. We bust up bad unions, cut spending and taxes. We won, the people won, freedom won, and you lost, so again, get the fuck over it. :)
 
Damn Yankee said:
Dude, he ran as a conservative. We bust up bad unions, cut spending and taxes. We won, the people won, freedom won, and you lost, so again, get the fuck over it. :)
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As part of his campaign platform, Walker said he would create 250,000 jobs in his first term through a program that would include tax reforms[15] such as rolling back the 2009 state tax increases on small businesses, capital gains, and income for top earners, and cutting state employee wages and benefits to help pay for the tax cuts.[29] Critics claimed his proposals would only help the wealthy and that cutting the salaries of public employees would adversely affect state services

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Let's get the thread back on track---Dixie's endorsement of Michele Bachmann as the GOP candidate -- which I also heartily hope for.



Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements.




They show tens of thousands in personal income from the operation.




Those were among the latest examples of how the Minnesota congresswoman has become one to watch - for inaccuracies...




Bachmann's wildly off-base assertion that a NATO airstrike might have killed as many as 30,000 Libyan civilians, her misrepresentations of the health care law, misfires on other aspects of President Barack Obama's record and historical inaccuracies have saddled her with a reputation for uttering populist jibes that don't hold up.




http://www.wmctv.com/story/14986944/fact-check-bachmann-bomblets-raising-eyebrows






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Ice Dancer said:
As part of his campaign platform, Walker said he would create 250,000 jobs in his first term through a program that would include tax reforms[15] such as rolling back the 2009 state tax increases on small businesses, capital gains, and income for top earners, and cutting state employee wages and benefits to help pay for the tax cuts.[29] Critics claimed his proposals would only help the wealthy and that cutting the salaries of public employees would adversely affect state services

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he campaigned on his budget repair plan, including curtailing collective bargaining

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During the campaign, Walker prided himself on presenting many specific proposals to voters. Our Walk-O-Meter includes 60-plus specific promises. Indeed, his plans for the state Department of Natural Resources include at least seven specific elements, including appointment of a "whitetail deer trustee" to review deer counts.

But nowhere in our search did we find any such detailed discussion of collective bargaining changes as sweeping as Walker proposed.

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