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FreakinDJ

(17,644 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:11 AM Jan 2012

Minnesota Voters: We Can't Afford Another Two Years of Bachmann

Saul Relative

Unsatisfied with a career of numerous gaffes, lies, misdirections, half-truths, and misapplied statistics that could fill a small book, Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, that she was planning to run for her fourth term as a representative of Minnesota. Apparently, she's willing to turn a novella into a full-sized novel. But here's the thing, Minnesota: The rest of the nation would rather she filled that book as a civilian, outside the congressional offices on Capitol Hill.

Fresh off her futile candidacy for the GOP nomination for president (because if she thought she would be the next Republican nominee, she was one of the very few individuals that did), Bachmann has decided that inflicting the nation with her ethnocentric, jingoistic, homophobic, religiocentric positions and statements required getting paid at taxpayer expense to do so for another two years. But why give her the chance, Minnesota? It's not as if she's worth the price tag. Literally.

In the five years she has been in office, Bachmann has yet to see any bill she has sponsored, not that there have been that many, pass through Congress. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty pointed out this sad fact, an assertion that was backed up by Politifiact, just before he dropped out of the presidential race. And Bachmann has yet to sponsor any major or meaningful legislation, although she did make headlines with her firm defense of the right of companies to manufacture incandescent light bulbs. While she was running for president, she neglected her duties as a paid representative of the people. According to GovTrack.us, the Minnesota congresswoman missed 335 House votes out of 455 taken on various measures between July and December.

While she was running around Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina looking for windmills that exist only in her head (like preserving the sanctity of marriage and defending the U. S. against the Soviet Union) and missing votes that affect not just the people of Minnesota but people in the other 49 states and five territories as well, she was paid half of her yearly congressional salary of $174,000.

http://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-voters-cant-afford-another-two-years-bachmann-005036816.html
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Minnesota Voters: We Can't Afford Another Two Years of Bachmann (Original Post) FreakinDJ Jan 2012 OP
Neither can the rest of the country; please vote her out, MN. LeftinOH Jan 2012 #1
Looking forward to that day. /nt think Jan 2012 #2
She could literally cover the entire 6th district with a layer of rancid, moldy manure Blue Owl Jan 2012 #3

Blue Owl

(49,937 posts)
3. She could literally cover the entire 6th district with a layer of rancid, moldy manure
Fri Jan 27, 2012, 03:25 PM
Jan 2012

And she'd still win by a giant shitslide. The god-forsaken 6th district is hopeless (or hopelessly rigged beyond comprehension -- it's hard to fathom that level of stupid).

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