A year after winning Ames straw poll, Bachmann’s political stock takes a hit
By Molly K. Hooper - 07/21/12 05:00 AM ET
The political career of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), one year after winning the Ames straw poll, seems to be in disarray.
At this time last year, Bachmann was leading Mitt Romney in a number of Iowa polls. In August of 2011, she won the Ames Straw Poll. But since then, her political stock has taken major hits and now it is an open question whether she will be invited to speak at the GOP convention next month.
A diverse group of GOP lawmakers, who spoke with The Hill on background, said the 2012 GOP presidential contender’s recent controversy over questions of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into the U.S. government is a major distraction in this heated election season.
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A veteran GOP lawmaker told The Hill, “more in sorrow than in anger,” that Bachmann was “headline hunting” after lying low — in an attempt to seek the publicity that she lost following her failed presidential bid.
“She needs to be very careful and pick her shots. This is the kind of thing you look at and your eyes roll before you’ve even gotten to the bottom of the article. … And it just smacks of somebody that is just desperate to get in the newspaper as opposed to make a point,” the lawmaker said.
more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/239297-a-year-after-winning-ames-straw-poll-bachmanns-political-stock-takes-a-hit
House intel leaders disavow Bachmann allegations
The two top members of the U.S. House intelligence committee disassociated themselves from the tone and substance of allegations by Rep. Michele Bachmann, a panel member, that an investigation is warranted in suspected efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood to infiltrate the federal government.
"We are in a special situation as members of the intelligence committee, and we get a lot of briefings and to deal with the issue of terrorism and those types of thing," Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., the committee's top Democrat, told USA TODAY. "It's unfortunate that someone like Michele would make that kind of comment without facts."
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Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a former FBI agent, said Bachmann's assertions about the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration efforts are false.
"That kind of assertion certainly doesn't comport with the Intelligence Committee, and I can say that on the record," he told USA TODAY, aligning himself with party leaders who have defended Abedin. "I have no information in my committee that would indicate that Huma is anything other than an American patriot."
Rogers said Bachmann's efforts were an individual decision that was not part of any committee action. "This was not an activity that was sanctioned as any intelligence committee matter."
more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/07/michele-bachmann-huma-abedin-rogers-ruppersberger/1
She needs to be removed from the committee now.
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If she was a Democratic Rep. and did the same thing, she would be keel hauled and THEN censured
bah 
