H/T to Crooks And Liars! Their transcript, below.
“A sizable number of GOP primary voters are questioning President Obama’s faith and citizenship,” Stephanopoulos noted. “Can you state very clearly that President Obama is a Christian and he is a citizen of the United States?”
“Well, that isn’t for me to state. That’s for the president to state,” Bachmann said.
“Do you believe it?” Stephanopoulos pressed.
The Minnesota congresswoman continued to dodge the question.
“When the president makes his statements, I think they need to stand for their own,” she said.
“You can’t just sit there and declare the president’s a citizen and he is a Christian?” the ABC host asked again.
“You know, what I focus on today, George, is today is the two-year anniversary of the stimulus program, where we spent $1 trillion to make sure that unemployment wouldn’t go above 8 percent,” she replied.
Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive; you can’t make it up!
Again, H/T to the fine folk at CrooksAndLiars.com.
(cross posted to MnProgressiveProject; comments welcome there)
This one says it all.
It’s absolutely shameful how Democratic Party “leadership” has been dealing with the absolutely shameless GreedOverPrinciples Party’s Leadership.
Here’s a quote, paraphrased, for Progressives to use to describe Democratic Party “leadership”:
“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”
Just watch “us” cave in, fold our cards, and have the football pulled away again and Again and AGAIN. While it’s called a “lame duck session” – the lamest are the Democrats.
(cross posted from MnProgressiveProject.com; comments welcome there)
Joe Bodell got the post up before I could, so I’ll comment on it there. In the meantime, I’d like to direct your attention to a 2007 article that appeared in Vanity Fair concerning what six Generals did during the misAdministration of Boy Blunder And The Plunderers:
The Night of the Generals
The six retired generals who stepped forward last spring to publicly attack Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s handling of the Iraq war had to overcome a culture of reticence based on civilian control of the military. But while each man acted separately, all shared one experience: a growing outrage over the administration’s incompetence, leading some of the nation’s finest soldiers to risk their reputations and cross a time-honored line.
by David Margolick April 2007
(VanityFair.com)
“Those who forget the lessons of history, tend to vote GOP”
That’s a question that should be asked, if – IF – Kline and Paulsen actually schedule, and Bachmann actually follows through, with Town Hall Meetings.
The question should also be asked of GOP State Chair Tony Sutton, and GOP State Deputy Chair Michael Brodkorb.
There’s a powder keg out there, with a short fuse. And today’s GOP leadership is sending out sparks. If one of those sparks catches, well……you can be sure, the GOP will blame it on anybody and everybody but themselves.
Here’s Rachel Maddow:
And speaking of the “MOB” – I noted this:
Moving The MOB
August 13th, 2009 by Mitch Berg
Well, the verdict (throwing out all the votest for “crashing Drinking Liberally”) was pretty decisive. People want the MOB Summer Party moved to September 12.So moved it shall be!
Location to be officially announced later.
Who knows? Might be a real barnburner….
(h/t to CrooksAndLiars.com)
(crossposted from MnProgressiveProject)
