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Fox News host Neil Cavuto and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) got into a shouting match Wednesday afternoon when Bachmann advocated for defunding the executive branch.
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Where was your rage when Democrats were going after President Bush on the same use of executive orders? Cavuto asked. I think you know in your heart of hearts this is a waste of time now. There are far more important things you guys have to be addressing.
Bachmanns priority, though, was reining in the executive branch.
What we should do right now is defund the executive branch while we have the option, Bachmann said. What we can do further is impeach the elected official.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/neil-cavuto-michele-bachmann-obama-lawsuit-108316.html#ixzz35gwReUeM
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Surely Obama would veto any defunding of the Executive Branch requiring a veto override.
Maybe second grade math and basic civics aren't her strong points?
And yeah, they can impeach with 218 votes in the House, but ya still need 67 in the Senate and that ain't happening.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)Bachmann allegedly went to law school, but I guess she must have skipped class when they were talking about the separation of powers doctrine in Con Law.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)and grift off the far right on the talk circuit.
BootinUp
(47,201 posts)just say whatever stupid shit comes into your mind.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)We have a winner!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,245 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)blm
(113,112 posts).
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I can only take small solace that she's from Iowa, but we unleashed her into public life.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)You know just how insane she is when Neil Cavuto is calling bullshit on her poutrage this afternoon on Fox Noise...
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Hey, maybe they could shut off the water and electricity to the white house and get him out that way?
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)She meets both of the qualifications for a Fox Newsbabe: she's so far to the right she makes Benito Mussolini look like Barney Frank, and she likes wearing a lot of makeup. If one of the malls in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area suddenly runs out of sleeveless dresses, that will clinch it.
Cha
(297,812 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)She opens her mouth, and nothing but hate and stupid come out.
She may not ever have taken a bar exam, but she completed a Master's at W&M Law. She has a mind, or had one, but has chosen to coast at every opportunity.
ananda
(28,885 posts)..