Bachmann under fire from more Republicans
Source: CBS
CBS News) Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann continues to draw fire for charging that a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ties to Muslim extremists. The criticism is coming from Republican lawmakers as well as Democrats and includes a scathing response from her own former presidential campaign chief, Ed Rollins.
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Having worked for Congressman Bachmann's campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level," he wrote, referencing McCarthy's false charges from the 1950's that Communists and Soviet spies had infiltrated the State Department.
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GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts wrote on Twitter, "Rep. Bachmann's accusations about Sec. Clinton aide Huma Abedin are out-of-line. This kind of rhetoric has no place in our public discourse."
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, meanwhile, told Politico the attacks were "ridiculous." Abedin, he said, "is about as far away from the Muslim Brotherhood view of women and ideology as you possibly could get. She's a very modern woman in every sense of the word, and people who say these things are really doing her a disservice because they don't know what they're talking about, and I don't know what their motivations are, but clearly it says more about them than it does her."
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57475759-503544/bachmann-under-fire-from-more-republicans/
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Maybe they will let you win re election..looks like you are being...
as ..they say.."Thrown under the bus"
Good luck..not really..I lied about "Good Luck"
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)the sooner the better.
randome
(34,845 posts)And her idiocy will continue to seep under the carpet of good taste.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)replacement for Rushbo!
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)last more than a week on daily TV.
She blew a major fuse on Hardball and was looking under the bed for commie/democrat hordes. Even Tweety was making sport of her ravings.
I guess, if a FOX-like nutwork wanted ravings, instead of ratings, Sister Michelle the commie catcher would be a prize boob.
Edit...I think she'd make Magic Mitt a great running mate.
young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)How on earth do they keep putting someone as flawed as this woman in office???
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)Plus, her district has changed. She no longer lives in the district due to borders changing. She can run in her old district, though, and has said she will. Will probably hurt her chances, not living in the district.
magic59
(429 posts)She put the lives of government officials in danger with her lies. She should spend many years in prison but she probably really needs to go to a mental ward for a few years first.
permatex
(1,299 posts)If that's your definition of treason, then everyone at one time is guilty of treason.
Granted, she's a fucking RW Teabaggin lunatic, but she didn't commit treason.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii
abolugi
(417 posts)guilty of sedition... how she gets away with it, I'll never know. "We" people certainly wouldn't
"Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power."
I don't think it rises to the legal definition of sedition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
What I think she's guilty of, besides being a RW lunatic, is defamation of character, and libel, and should have her ass sued off, be censured in the House and investigated my the ethics committee and remove from any committees she belongs to.
She's not actually encouraging rebellion against the government in power, she's calling for an investigation, which, in my view, smacks of McCarthyism which is abhorrent.
She's seems to be skirting on the edge but is careful not to go over the edge.
Please don't mistake me for defending this lunatic disguised as a human.
onenote
(42,714 posts)then just about everyone on DU durng the chimpy years was guilty of sedition.
She's guilty of being a moron. You're just guilty of hyperbole.
abolugi
(417 posts)She is on the House Intelligence Committee. She is a threat to our National Security with her B.S. charges in MY opinion .. I'm not sure any DUers were in said committee when Boosh was in office, I could be wrong...
None the less... She needs to STFU
permatex
(1,299 posts)How anyone can take this lunatic disguised as a human seriously is beyond me.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)That makes HIM guilty of treason...
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)making the committee assignments to fundy geeks who are so mentally challenged/criminally insane.
Boner or Michelle either one, could sue their tiny brains for non-support and win every time.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)permatex
(1,299 posts)I think you posted on the wrong thread.
http://betterment.democraticunderground.com/1014170875
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)permatex
(1,299 posts)my bad and my apologies.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)I spelled her married name correctly.
rainy
(6,092 posts)She should be made to answer that charge.
permatex
(1,299 posts)there is no treason there
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/t103.htm
docgee
(870 posts)What your neighbors might be like if they keep electing that nutjob?
mac56
(17,569 posts)And, yeah.
NickB79
(19,253 posts)He painted an 8 ft tall mural of an aborted fetus on the side of his barn with the title "CHOOSE LIFE" facing a main paved road in the area.
He and his wife can't have biological children of their own, but refused to adopt because they might get "stuck" with a non-white baby.
He brags about sleeping with a loaded .44 Mag under his bed because he's afraid "n****rs from the Twin Cities" are going to drive the 100 mile drive to rob him on his hog farm.
He bitches nonstop about welfare queens, while he's collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in government subsidies and crop payments over the past decade, so much so that he built himself a new house and bought a brand-new truck.
Yeah, Christmas is a lot of fun.
elleng
(130,974 posts)Will think of you at Christmas.
NickB79
(19,253 posts)Made them do a double take the first Christmas I brought her home
HUGS to you, your wife, and daughter!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Probably all the rich fucks with lake homes and exurban idiot members of megachurches.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Does she have a Swiss bank account already?
aintitfunny
(1,421 posts)The people of her district should not be so clueless.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)if the FBI showed up at her door, demanding to know what she says she knows.
fantomas
(94 posts)I never thought I'd see the day when someone could be too nuts for the Republican party.
rexcat
(3,622 posts)lets see what kind of leadership the rethugs have in the House. I won' be holding by breath on this one.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)The Republican Party establishment realizes that between Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich and Santorum and all their nutty supporters sitting in the audience - the Party was disgraced, shamed and embarrassed in front of the entire world. They realized now that this utterly diminished their credibility and has the potential to leave permanent damage that could potentially make them completely unelectable on the national level. Piling on Bachmann is a lot easier than fighting the entire base - most of of whom are just as loony as her.