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Avidor Donating Member (952 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 07:31 PM
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Bachmann Goes on Hardball and Calls for another McCarthy-Style Witch-Hunt!!!
Edited on Fri Oct-17-08 07:31 PM by Avidor
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bjb Donating Member (97 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 08:30 PM
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1. crazy
Can this crazy woman embarrass Minnesota any more than she does? She has to go.
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Mister Ed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 08:49 PM
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2. Bachmann has raised $43,000 for her opponent so far tonight!
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Minnesota Raindog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 09:31 PM
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4. Please donate to Tinklenberg--and urge your friends to also
Bachmann is no longer just a Minnesota embarrassment--she's a national embarrassment. So if you have friends around the country who can help run her out of office, pass along these websites. I'm assuming all good Minnesota DUers already have contributed...

http://www.tinklenberg08.com

or

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/18660


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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 09:31 PM
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3. I already e-mailed her a letter about this...
Dear Congresswoman Bachmann,

So I hear that you want an investigation into members of Congress that hold Anti-American sentiment, well I have some information that is going to blow your socks off. I know of a prominent member of Congress who is currently facing a tough reelection battle, and has cited a person who has encouraged acts of terrorism and political assassinations as her hero. I can't think of her name right off the top of my head but I am about to go look it up, I am sure she must be a Democrat though because like you say the liberals are just so anti-American.

While I search for this Congresswoman's name however just let me tell you about a few of the things the person who this Congresswoman cites as her hero has advocated. She has called for the poisoning of a Supreme Court Justice, the assassination of a sitting US president, and bombing the offices of one of the largest newspapers in the country. The next time you go on television you need to go after this Congresswoman with everything you got, because if the American people knew that this woman considered such an advocate of terrorism to be their personal hero it would bring the entire Democratic Party down. I mean even Barack Obama never called Bill Ayers his hero, this woman has stepped way over the line to hold a supporter of terrorism in such high regard.

Alright I just found the name of the Congresswoman who believes this supporter of terrorism is a hero, and her name is...Michele Bachmann of Minnesota. But wait a minute, that's you. That couldn't be right could it? I must be mistaken, you told us it was the Democrats who associated themselves with terrorists and you are a Republican. But I have you quoted here as saying “In the terms of modern presidency, Ronald Reagan has been a tremendous hero of mine, as has Ann Coulter. I just adore Ann Coulter.” This is the same Ann Coulter who said “We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Steven's creme brulee.” as well as “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building” and in 1998 wrote that the only issue with Bill Clinton was rather to “impeach or assassinate”.

Now Michele it seems to me that someone who calls for assassinating a Supreme Court justice as well as a then sitting US President, and wishes for the bombing of one of one the leading media institutions in the nation just might be anti-American. I know that you want an investigation of members of Congress who hold anti-American ideas and I just think someone who holds an advocate of terrorism up as her hero might qualify as anti-American. I think you should look into which Democrat cited Ann Coulter as a hero, because I am sure I must have gotten my names mixed up. There is absolutely no way that a person like you would call for such an investigation if you hold an advocate of terrorism up as a hero yourself, so you better investigate and find out if there a different Michele Bachmann in Congress that is giving you a bad name. I hope this investigation you are advocating goes well for you.

Sincerely,

A Citizen

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Avidor Donating Member (952 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-17-08 10:47 PM
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5. New Website: Censure Bachmann
http://www.censurebachmann.com/

Tell Congress to Censure Michele Bachmann

On the October 17 episode of MSNBC's Hardball, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota claimed that Barack Obama and other members of Congress share anti-American views.

Bachmann thinks that anyone who disagrees with her personal political agenda is unpatriotic. But she is the one who has a lot to learn about what it means to love America.

Her fellow members of Congress need to take a stand and tell Michele Bachmann that her disgusting accusations have no place in our country. Tell Congress to censure Rep. Bachmann.


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Eric J in MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 07:34 AM
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6. Did this get any coverage on local TV? NT
NT
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 08:43 AM
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7. When I was setting up my VCR to record the rebroadcast of Bill Moyers overnight
I happened to catch Mad Michelle on the Larry King Show, and Minnesota's Embarrassment was appearing with Oregon's Embarrassment, radio blowhard (and Portland TV anchorman!) Lars Larson.

Larson was backing up Bachmann's statement about liberals being anti-American and added that they were "Marxists."

Larry King (occasional he gets in a good one) asked if that meant that the Republicans were fascists.

He made Larson incoherent.

I couldn't stand to watch any more and it was late, so I turned it off, but I thought, "Good for you, Larry."

I wish more media types would familiarize Americans with the "f-" word--not Nazism, which calls to mind a specific time and place and is just the most virulent variety of fascism--but "fascism."
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 08:58 AM
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8. I hope they make an ad comparing her views to McCarthy's.
One term was one too many for her. What an embarrassment.
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dodger501 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 12:00 PM
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9. Question for MN-DU'ers in the 6CD
Do you think Tinklenberg has a good shot at this? I know Bachmann is polling well below 50%, which is bad for an incumbent, but how realistic is it?
Man, this stuff is all over DU, there's tons of threads on the Greatest page. In a way I am kind of embarrassed for our state but perhaps I am being overly sensitive.
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Mister Ed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 09:04 PM
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10. Before this flap he was only down by 4 points, with 15% still undecided.
This might just put him over the top. It's shaping up as a bad, bad year for Republicans.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 10:26 PM
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11. I just heard on the local news that since Bachmann's remarks last night
Edited on Sat Oct-18-08 10:27 PM by dflprincess
Tinklenberg's campaign has received over $400,000 in donations.

Bachmann may be the most effective fundraiser the DFL has. :rofl:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 11:19 PM
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12. That MAY help swing the undecideds
unless they're the type of knuckle-dragger who thinks, "Hmm, if them out-of-state charlies brung in all that money, then I gotta defend ar hometown gal."
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wellstone dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-08 11:21 PM
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13. St. Cloud times has it at $450,000, but it's at more than $500,000 now.
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