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August 30, 2011 · 8:34 pm

Michele Bachmann Claims Her Hurricane Comments Were Only a Joke

Yeah, right….

More proof she is not only a nutcase, but a dishonest nutcase who won’t even stand by her crazy statements after she makes them….

This is why she can’t keep anyone on her staff for very long….

From The Guardian (UK):

The Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann has insisted she was joking when she said a hurricane and quake were God’s warning to Washington, in an effort to control the damage from her latest controversial comments.

The Tea Party favourite raised eyebrows with a weekend remark to supporters in Florida that Hurricane Irene, which killed at least 24 people and left millions without power, and an east coast earthquake were God’s way of telling US politicians to cut spending and fix the budget deficit.

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ ” Bachmann said at a campaign event in Sarasota on Sunday.

“Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

Bachmann, among the top three candidates seen to have a chance to win the Republican nomination and take on President Barack Obama next year, made similar comments elsewhere in Florida on Saturday, drawing some laughs from her audience.

When the remarks began drawing attention, she went into damage control. “Of course I was being humorous when I said that. It would be absurd to think it was anything else,” Bachmann said on Monday on a campaign stop in Miami. “I am a person who loves humour, I have a great sense of humour.”

via Michele Bachmann’s hurricane comments were only a joke, she says | World news | The Guardian.

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August 30, 2011 · 8:21 pm

Some GOP Donors Think Bachmann is Jewish

What the hell????

Don’t these folks read anything?  Or at least watch television? How can they not know Michele Bachmann is a crazed, Right-Wing, Evangelical Christian nutcase?

Of course if these folks are donating to the GOP they have to be either nuts themselves or Rich and selfish or ignorant anyway….

Some Jewish donors are telling fundraisers for Mitt Romney that while they like him, they’d rather open their wallets for the “Jewish candidate,” Michele Bachmann, who they don’t realize is actually a Lutheran, the New York Post reports.

“Some in Romney’s camp have been wondering whether Bachmann and her allies are pushing the ‘Jewish’ rumor to help their own fund-raising… She has enjoyed strong popularity among Jewish voters and often talks about her stay on a kibbutz during the summer of 1974, when she was a teenager.”

via Some Donors Think Bachmann is Jewish.

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August 30, 2011 · 8:13 pm

Never-fail prediction system shows 2012 win for Obama

Very interesting article from RawStory.com

Nothing is a sure thing, but I’ll take anything that eases my fear of a GOP win!  I can’t imagine what they would do to the country if they were to be back in control of the Presidency at this point.  They are even crazier now than during the Bush years.

No matter what issues we may have with President Obama or his leadership style, he is by far the best option- for Democrats and the Country.

 

American University professor Allan Lichtman is on a winning streak spanning nearly three decades — one that President Barack Obama might have an interest in seeing Lichtman extend.

Lichtman created a formula that has correctly predicted the winner of each election since 1984, beginning with the reelection of President Ronald Reagan, U.S. News and World Report reported. The formula that predicted Obama’s 2008 win is again showing that the incumbent president will win the election, despite the term-low approval rating Obama has been maintaining for past weeks.

“Even if I am being conservative, I don’t see how Obama can lose,” Lichtman said.

His model, described in his book The Keys to the White House, relies on 13 “keys” that gauge the performance of the sitting president’s party. If six or more of these aspects are in the party’s favor, the candidate they present will win.

Nine of the keys fall in Obama’s favor, Lichtman said — more than enough for reelection.

Created in 1981 and first tested against the 1984 election, Lichtman’s model hasn’t failed yet.

Even in 1992, when President George H.W. Bush was riding a wave of popularity and widely expected to win, Lichtman thought otherwise.

“I got a call from this woman with a thick southern drawl,” Lichtman said. “It was Clinton’s special assistant. She wanted to know if it was true that a Democrat could win. I assured her it was and I sent Clinton a copy of my book and a memo and the rest is history.”

via Never-fail prediction system shows 2012 win for Obama | The Raw Story.

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August 24, 2011 · 9:06 pm

Rick Perry Vaults Into Lead For GOP Nomination In Two National Polls

This is getting to be fun…

Public Policy Polling is one of the most accurate pollsters in the country.

Rick Perry, aka Governor Goodhair,  is not only evil, but certifiably crazy.  See previous posts on this blog and elsewhere….

President Obama should be able to destroy him, but it would be one of the nastiest campaigns ever seen.

Of course, Governor Goodhair may yet fade. Karl Rove and the Bushies hate him and will do all they can do to bring him down.  But the GOP Primary voters are so crazy, it might not matter what anyone says or does….The crazier the candidate, the more they like them.  See how well Michele Bachmann polls here, as well…

Poor Willard Romney, he’s starting to see it all slip away.  I guess that’s why he needs that big, new retirement house in California….

From TalkingPointsMemo.com:

Former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney has been the frontrunner in most national polls of the GOP primary over the last year, and the general punditry considered it his nomination to lose, at least at first. And while it’s still early, new polling released on Wednesday shows his unchallenged time at the head of the pack may be over.

A new national Gallup poll of GOP and GOP-leaning voters shows Romney, who had more than a quarter of the total vote in Gallup’s June numbers in the same poll, has fallen to 17 percent, while newly minted candidate Tex. Gov. Rick Perry surges to 29 percent and the lead. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), considered a top contender, falls to fourth with 10 percent, behind Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) at 13 percent. The rest of the field is in single digits.

Public Policy Polling (D) also came out with a national poll of GOP voters on Wednesday, which showed similar results. In that survey, Perry leads with 33 percent in the field of announced candidates, followed by Romney at 20 percent and Bachmann at 16. The rest of the field in that poll were also in single digits.

Both polls showed Perry’s favorability ratings are very high among Republican primary voters. Gallup recently published “positive intensity scores” on the GOP field (a metric that measures strong favorability against strong unfavorability), which show Perry as the highest rated of the GOP major contenders, although less known. In the PPP poll, Perry registered a 64 percent favorablility rating against 17 unfavorable, a number that reflected findings in another PPP poll released Tuesday of Iowa GOP voters.

The Gallup poll included live telephone interviews conducted from August 17th to 21st with Republicans and GOP-leaning independents, and has a sampling error of four percent. The PPP national poll used 663 automated interviews conducted from August 18th to the 21st with GOP voters, and has a sampling error of 3.8 percent.

via Perry Vaults Into Lead For GOP Nomination In Two National Polls | TPMDC.

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August 24, 2011 · 6:00 pm

Large Things That Could Fit Inside Mitt Romney’s New House

Remember Mitt Romney?  The “unemployed” millionaire, former GOP favorite and candidate who considers Corporations “people”?

Well, here is some more information that shows just how much he is “just like us”….

More like shows just how much he “just doesn’t get it”….

From Vanity Fair.com:

The Huffington Post reports that uniquely unlikeable presidential candidate Mitt Romney “has filed an application with the San Diego government to bulldoze [his $12 million] 3,009-square-foot beachfront house in La Jolla, California, and replace it with a 11,062-square-foot property.” What sorts of things could Romney fit inside his new house? Tons of things, it turns out.

  1. The Memphis-area Enterprise-Rent-A-Car facility
  2. The Waubonsee Community College ceramics studio
  3. The Manhattan office of Bonobos, the men’s clothing store
  4. The meat locker at the Harlem Fairway
  5. The Diane Von Furstenberg flaship store in New York’s Meatpacking District
  6. The Condé Nast cafeteria
  7. The Music Hall of Williamsburg
  8. Jennifer Aniston’s old house
  9. The top-of-the-line luxury spa at the Trump International™ Hotel & Tower Las Vegas
  10. The world’s largest whale

via Large Things That Could Fit Inside Mitt Romney’s New House | Blogs | Vanity Fair.

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August 18, 2011 · 10:30 pm

*Government* Jobs Led To Perry’s Texas Economic Boom

Governor Goodhair is not going to like this little bit of information from TalkingPointsMemo.com:

On the campaign trail, governor Rick Perry will claim credit for the so-called Texas miracle. His state weathered the housing and jobs crises better than many others, and he’ll happily tell voters it was the result of his small government conservative approach to running things.

But his state’s relative success has a lot to do with things out of his control — population growth resulting from an influx of immigrants from Mexico and of workers and retirees from other U.S. states, and high oil company profits, to name just a couple. Oh, and also federal stimulus.

What’s that you say?!

Despite being one of the loudest critics of President Obama’s stimulus, Perry used billions of dollars of federal money to patch Texas’ budget shortfalls, and was thus able to create and maintain lots and lots of public sector jobs. In fact, if you look at net job creation between 2007 and 2010, it’s clear the only thing keeping Texas buoyant was government jobs.

via CHART OF THE DAY: *Government* Jobs Led To Perry’s Economic Boom | TPMDC.

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August 17, 2011 · 6:09 pm

Hightower: There’s a ‘very ugly side’ to Rick Perry

Interesting comments from Texas populist/progressive Jim Hightower….

It’s really kind of scary that he considers Perry to be like George Bush “without the intelligence or the ethics”.

As I said earlier, I expect Rick Perry to fizzle- if not explode.

And the Establishment GOP seems to be living in fear that he won’t.

Remember one thing:  Karl Rove and the Bushies do not like Rick Perry.  Rick Perry does not want people to know this….Rove has already hit him once over his comments this weekend about Ben Bernanke.  Keep an eye on this dynamic.

Instead of Texas seceding, as Governor Goodhair suggested a while back, the Texas GOP may be on the verge of it’s own Civil War.

 

Although the presence of Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican presidential primary may be looked upon warmly in the press these days, don’t expect that to last. Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Tuesday, populist author and Texas Observer contributor Jim Hightower cautioned that there’s a “very ugly side” to Perry that won’t be relatively unknown for long.

“They say the higher the monkey climbs, the more you see its ugly side,” Hightower said. “Well, Perry’s got a very ugly side. He’s going to get the kind of media scrutiny that he’s not had.”

“Republicans get a two’fer with him. One, they get one of the furthest-out of the far-out tea party right-wingers, sort of a Michele Bachmann with better hair. And also though, they get the real Perry, which is the exuberant, corporate Republican who never met a corporate lobbyist he wouldn’t hug as long as that lobbyist had a campaign check and a wish list.

“He really is kind of a George Bush plutocrat without the intelligence or the ethics. That’s the real Perry, is really going to be the corporate Perry. That’s the kind of governorship he has run.”

via Hightower: There’s a ‘very ugly side’ to Rick Perry | Raw Replay.

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August 16, 2011 · 6:26 pm

Perry Dismisses Bush Comparisons

Yep, another example of Governor Goodhair’s striking wit and intelligence….

From Taegen Goddard’s Political Wire:

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said it was unfair to make comparisons between himself and former president George W. Bush, CNN reports, noting that “I am Rick Perry and he is George Bush. And our records are quite different.”

Asked what the biggest difference is, Perry responded: “I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.”

He did not answer when pressed to name a policy difference.

via Perry Dismisses Bush Comparisons.

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August 16, 2011 · 5:28 pm

Bachmann Wishes Elvis Happy Birthday on Death Date

Jesus Christ….

But I shouldn’t say that or she’ll wish him a Happy Birthday on Easter….

Michelle Bachmann has no clue when it comes to any cultural references.  She can’t get anything right- including hiring a competent staff to research these things for her and protect her from herself….

From Jim Davenport at The Associated Press:

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann got her Elvis Presley dates all shook up during a campaign stop in South Carolina.

The congresswoman from Minnesota played the Elvis tune “Promised Land” on Tuesday at a restaurant in Spartanburg, and told the crowd of 300 that she wanted to say happy birthday to the King of Rock and Roll.

But Aug. 16 is the anniversary of Elvis’ death, in 1977, and someone in the crowd shouted back, “He died today!”

Bachmann didn’t respond and launched into her speech.

Bachmann has stumbled over cultural references before. In June, she kicked off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, calling it the home of American actor John Wayne. The town was actually home for a time to serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

via The Associated Press: Bachmann wishes Elvis happy birthday on death date.

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August 16, 2011 · 8:08 am

Rick Perry: This Picture Should Kill Those Rumors…..

I can’t help myself…

Saw this at DailyKos and have to post it myself….

Rick Perry at the Iowa State Fair…

No further comment coming from me….

Talk amongst yourselves!

MORE:  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/15/1007248/-GOP-candidates-gone-wild!-(Or,-TMI-inAmes)?via=blog_1

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