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Bachmann is Finished

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At least, thats my belief.


Can she survive a good 3:00 a.m. ad ???

She gets the call; its 3:15 a.m.:

  • Her husband: Michelle, take the plugs out of your ears and answer the damn phone.

  • Michelle: Fuck a Fone; I gotta migraine. And don't turn on the friggin lights either. You know I'm taking Psycho drugs, don't make me go off on you!


AND, can she get by her Reverend Wright moment ???

Haven't heard about that one yet ???

Soon.


Mitt and the rest of the shitt are going to tear her a new one.

 
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Ever wonder about that intense looking squint ???



Michele Bachmann faces more migraine questions



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By KASIE HUNT
& MOLLY BALL
July 20, 2011


On the campaign trail in South Carolina, Michele Bachmann should have been basking in the glow of new polls showing her surging among national Republican primary voters.

Instead, the day was overshadowed by her acknowledgment Tuesday that she suffers chronic migraine attacks — an issue that threatened to spiral out of control as the media sought more details about a potentially debilitating condition.


While Bachmann sought to put the matter to rest with a statement denying that migraines interfere with her ability to work or with her ability to serve as president, more evidence surfaced raising questions about her condition.

In confirming several incidents first reported Tuesday by The Daily Caller, a conservative online publication, POLITICO found new details of the effect migraines have had on Bachmann’s performance and their pervasive impact on her congressional office.

  • In March 2006, migraines Bachmann suffered in the aftermath of an appendectomy prolonged her recovery from surgery, causing her to suspend her campaign and miss a week of work in the Minnesota state Senate, where she served at the time.

  • A migraine attack in May 2010 forced Bachmann to retreat to her congressional office and lie down in the dark. She managed to attend early afternoon congressional votes before flying to California to attend two political events, but she was in pain much of the time and sought emergency treatment. When Congress reconvened the following Tuesday, Bachmann missed a day of votes.


  • In July 2010, Bachmann missed eight House votes while being treated and released for a migraine by a Washington hospital. Her staff at the time said an unspecified illness was the reason for the missed votes. The attack caused her to cancel a campaign trip. According to her own account, it took her four days to recover.


One former top Bachmann staffer, who denied being a source of the Daily Caller report, told POLITICO the congresswoman’s migraines were so prevalent that the entire office and campaign staff — even interns — knew about the problem.

“Within the Bachmann team, this was not a secret about her headaches and the problems and doors going closed. It could be anyone from an intern to a chief of staff that could be aware of this,” the staffer said.

This staffer said it was a common for the congressional office to literally go dark when Bachmann had a migraine.

The congresswoman would go into her personal office, turn off the lights and close the door, sometimes for hours, waiting for the headache to pass, the staffer said.

“On multiple occasions, we had to basically turn out the lights
in her office, shut the door and put a virtual do-not-disturb sign
on her office for hours on end so she could lie there and try to
recuperate from the headaches,” according to the staffer.​


In her statement Tuesday, read at a South Carolina event, Bachmann acknowledged that she suffers from migraines and takes medication to treat them. But she denied that the condition — a neurological disorder characterized in part by its incompatibility with normal activity — interferes with her work.


Bachmann’s campaign denied her brother, Paul Amble, a psychiatrist in Connecticut, permission to speak to POLITICO about her condition. But the congresswoman’s son, Dr. Lucas Bachmann, a medical resident at the University of Connecticut who has knowledge of her treatment, told The New York Times on Tuesday that <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">the congresswoman takes two prescribed medications to treat the symptoms of cranial pressure and vomiting. He said the preventive drugs are “standard migraine treatment medications.”</span>

The issue may be complicated <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">for Bachmann by the fact that the condition affects her brain and requires her to take psychoactive drugs</SPAN>.
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It’s been a busy week for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign. After fielding questions about her husband’s clinic, now the 2012 contender is facing curiosity about her church affiliation.


  • Shortly before announcing her White House bid, <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Bachmann officially quit her church</span> she’d belonged to for years.

  • <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, withdrew their membership</span> from Salem Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minnesota, last month, according to church officials.

  • <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">The Bachmanns had been members of the church for more than 10 years</span>, according to Joel Hochmuth, director of communications for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod [WELS], the broader denominational body of which Bachmann’s former church is a member.


SO, WHATS UP WITH <S>REVEREND WRIGHT</S>
I MEAN THE BACHMANNS CHURCH ???​











 


Remember 2008 ?

"We look at the collection of friends that Barack Obama has had over
his life and usually we associate with people who have similar ideas to
us - - and it seems that it [his association with Revered Wright] calls
into question what his [Barak Obama’s] true beliefs and values and
thoughts are - - his attitudes values and beliefs with with Jeremiah
Wright on his view of the United States which is negative .. ... ... we've
seen one friend after another calls into question his judgement but also
what is it that Barack Obama actually really believes

In his book, Barak Obama had pointed to Jeremiah Wright as one of his
mentors and also to Father Flagler as one of his mentors, two of three
mentors are Father Flagler and Jermiah Wright now these are very strange anti-American mentors . . ."


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NOW, FAST FORWARD TO 2011


Michele Bachmann's Church Says the Pope Is the Antichrist

Is the Pope Catholic ???

Catholics are Anti-Christ

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The Iowa front-runner for the GOP nomination was a longstanding member of a strict
Lutheran synod with controversial views of Catholicism


Michele Bachmann is practically synonymous with political controversy, and if the 2008 presidential election is any guide, the conservative Lutheran church she belonged to for many years is likely to add another chapter due to the nature of its beliefs--such as its assertion, explained and footnoted on this website, that the Roman Catholic Pope is the Antichrist.

Bachmann was a longtime member of the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minn., which belongs to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), a council of churches founded in 1850 that today comprises about 400,000 people. WELS is the most conservative of the major Lutheran church organizations, known for its strict adherence to the writings of Martin Luther, the German theologian who broke with the Catholic Church and launched the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. This includes endorsing Luther's statements about the papacy. From the WELS "Doctrinal Statement on the Antichrist":

"Since Scripture teaches that the Antichrist would be revealed and gives the marks by which the Antichrist is to be recognized, and since this prophecy has been clearly fulfilled in the history and development of the Roman Papacy, it is Scripture which reveals that the Papacy is the Antichrist."
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During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama's relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright nearly derailed his quest for the Democratic nomination after video surfaced of Wright's extreme pronouncements. Similarly, the views of Bachmann's church toward the papacy--which are well outside the mainstream of modern political discourse--could pose a problem as she pursues the Republican nomination.

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If I may paraphrase Michelle Bachmann's words from 2008:


"We look at the collection of friends that [one] has had . . .
and usually we associate with people who have similar ideas to us - -
and it seems that [those associations] call into question what [one's]
true beliefs and values and thoughts are . . .​

If the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stillwater, Minnesota says Catholics are the Anti-Christ; and Michelle and Marcus Bachmann were associated and friends with Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church for 10 years (until she decided she would run for the presidency) does that not mean that Michelle and Marcus Bachmann associated with a church that have similar ideas to them: that Catholics are Anti-Christ ???






 
I hope she's not finished. The media has a hard on for her. I hope they pump her up like they did Mc Same and she wins the republican nomination.
 
Bachmann's finished? When did she start?:D

No, she won't be a VP candidate either. She has nothing to make her valuable to a Presidential candidate. She won't be able to deliver Minnesota. She doesn't have any type of major experience in anything except taking care of kids and talking crazy (Obama countered his lack of national experience with Joe Biden). Plus the Right doesn't like her either. Once this is over, she'll write some books and get paid a lot of money for speaking engagements, which I think has been her plan all along, her plan and Cain's, Gingrich's, and everyone not named Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman.
 
thoughtone said:
But she is the congressional leader of the Tea Baggers!
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thats the difference between those who were involved from the beginning and those who migrated to the concept for political gain (ie. Allan West, Scott Brown, and Cain to name a few)

Founding principles of the Tea Party as outlined from the beginning

to protest the oppressive and unconstitutional inflation tax -
which has enabled a flawed foreign policy, a costly war
and the sacrificing of our liberties here at home.
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source: The Hill

Report: Bachmann’s New Hampshire staff resigns en masse


The New Hampshire staff for Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) presidential campaign are said to have all quit, with one of the staffers joining Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) campaign.

Bachmann said there was “no truth to that story,” adding that she was shocked to hear claims that her Granite State staff was fleeing, but an adviser to Perry confirmed to The Hill that former Bachmann staffer Caroline Gigler was joining Perry’s campaign.

In addition to Gigler, Jeff Chidester, Nicole Yurek, Matthew LeDuc and Tom Lukacz all quit the campaign, New Hampshire’s WMUR first reported.

“I have no idea where this came from, but we’ve made calls and it’s certainly not true,” Bachmann said Friday on Radio Iowa.

Messages left for the New Hampshire staffers were not immediately returned. But Perry’s campaign said Gigler would start work on behalf of the Texas governor within a few days.

“We’re excited to have a new member come on to our field staff,” Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. “It’s an indication we have a strong organization, in addition to strong grassroots support and strong fundraising.”


Bachmann campaign manager Keith Nahigian said in a statement Friday they knew of no staff departures. But he did concede that Bachmann will be spending most of her time in Iowa."

"We have a great team in New Hampshire and we have not been notified that anyone is leaving the campaign," Nahigian said. "We look forward to spending more time in the Granite State between now and the primary, but our campaign has emphasized that our main focus is the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa and we are continuing to build efforts there. While she will campaign in other states, Michele will spend the majority of her time in Iowa, doing what she does better than all the other candidates - retail politics - leading up to the all important caucuses."


Bachmann’s campaign has been upfront in the past that it was focusing more heavily on Iowa and South Carolina than on New Hampshire. WMUR reported that the departing staff members emphasized the lack of focus on the New Hampshire contest as their reason for quitting — not a lack of support for Bachmann.

Her presidential campaign has steadily lost momentum since she won the Ames straw poll in August. Her campaign reported raising nearly $4 million in the third quarter of 2011, well behind Perry’s $17 million and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s $14 million.


The campaign’s departures are the latest in a series of personnel losses for the Minnesota congresswoman’s campaign. In September, Ed Rollins quit as campaign manager, citing health reasons.


“In less than 50 days and with fewer resources than other campaigns, Ed was the architect that led our campaign to a historic victory in Iowa,” Bachmann said of the Rollins departure. “I am grateful for his guidance and leadership, and fortunate to retain his valuable advice even though his health no longer permits him to oversee the day-to-day operations of the campaign.”

Bachmann also lost her top pollster, Ed Goeas, in early October. Goeas said he left because the Bachmann campaign planned to focus primarily on winning Iowa.

“Doing a lot of polling is not what you do in Iowa. You spend your money on voter identification,” Goeas said, according to Reuters.
 
Upgrade Dave said:
Bachmann's finished? When did she start?:D

No, she won't be a VP candidate either. She has nothing to make her valuable to a Presidential candidate. She won't be able to deliver Minnesota. She doesn't have any type of major experience in anything except taking care of kids and talking crazy (Obama countered his lack of national experience with Joe Biden). Plus the Right doesn't like her either. Once this is over, she'll write some books and get paid a lot of money for speaking engagements, which I think has been her plan all along, her plan and Cain's, Gingrich's, and everyone not named Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman.
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Upgrade Dave said:
Bachmann's finished? When did she start?:D

No, she won't be a VP candidate either. She has nothing to make her valuable to a Presidential candidate. She won't be able to deliver Minnesota. She doesn't have any type of major experience in anything except taking care of kids and talking crazy (Obama countered his lack of national experience with Joe Biden). Plus the Right doesn't like her either. Once this is over, she'll write some books and get paid a lot of money for speaking engagements, which I think has been her plan all along, her plan and Cain's, Gingrich's, and everyone not named Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman.
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Looks like most republican candidates are reading from the Sarah Palin playbook these days. At the end of the day its never about service and all about the money.
 

McCain defends Clinton aide Huma Abedin from
Bachman and 4 other Republicans in Congress



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Huma Abedin longtime top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who
is of Pakistani-Indian heritage and wife of former New York Congressman
Anthony Weiner


WASHINGTON - Describing the accusations about her family's links to the Muslim Brotherhood as ‘ugly’ and ‘sinister’, top Republican Senator John McCain Wednesday came to the defence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's longtime top aide, Huma Abedin, who is of Pakistani-Indian heritage.

Last week five Republican members of the House of Representatives, including former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, made claims that Abedin’s family has ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and questioned whether she is part of a ‘nefarious conspiracy’ to harm the United States by influencing US foreign policy with her high-level position at the State Department.

“The Department’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin, has three family members – her late father, her mother and her brother – connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organisations. Her position affords her routine access to the Secretary and to policy making,” according to the June 13th letter,

Signed:

/Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann/
/Congressman Trent Franks/
/Congressman Louie Gohmert/
/Congressman Thomas Rooney/
/Congresswoman Lynn Westmoreland/

The letter was sent to Harold Geisel, the Deputy Inspector General at the Department of State, while similar copies were sent to the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Defence and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.​

The lawmakers point to a report by the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank, which makes the allegations about Abedin’s family ties and calls on the Deputy Inspector General of the Department of State to begin an investigation into the possibility that Abedin and other American officials are using their influence to promote the cause of the Muslim Brotherhood within the US government.

Ms Abedin, who is married to the former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, is a Michigan-born Muslim-American raised in Saudi Arabia by a Pakistani mother and an Indian father.


John McCain

Sen John McCain took to the Senate floor to rip apart his fellow Republicans’ accusations and came to the defence of Abedin, whom he calls a ‘fine and decent American’, after observing her work as both a long-time aide to Clinton while she was a Senator and as the Secretary of State.

“These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way,” McCain said. “These attacks have no logic, no basis, and no merit and they need to stop. They need to stop now.”​

McCain argued that there is no evidence to back up the claims by the House Republicans.

“To say that the accusations made in both documents are not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it,” McCain said. “The letter in the report offers not one instance of an action, a decision or a public position that Huma has taken while at the State Department or as a member of then-Senator Clinton’s staff that would lend credence to the charge that she is promoting anti-American activities within our govt.”​

McCain said that no one, “not least a member of Congress,” should launch such a “degrading attack against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are an ignorance of that hey stand for.”


Michelle Bachman

A press release from Michelle Bachmann’s office immediately followed McCain’s speech.

“The letters my colleagues and I sent on June 13 to the Inspectors General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Defence, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the Department of State – and the follow up letter I wrote to Rep Ellison on July 13 – are unfortunately being distorted.”​


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SOURCE: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-n...-2012/mccain-defends-clinton-aide-huma-abedin

 

Michele Bachmann’s record – hot
rhetoric, few accomplishments​
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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann at the 2012 Republican National
Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday,
August 28, 2012. | Mark Boster/MCT​



By David Lightman
and Trevor Graff
McClatchy Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON — Michele Bachmann’s brief tenure in Congress gave her a forum for national attention and fame –

but rarely translated into legislative success for her cause or political success for herself.

Instead, the Minnesota Republican who announced Wednesday that she will not seek a fifth term in the House of Representatives leaves a legacy of political missteps and lots of incendiary rhetoric – often loaded with false accusations and wild exaggerations.

She retains an avid following among the tea party movement, which praised her Wednesday and called her a key to the tea party uprising that fed Republican gains and a takeover of the House in 2010. “Without her standing up for the tea party movement at the earliest time, we would not have enjoyed such a successful political effort,” said tea party strategist Sal Russo.

But her House Tea Party Caucus is regarded as barely a player in Congress. Her bid for Republican leadership in the House of Representatives fizzled quickly. Her quest for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination went nowhere.

Instead, the Federal Election Commission, the Office of Congressional Ethics and reportedly, the FBI, are probing allegations her 2012 presidential campaign covered up payments to an Iowa state senator.

“Be assured, my decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected to Congress,” Bachmann, 57, said in a videotaped statement. “And rest assured, this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff.”

She also warned that any attempt to question her record or her decision was the product of media bias, not truth.

“I fully anticipate the mainstream liberal media to put a detrimental spin on my decision not to seek a fifth term,” she said. “They always seemed to attempt to find a dishonest way to disparage me. But I take being the focus of their attention and disparagement as a true compliment of my public service effectiveness.”

Bachmann said she’d continue to be involved in conservative causes, and many in the movement welcomed her involvement. Often a star speaker at conservative gatherings, she gave voice to the rage at President Barack Obama and what her supporters feared was a government run amok. She urged tough stands against Obama and the Democrats, from a showdown over the nation’s debt ceiling in 2011 to her recent talk of possible impeachment of Obama.

In some ways, though, she was also a prototype of a modern politician, who sought and soared to fame on her rhetoric and style – even if that rhetoric was known more for its hyperbole than its content.



Here’s a sampling, compiled from PolitiFact, a nonpartisan watchdog:

– April 27, 2009: Bachmann said a swine flu epidemic broke out in the administration of Democrat Jimmy Carter. It began during the administration of Republican Gerald Ford.

PolitiFact: “It’s ridiculous for her to suggest a partisan link with a deadly disease.”

– Nov. 3, 2010: “The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day,” Bachmann told CNN. “He’s taking 2,000 people with him.”

PolitiFact: “The backing appears to be one news story, relying on an anonymous state government official in India. People familiar with presidential travel say that estimate is way off.”

– Aug. 26, 2011: Bachmann, campaigning for president, said Obama “has virtually no one in his Cabinet with private-sector experience.”

PoltiFact: There’s a long roster of Obama Cabinet officials with that experience.

– Sept. 22, 2011: “President Obama has the lowest public approval ratings of any president in modern times,” Bachmann said.

PolitiFact: Since World War II, “nine presidents hit lower lows than Obama has.”

– March 16, 2013: “Seventy cents of that (food stamp) dollar that’s supposed to go to the poor doesn’t. It actually goes to benefit the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.,” she said.

PolitiFact: “That is ridiculously off-base. Even the broadest calculation of administrative costs for SNAP tops out at 5 percent of program costs, far below the 70 percent Bachmann claims.”

– May 15, 2013: Bachmann said of the IRS, “There’s a huge national database that’s being created right now. Your health care, my health care, all the Fox viewers’ health care, their personal, intimate, most close to the vest secrets will be in that database, and the IRS is in charge of that database?”

PolitiFact: “It’s not a ‘database.’ The IRS isn’t running it. It won’t include ‘intimate’ health data. And most Americans won’t need to interact with it at all.”​


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Reading Between the Lines of
Michele Bachmann's Retirement Speech​
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The U.S. representative's video announcing her decision
not to run for reelection is notable for what it doesn't say​



She was the first woman to win the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa during her Republican presidential primary bid, but Michele Bachmann's victory there in August 2011 only wound up calling the legitimacy of the political tradition into question. With her presidential campaign itself now under investigation and facing the prospect of a tough reelection fight, the four-term congresswoman on Wednesday released an eight minute and 40 second video announcing her decision not to seek a fifth term representing Minnesota's 6th District.​



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A between-the-lines read:

BACHMANN: "Our Constitution allows for the decision of length of service in Congress to be determined by the congresspeople themselves or by the voter in the district. However, the law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years and in my opinion, well, eight years in also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative of a specific congressional district."
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Bachmann routinely describes herself as a Constitutional Conservative, so it's not surprising she invokes her constitutional right to not serve as a member of Congress or run for office, even though everyone knows there is no mandate that all elected representatives must keep running for reelection forever. Fittingly, Bachmann also compares herself to a president, which is what she sought unsuccessfully to be and the aim of her only national political bid.

That campaign both elevated her profile and undermined her standing as an elected official. She came in sixth in the Iowa caucuses, transforming her from a high-profile national Tea Party leader into a person who was proven unable to garner more than token support among an ideologically sympathetic population of voters outside her carefully drawn district.

BACHMANN: "Be assured my decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being reelected to Congress."
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Despite the advantages of incumbency and outspending him 12-to-1, Bachmann defeated Democrat Jim Graves by only 1 percentage point in the 2012 election in a heavily Republican district that Mitt Romney won by 15 percent. Graves was at a considerable disadvantage at the time. "We had a very abbreviated campaign. When we announced, we had nobody on the team, so we had to create a team and had to create a field operation and we had to do all those things in a very abbreviated time frame up against a very well-funded candidate," he has said, explaining his loss. Recent internal polling from the Graves campaign put him slightly ahead of her a year and a half before their rematch.

Bachmann not only faced a tough reelection battle but a long one, and in mid-May she started reelection campaign advertising on Minnesota television. That, at the very least, suggests she had not been planning a resignation announcement for long, or was uncertain about how she wanted to proceed.

BACHMANN: "Rest assured this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff."
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Inquiries is a mild way of putting it: Bachmann's former national field coordinator, Peter Waldron, turned on her and in March filed complaints against her presidential campaign organization and political action committee with the Federal Election Commission. The Office of Congressional Ethics is also conducting a probe of her campaign payment arrangements. Also investigating the conduct of the Bachmann presidential campaign are: the FBI's public integrity section, an Iowa special investigator requested by the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee, and the Urbandale, Iowa, Police Department. That's a lot of potential headaches for a weak incumbent.

BACHMANN: "Last year, after I ran for president, I gave consideration to not running again for the House seat that I hold. However, given that we were only nine months away from the election, I felt it might be difficult for another Republican candidate to get organized for what might have been a very challenging campaign -- and I refused to allow this decision to put this Republican seat in jeopardy. And so I ran. And I won."
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It is not unusual for failed presidential candidates to reconsider their political careers, and Bachmann is right that if she had pulled out late in the game Graves might have surged while the GOP scrambled to find a replacement. This time, the Republicans will have time to find someone who can compete against him more effectively in a district that should favor their party, and Bachmann can step down knowing she's done her all to keep the seat in Republican hands.

BACHMANN: "Feel confident: Over the next 18 months I will continue to work 100-hour weeks."
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Being a member of Congress is exhausting.

BACHMANN: "Looking forward, after the completion of my term, my future is full, it is limitless and my passions for American will remain. And I want you to be assured that there is no future option or opportunity -- be it directly in the political arena or otherwise -- that I won't be giving serious consideration if it can help save and protect our great nation for future generations."
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Translation: I haven't yet figured out what to do next -- please hire me.
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Bachmann Out-Foxing Democrats

Upgrade Dave said:
Fox News is always hiring "consultants".
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Bachmann Out-Foxing Democrats
BY MARK SILVA
MAY 29, 2013 10:58 AM EDT

Michele Bachmann says she is imposing term limits on herself.

“Eight is enough,” the saying of congressional term-limit proponents goes. And if it’s good enough for the president, the Minnesota Republican says in her campaign website video today announcing her retirement, it’s good enough for her.
“In my opinion, well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district,” Bachmann says in that eight-minute video.

This is the same Bachmann who already had raised $678,666 for her 2014 reelection during the first quarter of this year. Her campaign had $1.9 million in the bank as of March 31. She had started running a campaign TV ad in Minnesota’s Twin Cities with an $85,000 buy, touting her work against the president’s “Obamacare.”

The telegenic Republican who finished sixth in her party’s Iowa Republican Party presidential caucuses last year is among the House’s most prolific fundraisers. She also is politically endangered, winning reelection in November with just over 1,000 votes in a district that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried by 15 percentage points.

The key words here are: Endangered and telegenic.

Fox News needs a new Sarah Palin. And the former tax lawyer from Minnesota who co-founded the Tea Party Caucus in the House is the perfect replacement for the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee whose three-year contract with Fox was not renewed at the end of 2012. Bachmann is smarter, more articulate — and probably still has some political prospects left in her. Bowing out is better than losing.

This is the Republican whom Democrats love to hate — a factor that Bachmann profited from in her own campaign fundraising. “Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party brand of extremism and obstruction have infected the entire Republican Congress, and her influence shows no signs of waning,” Emily Bittner of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says of Bachmann’s retirement today. “This Republican Congress will continue to turn off Americans of all political stripes because they’re using the Bachmann playbook: put politics before solutions.”

It’s big money, that post-political television business.

Ask Palin. Ask Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who won in that Iowa party presidential caucus arena where Bachmann failed. Ask David Axelrod, the political strategist for President Barack Obama who parlayed the president’s second term into not only a political institute of his own in Chicago, but also a seat on MSNBC, the anti-Fox.

They may not get paid by the word, yet Palin cost Fox News Channel nearly $16 per word over the course of her three-year contract, the University of Minnesota has found. The self-style hockey mom uttered 189,221 words during 140 appearances under a contract that ended in January. That averages to $15.85 per word, according to the report from the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. That’s $3 million.

Palin’s star rose and fell at Fox. The No. 1-rated cable news channel built a studio in her home. Her contract had started in January 2010, when she was considered a potential 2012 presidential candidate. Yet Palin had not appeared on Fox News since mid-December. During the Republican National Convention, she wrote on her Facebook page that Fox had “cancelled all my scheduled interviews tonight.”

Bill Shine, executive Vice President at FOX, issued a statement saying: “We have thoroughly enjoyed our association with Governor Palin. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”

Failure in politics bears all kinds of fruit.

Actress Julianne Moore won the Screen Actors Guild award for her portrayal of Palin in the HBO film “Game Change” based on a book about the 2008 presidential campaign in which Republican John McCain ran with Palin.

Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist and musician, now hosts the Saturday evening show “Huckabee” on FOX News Channel.

He makes a reported $500,000 a year.

He toyed with running for president again last year, though in a November 2009 interview Huckabee said that if he ever decided against running for president, there was a big reason:

Fox News.

“The reason I wouldn’t is because this Fox gig I’ve got right now, Chris, is really, really wonderful,” Huckabee told Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace.

NBC News’s hiring of Axelrod, chief political strategist for both of Obama’s presidential elections, as a full-time political analyst for the news organization also is in keeping with a long tradition.

Fox hired Karl Rove, the architect of President George W. Bush’s two election campaigns. George Stephanopoulos, who advised President Bill Clinton , joined ABC News as a journalist and went on to host “Good Morning, America.”

If Minnesota’s loss is Fox’s gain, Bachmann could be back in the limelight, stronger than ever.

http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-05-29/bachmann-out-foxing-democrats/
 
source: MPR News

What happens to the Bachmann war chest?


Rep. Michele Bachmann is one of the most prolific campaign fundraisers in all of politics. As of March, her 2014 re-election campaign had $36,759 of cash on hand. Her 2012 campaign committee claimed $2,070,568 of cash on hand at the end of last year.

There was a time when politicians were free to keep the cash but that changed with passage of an ethics law in 1989.

According to OpenSecrets.org, which last visited the issue in a wave of retirements in 2008:

The law stipulates that leftover campaign funds should be returned to donors, transferred to a political party or candidate, or donated to charity. Because of the logistics of returning partially spent donations of different sizes to an array of contributors, that option is not widely exercised. So far the retiring lawmakers have given away $200,000 to charities, churches, little league teams, alma maters and other nonprofits of their choosing. Besides being generous with their donors' money, some of the departing representatives appear to be going out in style, with spending on "events" and "meetings"--code for meals at high-end restaurants and lavish fundraisers--totaling $1.2 million last year. The Capitol Hill Club alone, a perennial favorite hangout for GOP congressmen and their staffs, last year made $84,000 in meals paid for with retiring members' campaign funds.​
If Rep. Bachmann decides to become a lobbyist, she could use her campaign money to reward sitting politicians who vote her way. Each politician is eligible for $2,000 per election. If she converts the money to a PAC, she can give $5,000 to an individual politician. She could also make gifts to anyone other than her family members.

If she's so inclined, it's possible for Rep. Bachmann to keep some of the money.

Like other politicians, Bachmann has a leadership PAC, which ostensibly uses contributions to elect like-minded politicians. But at last check, MichelePAC has only about $50,000 left.

But that's hers to do with as she pleases because of a loophole in campaign contribution rules.

And there's nothing to prevent a politician from donating her campaign contributions to a charity, even a foundation a politician runs.

"Between these two sources of money, authorized campaign committee funds and leadership PACs, and considering that there are very minor restrictions, I would say that any retiring lawmaker with even an ounce of common sense can do just about anything they want with the unspent money," Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, told ABC News in 2010.
 

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