"Supposedly-respectable politician"?

Eric, Eric, Eric, you give her far too much credit. Do you forget the near headlock she had on Bush during the State of the Union?

I watched the whole sad episode. I half expected Bachmann to give an 800 number for kids to call in order to turn in their "leftist" parents.

The question becomes how it plays on Sunday morning. Does the McCain camp try to walk it back, or go all in.

I'm confused now, i don't know who's worse that crazy congresswoman or Palin?

Why does this person get air time for her bile?

Though I'm glad to see that Mr. Matthews stood his ground, this is the sort of gibberish I'd expect to see on Fox.

What happened to the republican party?

When did they turn so ugly?

We know these talking heads are liars, they know they're liars, they just don't care that they're liars. They know the old adage: repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it.

I guess what gets me is that they seem to enjoy, even relish, lying. These are bad people.

Honor is no longer a virtue in their book. Being shameless, however, is.

Yay Michelle! That's our little firecracker! She just keeps making me proud to be a Minnesotan. Well...her and Norm Coleman.

The really scary thing about people Bachman and Palin too, is how they keep that perfect beauty pageant smile while they accuse sitting members of Congress of being anti-american, and "paling around with terrorists."

Seriously, the people in this woman's district need their heads examined.

She should be censured for remarks like that.

This shit is reprehensible, and I want her punished, humiliated and thrown out of office.

She is un-American.

Matthews had Katrina vanden Heuvel on to respond to this diatribe. You have to see it. Wow.

I just felt really pissed off at Chris for letting go on and on perpetuating her bs with no correction. I mean he let her spout tons of republican smear talking points on his show. Uncorrected... there are people out there who will believe her bs even if they don't believe that Senator Obama is unamerican, they will believe that Senator Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room.

These lies that are told over and over againg become rumor and truth via urban legend... it's gone around so long everyone just believes it is true....

I can't watch anymore...

I happened to catch that as it happened. I gave her my response while she was still ranting.

That give me a sick feeling to my stomach. The swift boating campaign at its prime.

I see that the folks at Daily Kos are also putting out the word to fund her opponent. There is apparently a Democratic-sponsored poll that shows her only 4 points ahead.

My favorite:

CM: "I thought Tony Rezko was some business guy. I didn't know that he was a leftist anti-American guy."
MB: "Yeah, that's troubling too."

I do think that would be an awesome media report. We've gotta find out who these anti-American congresspeople are. We have to look over everyone's record (or to save taxpayer money we can just look over the Democrats since Republicans are always pro-American). No stone left unturned. I want to know who these people associated with beginning in kindergarten. I want to know who they have been in the same room with.

I find it interesting that Matthews and much of the media continued the Ayers narrative, yet I have still not seen any of the new outlets play the comments from McCain during his Letterman interview. What about McCain's connection to Gordon Liddy?

Matthews gave her a lot of rope, and she promptly wrapped it around her neck and hung herself.

What the fuck, Minnesotans?

This is not the 1st instance that a Republican has claimed liberals to be anti-American. This has been an ongoing process, election after election. I blame all liberals for allowing conservatives to define what constitutes "Americanism." What and where is our version of "Americanism"? Why cannot we dare to define conservative essentialism as anti-American?
Matthews may have looked strong when he asked how many Congressmen could be labeled as anti-American, but he was weak not to question where she got the constitutional/authoritative/transcendent privilege to define "difference and tolerance as anti-American." How anti-American is it to call a fellow American, let alone a Senator, an anti-American? He did not question the premise from which she was defining Americanism and calling others anti-American. Why didn't he ask the anti-American biatch this question, "When did fascism, intolerance, inequality, ignorance, corruption, war mongering, anti-Science, deregulated/unrestrained capitalism, lies, revenge, and all other conservative values championed by Republican Party become exclusively Americanism?" In short, why cannot we define conservatism is anti-American the way they define liberalism as anti-American?

She needs to be DEFEATED!

Does anyone else find it interesting that with all the shit being flung at Obama he's still up in the polls over McCain. I find it encouraging. I think it's more a refection of Obama's quality than McCain's failings.

The final solution for the Apocalyptic Christians involves this kind of madness.

Eric or Greg, could you maybe ask the Obama campaign for a response? With your help this could get big!

Mrs. Bachman wants to investigate a majority of the Congress? Do I have that right?

Gallon of gas, meet fire!

This woman is clearly in love with something, it's just not America. So sad for the people of Minnesota!

But this isn't Germany in 1930. We aren't going from weak Weimer to Hitler - we're moving from American Fascism back in the other direction

We hope to move in the other direction on Nov. 4th. All signs are that we will. But here we must deal with genorously adiposed women and their arias. And she's got a back-up chorus of nine guys in black robes who have gone off-key before.

I think it's more a refection of Obama's quality than McCain's failings.

I think Obama was extremely genorous to McCain. The fact that Obama did not, and did not need to tear McCain to pieces only emphasises how far Obama towered over him, as a politician and a person.

All liberal politicians and their supporters are whiners when Republicans call us anti-American ("Oh, my God, she just called me anti-American for being a liberal? She is scary." That is a fucking weak response. At least to the ignorant ears, it almost gives an impression that we are guilty of being liberal. That "we are being demonized" is not the effective response).
Right wing extremism is hijacking "America" and "Americanism," and all we do is whine, directionless. Yes, we are guilty.
In a sense, liberals are anti-Americans to let Republican extremists/fascists define us as anti-American. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. That is the paradox.
[How do we deparadoxify this situation that we are in? Neither Habermasian consensus nor Mouffe-Laclau's hegemonic theory nor Lyotard's deferand sufficiently provide a way out of this? In philosophical term, there is simply no telos, and every meta-regulation is nothing more than an expression. Yet, on the one hand, we are still trapped into Kantian Enlightenment humanism, with the burden to awaken Republican cavemen; on the other, we aspire to be post-Kantian /post-humanist and are willing to tolerate their intolerance and let them be who they are. No, we cannot tolerate intolerance and cannot allow intolerance to define Americanism. There has to be a rigorous discussion on what constitutes America on liberal platform so that we prevail in the nationalistic discourse.
Maybe, Obama feels the urgency to deliver another speech on Americanism, in a manner he did on race].

Two pieces of great news - according to Rachel Maddow, Tinklenberg, Batshit Bachmann's opponent, has now raised $30,000 since that appearance on Hardball. LOL!

The other good piece of news - Repug Susan Collins has called on McLame to stop the robocalls.

From Wikipedia:

Bachmann introduced the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, to repeal the nationwide phase-out of conventional light bulbs. She argues that the government has no business telling consumers what kind of light bulbs they can buy: "By 2012, incandescent light bulbs will be no more," Bachmann said. "Fluorescent bulbs are more polluting because of their mercury content. We are working on a light bulb bill. If the Democrats can hose up a light bulb, don't trust them with the country."

Bachmann is batshit crazy - probably the most extremist politician in Washington.

The people of the 6th District MUST elect El Tinklenberg and get rid of the hideous Bachmann.

I watched that whack-job on Matthews...with my jaw on my chest. She is one scary person...and she speaks with a smile on her face.
I also watched Rachel Maddow, and she told us, and I believe Rachel always....that bachman's opponent collected $30,000 in the few hours since backman's performance!!! I say that she has 'jumped the shark'.....just the way that the whole repub party has!!!

And looks like we've just got past 50K (per ActBlue).

Is Obama's push back to the GOP ACORN Smear getting any MSM coverage (outside of Rachel and Keith)? CNN bit hook, line and sinker into the GOP ACORN talking points, I was wondering if they were giving equal coverage to Obama's pushback...

I am now a proud contributor to El Tinklenberg's campaign. That one will have to go down in the random life trivia portion of my brain.

I wonder how the wonderfully loonie Michelle Bachman would answer this question: "Why does someone who is Anti-American want to run for President of the United States?".

If El's watching the money roll in right now, he's got to be tickled to death over it.

It's $56,240 now and there's still a rerun of Rachel Maddow coming up, plus the local news that will probably give it a mention.

60 grand and counting. Hit 'refresh' every 10 seconds and watch as the figure rockets. This toxic woman is a gift to Democrats. Minnesotans need to get rid of this poisonous woman, pronto. In the mean time, she's done us all a favour...

The guy has raised 1 mil this ENTIRE ELECTION CYCLE, he is on his way to making 10% of that entire sum in ONE NIGHT. Keep sending that word and DONATING, LET'S GET THIS NUTJOB OUT OF OFFICE.

I just watched Bachmann in "Fool for Christ" on Daily Kos. Whoa Nelly, she's one dimwitted loon.

In addition to donating money...

http://www.censurebachmann.com/

I think it's time that Obama challenges McCain to run a really positive, issue-based campaign. I hope he will mention that his campaign could have run ads on Palin's shady association with the Alaskan Independence Party and her Troopergate scandal as well as McCain's numerous shady associations but he absolutely doesn't want to take this country in that "same old politics" direction.

65,500+

I just gave $25 to Mr. El Somethingorother. C'mon u lot, lets get what's-his-name to $100,000!!!

Censure Michele Bachmann
http://www.censurebachmann.com/

Dump Michele Bachmann
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/

Michele Bachmann is Minnesota's Answer to Florida's Katherine Harris. This blog is here to chronicle Michele Bachmann's antics.

He's gotta be way past 100k if he already has 75 on ActBlue. One can hope. . .

This woman has taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution?

Maybe she forgot that!

This is Bachmann's Church in Brooklyn Park,Minnesota---CREW FILES SECOND COMPLAINT AGAINST LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN CENTER

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»8 Feb 2007 // Washington, DC - Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against the Living Word Christian Center (LWCC), in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. This is the second complaint CREW has filed against the LWCC.

CREW’s complaint alleges that the LWCC, organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), has engaged in illegal financial transactions with LWCC’s senior pastor and founder, James "Mac" Hammond, in which Hammond has profited from the church’s activities. Hammond and his wife are two of the seven members of the LWCC’s board of trustees, making them “insiders” under federal tax law. Tax law prohibits insiders from benefitting from a 501(c)(3) organization.

Loan documents given to CREW by the blog Minnesota Monitor show that LWCC showered Hammond with favorable financial deals, including a scheme under which Hammond purchased a plane, partially on credit, from the church and then leased it back. The church then paid Hammond twice the amount per month to rent the plane that Hammond paid the church to buy it.

In addition, the plane remained in Hammond’s possession while the church paid all of the related expenses, including rent to store the plane in Hammond’s own hangar.

The leaseback deal may violate tax law “inurement” rules barring financially favorable deals to insiders like Hammond as well as prohibitions against using charitable resources to compensate insiders for activity not related to the organization’s tax exempt purpose.

In addition, between 1999 and 2004, the LWCC made Hammond eight loans totalling $1.9 million at very favorable rates and terms. Two of the loans were related to the purchase of the plane Hammond then leased to the church, three were unsecured in any way and another was for Hammond to buy a private house in Florida.

CREW’s earlier complaint, filed in October 2006, charged Hammond with violating the prohibition on churches engaging in electioneering activity.

Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director, said, “Pastor Hammond and the LWCC have shown a disturbing pattern of violating federal tax law and the IRS has done nothing.” Sloan continued, “The IRS has not hesitated to target liberal organizations. When will enough be enough and the IRS finally step in and investigate a conservative church that has repeatedly demonstrated its contempt for federal law?”

I've been watching the threads on this at Daily Kos, and posted the various links in a reader comment here:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/astral66/2008/10/an-amazing-thing-netroots-acti.php

The Act Blue site just hit $75,000!

What is intriguing aboyt Michelle Bachmann and her affiliation to this church is that ,in addition to you tube videos she has done speaking about this church(entitled "being a "fool" for Christ",) She was endorsed from the pulpit by Pastor Hammond himself, who is being investigated by IRS. BTW, Bachmann is an attorney,but also has a juris magistrae in tax law. Hmm...wonder if she's been advising the good pastor?

One wonders if Tinklenberg is even aware that this is going on tonight. It should be a nice present for him when he wakes up in the morning.

I served for conservatives and liberals. And would do it again if able. We are all Americans.

Actblue over $80,000 now for Tinkleberg.

From Tinkleberger:

Kossacks:

The last few hours have been nothing short of astounding. Since Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on MSNBC"s Hardball earlier tonight, there"s been a deluge of support unlike anything we have seen. We are so grateful to the Daily Kos community and others who"ve sounded the alarm on Bachmann"s extremist, shameful rhetoric and pitched in with whatever they can to help end her tenure in Congress.

Our phones haven"t stopped ringing. Many have called in to say they"re sorry they can only send money and wish they could be here to help. We want you to know what a difference your funds are making and that, thanks in part to your help, we are confident that we will be able to win this race. We are preparing to get out the vote on an unprecedented scale, and with supporters like you we will have the resources we need to get the job done.

I am both hopeful and humbled at the reminder you gave me tonight " that in our country"s darkest times, it is the strength and belief and action of ordinary Americans that ultimately brings about the change we need. From the hardworking folks in Minnesota"s Sixth District to all of you: we are proud to have you on our side.

Thank you,

El Tinklenberg

Just goes to show the coat-tails of the BIG O!