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DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:05 PM Jul 2012

Top Clinton Aide Threatened After Bachmann Allegations

"Police and federal officials have placed security around ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, after a New Jersey man threatened her, law-enforcement sources said.

An individual, described as a Muslim man, made the unspecified threat after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) last week claimed Abedin’s family had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and asked for a probe to see if she is helping the Islamist organization.

The man was questioned by the NYPD and the State Department and has not been charged, sources said."

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/22/562311/abedin-threat-security-bachmann/

Enough is enough! Speaker Boehner needs to take Bachmann off the Intel Committee immediately!

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Top Clinton Aide Threatened After Bachmann Allegations (Original Post) DesertRat Jul 2012 OP
Can Bachmann be charged with anything? obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #1
I don't know either, but I've emailed Boehner n/t DesertRat Jul 2012 #7
Email the DCCC as well. caveat_imperator Jul 2012 #33
These irresponsible lunatics are encouraged by the Re[b]THUG[/b] malaise Jul 2012 #2
Especially after what happened to Gabby Giffords DesertRat Jul 2012 #8
They are only concerned with power malaise Jul 2012 #31
the house needs to censure her roguevalley Jul 2012 #24
the house leadership must agree with ms bachmann....they remain silent spanone Jul 2012 #3
Minnesotans: Le Taz Hot Jul 2012 #4
Her district is oddly gerrymandered The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2012 #26
Sounds like a Nazi shithole to me. RagAss Jul 2012 #39
Michelle Bachmann lacks the character and intellect to be on the Intelligence Committee alcibiades_mystery Jul 2012 #5
That's the first thing that came to my mind sandyshoes17 Jul 2012 #9
That is 100 per cent correct. Swede Jul 2012 #16
Definitely. And her entertainment value doesn't trump this. freshwest Jul 2012 #20
People like Michelle Bachmann are what is wrong with America. jillan Jul 2012 #6
+ For personal gain. n/t Amonester Jul 2012 #13
If she wants to OUT someone... lame54 Jul 2012 #10
If his treatment "cures" homosexual do you think he can "cure" his lying wife? Thinkingabout Jul 2012 #29
Mission accomplished, Michele! proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 #11
Eeeeyup, although I take issue with you likening her to shit. GoCubsGo Jul 2012 #14
Point taken! proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 #19
That's an insult to pieces of shit everywhere. calimary Jul 2012 #27
If anybody who reads this is in contact with the congresswoman. Please tell her her she's a slimy Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2012 #12
This typifies the sort of nutjob attracted to Bachmann lpbk2713 Jul 2012 #15
Winger nutjobs like Bachmann will not rest until more people are dead. Chorophyll Jul 2012 #17
What about Grover Norquist? dgibby Jul 2012 #18
The entire cesspool of Republicans needs to be cleaned out. freshwest Jul 2012 #21
She is a danger to others. Marrah_G Jul 2012 #22
And Censured by the House. amb123 Jul 2012 #23
Haven't they learned anything from Palin's bullseye map?? DesertRat Jul 2012 #34
Not only Bachmann, frogmarch Jul 2012 #25
True DesertRat Jul 2012 #36
They are all toenail chewing imbeciles hifiguy Jul 2012 #44
Just another republican inciting violence. 2pooped2pop Jul 2012 #28
Impeachment time. Gregorian Jul 2012 #30
Need to censure Bachmann Angry Dragon Jul 2012 #32
If a Congressional Democrat had done this to a Bush official ThoughtCriminal Jul 2012 #42
I am sure Ms. Abedin is duly terrorized SCVDem Jul 2012 #35
The leadership is scared of offending the Tea Party. Bachmann is the leader of that caucus Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #37
Michele you ignorant b*tch! benld74 Jul 2012 #38
GOP women incite violence. Bachmann's words, like Palin's "mama grizzly" incites mother earth Jul 2012 #40
Why was that man in New Jersey not charged? bluestateguy Jul 2012 #41
sick heaven05 Jul 2012 #43

obamanut2012

(26,080 posts)
1. Can Bachmann be charged with anything?
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jul 2012

Any kind of incitement? I honestly don't know.

She needs to be censured and stripped of her committee positions in Congress.

caveat_imperator

(193 posts)
33. Email the DCCC as well.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 05:19 PM
Jul 2012

Suggest to them that dangerous rethug actions like this should be pointed out in any commercials they produce.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
2. These irresponsible lunatics are encouraged by the Re[b]THUG[/b]
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:07 PM
Jul 2012

establishment for political, ideological and economic reasons.
If I were Weiner, my lawyers would contract that woman and let her know that if anything happens to Huma she will be sued.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
4. Minnesotans:
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:10 PM
Jul 2012

I know her district is a conservative one but what are the chances that she's just gone over the edge and no one but the teaklanners will vote for her? Any chance of her getting thrown out this time? I know she'll get NO backing from the RNCC.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
26. Her district is oddly gerrymandered
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:42 PM
Jul 2012

and contains significant pockets of teabaggerati and other characters who could have been extras in Deliverance (Paddle faster! I hear banjos!). It also includes some spoiled-brat Twin Cities exurbs whose residents would rather drink bleach than pay an extra dime in taxes to help any "unworthy" (i.e., minority) people, along with a fair number of wingnut megachurches. So it's not surprising she gets reelected. However, her opponent this time might have a shot at unseating her. Anybody who wants to help get this despicable character out of Congress, send a buck or two to Jim Graves. http://jimgraves.com/donate/

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
5. Michelle Bachmann lacks the character and intellect to be on the Intelligence Committee
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:11 PM
Jul 2012

She does not have the level of calm discretion expected of a statesperson, and her access to state secrets puts us all in grave danger. She is obviously much more interested in gaining political advantage and satisfying extremist elements among her constituency than she is with the national security of these United States. She should be removed from the Intelligence Committee immediately.

sandyshoes17

(657 posts)
9. That's the first thing that came to my mind
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:17 PM
Jul 2012

How in the world is someone as batshit crazy as her allowed on that committee. Do they trust her with the sensitive intel that she has access to?

lame54

(35,294 posts)
10. If she wants to OUT someone...
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:23 PM
Jul 2012

she should start with Marcus


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/07/10/marcus-bachmann-s-controversial-gay-therapy-and-how-it-affects-michele-s-campaign.html

Marcus Bachmann’s Gay ‘Cure’ by Michelle Goldberg
Jul 10, 2011 11:31 PM EDT
A hidden-camera exposé proved that Michele Bachmann’s husband practices a controversial therapy aimed at turning gays straight.

...Yet when the City Pages reporter asked Marcus if his clinic performs so-called reparative therapy—a widely discredited technique meant to turn gay people straight—Marcus denied it. And over the years he has kept denying it, despite plenty of evidence that both he and Michele are deeply committed to the idea that homosexuality can be cured.

If there was any doubt that he was lying, it disappeared on Friday, when The Nation broke news of an investigation by Truth Wins Out, a group devoted to combating the ex-gay movement. “Undeniably, 100 percent, the Bachmann clinic practices reparative therapy, which tries to cure gay people of their homosexuality,” says Wayne Besen, Truth Wins Out’s founder.

Responding to queries about Bachmann’s clinic from reporters—myself among them—Besen recently put out a call for former Bachmann patients, and a young man named Andrew Ramirez responded. As Ramirez told The Nation, after he came out in 2004, the summer before his senior year, his evangelical stepfather had dragged him to Bachmann & Associates. There, a therapist told him he should renounce his sexual orientation. “He basically said being gay was not an acceptable lifestyle in God’s eyes,” said Ramirez.

To prove that reparative therapy continues at Bachmann’s clinic to this day, Truth Wins Out sent a 26-year-old staffer, John Becker, to pose as a patient there. Armed with hidden cameras, Becker attended five sessions with therapist Timothy Wiertzema, who assured him that it’s possible to rid himself of same-sex attractions. “I think it’s possible to be totally free of them,” Wiertzema says in a transcript of the sessions provided to The Daily Beast. “t’s happened to a number of people. I don’t know how many, but…that’s for sure.”...

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
29. If his treatment "cures" homosexual do you think he can "cure" his lying wife?
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:55 PM
Jul 2012

Or maybe he can cure his family of taking farm subsidies.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
14. Eeeeyup, although I take issue with you likening her to shit.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:35 PM
Jul 2012

Shit can be turned into compost, which makes things grow. This complete waste of human flesh is more like toxic sewage sludge. It's useless, poisonous, and stinks to high heaven. Just like Ms. Crazy Eyes.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)
12. If anybody who reads this is in contact with the congresswoman. Please tell her her she's a slimy
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:25 PM
Jul 2012

piece of shit who makes the world a worse place. Go fuck yourself you delusional twit.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
15. This typifies the sort of nutjob attracted to Bachmann
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:36 PM
Jul 2012



Somehow I'm not very surprised. She attracts mouth
breathing sociopaths like a fresh cow pie attracts flies.


Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
17. Winger nutjobs like Bachmann will not rest until more people are dead.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:39 PM
Jul 2012

And yeah, she has no place on the Intel Committee and she never did.

dgibby

(9,474 posts)
18. What about Grover Norquist?
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 03:42 PM
Jul 2012

Anybody threatened him since she linked him to the Muslim Brotherhood? Wonder if Keith Ellison has gotten any threats. Bachmann has gone from being the crazy relative in the attic to a full blown assault weapon.

amb123

(1,581 posts)
23. And Censured by the House.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:29 PM
Jul 2012

Along with Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) and Tom Rooney (R-FL). And we tell Frank Gaffney to keep his paranoid ravings to himself.

NOW!

Frank Gaffney, Bachmann, Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland and Rooney. THE MONSTER RAVING LOONY PARTY.

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)
25. Not only Bachmann,
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:33 PM
Jul 2012

but the four other republicanz who support her contention need to be dealt with as well: Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Thomas Rooney (R-Fla.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.).

Bachmann should be frogmarched off the Intel Committee.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
44. They are all toenail chewing imbeciles
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 11:28 AM
Jul 2012

who belong in a nice quiet place where the nuts hunt the squirrels.

 

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)
28. Just another republican inciting violence.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 04:47 PM
Jul 2012

Just another day like the rest. It's time to enforce these laws.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
42. If a Congressional Democrat had done this to a Bush official
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 07:08 PM
Jul 2012

Censure would probably have been a done deal by now.

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
35. I am sure Ms. Abedin is duly terrorized
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 05:29 PM
Jul 2012

by the events Bachmann put in motion.

Now, terror? Homeland security?

When are they going to stop groping women and children and go after the true terrorists, those who hide behind the first ammendment while making others lives hell?

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
37. The leadership is scared of offending the Tea Party. Bachmann is the leader of that caucus
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 05:42 PM
Jul 2012

The Republicans brought this on themselves. They described Sarah Palin as the future of the Party and Bachmann is her serving equivalent.

mother earth

(6,002 posts)
40. GOP women incite violence. Bachmann's words, like Palin's "mama grizzly" incites
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 06:00 PM
Jul 2012

crime, murder & hate. End this "christian value" hate talk! You are not christian and you have no value when you incite hate!

K & R

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
41. Why was that man in New Jersey not charged?
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 06:07 PM
Jul 2012

Obama could make one phone call and have that guy warehoused off to Guantanamo and never heard from again.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
43. sick
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 11:17 AM
Jul 2012

Bachmann is dangerously sick. with palin putting crosshairs on giffords district to this unexcusable McCarthyism, this has to be stopped and soon.

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