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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 09:51 PM
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"Bachmann spoke in all caps for much of her remarks and barely stopped to take a breath..."


Michelle Bachmann swept in to the downtown Des Moines Marriott just after lunch today, delivering a high-octane speech criticizing President Obama and big government “arrogance” in Washington.

“I want a waiver for the last two years of president Obama,” she said, referencing the practice of giving waivers to business exempting them from the president’s health care law. “Are you with me?”

In contrast to Haley Barbour’s homespun demeanor and Newt Gingrich’s professorial presentation, Bachmann spoke in all caps for much of her remarks and barely stopped to take a breath.

She ran through Obama's policies, calling them wrong-minded and ineffective. She criticized his stimulus bill, his health care bill, his tax policy, and his energy policy. She pegged her talking points to specific numbers, showing slides with a big white number on a all black background on screens on both sides of her.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/26/gop-iowa-steve-king-2012_n_840956.html
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 09:52 PM
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1. how does one talk all in caps?
that has to be the damn dumbest statement I've seen in a while

and if they wanted to say she was loud or shouting, why not say that?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:17 PM
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7. Joseph McCarthy spoke in all caps
I know what the reference means. It's 100% attack mode, all the time. Usually unsubstantiated.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 09:53 PM
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2. it speaks volumes about this nation that this lady resides in the halls of congress
fucking pathetic
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 09:57 PM
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3. I'm certain if our founding fathers looked into the future and saw her they would say...
Edited on Sat Mar-26-11 09:58 PM by Liberal Veteran
...."Shit. Maybe being a British colony isn't so bad?"
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:03 PM
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4. I wonder when the last time she gave a speech in Minnesota
let alone her district
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:43 PM
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11. She views Minnesota the way Sarah Palin views Alaska
Pretty place, but really just a stepping stone.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:09 PM
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5. They just showed a clip of her on the local news
saying "You need to be put back in charge of your own health care".

When have most Americans really been in charge of our health care? We've always had insurance companies telling us what's best for our health. And with the "Affordable Care" (aka Insurance Company Profit Protection) Act we will continue to have business telling our doctors how to treat us.

I really don't know why she or any other Republican objects to the act - it's just the status quo on steriods.

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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:15 PM
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6. does Michelle Blechman get Congressional health care?
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wordpix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:19 PM
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8. this part is cracking me up, lol---not the brightest bulb in the box, that one
She also touted her introduction of a law to revoke the government's regulation of light bulbs, boasting: “I introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act!” The crowd roared at that one.

Bachmann did not mention that the light bulb law was signed into law by former President Bush.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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al_liberal Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:34 PM
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10. GOP MO...facts never matter.
They've never passed any legislation, tinkered with any tax rates, or run up any deficits that have harmed the US. They are the party of the good, honest folks that are left in America, it's us Dems that have brought all of the hardship upon us. All they ever have to do is make any statement they want and the facts don't matter, the MSM laps that shit up as if it were the gospel.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:28 PM
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9. The L.A. Times' Paul West wasn't impressed, either
He wrote that Bachmann "gave Libya a lightning-fast fly-by in a speech devoted largely to 'tea party' themes of spending and taxes."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-gop-iowa-20110327,0,2061517.story

:hi:






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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 10:50 PM
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12. The danger of idiocy.
She's a dangerous idiot. She does not understand the forces she controls.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 11:04 PM
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13. And that Betsy McCaughey lady who carried the health care law to the podium every time she spoke,
kept calling USSC Justice Anthony Kennedy "Andrew Kennedy." More than once. She never called him Anthony Kennedy.
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Gold Metal Flake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-11 11:35 PM
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15. Meth is a hell of a drug.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-11 06:38 AM
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16. Sounds like her whole speech was "I'm not that black guy". n/t
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