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There are a growing number of high level Republicans who are condemning Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s Islamaphobic attacks against top aide to Secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin. Bachmann singled out Abedin claiming she has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. All this garbage started with a bogus report from Frank Gaffney’s Center For Security Policy and as Senator John McCain put it she is being attacked: “without concern for fact or fairness.”
Beyond McCain, there’s a whole slew of Republicans attacking Bachmann’s unsubstantiated attacks on Abedin. Her former campaign chief, Ed Rollins wrote an op-ed on Fox News’ website slamming the factually challenged Bachmann:
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's outrageous and false charges against a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin reaches that threshold.
Her unsubstantiated charge against Abedin, a widely respected top aide to Secretary Hillary Clinton, accusing her of some sort of far-fetched connection to the Muslim brotherhood, is extreme and dishonest.
Having worked for Congressman Bachman's campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level.
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Shame on you, Michele! You should stand on the floor of the House and apologize to Huma Abedin and to Secretary Clinton and to the millions of hard working, loyal, Muslim Americans for your wild and unsubstantiated charges. As a devoted Christian, you need to ask forgiveness for this grievous lack of judgment and reckless behavior.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said “from everything I do know of her, she has a sterling character. And I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.”
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) also condemned the attacks calling them “ridiculous, really off-base, inappropriate.”
Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) tweeted, "Rep. Bachmann’s accusations about Sec. Clinton aide Huma Abedin are out-of-line. This kind of rhetoric has no place in our public discourse."
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Will somebody please put this woman in a straight jacket. She is truly dangerous, and needs to be stopped. A person as crazy as Bahmann should be banned from the house of representatives. She should not be holding this office. She is clearly mentally ill.
How many more years must we listen to her insane ravings?
Crazy = Good lookin' woman Butt has Nothing between the ears - I Dont know which one is worse M.Back-the-Man or S.Pay-me - Both are Really Screwy !!!!
Loony Lady.....!
MD, and I are going steady.....do people still do that? We have matching Avatar. My sentiment's exactly!
she was almost your candidate this year...you ppl really ARE insane.
Amazing that the Republicans are actually coming out against insanity and extremism.
Probably only because they know the woman personally.
Maybe they'll start campaigning against Romney soon.
The thought just occurred to me... Do you suppose this has something to do with the GOP's war on women? They judge all women by Bachmann and Palin and think we're all that bat-crap crazy?
Bachman is certifiable and needs to be checked into a funny farm somewhere.
TMom/MD, great avatars!!!
how about someone just slam her into the ground, oh maybe 6 ft will be far enough. this woman is not only scary, but DANGEROUS TO BOOT. i think her peers need to force her to resign.
Haddie Nuff. Have you no respect. That is a terrible insult to Bat Crap.
No, I think they've always though that way. The only difference between now and back then is back then the talk was done behind closed doors. I think it's gone on for so long, they've become so confident and arrogant about the matter they think they can talk about it publicly now and we aren't strong enough to do anything about it. I think come November we should let them know just how strong we are.
I just think the GOP are a bunch of twits who wouldn't know what to do with a real woman.
The real women in congress are Democrats like Pelosi: happily married, sane, good Catholic, mother, and grandmother. (sorry, but I am prejudiced as a Catholic...a little bit) Well, I just like Nancy. She is highly underrated, extremely smart.
Now even I have to admit some of things she said even makes me shake my head...
(<_>)
Vote NObama 2012!!
Well, well, thanks for fessing up, b! That beats backing pallin. As a women, they are an insult to females everywhere.
Like Chris said, Palin and Bachmann are the herpes of the Republican Party. You can never get rid of them! LOL!
b113,
b113, you're finally awake.
Obama/Biden 2012!
KV - Dont Hold your Breath about b !!!!!!
Bachmann is a whole bushel of crazy! Hopefully the voters will get their good sense back and vote this dingbat out next time! Unless of course, she TOTALLY flips out and has to be dragged kicking and screaming from the halls of Congress before then. (I hope, I hope!) I would love to see that on C-SPAN. :)
Hell, MJB, I'd PAY to see that!
Too bad Valarie is not here to voice her opinion on the lady. She is from her state and she has NO RESPECT FOR HER!!!!
Where IS Valerie, by the way?
i would pay to see that too md
Yup there's dingbat's on both sides of the aisle...
Vote NObama 2012!!
yeah, momma moose on one side and bat*** crazy bachmann on the other
Bachmann brings shame and disgrace to America every time she opens her mouth. Her attempts at castigating Hillary Clinton's long time female aid Huma Abedin has no basis in fact. This Abedin woman would have gone through the regular government security clearance process which is extremely rigorous and thoroughly conducted by trained and experienced FBI agents. Where does Bachman's diseased mind come up with such filth? Huma Abedin was defended by John McCain as a hard working public servant. So again we have to waste time talking about garbage from the refuse lady Michelle Bachmann. How will any of this create jobs for unemployed Americans? Why doesn't Michelle Bachmann push President Obama's American Jobs Act instead of coming up with this personal filth against Hillary Clinton's long time aid Huma Abedin?
Questionable choices like offshore accounts, the patriot act, waterboarding, inviting a white nationalist to CPAC, denegrating a veterans record of service
The right has no interest in discussing questionable choices only chanting to pacify their bachmann believing base
First of all Obama extended the Patriot Act because he had no choice. He was pressured into it by YOUR party. That's how things work in government. The President doesn't have complete power to do whatever he wants, if he want's something there's usually a price to pay for it. Second, YOUR party controls the House which means they control the purse strings. While Obama was spending all this money what was your party doing? NOTHING which means they're either incompetent or compromised. Third, our government has been using drones for years and if you think the recent civilian deaths are a new thing you're an idiot. How many unmanned drones killed innocent people during Bush's ill conceived war? Fourth, it was Moveon.org that denigrated general Petraeus, Obama has nothing to do with that organization. Besides, what was said on Moveon.org was paltry compared to the filth and garbage you people spewed on Kerry for his service record. If the Dems do nasty things well then they are only copying YOUR party which is after all the masters of stooping to the lowest common denominator.
Obama and the democrats didn't extend the patriot act the president didn't get rid of it however anyone with a healthy mind can realize the administration that had the nerve to start it deserves quite a bit of credit. Rick Santorum openly says he is proud to have voted for the patriot act. Just recently Joe Lieberman and John Boehner pushed for governemnt to be ale to declare you not a citizen and indefineately detained in the NDAA. Find me one democrat who openly supports the patriot act and I'll show you a dozen right wingers praising it. If Obama using it is wrong and it is then the right supporting is right? Pull your head from Glenn Beck's backside and read a damn book or something are you too busy renting out the space between your ears as storage space.........
Drone attacks don't violate international law, torture which is against it will get you tried at the Hague. Japanese captives after the second world war were executed by american tribunals for waterboarding US soldiers.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's tax shelter accounts is in the words of politifact mostly false.
www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2012/jul/18/mary-matalin/debbie-wasserman-schultz-had-offshore-accounts-mit
Jobs in Finland on Stimulus money?
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/03/americans-prosperity/ad-says-stimulus-tax-credits-funded-jobs-finland
Time to put Michelle Bachmann out to pasture. And this women was actually running for POTUS? Wow!
Well, she was only one of those clowns who was a part of the gop primary circus. ROTFFL. The real laugh is wrong way willard was one of them as well. LOL
I totally agree with you Thankful Mom...
I have to go off subject for a minute. That speech Joe Biden gave at the NAACP was so eloquent; half Dr. King, half Churchill. What a wonderful speaker he is! I was so proud of him that day.
He sent me a great coffee mug with his picture on it. I love it! Obama/Biden 2012
EO, You could get one of those mugs, too!
Or one with your hero, Obama on it! Just go to Obama's website.
It's too bad that voters could elect such a person to congress. She is functionally illiterate as far as accurate information is concerned. To just throw out this stuff is insane. She doesn't seem to be a serious congressional figure. She seems so far down the intelligence scale that it makes me wonder about the electorate who voted her in. Are they that ignorant that they would vote her in? If so, this is what the Republicans in general have been trying to do, namely dumb down the common people by cutting back on education. That way they can't make "informed" choices and can be led by the nose where the Republicans want them to go.
Moon Bats district was purposely gerrymandered by the GOP which is how she keeps getting reelected year after year.
Robert~ Bingo! You hit the nail on the head.
Praise to McCain for taking a firm stand. This is not the first time he has put a stop to this kind of rhetoric.
I think he wants something....VP..nah...Sec.of State..Defence? He would help Willard's chances but I think McCain would rather ride on top of the bus!
oh the trolls are trolling here early this evening i see.
Billie, I am one of these "European liberals" who have put EO and the rest of the stalking trolls on ignore, before I say something which could get me banned.
I'm not going to give Boehner or McCain too much credit for speaking out against Bachman. For the past three years, both men have either stood silent or have been guilty of spewing similar distortions, slander, lies, and hate speech as each situation suited their political needs.
I'll concede that most of McCain's sins have been sins of ommission, but he's not missed many opportunities to stand at his congressional podium and make false statements about and against President Obama.
Boehner, as we all know, generally comes across as appearing more civilized when ginning up the vitriol against the President, but he is clearly as mean-spirited as any of the other right-wing lunatics, such as West, Walsh, Santorum, Sununu--and those anti-government wackos who repeatedly refer to President Obama as a tyrant or a dictator, and compare him so frequently to Hitler, Stalin, and Musolini. Obviously, these republican hate-mongers have never studied history, or they'd be wondering why after spewing such trash that they've not been herded into concentration camps or gulags by now.
For the past three-and-a-half years you've all heard the hate-speech that the republicans have hurled at the President. How often have you heard any of these leaders speak out against any of it? You haven't. So why--just because for one minute on one particular day a few high-ranking republicans spoke out against Michelle Bachman whom everyone recognizes as a certifiable lunatic (along with Walsh and West) should we cut Boehner and McCain any slack?
Notice how today Romney has ramped up the vitriol and how no republican leader has cautioned him to stop. Notice, too, how Bachman and Beck continued their lunacy, with no leading republican reigning her in. In fact, several leading republicans have praised Romney for revving into high gear with his campaign of distortion, deception, and dishonesty.
You want to give these guys credit? Take my word for it: Nothing they've said will reduce the republican hate-mongering in any way, shape, or form.
well my fellow citizen at post 10.5 I'm sure Michelle had no clue this was coming after all people have been demonizing muslims and all of islam for years on the right to thunderous applause....so in some ways this is unique. Not of course Michelle's usual Bachmann Scenarios but the response from Republicans usually they just do like Reince Preibus and do some "he can say whatever he wants I'm just the chairman far be it for me to tell him anything..." type thing
hohohohohoho.....hahahaha....another tea bag choice.....when are you real republicans gonna get sick of the crap??????????????????????????
smile! Oh my side hurts, and that is all I can muster this far into the post.
howdy TM....it really ain't that funny....me laughing at the clueless should be against the law........but hey....laws are laws ask Robme.........
Speaking of Rawmoney, did you hear Queen Ann on TV this morning saying, "We've given YOU PEOPLE all you need to know about our taxes." Boy, that's telling us peons, huh? Well, by golly I guess we better just take their word for it that there ain't nothin' in them there taxes that could be embarrassin', huh? What a couple of privileged asses those two are. And still the stupid Repubs want to vote for them!
Rawmoney. Hahaha.
I liked when they did the interview with, I think, Dianne Sawyer, and Ann was wearing a $900 shirt.
They're just like us.
oh mjb that was too funny, queen ann rawmoney. they are both asses. how dare they look down their noses at us like that, and MUTT wants to be our pres.NOT. OBAMA 2012
It is so scary that this race is in a dead heat right now. I believe, though, that when they have the debates, Obama, who is a wonderful debater, will come out ahead. It is hard for me to imagine why nearly half the country wants an elitist, ruthless corporate raider whose policies will decimate 98% of the country.
Queen Anne makes me tired, too, Billie. She is as out of touch with the average American woman as Princess Anne in England.
Yeah, I remember that shirt and it was ugly as Hell. Which just proves, you can have all the money in the world, but you can't buy good taste!
Or an election, hopefully.
From your lips to God's ears! :)
come on let's see Palin, Bachmann, the dead beat dad and yo yo commie finder do the teapub shufffle.......oh man...............give Obama you best shot....teapubs. wait till the tax disclosers....oh man..............
When you worship money then you will do anything to get that money no matter how disgusting, illegal and immoral. Which is why you tea bagged republicans are so repugnant, disgusting,dishonest and a waste of air. You know the difference between a convict and a tea bagged republican, the convict got caught. Which just shows how hypocritical tea bagged republicans are, they admire people like Mittens robbing them because he gained so much but if Mittens had been caught before his wealth you would be demanding his blood. Which is why no one should ever under estimate how low a republican will go, if there is a buck involved they would sell their children to get it.
The only thing the Republicans learned from Watergate was don't get caught.
I think they need a refresher course. They don't seem too good at it. Dems are too smart for them. Always were, always will be.
Not all conservatives are dumb but studies show most dumb folks are conservative
Got any facts??? Ha ha ha! They walk among us! Scary aren't they!
You people are funny. You talk about things like you know what your talking about. You speak of events like you were there to know the truth. You watch a garbage network (I assume), like this one and take it as fact. You make grose generalities about conservatives and the republicans like you and your party are the great saviors of this nation. Leave it up to all the foolish democrats and we will all be broke. They are the ones that want to continue taxing the US because the Feds are throwing our money away. They give more money away for social programs because of all the poor pitiful lazy people that are abusing the system. Amnesty for people that walk into this nation because we don't want to discriminate. Where is any kind accountability or responsibility with liberals and democrats? All you can do is call people names and talk about crap that you know nothing of. Why do you talk about people like they are total idiots just becaue they want to hold people accountable for their use of our money and we are sick of government abuse and waste.
Whoitmay, youre some piece of work.You don't have a clue who the tea party people are. You watch liberal media and base your opinion on ignorance. Unless you get your ass out on the street and or go speak to any of them to see what they are really doing, why don't you just keep you mouth shut. If you people don't have first hand facts. Shut up! you people are foolish if you think your favorite democrats are so intelligent and great. You people don't want to see hard facts and figures because they don't reflect the truth as you see it. You call everything republican lies that doesn't reflect what you want to be true. Wake up people and try to act with some intelligence and maturity.
Oh oh another disgruntled tea bagger with us.out of your minds seems to fit you out of your minds.
I see that Ann Romney's "YOU PEOPLE" has caught on even with some of the lunatics that are jotting on this vine. Interesting that the conservatives here who have been referring to us haven't caught on that s/he is among the great unwashed that Mrs. Romney looks down upon as "You People."
By "You People," Mrs. Romney means the rest of us slum dogs. She's telling us that we're garbage to her, that we're scum.
She's telling us that we have no right to question the elite American Royalty of which she is a part.
She spits out those words "You People" as an insult to anyone who hasn't inherited hundreds of millions of dollars. Those words are an insult to what she considers the peons that have to work in the factories her husband closes to build his own personal fortune.
She doesn't care if you're republican or Democrat. You're stil the stuff she has to scrape off the bottoms of her shoe on those occasions she's forced to walk on a public street.
Don't you get it yet? If you're one of those people who has to go to work every day; if you're one of those people who has to struggle to pay bills; if you're someone who can't afford to buy one house--much less six or seven; if you're one of those wretched underlings who has to serve in the military, if you're one of our wounded veterans, one of our disabled, one of our elderly; if you're a child; a single mother; a person who strives to go to college but can't afford to without taking loans--if you're anyone beneath that elite 1% of American Royalty, then Her Royal Majesty, Ann Romney spits at you and condemns you with those words "YOU PEOPLE."
The tea baggers are 90% of the old Pat Robertson Moralless Majority re-branded by a new name but after 34 years they remain the same stupid people who supported Reagan because Reagan said he was one of them.
#12.11 IN the case of poor, misguided Ronnie, they could have been right.
Oh, yeah, they were right...now FAR right!
To the right of the moon, far out!
Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism–intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification).
A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psychological variables predict political conservatism:
The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality and is motivated by needs that vary situationally and dispositionally to manage uncertainty and threat.
good one crackhead. you show that out of your minds person.
Bachmann should be forced by her own Party to apologize to Huma on the House floor, along with the others who signed that obscene document!
Emperor:: Speaking of 1st Class Useful Idiots, in your case it is 1st Class Useless idiot.
Have a question, can a politistion be charged for slander
Can a dead battery be charged? I wish they would. It seems to be overlooked. It would put an end to the BS and I would welcome that.
Tea Party Queen of extremist sideshow politics brings the disgrace on the government she accuses others of. If Mrs.Bachmann wonders where the incompetent bureaucrat spewing anti-American garbage is she, then she need only look in a mirror.
Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the craziest of them all?
The mirror cracked up.................... laughing!
Tee Potty women aren't a good reflection of women in general.
Since her loyal followers found out she was just leading them on for the money, you won't see ANYONE at a Sarah Palin rally. That's why she has to go wherever the cameras are and shove her face in front of it.
I guess that's what you would call a successful Republican woman. Avaricious, greedy, and a total liar.
Guess most women are whores then because most female voters gravitate to democrats because they don't want their uteri made into public domain for government
Now Palin herself is about as smart as a crack whore and apparently she isn't doing any cocaine so what does say about her? At least the drug addicted prostitute has excuse Palin all natural stupid.
By the way most women of all stripes don't respect Sarah Palin. Ann Colter included in that.
Chris she's more desperate than she is greedy. Now she knows that not only does every network not want to give her the reality show she wanted so much and that she hasn't been invited to the convention in Tampa......it's hard out for a half governor mouthpiece. She'll show up in Tampa anyway and it will make a tiny controversy if its a slow news day happening she'll talked about for 2 minutes
Gee. How long ago was that? Before her marks caught on to her playing the long con? You, apparently, still haven't.
VIP tickets and you couldn't get near the place. THAT should have woken you up.
Does her idiot daughter still have her pathetic reality show? I heard it takes place in a house with marble floors and a pool? That's a Republicans idea of "roughing it".
Maybe the pool isn't heated.
Or filled?? :o) Care to take a plunge in the shallow end Bristol?
Chris psycho's always attracts psycho's, what can you say, people show up at Jimmy Buffet concerts, the US has a lot of stupid crazy people in it. Funny how they all support republicans.
XEPTDX~~Did you forget about her daughter???Bristol
How come all the women from the Tee Potty are such idiots! Could it be a plan "To put women in their place"
Someone asked me if I wanted to hear a blonde joke? And I said did Sarah bleach her hair!
The best thing she could do is buy a roll of duct tape. And every morning tape her own moulth shut
BRAVO!!
Why do the people of her district in Minnesota keep electing her????? They can't bee that dumb, or can they?
It is an extreamly conservative, religious, anti abortion district.
They are I know some of them... WOW!
Is it near Lake Woebegone? It should be.
OMG I just saw the funniest tweet ever, someone tweeted, "Cheney should have a change of heart!"
ROTFL
How many regular people has he gypped out of a heart 4? 5? Is he paying people to die just so he can get their heart?? I wouldn't put it past him.
He tried that. It didn't help.
Nothing could ever help Dick the pr&%$.
I'm a poet! Cheney brings out the poet in me.
MJB in Des Moines#20.4~~He promises to pay them, after he gets their heart implanted into his chest.
In the 1950's if you didn't like government, you were called a communist.
In 2012 if you don't hate the government you're called a socialist.
Funny but it's the very same people doing the name calling.
In the 50' it was McCarthyism, in 2012 it's Republicanism.
Yeah if you're a moderate you're a marxist
If you're muslim you're a terrorist working for the muslim brotherhood
If you're name sounds Arabic you're a just probably working for the muslim brotherhood
If you're gay you're a mythological creature, a myth
If you're a moderate republican you're feeling awful lonely
I believe this woman is putting in and audition for Beck's spot on Fox
OH PLEASE, give us a damn break!
As if this type of lunatic propaganda crap, is something new for Michelle Bachmann!
This kind of trash talk is nothing new for the whole of the Republican Party since the inauguration of President Obama; hell, this kind of crap is not even new for any of the recent GOP presidential candidates during their phony primary.
So what the hell is up with all the freakin' Republican counterfeit outrage now?
Those of us who have been watching this Republican clown show for over three years know exactly what this right wing circus really is.
LOL…Now that they are being seen more closely in the national spotlight due to the presidential race, the Republican Party is forced to try and cover it's ass in an attempt not to look as though they're the totally insane bigoted emotional cripples, that the rest of us have become so accustomed to. LOL
LOL…Unfortunately for them it is ALL ON VIDEO…LOL
Indeed why do you think they are pushing so hard for bills like SOPA CISPA ect....
Where was Michelle when GW Bush was allowing his family friends for over 40 years, the Saudi royal family, Bin Laden's family. fly out of the US on the day after 9/11? This President had a real conflict of interest. Michelle needs to be baned from serving publicly. She is really, really bonkers.
I've recently heard that Huma's husband, Anthony Weiner, may be thinking of getting back into politics. I wonder if this is what it's all about? To try and blacklist him before he gets started?
Just a thought.
Chris~ On Kelly this A.M. she was reading something out of the NY Post I think and on the back, as she held up the page, a big, black headline said WEINER PULLS, but that's all you could read. I would love to read the rest of it. I think it's probably still too soon for Anthony to try for a comeback. As good as he was at politics, he wasn't that popular with his co-workers. That's why nobody really tried to stick up for him. As I remember he was a little arrogant according to some that know him, but since all this has happened he may not be arrogant anymore!
XEPTDX-
Yeah, you like them weiners.
Yeah because it is so hard to make money when you inherit a fortune. That is how republicans get wealth unless they get with people like Tom Delay then they can make a fortune selling their votes.
What a joke. Vitter, Craig, Ensign, Sanford, etc., etc., etc......
MB is 100x funnier than SNL !!!! She truly needs her own (Un)Reality Show.
What do you think our Congress is?
Chris,#27.1 Saturday Night Live on steroids.
Michelle Bachmann is ignorant, has no clue what she doing. she is a Tea Party servant and she serves her masters the Koch brothers.. and the repubs put her on the intel board.. man that shows how smart the repubs are ...lol
ghostwolf, Yes! Smart enough to put up Bachmann, Cain, Perry, and R.Money for President of the US!
Scary, isn't it!
I think the Republicans did that as a joke.
ALERT: To my friends,relatives and neighbors in Minnesota. Your village idiot is on the
loose again.
LOL, Dee, I'd heard rumours to the effect that a village in MN was missing its idiot!
And there she was, wide eyed and nobody home.
I heard Minnesota called and said they didn't want her back.
LOL. I can see why!