Aarontology: She was smart not to vote.

Now she won't be on record as voting against a tax cut.

So now she's still on the record as being against the tax cut and also for letting her campaigning interfere with her actual day job.

SMRT!

Didn't vote on it? Can't derp about it.

FTFA "It's not listening to the people here in Iowa."



/Minnesotan

hubiestubert: in order to take the moral high ground, you have to actually occupy that territory first

Shouldn't that be the other way 'round?

She does realize that there are 49 other states she could be campaigning in, right?
She does realize that she represents a district in Minnesota, right?

Probably the great thing once the Republicans choose their nominee is that every two bit Republican candidate that has an opinion won't have it covered by the press. She needs less to focus on bashing Obama and more on why she's suitable to be President. She doesn't do a good job of getting her platform to the voters.

So, was she present for the vote?

Bachmann, Perry, Cain...Isn't it interesting how these tea-party favourites withered under national scrutiny like vampires to sunlight.

shower_in_my_socks: Why do all of these Republicans want to raise taxes on Americans?

Where is the teabagger outrage at these people?

They decided that they're not taxed enough.

FTA: Bachmann also touched on the wave of violence in Iraq during her Friday news conference, suggesting that President Barack Obama, a Democrat, acted too hastily in removing combat troops from the country earlier this month.

"We've also seen that the president misunderstood Iraq and the consequences of pulling our troops out right now," Bachmann said. "While we're thrilled that troops are home, that they can be with their families, we also see that this precipitous action has resulted in tremendous sectarian violence."

Hate to tell you sweetheart Obama was merely following the deal Bush signed into agreement in December of 2008.

ifarkthereforiam: Bachmann, Perry, Cain...Isn't it interesting how these tea-party favourites withered under national scrutiny like vampires to sunlight.

Please, everyone knows that modern vampires sparkle.

Also, the folkloric ones were just as likely to turn to stone in sunlight or be unaffected completely as to crumble into dust. The fiery shrivelling thing is a Hollywood addition, though admittedly an awesome one.

/tidbits for those who, like me, automatically squirrel away info so useless that even Trivial Pursuit doesn't bother with it

ifarkthereforiam: Bachmann, Perry, Cain...Isn't it interesting how these tea-party favourites withered under national scrutiny like vampires to sunlight.

Not really, their entire platform has been we dont like Obama...

Virulency: ifarkthereforiam: Bachmann, Perry, Cain...Isn't it interesting how these tea-party favourites withered under national scrutiny like vampires to sunlight.

Not really, their entire platform has been we dont like Obama...

Well that was basically the platform of the Tea Party in 2010. However, the news story that year was the movement itself. It hasn't been until individual members have been put under the spotlight that the media noticed, "oh hey, their ideas are pretty stupid and they're pretty crazy". Something they should've noticed 2 years ago.

So she isn't Taxed Enough Already?

Why is this coont still relevant?

Nonsense, subby. She was against the homos way before she married Marcus.

skygod: Why is this coont still relevant?

Why are republicans in general still relevant?? Someone in America still needs to explain that to me.

As an Iowan, I will be happy to see the ass end of the caucus season so all of these conservitard farkwits will scuttle off to New Hampshire and let the western half of the state get back to beating their wives and humping altar boys.

Aarontology: She was smart not to vote.

Now she won't be on record as voting against a tax cut.

she pretty much looks like she will be on record of not doing anything, but collecting a big paycheck

deschinc: As an Iowan, I will be happy to see the ass end of the caucus season so all of these conservitard farkwits will scuttle off to New Hampshire and let the western half of the state get back to beating their wives and humping altar boys.

It appears that it's all been ass end so far.

lwpengy: Aarontology: She was smart not to vote.

Now she won't be on record as voting against a tax cut.

she pretty much looks like she will be on record of not doing anything, but collecting a big paycheck

Exactly how many votes has she actually cast at work this congress? Seems that it would be easier to run against an awol congresswoman.

Didn't Boner need anonymous consent to approve this while everyone was away? So couldn't she have stopped it all by herself if she just had been at congress?


Seems pretty bad when you attack something you could of stopped by yourself.

The Onion is prophetic: This one was HR 3630, right? I always get confused about bill numbers, since news articles never seem to reference them.

But yeah, Bachmann didn't vote on it. Surprise surprise.

Oh, come on man, do you want the public to be able to specifically reference legislation...

/Had Mike Enzi tell me he was unaware of legislation because I didn't use the house number, but it had been national news for weeks. He is a lying scumbag.

It does weaken the concept that Social Security is funded by a dedicated tax since the Social Security tax not being collected for the Social Security trust funds is being replaced by funds from general revenues. However, it is all being replaced so in effect the payroll tax holiday is being funded by general revenues from the Treasury and not from the Social Security trust fund.

mrshowrules: Ed Finnerty: She's only against it for people who work in the US Embassy in Iran.

I knew a girl who worked at the US Embassy in Iran. She took the HPV vaccine and it made her baby retarded.

LO effing L

mrshowrules: I knew a girl who worked at the US Embassy in Iran. She took the HPV vaccine and it made her baby retarded.

So that's how babby is deformed. Interesting.

Aarontology: She was smart not to vote.

Now she won't be on record as voting against a tax cut.

That has to be the most insane reasoning I've ever heard. So instead of not being "on record" of voting against a tax cut, she's "on record" everywhere in the world where they've just heard or read her saying she's against the tax cut?

LeoffDaGrate: Aarontology: She was smart not to vote.

Now she won't be on record as voting against a tax cut.

That has to be the most insane reasoning I've ever heard. So instead of not being "on record" of voting against a tax cut, she's "on record" everywhere in the world where they've just heard or read her saying she's against the tax cut?

EVERYONE knows that you can't directly quote a Republican. Directly quoting what a Republican says is misrepresenting them. You libelous slanderer.

Or is it slanderous libeler? I get those confused a lot.

Michele Bachmann comes out

I always thought Marcus would be first.