Huh? That’s right, Michele Bachmann thinks that self-proclaimed ‘rodeo-clown’ Glenn Beck is qualified to solve the Budget Deficit.
via The Minnesota Independent:
Rep. Michele Bachmann was on a tear: In one of her most fiery stump speeches to date, the tea party leader told a South Carolina audience that the tax code was a “weapon of mass destruction,” that President Obama is “babying” terrorists, that the rich pay too much in taxes, that social issues like marriage and abortion cannot be put on the “back burner,” and that Fox News’ Glenn Beck can solve America’s budget deficit.
Bachmann spoke to a group of about 200 Spartanburg Republicans on Saturday evening. She was in Columbia earlier in the day and had to cancel a Friday visit with Rock Hill Republicans due to a late-night vote in the House.
“We are looking at a time of bubbles,” Bachmann said, referring to the housing and tech bubbles. She said that Americans are witnessing a “government bubble.”
“If Obama is allowed to continue what I call his ‘reign of error’ for another second term, we will be at $21 trillion in debt,” she said. “We are talking Greece territory in the greatest country in the world. We are talking Greece.”
She added, “When you add it all up — I’m a former federal tax lawyer — when you add up the tax burden on today’s kids — and I believe this is a low estimate — they are looking at in their peak years, at having 70 percent of their income to pay their tax bill.”
That’s a claim that Bachmann made at CPAC earlier this month when she claimed an even higher number — 75 percent, and according to the Washington Post, it simply isn’t true.
“The bottom line, when you ‘get out your calculator’ and add all this up: total taxes of about 25 percent, rather than the 75 percent in Bachmann’s telling,” wrote the Washington Post, which used tax experts to assist in its calculations of federal, state and local taxes. “We presented this math to Bachmann’s spokesman and are still waiting for a response.”
Bachmann blasted entitlement spending and urged reform in Social Security. “The problem is our health care welfare spending which is out of control,” she said. “The good news is we can solve this problem. It needs to be a market based approach.”
She offered up a somewhat non-traditional solution: “We need to simply tell people the facts, like Glenn Beck, with that chalkboard, that man can explain anything. I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this.”
In the UK they thought that a combination of Liberal Democrat and Conservative was the answer and just look how deep in the mire we are up to our necks in. If you vote for these policies the rich will become immeasurably richer and the less well off, including what passes for your “middle class”, will be robbed blind again by thr old money. It’s your choice!
If that’s all you have to do then you must be pretty stupid or maybe just too lazy to do the same thing.
She’s right. All we have to do is follow Beck’s lead — invest heavily in a company that provides a specific service or product, and then use the airwaves, using fear-mongering tactics to convince Americans to purchase said services and products.
We’ll all be rich in no time!
I* just love you liberals.Love you so much i think it would be so nice if we could change the Websters Dictionary’s definition of the word libera’It should read as follows; liberal:hypocrite
hyp·o·crite
[hip-uh-krit]
noun
1.
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.
2.
a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
“The family is the ultimate first form and first unit in government and society.”
What happened to “We the people”?
There’s a bubble all right.
I am so confused by Republicans. I thought they wanted less government involved in our lives and yet time and again they insist on controlling the most personal and private aspect of peoples lives, our personal relationships, and our own bodies. What do Democrats want to do that is anywhere near as controlling or intrusive as that?
The sad fact is that Republicans straight up lie. It didn’t used to be that way, but the Bush Administration really got the ball rolling, and now the party as a whole lives in a bizarro universe of contradictions and hypocrisy.
Once again the people have been duped by the patriotism of scoundrels, fear, hate and all the usual suspects. Right now a large portion of the electorate are zealous to vote against their own best interest, and vehemently hate those who would dare vote for them. They are so convinced of the lies that they have come to despise the truth. They are E.J. Dionne put it this way: The Tea Party movement is like the French Revolution in reverse: The peasants are storming the Bastille demanding MORE rights for the Aristocrats.
Someone needs to put a muzzle on this idiot! She has a “Bubble” between her ears. Most of her facts are just plain wrong, or worse yet, made up to appeal to the least intelligent among us, the typical Republibagger. It somehow seems appropriate that she was speaking in South Carolina, the state that started the Civil War. I guess every state has it’s pocket of morons that would vote for someone like this. It’s sad….
Also, even if some of her facts might be right, they are seriously misrepresented to frame the issue in the wrong light.
So … she wanted Obama to send troops to defend Mubarak?
Is THAT what she wanted? LOL!
Yeah he coddled him all the way out the door. Just like he is coddling Kadafi in Libya. Typical Republibagger, just go in, guns a blazin’! I mean it has worked so well in Afghanistan and Iraq. Glenn Beck for Sec. of the Treasury! He’ll sell us all gold coins, worth less than we paid for them. You REALLY have to question the intelligence of people who would vote for this r_ _ _ d B_ _ _h!
Why is it up to America to send troops to any country when they have an issue? We are NOT the worlds police. Let’s keep our troops home. Michelle Bachmann is nuts.
Because we hope that whoever ends up running these places will remember our help and give us their oil, other resources, and Michele Bachmann.
If these wars were fair, we’d be giving them Bachmann
My mind went blank. Looks like it’s going to stay that way for a bit. I’ll update my previous comment when my train of thought is back on track.