Bachmann bid for GOP leadership gets cool reaction

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP



By LAURIE KELLMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - Self-proclaimed tea party leader Michele Bachmann's bid for a top Republican post in the House received a cool reaction Thursday from Speaker-to-be John Boehner, an early test of how GOP leaders will treat the antiestablishment movement's winners in Tuesday's elections.

"Constitutional conservatives deserve a loud and clear voice in leadership!" Bachmann, R-Minn., who founded the Tea Party Caucus, said in a one-paragraph Facebook announcement that she is running for GOP conference chairman.

House Republican leaders don't disagree. But that doesn't mean they want the hyperbolic Bachmann being a spokeswoman for the new majority during the 2012 election cycle.

Boehner, aware of the role tea partiers played in making him the next House speaker, is endorsing no one. His lieutenants are lining up behind Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, leaving no doubt that Hensarling - and not Bachmann - is the leadership favorite to chair the GOP conference.


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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, Republican candidate for Congress greets supporters after a rally at the Blaine Airport in Blaine, Minn., Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

[la la]

1. unsuccessful hynopsis sometimes does that to

teapartiers like michelle!

;>)))

[Xipe Totec]

2. There is nobody better qualified to lead the Republicans than Michele Bachmann

She is exactly the type of leader the Republicans so richly deserve.

[struggle4progress]

4. We should all send letters and postcards to our local Pubbies supporting her!

[Dappleganger]

3. I hope she gets it!

Putting up the most batshit crazy republicans on the media every day would be better than a 3-ring circus!

[Bitwit1234]

5. Oh I hope she keeps pushing it

and you better believe that she will. I think her fellow republicans are fed up with her and she will get the cold shoulder. I hope she goes for it. And won't take no for an answer til she is kicked to the curb.

[4lbs]

6. Hey, she should get it. It will teach the Repukes about aligning themselves with nutty teabaggers.

Also, she likes kissing some Bush.

[katty]

7. just keep yappin' Michele....lead your troops into the abyss

where they already reside.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i REALLY hope she gets it. fucking nut job.