House Republicans SABOTAGING Michele Bachmann's Dreams

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" Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is pretty sure that she was an integral part of the Republican victory at the polls. And so she'd like to be rewarded for her efforts. Bachmann seeks a House leadership position. Specifically, she wants to be the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference -- the fourth-ranking Republican leadership post in the House, and a position once held by John Boehner, Dick Cheney, and Jack Kemp. There's just one slight problem: She's a prominent national Republican solely because she says insane things on television, not because of her leadership skills or policy chops.


This presents a slight problem for House leadership. They like the more "serious" Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) for the position. But the activist base loves Bachmann. And unlike Democrats, the GOP doesn't take any perverse pleasure in punishing its base. (And their base doesn't suck it up and take it when they're denied what they want.)


Serious Policy Wonk Paul Ryan is telling GOP members to support Hensarling:


“Jeb's economic expertise and strong ability to communicate are what we need in our conference chairman to articulate our unified commitment to get our country back on track,” Ryan wrote in the letter. “This position requires someone who has a command of these issues and has a history of successfully debating them.”



But Bachmann has her own letter!

Bachmann, according to the letter obtained by POLITICO, is making the case that she brings “strong principled conservative values, a proven level of experience, effectiveness with our friends in the local and national media, and an energetic national constituency that reflects the results of Tuesday night.”

“It is important that our conference demonstrate to the people who sent us here that their concerns will be tirelessly advanced at the table of leadership,” she wrote.


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<http://www.salon.com/news/michele_bachmann/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/11/05/bachmann_house_leadership>


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[Rabrrrrrr]

1. "unlike Democrats, the GOP doesn't take any perverse pleasure in punishing its base." - so true!!

And when the GOP does at times punish its base, they spin it so it looks like they're really benefiting the base, and their base is dumb enough to believe it.

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3. Or they do what they always do,...blame it on Librul ideaolgy. Their overly used magician's tricks

continue to put coming generations of brain dead voters back into a republican trance where deception & lies becomes their staple soup du jour.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Ask her how many committees she serves on

ask her many votes she misses because she is
busy talking to her friends on their talk shows

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6. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Palin enter this committee discussion.

Its still early on but power-positioning will begin rearing its nasty face & fangs.

[immoderate]

7. No. Just give her the job!

Let her HOWL!

--imm

[Angry Dragon]

8. She can have the job, I really do not care

She is an embarrassment to the human race
and the state of Minnesota

[immoderate]

13. Sorry!

LOL! Far from home for me, so I don't identify as closely. Anyway, I'm in Florida. You want embarrassments? :rofl:

--imm

[Angry Dragon]

16. I do not think there are many states out there right now

where a democrat feels at home

California is the only one that comes to mind.

[CatholicEdHead]

15. She has done nothing for her district, MN 6

[EmilyAnne]

4. Yep. They're gearing up for the big prize in 2012. Have to deal with the crazies. nt

[FSogol]

5. No Compromise, Michele!

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[yellowcanine]

9. DEMAND your due, Michele! Ignore the blood on the floor and go for it!

[FSogol]

18. Michele, take your tea-votes and go home!

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[DCKit]

10. Gimme some bread to go with this circus.

We didn't lose the House, we bought ourselves a boatload of reality TeeVee.

[Old Codger]

11. I wonder

If I can renounce my birth state.... I cannot believe that there are enough insane idiots in Minn. to continue to re-elect that batshit crazy broad.

[pink-o]

12. It's her district...so totally Jerrymandered to be Repig...

Minnesotans are smarter and bluer for the most part. But like every state, there's pockets full o'crazies and the boundaries are drawn around her district to enclose 'em all in one place.

I'm very afraid of what the 2010 census will wrought in future redistricting!

[Old Codger]

17. Hard to believe

That there are that many there to start with and then they are all in the same district... I woul dnot have previously believed that there were that many crazy people in the whole state :)

[librechik]

14. Despite its claims, the tea party is run and funded by Republicans

it was just a way for them to re-brand themselves after the Republican brand took such a beating under Bush. Nobody wants to vote for a Bush Republican. So guess what, we're no that anymore! We're anti govt Tea party types!

Those Teeps arriving in Congress from Podunk are going to be given their marching orders by Republican Leadership, and if they kick up a fuss, they will be gone.