Bachmann To Give Her Own State Of The Union Rebuttal

[meegbear]

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) will be offering the formal Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night.

But for those conservatives who want more of a tea-flavored rebuttal, fret not: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will be giving her two cents, as well.

The Minnesota Republican's office confirmed to The Huffington Post that she intends to broadcast a prerecorded message through the Tea Party Express website once Obama is done speaking.

"She will be doing it," a Bachmann spokesman said. "We don't know all the details. But it is something that the Tea Party Express will record."

The news -- which is undoubtedly as welcomed by progressives as it is by conservatives -- was announced through the Tea Party Express email list earlier in the day:

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has confirmed with us that she will broadcast her response to Barack Obama's State Of The Union address this Tuesday. You'll be able to watch her rebut Obama via her address which will be broadcast on our website: www.TeaPartyExpress.org

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/bachmann-to-give-her-own-_n_812321.html

This should be a hoot.

[DJ13]

1. Advance photo of her practicing her rebuttal

:crazy:

[Myrina]

2. ... sounds like she needs to leave the GOP and join the TP ...

... just to make it official an' all ...


:freak:

[FiveGoodMen]

3. A pre-recorded rebuttal?

What's wrong with this picture?

(Other than Bachmann)

[JuniperLea]

5. Their last "rebuttal" was pre-recorded as well...

You could easily tell as they got it all wrong... showed them to be telling obvious lies.

[pacalo]

10. When a "rebuttal" is pre-announced without knowing what one will be rebutting?

And a pre-recorded one, at that.

[JuniperLea]

4. My, but we are full of ourselves...

I wonder who will foot the bill? Oh, wait... I'm sure this is Koch flavored.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

6. Text of the Rebuttal here.

"Oh yeah!??"

[Crankie Avalon]

8. And also, "Sez you!"

C'mon, don't sell her short.

[monmouth]

7. Palin is not gonna like this on bit.....n/t

[Angry Dragon]

9. She gives lawyers and women a bad name

[Zoeisright]

11. Is she giving the rebuttal to the voices in her head?

Or to her imaginary friends?

[Vickers]

12. Oh, another time machine rebuttal from ol' crazy eyes.

*yawn*

[Urban Prairie]

13. I thought that Sarah Palin was the teabaggers' heroine?

Bachmann might as well have taped her rebuttal already, since she never lets anything like facts get in the way of her whackjob rightwing fundie-inspired agenda.

But if Sarah herself panned President Obama's SOTU speech instead, would it then be called a "refuddal"?

[Swamp Rat]

14. Will she present her list of all the Americans to be rounded up and sent to concentration camps?

She said she was working on one.

[Contrary1]

15. Put Sarah and Christine on either side of Bachman as the backup singers...

I think "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" would be an appropriate song for them to perform.

[underpants]

16. "expects to someday fact check a Bachmann statement that turns out to be true." -another article

But independent fact checkers find that the information she relies on is often exaggerated, misleading or wrong. PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature of the St. Petersburg Times that checks whether statements made by politicians are true, has repeatedly determined that Bachmann's claim don't ring true.

"We have checked her 13 times, and seven of her claims to be false and six have been found to be ridiculously false," PolitiFact editor Bill Adair said.

Adair said no politician has been checked as often as Bachmann without saying at least something that's true.


But that claim is a stretch, said Larry Levitt, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care issues. Levitt said health care premiums have increased, but it has nothing to do with the new health care law. He said the new law has had a very modest effect on the cost of coverage.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/01/21/michele-bachmann-iowa-misstatements/

This lays out her lies about healthcare premiums increasing, illegal aliens getting insurance coverage, and the math on costs

[somone]

17. Good, let the dumb twit speak