Rep. Michele Bachmann May Run for President to Repeal "Obamacare"

[Hot Mega]

If Obama is hoping for anything ever in his life, he's hoping Bachmann wins the G:clowner nod to run against him (Unless he's just tired of being prez and actually wants to run against someone on his level). She would be discredited faster than that thread claiming AMT was a Carter legacy.

'Hoot-Smalley':1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) tell Tech Ticker she's currently exploring whether to run for President. If she does, the Tea Party favorite will run on an "appeal Obamacare" platform.

Speaking from the Hill Thursday, the Tea Party favorite from Minnesota told Aaron Task she blames the President's healthcare bill for many of the country's problems - everything from the budget deficit to the sluggish job recovery. "Businesses are not hiring right now," she said, "in many ways this has to do with Obamacare."

(The unemployment rate fell in February to 8.9%, close to a 2-year low. Non-farm payrolls in February grew by close to 200,000 with the private sector adding 222,000 jobs. There's still room for improvement but the trend is heading in the right direction.)

Bachmann also calls President's endorsement of state's right to opt out of the government's healthcare bill starting in 2014 a "fraud" and a "sham." Under the terms proposed, the President is really backing a government run healthcare system at the state level, she argues. "Essentially what he saying is that states would have to adopt a 'single payer plan'."

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[emceeemcee]

That woman is a nut.

 

[xfire]

Too bad they won't make her vacate her seat to do it. Bachmann/Palin 2012!

 

[LukeEl]

No Bachmann, Turner, Overdrive please, no TCB or NBC for the GOP.

 

[CunningStunts]

Dr. Paul would make her and Palin look like babbling apes in a debate. :1orglaugh

 

[~~whimsy~~]

On his level? lol at that.

Obama is Carter and Ford wrapped into one. Which is why he is going to be a one term President.

 

[Hot Mega]

Dr. Paul would make her and Palin look like babbling apes in a debate. :1orglaugh

That's pretty insulting doggin' apes like that.:crying:

On his level? lol at that.

Obama is Carter and Ford wrapped into one. Which is why he is going to be a one term President.

If gas prices continue on this trend and there isn't an Obama moment people can look to...he probably will be a one termer. His major problem still continues to be his will to lead IMO.

Problem though, his competitor would still have to debate him. Which in a one on one Obama is going to wipe the floor with anyone on the landscape right now...I would have given Huckabee a reasonable shot but he seems to have foot in mouth disease too as of late.

 

[xfire]

Obama's still better than anything the republicans have to offer which is why he'll get re-elected.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

They should change the Elephant to a Lame Duck if these are the kind of candidates that are surfacing .....not that I care if the Republicans stay out of office for a considerable while. As our closest neighbor, I like it run by people who aren't insane Neo-Christian fundamentalists

 

[~~whimsy~~]

If gas prices continue on this trend and there isn't an Obama moment people can look to...he probably will be a one termer. His major problem still continues to be his will to lead IMO.

Problem though, his competitor would still have to debate him. Which in a one on one Obama is going to wipe the floor with anyone on the landscape right now...I would have given Huckabee a reasonable shot but he seems to have foot in mouth disease too as of late.

Well there is so much that he talked about but never delivered on and that is why a lot of folks, including the celebrities who fawned over him in the beginning because he [was] a fad, are beginning to realize he was nothing but hot air and a teleprompter reader. Anyone can read from a script and make it sound believable and play on the over emotional chant of: Change we can believe in.

People ate it up and now they have voter's remorse because they were duped like a high school girl being told "I love you" and she handed her virginity over that coming weekend. The next day she realized her mistake.

He's falling faster than a moth to a flame. The only positive I can really see out of this is that he broke the barrier of being a black (despite the fact he is half white/half black) person that made it to the White House. Whether or not you agree he got there rightfully or not he is there and that barrier is now cracked if not torn enough for future Presidents that will not always be some rich, silver spoon white guy who is merely claiming his birthright.

Ah well as I said. I wonder if we will ever see a proper President in the White House again. By the time they get there they have to keep pandering to those that voted them in to keep them around for the second term votes. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

[Hot Mega]

Well there is so much that he talked about but never delivered on and that is why a lot of folks, including the celebrities who fawned over him in the beginning because he [was] a fad, are beginning to realize he was nothing but hot air and a teleprompter reader. Anyone can read from a script and make it sound believable and play on the over emotional chant of: Change we can believe in.

People ate it up and now they have voter's remorse because they were duped like a high school girl being told "I love you" and she handed her virginity over that coming weekend. The next day she realized her mistake.

He's falling faster than a moth to a flame. The only positive I can really see out of this is that he broke the barrier of being a black (despite the fact he is half white/half black) person that made it to the White House. Whether or not you agree he got there rightfully or not he is there and that barrier is now cracked if not torn enough for future Presidents that will not always be some rich, silver spoon white guy who is merely claiming his birthright.

Ah well as I said. I wonder if we will ever see a proper President in the White House again. By the time they get there they have to keep pandering to those that voted them in to keep them around for the second term votes. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Suggestions of Obama's demise are as greatly exaggerated as the suggestions Demos made of GOPer demise ensuing the '08 election.

Obama's problem in leadership is that he seems to conflate the art of moving past impasses with leadership. It's not. In many cases all you do is piss off competing sides even more.

Sometimes you must exert your political will (effecting circumstance in spite of opposition) to get a policy true to your objectives and own it. If it fails, too bad for you. If it succeeds, too bad for your rivals. As bad as Bush's policies were, he had a great machinery around him for effecting his political will. His policy advisors created a circumstance which made it so political untenable for his opposition to stand against his Iraq policy (for example) that Bush got everything he wanted for the policy. Success or fail, he owned it.

Obama thrives on the notion that he is everyone's leader and as such he needs to give everyone a little of what they want....thusly making everyone a little happy. There is no clearer path to failure for a leader than that IMO.

But don't get confused as to what some of this stuff really means when it comes to re-election time. As most people will still be pulling the lever for one of two people....One will have the benefit of being president and if things are just slightly moving in the right direction, people don't tend to change their presidents in those circumstances. :2 cents:

 

[xfire]

People ate it up and now they have voter's remorse .

The election pitted Obama against McCain, not some imaginary perfect president that doesn't exist. I call horseshit on voters remorse. I'm not happy about a lot, but I'm still glad I didn't vote for McCain, or any other Republican for that matter.

 

[Rey C.]

Meee...chele, my belle... :lovecoupl

Why can't people just give Michele a chance? I think she'd make a great President! The voters just need to overlook that she's batshit crazy, fairly dumb and totally ignorant of the facts most of the time. But outside of that... uh... well... uh... I know! She likes puppies and ice cream! And who doesn't like puppies and ice cream?! See, she's a good person.

Plus, she ain't no Nazi communist socialist Muslim like that ol' Obamaman!


And another benefit of electing Bachmann: within two years of her becoming POTUS, Obama could start selling t-shirts, posters and bumper stickers saying "Do Ya Miss Me Yet???"... and make a fortune. Course a year or so after that, we'd probably be in WWIII or a depression that would make the 30's look like the 80's, but those bumper stickers should sell like hotcakes in a logging camp.

Bachmann 2012 :thumbsup:

 

[Hot Mega]

The election pitted Obama against McCain, not some imaginary perfect president that doesn't exist. I call horseshit on voters remorse. I'm not happy about a lot, but I'm still glad I didn't vote for McCain, or any other Republican for that matter.

Besides that, I don't think Bachmann could get elected in one other district in her state besides her own.

(Her district must be home to all of the state's mental wards and for some reason they get to vote.)

 

[titsrock]

I don't see how Obama is responsible for THIS Oil spike. It's doubtful the unrest in the Middle East will last for months let alone years. So, while the current oil spike is a burden, it's a short-term one at that. There is already a lot of desperate people entering into Price Gouging tactics at the pumps though--especially around airports across the U.S. where "somehow" it's been "accepted" that gas around airports is usually .50 to 1.00 more than it is in other places.

Obama would be foolish to do anything militarily in Libya or Egypt or Syria. These countries need to sort out their problems. The U.N.'s responsibility is to monitor these situations; it's not our responsibility. We didn't do much in Darfur or in Ethopia or other similar places. We have our own domestic problems to fix--bottomline.

If Obama had pushed a Green Agenda from Day 1 in office back in 2009--we would at least be 2 years further along the path to weening ourselves off foreign oil.

I don't think there will be a clamor for offshore oil drilling anytime soon thanks to the oil disaster in the Gulf. People haven't forgotten about that just yet

One could blame the Republicans in Congress and spineless Dems for not having the forethought to anticipate that WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE ON FROM FOREIGN OIL at some point...the Republicans pretty much have used Healthcare ~fEaR~ to take power but they sure have no real solutions out of these messes. They have never had any real solutions other than to give companies tax breaks. That's all they got.

 

[Kingfisher]

That woman is a nut.

Point your finger at a politician that isn't... Your hand wouldn't go up.

 

[Trident1]

thread claiming AMT was a Carter legacy.

It was his legacy Meg. You didn't discredit anything.

 

[CunningStunts]

One thing I think we ALL can agree on is that they rushed this monstrosity of a bill without giving it enough thought... they had to I suppose because most American's were against it.

Certainly there are things that can be legislated to make our healthcare system better and lower costs, but the current bill aint it. :2 cents:

 

[Hot Mega]

It was his legacy Meg. You didn't discredit anything.

You're right, I didn't. Baill did with 1 pitch in the first response.:hatsoff:

One thing I think we ALL can agree on is that they rushed this monstrosity of a bill without giving it enough thought... they had to I suppose because most American's were against it.

Certainly there are things that can be legislated to make our healthcare system better and lower costs, but the current bill aint it. :2 cents:

You're wrong, they didn't (rush anything). They 'articulated' the circumstances for an entire year...most of which were policies that have been in the political discussion for nearly 20 years.:2 cents:

 

[CunningStunts]

You're wrong, they didn't (rush anything). They 'articulated' the circumstances for an entire year...most of which were policies that have been in the political discussion for nearly 20 years.:2 cents:

Agree to disagree. Most Congressmen admitted they didn't even read it; not to mention the over-riding claim we heard over and over was this bill would "save money." Now the White House admits it will not save money. :dunno: