Monster withOUT a conscience
He’ll only be in office a few more months, but he wants to destroy whatever he can while he still has a chance.
August 31st — “Gov. Pawlenty today signed an executive order directing state agencies to decline all discretionary participation in the federal health care legislation.
Newly christened monster Tim Pawlenty, in a futile and totally misguided attempt at becoming President of the United States (snicker now while you can) is trying to completely demolish health care for the poor and elderly. This despite the fact that health care reform was overwhemingly supported by most people in the U.S. and also by a majority of people in the state of Minnesota. Tim Pawlenty doesn’t care. He wants to destroy it. Pawlenty does not want people to have health care, and he will do his utmost to deny the people of his state health care and anything having to do with health care, if he has his way. If he succeeds in his evil plan, people will die, and he will have blood on his hands. He isn’t just insulting the citizens of his state, he wants to kill them.
Pawlenty has been slowly morphing into a right-wing monster as he runs for President, and his latest actions cement that. This week he has become nothing more than a politicking monster on par with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin (and that freak she endorsed for the Senate up in Al-ASS-kuh.) They are all the same. The Republicans don’t seem to have any moderates in their jar of candidates anymore.
To people in other states: Don’t vote for this jerk Pawlenty if he runs for president. He’s trying to kill us all. He’d be happy if everyone in Minnesota who needs government help from health programs DROPPED DEAD tomorrow.
The disgusting thing is, he could have left his office as Governor as a somewhat moderate leader that man people still liked. But that all changed in the last two years as the Fame Whore Gods took his brain. Instead, Pawlenty has chosen to leave office as a monster who doesn’t want the poor and the elderly to have the health care that Americans voted for when they voted for President Obama. Here’s the story:
Pawlenty rejects health care funds
by Tom Scheck, MPR
Gov. Pawlenty today signed an executive order directing state agencies to decline all discretionary participation in the federal health care legislation.
“Obamacare is an intrusion by the federal government into personal health care matters and it’s an explosion of federal spending that does nothing to make health care more affordable,” Pawlenty said in a news release. “To the fullest extent possible, we need to keep Obamacare out of Minnesota.”
Pawlenty is such an asshole. Not only did we vote for health care reform in November of 2008 but we also have been paying for this with our taxes for years. Pawlenty must have been playing with himself or something while we were all voting for health care reform.
A spokesman for Pawlenty hasn’t returned a question on how much federal money is at stake. [it's billions]
Democrats in the Legislature say Pawlenty is “putting his personal political ambitions ahead of the future of Minnesota.” DFL Senator John Marty says he can’t understand why Pawlenty is rejecting money that could help the state’s bottom line.
“It doesn’t matter if anybody supports it or not. The question is whether you turn down the money or not. The plan is going ahead. It’s a question do we want to turn down our share of the money that our taxpayers paid for. Why should we turn down the money when the other states are taking it?”
He’s rejecting it because Pawlenty has turned into an evil monster. He wants kids and old people to die. That’s what politics does to Republicans. It takes away their humanity.
Mark Dayton and Tom Emmer are (more or less) tied in the race for Governor of Minnesota.
This is hard to believe. Do half of my fellow Minnesotans really want Emmer, a right-wing extremist who despises certain random people and wants to gut every helpful program in this state, to replace the current right-wing extremist? I can’t believe it’s true. This sums up Emmer’s intolerance:
And Tom Emmer not only opposes same-sex marriage, but he has financially supported and pals around with a religious ministry that has been quoted as advocating for violence against gays and lesbians, wanting to overturn Minnesota laws in order to criminalize homosexuality, and calling all gay people pedophiles.
Nobody seriously wants that leading the state. If Tom Emmer is elected our governor, Texas will be more progressive than this formerly “blue” state.
Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer, who won their parties’ primaries earlier this month, are deadlocked at 34 percent each in the Minnesota governor race with Independence Party candidate Tom Horner getting 13 percent, according to a poll of likely voters conducted Aug. 25-29 by Minnesota Public Radio and the Humphrey Institute. Nineteen percent were undecided. The margin of error is 3.6 points.
It’s bad enough that my Congresswoman is shooting assault rifles and screeching about ReidObamaPelosi constantly, but Tom Emmer at the helm of this formerly decent state would drive the sword in to the hilt, for me. This would no longer be a liveable state, for many people. Emmer would destroy everything, including our public school system.
Right now, Horner is doing better among Democrats, attracting 15 percent, than Republicans (9 percent). Horner gets 26 percent of the vote of independents, who make up 13 percent of the polls sample, while Dayton draws 23 percent and Emmer gets 13 percent.
I don’t blame people for liking Mr. Horner. He seems like a decent, semi-reasonable if too ‘middle of the road’ guy, but if Emmer is elected, we won’t have such fond memories of him.
Interesting news, in part from ThinkProgress.
At Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) “House Call” rally, ThinkProgress produced a video report exposing Koch for paying for dozens of buses for anti-health reform activists to reach DC. We also captured the picture of a large banner comparing health reform to the Holocaust.
A haggard Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) fired an assault rifle at a campaign stop in Minnesota this week. Media was blocked from the appearance.
The Koch Brothers are famous billionaires who fund all sorts of nasty things, including anti-health care actions and rallies, and anti-climate change things. The Koch brothers are even at war with Obama – and the entire Democratic agenda.
When I found out these billionaire brothers were also funding the Tea Partiers, at least in their early days, it explained a lot. It explains the widely diverse signs at a Tea Party rally I went to in March 2009. The messages on the signs, repeated among many of them, ranged from ending taxes and goverment spending to stopping “Obamacare” to stopping cap and trade legislation. The variety of signs did not seem “grassroots” or natural to me at all, but very pre-planned, like they all came from campaign headquarters. I’ve been to many rallies and the signs usually have a cohesive message, not messages all over the map, like at Tea Party rallies. This is explained if the messages for these rallies are coming from the GOP or the KOCH brothers, people Michele Bachmann is obviously “palling around” with.
The Koch brothers also are funding climate change denialism, something Michele Bachmann also supports. We really, really need to get her out of Congress. She is in bed with corruption on a scale that we can’t even fight against equally.
Who has a billion dollars to drop into the Minnesota Congressional race besides the Koch brothers, and their kind of parasite? Read on for an action plan.
Then, to pass some time the other day, Bachmann went shooting — with assault rifles. The media was banned from the spectacle.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) finished up a campaign tour by shooting off some assault rifle rounds Thursday, a few days before the Congresswoman [was] set to head off to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington D.C. . . . . Rep. Bachmann is a well-known gun rights activist, and, according to her original election campaign website, has been shooting firearms since she was 12 years old.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) begged for donations Monday on the Michael Savage hate radio show, even though she has her own fund-raising PAC and is a star money-raiser for the GOP and the Tea Party. Or is she? Bachmann and Savage share their paranoia and conspiracy theories and whine about the media not covering the right-wing rallies adequately on Saturday. I can’t imagine why they didn’t know this, but Beck’s rally was covered in its entirety on C-SPAN all day Saturday — with repeats. They may have ignored Bachmann’s 800-miles-from-her district “Townhall” meeting though. That must have wounded her pride.
Michael Savage is a totally unsavory character for Michele to be “palling around with”. He was fired from his MSNBC talk show for his virulent, cruel anti-gay comments. He said he wanted gay people to die from AIDS. This is who Michele Bachmann spends time with. Wikipedia has more.
Savage has summarized his political philosophy in three words: borders, language, and culture. Some, including Savage himself, have characterized his views as conservative nationalism,[8] while critics have characterized them as “fostering extremism or hatred.”[9] He outspokenly opposes illegal immigration to the United States, supports the English-only movement and argues that liberalism and progressivism are degrading American culture….Savage criticizes big government, homosexuality and activism on some issues, and Liberalism, accuses the media of liberal bias, and champions environmentalism and animal rights.
He is also banned from entering the United Kingdom. Michele Bachmann is friendly and familiar with this man who is so vile he is banned from entering the country of England due to his hate speech. They don’t ban just anybody. I wonder if Bachmann is banned from entering the UK? She hasn’t been there lately . . .
Banned from entering the United Kingdom
The then UK Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced on May 5, 2009 that Savage is on a list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom as he is “considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence”
Hey St. Cloud Times, you worthless waste of paper, why don’t you report some of this stuff instead of fawning all over Michele Bachmann like she’s your personal Homecoming Queen? There’s a lot of info like this online. All you have to do is look for it. I know that’s a lot of work, but some of us do it for free because we care about things.
Don't eat the baby!
The person we really need to represent us in Minnesota’s sixth district, someone who cares and won’t just go through the motions is Tarryl Clark — hopefully our next Congresswoman. Help us make it happen!
Our current Congresswoman is Michele Bachmann, and she cares far more about raising money and her own fame than the people of her district.
During Congress’s current break, Michele Bachmann pretended to stop and have a good visit at her new office in Waite Park, which is right next to St. Cloud. She showed up wearing a pink sweatshirt with a #4 on it, for some reason. Does she think she’s a football player now? She held her real Townhall meeting for her district in Washington, D.C., which is weird, because her district is in Minnesota. Oh yeah, she did stop in for a brief visit. She doesn’t like us enough to stay long. One thing is clear. Tarryl Clark actually cares about the sixth district. Bachmann holds her nose and pretends, but she’d really rather be in California — or Texas — or Washington D.C.
This is how the St. Cloud Times, the true lamestream media, covered her visit – by repeating Bachmann’s talking points! (Have I mentioned lately how worthless the St. Cloud Times is on the political issues that matter to their subscribers, of which I am one?)
Rep. Michele Bachmann launched a tour of her home turf by calling herself “a reformer” who’s battled Democrats’ bids to take over private industry and inflate government spending.
OK, worthless newspaper, whatever you say. Now they need to try harder and write a real story about Tarryl Clark for a change and stop repeating all the nonsense that flows like halitosis out of Bachmann’s mouth.
Why haven’t they?
Democrats are trying to clean up the massive mess Bush and Republicans left for Obama to deal with. Bachmann wants a completely non-regulated Wall Street (already done during the Bush years — and that turned out quite badly didn’t it?) She wants a country with no federal government intervention (or roads or infrastructure or anything) and she wants no rules, no taxes, and basically total chaos. Obviously, what Bachmann wants would destroy the country completely.
From TC’s website:
After 2 day drive-by of district, Bachmann continues her ‘Anywhere But Here Tour’
After a brief, 2-day drive-by of her home District, Michele Bachmann spent Friday night and today holding her own rallies and events in conjunction with Glenn Beck’s rally in Washington, D.C. Bachmann’s events were paid for by her Congressional re-election campaign fund, according to the Washington Post, though D.C. is over 800 miles from the 6th Congressional District.
Yes, it's the Bach-Monster. Instead of hiding in fear, we have to fight her harder.
Interesting quotes from a new, fluffy article about Michele Bachmann are in abundance in this month’s Minnesota Monthly. Yeah, yeah, it’s a “study in perspectives”, but it’s far too positive to describe the nutty Michele Bachmann.
First, let me say how horrified I am by most of the things Bachmann says in public. Her 2008 opponent, El Tinklenberg, thinks her big flapping mouth might be her own undoing, but lately she has been more careful in what she says. She’s “moderating up” in order to appeal to sane people instead of her usual fans. We need her to trip up and stick her foot in it again, or she may very well be re-elected. But in lieu of that, we just need Tarryl Clark to flat-out defeat her.
Bachmann’s re-election must not happen. I can’t see that it is even possible for her district to suffer that much. Are we Job? Are we cursed by God? And suffering we are, so why would anyone re-elect someone who wants to make it worse? Here’s a quote for you:
Fatima Franzen, a bright-eyed, immaculately dressed Republican activist from Shakopee, is bubbling with excitement at the prospect of seeing two of her heroes on the same stage. She loves Palin—“Such a beautiful, smart woman. A wonderful role model”—but she’s particularly thrilled with Bachmann.
My knee-jerk reaction to that is shock and outrage. What is wrong with people? Can’t they read, or hear, or see?? My second thought was that it’s possible Fatima does not understand English too well, because she can’t possibly understand Bachmann and Palin and still like them.
Minnesota Monthly seems to think Bachmann is admired in her state and district. Nah, by and large, she’s NOT. From the article:
“Maureen Shaver, a Republican activist, commentator, and advisor to Governor Tim Pawlenty, agrees that Bachmann has a lock on the sixth. “Michele fits her district very well,” Shaver says. “Unless she does something horribly inappropriate, she will always be reelected. This year, I’d say she has a 96 percent chance of winning.”
God have mercy! This stinks. It figures a Republican would say that, but we are a little worried here in Bachmannland, the place where the skies are always grey and everyone is sad and suffering. Bachmann is going to lose, but it will be very close, (my prediction) so the sad suffering people of her district need YOUR HELP, and we need it now, to defeat this gasbag. Michele Bachmann must be defeated for the good of the people everywhere, this November. Donate here. Really, do it now.
Statements from the article like this one are just nuts:
That [missed voting] record doesn’t bother former sixth-district congressman Mark Kennedy. The district’s citizens fare better when their representative is out making a national name for herself, he says, drawing attention to the issues they face every day. “The common criticism of many of Minnesota’s elected officials is that they become invisible once they get to Washington,” Kennedy says. “You don’t see them at home. You don’t see them in Washington. What does that do for the district? Michele is out there bringing national attention to the people of the sixth, and that can only be a good thing.”
WRONG. He can’t possibly be serious! How do we benefit from her making a fool of herself in public, on the national stage? We don’t benefit from Michele Bachmann making a horse’s ass of herself in public and misrepresenting her district. Do the people in her district know that people all across the country think we are ignorant morons who spend our days watching FOX and eating Cheetos and drinking corn syrup? We aren’t of course, but judging from Bachmann’s statements and the fact that she comes from somewhere around here, we must be. Bachmann bringing bad attention to her district is far from a “good thing.”
Gahdam, Republicans are stupid.
You can now see all the Minnesota governor debates in their entirety and even read transcripts of them, thanks to The Uptake’s debate site here. The debate video below is from August 26th at General Mills. The debate included the 3 major candidates, Mark Dayton, DFL Party; Tom Horner, Independence Party; and Tom Emmer, Republican Party.
They started out with a claim to debate the “vision of this state”, but the main topics of this debate were the same old things as they have been so far this year: jobs, business, taxes, and the deficit. Business is government and government is business. I don’t like that, and I wish we’d all be looking at a different way of doing things, especially where energy is involved (and I don’t mean ethanol). Minnesota used to be semi-socialist, back in the early part of the last century, and it was good for the state, but the current politicians won’t even discuss such things. We even had a socialist governor at one point. But in these times, the topics of all their debates usually seem to revolve around finance and standard capitalism, and it seems like the Governor is expected to be the CEO of the state. Too bad they can’t talk about different paths for the state for a change.
Lately, predictably, there have been letters and ads and essays written on the “oddness” of Senator Mark Dayton’s (the DFL candidate for governor in Minnesota) closure of his senate office shortly before the election of 2004. This is all an effort to paint him as “erratic”, all because he took careful precautions during the hyped-up fear-mongering months before the election of 2004.
Remember, that was the election where George W. Bush was desperate to hold on to power and keep his wars for oil going. Before the actual [stealing of that] election, the Neocons terrified us as much as possible with constant press conferences and terror alerts about al Qaeda and how they have the capability to kill us all at any given moment. Remember that? I remember it very well. The point was to keep us all in such a state of near-panic and fear that we would reelect George Bush and his band of lying warmongers.
They trotted out officials who presented us with “Orange alerts” and said the situation was critical. They gave us stories of terror suspects casing Washington D.C. and New York and Chicago, taking photos of buildings. They gave us all kinds of frightening stories meant to get us to vote Bush back in to office. It was a time of weekly threats and secret briefings and media hysteria. One of those secret briefings, in October 2004, so concerned Senator Dayton that he sent his staff home to Minnesota, as he himself would be home before the election, and he didn’t want them hanging around, possibly in danger from a potential imminent attack.
The report his concern was based on was top secret so none of us can know what was in it, but it was sufficient to make him concerned that tourists should not be visiting his office in D.C. that week. His partisan critics, and even the media, immediately jumped on him with criticism, saying he overreacted, etc. As if the war in Iraq itself (which Dayton voted against) wasn’t a massive, cowardly overreaction to the 9/11 attacks! Iraq was never a necessary war and Dayton had the good judgment to know that. But to be cautious, after reading a doomsayer terror warning, one of hundreds the senate got on a constant basis back then, he simply told his staff to go home and he closed his office until the elections were over.
The amount of criticism he got for that simple thing seemed to overwhelm the criticism George W. Bush himself got for starting an unnecessary war out of sheer cowardice, a war that killed millions and that we are still engaged in. We will be paying for the Iraq war for decades. When all is said and done, our naive support for a war in Iraq (not mine, but perhaps yours) will cost us about $2 trillion dollars.
What did Dayton’s precautions cost us?
What did Bush’s lack of precautions that led to 9/11 cost us?
More on Bachmann’s view of America. Today, she released her first ad from her $4.5 million dollar war chest, an ad with a bow-legged guy. It’s meant to illustrate how the very mainstream Tarryl Clark is supposedly going to tax everyone into oblivion. It illustrates, more than anything, how gullible and stupid she thinks the people of Minnesota really are. And this guy looks like he has rickets. Give that boy an orange!
Or . . . . is he squatting? Maybe Jim has to use the restroom. Maybe Jim is thinking of the “Dump Bachmann” website. Bachmann has this effect on many people.
In any case, her new ad shows Bachmann is trying to take a very fair, moderate Democratic candidate, Tarryl Clark, and paint her as someone who wants to take your money and raise your taxes. It’s completely untrue. Don’t buy it!
In this ad, as always, Bachmann is awfully obsessed with money and taxes, which is weird, because her religion teaches us to “give to Caesar what is Caesar’s” . . . in a Bible story on taxes. Remember that? Jesus himself tells people, in this story, to shut up and pay their taxes and stop loving money so much. But in Bachmann’s America, all us petty folk care about is our own money and taxes and we don’t give a rip about poor people or schools or infrastructure or health care.
Think about it. Isn’t it odd that someone who claims they are so Christian spends most of her time raising money and the rest of her time complaining about taxes and how we don’t need to fund anything? If we do, it’s “socialism” or something? Maybe it should be called “Jesusism” and she’d recognize it for what it really is to care for the least among us.
Michele Bachmann’s America is all about fund raising to support the candidates and the twisted ideologies of the Tea Party and the GOP, and has nothing to do with real people in Minnesota who need her representation. She doesn’t even meet with people in her district anymore. We are not worth her time. This is her cynical view of us, and her real job, we now know, is using her fame and “star power” to raise money. This itself is a crushing blow — realizing we have taxation with no representation in the House of Representatives. Then I find out Bachmann believes in curses! Real curses! Finding that out was another one of those moments when you didn’t think she could surprise you anymore with her adorable lunacy, and then she does.
Before I get to that specifically, here is Mrs. Bachmann on a FOX TV show — again — because she’s on FOX or some radio show all the time! Why waste time with the voters when there is money to raise and a right-wing talk show to spread propaganda on?
Unfortunately, her recent claims about the money passed by Congress to help the states are all wrong, and so is her denial that she is co-opting the Tea Party. The Tea Party is no longer a grass roots organization and hasn’t been for a long time — since it was taken over as a money making organization by Glenn Beck, the media, various right-wing funders, operatives in the GOP, Sarah Palin, and now finally Michele Bachmann in Congress. She sure spends a lot of time denying the obvious — that she’s trying hard to cash in politically from the Tea Party and the gullible tea baggers.
I like how she says she wants to listen to the American people. Maybe she listens to the people in California and Texas, but when does she listen to the American people in her own district in Minnesota? That’s the sixth Congressional district in Minnesota, Mrs. Bachmann, in case you have forgotten. You aren’t here. WHERE ARE YOU?
