“He’s the ‘King of K Street,'” Bachmann said of Gingrich, in an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “For a person who’s been influence peddling for over 30 years in Washington, D.C. – to think that Newt Gingrich is somehow an outsider, when he is the consummate establishment insider?”
Bachmann continued efforts to distinguish herself as the only “consistent constitutional conservative” in the race, blasting Gingrich and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for being on “the same side of the president” on one too many issues.
“I’m the only proven consistent constitutional conservative in this race on issue after issue,” Bachmann told CBS’ Bob Schieffer. “Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, it is very clear that there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two of them.”
Pointing to both candidates’ previous support of individual health care mandates, Bachmann accused the two Republican candidates – whom she has begun referring to as “Newt Romney” – of siding with President Barack Obama on health care reform.
“This is the seminal piece of legislation of Barack Obama,” Bachmann said. “It’s the one issue that our candidate has to take President Obama on with, and they won’t be able to debate him on the issue because they’re on the same side as the president. ‘Newt Romney’ are on the same side of the president when it comes to cap-and-trade, the $700 billion bailout, illegal immigration, even the payroll tax this week, which there isn’t one shred of evidence that that has created a single job.”
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“Oh, Donald Trump is a big boy. These things happen.” Bachmann responded Sunday.
“No one was taking the bait to come to this debate,” Bachmann said. “And so at a certain point it didn’t even make any sense for me to go to it either.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum are the only candidates who agreed to participate in the debate hosted by the conservative website NewsMax.
Bachmann declined after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Texas Rep. Ron Paul all said they would not attend.
“We need to have a debate where everyone is participating,” Bachmann said.
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“Well– one of our former competitors was Herman Cain and he always reminded us of the 9-9-9 plan. And what I would like to do is have the Win-Win-Win plan,” said Rep. Bachmann
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican and GOP presidential primary candidate, spoke optimistically about former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s 9 – 9 – 9 tax plan on Saturday night at the GOP debate in Des Moines, iowa at Drake University. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer asked Rep. Bachmann the best strategy the Minnesota Republican had to create jobs in a particular time frame. Bachmann responded by citing a major component in Mr. Cain’s 9 – 9 – 9 plan.
After the debate, Bachmann campaign advisers Keith Nahigian and Alice Stewart met with reporters and spoke about Bachmann’s remarks about the 9 – 9 – 9 plan.***
“I must raise every available dollar between now and January 3rd to ensure our hard-charging constitutional conservative campaign – not some milquetoast opponents like Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich – wins over these undecided Iowa voters,” Bachmann said in a statement to supporters.
Meaning “weak” and “spineless,” the word originated as the name of a character – Caspar Milquetoast – in an early 20th Century comic strip by H.T. Webster called “The Timid Soul.”
Bachmann, who experienced a brief surge in the GOP race after announcing her bid for president this summer, now polls in the single digits. On the campaign trail, she frequently boasts having a “titanium spine” when comparing herself to the rest of the GOP field.
Meanwhile, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken the top spot in many national and state polls, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul following behind.
“With so much on the line for our nation, struggling Americans deserve a consistent conservative to solve our economic problems and create jobs – not the same empty rhetoric offered up by my opponents and the Democrats,” Bachmann said in her fundraising pitch.
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“Before the Republican candidates participated in the first debate, I believed Michelle Bachmann would have been up near the top. Since the debates, I still believe she would make the best president of them all. Conservatives believe the federal government should be downsized. Most of the candidates recognize that. They know what people want to see, but the question is will they really follow through?” – Howard W. Hall
Nobody has brought any charges against Bachmann. That is probably because there is nothing to bring. She has done an excellent job in Congress (for conservatives that is). She is strong in Christian values and principles. She is for downsizing the federal government and giving more power to the states. She points out the EPA, Deptaartment of Education and Department of Energy should be abolished. And she said if she is elected she would personally walk over there and turn the EPA’s lights out.
When it comes to foreign affairs, I think she would be every bit as effective as Gingrich. Every one of the candidates would be for repealing Obamacare. All of the candidates are for a balanced budget. The $5 trillion Obama has already added to the national debt after only 2.8 years may not be able to overcome even if unemployment reached zero. That problem will take years or decades of conservative leadership to bring under control if it is even possible. A nation cannot create wealth by buying and selling. We must produce things and sell them. So much for the free trade laws instituted 18 years ago.
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(CNN) — The statement: “We can cut government bureaucracy, which is Obamacare. The NFIB tells us — that’s the small business agency — that we will lose 1.6 million jobs over five years if we keep Obamacare.” — Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, at Saturday’s Republican presidential debate in Iowa.
The facts: The National Federation of Independent Business, the small-business lobby, did estimate in January 2009 that a national mandate for employers to provide health insurance would cost 1.6 million jobs over five years. But the study was done months before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care legislation that critics call “Obamacare,” took shape in Congress.
That estimate is far more dire than other conclusions by researchers who have projected the health-care law’s effects. The Lewin Group, a research subsidiary of United Health Care, put the number of jobs lost between 157,000 to 366,000.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found the effect might reduce the number of workers by about 800,000 jobs, partly because some people won’t need to enter the workforce, the CBO reported in 2010.
The conservative Heritage Foundation projected in 2010 that the legislation would cost 670,000 jobs annually, a figure based on the assumption that the legislation would end up widening the federal budget deficit.
The CBO estimates the Affordable Care Act will bring down deficits by $143 billion over 10 years.
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Is ‘Catvertising’ the future of Internet ads?
“You think sometimes you’re gonna run outta material, but then you come in in the morning and are like OMG trombone cat!”
Canadian advertising agency John St has created a new division called “Catvertising.” It’s the potential future of Internet ads, and they’re all based on cats and cat videos — which John St. claims will represent 90 percent of the Internet by 2015.
“We’re seeing a major shift in consumer habits. Everything is moving towards cat videos. And the agencies that don’t know that? They’ll get left behind,” an ad executive says. “No one wants to see ads anymore. They want to see cat videos.”
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