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Running scared: Rep. Michele Bachmann flees from questions about dubious White House spending claims
New York Daily News, by Kristen A. Lee
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 3/21/2013 12:39:59 AM
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| Rep. Michele Bachmann literally fled from a reporter’s questions about her claim of “excess” spending by the White House after many of her allegations of new presidential “perks” were debunked. CNN’s Dana Bash, who apparently caught the congresswoman between meetings, was forced to chase her down a hallway when she tried to ask her about the dubious claims she made earlier this month. Bachmann made the allegations at the conservative gathering known as CPAC. The Minnesota Republican devoted some of her speech to slamming Obama over the deadly attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi last
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Comments: When is the last time that a "reporter" ever went after a dRATS in this fashion? It is obvious that it was Dana´s turn, from CNN, to hound and try to ridicule one of our favorite female GOP speakers. It´s just a prelude of things to follow as the LSM, in its throes of possible extinction, wants to take US over their invented fiscal cliff with the other lemmings. One can always play the numbers game, but THEY seem to forget the rapidly increasing 0bama trillion-dollars deficits.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
janylou, 3/21/2013 12:43:51 AM (No. 9236118)
Too bad the press situate wasn´t as interested in the Benghazi murders which was the real story.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lylacat, 3/21/2013 12:54:29 AM (No. 9236122)
Yes, the reporter had no interest in the four dead Americans, and she had no interest in 0bama and Michelle spending billions of dollars on expensive, lavish and luxurious vacations all at the taxpayers´ expense. No she just wanted to embarrass Bachmann, and it was the reporter who looked foolish and so very biased and ill informed.
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Shells, 3/21/2013 1:09:12 AM (No. 9236135)
Not my most erudite post, but I´m betting Kristen is an "unfortunate" looking woman. Most of the "gals" who attack Michele and Sarah are double baggers. As a chick, I can say this, right?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 3/21/2013 1:29:30 AM (No. 9236142)
The comments under the article tell a lot about the state of the union. Another Jay Walking event.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
CentralFLMom, 3/21/2013 1:40:32 AM (No. 9236144)
Mrs. Bachman is a righteous, Christian woman doing the Lord´s work telling the truth and exposing the wrongs of the evil doers in Washington. Dana Bash, divorcee and pro-abortionist, had no business harassing and threatening Sister Bachman. The absolute misogynist, indecent, disrepectful and Godless treatment of this Congresswoman is treasonous!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
steveW, 3/21/2013 1:41:19 AM (No. 9236145)
Taking a wild guess that Kristen A. Lee has never once questioned a single claim made by Dear Leader, not one of which could ever be called dubious.
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Cedar, 3/21/2013 2:21:46 AM (No. 9236153)
I would run from anyone who worked for CNN too.
We don´t need Bachmann to tell us about the obamas´ lavish lifestyles. We see it for ourselves everyday. They are the country´s biggest welfare recipients.
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MindMadeUp, 3/21/2013 3:07:09 AM (No. 9236167)
"fled from a reporter’s questions..." Ha. More likely, she fled from the reporter´s whiskey breath and obnoxious braying.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 3/21/2013 4:17:40 AM (No. 9236186)
Keep fighting, Michele!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Spidey, 3/21/2013 4:35:17 AM (No. 9236189)
Obama has been very selective on sequester cuts despite his claim he hs no control over them.Pointing out the hypocrisy that the cuts aren´t affecting Obama personal lifestyle extravagance isn´t going to be allowed to stand by CNN.
They weren´t about to give up the photo op easter egg roll so they magically found money for that but everyday visits to the WH is still severely underfunded.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
4Justice, 3/21/2013 5:12:09 AM (No. 9236198)
If that isn´t a full on hit piece, nothing is. Running scared? I doubt it. Probably too busy to deal with the idiotic Bash attack. We need to start writing manipulative pieces like this about Dems. Give them their own medicine.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Citizen Plain, 3/21/2013 5:41:23 AM (No. 9236204)
Junk for frothing at mouth NYC commies.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
66Strat, 3/21/2013 5:55:39 AM (No. 9236212)
The NY Daily News is a Democrat rag. Would expect nothing less. I´m surprised she didn´t throw in that Michele abused her pets and didn´t pay taxes for 10 years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
provide, 3/21/2013 6:49:52 AM (No. 9236266)
I´d have brought up the Maine sponsored lunch that required a food taster.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Attila DiMedici, 3/21/2013 6:54:32 AM (No. 9236274)
I will not defend the reporter or this article, but Michele Bachmann needs to learn that she is not a Democrat. She needs to more carefully choose what she says and what she claims. The press is going to attack her for every inaccuracy. She needs to be more careful that there are not any. Unlike a Democrat she does not have any margin for hyperbole in her statements. The best part is that if she does her homework, there isn´t any need for hyperbole sticking with the facts is outrageous enough.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ancientcityinker, 3/21/2013 6:56:16 AM (No. 9236277)
Michelle Bachmann is a fruitcake with a track record of misinformation. Not exactly a shining example of model leadership.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
nonsense, 3/21/2013 8:23:42 AM (No. 9236401)
The truth is that the American taxpayer does pay out 1.4 billion dollars a year to keep the Grifter family in the style to which they have been accustomed. So Dana has no "story".
They do hide the facts, like the all day Saint Patrick´s party that was just held without one peep reported by the cowardly press.
By the way, isn´t Dana Bash married to a W.H. staffer?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bumblebee, 3/21/2013 10:40:49 AM (No. 9236655)
I agree with #15. Bachmann should have had her proof ready to speak about, she didn´t. I lost confidence in Bachmann when she slammed Rick Perry in the last primary election. Perry is governor of one of the best run states in the USA.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
tenncon231, 3/21/2013 12:42:24 PM (No. 9236919)
#3 Dana Bash, name fits, would be ok in br but only with the lights out as you enter!
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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