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She's going, going, gone...
Author: Raine    Date: 05/29/2013 13:04:51

Buh bye Bachmann...
“Be assured: My decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being reelected to Congress,” Bachmann said. “I have every confidence that if I ran, I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year, who recently announced he is once again running.”

“And rest assured, this decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff. It was clearly understood that compliance with all rules and regulations was an absolute necessity for my presidential campaign.”

This announcement comes about two months after Representative Steve King of Iowa announced he would not seek to run for the Senate seat currently held by Tom Harkin. It also comes about 4 months since the Conservative Victory Pac was announced:
The news that former Bush administration adviser Karl Rove is launching an effort to keep less-electable conservative Republicans from winning primaries has stirred up anger on the right.

The Conservative Victory Project, first reported on by the New York Times, is a direct response to the 2012 elections, when the National Republican Senatorial Committee stayed out of primaries and saw conservative candidates such as Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock lose winnable races.

“The Conservative Defeat Project is yet another example of the Republican establishment’s hostility toward its conservative base,” said Matt Hoskins of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a PAC launched by (but no longer affiliated with) former senator Jim DeMint (R-S.C.).
One has to wonder, with an FBI ethics investigation involvling an Iowa candidate and a Karl Rove Super Pac, if Ms. Bachmann is really leaving on her own accord.

One might wonder (also too) if the FBI is investigating her for other reasons or perhaps found something else going on. From a year ago:
And let's not forget this interesting ponderance from our friend Karoli over at Crooks& Liars.
For nearly three years, national security leaks were few and far between. There were leaks from the White House, but most of them centered around domestic policy. Then John Boehner appointed Michele Bachmann to the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Please, no snickering. For 2011, Bachmann was preoccupied with her primary run at the GOP nomination. Few national security leaks occurred, and none of consequence.

Now we come to 2012, and since Mitt Romney won the nomination for President, there have been several major national security leaks, which the press questioned President Obama about at last week's press conference, and to which Michele Bachmann has responded.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to ask you about another issue that came up at the president's press conference on Friday, those national security leaks. We have two investigations now being ordered by the attorney general.

And the president said that he was offended by any suggestion that these leaks were for political purposes by his White House aides. Michele Bachmann responded to that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Of course the White House leaked it and of course they did it, to make Obama look like he was tough on terror. I am offended that he lied to the American people this afternoon.
(END VIDEO CLIP)

STEPHANOPOULOS: I see you smiling in response to Michele Bachmann. And I take the president's point that this was not for political…

AXELROD: As I often do.

STEPHANOPOULOS: That this was not for political purposes. But if you look at these articles that were in The New York Times, on both the Stuxnet worm that went after the Iranian nuclear program, and the president's going over this so-called "kill list" for drones, in both cases they quote members of the president's national security team who were in the room.

So somebody who was in the room with the president was giving out some of this information or at least discussing classified information.
You know who else is privy to briefings like the ones about Stuxnet and the drone "kill list"? That's right. Michele Bachmann. Even Orange Man Boehner was concerned about her loose lips:

Bachmann may have justified Boehner’s faith in her abilities, but he wasn’t always so confident. When he appointed her to the committee last December, he made a special point of sitting Bachmann down to warn her that she could not let national secrets slip.
The GOP is now very upset that the Justice department actually did what the GOP demanded of them. You know I have been following the escapades of Darell Issa, but Ms. Bachmann is still a member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Upon her reappointment to the committee, People for the American Way issued a statement in part:
"While Rep. Bachmann's Islamaphobic fear mongering is a hit in conspiratorial right-wing circles, it's beneath the level of discourse Americans should expect from members of Congress," Betz said. "Members of the House Intelligence Committee are entrusted with classified information that affects the safety and security of all Americans. That information should not be in the hands of anyone with such a disregard for honesty, misunderstanding of national security and lack of respect for his or her fellow public servants."


But to have Ms. Bachmann tell it, 8 years was simply enough. There is no more to this story, she decided all on her own to term limit herself. Well except this:
Craig Holman, a government ethics lobbyist at liberal-leaning watchdog group Public Citizen, told Salon in May that Bachmann could face serious repercussions.

"It's not Watergate, or at least not yet, but these are a series of allegations that are each serious on their own, and when you put them all together, this could be a career ender for Michele Bachmann," he said.
What started out as a congressional ethics investigation has become part of an FBI investigation. It's a strange coincidence that the FBI is involved with investigating National Security leaks and Stuxnet, one just has to wonder. Ironically in the face of being investigated for campaign finance abuses, she claimed the the IRS scandal was 'far worse than Watergate'...

8 years was simply enough for Ms. Bachmann. That's all.

&
Raine
 

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Comment by clintster on 05/29/2013 13:09:50
Damn this would happen this morning. I'm going in for an interview in a little bit, and I've got a good feeling about this possibility.

Comically sized corn dogs across the nation are just a little less perky.

Comment by Scoopster on 05/29/2013 13:11:09
Mornin' all..

I'd prefer if she just resigned NOW, but I'll take it. And a Dem will take her seat in 2014.

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 13:12:51
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all..

I'd prefer if she just resigned NOW, but I'll take it. And a Dem will take her seat in 2014.
I am starting to wonder if she will make it to 2014.

This FBI investigation is really interesting to me.


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 13:14:43
I'm surprised that she didn't say God told her not run.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 13:15:45
Its not a sink hole its a broken 100 year old pipe that they should have fixed a while ago

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 13:16:02
Morning

Comment by BobR on 05/29/2013 13:27:54
Quote by clintster:
Damn this would happen this morning. I'm going in for an interview in a little bit, and I've got a good feeling about this possibility.

Comically sized corn dogs across the nation are just a little less perky.

Good luck!

Dancing "corn dog" -->

Comment by BobR on 05/29/2013 13:29:25
Quote by Mondobubba:
I'm surprised that she didn't say God told her not run.

God told me not to run...
God told me not to run...
That ain't the way to have fun...no....

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 13:30:19
I suspect Michelle is regretting giving up this --
“Today I sent a letter to the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of my dual Swiss citizenship, which was conferred upon me by operation of Swiss law when I married my husband in 1978,” said Bachmann in a statement.


Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 13:38:24
Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 13:40:52
You know, Minnesota just legalized marriage equality... Maybe Michelle wants to attend to her marriage on a more permanent basis.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:01:59
Hey everyone - just wanted to give an Aunt Bev update. Sadly she is being moved into a nursing care facility in PA on Thursday. This decision was made with little input from her sisters or nieces but by the person who holds the POA at this moment.

I won't go into the tedious and family issues going on that are rooted in the past, but needless to say I've started the process of researching guardianship while living in a different state and our chances of moving her to VA and all the programs to help pay for services. My aunt has little to no money so this makes it all the more difficult and upsetting.

Please excuse my quietness as I'm rather upset about this whole thing and by certain family members.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 14:05:33
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey everyone - just wanted to give an Aunt Bev update. Sadly she is being moved into a nursing care facility in PA on Thursday. This decision was made with little input from her sisters or nieces but by the person who holds the POA at this moment.

I won't go into the tedious and family issues going on that are rooted in the past, but needless to say I've started the process of researching guardianship while living in a different state and our chances of moving her to VA and all the programs to help pay for services. My aunt has little to no money so this makes it all the more difficult and upsetting.

Please excuse my quietness as I'm rather upset about this whole thing and by certain family members.



Totally understand, Mala.

As far as programs, if she is disabled or collecting Social Security Medicaid/Medicare will pay for long-term care. Moving her might be a bit sticky. I don't have any info on that.

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:13:24
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey everyone - just wanted to give an Aunt Bev update. Sadly she is being moved into a nursing care facility in PA on Thursday. This decision was made with little input from her sisters or nieces but by the person who holds the POA at this moment.

I won't go into the tedious and family issues going on that are rooted in the past, but needless to say I've started the process of researching guardianship while living in a different state and our chances of moving her to VA and all the programs to help pay for services. My aunt has little to no money so this makes it all the more difficult and upsetting.

Please excuse my quietness as I'm rather upset about this whole thing and by certain family members.
Oh damn. This is a terrible situation.




Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:13:54
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey everyone - just wanted to give an Aunt Bev update. Sadly she is being moved into a nursing care facility in PA on Thursday. This decision was made with little input from her sisters or nieces but by the person who holds the POA at this moment.

I won't go into the tedious and family issues going on that are rooted in the past, but needless to say I've started the process of researching guardianship while living in a different state and our chances of moving her to VA and all the programs to help pay for services. My aunt has little to no money so this makes it all the more difficult and upsetting.

Please excuse my quietness as I'm rather upset about this whole thing and by certain family members.



Totally understand, Mala.

As far as programs, if she is disabled or collecting Social Security Medicaid/Medicare will pay for long-term care. Moving her might be a bit sticky. I don't have any info on that.


thanks - yes she is on SS and Medicare so that's helpful thankfully - I just worry about the future

Moving is going to be tricky, yes, but she isn't wandering, she doesn't seem to be sundowning - in fact she's still pretty all there, its mostly her short term memory that's an issue. I've got an appointment with the county's dept of aging in PW to get some advice, but from the things I've read so far if we can do all this sooner rather then later it would be better.


Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:17:36
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Hey everyone - just wanted to give an Aunt Bev update. Sadly she is being moved into a nursing care facility in PA on Thursday. This decision was made with little input from her sisters or nieces but by the person who holds the POA at this moment.

I won't go into the tedious and family issues going on that are rooted in the past, but needless to say I've started the process of researching guardianship while living in a different state and our chances of moving her to VA and all the programs to help pay for services. My aunt has little to no money so this makes it all the more difficult and upsetting.

Please excuse my quietness as I'm rather upset about this whole thing and by certain family members.
Oh damn. This is a terrible situation.





I keep telling myself that others have it far worse but its just really painful right now. And to top it off we're going to have to clear out her house and sell it. So there as a rather ghoulish conversation last night were my other aunt just pissed me off about one stupid thing Aunt Bev promised me over 20 years ago.

I'm sorry to blather this all over the blog but you guys are my safe place to talk and work things out - you all are so amazing to me

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 14:22:20
I was a liberal mole at Fox News.

This is very interesting. The long section on Bill O is quite entertaining.

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:25:32
Quote by wickedpam:
I keep telling myself that others have it far worse but its just really painful right now. And to top it off we're going to have to clear out her house and sell it. So there as a rather ghoulish conversation last night were my other aunt just pissed me off about one stupid thing Aunt Bev promised me over 20 years ago.

I'm sorry to blather this all over the blog but you guys are my safe place to talk and work things out - you all are so amazing to me
There is still a sore spot with a situation similar like that in my family.

It hurts. It hurts a lot, I understand.


Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:27:14
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
I keep telling myself that others have it far worse but its just really painful right now. And to top it off we're going to have to clear out her house and sell it. So there as a rather ghoulish conversation last night were my other aunt just pissed me off about one stupid thing Aunt Bev promised me over 20 years ago.

I'm sorry to blather this all over the blog but you guys are my safe place to talk and work things out - you all are so amazing to me
There is still a sore spot with a situation similar like that in my family.

It hurts. It hurts a lot, I understand.



thank you

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:39:08
That's a great line - "You are stronger then the storm"

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:39:32
Quote by Mondobubba:
I was a liberal mole at Fox News.

This is very interesting. The long section on Bill O is quite entertaining.

On one occasion, there was an e-mail that Bill really wanted to read on the air. One of the producers noticed that the e-mail was signed with an obvious gag name: Jack MeHoff. Clearly, that’s unreadable on television. But Bill liked the text of the e-mail so much that he couldn’t bear to cut it from the mail segment. After pondering for a bit, he decided on a course of action: “Let’s just change the last name to Mehoffer.” Despite producers pleading with him that the slight name change was not much, if at all, better than the original, Bill stuck to his guns, reading the letter with the modified name on air. The rest is YouTube history.


Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:46:29
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I was a liberal mole at Fox News.

This is very interesting. The long section on Bill O is quite entertaining.

On one occasion, there was an e-mail that Bill really wanted to read on the air. One of the producers noticed that the e-mail was signed with an obvious gag name: Jack MeHoff. Clearly, that’s unreadable on television. But Bill liked the text of the e-mail so much that he couldn’t bear to cut it from the mail segment. After pondering for a bit, he decided on a course of action: “Let’s just change the last name to Mehoffer.” Despite producers pleading with him that the slight name change was not much, if at all, better than the original, Bill stuck to his guns, reading the letter with the modified name on air. The rest is YouTube history.

4:45 p.m.
Bill heads down to a private room in the basement to get his hair and makeup done. A device that Ailes had installed in every green room in the building methodically sucks the life force out of five adorable baby puppies and deposits it into Bill’s face, keeping him fresh and youthful-looking for one more day.


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 14:48:05
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
I was a liberal mole at Fox News.

This is very interesting. The long section on Bill O is quite entertaining.

On one occasion, there was an e-mail that Bill really wanted to read on the air. One of the producers noticed that the e-mail was signed with an obvious gag name: Jack MeHoff. Clearly, that’s unreadable on television. But Bill liked the text of the e-mail so much that he couldn’t bear to cut it from the mail segment. After pondering for a bit, he decided on a course of action: “Let’s just change the last name to Mehoffer.” Despite producers pleading with him that the slight name change was not much, if at all, better than the original, Bill stuck to his guns, reading the letter with the modified name on air. The rest is YouTube history.

4:45 p.m.
Bill heads down to a private room in the basement to get his hair and makeup done. A device that Ailes had installed in every green room in the building methodically sucks the life force out of five adorable baby puppies and deposits it into Bill’s face, keeping him fresh and youthful-looking for one more day.



You beat me to my two favorite quotes!

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:49:22
I;m glad the guy got a book deal. I had to look it up to make sure he was the same one that was outed after his Gawker pieces.

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 14:51:33
Quote by Raine:
I;m glad the guy got a book deal. I had to look it up to make sure he was the same one that was outed after his Gawker pieces.



yeah, that's him - He had to give up the money Gawker paid him thanks to Fox suing him

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 14:53:24
The show is having an entirely TOO GOOD a time today...

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 15:01:43
Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:09:18



Now then will want to clone the mammoth! Then there will herds of them wilding across all the continents! Let Alex Jones know the clear and present danger this represents!

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:09:51
In all seriousness, the mammoth thing is pretty freaking cool.

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 15:10:07
this was filled with awesome!

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 15:11:54




And the next thing you know we'll be running for our lives ...

",.. if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

Comment by wickedpam on 05/29/2013 15:18:27
Quote by Raine:
this was filled with awesome!



marred only by his son being on it


Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 15:34:57
Quote by wickedpam:

marred only by his son being on it
He's got a ways to go with the rapping.... I still thought it was nice.


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:44:00
Quote by wickedpam:




And the next thing you know we'll be running for our lives ...

",.. if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."



Well done!


Comment by Scoopster on 05/29/2013 15:44:13
WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT... Senate GOP claiming Obama is "court-packing"??

IF YOU WEREN'T A BUNCH OF OBSTRUCTIONIST COCKBAGS, THERE WOULDN'T BE A FLOOD OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES.



Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:44:40
Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:45:47
Quote by Scoopster:
WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT... Senate GOP claiming Obama is "court-packing"??

IF YOU WEREN'T A BUNCH OF OBSTRUCTIONIST COCKBAGS, THERE WOULDN'T BE A FLOOD OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES.




Why Scoop our responses to this are almost identical. I think I yelled douche bag while I was in my car when I heard this on the NPR Mosheen this morning.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 15:47:40
Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 15:57:31
Quote by Scoopster:
WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT... Senate GOP claiming Obama is "court-packing"??

IF YOU WEREN'T A BUNCH OF OBSTRUCTIONIST COCKBAGS, THERE WOULDN'T BE A FLOOD OF JUDICIAL NOMINEES.

I'd like to say I am surprised.

I really would. That said it is clear they don't WANT a constitutionally functioning government.


Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 16:03:58
This is abhorrent:
http://sfreporter.com/santafe/imgs/media.images/9833/news-racino.widea.jpg
Critics of a multimillion-dollar, 25-year lease the state signed with the Downs at Albuquerque point to dilapidated conditions at the racetrack and casino as a reason that the company shouldn’t have landed a second lucrative contract. - Joey Peters
The original report is far more comprehensive.
Downs lawyers also arranged a personal meeting with State Fair Commissioner Kenneth “Buster” Goff, who had publicly raised concerns about the lease. At a November 2011 meeting, Rogers told the commission that certain changes were made to the lease “in response to Commissioner Goff’s concerns” [cover story, Aug. 22, 2012: “Trouble at the Ol’ Racino”]. The commission approved the lease 4-3 that day, with Goff casting the deciding vote.

But the Downs still needed approval from the Board of Finance—where things would also work in the company’s favor.

Around the same time, Tom Tinnin, a Republican board member and the longest-serving chairman in the State Fair Commission’s history, left the board over disagreements with the Martinez administration about the Downs. Shortly before his resignation, Tinnin claimed Martinez had warned him that if he spoke publicly “in a way that would disparage her people,” she would take it personally.

The next month, the board voted unanimously to give the Downs the racino lease.


Comment by livingonli on 05/29/2013 16:12:59
Good day, folks.

I guess Marcus will still give us material as long as he keeps his "clinic" in business.

Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 16:15:54
Agreed! Misplaced Honor indeed! Why are all these bases still named for traitors?

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 16:19:50
Comment by Mondobubba on 05/29/2013 16:29:56
Quote by Raine:
CUE LIPSTICK GATE!



Clearly if infidelity is cause for impeachment. RIGHT NOW!

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 16:32:34
Quote by Mondobubba:
Agreed! Misplaced Honor indeed! Why are all these bases still named for traitors?
I really never realized this.




Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 16:34:37
SCOOPSTER!


Politico is reporting that Lincoln Chaffee is switching parties!

Comment by Raine on 05/29/2013 16:38:05
Quote by Raine:
SCOOPSTER!


Politico is reporting that Lincoln Chaffee is switching parties!
Politico link...


Comment by Scoopster on 05/29/2013 16:40:49
Quote by Raine:
SCOOPSTER!

Politico is reporting that Lincoln Chaffee is switching parties!

Ehh.. He's doing it as a bit of a survival tactic, to avoid a 3-way governor's race in the general election. It's probably the right move - I sure as HELL don't want our state treasurer to make it that far after she gutted the goddamn state pensions.

Comment by Scoopster on 05/29/2013 16:44:03
I should say 3-way competitive race.. There will be at least two other independent candidates running, as there always is here. With Linc not running as an indie, there won't be a major split of the vote that would allow a GOP candidate to sneak past everyone.

Comment by TriSec on 05/29/2013 17:07:51
Quote by Mondobubba:
Agreed! Misplaced Honor indeed! Why are all these bases still named for traitors?



Oh, my. Considering that the BSA did a number of National Jamborees at Fort AP Hill....I guess I never made the connection.

But this goes to the heart of my argument against the flying of the Confederate Flag. At the end of the day, it is the flag of enemies of the United States. If I flew a Rising Sun, or God Forbid, a Swastika flag in honour of some nebulous lost "heritage", what would the local authorities do? (Probably nothing, pesky First Ammendment and all.) But I think you get my point.



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