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If I didn't know better, I'd say Michelle Bachmann was a fictional villain that escaped from "Wall Street" or perhaps "Trading Places." Alas, I suspect she's really just that damn mean. (Bold commentary below my own.)
Bachmann Says She Would Eliminate Minimum Wage to Spur Growth
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican planning to seek the party's presidential nomination, said she would stoke U.S. economic growth by cutting taxes on corporate income and capital gains and considering elimination of the minimum wage.
Corporate tax rates should be significantly reduced from a maximum 35 percent and capital gains taxes should be eliminated, Bachmann said in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" today. Congress should also reevaluate the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, she said.
Translation: "I think we should give rich people a break and take away what little poor people manage to scrape together to live on."
"Whatever it takes, that's what we need to do for job creation," said Bachmann. She said President Barack Obama "doesn't seem to have an understanding of how to do the job."
Bachmann, who plans to formally announce her campaign tomorrow at an event in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, is nearly tied with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney among prospective Republican challengers in a poll of likely Iowa caucus voters published today by the Des Moines Register.
Romney is the preference of 23 percent of Republican voters and Bachmann was second with 22 percent, according to the newspaper. Other candidates trailed by 12 points or more.
Bachmann said her experience founding and running a pair of mental health clinics qualifies her for the presidency.
.......... Is she sure she was RUNNING the mental health clinics? Is she absolutely sure she wasn't IN the mental health clinics? And perhaps forgot to return from a weekend furlough?
In case any reader thinks I'm making light of mental illness - I think the woman genuinely has something wrong with her, and I have for quite some years. Her behavior consistently borders on the sociopathic, in my admittedly untrained opinion. And yes, I do think sometimes, there is something to be said for Freud.
I also bring you, from the "the bitch had it coming" files: In Response To Prosser Choking Allegations, Fox’s Van Susteren Calls On Female Chief Justice To Resign. Because, you know - hey, the bitches had it coming!
/golf clap - Way to go, Republicans. Gosh, you should be PROUD of what the Grand Old Party's become. Way to show that misguided old Eisenhower! Liberals like me are the ones ruining this nation. We sure are. ;-)
Bachmann Says She Would Eliminate Minimum Wage to Spur Growth
June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican planning to seek the party's presidential nomination, said she would stoke U.S. economic growth by cutting taxes on corporate income and capital gains and considering elimination of the minimum wage.
Corporate tax rates should be significantly reduced from a maximum 35 percent and capital gains taxes should be eliminated, Bachmann said in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" today. Congress should also reevaluate the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, she said.
Translation: "I think we should give rich people a break and take away what little poor people manage to scrape together to live on."
"Whatever it takes, that's what we need to do for job creation," said Bachmann. She said President Barack Obama "doesn't seem to have an understanding of how to do the job."
Bachmann, who plans to formally announce her campaign tomorrow at an event in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, is nearly tied with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney among prospective Republican challengers in a poll of likely Iowa caucus voters published today by the Des Moines Register.
Romney is the preference of 23 percent of Republican voters and Bachmann was second with 22 percent, according to the newspaper. Other candidates trailed by 12 points or more.
Bachmann said her experience founding and running a pair of mental health clinics qualifies her for the presidency.
.......... Is she sure she was RUNNING the mental health clinics? Is she absolutely sure she wasn't IN the mental health clinics? And perhaps forgot to return from a weekend furlough?
In case any reader thinks I'm making light of mental illness - I think the woman genuinely has something wrong with her, and I have for quite some years. Her behavior consistently borders on the sociopathic, in my admittedly untrained opinion. And yes, I do think sometimes, there is something to be said for Freud.
I also bring you, from the "the bitch had it coming" files: In Response To Prosser Choking Allegations, Fox’s Van Susteren Calls On Female Chief Justice To Resign. Because, you know - hey, the bitches had it coming!
/golf clap - Way to go, Republicans. Gosh, you should be PROUD of what the Grand Old Party's become. Way to show that misguided old Eisenhower! Liberals like me are the ones ruining this nation. We sure are. ;-)
