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Pennsylvania: Bachmann

July 2, 2009 - 05:53 am
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ACORN, Bachman and The Trib

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Curious how content-free factoids make it through the right wing noise machine, isn't it? Kinda resembles how oats make it through a horse.

First, I stumbled upon this editorial at the Trib. It begins:
If Senate Republicans have to play hardball to force the removal of ACORN from the ranks of "2010 Census Partners," so be it.

There are compelling reasons why the liberal activist group should not help recruit U.S. Census Bureau workers. Among them -- allegations in more than a dozen states that it used illegal voter-registration quotas and its long history of bias that clearly sucks up to all-things-Democrat.

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April 29, 2009 - 11:25 am
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Don't Know Much 'Bout History (Part II)

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Remember when Representative Michele Bachman thought it "interesting" that the previous influenza outbreak occurred under a "Democrat President"?

Even though it took place under the previous REPUBLICAN President.

Well on the same day, she made another gaffe. And our friends at Talking Points Memo bring you the video:

Here's what TPM posted (be sure you're sitting down when you read this, the uncontrolled giggles might make you fall). The set-up:
On Monday night, our friends at Dump Bachmann reported, Bachmann took to the House floor and paid tribute to the economic policies of Calvin Coolidge and the "Roaring 20s" (the era that ended with a massive monetary contraction and the Great Depression).

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April 28, 2009 - 06:57 pm
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Don't Know Much 'Bout History

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Representative Michele Bachman said:I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.
Uh...not so much. From the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages:A quick look at the swine flu scare in the 1970s brings up some interesting facts Bachmann seems to have missed that discredits even this "interesting coincidence". The first cases that spurred the swine flu vaccinations actually happened in 1976 under Republican President Gerald Ford when some Fort Dix soldiers became ill. Carter continued the vaccinations when he took office.
(h/t to Talking Points Memo)

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