Bachmann: Obama’s “gangster government”

06 March 2011 |permalink | email article

Appearing on “Meet the Press, Rep. Michele Bachman, the chair of the House Tea Party Caucus, repeated her previous rhetoric that President Obama is running “a gangster government,” and, yeah, he probably doesn’t like America very much either.

Confronted about her past inflammatory rhetoric Bachmann refused to back down, insisting that “there have been actions taken that have taken by this government that I think are corrupt, thoroughly corrupt.” Before laying into Obamacare, she accused the actions of this government “as being emblematic of ones that have not been based on true American values.”

Declining to answer questions about her own perceived “extremism,” she answered host David Gregory’s question about whether the president has anti-American views by saying that “Obama’s actions in the past two years speak for themselves.”

Bachmann did not say when and if she’ll make a decision about running for president. But her continuing ad hominem attacks on Obama put her in the same class with Mike Huckabee and Newt Gingrich, also disordered politicians likely to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

What they said

“Jerry Brown doesn’t know who Charlie Sheen is…Brown has a vague sense that there was a meltdown with the TV star. But the former Governor Moonbeam is now Governor Laser Beam; the only meltdown he cares about is California’s with its $26.6 billion budget shortfall.” In a rave review New York Times columnist Maureen Doud writes the old Jerry Brown is still the same, and yet is very different.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, calling for a repeal of Obamacare in a speech to New Hampshire Republicans, said in a hypocritical admission that his own state’s health care program “wasn’t perfect – some things worked, some things didn’t, and some things I’d change.” Really?

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