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    June 27, 2011

    Chris Wallace asks Michele Bachmann: Are you a flake? [VIDEO]

    ​If you want to be president of the United States, like Michele Bachmann does, voters need to be assured that you've got the necessary brains, common sense, and principles to run the country. So Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace laid out some of Bachmann's more recent noteworthy gaffes, lies, and i ... More >>

  • News

    March 16, 2011

    Jeff Larson used RNC piggy bank to pay friends

    Did use of charitable donations violate federal election law?

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Bachmann under scrutiny for $1.5 million in campaign donations

    The tea party caucus chair hasn't accounted for $1.5 million in campaign contributions.​Michele Bachmann bragged in the last campaign cycle about the tens of thousands of small contributions she received from fans all over the country while building a $13 million war chest to defeat Tarryl Cla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Michele Bachmann flunks slavery history again [VIDEO]

    Bachmann forgets the slave trade.​Is it time for someone to tap Rep. Michele Bachmann on the shoulder and suggest that she stop talking about American history? Last month in Iowa she insisted the Founding Fathers created a country in which race didn't matter, while ignoring the fact that they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Paul Ryan: Michele Bachmann threw SNL, Jon Stewart off my trail [VIDEO]

    Paul Ryan, right, figures Michele Bachmann helped him look serious.​Tapped to give the official GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union address, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan should have had the nation's undivided attention. Instead, Michele Bachmann decided to freelance with her own Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Michele Bachmann promotes video smear of Planned Parenthood [UPDATE]

    Is it real, or is it propaganda?​Michele Bachmann wants to defund Planned Parenthood, and she wants you to think that Planned Parenthood supports child sex trafficking. She's directing her Facebook visitors to a debunked video from anti-abortion activist Lila Rose, and her Live Action crew, to m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Michele Bachmann concentrates on district work ... in Hawaii

    Apparently speaking in Hawaii is part of Bachmann's "district work"​Michele Bachmann has apparently been inundated this week with calls from reporters wanting her take on the freedom-loving protesters in Cairo. But our most famous congresswoman just isn't picking up the line. She's busy with " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Michele Bachmann naked body scans [PHOTOS]

    Michele Bachmann naked body scan pictures: The horror, the horror.​While flirting with a presidential bid in Iowa late last month, Michele Bachmann was asked about privacy concerns with full-body scanners at airport security. "Thank you for asking that question," Bachmann said. "It's one on ever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2011

    Michele Bachmann lampooned on Saturday Night Live [VIDEO]

    Kristen Wiig as Michele "Crazy Eyes" Bachmann.​Michele Bachmann wanted the national spotlight with her own State of the Union address, and she's getting her wish. Along with guffaws in the New York Times op-ed section, Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig has joined the party, with a total tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Michele Bachmann looked into the wrong SOTU camera on purpose

    Michele Bachmann: Crazy eyes.​First impressions are lasting impressions, and the first time a lot of Americans saw Michele Bachmann unfiltered came Tuesday night after the president's State of the Union speech, when she wouldn't look straight into the camera. Besides annoying establishment Re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Meghan McCain calls Michele Bachmann "a poor man's Sarah Palin" [VIDEO]

    Meghan McCain dishes on Michele Bachmann.​Rep. Michele Bachmann flunked the history of the Founding Fathers and slavery, and she couldn't figure out which camera to look at in her State of the Union address. Now she's got John McCain's daughter heaping on the insults. "She not a leader of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Star Tribune Bachmann coverage slammed by watchdog

    house.govSometimes you've got to call a liar a liar.​Minnesota's paper of record is giving the state's most flagrantly deceptive politician a free pass. That's the conclusion of a harshly worded critique of the Star Tribune posted this week by the Columbia Journalism Review, a major journalism tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Michele Bachmann vs. Paul Ryan: The videos

    Michele Bachmann stealing the spotlight.​Wonky Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan offered his party's official response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last night. It was filled with big numbers, dire predictions about economic doom and gloom unless we buckle down, eat our oa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Michele Bachmann helpfully shows unemployment falling [PHOTO OF THE DAY]

    Unemployment is dropping. Here's proof.​Michele Bachmann used a lot of scary rhetoric about the economy to harangue President Barack Obama last night, blaming him for the tanked economy left behind by his predecessor. So it's a little odd that she would go through the trouble to point out th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Michele Bachmann SOTU behind-the-scenes video

    "OK baby," just roll tape.​You just never know when the microphone is on and the tape is rolling. That's why, this morning, we can bring you behind-the-scenes video of Michele Bachmann primping for her big State of the Union address last night. Shut the doors, she tells an off-camera aide whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    CNN justifies airing Bachmann's SOTU speech [UPDATE]

    Michele Bachmann: Equal time?​The tempest in a tea pot is now the perfect storm. Michele Bachmann's little State of the Union speech scheduled for an online-only audience tonight is now being put on a par with Barack Obama's address to Congress, and the official Republican response from Rep. Pau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Michele Bachmann SOTU response transcript

    Michele Bachmann delivers the tea party SOTU response.​Michele Bachmann insisted she wasn't trying to upstage Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's official Republican response to the State of the Union address this evening. But she rubbed everyone the wrong way anyway. Here's what she said.

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2011

    Michele Bachmann plans her own State of the Union address

    Her party bypassed her for a leadership spot, so she's bypassing her party.​Michele Bachmann went to Iowa on Friday. She shook hands with the locals, huddled with GOP big shots, made a speech with scary talk about America looking like the Titanic, and forged ahead with her big tease about a po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2010

    Michele Bachmann's leadership drive sabotaged by Republicans [UPDATES]

    It's a conspiracy alright. But a Republican conspiracy.​Michele Bachmann wants two things now: To be taken seriously, and to win the No. 4 position in the House leadership ranks. The problem is, she keeps on spouting batshit craziness. It's hard to win the hearts and minds of folks like soon- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Michele Bachmann's "wean 'em off Social Security" speech prompts radio ad

    A Washington, D.C. activist group is using her words against her, via radio ads that started running in her district today.

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Pawlenty plays for a national audience this weekend

    Gov. Tim Pawlenty is getting some serious attention after his announcement that he won't seek a third term. It seems like everyone except the man himself know are stating the obvious: Pawlenty wants a place in the national spotlight. President? Vice president? Who knows? Check out the list of his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    Pawlenty plays for a national audience this weekend

    It seems like everyone except the man himself is stating the obvious: Pawlenty wants a place in the national spotlight.

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Wis. Republican says what they've all been thinking: Franken will win

    Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin came out and told it like it is: Franken is going to win. Finally a Republican that can admit Coleman is fighting a long lost battle.

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2008

    Leading the fight for farm welfare

    Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin came out and told it like it is: Franken is going to win. Finally a Republican that can admit Coleman is fighting a long lost battle.

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