Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann formally announced her presidential candidacy on Monday morning in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, before heading on a tour of early-primary states. (Yes, she already announced her run …
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What You Missed While Not Watching the New Hampshire GOP Debate
–2 minutes. The debate hasn’t started yet, but the crowd is already restless. A mutiny is afoot. CNN may host this thing, but can CNN’s John King control it? “Let’s do the pledge,” shouts out someone in the audience, …
Bachmann’s Coming-Out Party: The Minnesota Clipper Knocks ’Em Dead in New Hampshire
Representative Michele Bachmann used Monday night’s CNN-WMUR debate among GOP presidential hopefuls as an unconventional venue to make it official: she’s running for President.
“I just want to make an announcement here for you, John, on CNN tonight,” Bachmann told the debate’s moderator, John King. “I filed today my …
Michele Bachmann’s Legendary Loud-Mouthed Campaign Guru
Ed Rollins, a veteran strategist newly attached to Rep. Michele Bachmann, has a deceptively simple LinkedIn profile. Only two jobs are publicly listed: his current position as a fellow for CNN and Hofstra University and a stint …
Watch the 2012 “Fiscal Conservatives” Do the Ethanol Dance
Where The Money Is: Michele Bachmann Tops Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney has one of the best Rolodex’s of rich people in Republican politics. Michele Bachmann says stuff that makes people love her or hate her. In our modern age, which one of the two prospective presidential contenders do you think raised more money in the first quarter of 2011?
Bachmann, of course. She pulled in $2.2 million, …
Bachmann & Social Engineering the Tax Code
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This morning, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America that the tax code needs to be changed – citing the example that the Internal Revenue Service recently deemed breast pumps a valid medical deduction. (This is related to Bachmann’s …
The GOP’s Two-Headed SOTU Response
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan did an admirable job rebutting President Obama’s state of the union speech tonight. As Republicans with more stature have learned the hard way, ahem Bobby Jindal, answering the President’s hour-long speech in under 15 minutes can be tough. But the Wisconsin Republican’s biggest competition
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Stalking Horses
Michele Bachmann is making her GOP colleagues uncomfortable these days. Last week she started the Congressional Tea Party Caucus – the latest litmus test on how devoted members really are to the fledgling movement. Indiana’s Mike Pence, chairman of the Republican Conference, was quickly to sign up. Not so quick were House Minority …
Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin Stump Together, The Political Universe Quivers
To hear the chatter, this is big, like The Beatles partying with The Rolling Stones, or Prince sharing a stage with Michael Jackson, or Elvis doing a surfer movie with Frank Sinatra. The two alpha women of conservative politics, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, will share the same stage in Minnesota Wednesday for a rally, with a private …
Bring on the Tea
In what will be one of the biggest thematic swings in my reporting career, a week after getting back from Haiti I’m heading to Nashville, Tennessee to cover the first ever National Tea Party convention.
As with any kind of grassroots movement, holding a national convention is somewhat of an oxymoron. Before dispatching me, my boss, …
Tea Party Protesters Swarm the Hill
There was a moment at today’s tea party protests when an angry crowd of 10,000 stood facing the bulk of the House Republican conference on the steps to the Capitol chanting: “Throw them out!” Members looked at each other nervously, as if saying silently to one another: hopefully they mean throw the Democrats out?
With this …
Michele Bachmann Announces “The Super Bowl of Freedom”
The tailgating begins today, at noon, when perhaps thousands of conservative and libertarian activists will walk the halls of Congress in protest of health care reform. Conservative YouTube populist Michele Bachmann described the whole idea on with Fox News’s Gretchen Carlson. (Fun fact: Bachmann used to babysit Carlson in Anoka, …