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Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: blacken700 on July 19, 2012, 05:30:42 PM
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"..They were long afraid to do it, but now conservatives have their knives out for Rep. Michele Bachmann. Senators in her own party, congressional candidates, a lawmaker in her state’s delegation and leaders of the House Republican Conference are all lambasting the Minnesota Republican for saying the wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said merely floating the idea that Huma Abedin — a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — has family ties to the radical Middle East group is “pretty dangerous.” “I don’t know Huma, but from everything I do know of her, she has a sterling character,” Boehner told reporters Thursday. “And I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.” Later on CNN, Boehner said he expects to speak to Bachmann soon.
Bachmann’s accusation came in a handful of letters to intelligence and national security agencies raising questions about the Muslim Brotherhood. The letters, also signed by four other Republicans, specifically mentioned Abedin, accusing her late father of having ties to the Brotherhood. Boehner declined to entertain a reporter’s question about whether he would toss Bachmann off the Intelligence Committee, where she’s privy to highly classified information. Behind the scenes, leadership aides said they were shaken by the comments from someone as prominent as Bachmann.
And Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, was described by several sources as incredibly angry when he heard of the incident. The Republican backlash against Bachmann started with Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) statement on the Senate floor Wednesday, saying she had made “sinister accusations.” Rep. Jeff Flake, a conservative Arizona lawmaker running for Senate, tweeted “Kudos to @SenJohnMcCain for his statement on Senate floor yesterday defending Clinton aide. Well said.” Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) added: “Rep. Bachmann’s accusations about Sec. Clinton aide Huma Abedin are out-of-line. This kind of rhetoric has no place in our public discourse.”
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78741.html
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Ed Rollins RIPS 'EXTREME' Bachmann
Rep. Michele Bachmann’s former campaign manager has joined the bipartisan chorus criticizing the Minnesota Republican for questioning the loyalty of State Department aide Huma Abedin and alleging she has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
“I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades,” Edward Rollins wrote in an op-ed for FOX News. “There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me. I have to say that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s outrageous and false charges against a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin reaches that threshold.
“Her unsubstantiated charge against Abedin, a widely respected top aide to Secretary Hillary Clinton, accusing her of some sort of far-fetched connection to the Muslim brotherhood, is extreme and dishonest,” he continued. Rollins, like Sen. John McCain in a floor speech earlier today, called out Bachmann for writing a letter urging the State Department to investigate whether Abedin — a Muslim American and wife of former Rep. Anthony Weiner — and other officials were trying to influence U.S. foreign policy to aid Islamist causes.
Rollins demanded Bachmann apologize for the letter, which was signed by four other GOP lawmakers, and compared Bachmann’s claims to Joe McCarthy’s hunt for communists in the 1950’s. “Having worked for Congressman Bachman’s campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level,” he wrote.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78692.html
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Respect for the republicans
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"her late father who’s now deceased was a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, Bachmann explained. She continued:
Her brother was a part of the Muslim Brotherhood, and her mother was a part of what’s called the Muslim Sisterhood"......
from Bachmann.....
If this was "father was a member of the KKK.....brother was a member of Storm Front and mother was member of some female militia org...u'd all be whining like the liberal bitches u are. It's worth looking into...she advises Hil. She made a poor choice in husbands...who knows.
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This is why I wanted her to win the nomination. Pure comedic value.
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She's a retard...but here she has a point...not sure why this is coming up now.
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This is why I wanted her to win the nomination. Pure comedic value.
That is how most of us feel about obama being potus.
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That is how most of us feel about obama being potus.
WAHHHH!!! WAHHHHH!!! WAHHHHHH!!! Obama on your mind already this morning?
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WAHHHH!!! WAHHHHH!!! WAHHHHHH!!! Obama on your mind already this morning?
Stalking me so early again? I'm flattered.
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Stalking? No. Pointing out your Obama obsession in every thread that isn't about him? Yes.
Good luck with the weekend. I am sure mommy has stocked up on Raman noodles for you so you don't have to interrupt your cut and paste spree that you have planned.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/jon-stewart-michele-bachmann-huma-abedin-muslim-brotherhood-video_n_1689035.html