Teabaggers Left Dangling, Bachmann Cancels Tea Party Appearance

[Purveyor]

Rep. Michele Bachmann has become the latest high-profile conservative to bag the rapidly unraveling Tea Party Convention in Nashville next week.

The Minnesota Republican, who has become something of a heroine of the Tea Party movement, decided Thursday morning that she is cancelling her appearance at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel next Friday, where she was scheduled to be a breakfast speaker.

Bachmann’s office cited the same concerns that other Tea Party activists have voiced about the first-of-its-kind national gathering: namely, the for-profit model of organizer Judson Phillips, a self-described “small town lawyer” with a history of financial problems.

Phillips has announced that the $549-a-head convention featuring Sarah Palin is sold out. But Tea Party critics and allies alike have been asking questions about what Phillips plans to do with the money. Concrete answers have been in short supply, and in the end it looked like too big a risk for any public office holder.

“We’re out,” said Bachmann spokesman Dave Dziok. “It comes down to conflicting advice as to how these profits are going to be used after the fact. We’d rather err on the side of caution than do it and find out it’s improper... with somebody saying ‘they’re using the money from an event you were at to support this and this,’ which comes as a direct conflict with what you’re doing as a member of Congress.”

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[Flying Dream Blues]

1. The headline is the jewel of the post. nt

[mike_c]

13. that was my first thought too....

:rofl: Teabaggers left dangling! Some editor smiled all day over that one!

[livetohike]

2. I guess their big movement isn't so big

and Bachmann's reason sounds like an excuse to distance herself. I think the GOP are pulling away from these nuts.

[TankLV]

16. Well - things shrink when it gets COLD!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Maybe a room full of paying guests vomiting violently before breakfast

made her queasy.

[Supply Side Jesus]

4. I'm rec'ing just for the title alone

:rofl:

[tularetom]

5. As it gets nuttier and nuttier even whack jobs like Bachmann will keep hands off

And if these idiots have marginalized themselves to the point where they are too over the top forBachmann they're probably nearing the end.

But I'm sure fox will still praise them.

[LiberalFighter]

6. She wanted to keep her hands off? I don't think so.

She so desperately wants to take a grab at em.

[TankLV]

17. wack jobs and hands off...

they just keep comming...

[Lerkfish]

7. they served their purpose, its ok to jettison them now

they were shock troops to frighten democrats into capitulating on HCR, and they were bizarrely effective.

[SteveM]

8. What?! "...how these profits are going to be used..." Damned socialists. nt

[asdjrocky]

9. " Left Dangling"

Rec for the headline alone.

[NYC_SKP]

12. ya! +1 n/t

[Salmonslayer]

10. It sounds like a smart move to me if

you take her reasoning at face value. I would not associate my self with a convention that is grassroots but is operating on a for profit basis unless I could verify what the money was being used for. would you?

I think mos DU'ers dont take the Tea Party movement seriously. It is easier to dismiss them as knuckle dragging Rush parrots, but, I think it is a mistake to underestimate the opposition. Do so at our own peril. What happened in Mass will happen elsewhere unless Democrats pay closer attention and do a better job articulating their position to the people.

[Hansel]

14. It's hard to take people seriously when they are carrying signs

with the President mocked up like Hitler or a medicine man with a bone through his nose. Or when the signs say things like "Keep Your Government Hands Off My Medicare". Or call Obama a socialist while complaining about him bailing out the banks and not caring about the the "average Joe".

Some of these people are just plain stupid and don't deserve a 2nd look. And under the weight of their own stupidity they are imploding. The Tea Party movement only made even a blimp on the radar because their promotion was heavily funded by insurance lobbyists and propagated by News Corp. The insurance companies found them to be useful tools and have already disposed of them. The Republicans and News Corp are about to do the same because the gig is up and these people know they have been had. When their leader is on Thom Hartman trying to recruit his listeners you know there is trouble in River City.

They have turned on Sarah Palin, the holy grail of Faux News. Thee who tried to pretend they were a force to be reckoned with will soon stop even mentioning them. They made them and they will break them.

The Tea Party movement itself is dead. However, the Tea Party name will be held up for awhile by clueless and LAZY pundits and political analysts who use the movement as a Rochard test representing whatever they want them to.

And Obama will bowl over any Republican trying to take on the populist meme and run away easily with the prize. The Tea Party will be crushed under the weight of the real populists.

[Salmonslayer]

20. Bold prediction

Maybe you are right about the Tea Party movement being dead and Obamas ability to bowl over any supposed "populist". I would not bet on it at this time though. I am waiting to see if there is any momentum from the Mass election.

I agree the signs are ridiculous, but, no more ridiculous than signs I have seen the left holding up at times.

[wryter2000]

11. $549 a head?

What a shame it wasn't $549 a brain, because they could all get in free that way.

[TankLV]

15. Maybe they'll just "suck it up" and "take it on the chin"...

[Purveyor]

18. Oh my!!! ;) eom

[complain jane]

21. Nice!

:: clap clap clap ::

:toast:

[zulchzulu]

19. ...but....but... the Teabaggers are on a roll since the Massachusetts win!!!

Granted, the win by Brown was due to Coakley not being able to campaign her way out of a paper bag, but I digress...