Bachmann AWOL - Has skipped 37% of votes, won't consider forfeiting some salary

[Ruby the Liberal]

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has missed nearly 40 percent of votes in the House since she formally launched her presidential campaign.

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Bachmann, the chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus who has surged toward the top of the Republican presidential field, has missed 50 of 135 votes (37 percent) since formally announcing her candidacy June 27 in Waterloo, Iowa.

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Asked earlier this month whether she would forfeit some of her congressional salary, Bachmann replied, “No comment.”

When pressed, Bachmann said, “I’m not doing an interview with you now.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/173441-bachmann-skips-40-percent-of-votes-since-launching-bid

Gotta love Government handouts, aye Michele?

:rofl:

[arcane1]

1. Freeloader!!!!!!

May as well be collecting welfare and driving a Cadillac, right?

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Not the same! (The Bachmann story isn't made up)

[Cool Logic]

2. It's not a good idea to make an issue out of this...

Obama missed 74 out of 93 roll-call votes (79.6%) from the end of the August congressional recess and the election in 2008.

[emilyg]

Exactly -

[gratuitous]

4. A couple of things

We're talking about Rep. Bachmann, not Sen. Obama. The timing is a bit different between the last three months of a general election campaign and the middle of the year before a general election. One person is a candidate for a nomination, the other one was his party's nominee.

But then, Michele is quite good at talking out of both sides of her mouth. She's against farm subsidies, except when it's her family sucking up the federal largesse. She wants Medicare reform, unless it's her husband's clinic in the revenue stream. Budget earmarks are the greatest evil the republic has ever seen, unless the money is dedicated to projects in her district. And, when she's asked about her poor attendance at her job, it's "no comment." She doesn't seem to lack for comments about the way other people conduct their lives, but she can't or won't answer for herself.

Oh yeah; I'd make a big fat issue out of this, if the popular media would do that. But, having been told by Herself not to ask any more questions, the intrepid reporters of the Fourth Estate will doubtlessly honor her wishes.

[Cool Logic]

5. You could certainly try to "make a big fat issue out of this" however, it would be an embarrassingly

difficult sell.

FYI, his record wasn't any better during primary days.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3780399

[gratuitous]

6. Thank you for your concern

[JoePhilly]

10. What were McCain's numbers for that same period?

And those for Hillary.

[Cool Logic]

11. I'm not100% sure, but I believe McCain's were worse and Hillary's were better.

Which reinforces the fact that this is a non-issue.

[Blue Owl]

7. Not just absent

But absent-minded.

[spanone]

8. leave her alone, she's been busy becoming popular

[dana_b]

9. if we just didn't show up

for 40% of the meetings at our jobs could you imagine ANY of us keeping those jobs? What a fucking freeloader.