Fox: 'Unusual' Bachmann Rebuttal Could Scramble GOP Message on Obama Address

[Still a Democrat]

It's bad enough that Rep. Paul Ryan has to follow President Obama. Now the brainy Wisconsin congressman tapped to give the official Republican response to the State of the Union address must also compete for attention with Tea Party star Michele Bachmann.

Bachmann, a third-term Minnesota congresswoman renowned for lobbing rhetorical bombs at her opponents, plans to rebut the president's address in an online broadcast at the Tea Party Express website Tuesday night.

While Ryan's remarks will be carried by all the networks and cable news outlets as they happen, television news outlets have agreed to share a camera to record Bachmann's comments -- and some could choose to air them live.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/25/unusual-bachmann-rebuttal-scramble-gop-message-obama-address/

[DJ13]

1. I think thats the plan, to blunt Ryan's message

His proposals would lose the GOP a lot of support among the older voters, so they scheduled the only person in Congress crazier than him to follow up in the hope that she will be the focus instead of Ryan.

[bullwinkle428]

2. Are you suggesting the Repukes are playing 3-D chess?

;)

[DJ13]

7. Maybe 3D checkers

:thumbsup:

[liam_laddie]

13. Repukes are incapable of...

dealing with the Y axis, much less the Z. They are unidirectional, in reverse. :toast:

[Sal Minella]

3. Should work, if she explains to us how to repeal the President

and the Senate.

Nobody will remember a thing Ryan said.

[roguevalley]

4. brainy? Not likely. he has no cause and effect. abuse old people,

the young and kill the middle class, you country dies. he doesn't get it. he's a hack that is what they pass for smart.

[bushisanidiot]

5. Oh, BULLSHIT. The repukes are getting TWO responses.

the tea baggers and the republicans are one in the same. they are NOT TWO DIFFERENT PARTIES.

the tea party isn't even a real party.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I did send a message to CNN

Asking that if they are going to treat the Teapublicans as their own separate party - they damn well better have Senator Sanders on as well . . .

The more I think about this the more po'd I get.

[pacalo]

6. All this news contrivance is such a turn-off. Rebuttals already written & distributed

to the media. It really does take away from the virtues of spontaneity, passion, & sincerity. It's just a political game to them, yet we see the speech as a major announcement of how our LIVES will be affected.

[yellowcanine]

8. I for one am delighted that Bachmann is becoming the face of the Republican Party.

I am sure Bonerman is thrilled also.

[meegbear]

9. Fox already announced they will not show her "response" ...

but it also makes sense. Since they are the network of the gop, they need to show them as being all in lockstep. And a brainy (:rofl:) bombthrower like her can mess up the cohesion.

[liam_laddie]

15. Cohesion?

More like lockstep a la goose-stepping. It mystifies me that twits like Bachmann, Palin and the tea-party reps are given any space in national media; oh...wait... national media=reich-wing propaganda. :puke:

[louis-t]

10. Should be good for a laugh.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I think the GOP is actually in support of this

Goal? Make Paul Ryan look 'moderate'.

Scramble? You bet! Scramble it so people don't realize how insane Paul Ryan's cat food for seniors budget is.

[damntexdem]

14. Well, further scramble it, anyway.