Fact Checking Rep. Bachmann's "Tea Party Response" To The State Of The Union

[meegbear]

Insisting that she was not upstaging the official GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) offered a combative and highly misleading speech of her own following the president's address. In her "Tea Party Response," Bachmann repeated a litany of false right-wing talking points about everything from the Recovery Act and job losses to the debt and "16,500 IRS agents."

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Below are the main areas covered in this article. Well worth the read and shows how out of touch she/they are. -- meegbear


Bachmann: "Failed Stimulus," And Unemployment "Spiked"


Bachmann Wrongly Blamed President Bush's Final Year Of Deficits On President Obama


Bachmann Repeated "16,500" IRS Agents' Lie


Bachmann: Repeal Affordable Care Act, Or "Be Forced To Rely On Government-Run Coverage"


Bachmann Claimed The Affordable Care Act Doesn't Allow Insurance Sales Across State Lines


Bachmann Got It Wrong On Corporate Tax Rates


http://politicalcorrection.org/factcheck/201101250021

[madmax]

1. Facts? Who needs facts. nt

[Tippy]

2. None of this is about our Country

It is all aobut individules who aim to conrol the world with all their money...Does anyone hdere think it will work?

[RandomThoughts]

3. They recently passed a tax cut for the wealthy.

So although Bush did the same thing, the creation of deficits is not being addressed.

Deficit spending moves money to those with assets, it is made to move money to the top.

If the government borrows money, someone has to create that money, then collect interest on it, where that payment comes from only one thing, the fact that someone lets them create money from nothing. And if you were someone that created money from nothing, the more people borrow, the more you can collect for not doing anything.


Side note, I am still due beer and travel money, and many experiences.

[Erose999]

4. Were there even any facts in it? nt

[C_U_L8R]

5. There will be bubbles

i drink your bubble tea, i drink it up

[MineralMan]

6. Facts? She doesn't need facts. The teabaggers will believe anything,

and spread it all over the internet as gospel truth.

[WingDinger]

7. Notice, Bachmann has adopted the same accent as Palin?

Everything is Kinda', or Sorta', or seems like'. Fox is starting to adopt that same accent. Even on their """news""".