"WHY DEMOCRATS ARE THE ONLY ONES HAPPY ABOUT BACHMANN'S RESPONSE."

[Cha]

"It quickly became apparent that something was amiss. When CNN, for reasons that don't make sense, began airing Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) response to the State of the Union, it appeared that she was speaking to someone, but it wasn't viewers.

As it turns out, there were two cameras in the room with her. Bachmann looked directly into the Tea Party Express camera, so the national television audience saw her from the wrong angle.

While that was distracting, it was the least of Bachmann's problems -- the right-wing Minnesotan clearly isn't well.

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."

Watching the nearly seven minutes of blistering stupidity, it was hard to avoid the fact that Bachmann has created some bizarro world for herself, detached from the reality the rest of us live in.

But here's the funny part: substantively, Bachmann's nonsense was roughly identical to the foolishness repeated by Paul Ryan in the official Republican SOTU response. Note Media Matters' fact-check of Ryan's speech and then check Media Matters' fact-check of Bachmann's speech. The similarities are striking -- with a few exceptions, they had the exact same message.

The importance of this is that Republicans seemed more than a little annoyed yesterday that Bachmann was muddling their message and making the GOP look bad with her wild-eyed craziness. Their concerns are understandable, but they're missing the more important point: Paul and Bachmann struck different tones, but they were making the same argument, and both were equally ridiculous."

—Steve Benen 10:25 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (29)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archive...hp#1892688

So cnn gave their base, the republicons, double time to answer President Obama's SOTU and they both went down in flames together. Why is that the repubs can't come up with a decent rebuttal to POTUS' SOTU?..so far? They have 6 more years to get it right.

Will cnn go for a 3rd republicon "answer" next year?

[Cha]

Here's a snip from a "comment" on Benen's blog taken from "conseravtive" "Desert News in Salt Lake City" ..no link, though..

"Under the title "Bachmann's Stunt" the traditionally conservative Deseret News in Salt Lake City had this to say about Michelle's performance last night.

“But instead of Ryan's well-tuned match to Obama's tone, Bachmann was combative, accusatory and, on issues like corporate tax and regulatory reform, seemingly oblivious to specific proposals made by the president just minutes earlier...

“The tea party's strong signal last night that it is not yet willing to coordinate its efforts with its host Republican Party might help quench the strong ideological thirst of its motivated but small base...

“But flaunting this ideologically-nuanced division within the Republican ranks — especially against the backdrop of the most public display of a newly pragmatic, quietly confident and rhetorically gifted Obama — seems a strategic blunder. Successful long-term solutions to the huge fiscal challenges facing our nation will require disciplined and responsible party governance on both sides of the aisle. Bachmann's stunt did not help the cause of the loyal opposition.”

Imv, Bachmann is cnn personified.

[Capn Sunshine]

As many factions of the Republican party as there are, that's how many "responses" we'll see.

[mzmolly]

Indeed.

Is the media finally cluing in on the fact that the Tea Party idiots are actually ... Republicans?

[OptimistesMaddie]

This is just the beginning, they will continue to implode.

Bachmann will continue to try and represent the Teabaggers and the she will continue to alienate them.

Ryan is an idiot and an empty suit

We haven't heard the end of Palin because she will miss the limelight and want to get back on the gravy train.

Boehner will continue crying and he will bring more idiotic bill proposals to the floor for America to see...

Facinating...train wreck in the making.

[The Desperate Blogger]

Looks like the GOP's 'big tent' might already be coming apart at the seams.

I guess that's what happens when it's manufactured by -- and on the backs of -- 4 year old Malaysian children...

[Ikonoklast]

We need to chip in and buy them more gasoline.

They got the 'playing with fire' part down pat; they just need a little more...assistance.

[mstinamotorcity]

Ms Bachmann is nothing more than a PIMP. She is pimping her Tea Party folks for more of their loot. She is playing the same tune her buddy Ms. Palin plays. They do it for the money. Nothing else. They know good and well what they are saying is nothing more than a pack of out right lies. As long as they keep waving the loot in front of those two you will see Stupidity at its finest. I just don't think I would make a fool of myself for the loot. And Paul Ryan is weak. He always talk about his wittle tax road map, when the least would pay the most. And the most end up with a 15% tax credit. The least, people who make 13,100 dollars would see an increase of 13%. Do they have anybody in the GOP who can do mathematics!!!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

(01-27-2011 06:17 PM)mstinamotorcity Wrote:  Ms Bachmann is nothing more than a PIMP. She is pimping her Tea Party folks for more of their loot. She is playing the same tune her buddy Ms. Palin plays. They do it for the money. Nothing else. They know good and well what they are saying is nothing more than a pack of out right lies. As long as they keep waving the loot in front of those two you will see Stupidity at its finest. I just don't think I would make a fool of myself for the loot. And Paul Ryan is weak. He always talk about his wittle tax road map, when the least would pay the most. And the most end up with a 15% tax credit. The least, people who make 13,100 dollars would see an increase of 13%. Do they have anybody in the GOP who can do mathematics!!!!!!!!!!

Well said, mstinamotorcity.. I think the pimps can do the math but always count on the brainwashed predictability of their fox "news" viewers. The dumbest bunch on the Planet.