VIDEO: Bachmann Booed On Right-To-Work
Boos rained down from the NH House gallery as Michele Bachmann touted right-to-work bill.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann won cheers and jeers today when she addressed the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Some Republican lawmakers in the chamber applauded her support for a right-to-work bill in the state.
Opponents in the House gallery booed and heckled her, including some profanity.
Bachmann was one of five Republican presidential candidates invited to speak. Gary Johnson, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, and Rick Santorum also took turns speaking to lawmakers.
Matthew S
1:41 pm on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Go home and give up. Your time is over.
Craig Vale
9:41 pm on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Her 15 minutes have turned into twenty. Where's the timekeeper?
Charlene Johnson
2:26 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
no we dont want her. send her to iowa they like her. put her on a one way road to the sea
Norm
9:50 pm on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
I knew there was a reason I love New Hampshire!
E.m. Gray
12:51 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
We don't need more right to work states. Its double-speak. We need more worker's rights states. What good are jobs if the wages are too low to raise a family?
Janet
5:50 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
right on!! they never mention that. She also thinks the minimum wage should be done with!! Let her try living on that. Oops, forgot she gamed the system with her foster care scam..how much a month did she bring in with that caper? Free health care for the foster kids....but not for us, the taxpayers that paid for her foster care kids...
Charlene Johnson
2:30 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
plus the game on foster kids, her husband prays away the gay and they get medicaid & medicare to pay. and have a farm in wisc. they get farm aid (KNOWN IN MN AS LIFE TIME WELFARE)
Dora Glasberg
2:12 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Never a cream pie around when you need one.
John Silver
8:40 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
They knew she was coming-
should have come prepared.
Mimi
2:46 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_way_forward
Jan Schmidt
7:17 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Good grief, she was awful. Read her speech, was so repetitive and slow it was just terrible - and the worse part - she enjoyed dividing us... loved the hurt she's doing willingly. Imagine, happily dismantling one of the top states to lower our standard of living - all while smiling away... frightening.
Charlene Johnson
2:31 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
why do you think we want you to keep her or send her to iowa = Idiots out wandering around
Matthew S
2:48 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Agree, she is scary. Stepford wife with too much money and too much power. Though both seem to be bleeding away. Her time is running out. I just thought it would be sooner. In the meantime, appreciate some of these:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/16/246618/bachmann-craziest-quotes/
John Silver
8:30 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wow, see what happens when you try to talk to real Americans instead of the fox tv/pparty people?
Go away michelle, and take your "supporters" with you.
Harry Callahan
10:59 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Michele you are becoming the laughing stock of the clown car. Your 15 minutes are up, go home destroy your own state.
Erik Sparby
12:22 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
What? No we don't want her back in Minnesota either!
Charlene Johnson
2:34 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
she has already done that - please show her the way to the atlantic we dont want her.
willy
11:47 am on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Get off the Prozac Lady
Charlene Johnson
2:35 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
that's putting it mildly
RCnDC
12:31 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
So here's the Websters real definition of the TeaPublican theme,
Going ROUGE
1 : vagrant, tramp
2 : a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
3: a mischievous person : scamp
4: a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5: an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation
And the Wall Street Occupiers are fanatical and crazy?? LOL, Please..
Chris
1:20 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
Right to work for less brought to your by O'Brien and the Koch Brothers. The NH House bought and paid for by the 1%.
Ajax
2:07 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
If by profanity are you referring to the utterance of the name "Bachmann"? Lestwise there was no profanity I could hear.
John Mc.
2:26 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011
The middle class is done for if ANY of these Repuglican clowns get into office in 2012! How much pain, how many self-serving tax cuts and loopholes for the rich and corporations, how long till they vote for meaningful job creation, worker protections and CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM??? Make no mistake, they do NOT care about the 99%.
Robert Wittner
8:20 pm on Friday, October 14, 2011
Listen to the video: there were both cheers and boos. By mentioning only boos in his lying headline, we can see what side Dan Tuohy is on: Team Obama propaganda.
In any case, most of his blogs have been cut-and-paste Leftie propaganda.
Greg Petty
3:17 pm on Wednesday, October 19, 2011
That is not true,lying is bad for you
Jan Schmidt
8:33 pm on Friday, October 14, 2011
One would expect cheers, that's rather normal in a speech - don't you think? The exceptional part of the whole thing was that very loud boos were heard - the video is capturing the sound in the lower chamber - a few boos - but the gallery rocked with disapproval when she got started pushing her hateful rhetoric.
Dan Tuohy
8:52 am on Saturday, October 15, 2011
Rep. Bachmann "won cheers and jeers" when she addressed the NH House of Representatives. Republican lawmakers did applaud her, as I noted. Having covered the NH House for a handful of years in the past, I can't recall another guest speaker receiving such treatment from the public gallery. With due respect to the good people of Wisconsin, New Hampshire is no Wisconsin. Others touted right-to-work during their 10 minutes at the House podium and they did not provoke or stoke similar emotions from the people in the gallery. So that was the genesis of the headline. I appreciate your 2 cents, Robert Wittner; thanks for depositing them. Keep 'em coming.
Craig Vale
9:15 am on Saturday, October 15, 2011
I would posit that the good folks of New Hampshire are well versed in politics and know a phony when they see one.Thus the boos and cat calls. Bachman's BS does not play well amongst an educated electorate. She usually panders to those with a room temperature IQ. Her pull string talking points do not play well with folks who hold a high school diploma or better.
Craig Vale
9:33 am on Saturday, October 15, 2011
In Bachmann's attempt to appeal to the Tea Partiers she exposes the very cowardice that the original participants of the Boston Tea Party put on public display back in the day. Painting themselves to look like Indians to avoid recognition and place the blame on someone else they had hoped to avoid detection and blame for their deed. Not much has changed as Tea Party folks do pretty much the same today.They send up an equally face painted shill to do their bidding . Funny how something so obvious as the stunt pulled by the colonists has become mythical legend when in point of fact the participants never wanted a finger pointed at them.
ItBeMe
6:34 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011
Yes I agree, with added vitriol, with all of these these anti-Bachmann, anti-Republican, anti-Conservative postings. Yes, what we need is 4 more years of Barack Obama and his administration. We need to restore Nancy Pelosi to her rightful thrown. Yes, they are the answer. Just look at how well they've done !! Hope and Change forever !! Yes, yes, yes !!!
Dora Glasberg
9:35 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011
Throne.
ItBeMe
7:10 am on Sunday, October 16, 2011
Throne. Yes, thank you.
"extremist corporate right wing idiot."; "disgrace to the Senate"; "a liar, a thief, AND a Christian (with a small ‘c’) charlatan." Yes, yes, yes ! We need 4 more years of Barack Obama ! He's the one. He can do it. We need more $452,000 trips to Africa for his family. We need more Solyndras, bigger deficits, more spending, more Guantanamos, a bigger expanded Patriot Act, more social programs, increased taxes, fewer jobs, higher unemployment, higher gas prices, skyrocketing food prices, no energy policy, more Obamacare, more Fast and Furious operations. Yes, we need it all. Hope and Change forever! Yes, yes, yes !
Dora Glasberg
9:34 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011
The women is an extremist corporate right wing idiot.
Who doesn't know what she's talking about most of the time.
That's when she just making things up.
Dora Glasberg
9:37 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011
This harpy is a disgrace to the Senate and the political sense.
Profiting from government subsidies while complaining about them.
She's a liar, a thief, AND a christian charlatan.
ItBeMe
9:59 am on Sunday, October 16, 2011
Throne. Yes, thank you.
"extremist corporate right wing idiot."; "disgrace to the Senate"; "a liar, a thief, AND a Christian (with a small ‘c’) charlatan." Yes, yes, yes ! We need 4 more years of Barack Obama ! He's the one. He can do it. We need more $452,000 trips to Africa for his family. We need more Solyndras, bigger deficits, more spending, more Guantanamos, a bigger expanded Patriot Act, more social programs, increased taxes, fewer jobs, higher unemployment, higher gas prices, skyrocketing food prices, no energy policy, more Obamacare, more Fast and Furious operations. Yes, we need it all. Hope and Change forever! Yes, yes, yes !
ForThePeople
10:41 am on Sunday, October 16, 2011
1) The president is allowed to go on vacation. It is also common for presidents to go on diplomatic missions at the expense of the country.
2) Solyndra represents a very small percentage of the total investment by the nation in boosting jobs. Some of them will go bankrupt. That's business.
3) The biggest deficits were always Republican presidents, and this is the first president that has acted to balance the budget by launching a commission. The argument isn't that Barack Obama doesn't want to balance the budget; the argument is *how* to balance the budget.
4) The Patriot Act was George Bush. The programs that we have now for national security, for better or worse, use that.
5) increased taxes? Oh, do tell. From my perspective, you already have decreased taxes for eight years, spending the "surplus" that we had during the Clinton presidency. That was George Bush. It's more like going back to paying the taxes that you originally owed.
I could go on and on... you are just giving the Republicans spin. So yes, four more years, I hope so. Better than anything the Conservatives are offering.
ItBeMe
8:01 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
1) Agreed, but do we need Michelle going on a trip for $424,124 for just the aircraft charge alone. She also listed her two daughters as “senior staffers” and brought along her mother (Marian Robinson), plus her niece and nephew (Leslie & Avery Robinson) not to mention her hair stylist and makeup guru. Cost doesn’t include the cost for security and ground transportation. Hey guess what, President wasn’t even there.
2) It’s not the$528 million investment that’s the problem. It’s the fact that they were advised against doing it and ended up restructuring the loan so that private investors (Obama campaign contributors) were moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment of the loan.
3) Not so-
GW Bush total 8-year debt - $3,011,831,280,329 avg annual - $376,478,910,041
B Obama total 2-year debt - 1,307,224,383,572 avg annual - $653,612,191,786
4.Patriot Act- In 2003 Obama told the National Organization of Women he considered the Bush Patriot Act “shoddy and dangerous” and would vote to repeal it. In March, 2010 he signed a 1 year extension of the Patriot Act WITHOUT reforms. On May 26, 2011 he signed a 4-year extension of the Patriot Act WITHOUT reforms. All while Dems voted to kill it 5 times in 2006. No hypocrisy there. Yeah, I know, it’s Bush’s fault.
ItBeMe
8:01 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
5) You conveniently left out the spending of "surplus" was after we were attacked on 9/11 and went into 2 wars (1 of which I disagreed with). Right or wrong, at least Bush had an excuse to run up the credit cards. Obama had promised to create jobs and bring down the unemployment rate after spending trillions. Guess we know how that ended up.
ForThePeople
10:22 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
1) Cite your sources.
2) Private investors usually have "preferred" status. That's not out of the ordinary, and it usually has to do with contractual obligations *before* the United States decided to invest. For a Republican, you should be all over corporate ownership!
3) You are wrong. George Bush increased it by 6 trillion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms
Next.
4) Your problem looks like Obama said he didn't like it to begin with, not with the legislation itself. Because, if that's really your issue, again- George Bush. Eight years of that, and now we cannot go through an airport without being molested. By the way, looks like the house leadership tried to push the extension...those the Republicans. I'm not a fan of the Patriot Act either, but we do have some high-profile successes, and I believe those successes along with the responsibility of the presidency caused the president to change his mind.
5) You are defending the phantom weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? What about Halliburton? What about tax breaks that benefited the rich way more than the poor? For all of your conspiracy theories about Solyndra, it just looks to me like sour grapes over a Democratic president, as George Bush was clearly one of the most corrupt, fiscally irresponsible presidents of our time that gave tax breaks to the rich, launched two unfunded wars, FEMA disasters... I could go on. How about the housing crisis?
Sour grapes.
ForThePeople
10:23 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
You need to understand, president Obama did enact various initiatives for jobs. Some of them won't pass because Congress is the party of "no" right now. His ability to do anything is almost paralyzed by Republicans. The Republicans want him to fail, they don't actually care about jobs. That is why every initiative, even if it's a good idea, will fail on purpose at the expense of the people for the prize of the presidency.
It's all well-known as we saw during the debt crisis.
ItBeMe
10:31 am on Monday, October 17, 2011
1. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/10/04/michelle-obamas-africa-vacation-cost-more-than-432142
2. The loan was restructured to put taxpayers at the end of the line. You need to find the difference between a loan and an investment.
3. You are wrong - see Table 3 at http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/deficits.html
4. Your statement – “If Obama “didn’t like it to begin with, not the legislation itself” doesn’t make any sense. The legislation was “it” and “it” was the legislation. “but we do have some high-profile successes”. Wow, sounds like you’re actually trying to give Bush credit for doing something right. Refreshing.
5. And there's the expected name calling - "George Bush was clearly one of the most corrupt, fiscally irresponsible presidents of our time....."
Yes, I agree, you are “sour grapes”.
ForThePeople
7:50 pm on Monday, October 17, 2011
1) Did you even read the article? Who reported on that? It wasn't US news. But I will give you a hint; there were 21 people on that plane. Again, it's not unprecedented for officials to take military aircraft.
2) What do you think an investment is? An investment is not a loan? What kind of Republican are you?
3) Did you read the link I sent? Of course not, because anything that would challenge your beliefs would be inherently uninteresting to you. But I read your site, which is a blog; you think your source is somehow better than the CBO? Okay. Let's look at table 3.
"The first two full fiscal years of the Obama presidency have seen unprecedented decreases in deficits: more in two years, after adjusting for inflation, than in Truman's eight years, and twice as much as in Clinton's eight years. If this trend were to continue -- and I don't know how likely that is -- the Federal budget would run a substantial surplus in fiscal 2014-2015. "
You didn't even read your own source! :-P I like Obama, and even I don't agree with that.
4) This is a reading comprehension problem. This will happen if you read in phrases instead of complete sentences. I'm responding to your complaint. Rephrased, your issue is in attacking Obama for what he said instead of having an issue with the legislation itself. That's a problem when you take it to a level where you ignore the actual legislation in favor of partisan attacks.
ForThePeople
7:51 pm on Monday, October 17, 2011
5) I gave backup to my claims. If I said George Bush was a raving idiot, that would be name calling. I'm not the first person to give evidence for his corruption and fiscal irresponsibility.
ItBeMe
1:22 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
1. For brevity sake I re-quote myself - “Do we need Michelle going on a trip for $424,124 for just the aircraft charge alone. She also listed her two daughters as “senior staffers” and brought along her mother (Marian Robinson), plus her niece and nephew (Leslie & Avery Robinson) not to mention her hair stylist and makeup guru....." Your reply was - "...it's not unprecedented for officials to take military aircraft". Which officials are you talking about? This was a trip for Michelle Obama's family. So you’re saying that even though the story was on usnews.com’s web-site they didn’t report it? Then how about theblaze.com, or dailymail.co.uk, or freerepublic.com, or the newamerican.com, or covenantnews.com or liveleak.com, or a thousand other publications? I guess they’re all wrong and we should believe it never happened? Didn't even mention her trip to Spain.
2.No, an investment is NOT a loan? When you buy a house/car/boat you go to the bank and get a L-O-A-N. The bank does not consider the money it lends to you an investment. They expect to be paid back (with interest) whether the collateral’s value goes up or down. An investment is when money is given to an entity (Solyndra in this case) with the “hope” that the asset/venture will increase so the investors can HOPEFULLY get a return on their investment. The US government made a LOAN to Solyndra with our taxpayer money. They DID NOT make an investment in Solyndra. Shssssh, I've got to explain this !
ItBeMe
1:24 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
3. My error, table 4, not table 3. You do have a funny way of reading statistics though. How about US Treasury stats – Bush increased the national debt by 75.2% in 8 years while Obama has increased it by 30.9% in just 30 months. See http://www.skymachines.com/US-National-Debt-Per-Capita-Percent-of-GDP-and-by-Presidental-Term.htm. I guess that's false too !
4. Really don’t understand what your babbling about on this one???
5. So, you say, calling Bush a “raving idiot” would be name calling but calling him “one of the most corrupt, fiscally irresponsible presidents….” is NOT name calling. Oh, I see. Sounds really logical to me. As with all name-calling liberals, you're very typical and predictable indeed.
Piper Edelman
7:42 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Here is something nobody is thinking about re: Bachmann. When I was young I used to collect Bitsy Bears. Yes, Bitsy Bears. Here is a tad more info to put it in context:
http://www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/Toys_BitsyBears.htm
-Paul-
9:55 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Both Bush and Obama support/supported foreign interventionism, endless war, massive foreign subsidies, corporate welfare, secret prisons, the destruction of civil liberties, massive domestic spending, and enormous deficits. They both want/wanted more power for the federal government, and less liberty for you and I.
This is not a partisan issue.
-Paul-
10:02 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
"Right to work" is a misnomer. There is no right to work at someone else's business -- hiring should be by mutual consent. Thus, I oppose "right to work" for private businesses. If the owner wants to require union membership as a condition of employment, that's his right.
I support "right to work" in the public sector, however, because funds are not aquired by government by voluntary trade or donation, but by coersion. It's no longer a voluntary arrangement, or a property rights issue. Furthermore, government in this case is the employer, so even if it were a voluntary operation, it'd be their right to make employment conditions (which might not include union membership).
I wish more in the state house would recognize this distinction.