Michele Bachmann VIII - The week that caused her to slip in the polls

Bachmann Part One - Who is Michele Bachmann

Bachmann Part Two - Her Unrivaled Extremism

Bachmann Part Three - Her Life Under a Microscope

Bachmann Part Four - She Has Acquired Strange Beliefs

Bachmann Part Five - Should a Submissive Wife Run For President?

Bachmann Part Six - Tea Party Queen

Bachmann Part Seven - Inspired by Extremist Ultra Right Christian Dominionists

Bachmann Part Eight - The Week That Caused Her to Slip

Right Wing Extremism Part II         Introduction to the Right Wing Conspiracy

Right Wing Extremism Part III        The Religious Right and the Christian Reconstructionists

Right Wing Extremism Part IV        Christian Reconstructionism, Christian Ayatollahs, and Racism

Right Wing Extremism Part V          Republican Gomorrah

Right Wing Extremism Part VI        Ayn Rand - The Republican Mascot

Right Wing Extremism Part VII       Republican Bigotry and Media Stupidity

Right Wing Extremism Part VIII     Republican Scandals and Culture of Corruption

Right Wing Extremism Part IX        Republican Criminals

Right Wing Extremism Part X          Day in the Life of Joe Middleclass Republican

Right Wing Extremism Part XI        The 12 Worst (and most powerful) Christian Right Groups

Right Wing Extremism Part XII      The Anatomy of the Religious Right

Right Wing Extremism Part XIII    The Family

Right Wing Extremism Part XIV   The Tea Party

Right Wing Extremism Part XV       The Koch Brothers and KochAmerica

Right Wing Extremism Part XVII     Does Rupert Murdoch Own Too Many Sources of Information

Right Wing Extremism Part XVIII   Fox News and the Dumbing Down of America

Right Wing Extremism Part XV        Want to know the truth about statements made by Democrat and Republican Politicians? Click on the following web sites to check on what is true and what is false.

FactCheck.org - Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

FactChecker - Washington Post

PolitiFact - St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly

OnTheIssues.org

RealClearPolitics

OpenSecrets.org

Excerpt from an article on huffingtonpost.com on 8/19/2011

Michele Bachmann courted the state of Iowa with a fury, and Iowa redeemed her effort this past weekend with a historic Ames Straw Poll win -- Bachmann becomes the first woman to capture the prize. Her reward was superstar treatment on the following Sunday. Bachmann made the political chat-show rounds all morning long, mostly dispensing the same talking points (and constantly promoting the idea that America could benefit from defaulting on its credit through not raising the debt ceiling).

But Bachmann's hard-won rewards quickly lost some of their luster, thanks to her behavior at a late-Sunday appearance at the Black Hawk County Republican Party's Lincoln Day dinner. There, she showed up, refused to get out of her bus while new 2012 entrant Rick Perry was onstage, demanded a change in lighting for her appearance, took the stage late to musical accompaniment, declined to do a Q&A with the audience, and didn't do much meeting-and-greeting afterward. Perry, on the other hand, painstakingly worked the crowd. When all was said and done, Bachmann ended the day having earned the "diva" tag.

Bachmann compounded this by claiming that she was late to the event because she was attending a family reunion in Iowa. Trouble is, people at that family reunion said she never showed. Well, the campaign had an answer for that: she was at a different family reunion. Of course! She also earned what's probably the worst possible headline in the world: "Bachmann Staffer Once Accused Of Terrorism." The staffer in question is Peter E. Waldron, who was "arrested on charges of terrorism in Uganda." What was this guy doing in Uganda? Glad you asked!

A deeply religious born-again Christian, Waldron traveled to Uganda in 2004 to sell HIV-monitoring computer software to the government and preach on the weekends. There, he attended and was featured in the Church services of Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, "the prominent supporter of Uganda's draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which calls for the death penalty for LGBT people under certain circumstances."

That also explains why he's part of the Bachmann campaign!

But if Bachmann has trouble coming out of Ames, it comes in the form of Rick Perry, who's in the race and on the polling scoreboard. The conventional wisdom was that Perry would be able to significantly cut into her support, and the most recent polls out of New Hampshire indicate that this is happening.

Elsewhere, Bachmann continues to take extreme positions. For example, the draconian entitlement cuts called for in the House GOP budget are not quite good enough for her. She's also promised to bring gas prices under $2 -- something that can only be achieved through a massive economic downturn.

Pat Garofalo also notes some Bachmann hyprocrisy:

A few months ago, the Los Angeles Times pointed out that virulenty anti-government spending Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was receiving income from a farm that collected federal subsidies. Bachmann responded by claiming, "the farm is my father-in-law's farm, it's not my husband and my farm. My husband and I have never gotten a penny of money from the farm." However, Bachmann claimed income from the farm on her 2009 financial disclosure form.

As McClatchy noted today, Bachmann -- all her protests aside -- claimed income from the farm again in 2010, which were filed last week.

Will Bachmann answer for this? In all likelihood no: as Eric Black pointed out this week, Bachmann will never say "I was wrong."

Marcus and Michelle Bachmann parody video recalling Tina Fey's Palin impression:

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