Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wasted no time in reminding Minnesota voters that Rep. Michele Bachmann -- a member of the House Financial Services Committee -- complained about those bailouts, yet voted against punishing AIG's for its tone-deafness. "Bachmann voted to protect bonuses paid to AIG executives with American tax dollars," said Ryan Rudominer, the DCCC press secretary in a statement. "This morning, Americans heard that AIG executives are getting $100 million in bonuses despite still owing taxpayers more than $100 billion. While Representative Bachmann protects these outrageous Wall Street bonuses paid for by President Bush's bailout, Bachmann does nothing to help hardworking families. Clearly, Representative Bachmann is more concerned about Wall Street, than Main Street."

Nice catch by the Minneapolis City Pages. And they note that Bachmann opponent Tarryl Clark has been on the issue regularly and for some time.

Now that, is journalism. Here's the link:

http://blogs.citypages.com/...

Next:

The Minnesota Independent reports that Ms. Bachmann will be joining Minnesota GOP Governor Tim Pawlenty at the annual meeting of the influential Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

This isn't the first time Bachmann was invited to speak before CPAC. The first time she was supposed to address them was in early 2007, when she had barely started out in Congress. (Bachmann was always being groomed for higher things, and the 2007 CPAC appearance was supposed to be her debut before a roomful of truly powerful players.)

Unfortunately, Bachmann had chosen the month before to "go off" with one of her nutty comments about how there was a secret plan to make a deal with Iran to form a new terrorist state in northwestern Iraq. (Really, that's what she claimed publicly.) Total fabrication, but the "bombshell" hit the newswires and Michele was disinvited from the CPAC event when the lie was exposed.

She wasn't big enough to withstand that kind of exposure then--but she is now, and she's a big hit at these CPAC things, telling Michael Steele "you be da man," etc.

Reporter Andy Birkey reminds us that CPAC has come under fire for accepting the sponsorship of the John Birch Society.

Back in the 1960s, conservative leader William F. Buckley read the John Birch Society out of the conservative movement for fostering a "psychosis of conspiracy." (Calling Eisenhower a "communist," that sort of thing.)

But a group like that is sure to love Michele, and apparently they don't trouble Pawlenty's well-known ethical sensibilities.

Nuttier and nuttier goes the GOP; nonetheless, they will remain the "go to" guys in event of Dem fails during local elections.

Link:

http://minnesotaindependent.com/...