{"id":5182,"date":"2011-06-22T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2011-06-22T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T07:48:17","slug":"batshit-crazy-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/batshit-crazy-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Batshit Crazy Socialism!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the strongest voices accusing Obama and Democrats of socialist policies is Michelle Bachmann.  To her, TARP is socialist, Obamacare is socialist, the stimulus is socialist, and whenever Obama visits the throne, he uses socialist paper.  But wouldn\u2019t you know that BS B loves socialism in her own district, and especially, $154,000 of socialism in her own pocket<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22Bachmann\"Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has built a large part of her conservative appeal on strict opposition to federal intervention in the free market<\/strong>. Her real-time criticism of the Troubled Asset Relief Program earned her plaudits among the base voters who will soon decide Republican primary elections. Her pledge to repeal President Obama’s health care law, on grounds that it imposes an across-the-board government solution, has become a focal point of her presidential campaign. <\/p>\n

When it comes to the agriculture industry, however, Bachmann’s record doesn’t match the fiscal conservative hype. A Freedom of Information Act request for communications the Minnesota Republican has had with the Department of Agriculture shows that she leaned heavily on federal officials for help — never more so than when it came to aiding the pork and dairy producers in her state. <\/p>\n

On Oct. 5, 2009, Bachmann wrote Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack praising him for injecting money into the pork industry through the form of direct government purchases. She went on to request additional assistance<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What could be more socialist than direct government intervention in the market to drive the price up?<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell exposes Bachmann’s hypocrisy in more detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line.  Republicans love socialism, but there\u2019s a catch.  Socialism is for the rich only.  The rest of us are stuck with free enterprise.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the strongest voices accusing Obama and Democrats of socialist policies is Michelle Bachmann.  To her, TARP is socialist, Obamacare is socialist, the stimulus is socialist, and whenever Obama visits the throne, he uses socialist paper.  But wouldn\u2019t you know that BS B loves socialism in her own district, and especially, $154,000 of socialism […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}