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Bachmann calls for constitutional conservative takeover to free ‘nation of slaves’

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was "giddy" on policy and heavy on appropriating comments from conservative pundits in her key note speech to the Western Conservative Summit in Denver Friday. Railing on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the health-policy adviser at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, for his support of rationing health care and what she saw as Obama sponsored takeovers of U.S. industries, Bachmann said that the only way to escape the "tyranny" imposed by the last 18 months of Democratic rule was to elect constitutional conservatives to Congress.

Tancredo headed to World Net Daily ‘birther’ conference

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is scheduled to speak at a conference organized by right-wing site World Net Daily and featuring a who's who lineup...

Despite rock-bottom public opinion, Republicans still championing BP

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll delivers the latest edition of “Today’s Awful News” for British Petroleum. BP’s favorability rating now...

Bachmann mangles talking points: ‘Net neutrality is censorship’

Minnesota conservative U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann likes to throw verbal partisan bombs, a sort of tiny-version mix of Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter. She...

WATCH: Bachmann: Democrats ‘celebrating Oklahoma City bombing’; in November Obama will...

In Chicago this weekend at an event hosted by the Chicago Tea Party Patriots and the Chicago Republican Party, Minnesota conservative partisan and lightning...

Bachmann ‘government takeover’ talking points refuted by CBS

As the Minnesota Independent reports, Tea Party Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on Face the Nation and railed against the "government takeover" of the economy...

Michele Bachmann will either love or hate the queered census

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is aiming to "queer the census" by handing out stickers Americans can paste onto the outside of...

GOP plan to ‘repeal health care’ faces high hurdles

As soon as the Senate passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Dec.24, Republicans and conservative activists started making a promise to voters. Give them a victory in the 2010 midterm elections, and they’ll repeal the bill.

Bachmann anti-health reform ‘House Call’ as intraparty hijacking

There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally...

Bachmann’s ‘House Call’ obstructionist health reform policy as pathology

Controversial Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is hosting a “House Call” urging Tea Party activists to storm the Capitol today to oppose health care...