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Michele Bachmann Just Another Political Hypocrite

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Michele Bachmann Just Another Political Hypocrite

Michele Bachmann Queen of Tea Party (Image: Public Domain Official Portrait)

When it comes to the business as usual culture in Washington Politics, Michele Bachmann likes to shoot off her mouth like a Howitzer. Her favorite targets, though, seem to be President Barack Obama's Stimulus Program and Congressional Earmarks. After all, that sounds mighty good to those who associate themselves with the Tea Party. But I have had my suspicions about people like Michele Bachmann all along.

Well folks, those suspicions seem to have been well founded. It turns out that the Queen of the Tea Party has personally profited from the very things that she has shot her mouth off on. Am I gloating that Michele Bachmann is just another one of those card-carrying hypocrites who like to play their games of deception? I wish I could say yes, but the fact is - that is not the case.

It used to be simpler to figure out where candidates stood beyond the obvious ideological affiliations, but the waters have gotten murkier. As I have said before, the original Tea Party movement included a good cross-section of the population. It wasn't so much ideological as it was fundamental truths about politics in general. Constituents were mad that they continued to be left out of the process shortly after electing their representative. And that anger was broad-based because it was occurring on both sides of the ideological divide.

People were tired of being ignored.

For better or for worse, the original Tea Party Movement at least woke people up. The time had come to say enough is enough. Citizens wanted their elected leaders to stop ignoring them and start representing them, instead of the special interests who had made themselves cozy inside those Unhallowed Halls of Congress. Adding to that wake up call there was also a sort of paranoia gripping the country about what President Barack Obama was or wasn't representing. At the time, we had the perfect storm of discontent.

I suppose that that confluence of dynamics gave the Republican Party an opening. Matter of fact, I had written that they would clobber the Democrats in the 2010 Mid-Terms, but, I also cautioned that they had the most to lose in the following election if they reverted to their usual tactics. As for the opening I alluded to. The single greatest factor that led to the GOP resurgence was the fact that they heard the Tea Party message resonating across the country, whereas the Democrats viewed it as some sort of a short-lived flash in the pan phenomena. As we know, the Democrats paid dearly for that miscalculation. But, what a lot of people do not realize is that the GOP smartly maneuvered to take over a populist movement as their own.

I suppose the Republicans had little to lose by infiltrating the movement, but, it still meant deviating from their comfort zone. Somehow they had to talk the talk, without ever intending to walk the walk. The populist movement that began with so much hope eventually folded itself into an extension of the GOP. Unfortunately, for those who were looking for real change were left high and dry, again. Still, the GOP had enough support to upset the balance of power.

So, for what it is worth, the GOP succeeded.

But as I said back then - what will they accomplish once they are back?

Well it didn't take long for those "candidates of the people" to get on with the business as usual routine which reigns supreme in our national politics. The GOP now has aspirations of beating a president that has been more down than up in the polls, but they cannot seem to get ahead of him because they too haven't exactly shown the country that they can actually govern. Since the mid-terms, though, it has been nothing but a continuation of the standard GOP attack and obstructionist politics they play so well. This, in spite of the fact that they have had enough influence to get some meaningful legislation passed had they wanted to. Yet, as we kick off the 2012 Presidential Sweepstakes they are trying to tell us that they are what we need to turn things around. Funny, all I have seen is that the Republicans prefer to obstruct instead of trying to construct.

In spite of that, though, Michele Bachmann has somehow become desirable, among those on the Right, who think she is an agent of change. How quickly they forget that she has not exactly done anything substantial in Washington DC or brought about the change that got her elected in the first place. Then again, one wonders how she could, given the fact that she has been running for higher office while ignoring her current one. Some change, huh?

But hey, that is politics, right?

Never the less, I am still curious how Michele Bachmann can criticize President Obama's Stimulus Program while taking advantage of it herself? I am also curious how she can stand up in front of adoring crowds saying she is against Congressional Earmarks when she still asks for them and praises those who give them. I mean, what exactly does Michele Bachmann believe in? Is anything she says actually true? Right now, at least for me, she is still the imposter who ratchets up the rhetoric whenever it suits her political aspirations.

And there is nothing new about that folks.

I suspect the gal from Waterloo, Iowa will meet her Waterloo soon enough.