Bachmann's Hubris May Land Her in Jail

[laserhaas]

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Michelle Bachmann is an arrogant holier than thou (who chomps on Keilbasa good) - and abuses her staff like a Queen who would axe anyone getting in the way. She has a Bachmann-gate scandal brewing on many levels - including one that Minnesota is working fiendishly to bury (that of Frank Vennes).

Bachmann's haughtier is based on her desire to be in the limelight and she should be careful what she wishes for.


As reported by PoliticusUSA.com's reporter Jason Easly;

Michele Bachmann's Scandal Could Be Turning Criminal As the FBI Investigates

While she continues to call for President Obama to be impeached, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is being investigated by the FBI for campaign finance violations.

So far, the Office of Congressional Ethics, the FEC, and the Iowa state senate ethics committee, and a special prosecutor are investigating a series of potential violations that include possible improper payments to an Iowa state senator, using campaign resources to promote her book, the theft of an email list of Iowa homeschoolers, and money laundering.

A new PPP poll released today found Jim Graves leading Bachmann 47%-45% in a potential rematch of their close 2012 matchup. Bachmann barely beat Graves by less than 5,000 votes last year, and that was before she became the focus of up to six probes and investigations.

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PolitiscusUSA.com story references the Minnesota Post article

"FBI joins probe of Bachmann's presidential campaign"

The FBI is investigating complaints of alleged campaign finance violations in Rep. Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign.

The FBI joins the Office of Congressional Ethics, the Federal Elections Commission and an Iowa state Senate ethics committee in probing whether Bachmann's presidential campaign paid an Iowa state senator from her MichelePAC, a fund that should not have been used for campaign expenses, and whether the state senator stole the email list of an Iowa home-school group from another Bachmann staffer, Barbara Hekki, prior to the Iowa caucuses in January, 2012.

Andy Parrish, former Bachmann chief of staff and one of the directors of Bachmann's Iowa GOP presidential campaign, will be interviewed by the FBI, according to his attorney, John Gilmore.

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Activist/ Cartoonist Avidor was compelled to yank down his web/blogs, specifically the one titled "Dumb Bachmann" (dot com and Blogger)' For the most part a media outlet was sued (for stating fact) and Avidor was also named. The courts appears to be permitting the law firms involved to make out like bandits; when the case should have been tossed as hogwash.

Fortunately, the "Ripple in Stillwater" website is still up - with similar info.

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As quoted by the Minnesota Star Tribune (back in 2006)

Michele Bachmann states;

[center][div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]"My No. 1 goal is to not go to jail" Bachmann said, chuckling

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If her memory is not better than her other "talents";
then she may be in need of a prison version of a chastity belt!

[winter is coming]

1. Oh please oh please oh please... n/t

[laserhaas]

4. LOL - :0p

[BrotherIvan]

19. That was exactly my first thought!

[winter is coming]

21. And were you also thinking of the Far Side cartoon where the dog's trying to lure the cat

into the dryer with "cat fud"?

[Mike Daniels]

25. Still the best Far Side strip to this day

n/t

[winter is coming]

26. I don't know; the one with the cat pasted to the picture window,

looking avidly at the aftermath of the "Small, Flightless Birds" versus "Assorted Rodents" collision is pretty funny, too.

[mikeysnot]

33. Puuut the cat oooouuuttt!

The dog whispering through the cracked window as the cat sat at the foot of the sleeping masters bed...

one of my fav.

Also the what a dog hears and what a cat hears, is good.

[chervilant]

51. Not to mention

the REAL reason dinosaurs are extinct.

[FiveGoodMen]

37. Hey! That's what I was going to say!

I'll even add Pretty Please!

[WCGreen]

2. With all the "hidden" money that is sloushing around campaigns these days...

It's just stupidity to get herself into this situation.

[laserhaas]

5. She may need to go on bended knee (?) to the "Right folks"

in order to escape being ed

[WCGreen]

8. Good one...

[laserhaas]

15. Candid Blog of yours WC - and

one heck of struggle?

How's the breathing now?

[WCGreen]

28. Not really good...

The transplant will probably happen sometime this year...

[laserhaas]

40. Sorry to hear that WC - but I hope that

the transplant goes welll and you can boom/yell

[WCGreen]

46. I really want to be able to ride my bike again....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

47. I think you'll be able to...

[laserhaas]

54. I will keep you in my prayers - PLEASE keep me informed of your schedule

Sincerely
laser (dot) haas @ yahoo

[Ganja Ninja]

3. I would love to see her and Marcus spending a lot more time with each other.

[laserhaas]

7. Hey - do they have co-mingle prisons now? Or are

you speaking about the other Marcus?

[Life Long Dem]

6. Lets see her run now

[laserhaas]

10. That's a fascinating way to portray.

COOL

[Blue Owl]

36. benghazi benghazi benghazi benghazi benghazi benghazi...

n/t

[Aerows]

9. Oh, I hope so

Her holier than thou attitude won't get changed by jail, though. She'll come out as crazy as she was before. She's the Amy's Baking Company of batshit crazy. That chick went to jail, too, and it didn't do a thing to change the level of nuttiness.

At least it will gain the rest of us a reprieve from her bullshit.

[laserhaas]

11. Hey, maybe she'll come out as a Music Rapper

Bachmann, Bachmann oh oh oh oh

Doing da ding - don't cha know oh oh oh

I'm the Queen, cause Bush touched my shoulder in the big show

and that makes "you people" below

oh oh oh

Er

UH OH!

[Qutzupalotl]

12. How much you wanna bet

that Tea Partiers will lump this in with the IRS scrutiny "scandal" and cover their ears and go la-la-la.

[laserhaas]

13. Koch brother's TP's need to get a life

or Lifer

(can we give Bachmann life for being a hypocritical seditious wibi?)

Not that I'm advocating life (I don't even wish my enemies more than 5 years - including Romney)

But it would be neat for her to face 111 counts with a combined total of 100 years.

Just to hear her say "Oh [c]hit"!

[meow2u3]

22. Koch Bros. need to join her behind bars

They're the ones bankrolling the seditionists.

[laserhaas]

41. Concur

the poor excuse for Robber Baron's

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. Does anyone think she'll *really* go to jail?

I'm still waiting for Tom "The Vile Bug Man" Delay to be sporting the orange jumpsuit. How long's that been?

[laserhaas]

16. Yep, tis true, they circle the wagon's on the inner few.

Be that as it may - Jack Abramoff went in (and I may be sending him back again).

It is the same thing with Romney - he's vastly guilty of RICO - but will never do a day.
(but, Pitten's Nitti type guys on the other hand - may share a cell with Abramoff).

[laserhaas]

17. Good guys like Traficant and Siegelman go in

and kumquats like Delay and Bachmann stay 'Scot Free'.

Scott Bloch - the former head of the Dept of Justice Office of Special Counsel (the "whistleblower" division of the Federal Government) - did confess to violating the law (betraying the public's trust) - when he destroyed the computer files speciously. He "may" go to jail; because one judge is saying WTF and Bloch was arrogant enough to refuse to do 1 days jail time ( see link for more info - HERE ).

If you make it to D.C. - you always are blessed to have some form of immunity!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. Wait, did you just say Jim Traficant was a "good guy"?

Okay, I laughed at that.

[laserhaas]

20. Nope, I was incorrect. James Traficant is a GREAT American Guy!

Before you snicker; perhaps you should research the case(s).

Craig Morford, the prosecuting U.S. Attorney - deported the exonerating witness (Okolo);
and suborned perjury of RIck Detore (who went before Congress on CSpan and confessed).

Losing Traficant - lost U.S. a great politico and truly patriotic American.


(I know this Factual - having campaigned to stop Morford from replacing AG Gonzales

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

23. Meh, he always came off as a raving lunatic to me

I recall Barney Frank saying he'd agree to vote along with you on a bill one minute, then vote the other way literally the next minute, and when you asked him about it he'd basically tell you to go fuck yourself.

[maindawg]

24. JIm Traficant was a criminal

His entire career was a sham from the start. He worked for the mob. They controlled Y town politics and jimbo was their buttboy from day one. He was and is filth. He got what he deserved and anyone who does not see that is an idiot.

[laserhaas]

42. You are soooooooooo wrong

He went to jail for publicly calling Janet Reno a traitor.

The judge made MANY "color of law" rulings.
(If you have "no idea" about the civil rights statutes on Color of Law; your judgment of JT is errant).

Carafo is the mob - and his daughter too.

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Even (IF) - arguendo - you have an validity to what you are saying (which I seriously doubt). The fact of the matter remains, JT was railroaded by prosecutor Craig Morford. Who deported the exonerating witness Okolo and suborned Perjury through Rick Detore.

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James Traficant was put in prison for a Rent-a-Car fraud;
which was 100% - was a bogus allegation.

The owner of the rental agency was deported;
because he refused to falsely testify against Traficant.

[laserhaas]

43. and - BEFORE you go further down the erroneous highway - here's C Span video

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At great risk to himself - after the FBI goon squad threatened him and called his daughter saying "Daddy's dead"

Rick DeTore went before D.C. hearings and testified that his testimony was bogus;
and prosecutor Morford forced him to - with threats Detore would wind up like JT.

[Ikonoklast]

31. Traficant was a crooked sherriff before he was a crooked congressman.

He voted with the Republicans aftesr they got the majority in '95.

Fuck Traficant, useless asshole that he is.

[laserhaas]

44. That attitude - is why we battle Koch and Rove etc

Because everyone buys into the babbling B.S.
and fails to face the facts....

[Ikonoklast]

49. Traficant has shown his true colors, now he's a Teabagging asshole.

Stupid people listen to him on AM radio, you know, the ones that are easily fooled.

If you actually think he was EVER a Democrat and not a self-serving douchebag, you are also easily fooled.

Babble on.

[laserhaas]

53. He was illegally put in jail - pure and simple.

Changing the apple conversation of tyranny, cronyism and corruption of the federal system of justice - to banter on what he was or was not - is incongruous.

As a "true" Democrat/Progressive - your anxiety about legitimacy of our federal system of justice should be paramount to all other issues.

His District voted him in and could have voted him out;
if he wasn't what he was claiming to be.

[Ikonoklast]

57. Not true, no matter how many times you post it

"He was illegally put in jail - pure and simple."

That is an untruth. Conviction upheld. The 'evidence' exonerating him was from another criminal.


"His District voted him in and could have voted him out;
if he wasn't what he was claiming to be."

Stupidest thing I've ever read.

Districts elect criminals and morons all the time.

Traficant never even took the stand in his own defense.


We're done.

[laserhaas]

58. Most obfuscating banter persons who are obtuse are always done

after they proffer pomposity as verity - in their dire need to be the final word.

[Heywood J]

52. Beam me up.

ETA: Found the other quote I was looking for:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-09-07/politics/36893323_1_james-traficant-ohio-s-17th-district-internal-rectal-service/2

In a memorable Capitol Hill moment, he called a friend, Sandra Ferrante, as a witness during a committee hearing on Standards and Official Conduct. At the time Congress was considering expelling him. The conversation went like this:

Traficant: Were you and I sex partners?

Ferrante: No.

Traficant: Why not?

[laserhaas]

55. LOL - that one's classic - thank you much. He was such a great wit.

I'm going to Screen Hunt this comment

[HughBeaumont]

27. She won't spend Second ONE inside a jail cell.

Unless you really, REALLY fuck up (and sometimes not even then), jail is generally for the little people. While Michele generally embarrasses the GOP, they still love the lil' dumplin.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. She won't be prosecuted, although some of her campaign aides

might find themselves in hot water. With any luck, though, this situation might make it tougher to get re-elected in 2014. Jim Graves nearly beat her scrawny ass last time, and he's running against her again. He's got money and quite a lot of support, so we can hope that the legal problems of Crazy Michele's campaign might be just enough to put him over the top.

I don't care if that lunatic goes to jail; I just want her to fade into obscurity.

[caledesi]

30. My cousin lives in MN..she is batshit crazy!

[malthaussen]

32. Santa, baby, I've been good all year...

... can I have a cookie, please?

-- Mal

[hrmjustin]

34. Lord please let it be so.

[Blue Owl]

35. To dream... The impossible dream...

What the hell -- I'm going to visualize it!

[SummerSnow]

38. I'm going to paint it.

[Blue Owl]

39. Now we're talkin'!

[freshwest]

45. 'While she continues to call for President Obama to be impeached...' He takes a big bite...

[eppur_se_muova]

48. About time something did. nt

[marmar]

50. ........

[laserhaas]

56. ditto