Michelle Bachman (R-MN): "We are not babies...We have very principled reasons for voting no"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) threw cold water on a key rationale House Republican leaders have been employing this afternoon to explain why they couldn't deliver more GOP votes for the Wall Street bailout package.

At a Monday afternoon press conference, GOP leaders argued that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cost the measure a dozen Republican votes by delivering an overly partisan floor speech in support of it.

But Bachmann, speaking at a Republican Study Committee press conference, told reporters, "I want to assure you that was not the case. We are not babies who suck our thumbs. We have very principled reasons for voting no."

Bachmann was responding to comments Democratic leaders made dismissing the GOP leaders' claims. But she apparently confused the Democratic response with the initial charge by Republicans, and her comments mirrored those of the Democratic leaders.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/gop-rep-republicans-compl_n_130446.html

ON YOU TUBE: The highly principled Ms. Bachman grabs a little Dubya love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfJepxPPBok