Bachmann attacks $1.2B payout for black farmers

[geardaddy]

Oh Michele, why don't you stop getting farm subsidies for yourself. Pig.

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Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann calls the $1.2 billion deal "indefensible." Farmers say it rights a historic wrong.

"This looks like one of the most outrageously fraudulent claims of scamming the federal taxpayers that anyone has ever seen," Bachmann said in one of her first major forays since she tried to win a post in the new House Republican leadership. "It's indefensible."

Bachmann's outspoken criticism sparked a war of words with John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association, as well as with Minneapolis Democrat Keith Ellison, the state's first and only black representative in Congress.

Boyd, one of the architects of the deal, criticized Bachmann for inserting herself in the longstanding dispute, noting that her family farm received more than $250,000 in farm subsidies over the past decade while the Pigford case was being litigated.

"She got hers, and black farmers have been systematically shut out of the farm subsidy program," Boyd said on his way to the Capitol to witness the historic vote on the measure that passed the Senate earlier this month.

From the Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/111090409.html?elr=KArks:DCiUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUvca_bPiL_ec7PaP3iU

[madmax]

1. The Psychotic fringe of the Thug party

promoting class war and racism.

Democracy and Politics at its finest.

[Binka]

5. Pithy & Perfect

Says it all.

[Brewman_Jax]

2. A historic wrong is being righted

but the fact that payments are to black farmers just makes the racist rabid RW just insane, fairness and justice be damned! :grr:

[Still a Democrat]

3. And conservatives constantly ask me why African Americans

are overwhelmingly Democrats. Duh.

[geardaddy]

4. Kick-a-doodle

[closeupready]

6. She's just mad because she can't collect, too.

n/t

[geardaddy]

7. She can't collect on this, but she has collected farm subsidies.

[KamaAina]

8. Are you sure?

I wouldn't put it past her to put on blackface, then stick her hand out. :eyes:

[geardaddy]

10. That's true!

I can see it now: "Ya shure, I'm black, you betcha!"

:puke:

[closeupready]

12. Oh, I know she has; but since she's a reichtard, it's NEVER ENOUGH. no matter

HOW MUCH she's managed to socialistically weasel out of the US taxpayer. No amount of money will EVER be enough for her as long as someone ELSE is also getting a payment from the taxpayer, REGARDLESS of how right and just that payment is. EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS ABOUT THEM, them them!

[geardaddy]

13. No, you're right.

She's all about Michele and no one else.

[Brickbat]

9. Michele, STFU.

No, seriously. Just shut up.

[geardaddy]

11. Excellent reposte!

I agree.