WASHINGTON – Self-proclaimed tea party leader Michele Bachmann's bid for a top Republican post in the House received a cool reaction Thursday from Speaker-to-be John Boehner, an early test of how GOP leaders will treat the antiestablishment movement's winners in Tuesday's elections.

All I can say, is they better listen, or the PUB party may be looking at it's final days...

"Constitutional conservatives deserve a loud and clear voice in leadership!" Bachmann, R-Minn., who founded the Tea Party Caucus, said in a one-paragraph Facebook announcement that she is running for GOP conference chairman.

House Republican leaders don't disagree. But that doesn't mean they want the hyperbolic Bachmann being a spokeswoman for the new majority during the 2012 election cycle.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said Bachmann is a talented communicator who would represent the views of the more than 30 newly elected tea partiers who helped return the House majority to Republicans.
The relationship, by definition, is awkward. Many of the tea partiers won their seats by campaigning against entrenched Washington power brokers, like Boehner, Cantor, Pence and other senior Republicans. Some want to keep the channels open to what's expected to be a distinctly uncompromising freshman class.

House GOP leaders have varying views of whether any overture, symbolic or otherwise, is warranted. Still in the discussion stages is a proposal to establish a sort of at-large leadership post for a representative of the freshman class, but no decision has been made, according to GOP officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Bachmann's contribution to the GOP's election gains is undisputed and GOP leaders widely praise her fundraising prowess. The Minnesota Republican is the House's top earner, bringing in $11 million in the two-year election cycle for her own campaign.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1225200

    I have a question...does she know whats shes doing ...She hasnt even been sworn in yet...has she ever been in congress

Quote from: zip on November 05, 2010, 01:02:09 PM
    I have a question...does she know whats shes doing ...She hasnt even been sworn in yet...has she ever been in congress

And that matters, why?
Seriously, why would you want more of the same, I thought that was the whole purpose behind kicking out the RINO?

Quote from: zip on November 05, 2010, 01:02:09 PM
    I have a question...does she know whats shes doing ...She hasnt even been sworn in yet...has she ever been in congress

Uh, Zip, she was elected in '06, taking office in '07. She's been in Congress 4 years.

Let me give you an idea of a RINO, here is what McConnel said back in September.

"We're interested in cutting spending and debt. If he becomes interested   in that, I think he'll find us a willing partner," he said. "He says   he's for trade agreements. We'd like to ratify trade agreements. He says   he is for nuclear power. We'd like to do that. He says he is for clean   coal technology. We'd like to do that. I mean, there are areas where   we'd ought to be able to work together for the good of the country."

Now let me explain.

Clean Coal is code for Cap and Tax. Coal is clean, the only difference in the clean coal BS, is CCS (carbon capture sequestration.
Co2 is not and never has been a pollutant, working with Husein is the last thing Conservatives want.

So no one else sees a problem here?

Quote from: Solar on November 06, 2010, 06:57:14 AM
So no one else sees a problem here?

I do, these guys better wake up an realize it isn't your fathers Republican party anymore just like it isn't their Fathers Democratic party. I hope I'm wrong but I think some of this may be old fashioned chauvanism, well as a stodgy old cumurdgeon myself I think we need to look at having CONSERVATIVE women in charge for a change. Mama Grizzleis indeed   ;)

We need fresh blood and new ideas, not more of the same.

Billy

Quote from: zip on November 05, 2010, 01:02:09 PM
    I have a question...does she know whats shes doing ...She hasnt even been sworn in yet...has she ever been in congress

Here's her bio.  It might help you understand that she's not new to Congress and prior to that served in the legislature of Minnesota, or wherever she's from.

http://bachmann.house.gov/Biography/

Quote from: BILLY-bONNEY on November 06, 2010, 07:02:56 PM

I do, these guys better wake up an realize it isn't your fathers Republican party anymore just like it isn't their Fathers Democratic party. I hope I'm wrong but I think some of this may be old fashioned chauvanism, well as a stodgy old cumurdgeon myself I think we need to look at having CONSERVATIVE women in charge for a change. Mama Grizzleis indeed   ;)

We need fresh blood and new ideas, not more of the same.

Billy

You're right Billy, neither party is even a close to what they were 40 years ago.
The Dims of today are the same socialists you'll find in any third World nation.
The Dims of the 60s are the RINO of today, and the Tea party is at best, a step back a Century.

This cartoon says it all, we are watching.

Quote from: zip on November 05, 2010, 01:02:09 PM
    I have a question...does she know whats shes doing ...She hasnt even been sworn in yet...has she ever been in congress

The left hates her and calls her extreme...

Michele Bachmann in Bizarre Hypnotic Trance with Chris Matthews

Quote from: Solar on November 05, 2010, 02:02:43 PM
Let me give you an idea of a RINO, here is what McConnel said back in September.

"We're interested in cutting spending and debt. If he becomes interested   in that, I think he'll find us a willing partner," he said. "He says   he's for trade agreements. We'd like to ratify trade agreements. He says   he is for nuclear power. We'd like to do that. He says he is for clean   coal technology. We'd like to do that. I mean, there are areas where   we'd ought to be able to work together for the good of the country."

Now let me explain.

Clean Coal is code for Cap and Tax. Coal is clean, the only difference in the clean coal BS, is CCS (carbon capture sequestration.
Co2 is not and never has been a pollutant, working with Husein is the last thing Conservatives want.

Solar, I thought clean coal was in reference to the scrubbers in the stacks?

Quote from: Indy on November 07, 2010, 11:20:17 AM
Solar, I thought clean coal was in reference to the scrubbers in the stacks?

It used to be that way, but laws were passed years ago that all coal fired plants had to have them, now the new meaning of so called "Clean Coal" is Carbon Sequestration, or carbon capture.

No matter the case, coal is clean, it was allowing the EPA to call Co2 a pollutant, so suddenly coal isn't clean anymore.

Here is a piece from some greenie author on Wiki, even he knows it's a lie, but does his best to spin Co2 as a pollutant..
Clean coal  "Clean coal" is the name attributed to a process whereby coal is chemically washed of minerals and impurities, sometimes gasified,   burned and the resulting flue gases treated with steam, with the   purpose of removing sulfur dioxide, and reburned so as to make the   carbon dioxide in the flue gas economically recoverable. The coal   industry uses the term "clean coal" to describe technologies designed to   enhance both the efficiency and the environmental acceptability of coal   extraction, preparation and use,^[26]   but has provided no specific quantitative limits on any emissions,   particularly carbon dioxide. Whereas contaminates like sulfur or mercury   can be removed from coal, carbon cannot be effectively removed while   still leaving a usable fuel, and clean coal plants without carbon   sequestration and storage do not significantly reduce carbon dioxide   emissions. James Hansen in an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama has advocated a "moratorium and phase-out of coal plants that do not capture and store CO₂".^[27] In his book Storms of My Grandchildren, similarly, Hansen discusses his Declaration of Stewardship   the first principle of which requires "a moratorium on coal-fired power   plants that do not capture and sequester carbon dioxide".^[28]"