GOP watch: Bachmann's day
Posted: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:09 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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Former President George W. Bush will deliver a keynote address at SMU on Nov. 12 outlining his vision for his policy institute, which will be part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, his office said yesterday.
Dana Milbank on yesterday's Tea Party protestors: "Many of the demonstrators chanted 'Weasel Queen,' their pet name for the speaker of the House. Others wore masks of Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.); they were covered in fake blood and carrying dolls representing aborted fetuses, as the Grim Reaper led them in chains to hell. In the front of the protest, a sign showed President Obama in white coat, his face painted to look like the Joker. The sign, visible to the lawmakers as they looked into the cameras, carried a plea to 'Stop Obamunism.' A few steps farther was the guy holding a sign announcing 'Obama takes his orders from the Rothchilds' [sic], accusing Obama of being part of a Jewish plot to introduce the antichrist."
Salon’s Mike Madden writes that a small mob of protestors had gathered in the Cannon Office Building “for what anti-choice kook Randall Terry billed as a sit-in to protest abortion-related provisions in the House healthcare reform legislation. They wound up mixing with some of the people who streamed in after Bachmann's ‘House Call’ rally ended to tell members of Congress how vehemently they oppose providing universal access to healthcare. Someone tore up all 1,990 pages of the reform bill and scattered them on the floor; a few of Terry's pals got arrested; the crowd started chanting, ‘Kill the bill! Kill the bill!’ and just like that, the police were clearing the hallway. ‘This is the people's House, and we're being kicked out?’ one woman muttered as she walked away. ‘Nancy Pelosi can kiss my fat ass.’”
Mike Huckabee is out front again of another poll measuring GOP 2012 front runners 71% of Republicans say they’d seriously consider voting for Huckabee; 65% said so of Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin; 60% of Newt Gingrich; 32% of Tim Pawlenty; 26% of Haley Barbour.
Sarah Palin will skip New York City on her book tour this month, but here comes the consolation prize: Almost-son-in-law Levi Johnston will be here next week to pocket roughly $100,000 for a nude photo shoot, the New York Daily News writes. “Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor, is skipping the customary book-tour stops - in bigger cities - and spending time in smaller burgs to plug her campaign memoir Going Rogue. Palin kicks off the book tour in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 18."
