Well, at least about this one thing:
She and I are quite sympatico — at least when it comes to criticizing the Bush troika (Bush/Paulson/Bernanke) for the absurd bailouts of failed banks:
“The Bush administration … was embracing a kind of ‘bailout socialism,’ ” wrote the Minnesota congresswoman, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination. “It was painful to find out John McCain too favored the TARP bailout. … Here was no ‘maverick’ moment. The same disappointing stance was taken by the Republican leadership in the House.”
“I knew there was no way I could vote for it, because I couldn’t find authority for it in the Constitution,” Bachmann continued. “As a constitutional conservative, I put principle over party.”
Source:
Michele Bachmann says Bush, GOP embraced ‘bailout socialism
Seema Mehta
Los Angeles Times November 20, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-bachmann-book-20111120,0,2416841.story
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