CNN correspondent Dana Bash hauled serious tail in the hallways at CPAC to question the validity of Michele Bachmanns’s accusatory speech on Tuesday. The Minnesota congresswoman erroneously cited President Obama for “frivolous spending” at the executive mansion that includes having “five chefs on Air Force One” and “two projectionists” 24/7 in case the Obama family wants to catch a midnight screening of, say, “Humanoids from the Deep” (even though it’s totally on YouTube).
According to Anderson Cooper, Bachmann’s drummed-up accusations came from a Republican lobbyist’s self-published book that has no sources to back up its claims. The CNN anchor directed his viewers to a Washington Post story that, unlike Bachmann’s sound bite, lists academic studies showing that George W. Bush’s White House expenses in the fiscal year 2008 were higher than President Obama’s. Instead of answering the reporter’s perfectly legitimate questions, Bachmann kept her walking-and-talking point connected to the one thing on which the GOP loves to hang its wide brim hat: Bengazi.
“She was moving so fast,” Bash told Cooper, “I have to tell you it tested my endurance.” You gotta hand it to Bachmann: She’s damn good at this stuff. Watch the segment below.
March 20, 2013 at 4:12 pm, Michael Rathbun said:
Who cares! Both sides of this bullshit system overspend on damn EVERYTHING. Y'all should be citing Paul's speech which brings up govt wasting millions on robot squirrels ( http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=126338 ), and college student mars menus ( http://hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/7995/Wastebook-2012-University-of-Hawaii-Martian-Food-Tasting-Project.aspx ).
Obama does waste, Bush did Waste and whoever's next will waste too. It's the old saying "no one knows how to spend your money more wisely than you", and its 100% true.
March 20, 2013 at 4:29 pm, Chris Weary said:
As W would say" Smoke em outta their holes!"
March 20, 2013 at 5:04 pm, Art Valla said:
Such lies should be brought up at every occasion. With every republican. Let them defend their statements.
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