Michele Bachmann, may have figured out how to keep her name in the news -- she will deliver the rebuttal to President Obama's job plan speech. Since the Republican Party has no plans to offer a rebuttal of the president's speech, Bachmann stepped up to the plate. Well, we know she has an ulterior motive for voluntarily giving the rebuttal -- to keep her name relevant. Her presidential aspirations are as dead as disco.

According to The Hill, Bachmann's remarks are scheduled for 8:30 p.m. in a House television studio, but will be timed to follow Obama, who is expected to propose about $300 billion in measures to bolster hiring in what the administration has dubbed the "American Jobs Act."

GOP Presidential Debate Hot Air & Empty Promises, Michele Bachmann on the Way Out

Cartoons of the day: GOP Presidential debate, much of the same empty promises, which was basically what George W. Bush offered us and look where it got us!

The GOP presidential debate seems to assure Obama supporters he will do just fine in 2012:

Too much Ronald Reagan:

Rick Perry's hypocrisy and the raging fires in Texas:

Michele Bachmann's Presidential Aspirations in Jeopardy as Campaign Manager Ed Rollins Abruptly Resigns, Cites "Health Reasons"

A storm is brewing in the Michele Bachmann camp, as campaign manager Ed Rollins abruptly quits, citing "health reasons." Yeah, right. We've heard that excuse before.

Politico reports:

Ed Rollins is going to be stepping back from day-to-day management of the Michele Bachmann campaign, and moving into a senior advisory role, he said in an interview. Rollins said the reason for the change is personal — his health and the rigors of a campaign. “I wish I was 40 years old, but I’m not,” he told POLITICO. “I’m 68 years old, I had a stroke a year and a half ago. I’m worn out.”

Um, didn't Mr. Rollins, a veteran in the business, know all this before taking this position? Michele Bachmann is  in more trouble than she cares to admit. Let's face it, the race for the GOP presidential nomination is between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. Gee, I wonder what doomed her aspiration? The reference to God using Hurricane Irene as a wake-up call or the corporate tax thing?

UPDATE#1:  Michele Bachmann's deputy campaign manager,

David Polyansky,

has stepped down as well. Can someone please play Taps?

Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Tells Activists: Slit Our Wrists And Become Blood Brothers Against Obama's Health Care

I tried my best to avoid writing about Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) since the last time she put her foot in her mouth, but I couldn't resist this time. The woman is a complete imbecile.  According to the Colorado Independent, she spoke yesterday to the right-wing Independence Institute and she called on conservatives to really come together in the fight against President Obama on health care. Why people come out to listen to this woman is beyond me.

"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing," said Bachmann. "This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass."

The sanguinary rhetoric continued. "Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom," she said. "And we may never be able to restore it if we don't man up and take this one on." Bachmann also denounced a system under which some Americans pay half their income in taxes: "It's nothing more than slavery." Source: Talking Point Memo

Talking about slitting one's wrist and slavery in the same speech is abhorrent, given America's history where slavery is concerned, not to mention the obvious dig against people who have tried to commit suicide by slitting their wrists. It was insensitive and just plain wrong. I am amazed that people actually vote for this woman. But judging from the dirty tactics by both the Republicans and the Democrats, why am I surprised?

Former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey is the Instigator Behind the Right Wing Firestorm Over Fictitious "Death Panels" in Health Care Reform

If former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is getting her talking points from former New York Lt. governor Betsy McCaughey about the fictitious health care "death panels," then she is far dumber than I thought. New Yorkers will remember McCaughey most for oddly standing throughout Gov. George Pataki's 1996 State of the State speech - then running against him after he dumped her from his ticket. This is the last person who the public needs to take serious. Betsy McCaughey is in this dogfight just for the monetary gains. Where has she been all these years since Pataki kicked her off his ticket? I can't recall seeing her leading the charge for any type of health care reform in New York state and dare I say, the country.

McCaughey, 60, is back and proclaiming herself as a self-styled expert whose writings on Obama's health care plans. The problem is that many other Republicans are echoing her sentiments and they are patently wrong. Even the AARP Executive Vice President John Rother has said "Betsy McCaughey's recent commentary on health care reform in various media outlets is rife with gross - and even cruel - distortions." Still the Republicans continue to lend credence to this lie.

"I believe it's an important public service," McCaughey said yesterday of her commentaries, which spin snippets of legislative language and medical-journal essays by a few Obama advisers to paint a terrifying picture.

"Members of Congress haven't been reading this bill, and I think that's shameful," she added. Others say what's shameful is McCaughey's distortions of the Democratic-backed House bill, specifically a section on "end-of-life" consultations that Palin -in a Facebook screed - dubbed "Obama's 'death panel." Source: NY Daily News

The truth is that the bill section simply aims to provide Medicare coverage for once-every-five-year conversations with doctors over what life-prolonging measures, if any, a patient wants taken in the event of a terminal illness or injury. Hello people, this idea was first championed by a conservative Republican senator, Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), who seems to be distancing himself from even that fact. McCaughey didn't bother to do her research, she just ran with this lie, providing back-up for Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Chuck Grassley and others, by sounding the "death panel" alarm.

McCaughey got the ball rolling on former senator Fred Thompson's radio show on July 16, when she called the bill "a vicious assault on elderly people" that will "cut your life short." She then wrote a column July 24 that claimed Obama advisers don't want to "give much care to a grandmother with Parkinson's or a child with cerebral palsy."

Sorry, but it seems to me that Ms. McCaughey, who was formerly married to billionaire Wilbur Ross, only motivation in this matter is money. According to the NY Daily News, she has collected some $23,600 per year in board fees and options from a drugmaking company, Genta Inc., although she resigned in 2007. She remains on the board of medical equipment company Cantel Medical Group, pulling in $30,000 in fees yearly.

Photo credit: Betsy McCaughey, NY Daily News

Harsh Words About Obama on the Campaign Trail By Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are Suddenly a Non-Issue

It is amazing that the whole anti-Barack Obama movement within political circles have seemed to dissipate and these same people are now singing his praises. Take Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann for example. Just a few weeks ago, she told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that when it came to Barack Obama, 'I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." Funny, on Wednesday, after narrowly avoiding defeat in her own race because of those comments, she called Obama's victory, which incidentally included her state, "a tremendous signal we sent." Geez, who is we?

Then Sarah "Pitbull in Lipstick" enters the fray. Of course you will remember that she vehemently accused Mr. Obama of "palling around with terrorists." Well, she took an entirely different position on Thursday, after John McCain was roundly trounced in the election. She said, "Let us, let us--let him--be able to kind of savor this moment, one and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment we are in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family." Wait, did I hear right? Just the day before she was "calling him out" on his positions.

But the greatest about face came from none than Senator Joe Lieberman. He has good reason to try to make up with the winning ticket because Sen. Harry Reid is working really hard to kick him off his position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Lieberman was an ardent backer of Mr. McCain and he angered the Democrats, who in 2000 nominated him as their vice-presidential candidate. After losing a Democratic primary challenge in 2006 and then winning as an independent, he still continued to caucus with the Democrats.

Attending an event with Mr. McCain in York, Pa., in August, Mr. Lieberman said the race was “between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.” Yeah, but good old Joe Lieberman wasn't finished kicking the Democrats in their face. As a speaker at the Republican National Convention, he continue and went a step further. He criticized Barack Obama for "voting to cut off funding from our troops on the ground." The problem is that was a lie. Obama voted for bills that included plans for withdrawal from Iraq and against others that did not. So Joe "Judas" Lieberman, realizing that his gamble to support McCain had backfired, he released a statement congratulating Barack Obama for “his historic and impressive victory.” It continued, “The American people are a people of extraordinary fairness.” So now Joe Lieberman has the nerve to want to genuinely find unity and move forward behind the new president. Now he said, through his spokesman that Barack Obama is a genuine patriot and loves his country. Good Lord, I am about to throw up.

Harsh Words About Obama on the Campaign Trail By Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are Suddenly a Non-Issue

It is amazing that the whole anti-Barack Obama movement within political circles have seemed to dissipate and these same people are now singing his praises. Take Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann for example. Just a few weeks ago, she told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that when it came to Barack Obama, 'I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." Funny, on Wednesday, after narrowly avoiding defeat in her own race because of those comments, she called Obama's victory, which incidentally included her state, "a tremendous signal we sent." Geez, who is we?

Then Sarah "Pitbull in Lipstick" enters the fray. Of course you will remember that she vehemently accused Mr. Obama of "palling around with terrorists." Well, she took an entirely different position on Thursday, after John McCain was roundly trounced in the election. She said, "Let us, let us--let him--be able to kind of savor this moment, one and not let the pettiness of maybe internal workings of the campaign erode any of the recognition of this historic moment we are in. And God bless Barack Obama and his beautiful family." Wait, did I hear right? Just the day before she was "calling him out" on his positions.

But the greatest about face came from none than Senator Joe Lieberman. He has good reason to try to make up with the winning ticket because Sen. Harry Reid is working really hard to kick him off his position as chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Lieberman was an ardent backer of Mr. McCain and he angered the Democrats, who in 2000 nominated him as their vice-presidential candidate. After losing a Democratic primary challenge in 2006 and then winning as an independent, he still continued to caucus with the Democrats.

Attending an event with Mr. McCain in York, Pa., in August, Mr. Lieberman said the race was “between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not.” Yeah, but good old Joe Lieberman wasn't finished kicking the Democrats in their face. As a speaker at the Republican National Convention, he continue and went a step further. He criticized Barack Obama for "voting to cut off funding from our troops on the ground." The problem is that was a lie. Obama voted for bills that included plans for withdrawal from Iraq and against others that did not. So Joe "Judas" Lieberman, realizing that his gamble to support McCain had backfired, he released a statement congratulating Barack Obama for “his historic and impressive victory.” It continued, “The American people are a people of extraordinary fairness.” So now Joe Lieberman has the nerve to want to genuinely find unity and move forward behind the new president. Now he said, through his spokesman that Barack Obama is a genuine patriot and loves his country. Good Lord, I am about to throw up.