Michele Bachmann says she is not going away, and may run for another public office. — even possibly president, although that’s not her “number one item.” The Minnesota Congresswoman who last week said she will not seek re-election next year, claimed she was Nancy Pelosi’s number one target and had quickly became a controversial figure — not because of her policies, her false facts, or her lies and hate — but because she early on was “exposing” now-President Barack Obama. She added now “we are seeing serial lawlessness out of President Obama.”
“I’m not retiring,” Bachmann told Fox New host Sean Hannity last night. “I’m not going silent. I’m not quitting my public involvement. In fact, I may run for another public office. That could happen. But for right now, I think I am going to find a different perch in order to be able to weigh in on these matters. Sometimes you can be more effective on the outside than on the inside.”
Considering Bachmann’s atrocious legislative record, she couldn’t be any less effective “on the outside than on the inside.”
In fact, last week Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post noted:
Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan are essentially correctwhen they say that Bachmann “has never had a bill or resolution she’s sponsored signed into law” and “never wielded a committee gavel, either at the full or subcommittee level” and that her “amendments and bills have rarely been considered by any committee, even with the House under GOP control.”
But last night Congresswoman Bachmann had a different take on her career:
“I feel like I’ve done a lot in the eight years that I’ve been there. I was a very strong voice taking on my own party. I pushed back on the bailout. I was the champion of repealing Obamacare, and also dealing with this issue of the IRS—I have been involved in that as a former IRS attorney. On issue after issue dealing with the rise of Islamic jihad, I have been there.”
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