Obama's spending showed his "infantilism," she said in September , but on Election Day, " Liberty will be refreshed in our country. Establishment Republicans didn't just like this message, they made it a strategy.
Instead of negotiating over health care reform in , they fought to stop it from passing. They failed. They tried to repeal it. They tried to get it overturned by the Supreme Court. They failed there, too. Stop Obama at all costs — that was the message of Republican leaders: " The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in October Obamacare was "the crown jewel of socialism ," she said in January , foreshadowing the House's 37 votes to repeal it.
Back the Tea Party, and by extension, the Republican Party, or watch the country be destroyed from the inside out: " We are at a time in our country when we are full-on embracing socialism ," she said 11 months later in her presidential campaign. That message helped sweep Republicans into a majority in the House in John Boehner rewarded her with an appointment to the prestigious House Intelligence Committee in But between then and January , when it looked like she could lose that position , something happened: the election.
In the Republican primary, Bachmann got a little too crazy. From her days as an abortion protester and conservative foot soldier , she has climbed the ranks, at every step of the way reshaping the political dynamic around her to reflect her own frenzied style. In June, when Bachmann officially kicked off her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, the town where she was born and lived until she was 12 , she recast herself as a Hawkeye in exile.
Prodded by friends, she showed up at a prayer meeting one day, still in her cheerleading uniform. I asked him to cleanse me and change me and turn me into his likeness. Their courtship was not the stuff of rom-coms. One day, Michele was praying with a girlfriend when she had a vision of getting married to Marcus at his family farm in western Wisconsin.
But God provided the spark. Together, they discovered politics. Bachmann was raised in a Democratic family ; she jokes that her party affiliation was printed on her birth certificate.
But the intellectual roots of her transformation go much deeper. The premise of his film was that modern society was dissolving in a morass of apathy, sin, and moral relativism. But there was a solution. Without a light to guide them, its citizens became apathetic. They stopped working and relied on assistance from the ever swelling government. If tax law sounded less than thrilling, it was nonetheless a starting point.
As Schaeffer had taught, Christians, whatever their professions, had an obligation to engage society and use their status to correct its wayward course. Bachmann was about to do just that. But she continued to follow the path she believed God had chosen for her. She and her husband went to abortion clinics, where they ministered to women on the sidewalks outside, and began taking in foster kids—23 of them over a period of eight years.
She also got involved with New Heights, a charter school that was just opening its doors in Stillwater , a quaint Minnesota town on the banks of the St. Croix River where the Bachmanns had settled. If Meyer pushed the envelope, Bachmann took things further. According to Bob Beltrame, whose kids attended New Heights and who joined with other parents to oppose the efforts of the Meyer-Bachmann wing, Bachmann and an ally began attending classes and questioning the appropriateness of certain topics and materials.
With parents and board members clashing, a meeting was held to clear the air. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Politics Contributors. Margaret Bogenrief , Beautifully Complex. Sign up for notifications from Insider!
Stay up to date with what you want to know. Loading Something is loading. Email address.
0コメント