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Meet Michelle Bachmann the IRS tax collector (the only job she ever had)

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:23 AM

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Michele Bachmann the tax collector versus Ron Paul fans

Salon.com

Michele BachmannThe Wall Street Journal picks up today on a bit of Michele Bachmann opposition research that various Ron Paul-supporting Internet commenters have been trying to publicize for months: The ascendant queen of the Tea Partyers was once a... tax collector. For the IRS.

Unlike her tale of being a Carter-supporting Democrat until she discovered Gore Vidal's disrespect for our Founders (or, as is more likely the case, until she became an antiabortion activist), Bachmann's IRS job isn't part of her grand conversion narrative. She doesn't hide it, but she does describe her old gig with fancy government bureaucrat talk: She was a "federal tax litigation attorney," she says. Her four years at the IRS are also the only job she's ever held outside of elected office.

Here's Bachmann's spin on the job: God, through her husband, told her to persecute delinquent taxpayers.

"'Tax law? I hate taxes. Why should I go do something like that?' " Ms. Bachmann said in 2006 remarks at the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minn., recounting a conversation she had with her husband. "But, by faith, I was going to be faithful to what God was calling me to do through my husband, and I finished that course of study."

In stump speeches and interviews, Ms. Bachmann said her tax work helped lead her to the conclusion that the U.S. should "deep-six" the tax code and scrap taxes on inheritance and capital gains, stances that have made her a tea-party favorite.

There are publicly available documents from only one case Bachmann worked on: a judgment against a resident of the White Earth Reservation who believed that the federal government's treaty with the Chippewa Indians shielded part of his income from taxation. (Unlike most Tea Party folks and all "sovereign citizens," this guy had a point! But he lost. Thanks to Michele Bachmann.)

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http://www.salon.com/news/michele_bachmann/?story=/politics/war_room/2
011/07/11/bachmann_taxes_paul

"If I have to cross a line to blow that bitch out of the sky, I will."
-FBI Agent Erica Evans, V

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:26 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Who expects anything real to come out of her mouth? Everyone with any brains has long since stopped. Doesn't matter, all their efforts to "bring it to light" are for naught...she'll have an explanation that her cadre will be MORE than willing to believe, whatever comes out. She's got a pat excuse for everything: "I don't believe in it, but God told me to do it". Pffft.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:45 AM

BYTEMITE

What this suggests is that everything she says is carefully selected to appeal to some topic buttons in some specific voter block.

Which explains the almost patchwork statements and platform she takes. Really, I'd say most politicians do this, I just find it interesting to see it confirmed, and to consider just how much of everything is a front for the public.

Perhaps they do know what they're saying, but how they answer must be constantly interrupted by a spiel including soundbites for whatever issue wonk might play to the crowd.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:09 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

What's the big deal? Everybody loves a tax collector. Right?

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:47 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
What this suggests is that everything she says is carefully selected to appeal to some topic buttons in some specific voter block.

Which explains the almost patchwork statements and platform she takes. Really, I'd say most politicians do this, I just find it interesting to see it confirmed, and to consider just how much of everything is a front for the public.

Perhaps they do know what they're saying, but how they answer must be constantly interrupted by a spiel including soundbites for whatever issue wonk might play to the crowd.

I think it's also gotten harder - albeit more hilarious - for them to pretend they never said the things they said, in this age of Google and streaming video.

Mitt Romney's collage of him repeating over and over how "Obama made the economy worse" - and then the cut to him last week, insisting "I never said he made it worse" was just awesome.

These folks are used to saying ANYTHING, and not having anyone hold them to account for it. And in a new age, they ARE being reminded of what they said just a few days, weeks, months, or years ago, and they're being called upon to explain themselves, which they REALLY hate doing. :)

BTW, it's not as if Obama's immune to it, either. Witness his for-it-and-against-it positions on marriage equality, gay rights, Gitmo, wiretaps, etc.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:51 AM

BYTEMITE

Hee. Put them on the hot plate. Make them dance, make them sweat.

>_> Not literally of course. *fake-prim* That would be torture.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:08 AM

DREAMTROVE

Honestly I was expecting this to be a Niki thread, PN was close to last (auraptor, hero? Hey, even wulf might post this if there was a heavy metal video in it

) making it the second most surprising click of the week.

Byte, seriously though, isn't that what they all do? Or maybe there was a sort of Leslie Nielsen sarcasm there. (it's aoutside chance, but perhaps she's been corrupted by special interests.... It's almost as if Sarah Palin isn't really running for office and is just trying to pump her new book... Or maybe she's a politician who will do anything just to get a shot at the White House.

The White House, what it is?

It's a big building where the president lives for four to eight years, and almost impossible to accidentally destroy with a 9mm, but that's not important right now

Almost.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 8:49 AM

BYTEMITE

I already knew, sure, it's just every now and then something comes along that makes me look AGAIN and see how blatant it is. These politicians aren't having conversations or even Q and A sessions, they're just tossing out knee jerk world salad sound bite responses. I'm not even sure it requires brain activity beyond the effort to memorize the newest distributed list of partisan talking points, and after which, they might as well be unconscious or zombies for all the actual thinking they do about their positions.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:53 AM

DREAMTROVE

Michelle Bachmann in no way looked like a packaged candidate ;) Your zombie there is giving off the hotlink hives. Myself, I vote plants.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es00171a007
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/paper:8876655

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:24 PM

KWICKO

Isn't being a welfare queen a full-time job for Bachmann?

She's pulled more than a quarter-mil off the public dole for her "farm", and hubby's has sucked off another $160,000-plus in federal money through his fraud and quackery. How DOES he cure "the gay", anyway? Does he personally suck all the gay right out of them, through their penis?

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:24 PM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:

Michelle Bachmann in no way looked like a packaged candidate ;)

Well, ya got that right. If she climbed into a box, she'd be too dumb to close the top after herself: and the folks she's being marketed to are too dumb to figure out how to get the box open later-- she'd starve to death inside there.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011 8:05 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Everything Byte said, and then some! Like I said, it's no surprise, and should come as no surprise to anyone except her blindly-sycophantic base. She's a wonderful illustration of politics at its worst. But then maybe it's a good thing if she DOESN'T believe what she spouts. Or not.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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