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Sarah Palin (.5 term, R-AK) disappointed her few but loyal fans today when, at the end of a rather crazy-making speech, she announced that she wouldn’t be announcing (again). Yes, it’s true, the Great Tease of 2011 continues, even as the potential audience for “who cares” dwindles.

Palin headlined to a sparse crowd for the Tea Party of America Restoring America rally in Iowa today, on the 3rd anniversary of her 2008 Republican convention address — also known as the day our national nightmare began. In Palin’s Real America, patriots are not allowed to bring a sign and there’s restricted access, because that’s how freedom and liberty lovers roll, but man you could hear freedom for corporations ring as the half-term governor announced her big job creation policy would be to eliminate all federal corporate income taxes (wave patriot flag here).

As tired and worn out as the Tea Party narratives were in the warm up to Palin, the Tea Party is still capable of huge excitement as Sarah Palin, Queen of the Tea Party, took the stage to knock out her political rival, Rick Perry. Oh, wait, she should have been knocking out Rick Perry if she were really going to run, but she spent much of her time taking aim at Obama.

But the real puzzler was when Palin announced what I guess will be her job-creation “policy” if she runs: Palin proposes that we eliminate all federal corporate income tax in order to create jobs. ALL. That’s any and all corporate income tax. And this is where we get to the part in our program where we reveal more proof that the Tea Party doesn’t give a hoot about fiscal conservatism. A policy of no federal income taxes for corporations is not exactly responsible. But certainly, it’s rich, coming from Palin who taxes the oil companies in Alaska so much with windfall profit taxes that they claim they stopped drilling there as much as they were because their profits were being taxed too much. http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-eliminate-all-federal-corpo
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Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann offered muted support Sunday for Sarah Palin's recent call to eliminate all corporate taxes, noting that she's "open" to the idea of cutting corporate tax rates to zero percent - but not calling for it outright.

The Minnesota Congresswoman, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, said "we could go that route" on corporate tax rates, but she noted that "we'd have to have a fundamental restructuring of the tax code" first if taxes paid by companies were to be eliminated altogether.

"What we would have to do then is re-jigger other elements to define revenue and what revenues would be needed to the economy," Bachmann told CBS' Bob Schieffer. "We certainly could get down to a zero percent corporate tax rate." http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/04/ftn/main20101506.shtml?tag=e
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Bachmann also addressed comments she made last week suggesting that a string of significant natural disasters that recently hit the East Coast were a sign that God would approve of less government spending.

"Obviously I was speaking metaphorically," Bachmann told Schieffer.

When pressed as to whether or not she believed God uses the weather to send messages on earth, however, Bachmann was evasive.

"I believe in God," she said. "I'm not ashamed to say that I believe in God. I'm a woman of faith and a woman of prayer. But the comment that I made right then was a metaphor. That was very simply what I was doing."

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