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September 21, 2011
Michele Bachmann Continues Opening Cans of Worms Best Left Sealed; New PAC Ad Attacks Anita PerryShe continues placing big bets on her mentally retarded tactics, this time claiming Anita Perry once worked for Merck. Which she really hadn't. As a lobbyist in the nineties (a job she retired from, to avoid conflict-of-interest) she had worked for a firm that did some lobbying work for Merck on... osteoporosis screening. Perry worked for MEM Hubble in the early Nineties, but left when her husband ran for lieutenant governor, Miller says, "so there wouldn't be any appearance of conflict." But to the Dems and to some of Miller's competitors in the business, that "conflict" had existed long before Rick Perry ran for lieutenant governor. "The scuttlebutt," explains one Democratic insider, "was that Miller had HMO clients and, hey, wasn't it interesting that Anita Perry worked for him." The assumption, of course, was that Perry was either lobbying for Miller's clients on the sly, or that the mere association of the lieutenant governor's wife with Miller's firm carried sufficient force to influence votes in the Legislature. So, Bachmann continues with the below-the-belt sorts of attacks. Meanwhile, since she's engaging in such attacks: Her husband's "Christian Reparative Counseling" service receives government money via Medicaid, $137,000 since 2005. Conflict of interest? Well honestly I would have just chalked it up to people having connections to the state dole, which is all but unavoidable when the state is so large and so frequently intersects with economic and medical interests, but since Michele Bachmann thinks this is a big deal, let's have it on the conservative record: Her husband makes a good deal of his money from Medicaid, easily the most waste-and-abuse-prone spending program out of the big three entitlements. Further, he took another $161,000 from the state of Minnesota. Further, Michele Bachmann was less than forthright about these payments. While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News. Her husband is obviously a crony of hers, and he's receiving an awful lot of money from the federal and state government, and she doesn't seem to like to admit this fact, contriving stories of payments being "one-time" affairs and only going to her husband's employees. Plus, the guy does pray-the-gay-away stuff. I don't have a problem with that in theory, even though I figure such programs are successful about 5% of the time, because I support anyone's right to not be gay if they so desire. The liberals get to be big bullies on this point, insisting that someone who has gay tendencies must be gay, and it is some kind of forgoing of a Holy Destiny if they wind up not being so gay. So, from my point of view-- if someone wants to not be gay, fine, let them try. But be aware that it is not "common" for heterosexuals to question their sexual orientation -- pretty much that "questioning" only happens among gays. And gays tend to be, ultimately, gay, and any claim to the contrary is simply false. Marcus Bachmann, however, seems to think that "curiosity" towards homosexuality is a relatively common thing. Question: Today The Wall Street Journal came out with an article, "What do you say when your teenager is gay?" What do you say to Christian parents who come up with this? Bachmann: Well, I think you clearly say, what is the understanding of God's word on homosexuality. And I think that this is no mystery that a child or pre-adolescent, particularly adolescents, will question and wonder about sexuality. That's nothing new under the sun since the beginning of time. But I don't think we should take that as, because we wonder or we think or we question, does that take us down the road of homosexuality -- Eh, maybe he needs to claim that in order to work his Not-Gay magic on patients. That is, maybe he has to overstate how common homosexual tendencies are in order to offer hope (of the false type) that many people have such tendencies but just decide to be straight. Even if that's the case, it's quackery. Most people never, not even once, "question" their sexuality or experience "curiosity" or "confusion" on this issue. This is what gay people do. Because they're gay. And yet he's taking government money while he tells the world that lots of teenagers find themselves unsure about which sex they're attracted to. There are a couple of ironies here: 1, that Bachmann's super-PAC is "Keep Conservatives United," which, as a coblogger noted, is a case of Ur doin it wrong. And 2-- eh, one's enough.
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