Spintested: 07/01/11

Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

Friday, July 1, 2011

The facts about Michele Bachmann's foster parenting:

The Bachmanns were licensed by the state from 1992 to 2000 to handle up to three foster children at a time; the last child arrived in 1998. They began by offering short-term care for girls with eating disorders who were treated through a program at the University of Minnesota, said George Hendrickson, the chief executive of PATH Minnesota, the private agency that handled the placements.

He said the Bachmann home was “technically considered a treatment home,” which offered a higher level of reimbursement.

I think it's obvious from other scams or strategies employed by the Bachmanns over the years, they indulged themselves in government hand-outs on several fronts. Whether it was for farm subsidies for their farm or grants to train personnel at Bachmann's husband's clinic, Medicaid payments for both patients seeing Bachmann's husband or the foster children they took in, or 'foster parenting' of young girls (who were sent to public school instead of being home schooled like the Bachmann's children and used as domestic help, i.e., cleaning, babysitting, etc.), they've had their hand in the government till for years.
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

William and Mary will be surprised to learn that.

From William and Mary's website:

Bachmann received her LLM from William & Mary Law School in 1988. The university offered the master’s program in tax law from 1954 to 1995.

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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

I never said she was smart; I said she wasn't a moron and was reasonably well-educated. Certainly more than most Americans.
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

I didn't say she was smart; I said she wasn't a moron and is "reasonably well-educated, better than most Americans".
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

She went to public school in Anoka, Minnesota. She got her JD from Oral Roberts law school. Her B.A. is from a Minnesota State University (Winona). She got an LL.M. degree (a Master's degree) in tax law from William and Mary Law School. How that translates to "her main educational experiences were garnered at Oral Roberts University", I don't know.
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Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

If you want to beat the Michele Bachmanns, it helps to understand and know something about them. She's not a moron. She's well-educated (reasonably, and certainly better than most Americans), knew the material well enough to graduate high school and get into a state university, graduate law school, get a degree from William and Mary in tax law, and get a job as an attorney in the US Treasury Department for the US Federal Tax Court.

She's playing to a particular audience and she does it well. Does she believe what she says? Yes -- She's a conservative Chr!stian married to a psychologist who believes that gay can be prayed away. She comes from a Democratic family and became a Republican in college in reaction to reading Gore Vidal's opinions written in his novel Burr.

At the same time, the anti-abort!on movement was active in Minnesota and she had a boyfriend who got her involved in the movement.

In the 1970s, Michele Bachmann and her 'pray-the-gay-away' Christian counselor husband were part of a group of 'sidewalk counselors', protesters of abortion at Planned Parenthood clinics. Their 'territory' was the same ones where the very first bombings of abortion clinics began in the US.

The children fostered by the Bachmanns were all teenaged girls and said to have been used as domestics (to cook, clean and babysit their 5 biological home-schooled children). The foster children were NOT home-schooled, by the way.
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Medical Marijuana Memo: DOJ Cracks Down On Pot Shops

It's not just marijuana. How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminally corrupt administration in the nation's history, not replace Bush-era US attorneys?

Presidents may fire US attorneys, and they do so routinely at the beginning of a new administration. It is unusual to fire US attorneys in mid-term (as Bush did) except in cases of gross misconduct (which wasn’t the case during the BushAdministration). Instead of returning the democracy to the American people, Obama's Attorney General has US attorneys going after legalized medicinal marijuana in the states and continuing Bush-style obscenity prosecutions:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_691667.html
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

Poland wasn't the only black site where those methods were used. The 'stans and Lithuania, Romania, and more countries, all housed CIA black sites.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

At least 101 died from torture inflicted by CIA and US military.
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The Power of Nightmares
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Republicans didn't and couldn't do anything without Democrats' voting alongside in lockstep.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

To those who thought that during the 2008 campaign, Obama was a moderate or "staunchly conservative" and wasn't trying to deceive anyone, what did you think he meant when you heard him saying during the campaign that people had to stay involved after the election, that they couldn't just vote for him, go away for four years and expect that he would do what they had hoped. He said that there were powerful interests working against what the people wanted, and if We The People wanted Obama to do our bidding, we would have to MAKE HIM DO IT.

What did you think he was talking about? Did you think he was trying to deceive the liberals and progressives into believing that he was one of them?

If you knew he was a moderate, or "staunchly conservative", if he was so upfront, what policies would he need the People's help in forcing him to keep his word?

Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. It's why even his 'most ardent admirers' still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. [News Flash: The debate is over: "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"]

Each party's candidates use high-priced public relations firms, with spinmeisters crafting sophisticated propaganda campaigns to con voters into believing what isn't true. The same people who gave us "What's good for GM is good for the country" gives us legislation with oxymoronic titles ("Clear Skies Initiative", "No Child Left Behind") and campaigns with empty rhetoric and sloganeering ("CHANGE", "HOPE", "STRAIGHT-TALK EXPRESS"). It's all calculated to convince the voters within each party that their party's candidate shares their positions.

If you go back and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, listen with your now 'experienced ears' (experienced in lawyer-speak, aka Bush-speak, although Bush needed a team of speech writers to do what Obama is able to do on his own, i.e., think on his feet), I think you'll see that Obama spoke carefully and precisely to give people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote.

The truth is that Obama's nothing but a politician, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word. In the 'used car salesman' sense. It turns out that doing what's right for transnational corporations is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican, "What's good for GM is good for America." He did a snow job on everybody.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

Bush happened because of the pardoning of Nixon. The Nixon pardon happened because of Cheney and Rumsfeld. These are not just disconnected events. These people have been up to mischief for a long while. They never got over Watergate and their fall from grace. They never believed they did anything wrong, and now Obama and Democrats have helped that to become reality.

Running from these facts isn't going to make the Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Cheney-GOP-Conservatives behave, or go away. Waiting them out, until they d!e, isn't going to end it -- They've raised and trained an army of 'true believers' to carry on after they're gone.

Investigations and trials go a long way in dealing with that. It's not their minds you want to change, but the millions of Americans who never knew the facts. They broke the law, and we enforce the law so that people KNOW the laws and live by them. If People don't agree with the laws, if they don't like the laws, they can change the laws. But the People have to have a direct experience and understanding of the laws before they can change them. And that's how you get an informed, healthy and active democracy. With a knowledgeable electorate.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

The interview with Glenn Carle, former CIA operative, is about Carle's time in the CIA and specifically about one person renditioned. Carle left the CIA years ago and is only speaking about what he wrote about, what he knew to be true (his own firsthand experience).

Renditioning and torturing went on for years, and may continue -- Obama and Leon Panetta certainly gave themselves the out for doing it.
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Glenn Carle, Former CIA Operative, Reveals Secret Jail In Memoir

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democrats have adopted the Republicans' casual relationship with (and disrespect for) the rule of law. Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful, longest running democracy in world history.

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see. And it begins and ends with the rule of law. By refusing to investigate and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representatives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents, too, means that the grand experiment is over.

Not prosecuting BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush.

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive', asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislative or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventive detention', again, imprisoning anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight.

How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understanding.

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In 4/16/2011 news (obliterated in the news cycle by a 1 PM speech by Obama on his fiscal policy):

Obama Administration to Spanish Judge: We Won’t Investigate Bush Lawyers’ Role in Torture

This was after stalling and stonewalling the Spanish court for 2 years.
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The policies of our government are made by people who never are on the front line of the blowback -- They don't fly commercial. We do.

In a democracy, we are responsible for what our elected representatives do to other people in other countries because we give them the power to unleash the dogs of war. We allow the CIA to operate secretly and illegally, to rendition citizens of other nations, abduct and torture and murder them. And they do it in our names.

Never does that fact hit harder than on days like 9/11, when people you know and love, members of your family, your friends, are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Victims of US policies (like the civilians killed in Libya today and their families and friends) can't get at those who make policy in our government so they go after us, We the People, who gave Bush-Cheney-Obama the authority. The lesson learned is that in a democracy, you, me (We the People) are responsible for what elected officials do to other people in other countries in our name. We give them the awesome power that is the US military and arsenal. We are the front line because the plssed off survivors of what our country does to others in our name can't get to those elected officials; they can only get to us.

Perhaps if those policy-makers had more skin in the game, they wouldn't be so casual about their use of the awesome power of the US military.

The government does not see its job as to protect American citizens. As someone who has lost someone in an act of terrorism, I can tell you firsthand that the government does not react or respond to terror attacks unless they interfere with commerce. Until terror attacks cut into the rich's ability to make obscene profits. When terror attacks cause people to stop flying, stop shopping, then the government will act. But in a way where more money can be made for phat cats, and not in a way that guarantees our Constitutional rights.

The government and the military exist to protect transnational corporations. And Obama has signed on to that. It's a win-win with everybody making loads of money, except us. Except We the People. It's not making us safe or even safer (it's actually putting us in greater danger), and we're going broke in the process.

P.S. Newly-confirmed CIA director David Petraeus suggested to Congress that there might be circumstances where a return to “enhanced interrogation” is appropriate.
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Chuck Schumer: 14th Amendment Option 'Certainly Worth Exploring'

Don't look now, but Social Security Benefits Cuts Are, Indeed, On The Table In The Debt Ceiling Negotiations -- And in A Really Sneaky, Stealth Way!

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Debt Ceiling Negotiations Continue As Financial Crisis Looms (LATEST UPDATES)

Obama came into the White House with Bush-Cheney-Republicans not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count.

Then Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republicans and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destruction, instead of hammering Bush-Cheney-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and Rahm Emanuel went after Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, two people with no role in the Republican Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcConnell, JohnBoehner, EricCanter, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW, HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the RepublicanParty as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocked DonaldTrump, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.

Republican leadership made no secret of the fact that Republicans wouldn't be cooperating with a President Obama back before he got the nomination in 2008. That he could take his "bipartisanship" and shove it. It wasn't just campaign rhetoric, 'meat' for the Republican base -- Republicans had been 'shoving it' to Democrats since Democrats had regained the majority in the House in 2006.

But there was Obama, watering down Democratic legislation, continuing BushCheney policies (and even going BushCheney one better), and Republicans still wouldn't work in a "bipartisan manner".

So what did Obama do? He watered Democratic legislation down even more (made it actually Republican-like legislation) and passed it through reconciliation, which didn't need (or get) ANY Republican votes.

Obama makes secret deals, lets lobbyists write legislation and policy and regulations, and the only time that Obama gets tough is on those representing the Democratic Party base's interests.

Obama is a changeling, a Republican-in-Democrats'-clothing, a Trojan horse, and you're being irresponsible by your blind loyalty to a label.
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If Republicans are such scvm (and I believe they are) and "so dangerous", why isn't Obama investigating and prosecuting them?

Why isn't Obama investigating and prosecuting the greatest heist on the People in all history?

Why are Obama-Democrats continuing the war crimes of BushCheney, blocking investigations and prosecutions into their crimes?

We have Obama-Democrats to thank for the resurrection of Republicans. The GOP wasn't just on the ropes after the 2008 election, it was down for the count and Obama gave them all pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the WhiteHouse, instead of going after Republicans and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destruction, instead of hammering BushCheneyGOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and RahmEmanuel went after SarahPalin and RushLimbaugh, two people with no role in the RepublicanParty.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcConnell, JohnBoehner, EricCanter, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW, HW, JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who's actually IN the RepublicanParty as the problem. Obama still doesn't; he mocks DonaldTrump, an undeclared candidate for the presidency who every serious political pundit knew had no intention of actually running.

How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminally corrupt administration in the nation's history, not replace Bush-era US attorneys? Presidents may fire US attorneys, and they do so routinely at the beginning of a new administration. It is unusual to fire US attorneys in mid-term (as Bush did) except in cases of gross misconduct (which wasn’t the case during the BushAdministration). Instead of returning the democracy to the American people, Obama's AttorneyGeneral has US attorneys going after legalized medicinal marijuana in the states and Bush-style obscenity prosecutions:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_691667.html

Obama's continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, even going BushCo one better: How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' explain Obama's doctrine that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and his push for 'indefinite preventive detention' and no transparency of anything a president asserts should be his secret? Pure Kafka.

As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this. How do Obama's 'most ardent supporters' explain all that to themselves?
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