Michele Bachmann's History As A Foster Parent Remains Murky

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: 

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