Bachmann: Democrats using 'scare tactics' on debt

how about we start with the salaries in congress honey, would that work for you?

I'm Canadian and when I read these comments one thing stands out. Everyone is unhappy either with the Republicans or Democrats, both of whom have a fair share of the blame for the situation that your country is in at the moment. And yet you only see the answer as either a Democrat or a Republican. This is a case of doing the same thing and expecting different results. Perhaps a better solution would be to give these tired old parties a rest and do what we do in Canada when the need arises. Establish a new party that actually shares your beliefs and that isn't already beholden to the forces that appear to prevent either of the existing ones from acting in the middle-class American's best interests. I don't believe that the holy Founding Fathers ruled out the establishment of more than two parties, it just seems to have developed without an understanding of the diwnside of only two views of the world, two views that from a Canadian's perspective aren't really all that far apart.

If those honest politicians would have paid back our Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid funds, instead of defaulting on them! The funds would not be short of money! So all you folks spewing worthless rhetoric about this subject try at least to get your politico facts straight! And, remember Reading is Fundamental and leads to a True Understanding of the True Facts!

We don't need scare tactics from any part of the government, WE NEED THE TRUTH !

Many of us here also are fed up with the polarization. it will never resolve anything.

I would love to see a simple breakdown of what each side is asking for and where the spending is going. I agree you should not spend money you do not have or at least a plan to get, but where is the analysis? All I see is bickering in the press throwing around number so astronomical that they are incomprehensible, with no back up - a spreadsheet, anything. The party ideologs will always line up behind their party, but the rest of us in the middle would like to see a comparative analysis - maybe your both wrong and there needs to be a little give an take.

which side walked out of the talks........

when the companies, the media, and our politicians are all owned by international mega-corporations.... the middle class is screwed... time to break up all these monopolies again and stop voting for the morons that think it's great having a bunch corporations acting as our overlords

On June 28, 2011 in an interview with Fox News Channel, Bachmann proudly stated that John Wayne, was from Waterloo, Iowa just like her and “That’s the kind of spirit I have, too,” Bachmann said.

Only John Wayne isn’t from Waterloo, he was born in Winterset, Iowa, more than 100 miles to the south.

John Wayne Gacy, the mass murderer in Chicago who was convicted of killing more than 30 young men in the 1970s and stashing their bodies in a crawlspace in his house was from Waterloo.

Bachmann was confronted by CBS’ Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation” Sunday about the UNTRUTHS of her attacks on President Obama.

Schieffer noted how PolitiFact, a fact-checking website that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, analyzed 23 of Bachmann’s statements, finding just one to be “completely true.” 7 of which were outright lies.

Schieffer then asked Bachmann “Do you feel you have misled people?”
Her response “No, I haven't misled people at all”.

Tired of all the B S from D C ? Term limits works. Tell them that and then vote those spending BOZOs out of office. We need solutions not career polititians.

Gosh and it wasn't that long ago that America already had a balanced budget AND a budget surplus to start paying all that debt the Republicans incurred yet are now claiming they're so committed to paying while completely ignoring that they were the ones that squandered all the money WE gave them to do just that in the first place.

Can you wingnuts explain how we now make up all the trillions in lost revenue the Bu$h/GOP tax cuts for the ultra rich has, is, and will cost us???

Can you wingnuts explain how we now pay for all those billions in corporate welfare we hand out every year???

Can you wingnuts explain how we make up all those trillions in lost revenue where TWO-THIRDS of all multi-national conglomerates pay ZERO taxes for outsourcing jobs and yet hiding profits in tax haven countries to still receive all that corporate welfare???

Can you wingnuts explain how now we pay for all the money Bu$h gave the banks for taking us to the brink of complete economic collapse???

Can you wingnuts explain how now we pay for your 10-year nation-building project that has cost us trillions yet based on a lie of WMD's???? btw where's that oil you promised???

Can you wingnuts explain how we now pay for keeping the military complex's budget several times larger than any other in the world???

The GOP likes to claim we have the highest tax rates in the world yet always fails to mention that we also have the LOWEST EFFECTIVE tax rate in the world when it comes to the ultra rich and multi-national conglomerates.

ALL these trillions being lost to the rich and corporate welfare are being "redistributed" onto the middle-class and American small businesses to make up the difference yet the GOP want it to continue when they know WE CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE!!!!

bin Laden may be dead but over here the Gadhafi Oligarchy Party is committing middle-class genocide and the wingnut buffoons just keep voting for them including the few bought-off DINOs. The GOP Kochsucking mafia boss Norquist must be so proud.

Have you watched the latest "60 minutes".
In America many kids go to school, to bed with empty stomach. They even described their feelings: can't sleep, when fallen asleep then waken up by hunger. Many families have to choose between food or electricity...

Really, does anyone take this person seriously other than the religous fanatics in this country. Notice, I didn't say Christians!

'DEMOCRATS are using scare tactics?' Are you KIDDING me??? That is ALL I have heard from the GOP for the past FIFTEEN YEARS, and why I QUIT the Republican Party TEN YEARS AGO!!!

The repubs are against and fight anything Obama trys to make work. There has been several things the repubs have submitted that when Obama has said was a good idea, they refused to vote to approve what they had submitted. The repubs are killing America just to make Obama look bad.

10 years of cuts ...so where are the jobs ...lots of jobs ,just not in america

And using terms like "death panels" and "Don't kill Grandma" during the health care reform debate weren't considered "scare tactics"?? What a hyprocrite!

Cut spending. When a person gets broke the first thing to do is cut spending.

Wow, where does Andy get his 'facts'? During Bush's terms we lost jobs. When he was about to leave office the housing bubble had already burst and the economy was sinking fast, about to implode. The unemployment rate was about to skyrocket and the DOW was about to crash...all of this was well under way.

If you read the financial press, listen to any of the financial news networks, visit and read any of the financial web sites, one can conclude that the US defaulting on its debt obligations would result in financail disaster for the US and world economies. Look at what the prospect of a Greek default is doing to markets. Think what the result would be if the government of the world's largest ecomony defaulted on its debt. Of course the Wing Nuts in the GOP could care less about the good of the Nation. All they want is for Obama to fail so they can get back into office and continue the destruction of the Nation that started under Reagan and hastened along by Bush 2.