Michele Bachmann Opposes Liberty and Justice For All?
Rep. Keith Ellison, ultraliberal Democrat of Minnesota, appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal Thursday morning, and was asked about his Gopher State colleague Michele Bachmann. What unfolded was a classic elaboration of today's liberal creed -- which Ellison dressed up as "liberty and justice for all" -- and then insisted Bachmann was opposed to that concept down the line:
PETER SLEN, C-SPAN host: Your district borders Michele Bachmann’s.
ELLISON: Sure does. And you know, I get along fine with Michele, and she and I were state legislators together, and interpersonally, we’re fine. But of course our views couldn’t be any more different that they are. You know, we just see the world in a fundamentally different light.
That’s true. Bachmann is a Tea Party Christian conservative, and Ellison is a left-wing Muslim convert who co-chairs the House Progressive Caucus. But listen to how Ellison announces the liberal creed, and then assumed that Bachmann opposes every ideal he announces, including liberty and justice for all:
I believe in inclusion of all Americans, no matter what religion, what color, what race, whoever you are. If you’re an American, you’re good enough for me.
I believe that we need working-class prosperity, not rich prosperity – they’re already doing fine – but working-class prosperity. Economic policies, taxes, consumer protection, wages, labor laws, unions that’ll give people a chance.
I also really believe that the government should stay out of people’s private personal affairs, like whether they’re gonna have a family, who they’re gonna marry. The government should protect people’s rights.
I think on those things Michele and I don’t agree. Probably, down the line, she would probably say no to everything I just said. But I believe in liberty and justice for all, no exceptions, you know, everybody, all religions, all colors, all faiths.
According to the rulebook, Slen moved on calmly to asking whether progressives were happy with Obama. So to recap, Ellison thinks Bachmann doesn’t believe in liberty and justice for all. She doesn’t believe in inclusion. She doesn’t believe in working-class prosperity. She doesn’t believe in the government protecting people’s rights.
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This is interesting because
Submitted by rimsky on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 6:58am.
This is interesting because in his grand effort to show his inclusiveness he has rather conspicuously left out all the non-heterosexuals. Interesting but not surprising, IMO, because he's muslim.
Well, actually ...
Submitted by NC Boy on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:20am.
Well, actually he WAS "inclusive". He said, "I also really believe that the government should stay out of people’s private personal affairs, like whether they’re gonna have a family, who they’re gonna marry."
So, he covered the liberal bases completely. Muslims and liberals have a marriage made in . . . . someplace.
Some honesty slipped out
Submitted by sentry_99 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:11am.
"I believe that we need working-class prosperity, not rich prosperity – they’re already doing fine – but working-class prosperity. Economic policies, taxes,...."
Taxes
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:13pm.
Since nearly half of American taxpayers no longer pay any Federal income tax, I'd the Federal government is already doing what it can to give the working class a break.
ELLISON: "I also really believe that the government should stay out of people’s private personal affairs, like whether they’re gonna have a family, who they’re gonna marry. . . "
But when it comes to electing not to buy health care insurance -- a private personal affair -- Ellison supports fining you.
Ah, the liberal go-to attack:
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:18am.
Ah, the liberal go-to attack: Republicans only care about rich white people.
The howler of the piece:
I also really believe that the government should stay out of people’s private personal affairs, like whether they’re gonna have a family, who they’re gonna marry.
Unless, of course, you're talking about home schooling or what we eat.
In fact, I think who to marry and whether to have a family (read:abortion) are about the only things Democrats don't think the government should control.
How about
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:29am.
where and when my kids can pray to God, Mr. Keith the Super Special Protect-me-'cause-I'm-Mooslim? Should Christians be allowed by the government to pray in schools, or just you five-times-a-day gimme-my-special-room-and-which-way-is-Mecca heretics? Where's the freedom that actually appears on the text of the Constitution?
I'm sorry, but taqiyya means Mr. Ellison, by definition, cannot be trusted. If that makes you mad, take it up with Mohammed.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Liberty in sex for all
Submitted by Tim Graham on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:42am.
Sex is the one thing liberals want government to create the broadest liberty, with official respect for the wildest forms of sexual "diversity."
I'd love to hear an interview ask Ellison:
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:20am.
"So, are you one of those traditional behead-the-infidels Muslims, or just a Louis-Farrakhan-Jew-hating-Nation-of-Islam-style Muslim?"
If the press treated the left the way they treat the right, Ellison would face that kind of question every single day.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
taqiyya
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 7:24am.
That muslim is in full taqiyya mode right there, lying his sorry a$$ off for all the world to see!
It's worse than just being a liberal dem who will say anything to be elected, but when you know he's a muslim and he says these things, it's a practice to get people suckered into believing him. As a muslim, those things he claims he is for is incompatible with Islam. He woldn't be a muslim if he was for those things.
-Jon
Just my 2 cents
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 8:26am.
Sorry, but Islam is a cult, not a religion.
That opinion
Submitted by dreamsincolor on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:33am.
Is worth more a hell of a lot more than $.02. Islam is NOT a religion, it is a CULTture, complete with rules for everything including government, banking, punishments and sex.
Too bad this cult won't go the way of the Jonestown, Guyana cult...
And where's the liberal media
Submitted by cathartic1 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:10am.
And where's the liberal media bias in this one...? Anyone?
And where is Ms. Bachmann's
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:43am.
And where is Ms. Bachmann represented (other than Ellison's characterication of her) in this one.......anyone?.... cathartic1?....Bueller?
You think just accepting Ellison's accusations that Bachmann is against equality, against the middle class....as fact, is not bias?
Quoting from another movie...<knocking on cathartic's head> Hello, McFly.....anybody home???
It's an interview between two
Submitted by cathartic1 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:43am.
It's an interview between two people. Politicians say this kind of stuff all the time about their opponents. Normally posts like this complain about the softball questions or whether or not the interviewer probes into an issue deeply enough - thats not the case here. It's simply a transcript of what's been said by Ellison as an example of the "liberal screed" so that a conservative audience can blast him. Well, he's a liberal. He's going to do that.
Softball?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 7:22am.
O.k. cathartic, this is a softball interview. Where is the interviewer questioning why muslims in Detroit are pushing for sharia law, which directly interferes in the lives of private citizens? Why isn't this guy questioned about Obamacare, which tells people they MUST buy into a health insurance policy? This also involves the right to choose. Why didn't the interviewer ask him to back up his assertions about Bachman?
As a fellow MN, I can verify Ellison can be a moron at times....
Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 9:18am.
People like Ellison would be wise to follow the old adage of "better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and make it certain." Of course, when MB merely suggested that the media investigate anti-American activity, there was media chaos;here Ellison calls her unAmerican and i am sure the media will yawn (kind of like Owebama's major league soldier blooper).
Gotta ask
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:09am.
I gotta ask, why would the people vote for someone who's a muslim and swears on Thomas jefferson's Koran, the tome that he used to understand how the muslim pirates thought and beat them back? Why would the people vote for someone who places absolutely NO value on life(especially given some of the stuff he said about the quality of life and was in agreement with the Chairman's comments about giving Grandma a pain pill instead of a pacemaker)?
It's just absolutely unConstitutional to have him there as it is. I just don't understand how people got suckered into doing that.
-Jon
They had something to prove.
Submitted by BikerHoop on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 7:09am.
People voted for Odumbo to prove to themselves and their family, friends, etc, that they weren't racist. Similarly, people who voted for this clown did it to prove how politically correct they are in accepting the self-imposed 'diversity' mandate of being 'accepting' and 'tolerant' of mooslims.
I draw the conclusion
Submitted by digits on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 10:20am.
With his first statement: "I believe in inclusion of all Americans, no matter what religion, what color, what race, whoever you are. If you’re an American, you’re good enough for me."
It is obvious that he does not approve of people here illegally and wants them deported.
I think, er, am fairly certain that
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:26am.
Mr. Ellison means North Americans, Central Americans and South Americans, not Americans who reside in the United States.
And, I'm sure he also included those fine Americans like Nidal Hassan, Carlos Bledsoe, Yonathan Malaku, Abdul Khalif Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh.
How do you have "working
Submitted by robert108 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:29am.
How do you have "working class" prosperity without "rich" prosperity? Why the classism? If you really support equal rights for all, why can't the achievers make as much money as they possibly can? Redistributing their money is use of govt force, the opposite of what you claim to support.
I believe this nutjob should
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 11:38am.
I believe this nutjob should get a full TSA-style pat down every time he enters the Capitol Building -not because he's a Muslim, mind you, but because he's a flaming Liberal and inherently more dangerous to most Americans.
But, opinions are like Ellisons-everybody's got one.
A Moooooooooooooooooolem who
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 12:45pm.
A Moooooooooooooooooolem who is co-chair of the Progressive Caucus??? My father would be rolling over in his grave!!! And EVERYTHING that this guy said in this piece is basically the exact OPPOSITE of how liberals, progressives, and Mooooooooooooooooooslems view the rest of the world, except for the second paragraph, when he actually tells the truth about their economic, tax, redistribution, union, and social equality agenda.
'If you're an American, you're good enough for me'???? Yeah, you frigging phony.......I believe that like I believe that the sun will come up in the west tomorrow morning.
Just remember that comrade Ellison wants you and me...
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 06/25/2011 - 1:07pm.
...to be every bit as converted, enslaved, or as dead, as any other adherent to the 7th Century barbaric political movement pretending to be a religion, does.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Still hope Dave*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 1:06pm.
There are those who want to push entitlements as the answer to all our societies problems. Just throw more money at it as their solution. Others are willing to address the real issues and suffer the attacks of racists, off the plantation, or ignorant Christians as a means of denigrating their real solutions to address real problems.
You have to give this guy credit for facing the truth and fighting back head on. Some people know the truth.
PM
Submitted by jackssn on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 4:28am.
Check your pm please
What you need to know about African American converts to Islam
Submitted by Cae on Sun, 06/26/2011 - 12:49pm.
The brothers believe that whites are enemy # 2, So who is enemy #1. Well none other than Black women who figured our how to survive just fine without them. How dare they!! Black men with nothing going for them have the absolute gall do demand respect from women taking care of themselves. Everything these women say or do is seen as a slight to their alleged manhood.
Sadest of all is women to follow and convert.