Michele Bachmann will be speaking as part of a panel addressing the Club for Growth in Washington, D.C. this week.
Unless she says something really stupid again in public before then. Earlier this year, Michele had been invited to address the Conservative Political Action Conference but was removed from the list of scheduled speakers after she made national headlines by announcing "Bachmannistan": her false claim to know of an existing agreement to partition Iraq with Iran and allow the Iranians to form a new terrorist state in Iraq. She withdrew the claim that she had knowledge of such an agreement, but the withdrawal came too late and CPAC took her off the speaker's list. Which probably cost her some serious dough, since CPAC is one of those "very powerful," big money conservative fraternities.
So is the Club for Growth. If Michele doesn't say anything really crazy in public before October 17th, she will be addressing a group of individuals who are dedicated to fighting fiscal irresponsibility, big government, and reducing America's tax burden (via a strategy of electing Republicans who practice fiscal irresponsibility, big government, and raising Americans' tax burdens.)
The Club for Growth takes pride in targeting and destroying RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who might support tax hikes to pay off part of the debt that Club for Growth candidates are charging to America's credit card. The name of the organization probably refers to the "growth" of the average American taxpayer's debt, which is a direct result of their historic endorsement of candidates who "borrow against and spend American's future taxes in order to avoid a tax increase on the members of the Club for Growth."
Other scheduled speakers include:
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform (an organization dedicated to increasing the burden of American taxpayers)
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (via satellite, because he was a liberal Republican until he decided to run for President and doesn't feel safe answering questions in that particular room.)
Congressman John Shadegg, who distinguished himself during the House debate over the "surge in Iraq" by advising his fellow Republicans not to discuss the surge or the Iraq war during the debate over the surge and the Iraq war. (From Shadegg's letter to fellow GOP congressmen: " …The debate should not be about the surge or its details. This debate should not even be about the Iraq war to date, mistakes that have been made, or whether we can, or cannot, win militarily. If we let Democrats force us into a debate on the surge or the current situation in Iraq, we lose.”)
Keynote address by GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner, who told the Washington Post that he had had conversations with Congressman Dennis Hastert about Mark Foley's "inappropriate relationships" with Congressional pages months before the scandal broke publicly.
That's quite a list of speakers. And there WILL be cocktails served, so it could get very ugly. Michele, you have been warned.
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