Rep. Bachmann to Fox News: Obama Got ’100 Percent of What He Wanted’

Earlier in the evening, before the House voted to end the shutdown, Rachel Maddow said Republicans got absolutely none of what they wanted from this fight. After the House vote, Michele Bachmann reacted by telling Sean Hannity that President Obama basically got “100 percent of what he wanted” from the beginning.

Bachmann said that Obama “rolled the dice” and banked on Republicans “willing to be the adults in the room.” She voted no on the House bill, and even though it overwhelmingly passed, she declared, “We aren’t waving the white flag of surrender on Obamacare, we aren’t taking our marbles and going home.”

Hannity then challenged Democrat Henry Cuellar on whether Bachmann’s right that there’s still a good opportunity for Republicans to run on the failures of Obamacare. Cuellar admitted he’s willing to see some changes in the health care law, but Hannity kept grilling him on how Obamacare is costing more than the administration claimed and is “nothing like what the president promised.”

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Michele Bachmann to Fox: ‘We’re Not Interested in a Lecture’ From ‘Professor Obama’

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told Fox News Channel host Eric Bolling on Thursday that she believes the position of Senate Democrats and President Barack Obama is not productive. Bachmann said that it was right of House SpeakerJohn Boehner to send only a small group of Republicans to the White House because the House GOP is “not interested in a lecture” from the president.

“I think John Boehner made exactly the right call,” Bachmann said of the House GOP’s decision to only send a handful of Republican House members to meet with Obama as opposed to the entire conference. “He’s been making a lot of very good calls recently, and one of the calls is that he refused to have 200 Republicans go to the White House where would we all sit through a lecture from, with all due respect, Professor Obama.”

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“This is a president whose administration’s position has been, again with all due respect, we’re going to hold our breath until we turn blue,” Bahcmann continued. “That’s not a position.”

Bolling asked Bachmann to react to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who said on Thursday that Republicans in Congress “do not know what they want.”

Bachmann said that the Democratic position has been “hilarious.” She summarized it as, “We win, and then after we win absolutely everything, then you can come over and we’ll talk.”

“That’s an insulting comment to make to the American people,” Bachmann continued. “Now it’s time for the president to actually lead and not be a passive participant and be a part of these talks.”

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[VIDEO] : Reps. Bachmann, Gohmert, King Thank Egypt for Overthrowing ‘Evil’ Muslim Brotherhood

With all eyes on Syria this weekend, Reps. Michele Bachmman (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) andSteve King (R-IA) traveled to Egypt to deliver a highly unconventional message of support to the Egyptian military for eradicating “common enemy” the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a 15 minute news conference-style video broadcast over a pro-government satellite network and shown by Egyptian state media, Bachmann announced, “We are here as members of Congress to say, ‘We are with you, and we encourage you.’” She proceeded to falsely associate the Muslim Brotherhood with the September 11th, 2001 attacks, saying, “We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We remember who caused 9/11. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans.”

She described the “terrorists who have shown themselves so recently in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood” as a “common enemy” for the U.S. and Egypt, adding, “We don’t have a choice. They must be defeated.”

Subsequent comments from Gohmert and King were no less damning, with Gohmert vowing to protect American military aid to Egypt to help combat the “bloodthirsty Muslim brothers.”

One expert on Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood, political scientist at the University of Oklahoma Samer Shehata told The New York Times that the video resembled “a Saturday Night Live skit–unbelievable, ludicrous, almost comic if it wasn’t so painful.”

All three of the tea party-affiliated lawmakers have been on record denouncing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, but this was the first time any American officials had made such strong comments on the matter in Egypt. Bachmann made accusations about Hillary Clinton aide (and Anthony Weiner’s wife) Huma Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood last year. King has made similar suggestionsabout President Obama himself. And Gohmert has proposed that the FBI is working with the Muslim Brotherhood to impose Sharia law in America.

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