Bachmann is a welfare queen!

[liberal N proud]

Bachmann's husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds
Presidential candidate has often blasted growing welfare programs

While Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the "welfare rolls," the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News.

The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request.

The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering "quality Christian counseling" for a large number of mental health problems ranging from "anger management" to addictions and eating disorders.

The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/

[lonestarnot]

1. a liar, and a nutjob.

[cali]

2. Aaargh. I'd dearly love to retire that phrase.

[liberal N proud]

3. Oh, I know but these people are the ones who use it most

And look at how they have benefited from it. That is the only reason I used it here.

[Stuart G]

4. So, will Fox New report this?????nt

[Motown_Johnny]

5. I hate the crazy bitch ... But..... are we really going to find fault

with treating people who receive Medicare?



I would rather not kick this particular political football

[Bragi]

6. I agree. This is a counter-productive attack

Confounding medicaid with welfare is an unprincipled attack, and doesn't actually further the goals of progressives.

[atreides1]

7. So, lying is an acceptable practice?

And it isn't the patients getting the money it's this quack doctor, and it's his wife, the batshit crazy clown who wants to be president, who's lying about it.

Think about it, wouldn't you rather have the whole truth out there, or would you really prefer to see her get anywhere near the "football"?

[Bragi]

10. She can have the GOP football far as I'm concerned

The question is not whether she is too stupid to win GOP support, it's whether she is stupid ENOUGH. The GOP likes stupid, and she offers authentic anti-liberal-elite stupid.

The GOP knows it's going to lose in 2012, so no-one is going to spend political capital attacking candidate who is popular among the fools at convention. So I could see her geting as far as maybe VP nominee.

Anyway, I'm not worried about opportunities to attack her and expose how stupid and ignorant she is. There's a wealth of resources. It's important to choose the right issues.

I don't think the legitimate medicaid payments her husband's clinic receives are good issues because, in our dumbed-down media environment, you end up confounding welfare and medicare, and risk trashing both in the process.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Weiner.. but he LIED we can't have him

this is why GOP gets away with it. Either we are consistent.. for the record I did not think Wiener had to quit... or we don't.

And if we are going to crucify our own for lying time we crucify the other side

[liberal N proud]

9. It wouldn't be an issue if she wasn't so vocal against Medicare

That is what makes this an issue.

[Wilms]

11. .

[Anakin Skywalker]

12. Word! Spread it!