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Reps. Michele Bachmann And Anthony Weiner Face Off On Fox’s Hannity

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Rep. Anthony Weiner clearly enjoys a fight, even if it’s two-on-one. The New York Democrat knowingly agreed to be part of the “Face Off” segment on Fox’s Hannity Thursday night, in a debate over debt, spending, and repealing the Obama healthcare plan with Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sean Hannity.

The result? A bruising, highly entertaining debate that included Hannity at one point exclaiming, “oh, poor Anthony Weiner!”

Weiner hints he might vote against raising the debt ceiling, but gets no traction with his assertion that voting to repeal the Obama healthcare bill will increase the nation’s deficit, leading to an oddly amusing fight over the reliability of Congressional Budget Office figures.

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  • rr98411

    How the producers of this thing thought this was a good idea, I have no clue. It was what any body with two media braincells to rub together should have figure out, A 2-on-1 gotcha shoutfest.

    “highly entertaining debate” If you like knowing what was going to be the result of this pairing with Hannity as a host… then yeah. But as far as a highly informative debate, not even close.

  • Big Eddie

    An intelligent Congresswoman armed with facts vs. a Yapping Chihuahua of an Obnoxious Weasel . Get your tickets .

  • Probably NOT wrong

    No need to add to that Eddie. You
    nailed it!
    Speaking of nailing wonder what Tingles
    was doing while watching?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    rr98411 said:
    How the producers of this thing thought this was a good idea, I have no clue. It was what any body with two media braincells to rub together should have figure out, A 2-on-1 gotcha shoutfest.

    “highly entertaining debate” If you like knowing what was going to be the result of this pairing with Hannity as a host… then yeah. But as far as a highly informative debate, not even close.

    it’s the same thing over and over again…the lame stream media with their ‘gotcha’ journalism.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    No need to add to that Eddie. You
    nailed it!
    Speaking of nailing wonder what Tingles
    was doing while watching?

    Big Eddie said:
    An intelligent Congresswoman armed with facts vs. a Yapping Chihuahua of an Obnoxious Weasel . Get your tickets .

    Wow, if you think that Bachmann is intelligent then there is no help for you.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Wow, if you think that Bachmann is intelligent then there is no help for you.

    Look who it is who made the comment….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Aj-Farmer/501915458 Aj Farmer

    Are there any moderates left?

  • The Real Royal King

    I think I finally figured out what the “balance” in “Fair and Balanced” means. Three of the most obnoxious morons in Amerika on the same program at the same time. Sorry for all of those times I said FOX “News” wasn’t balanced.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    I love it when they have Weiner on because he makes a fool of himself every single time. Last night was no different. He absolutely won’t answer a direct question. That tells you all you need to know. And his whole gotcha game with the CBO was priceless. I mean if he can’t see the difference between giving a hindsight report on something, knowing the numbers, and giving a guesstimate based on bogus numbers the dem’s give them then he’s even more stupid then I thought. Please keep talking Mr. Weiner.

  • ChiliPeppersFan
  • Pablo

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    it’s the same thing over and over again…the lame stream media with their ‘gotcha’ journalism.

    Wait, wait, wait. Putting Weiner on with a GOP congressperson is “gotcha” journalism? Do you think Hannity just sprung Bachmann on Weiner without him knowing about it beforehand? Weiner does this bit all the time, usually on Fox and he never lacks for speaking time.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    I love it when they have Weiner on because he makes a fool of himself every single time. Last night was no different. He absolutely won’t answer a direct question. That tells you all you need to know. And his whole gotcha game with the CBO was priceless. I mean if he can’t see the difference between giving a hindsight report on something, knowing the numbers, and giving a guesstimate based on bogus numbers the dem’s give them then he’s even more stupid then I thought. Please keep talking Mr. Weiner.

    Thanks for sharing your daily ugliness and bitterness so early in the morning, Michelle-in-Utah. I certainly do find Representative Weiner to be a strident, hyper-partisan, ill-informed, vacuous, ideological bag of gas. The same adjectives, however, apply to your namesake, of course. Indeed, the only differences I can find between Representative Weiner and your namesake are that his little beady eyes don’t convey the crazed look your namesake’s eyes do and Representative Weiner does not receive huge sums of welfare from the federales in the form of farm subsidies like your namesake does. However, I am sure we can all agree that Congress and our nation would be well rid of these two media whores.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Royal, It took me ALL day yesterday to get rid of a headache. All the Mary’s in Heaven request that you put a sock in it, so it doesn’t come back.

  • The Real Royal King

    Pablo said:
    Wait, wait, wait. Putting Weiner on with a GOP congressperson is “gotcha” journalism? Do you think Hannity just sprung Bachmann on Weiner without him knowing about it beforehand? Weiner does this bit all the time, usually on Fox and he never lacks for speaking time.

    Indeed, Weiner, like Schumer, Bachmann and the Drop Out Governor would gladly appear at the opening of a refurbished junior high locker room if they knew cameras would be there. Of course, the Drop Out Governor would require transportation on a private jet for herself, her children and her children’s children and new designer outfits for the entire lot. I’m sick of these divos and divas.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Royal, It took me ALL day yesterday to get rid of a headache. All the Mary’s in Heaven request that you put a sock in it, so it doesn’t come back.

    I can’t help it if sound logic and reason cause your head to ache. Perhaps, you’d be happier over at the Koldy’s PHOX Phan Klub. You won’t find logic and reason there.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I’m sure the weinerhead Weiner screamed that we should steal from the rich line to pay for all the democrats entitlements!

  • The Real Royal King

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: I’m sure the weinerhead Weiner screamed that we should steal from the rich line to pay for all the democrats entitlements!

    Well, someone, somehow has to pay for all of Bachmann’s welfare in the form of farm subsidies.

  • The Real Royal King

    All the Mary’s in Heaven! The market is down at the open, again. Two (2) days of WOH Boehner, two (2) days of markets lower at the start. Well, with the profligate spending and reduced revenues the WOH & Company are proposing, what can we expect? President Obama is going to have to step in a fix another Republican economic mess. Let’s catch it today, Mr. President, before the WOH and Little Eric get in Amerika’s Economic Engine and drive it off the cliff.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    The unemployment rate is down. Congrats Boehner and Republican’s!!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The unemployment rate is down. Congrats Boehner and Republican’s!!

    Moron. That was the December numbers. The WOH was still in his tanning bed.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Sorry Royal Moron, you can’t have it both ways. More people were hired because employers knew Repubs were taking over and wouldn’t raise their taxes. Nice try though!!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Sorry Royal Moron, you can’t have it both ways. More people were hired because employers knew Repubs were taking over and wouldn’t raise their taxes. Nice try though!!

    Well, you were smacked down, again. Use to it, I am sure.

    In the interest of complete intellectual honesty, which I know you hold dear, President Obama has not increased taxes, and, in fact, gave us small business owners a tidy and appreciated tax credit for a portion of the health insurance premiums we pay for our employees. Of course, the House Republicans want to end that tax credit and accordingly raise our taxes, but thanks to the Tea Party and the Drop Out Governor, the Republicans fell well short in the Senate, and we our saved from another Raygunesque/Poppyesque Republican tax increase.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Hey Royal Moron, When I got my paycheck on Wednesday, I was shocked to find it’s $60 less a month now. I compared it with my last one in December and guess where the $60 came from, HIGHER TAXES.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    And NO, they weren’t from state taxes.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Dave, as I stated in my first comment, Weiner’s CBO gotcha was embarrassing for HIM.

    I mean if he can’t see the difference between giving a hindsight report on something, knowing the numbers, and giving a guesstimate based on bogus numbers the dem’s give them then he’s even more stupid then I thought.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Dave, I didn’t know you were privy to my paycheck. It’s true, whether you want to believe it or not.

  • redwriteblue

    Congresswoman Bachmann is the founder of the “Tea Party Caucus” and is considering running for president in 2012. She will be competing with Sarah Palin who wrote about the Republicans’ reasons for repealing Obamacare in her book, “America By Heart”:

    http://redwriteblue.weebly.com/right-to-health-care.html

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Hey Royal Moron, When I got my paycheck on Wednesday, I was shocked to find it’s $60 less a month now. I compared it with my last one in December and guess where the $60 came from, HIGHER TAXES.

    That is not true.

  • The Real Royal King

    Dave Noland said:
    Bullshit asshat

    Can you believe that baldfaced lie?

    I don’t know if any portion of the check was for January, but there were no federal tax changes in December. In January, many of us are going to experience a decrease, some of which be offset by the end of the stimulus. I swear these Tea Partiers are like Soviet Communists. If you’re going to tell a lie, make it outrageous. More people will believe it.

  • redwriteblue

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The unemployment rate is down. Congrats Boehner and Republican’s!!

    The U.S. “Chamber Of Commerce” was promoting the idea among it’s thousands of member corporations that the “uncertainity” about the extension of the Bush Tax Cuts was keeping the companies from rehiring the millions of workers that they had fired in 2009.

    Now that the Obama Tax Cuts have been signed by the President it will be interesting to see when the companies start hiring Americans again while companies like Polaris Snowmobile are invseting their record profits in Mexico:

    http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/the-north-star-heads-south?xg_source=activity

  • Pablo

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    Three of the most obnoxious morons in Amerika on the same program at the same time.

    The Real Rabid Kook said:
    Thanks for sharing your daily ugliness and bitterness so early in the morning, Michelle-in-Utah.

    Self awareness much, Kook?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Man, you libs really get up in arms when the truth is told. Like I said, i couldn’t possibly care any less if you believe me or not, it’s 100% true. Denial is just a river in Egypt to you libs.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Man, you libs really get up in arms when the truth is told. Like I said, i couldn’t possibly care any less if you believe me or not, it’s 100% true. Denial is just a river in Egypt to you libs.

    I’d say we simply recognize a lie when we read one, but with you I won’t discount the possibility that the Beckerhead was the source of the lie and you simply repeated it. Happens all the time.

  • nighean donn

    Why is it that when the numbers of unemployed go up, it’s Obama’s fault, but when they go down, they aren’t to his credit?

    If you actually think for one minute that those corporations that made RECORD PROFITS last year under Obama and the Democratic Party’s reign were actually “worried” about their stability, and afraid to hire people; if you actually think for one minute that those same corporations and “millionaire ahem….small businessmen” are suddenly going to that the huge tax cut the GOP insisted they needed, are going to spend it on hiring people…..sit back and watch. It was wrong when Bush did it for 8 years and it’s wrong now.

    Michelle is on the Intelligence Committee ~ that’s my favourite oxymoron after Happy Monday.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    So, let me get this straight, Glenn Beck cut my paycheck and then fed me the lie that it was because of taxes? Got it! What’s sad is that you lie so much that you always assume that everyone else is too. Sad indeed.

  • The Real Royal King

    Well, as much as I am enjoying Michelle-in-Utah’s fiction, however low the literary quality is, I must depart for Concord. No. I am not running in the primary, simply a business retreat. TTFN.

  • nighean donn

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    So, let me get this straight, Glenn Beck cut my paycheck and then fed me the lie that it was because of taxes? Got it! What’s sad is that you lie so much that you always assume that everyone else is too. Sad indeed.

    Hey Sammy….if you got a paycheck this early in January it’s probably for work done in December non?

  • Just4thefax

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    $60 came from, HIGHER TAXES.

    Fact: Mine was hit also due to Ozerocare! What a crock of crap! The last minute tax change that increased the debt helped alittle but it will be added plus extra when you file your end of year taxes!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Nighean Donn says:

    Hey Sammy….if you got a paycheck this early in January it’s probably for work done in December non?

    I will admit, that was a little confusing to me also, but it’s still true.

  • ROCKSTEADY

    Dave Noland said:
    Bullshit asshat

    Don’t bother Dave seeing nothing is a paid blogger of palincrazies.

  • Just4thefax

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    is a paid

    Fact: As to not paid needing handouts like the coddled democrat!

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Box of Rox says:

    Don’t bother Dave seeing nothing is a paid blogger of palincrazies.

    Wow, then my paychecks must be getting lost in the mail.

  • RichS

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Wow, if you think that Bachmann is intelligent then there is no help for you.

    Do you think that Anthony Weiner will ever answer any question? I wonder what he says if someone asks him for the time? He did not answer one question. He acted as if the CBO was performing the same function when they were reporting on past debt and deficits as when they are predicting revenues and expeditures resulting from a bill. Makes me ashamed that he and I attended the same high school. It must have seriously declined by the time he got there.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    KING in the casa . All the Weiners in the meat section ! My goodness ! The make-up and the fashions will never do ! Miss Bachmann ‘s look is also off the chain ! Chain , chain , chain , chain of fools !
    I must away for the afternoon ,as my home business demands my immediate attention ! Some of the containers we sold at last week’s party have lost the special ” burp ” already ! I could just stamp my foot , if I was not wearing my new heels !

    Dave Noland said:
    Bullshit asshat

    This Noland person just says it all for my liberal compatriots . I recommend him for leader of the DNC this year . That Kaine person has a mental patient hairdo and believe me I am familiar with those . They always refuse to just take a little off the top , no matter how nice I ask !

  • Nacho

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    I will admit, that was a little confusing to me also, but it’s still true.

    Everything is confusing to you.

    What you are not able to comprehend, you simply blame on “Those Libs!”

    You’re just a patsy filling the pockets of the likes of Beck and Limbaugh.

  • Just4thefax

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    paychecks must be getting lost in the mail.

    Fact: union labor!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    The Real Royal King said:
    Moron. That was the December numbers. The WOH was still in his tanning bed.

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    The unemployment rate is down. Congrats Boehner and Republican’s!!

    I CALLED IT!!!!!!! Damn you’re a predictable dumbass, Michele:
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/efficiency-of-the-dmv-jon-stewart-mocks-congressional-reading-of-the-constitution/#comment-265517

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Because businesses obviously said “Hey, Republicans are taking office again, let’s start hiring people even though we have no idea whether they’ll stick to their convictions or whether or not we’ll even prosper as a result of this.”
    The idiocy and hypocrisy of some on the right baffles. When unemployment went down earlier last year these are the same people who said it meant nothing. I’m curious as to what they will say if it goes back up. Will it still be Boehner and the Republicans?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    UNreasonable Lib, you called nothing. Just doing what the left does to prove a point. Nice try!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    UNreasonable Lib, you called nothing. Just doing what the left does to prove a point. Nice try!

    Nice try because it’s right. As I said “But due to the point at which it began even if it continues and only increases, idiots will give all credit to Republicans and the tea party.” Which is EXACTLY what you did. How is that not calling it? It’s not some evil leftist tactic, you Glenn Beck addicted neophyte, it’s you and your ilk being as predictable as the tides.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    YES and I did it to prove a point!! I was doing what you libs do! You are just so dense that you can’t see that.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Let me help you out. The comment I was responding to was Royal Pain in the Butt’s comment that the DOW didn’t raise when the R’s took over. I thought it was riduculous so I came back by giving credit to the Rs for unemployment going down. Let me know if I need to dumb it down further for you.

  • CAconservative

    Weiners answer to every economic problem is taxing the rich more? That has become the mantra of the Progressive Liberal movement. He, and the statists need a bogyman (the rich) to deflect their own gross-negligence.
    Look at Mr.Weiners face, when Ms.Backmann shows him the CBO numbers. Numbers he can’t deny. He looks like a kid who just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

  • Davo

    CAconservative said:
    Weiners answer to every economic problem is taxing the rich more? That has become the mantra of the Progressive Liberal movement. He, and the statists need a bogyman (the rich) to deflect their own gross-negligence.

    Democrats lost Alan Grayson, so Weiner is their designated clown used to make Hussein look like less of one. Weiner is pretty good at it, but the ploy isn’t working.

  • D REX

    Michelle Bossman or bAck-man ..whatever her name is……..all she talks about is they they they……we need to stop what theyy they they did……how bout this WASP start emanating some solutions

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Jibladze/508257211 David Jibladze

    hahaha. well done. Weiner DESTROYS both of these clueless idiots. hilarious.

  • Nahu Tuk

    redwriteblue said:
    Now that the Obama Tax

    They are NOT the -0bama tax cuts. Neither are they the Bush tax cuts. They are merely the tax cuts that were signed by GW Bush.

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