Bachmann: ‘We’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed.’

By Matt Corley

Before President Obama took office in January 2009 in the midst of an economic crisis, Rush Limbaugh was rooting for his failure, declaring “I hope Obama fails.” Though some GOP leaders claimed that “no one wants” Obama “to fail,” Limbaugh’s comments were endorsed by many leading conservatives. In an interview with radio host Scott Hennen yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said that conservatives were hoping “that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed”:

HENNEN: I’m proudly accepting that label of rooting for failure for his policies, not for any one personal individual or anything else, but, I mean, should we, is that what Republicans are doing? Are we rooting for failure? Is David Axelrod right?

BACHMANN: We’re, we’re, we’re hoping that President Obama’s policies don’t succeed, exactly as you said. And of course, David Axelrod unfortunately seems to be wanting to smear people who disagree with the president. We’ve seen that over and over at Tea Party events, at gatherings where people say, “look, I don’t like this idea of out of control spending and accumulating deficits that our kids have no possibility of paying back.” And to think that those of us, we who disagree with that very ill-thought out idea are being smeared, I think that’s really wrong.

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Bachmann is free to disagree with Obama’s policies, and it’s not surprising that she thinks they are the wrong policies to pursue. But considering that the goal of something like the stimulus is to create jobs and help the economy recover, it’s odd that Bachmann would actively want Obama’s policies to fail. She might think it will fail, but why would she want it to fail in creating jobs? Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert has argued that because of “the right-wing’s obsessive campaign against Obama,” they “latch onto this idea that the economy is being driven off a cliff, which means that basically” they are “now rooting for bad news.”

M.C.L Comment:Do you guys remember the response from the right anytime a person made valid point against George W. Bush? If you don't here's a quick recap they were called anti-American, they were accused of siding with the terrorist and they also accused those Bush critics hating Bush so much you rather see the United States to crash and burn. Did they have any quotes to back up those claims? Hell no they didn't.

Yet the same people who accuse those of wanting the president to fail are now hoping the current president to fail.. Now they're trying to spin wanting the country crashing and burning are now saying "um well we mean his polices" that's like someone saying I don't want you to get hurt but here's a bottle of Jack and the keys to a sports car.

Even dim fembots like Michele Bachmann know if President Obama succeeds the Republicans have no shot of winning anything significant that's why they're hating the improving economic numbers because they have nothing to run on. Go to Mike Cox and Mike Bouchard and ask them what their plans for if they win the governorship and listen for the crickets.. They have nothing other than giving the elite in the state more tax breaks and they hope conditions worsen for they become an attractive alternative even tho they have no ideas.