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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Dear Representative Bachmann: I am part of the "nanny state." You don't know me. Nor, as far as I know, do you know any of the women I see each week at my daughter's preschool: moms of toddlers and infants, many of whom have had the good fortune of knowing their mothers' milk. Though, I'm sure, plenty of your constituents are me. I understand you, too, breast-fed. Mazel tov. I'm so glad it worked for you, for your children, for your family. But I can't help but wonder -- after you falsely claimed the government of buying breast pumps for everyone, and decried the new IRS tax deduction for ...
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has made herself a prominent face in the Republican Party in 2009, delivering incendiary speeches at Tea Party protests against taxes, bailouts, and other forms of government intervention. Last week, she hosted a rally in Washington against health care reform, which she opposes as a "government takeover." But according to a report by the liberal political Web site Truthdig, Bachmann is not so vociferous about her distaste for "socialized" industry when it comes to her family farm in Minnesota, which accepted over a quarter of a million dollars in federal ...
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