The last nail in her coffin is that Bachmann is stealing her thunder.
However, while I think she was a waste of a chair, Palin's king making ability could land her some sort of cabinet seat...but I don't think her party will be building the next cabinet...
Two peas in a pod, both cracked. She been doing her Palin impression for a long time time;
Remember her $200 million a day comment on Obama's trip to India
From;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho...-take-aim-at-the-cost-of-obamas-trip-to-india
On Wednesday, Bachmann repeated the claim on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "Within a day or so the president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day," Bachmann told Cooper. "He's taking 2,000 people with him. He'll be renting out over 870 rooms in India. And these are five-star hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. This is the kind of over-the-top spending. It's a very small example, Anderson."
The only problem: The claims appear to be wrong.
The numbers evidently originate with the Press Trust of India, whose report was linked on the Drudge Report and picked up by Fox News host Glenn Beck. The news agency also wrongly said that the White House had blocked off the entire Taj Mahal Palace hotel for Obama's visit and that the U.S. was stationing 34 warships—roughly 10 percent of the naval fleet--off the coast of Mumbai for security reasons.
The agency attributed the $200 million figure to an anonymous Indian government official. It didn't attribute the warships claim to any source.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2704507/posts?page=14
OR this one;
CNN agrees with Minnesota Independent report: Bachmann claim is false
By Andy Birkey | 04.13.11 | 3:45 pm
CNN’s Anderson Cooper fact-checked Rep. Michele Bachmann’s remarks about Planned Parenthood on Tuesday, particularly Bachmann’s repeated claims that “Planned Parenthood wants to be the LensCrafters of Big Abortion.” Cooper found that claim, made most recently on Monday during her visit to Iowa, to be incorrect. The Minnesota Independent’s check on that claim last year came to a similar conclusion.
At an event by the Family Leader in Iowa last weekend, Bachmann said, “The executive director of Planned Parenthood in Illinois said, ‘We want Planned Parenthood wants to be the LensCrafters of Big Abortion.’ They are the largest provider of abortion in the United States. And not only that, the are one of the largest political organizations you can imagine as well.”
Cooper said, “She’s made up a quote.”
Bachmann is grossly distorting a remark by the head of the Illinois Planned Parenthood from an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2008. As the Minnesota Independent reported in 2010:
“It is high time we follow the population,” said Sarah Stoesz, who heads Planned Parenthood operations in three Midwest states.
She recently opened three express centers in wealthy Minnesota suburbs, “in shopping centers and malls, places where women are already doing their grocery shopping, picking up their Starbucks, living their daily lives,” Ms. Stoesz said.
The mall sites promise walk-in convenience and “clothes-on” care, with services limited to birth-control counseling and tests for pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections. Most patients are in and out in less than half an hour.
“I like to think of it as the LensCrafters of family planning,” Steve Trombley, the top executive in Illinois, said as he toured an express center a few doors down from a hair salon and a Japanese restaurant in the well-to-do suburb of Schaumburg, Ill.
Those clinics provide services other than abortions, which further contradicts Bachmann’s claim.
Cooper added that Planned Parenthood has spent far less on politics than Bachmann asserts. He notes that during the 2010 midterms, the United States Chamber of Commerce spent $33 million and the SEIU spent $53 million — much more than the $1 million Planned Parenthood spent on the election.
“Compared to the others,” Cooper said, “it’s hard to call it one of the largest political organizations you can imagine.”
Cooper last took on Bachmann’s grasp of facts last November after the Sixth District Republican falsely claimed that a trip to India by President Obama would cost taxpayers “$200 million per day.” When grilled by the BBC, Bachmann backtracked slightly, saying she was merely “quoting a newspaper” in India that made the inaccurate claim.
Her biggest threat is that she can speak English and sound intelligent.
