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" (Optional soundtrack to this blog post)      You really do have to give them credit for trying. And let&amp;#039;s hear again about how Occupy Wall Street&amp;#039;s political impact with be minimal because it &amp;quot;has no clear agenda.&amp;quot; La Bachmann&amp;#039;s throwing long here because she&amp;#039;s backed up deep in her own territory, and because most Republican voters have had a head start on realizing what a ludicrous candidate she is, whereas they&amp;#039;re only now beginning, barely, to come to that conclusion about Herman Cain. So she&amp;#039;s decided to stake a claim on her little corner of the drum circle. &amp;quot;Some who are currently a part of Occupy Wall Street believe that the problem that we&amp;#039;re facing today is capitalism and that the problem today are free markets. It&amp;#039;s not,&amp;quot; Bachmann said over the noon hour during a speech in Ames, at Iowa State University. &amp;quot;The problem is government doing what both the constitution and decent morality prohibit and that is crony capitalism or forcefully taking your money away from you for the purpose of paying off a politician&amp;#039;s political friends.&amp;quot;  Leaving aside the fact that &amp;quot;the problem we&amp;#039;re facing today&amp;quot; is that a bunch of capitalists got together and used the &amp;quot;free market&amp;quot; to rig the economy so that they got rich, we got broke, and nobody went to the slammer, there isn&amp;#039;t much to disagree with in the above passage. The problem, of course, is that La Bachmann is opposed to every concrete proposal put forward that might actually stop all those things that so bother her and \u2014 in her mind, anyway, which is an interesting place to be \u2014 so confuse the folks in the streets. She endlessly promises to repeal the &amp;quot;job-killing&amp;quot; provisions of the relatively mild Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill. She&amp;#039;s never said a word about campaign finance to my knowledge. There&amp;#039;s no mention of it on the &amp;quot;Issues&amp;quot; portion of her campaign&amp;#039;s website. Back in July, she talked a little about it after a speech in D.C. &amp;quot;Number one, I&amp;#039;m open to donations and I&amp;#039;ll be happy to give you my website when I leave... For campaign finance reform, I believe that it is important for the American people to be able to exercise their First Amendment rights and to be able to speak out.&amp;quot; Something bananas here, and it&amp;#039;s not the Republic. At least not entirely, and not yet. Feel free to make sense of it all, in the comments below.... "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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