Bachmann: “I’d Have A Very Very Difficut Time” If Child Joins Americorps; Son Joined; GOP Wants To Kill It

Michele Bachmann referred to Americorps as a “re-education camp for young people” and said it will become mandatory service (h/t Mediaite). She told an overly sympathetic radio interviewer in 2009, “As a parent, I’d have a very very difficult time seeing my children do this.” But her son, Harrison, joined the Teach for America program that helps bring educators to low-income areas.

“[It's] under the guise of quote, volunteerism, but it’s not volunteers at all,” she said on the Sue Jeffers radio show in April. “It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. There are provisions for …

On Monday’s Radio Show…

• Wisconsin State Democrats still in hiding: State Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) joins Alan to discuss his fight against Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union bill.

• Could reaction to Wisconsin’s budget measures set the stage for a national debate? Alan examines the possible effects of the turmoil in the Badger State.

• The clock is ticking on a federal government shutdown. Alan weighs in on the looming threat.…

Disgraced Tea Party Leader Calls For Right-Wingers To Falsely Pose As SEIU Members

Mark Williams was kicked out of the tea party movement for racist remarks, including a satirical letter from “the Colored People” to Abraham Lincoln praising slavery. Now, Williams is calling on right-wing activists to pose as SEIU members to make them look bad.

Williams lays out a highly dishonest and fairly involved scheme to have “plants” sign up on the SEIU website to be organizers for an upcoming rally, dress up in SEIU shirts, and to then make outrageous comments to reporters covering the events in order to “make the gathering look as greedy and goonish as we know …

Big Money Behind Scott Walker And Union Busting Traced To John Birch Co-Founder

There is big money and huge organizations behind Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his attempts to take away rights of middle income Americans. Think Progress has the history and background.

Walker has deeply entwined his administration with the Bradley Foundation. The Bradley Foundation’s CEO, former state GOP chairman Michele Grebe, chaired Walker’s campaign and headed his transition. But more importantly, the organizations lining up to support Walker are financed by Bradley cash.

These include the MacIver Institute, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and the astroturf group Americans for Prosperity, all of whom worked to elect Walker. We are talking about …

Rush Limbaugh In Nasty, Vile Attack Goes After Michelle Obama’s Weight

Rush Limbaugh attacking Michelle Obama’s weight is like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker attacking the Dalai Lama’s compassion. How dare he go after the First Lady in this manner? It shows how nasty, and vile the hatred of the Obamas is (via Mediate).

“The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. And then we hear that she’s out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving. Yeah, it does…what do you mean, ‘What do I mean?’ I’m trying to say that our …

Sarah Palin When Governor: “I Hate This Damn Job”

Taegan Goddard’s Quote of the Day comes via the Anchorage Daily News coverage of a leaked manuscript from an as-yet-to-be-published book by former aide Frank Bailey (pictured).

The manuscript opens with an account of Palin sending Bailey a message saying “I hate this damn job” shortly before she resigned as Alaska’s governor in July 2009, less than three years into her four-year term. The manuscript goes on for nearly 500 pages, a mixture of analysis, gossip and allegation…

Bailey wrote in the book that he and his co-authors put together the manuscript with the help of more than 60,000 e-mails …

Former SEIU Head Andy Stern Explains What’s At Stake In Wisconsin

Former Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern knows it’s not just about Wisconsin and it’s not about budgets. It’s a 15-state Republican effort to take away workers’ rights.

1. Wisconsin’s Budget Deficit Is Far from the Nation’s Largest

According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, and most fair observers, Wisconsin, like 44 other states, has a budget problem. Wisconsin’s projected budget deficit for fiscal year 2012 is $1.8 billion, or 12.8 percent of the state’s total budget. A problem, absolutely, but a small one compared to the leading deficit distressed states: Nevada at 45.2 percent ( $1.5 …

Rick Santelli Compares The Budget Crisis to 9/11

CNBC’s Rick Santelli said on Meet the Press the budget problems are just like the attack the country faced on 9/11.

“If the country is ever attacked like it was in 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. What’s going on on balance sheets throughout the country is the same type of attack.”

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Wisconsin Teachers To Return To Work; Protest After School

Wisconsin Education Association Council President Mary Bell (pictured) says teachers will return to work Monday and join protesters at night. Bell reiterates that teachers have agreed to cutbacks in pensions and health care benefits, but are not willing to give up their rights as workers. She issued this statement:

“In my message today, I want to reinforce a fundamental fact: that the men and women of our union – the Wisconsin Education Association Council – are committed to serving their communities, schools and students. Our members are a voice for Wisconsin students and schools.

“Tomorrow they begin again in …

Study Shows Most Corporations Have Skipped Paying Taxes

While conservatives whine about paying too much in taxes and hate that their tax dollars go to help the less fortunate. a study by the Government Accountability Office shows that most corporations, foreign and domestic, have evaded paying their fair share.

…72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005.

More than half of foreign companies and about 42 percent of U.S. companies paid no U.S. income taxes for two or more years in that period, …

Republicans Target Consumer Financial Protection; This Could Hurt Your Pocketbook

by Stuart Shapiro

Buried in the debate over a government shutdown are hundreds of smaller (but not small) issues.  Some of those will float to the top of the media cauldron but many will be resolved behind closed doors in Washington.  One that is likely to get minimal attention is an attempt by Texas Rep. Randy Neugebauer (pictured) to move the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from the Fed to the Treasury.  Seems like obscure insider politics?  Not quite, as TPM explains:

In a brief interview Tuesday, Neugebauer was pretty candid about this.

“Moving it on budget over to the …