Rep. Michele Bachmann Responds to Obama “Jobs Speech” with her own Press Conference – Video 9/8/11

Rep. Michele Bachmann chose to call her own Press Conference last night to respond to President Obama’s “Jobs Speech,” despite the fact Republican leadership decided not to give a televised response to the address before a Joint Session of Congress.

Bachmann told Obama, “Mr. President, stop – your last plan hasn’t worked and it’s hurting the American economy.”

But Bachmann’s decision to call her own press conference apparently did not sit very well with some GOP members of Congress:

THE HILL: . . . There was no official Republican response to the president’s speech, but earlier in the day Bachmann scheduled a press conference to respond on her own.

The move did not sit well with some other House Republicans who accused her of “show boating.”

The lawmakers, who requested anonymity, told The Hill that the GOP presidential nominee hopeful scheduled the conference in “panic” after her performance at the GOP presidential debate Wednesday night in California.

“This is just show boating theater that she’s doing. I doubt very many people will watch. What do we need, another speech?,” one lawmaker told The Hill, noting that the NFL season opener would be under way by the time Bachmann held her 8:30 p.m. EDT news conference.

An image of the NFL opener popped up on one of the TV screens in the press room as Bachmann gave her news conference.

Another high-ranking GOP lawmaker said “it’s clearly a desperate attempt to become relevant again. Three weeks, she’s lost her momentum, she’s lost her campaign team, and last night, she was about as close to irrelevant in the debate as I’ve ever seen.” . . . Read More