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Bachmann’s pledge quandary

Washington Times, by Emily Miller Posted By: Photoonist- Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:35:02 GMT Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is pushing to make Obamacare’s repeal a condition for raising the debt ceiling. The Minnesota congressman hasn’t signed the grass'roots “cut, cap, balance” pledge because she wants a tougher bargain that leverages President Obama’s need for increased federal government borrowing authority to pull the plug on the unpopular health care law. Mrs. Bachmann joins Jon Huntsman as the only other GOP nomination hopeful not to take the pledge. (Snip) Mrs. Bachmann knows that repealing Mr. Obama’s signature accomplishment would become a poison pill on the debt'ceiling bill. Democrats would never give up their long'sought'after governmental

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