Is Bachmann hurting the GOP?
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Politico is reporting that House Republican leaders are worried that Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is damaging the party's reputation.
Bachmann is referenced deep in a report about House Minority Leader John Boehner dealing with the Joe Wilson flap:
Long before the tea parties or Wilson's outburst, Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had struggled to moderate the rhetorical excesses of House conservatives hammering away on Obama's birth certificate, decrying the creation of "death panels" and ferreting out signs of creeping socialism.
Sources say they have been especially wary of the possible damage inflicted on the party's reputation by bomb-throwing Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who last fall called for an investigation into whether members of Congress are "pro-America or anti-America."
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