bachmann s clinic has gotten. nbc has new details about the extent to which michele bachmann has benefited from government programs. bachmann, of course, has deninesed the medicaid program for swelling the welfare rolls, but it turns out the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual medicaid payments totalling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005. according to figures obtained by nbc news. these previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that bachmann & associates, the clinic founded by her husband, marcus bachmann, received under recent years in a state grand to train its employees. the payments from the minnesota department of human services appears to contradict some of what bachmann has said when she
i don t think so. you can have more than one female candidate. sarah palin has transcended politics into celebrity. she has to deal with highly polarizing numbers, the fact, to your point, she does not appeal to independents. she has her own challenges. michele bachmann can take advantage of that. the point is, there are more candidates that are aggressively appealing to these outsider candidates who are appealing to this concern about the direction of the country, and it s good for all republicans to have a healthy debate right now. there was an interesting article in the l.a. times, and they were talking about they were talking with voters in iowa. and this is what one independent voter in iowa said about bachmann/palin. she said, and it was a she, i like what bachmann has to say, but i think we need a very strong male candidate in order to defeat obama. i wouldn t mind having a female president, but i don t think this is the election. after what happened to sarah palin, i
development of alternative fuels. his warning to arab oil producer comes amid a chilling prediction. goldman sachs says gas will reach $5 a gallon this summer. and remembering the sacrifice s at arlington nationl cemetery. this morning, president obama takes part in ceremonies there, including a wreath-laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns. let s talk politics now. presidential candidates, those who have declared, and those likely to, are reaching out to voters on this memorial day. oh, yeah, sarah palin is using the holiday to kick off her nationwide bus tour. she rode into washington sunday on the back of a motorcycle for the annual rolling thunder event. after a couple of stops in d.c. today, palin s one nation tour heads to gettysburg, pennsylvania. that s where our jim acosta is. jim, tell us more. good morning, carol, that s right. sarah palin will be out here later today, so we re told, and this is all part of a campaign-style swing up the east coast. she s
sign that she is entering this field. in fact, i would argue that she s been an unofficial candidate in this race already. you know, i think what it does is it essential is going to boil things down here. you have mitt romney, who with the disappearance of gingrich and huckaby in different ways is really becoming the prohibitive front-runner at least in the polls. the activists are looking for somebody who is not mitt romney. what bachmann has the ability to do is go into iowa, bump out a guy like tim po lenty, and it makes a way not as important for a guy like mitt romney so that he can take his fight over to new hampshire. so you can actually see her as a pretty significant counterweight, the grassroots bachmann to the establishment romney. we have a time magazine report saying that pawlenty s
sign that she is entering this field. in fact, i would argue that she s been an unofficial candidate in this race already. you know, i think what it does is it essential is going to boil things down here. you have mitt romney, who with the disappearance of gingrich and huckaby in different ways is really becoming the prohibitive front-runner at least in the polls. the activists are looking for somebody who is not mitt romney. what bachmann has the ability to do is go into iowa, bump out a guy like tim pawlenty, and it makes a way not as important for a guy like mitt romney so that he can take his fight over to new hampshire. so you can actually see her as a pretty significant counterweight, the grassroots bachmann to the establishment romney. we have a time magazine report saying that pawlenty s former chief of staff has said