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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 5px 0px 2px">September 29, 2010</div>
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<div style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 24px; MARGIN: 5px 20px 0px; COLOR: #0000bb; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-DECORATION: none"><A style="COLOR: #0000bb; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=_SokadXb7HSQcIRCnO0uKw.." target=_blank>The Michele Bachmann/Bill Clinton Smackdown</A></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Michele Bachman seems particularly happy—now that she's running for reelection against Bill Clinton.</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Minnesota Republican, who heads the House Tea Party Caucus, has been sending out fundraising emails to conservatives, asking them to help her "defend herself against Bill Clinton." What's Clinton got to do with it? In mid-September, he spoke at a Minneapolis fundraiser for state Sen. Tarryl Clark, who is challenging Bachmann. According to Bachmann, Clinton attacked her and the tea party movement by calling her "stupid." Hitting up the right-wingers for campaign cash, Bachmann decries "the despicable Clinton attacks on my character" and declares, "Clinton, Pelosi, Obama, and the rest of the liberal establishment are in panic mode as Tea Party candidates across the country rise up against their socialist government. We must continue to fight!"</div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Clinton sure did take a swipe at Bachmann at that fundraiser, but how tough was it? <A href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=QfuR6xicmtgP-rggLq5Xrg.." target=_blank>Here's what the ex-president actually said.</A><EM> —David Corn</EM> <A style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #999999; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=UNGnIz2X_2wavhOSHZb6iw.." target=_blank>[READ MORE]</A></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Republican Party HQ slams Obama's proposal to make online communications subject to legal wiretapping—the same plan top GOP lawmakers say they support. <EM>—David Corn and Andy Kroll</EM> <A style="FONT-SIZE: 10px; COLOR: #999999; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://convio.motherjones.com/site/R?i=6yOivPTzDbp2SRMF0cbxVg.." target=_blank>[READ MORE]</A></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Photos from the Appalachia Rising events taking place in Washington, DC, this week to call for federal action to stop mountaintop-removal coal mining. <EM>—Kate Sheppard</EM></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px 20px 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The C Street Family goes global: how congressmen travel the world to preach to dictators on the taxpayers' dime. <EM>—Jeff Sharlet</EM></div>
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