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Bachmann Beat: On President Bush's 'Bailout Socialism'

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In her new memoir, to be published later this month, Minnesota's Sixth District congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann chastises President George W. Bush for embracing "a kind of ‘bailout socialism'" during his second term in the White House.

While she portrays Bush and other Republican leaders in a positive light through most of the memoir, she expresses “pain” and “disappointment” that Sen. John McCain and Rep. John Boehner supported the $700 billion TARP program.

McCain spoke out Monday evening against Bachmann’s statements in support of waterboarding during the Saturday GOP debate.

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“Very disappointed by statements at SC GOP debate supporting waterboarding,” he tweeted. “Waterboarding is torture.”

Bachmann also has continued to defend her opposition to the vaccine that prevents HPV.

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After an Iowa mother told Bachmann that she believes her daughter Jessica was debilitated by the vaccine that prevents the leading cause of cervical cancer, Bachmann expressed sympathy.

"Parents have to make that decision for their kids because it isn't the schools that are going to follow up with Jessica," she said. "It isn’t the schools that live with Jessica every day. It’s Jessica who’s having to have her body live with the ravages of this vaccine."

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