Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says she was “stunned at the arrogance” when Sen. Arlen Specter told her recently to “act like a lady.”
“I'm going to treat you like a lady,” Specter said to Bachmann. “Now act like one.”
Appearing on conservative host Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Thursday night, Bachmann said she was “stunned” by Specter’s outburst.
“This was the first time I had ever met Sen. Specter,” Bachmann said. “We began a discussion, and immediately it was as though he had turned on me because he was trying to talk about all the wonderful bills that Sen. [Barack] Obama had passed.”
“The person interviewing us had asked what I thought about President Obama’s year,” she said. “I told him that I think we should focus on prosperity and job creation. And Sen. Specter turned and then questioned whether I was a lady and told me to basically sit down and be quiet.”
Asked if Specter had called her to apologize, Bachmann said: “No, not at all. We didn't hear anything.” “What was really stunning, again, about that whole interchange is it’s emblematic of the message the voters sent on Tuesday evening. The voters repudiated the arrogance that’s come out of the Democrat Party,” she said. “And what I heard yesterday on the radio with Sen. Specter was more of that arrogance. They haven’t sobered up yet as to the reality that the people are in charge, not this very liberal majority.”
Friday, January 22, 2010
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