In an interview Saturday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) provided a glimpse behind the curtain of the Republican Party’s orchestrated response to President Obama’s historic executive order granting de facto amnesty to an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants. The GOP's plan, Bachmann said, was to not “get down in the mud with him” on the issue and instead, focus on “positive solutions on jobs, the economy, education, and manufacturing.”
Speaking to Breitbart News’ Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 Saturday, Bachmann explained the response to executive amnesty outlined by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH): “We will not engage”:
“They acted as though the amnesty issue wasn’t even an issue. They said that the President is going to do what he’s going to do, and we are not going to get down in the mud with him. We are not going to engage, and what we are going to do is to talk about our positive solutions on jobs, the economy, education, and manufacturing,” Bachmann said.
She added that each congressman who spoke reiterated that not engaging Obama and staying positive was a “brilliant strategy.”
"We will not engage," she reiterated with disgust.
Bachmann, who was elected to Congress in 2006 and is ending her service this year, is stupefied by the Republican leadership not taking action or having a plan. “While the country is talking about amnesty, and the president is taking unconstitutional actions, our leadership wants to change the subject and not engage,” she said.
