Bachmann: Tuesday Was a Win for ‘Fiscal Sanity’

How much influence will the Tea Party have in the new Republican majorities? “I think we saw a lot of influence this Tuesday at the polls,” said Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann on State of the Union. “It was really the energy of fiscal sanity.”

“That’s what the Tea Party is,” continued Bachmann, who has long been considered a tea-party leader in (and beyond) the House. “It’s maligned and people don’t understand what it is, but it’s really about bringing fiscal sanity. That was the message of Tuesday, and that’s a united message — both in the House now and in the Senate.”

Bachmann is retiring from her seat at the end of the current session. She will be replaced by Republican Tom Emmer Jr., who served six years in the Minnesota house of representatives and was the Republican nominee for governor of Minnesota in 2010.