I missed the circus freaks again this year, but this video is a reasonable facsimile.
Showing posts with label bachmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bachmann. Show all posts
Friday, June 26, 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
The View From The Cockpit Of Michele Bachmann's Flying Saucer.
Michele Bachmann seems to think there is a move afoot to eliminate the U.S. dollar. Or something like that...From ThinkProgress:
The madness continues as Michelle Bachmann introduces legislation that "would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency."
What the Chinese were proposing, of course, was to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency. I would take the view that a move away from near-exclusive reliance on the dollar is probably inevitable irrespective of what we do. But whether or not you agree with me about that, this isn't something congress can ban -- it's a decision by foreign countries about what they do with their reserves.
From Washington Monthly:
There's no way Democratic leaders are going to let Bachmann's proposal go forward, but the Minnesota Republican is apparently quite serious about this. She issued a press release this morning "demanding" that President Obama categorically rule out "abandoning" the U.S. dollar "for a multi-national currency." (That the president already addressed this in his prime-time press conference this week was apparently insufficient.)
Given that the real policy discussion here is about a foreign reserve currency, (The Plum Line's) Greg Sargent asked Bachmann's press office whether Congress has the authority to legislate the financial decisions of foreign countries.
"She's talking about the United States," Bachmann's spokesperson said. "This legislation would ensure that the U.S. dollar remain the currency of the United States."
Since no one is suggesting anything to the contrary, it seems odd that the congresswoman would be raising such a fuss.
Nah. "Odd" would be Bachmann raising an issue that actually mattered.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Bachmann's Call To Arms.
Such a Christian way of thinking.
What is it about the lunatic fringe and their penchant for suggesting armed revolt?
Controversial Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said this weekend that she wants residents of her state "armed and dangerous" over President Barack Obama's plan to reduce global warming "because we need to fight back."
Asked about the White House-backed cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon emissions, Bachmann told WWTC 1280 AM, "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States."
Bachmann also told her constituents she was "a foreign correspondent on enemy lines," sending Minnesotans warnings through her blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. "I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington."
The comments have been picked up by local blogs Smart Politics and Dump Bachmann.
Bachmann has encouraged resistance against President Obama before, saying that the Republican party needs "to do everything we can to thwart [the Democrats] at every turn to make sure that they aren't able to, for all time, secure a power base that for all time can never be defeated."
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Michele Bachmann: In Her Cups Again.
In Michele Bachmann's case, drunk on crazy.
I like Minnesota. I have family in Minnesota. Bob Dylan is from Minnesota, fer crissakes. They say there are 10,000 lakes there, but flying in I could swear I counted at least a thousand more.
But were voters in her district drunk when they voted for this?
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