Below are some of her recent looney statements:
"I oppose the stimulus plan because we're running out of rich people in this country."
"ACORN is under Federal Indictment, but the stimulus bill gives ACORN five billion dollars." Untrue on both counts.
"Many member of Congress have a real aversion to capitalism."
"The stimulus bill includes a measure to create a "rationing board" for health care, and after the bill becomes law, your doctor will no longer be able to make your health care decisions with you."
"The recovery package is part of a Democratic conspiracy to direct funding away from Republican districts, so Democratic districts can suck up all federal funds."
Saying that Obama is drawing up an "anti-constitutional plan orchestrating a conspiracy involving the Census Bureau, which the president will use to redraw congressional lines to keep Democrats in power for up to "40 years." She was unaware that redistricting is done by state legislatures.
In a speech before Congress she said that FDR passed the "Hoot-Hawley" act which caused the depression. She not only got the act's name wrong saying "Hoot" instead of "Smoot", she blamed FDR instead of the Republican President Herbert
Hoover who signed it and moreover both Smoot and Hawley were Republicans. To see her speech in congress covering this abysmal ignorance go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23itODyctH4
In her campaign, she said she would have congress "investigated for anti-American bias." Presumably her definition of "anti-American bias is anyone who doesn't agree with her.
When she served on the board of directors of a private school, she wanted creationism taught and something she called the "Twelve Christian Principles." When they would not do it, she resigned.
In her decision run for election to congress in 2006, she announced she and her husband fasted for 3 days until they got the go ahead from God. She won and I suppose it was God's work.
Her outlandish statements caused the Republican National Committee to pull funding for her 2008 campaign.
Bachmann stated on conservative media outlet Pajamas TV that the last swine flu outbreak in the U.S. occurred under "another Democrat President", Jimmy Carter, and that she was not blaming President Obama for the outbreak but that she found it to be an "interesting coincidence" since Obama was elected. Contrary to her statement, the previous swine flu outbreak occurred while Republican President Gerald Ford was in office.
She strongly favors privatization of social security.
On a radio program where she advocates against any kind of unions between gays whether civil or marriage, she said " "God calls us to fall on our faces and our knees and cry out to Him and confess our sins. And I would just ask your listeners to do that now. Cry out to a Holy God." Remember she is an Oral Roberts Univ. grad.
Bachmann said that " the gay community was specifically targeting children and that our children...are the prize for this community."
She has stated on numerous forums that "evolution has never been proven."
Bachmann is a member of a church that is part of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, whose doctrine teaches that the Roman Catholic papacy is the Anti-Christ identified in Scripture.
Saying she will not fill out the Federal Census form because the government used this data to round up the Japanese American citizens in WWII and put them in internment camps. I guess she is afraid that a democratic President might use the census to round up Republicans and intern them.
She said “The amount of money that’s been committed by this Democrat government already, the amount of money that they have committed, your tax money to spend, would equal, and I’m not making this up, a check in the amount of $1,430 written
to every man, woman, child in the world.” Basic math: dividing the $789 billion recovery package by the estimated world population
of 6.7 billion only equals $116.
“I took a pledge in my own district. I have not taken earmarks in the last three years I’ve been in Congress because the system is so corrupt.”
According to the Washington watchdog group Legistorm, in 2008, Bachmann requested seven earmarks totaling $3,767,600.
I love to watch her ineptness and ignorance on TV. It's as good as a comedy program.
Bob
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