Michele Bachmann

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[[Image:Bachmann.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bachmann, prowling the back alleys of Capitol Hill.]]
 
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She has threatened to run for President in 2012.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106941 WND] - ''Bold, conservative Bachmann hints at 'Mrs. President' future''.</ref><ref>A threat that could further subdivide the 2012 batshit crazy voting bloc.</ref>
 
She has threatened to run for President in 2012.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106941 WND] - ''Bold, conservative Bachmann hints at 'Mrs. President' future''.</ref><ref>A threat that could further subdivide the 2012 batshit crazy voting bloc.</ref>
  
 
She has also announced that she refuses to fill out Census forms for her family, and has encouraged her supporters to do so to.<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5095844.shtml Rep. Bachmann Refuses To Fill Out 2010 Census]</ref>  The fact that this might result in Minnesota being undercounted and thus maybe losing a seat or two in Congress has not occurred to her, but has occurred to some others in the GOP.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/michele-bachmanns-census_n_224175.html To quote: "Do'h!!"]</ref>  Her "reasoning" is that the Census will be used to set up the [[FEMA concentration camps]].
 
She has also announced that she refuses to fill out Census forms for her family, and has encouraged her supporters to do so to.<ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/18/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5095844.shtml Rep. Bachmann Refuses To Fill Out 2010 Census]</ref>  The fact that this might result in Minnesota being undercounted and thus maybe losing a seat or two in Congress has not occurred to her, but has occurred to some others in the GOP.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/michele-bachmanns-census_n_224175.html To quote: "Do'h!!"]</ref>  Her "reasoning" is that the Census will be used to set up the [[FEMA concentration camps]].
  
Despite her free-market stance and opposition to federal assistance to, well, anybody, she has banked over $250,000 in farm subsidies.<ref>[http://exiledonline.com/teabagger-queen-michele-bachmann-cashed-in-on-250000-in-welfare/ Teabagger Queen Michele Bachmann Cashed In On $250,000 In Welfare]</ref>
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Despite her free-market stance and opposition to federal assistance to, well, anybody, she has banked over $250,000 in farm subsidies.<ref>[http://exiledonline.com/teabagger-queen-michele-bachmann-cashed-in-on-250000-in-welfare/ Teabagger Queen Michele Bachmann Cashed In On $250,000 In Welfare]</ref> A counseling agency that she runs together with her husband also received $27,000 in state funds since 2007 for the treatment of low-income patients<ref>[http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2010/06/critics-question-state-funds-to.html Blog: religionclause]</ref>. Since the agency in question is overtly Christian<ref>Mission statement: "Bachmann & associates believes in providing all clients with quality Christian counselling ..." [http://www.bachmanncounseling.com/index.html Website]</ref>, it is questionable whether they separate their professional care from proselytizing. Still, it's nice to know Bachmann doesn't have to look too far for someone who specializes in mental health issues.
  
  
"... a Christian counseling agency owned by U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) and her husband Dr. Marcus Bachmann has received over $27,000 in state funds since 2007."<ref>[http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2010/06/critics-question-state-funds-to.html Blog: religionclause]</ref> This despite the agency being overtly Christian<ref>Mission statement: "Bachmann & associates believes in providing all clients with quality Christian counselling ..." [http://www.bachmanncounseling.com/index.html Website]</ref> and therefore surely violates church/state separation.
 
  
 
== Batshit crazy quotes ==
 
== Batshit crazy quotes ==
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*"Last Friday a couple from Hawaii decided the time was so short they needed to get on a plane, come to Washington, to beg their representative to vote no — from Hawaii. What sacrifices freedom-loving Americans are making to get their government’s attention. And how big our government has gotten. They brought me this beautiful, precious lei and I’m reminded that the one who created this lei also created our freedom. "<ref>[http://minnesotaindependent.com/49288/bachmann-lei-health-care-steve-israel-holocaust Bachmann: The one who created this lei also created our freedom"] Does she mean that [http://www.paradiseflowers.com/supplies.htm Paradise Flower Farms] is responsible for our freedoms?</ref>
 
*"Last Friday a couple from Hawaii decided the time was so short they needed to get on a plane, come to Washington, to beg their representative to vote no — from Hawaii. What sacrifices freedom-loving Americans are making to get their government’s attention. And how big our government has gotten. They brought me this beautiful, precious lei and I’m reminded that the one who created this lei also created our freedom. "<ref>[http://minnesotaindependent.com/49288/bachmann-lei-health-care-steve-israel-holocaust Bachmann: The one who created this lei also created our freedom"] Does she mean that [http://www.paradiseflowers.com/supplies.htm Paradise Flower Farms] is responsible for our freedoms?</ref>
 
*"We’re $14 trillion in debt, but that doesn’t include the unfunded massive liabilities. That’s $107 trillion, and that’s for Social Security and Medicare and all the rest. You add up all those unfunded net liabilities, and all the traps that could go wrong we’re on the hook for, and what it means is what we have to do is a reorganization of all of that, Social Security and all....But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off. And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can’t do it. So we just have to be straight with people. So basically, whoever our nominee is, is going to have to have a [[Glenn Beck]] chalkboard and explain to everybody this is the way it is."<ref>[http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/08/bachmann-remove-socialsecurity/ Think Progress] - ''Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare''</ref>
 
*"We’re $14 trillion in debt, but that doesn’t include the unfunded massive liabilities. That’s $107 trillion, and that’s for Social Security and Medicare and all the rest. You add up all those unfunded net liabilities, and all the traps that could go wrong we’re on the hook for, and what it means is what we have to do is a reorganization of all of that, Social Security and all....But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off. And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can’t do it. So we just have to be straight with people. So basically, whoever our nominee is, is going to have to have a [[Glenn Beck]] chalkboard and explain to everybody this is the way it is."<ref>[http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/08/bachmann-remove-socialsecurity/ Think Progress] - ''Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare''</ref>
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://www.michelebachmannsaidwhat.com/ Michele Bachmann said WHAT?!] - a website dedicated to the stupid things she has said.
 
*[http://www.michelebachmannsaidwhat.com/ Michele Bachmann said WHAT?!] - a website dedicated to the stupid things she has said.
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*[http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/ Dump Bachmann] - a blog dedicated to recording her crazy antics and preventing her reelection.
 
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Michele Bachmann is a psychotic Republican Congresswomen from Minnesota's 6th Congressional district and is the Religious Right's new pin up girl following the implosion of Sarah Palin. She is a force of nature akin to a personification of crazy and must be experienced to be believed, but only if it's from a safe distance.[1]

Bachmann, prowling the back alleys of Capitol Hill.

She has threatened to run for President in 2012.[2][3]

She has also announced that she refuses to fill out Census forms for her family, and has encouraged her supporters to do so to.[4] The fact that this might result in Minnesota being undercounted and thus maybe losing a seat or two in Congress has not occurred to her, but has occurred to some others in the GOP.[5] Her "reasoning" is that the Census will be used to set up the FEMA concentration camps.

Despite her free-market stance and opposition to federal assistance to, well, anybody, she has banked over $250,000 in farm subsidies.[6] A counseling agency that she runs together with her husband also received $27,000 in state funds since 2007 for the treatment of low-income patients[7]. Since the agency in question is overtly Christian[8], it is questionable whether they separate their professional care from proselytizing. Still, it's nice to know Bachmann doesn't have to look too far for someone who specializes in mental health issues.


Batshit crazy quotes

To give you a feel for her organic brand stupid, here are some quotes:

  • “This [health care reform] cannot pass…What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass."[9]
  • “The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax”[10]
  • "What I would say -- what I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see an expose like that."[11]
  • "This [taxation] is slavery, it's nothing more than slavery. The Constitution provides freedom."[12]
  • "The [health care reform] bill goes on to say what's going to go on [with regards to school based health clinics] -- comprehensive primary health services, physicals, treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care—is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser."[13]
  • "Last Friday a couple from Hawaii decided the time was so short they needed to get on a plane, come to Washington, to beg their representative to vote no — from Hawaii. What sacrifices freedom-loving Americans are making to get their government’s attention. And how big our government has gotten. They brought me this beautiful, precious lei and I’m reminded that the one who created this lei also created our freedom. "[14]
  • "We’re $14 trillion in debt, but that doesn’t include the unfunded massive liabilities. That’s $107 trillion, and that’s for Social Security and Medicare and all the rest. You add up all those unfunded net liabilities, and all the traps that could go wrong we’re on the hook for, and what it means is what we have to do is a reorganization of all of that, Social Security and all....But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off. And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can’t do it. So we just have to be straight with people. So basically, whoever our nominee is, is going to have to have a Glenn Beck chalkboard and explain to everybody this is the way it is."[15]

External links

References

  1. The best vantage point is another country (Sarah Palin's Russia preferably), where you can enjoy her legislating without having to live with the effects.
  2. WND - Bold, conservative Bachmann hints at 'Mrs. President' future.
  3. A threat that could further subdivide the 2012 batshit crazy voting bloc.
  4. Rep. Bachmann Refuses To Fill Out 2010 Census
  5. To quote: "Do'h!!"
  6. Teabagger Queen Michele Bachmann Cashed In On $250,000 In Welfare
  7. Blog: religionclause
  8. Mission statement: "Bachmann & associates believes in providing all clients with quality Christian counselling ..." Website
  9. Think Progress - Bachmann: We should ‘make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers’ against health care reform.
  10. Crooks and Liars - Michelle Bachman is one crazy person.
  11. Chicago Sun-Times - Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Chris Matthews on "Hardball" media should probe Congress for "anti-America" views. Transcript.
  12. StarTribune - Bachmann calls for 'covenant' to defeat health care overhaul.
  13. Huffinton Post - Bachmann: "Sex Clinics" In Schools Will Result From Health Care Reform
  14. Bachmann: The one who created this lei also created our freedom" Does she mean that Paradise Flower Farms is responsible for our freedoms?
  15. Think Progress - Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare
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