Thursday, August 25, 2011

Michele Bachmann: Just When You Thought She Couldn't Be More Idiotic


Michele Bachmann never met an issue she couldn't mangle, and now she's knee-deep in another one.


See, when Obama announced the stimulus package, to help get the economy moving, Bachmann was vociferously vocal about it, criticizing Obama, saying it wouldn't work, calling it gay and, therefore, of Satan, you know, her usual rhetoric.


But, um, Michele? Honey? Wingnut? Liar? Why then did you eagerly accept the money?


In private, it seems that serial liar Michele Bachmann not only repeatedly sought stimulus funds from federal agencies, but justified her rabid requests by claiming that the funds would create jobs and strengthen the economy. And yet, publicly Bachmann denounced the stimulus as an act of "overspending" and "fantasy economics" that hurt jobs.


Of course, when asked by her usual two-faced approach, Bachmann replied; "I voted against the stimulus and I was very public against the stimulus. After the stimulus was passed and the money was there, why should my constituents or anyone else be disadvantaged?" 


So, she thought it was wrong, she thought it wouldn't help, she thought it was bad policy, but she stood in line with her hands out to take it.


Asshat say what?


Bachmann says she sought federal money to create jobs in her district, even though she preached, because let's face it, with her religious wingnutism, she does a lot of preaching, that government spending [i.e. the stimulus package] would, in fact, hurt the economy and destroy jobs. Again, she said publicly that it would destroy jobs and then took the money in the hopes of creating jobs.


It's the Michele Bachmann special, a Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.


Does she even understand economics?
Does she even understand anything?


And let's talk about the debt ceiling issue. Bachmann was very vocal in her opposition to raising the debt ceiling, which would allow the U.S. to continue to borrow money, while policy experts from both parties agreed it should be raised.


Now, Bachmann is claiming she had never advocated for default, but had put a plan on the table that would have denied an increase in the debt ceiling and instead required the Treasury Department to prioritize payments to US creditors, Social Security recipients, Medicare beneficiaries and the military. But, was she aware that her "plan" would have required defunding a majority of government programs, from unemployment benefits to the FBI?


Bachmann was not bothered by that prospect.
Another Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.


And then, when asked how she would work with the Democrats if....and it's a big If....huge....she was elected president, Bachmann said she would "work tirelessly" to ensure that the Republican Party picked up 13 seats in the Senate, giving Republicans a filibuster-proof majority to enact her agenda.


So, she wouldn't work with the Democrats, and she wouldn't work with anyone who doesn't agree with her asshatted policies, her wingnutism, her fucktarditude.


Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.
That's what you get with Bachmann.

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8 comments:

  1. She really is an amazing women!
    How can she be a sinker & a floater at the same time?

    Amazing that we even have to discuss her at all.

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  2. At the Ames Iowa debate, Congresswoman Bachmann remained the little lady with a spine of titanium, whose unshakable principles protected her against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. The hostile media has done its utmost to bring her down, but to no avail. She has emerged unscathed, smiling triumphantly, seemingly frail but in fact fearless, with an almost martial strength, so that she is now a match for all her political foes--on the Right as well as on the Left.
    8/14/11 Bachmann wins Iowa Straw Poll.

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  3. Oh!
    I forgot to point out that be it a sinker or a floater, both do stink...

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  4. Anonymous5:19 PM

    I still feel that this woman is a plant ... a "pawn" like on Big Brother ... to distract us from the real threat, Sarah Palin, and make HER look positively brilliant in comparison.

    Oh ... .and thanks for the new word! I'll be using it a lot!

    http://diatribesandovations.com/2011/08/17/diatribe-who-the-hell-does-michele-bachmann-think-she-is/

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  5. Bachman is a crazed, whack job. I don't understand her appeal. Judging from where I'm standing, I predict next year she will be vying for a spot on Dancing w/ the Stars.

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  6. Oh so love your American politics you have so many whack jobs really convinced they are electable.
    It grieves me that I can't watch Jon Stewart or Steve Colbert over here (UK)
    I spent my hols in Philly riveted about the whole thing.
    Over we think Barac Obama is an absolute hero who doesn't deserve the disgraceful behaviour dished out to him by the mad people or republicans.
    Thanks for a great post

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  7. Bachmann shouldn't be electable in any way. The problem is how far the scales have slid as to what makes acceptable debate. The worse part is, I think we'd probably have to have a depression for people to realize that having people like her in office isn't the answer. Most of the people in office are the children, in some cases grandchildren, of depression era survivors. They refuse to learn from history.

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  8. Speaking of floaters, it amazes me what kind of crap rises to the top of the political cesspool.

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