Historian Michele Bachmann Blames FDR's "Hoot-Smalley" Tariffs For Great Depression
Make no mistake: When it comes to economics, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) knows her history -- even if that history is from another planet.
On Monday night, our friends at Dump Bachmann reported, Bachmann took to the House floor and paid tribute to the economic policies of Calvin Coolidge and the "Roaring 20s" (the era that ended with a massive monetary contraction and the Great Depression). One particular line really does stand out, though -- saying Franklin Roosevelt turned a recession into a depression through the "Hoot-Smalley" tariffs:
Here's what really happened: When Franklin Roosevelt took office, unemployment was already about 25%. And the tariff referred to here was actually the Smoot-Hawley bill, co-authored by Republicans Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon, and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover.
Interestingly, this speech also happened on the same day as when Bachmann connected the 1970s swine flu outbreak to Democrat Jimmy Carter being president, even though it was actually Gerald Ford in office at the time.
Late Update: A shout-out to Liberal in the Land of Conservative for also noticing Bachmann's false attribution of the tariff bill to Roosevelt -- and also to Matt Yglesias for pointing to the metaphysical possibilities.
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What would we do without our daily Michele Bachmann fix?
April 29, 2009 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin/Bachmann 2012!!!
April 29, 2009 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Palin/Bachmann? Unlikely:
The Republican Party is not currently connected strongly enough to reality to understand that they shouldn't nominate a candidate for the Vice Vice Presidency, too. So, I give you:
Palin/Bachman/Joe the Plumber '12
April 29, 2009 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
As great as those two women really are, they're going to need a jump on fixin' all that big goverment interference in real America and stoppin' the Democrat party.
I say Palin/Bachmann 2011 'cause they care too much about the country to let reality get in their way. You betcha *wink*.
April 29, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
In Bachmann-speak, I guess that would be Balin/Pachmann 2012!!
April 29, 2009 3:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to pick nits, but I think you meant to say 2102.
April 30, 2009 1:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well there'd be less comedy in the political news, that's for sure.
The sad part is, there are bound to be dittoheads somewhere mindlessly repeating these talking points....
April 29, 2009 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. You're right: EVERY DAY. Un Freaking Real.
Okay so, you're this rock-ribbed nazi, sitting there, waiting for the latest bit of enabling rhetoric from the media stars of the Disloyal Opposition... and out walks Michelle.
You listen.
You get that feeling in the pit of your stomach: "Oh... no... not... again..!!"
Then, you force a painful frozen smile onto your face, and find yourself clapping and cheering a woman who just made the latest in a long line of statements, which can most charitably be described as "retarded".
This all cannot be anything but excruciating, for the R's. I predict a rash of cop-assisted suicides, in the Red states.
April 29, 2009 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
You know, I've been trying really hard not to use the word "retarded" to describe Bachmann and the kind of people who think that she's just wonderful. Help me with this somebody. What's another word I can use that won't offend people whose mental handicaps are not of their own making?
I'm looking for a word that describes a kind of self-inflicted condition in which large portions of the brain are rendered completely inert.
It does seem to resemble the effects of asphyxiation. Could it be that Bachmann has been trying to avail herself of the healthful effects of carbon dioxide in large doses?
April 29, 2009 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about "cognitively challenged"?
Of course "ignorant Republican asshat" works well too - I guess which one you choose depends on your audience.
April 29, 2009 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
You all it is far more simpler and deeply pathological.
Bachmann exhibits total mythology, the idea that the past can be changed to fit her own pathological delusions. It was what was done in Europe before WWII, the growth of this mythology then was not challenged by the depth of knowledge and dissent as it is today but Bachmann (and Palin) still try it.
They believe their ideology is correct regardless of the outcomes, that doesn't matter because they must be right. Forget the idea that laissez faire economics and the Mellon response to the crash of 29. The only way to believe that this was correct is to change history and find those willing to hear it.
Now I have loony tunes GOP acquaintances who do this----when confronted they get serious cognitive dissonance and then attack----it is pathological.
April 29, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
She wanted words that they could understand. I doubt any of her followers would understand "cognitively"
April 29, 2009 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's why I supplied "asshat". I figured Recto-Crainal Insertion Syndrome, RCIS, would baffle them as well - no matter how well it explains why she's always talking out of her ass.
April 29, 2009 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to have to go with "Ingsoc."
April 29, 2009 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about "Dumbass"?
April 29, 2009 12:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Brain-dead" is good, because the only people you'd be insulting can't hear you.
April 29, 2009 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Bizzaro" is a good choice, I think. Aside from the alliteration, the adjective oozes with self-inflicted other-worldliness.
Or maybe go whole-hog and create an adjective in her honor?
"Bachmanzaro"
April 29, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wing-Nut is a great all encompassing term and our little Michelle is the Wing-nuttiest!
April 29, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Crazy, not stupid."
April 29, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Self-lobotomized?
April 29, 2009 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
My wife is a former pre-school special education teacher, and I just called her and read your post to her. She understands your concern, but firmly agrees with her two teaching assistants that you can comfortably and accurately call Michele Bachman "retarded."
April 29, 2009 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Askeptic; against skepticism
April 29, 2009 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I emailed this to Josh: Botch Woman!
She botches everything up!
April 29, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
But doesn't she have staff to fact check and correct her before she goes out and says these things? When I first saw it I was drinking my water and proceeded to spit it all over the desk.
This is beyond unbelievable. I can't even explain what I mean.
April 29, 2009 5:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm hoping your correct on the suicide thingy (smile)
April 29, 2009 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aha! So that's what the "R" stands for!
April 29, 2009 6:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was under the radar (except for the GWB mugging)until about October, 2008. Now she's in the spotlight daily, I guess because someone finally directed the light her direction.
Someone in her district HAS to be accumulating these fabrications for a campaign ad. Unfortunately for them, the ad will have to be about 3 hours long to provide snippets of every doozy this gal throws out there.
April 29, 2009 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
The sad fact is that she was only under the national radar, she was shining brightly on the MN radar back when she was a School Board member and later as a State Senator saying and doing ridiculously stupid things. Go check out the archives at http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/ to see that her lunacy hasn't changed at all in a decade. With that sort of history behind her, you'd think that residents of MN-06 would be better informed about what kind of politician she is, but the major media supporting her district parsed her words and actions down to just reporting on her dog whistles - And that's all the majority of the people in MN-06 are capable of hearing. Bachmann has no problem with lying about things she's said and done in the past and voters in her district are too "Minnesota Nice" to call her on her bullshit.
April 29, 2009 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to be insensitive, but someone ought to make sure that she takes her meds. Yesterday was an "off" day, no?
April 29, 2009 11:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hell, someone needs to make her read an 8th grade history book.
April 29, 2009 11:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
Heh, yeah. Or even some Cliff Note summary.
I know what we think about Bachmann here, but I wonder what other Reps think about our beloved crazy in the House? What's it like to work with her week by week? Does she drink coffee in the morning or tea? Does she have an awesome bowling game? Inquiring minds want to know!
April 29, 2009 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Make her stop! My abs hurt! I can't laugh anymore!
April 29, 2009 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
By the way, has anyone on the internet assembled a Yogi Berra- or Dan Quayle-style list of humorous remarks yet?
Such a thing surely must exist by now.
April 29, 2009 11:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
No! No! It would be like the joke in the Monty Python "Funniest Joke in the World" sketch- reading it would be fatal.
April 29, 2009 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
My sister died trying to create such a list.
Not funny, not cool.
April 29, 2009 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not clear on why everyone thinks she's such a freak, as Republicans go. She's fully internalized the anti-objectivism at the core of the modern Republican Party's ideology and it has made are a leading Party orator. Indeed, she is, in every way, the perfect Republican. I'll be really surprised if she doesn't give Sarah a run for her money for the 2012 nomination.
April 29, 2009 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
The thing is, very few of the real Republicans actually believe this crap. They just peddle it to their brain-dead supporters for effect. Anyone actually stupid enough to believe this would need help tying their shoes.
April 29, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm really not so sure about that anymore. As I said on another thread, I really think a lot of them have fallen into the classic trap of totalitarian parties of coming to believe their own propaganda.
April 29, 2009 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Loafers were invented by a Republican.
April 29, 2009 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that a verb or a noun?
April 29, 2009 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
shes great..
i wonder if she really thinks people want the "roaring twenties" that lead to the great depression as our solution to our own depression..
shes a piece of work.
April 29, 2009 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
A piece of something, but work isn't exactly the word I was looking for.
April 29, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Before Michele Bachmann went to Oral Roberts and majored in TheoCon Stupidity, she was a Democrat who worked in the Twin Cities office for Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign. Now, I don't mean to suggest that she had any greater level of rational intelligence in her formidable political youth, but that trip down to Tulsa and her marriage to Marcus "I Can Cure The Gay" Bachmann sent her straight over the friggin' edge.
April 29, 2009 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that "Hoot-Smalley" as in Stuart Smalley?
April 29, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess in Bachmann-world, Franken shares with FDR the power to enact legislation years before he's in office. Cool!
April 29, 2009 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Franken was a Hoot as Stuart Smalley.
The GOP crazy train has left the station.
April 29, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess I'll be first: That Michelle Bachmann is a real "hoot-smalley"
I wouldn't want to be a Democrat in that chamber trying to hold in my strangled guffaws of derisive laughter. Or worse, a moderate Republican.
April 29, 2009 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
You couldn’t make stuff like this up, because no one would believe it.
April 29, 2009 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please tell me there was at least one other dumb thing she said yesterday, because it would really be a shame for her to miss out on the Hat-Trick.
April 29, 2009 12:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to see her Hoots.
April 29, 2009 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon now... Remember, she's not very bright.
After giving birth to her first child she was instructed by her doctor to begin breastfeeding and realized that after her second child she had run completely out of "Hoots".
What you now see is a couple of handfuls of wadded-up Charmin stuffed into a mastectomy bra.
April 29, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, let's have some more of them roarin' twenties. Oh wait, we just had a similar bubble of arcane financial nonsense burst in our faces...
April 29, 2009 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd like to burst on her Hoots.
April 29, 2009 12:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think she is vying for a future spot on Fox News or to have her own show like Newt Gingrich. I am not sure we are serving her or the public well giving her so much attention... I think that's what she's after and it's working for her.
Having said that talk about extremely off her rocker. As others have said, please make sure she takes her meds.
April 29, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
That may well be. On the other hand, I like to think that this kind of publicity generates enough astonishment (that a public servant is glaringly unprofessional in so many ways) that it will hurt her politically. Granted, I'm probably deluding myself.
April 29, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachmann recently hired a third press-related secretary. She's got one serving in her district, one serving her DC office and a third that lines her up for national media appearances. With that many media "experts" on her side, you'd think maybe one or two might give her some advice about saying shit that blows up in her face, but apparently the DC and MN-06 press people are only there to send out the obigatory "that's not what she meant to say" or "the media has misconstrued her words" bulletins after the fact.
April 29, 2009 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
So that explains the need for a third...cranking out "clarifications" and attacks on the media for quoting their boss has to have the first two working overtime.
April 29, 2009 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
There it is, folks. THE WORST JOB IN THE WORLD!
Can you just imagine the private conversations between Bachmann media staffers? Especially, after she has yet another "Oops, I did it again!" moment?
L, as these kids today say, OL.
April 29, 2009 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
A good part of the reason that she's now in the U.S. House and able to spout off through a huge megaphone is that her insanity didn't get the attention it should have gotten while she was in the MN legislature. If more people knew just how much of a loon she is, she might not have made it this far.
Bush was below a lot of people's radar, too, and look where he ended up.
April 29, 2009 1:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blogs should have a comedy section for their Bachman related posts.
April 29, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
No doubt she was thinking of Stuart Smalley. You know, that guy she's hoping won't become the junior senator from her home state.
April 29, 2009 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops, just noticed that someone beat me to the punch on that joke. My apologies, cosmic cowboy.
April 29, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a hoot! Quite!
April 29, 2009 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Y'know, I think the GOP has a dynamite triumvirate to throw at the Dems in '12: Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, and Katherine Harris. I'm sure the good folks in the Republican Party can figure out a way to interpret the Constitution as allowing a three-person national ticket, and the comedic possibilities are just too wonderful to contemplate. I think one campaign slogan might be: "Sure, We're Batshit. So?"
April 29, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
What an imbecile. Let's not forget the idiots who voted this embarrassment into congress. They deserve to be acknowledged along with their choice for congress.
April 29, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Did it work? Anyone? Anyone? No, it did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-oGumvPz0&feature=related
April 29, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Say, whaddaya doin' slinging factual information around? There's no room for that kind of stuff in Bachmanistan.
April 29, 2009 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a line from "Ferris Bueller," folks. "Something d-o-o economics" indeed!
April 29, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another item to add to the Bachmann watch at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Bachmann vs. the truth.
http://www.dccc.org/page/content/bachmannwatch
April 29, 2009 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Journalist, historians, and liberal arts majors who never mastered reading graphs believe it but few economists. Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz, and Ben Bernanke are among the doubters. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2009/02/protectionism_wasnt_the_proble.html
Cambridge University economist Ha-Joon Chang addresses Smoot-Hawley and protection in an article at http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10628
He says of the notion that Smoot-Hawley was a major cause of the Great Depression:
“This is a misreading of history. The depression-era shift to protectionism was much less dramatic than is often claimed. The conventional story says that the world trading system collapsed because the US introduced the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930. But this was not a radical shift in policy. America had been the most protectionist country in the world for the previous century, while Smoot-Hawley only raised average industrial tariffs from about 37 per cent to about 48 per cent, well within the historical range of US tariffs until then. Tariffs in other countries did rise after 1930, but only moderately, and economic historians have shown that trade shrinkage after the depression had more to do with shrinking demand and the drying-up of trade credits.”
Smoot-Hawley did exactly what it was designed to do, protect American jobs.
April 29, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachmann is not so dumb. An obscure congressperson has made herself into a household name and has established credentials that will allow her to suck on the wingnut-welfare teat for life.
April 29, 2009 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Please remember that Timothy McVeigh, Adolf Hitler and Spiro T. Agnew were "household names".
In and of itself, being a "household name" does not always accrue benefits to the owner.
April 29, 2009 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you are giving her wayyy too much credit on the "not so dumb".
Right now there is a grassroots movement afloat putting money into a trust fund to defeat her. She isn't doing herself any good if she is ingratiating herself into a party that will probably cease to exist in 2010.
April 29, 2009 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
The thing about Bachmann that I can't understand is "where in the hell is her staff?". Don't any of them know how to use Wikipedia? Shouldn't they be doing some fact checking for her? Isn't that what they get paid to do?
I'm starting to worry that her brand of "stupid" and/or "crazy" might just be contagious. Maybe her whole staff has caught it.
April 29, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
As it turns out is may in fact be a pandemic.
April 29, 2009 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
What smart person would work for her?
April 29, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's true. I really don't know how staffers get those jobs.
April 29, 2009 6:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's official MN has just leaped frog over FL as the home of crazy town.
April 29, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
maybe she was referencing Sen. Giva Hoot and Sen. Stuart Smalley; although, i don't think they cosponsored a bill.
April 29, 2009 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle's Freudian slip showing?
Perhaps she was thinking of Senator Stuart Smalley????
April 29, 2009 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shouldn't Michele 'Karl' Bachmann just dump her political aspirations and go straight to hosting her on show on FOX. Seems like it would save time.
Although we'd still be subjected to her lunacy thanks to many blogs treating everything she says as valid and worth repeating... just a thought.
April 29, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are we wasting web space and energy on a nickle whore? Yes, Bachmann is entertaining in a pole dance kind of way. However, we have serious problems in this country and the last thing any of us need to be doing is wasting time on a two bit whore. Granted, she has become the mouthpiece of a fringe party that celebrates slavery & the Confederacy. The failure of the RNC to take her to the local vet and have her put down is their failure. Good for them. But, let us get on to the business of sane adults. Eric, leave this whore alone and address serious issues/people.
April 29, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Because we need to laugh. Laughter is good.
So it's not a total waste of time.
And it's not like she's developmentally disabled.
Right? Seriously; she's not developmentally disabled, is she?
April 29, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, more seriously, Bachmann is the very embodiment of what has gone wrong with the Republican Party, which is a cause for serious concern. If they somehow get back into power in their current state of frenzied totalitarian denial of the validity of objective reality, the whole world is screwed. If they just fade way, we'll have to go through a traumatic fissioning of the Democrats.
April 29, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you have demeaned five dollar whores everywhere.
April 30, 2009 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are we sure she’s a real brunette?
There’s dumb, and then there’s truly
Bachman DUMB Overdrive!!
April 29, 2009 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This would be funny if it were not so appalling. How many of her constituents know how completely muddled this comment is? Smoot-Hawley (1930), FDR (1932).
As far as regulatory burden goes, which burden is she describing? The rules of the FDA and USDA which are so poorly enforced that only 1% of imported food is inspected for safety before it hits the supermarket shelves? Maybe she is talking about all the rules the banks had to prevent them from speculating with people's money???
April 29, 2009 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait... there was a tariff on midget owls?
April 29, 2009 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Everyone criticizing her has it mostly wrong.
Eric Kleefeld did get one thing right: she's from another planet.
And on that planet, Hoobert Heever was President.
April 29, 2009 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boggles, You may be on to something, Then again she might just be trolling Faux News for a running mate. Think of the possibilities, Bachmann/O'Reilly, Hannity/Bachmann, or my personal favorite Bachmann/Beck.
Buy your popcorn futures Now!
God, I Love this woman!
April 29, 2009 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's Bichele Machmann, for you!
April 29, 2009 3:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
A little Bachman spoof for your day...
Swine flu alert! Virus traced to DVDs of "Babe"!
http://www.satiricalalexandria.com/
April 29, 2009 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
LMAO
April 29, 2009 4:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. This woman is an idiot pure and simple. Hoot-Smalley, indeed! If this were a Sat Night Live skit, no one would believe it,
April 29, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's that kooky look in her eyes.
April 29, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
With all due respect from now on put Michele Bachmann(R-Mars)
April 29, 2009 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dumb Bee-otch!
April 29, 2009 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachmann/Palin Overdrive '12!
We can see Stuart "Hoot" Smalley from our house!
Bringing levity back to politics, one inadvertent remark at a time...
Ya, ya betcha!
April 29, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if that will go into the Congressional Record verbatim, or if someone will try clean it up first. (I sort of suspect it is beyond the help of even extensive post hoc editing except perhaps to excise it entirely!)
April 29, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow.
Usually the epithet of stupidity implies the the person could be better informed with more effort. The criticism refers more to a personality flaw, an intellectual laziness, rather than a biological flaw.
However, in Bachmann's case...
April 29, 2009 7:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Homeschooled.Definitely.
April 29, 2009 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
What an idiot. Roosevelt saved this country. He wasn't even in office until 1933! Four years after the Great Depression started, and that Smoot-Hawley Act was created and passed by a Republican House and Senate, and signed by Republican President Hoover! What a bunch of friggin' lies. Basically every single word that came out of her mouth wasn't even true, from the recession Coolidge "fixed" (he wasn't in office either then, it was Harding!) to the whole thing with the Smoot-Hawley Act. Jeez.
These people are either stupid, lying, smoking something, or all of the above.
April 29, 2009 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachman beams herself in from her universe, to comment on our universe. How quaint.
April 29, 2009 9:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, this kind of ignorant statement from politicians really amazes me, as they have to know that every phone is a camera of some sort. And, as a Republican, I find this historical ignorance from a party member truly annoying.
But she was probably just trying to compete with other prominent politicians. Who does she think she is, Joe Biden?
April 29, 2009 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to be picky, but I think the headline was supposed to read "Hysterian Michele Bachmann".
I'm just sayin'.
April 30, 2009 8:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if maybe her and hannity and maybe palon are all related somehow. or maybe because regan threw all the mentally ill out in the streets the multiplied and maybe michigan got more than their fair share and some migrated to alaska cause they couldn't read the signs and one of them bred a bird that dropped hannity but then again how do you explain people like oreilly,,, but then he could be the uncle that got away but none of them have sued him for sexual harrasment but why do they hide and protect rove,, he had to realize that all this would come out because one thing about all politicians is when they get their nuts squeezed they sing louder than a opera star on steroids!
April 30, 2009 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Looks like everyone has this inner indulgence nailed but try this: watch her with no sound
It is difficult to tell if she is plugged in to something......like an......electric outlet or remote ....
Just try once. Report back.Or not
We have been discussing the iq bar for gopthingys.... but with the combined total of those mentioned above (including the pipe man).... it's reeeeeeeelly hard to devide by 3 and come up with an average in double digits. Whoops! sorry that was not devided by 3.....
If they are electric does that make them electricable?Or if they are remote does that make them remotely meaningful?
Sorry again. When you mix these two (or 2.5) up it gets to me bad.
Next?
April 30, 2009 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I found ANOTHER inaccuracy in Bachmann's crazy talk:
She said that Coolidge dealt with a recession in the early 1920s.... Well... Warren G Harding was President in the early 20s, and there were no visible signs of recession by the time Coolidge took office.
So, Bachmann has gotten EVERY single piece of "information" completely wrong. Why am I not surprised?
April 30, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
This website http://www.swine-flu-tracker.com/ shows you in real time how quickly swine flu is spreading.
May 1, 2009 7:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Calling Michele Bachmann "stupid" is an insult to stupid people.
May 1, 2009 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michele Bachmann makes Sarah Palin almost sound like a genius. I did not think that the level of discourse could go any lower . . . but it has with Bachmann. The game is to lie, smear, distort, and win at any cost and the facts be dammed.
May 7, 2009 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess this is the part where we remind her that the excesses in deregulation of financial markets after which we "saw the roaring twenties" are what caused the margin trading that caused the depression, and the lack of "tax barriers" didn't mean dick for the little guy making $5 a month while it meant a whole lot for the robber barons.
Keep it up, lady. We'll be in charge for the next 40 years, which will surely be mangled in the future by some breeder-nutcase descendant of yours.
May 19, 2009 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink