Bachmann: Just Over A Year Ago, The Private Economy Was 100% Private

Isn't the private economy always 100% private by definition?

Before Obama, Halliburton and KBR, Blackwater, Boeing, Lockheed, and all the rest of them were not being sustained by government contracts. They didn't get government contracts until Obama came along. Before Obama the oil companies weren't getting massive government subsidies. That only happened when Obama came along. Before Obama, timber interests and mining interests had to pay for their own infrastructure at market price. The government didn't build them access roads and sell off the rights at sale barn prices until Obama came along. Agriculture wasn't getting any help at all from the government. That didn't happen until Obama came along. Exporters didn't get any subsidies until Obama. As a matter of fact, Obama invented subsidies. Nobody knew what they were until he came along.

There are time that you wonder how a twit like Bachmann can function. How does she manage to dress herself in the morning in her private universe?

The Christian Examiner has a picture of a dog stool with the image of the Vigin Mary in it. It's on the first page you can't miss it. They poop scooped all other media outlets, give it a look.

Maybe one day TPM will explain why they give this idiot bandwidth.

I'm just impressed that Eric Kleefeld used the word "tautology"

I haven't seen that word in quite sometime... and I read a lot.

TPM uses Michele Bachmann's own words to raise obvious contradictions. That's not fair. Had she time to think about what she's saying, I'm sure she wouldn't be saying these things. TPM is just quoting her to embarrass her. We need to learn to feel her anger against people of color, and her job is done.

I think the previous does a disservice to the mentally disturbed individuals who go on about CIA helicopters and Men in Black.

I still remember the days of my youth - the 1950s - when up to 278% of the private economy was public!!!!!

Then the damn 1960s came along - and suddenly 303% of the public economy was public!!!!!!!

George Bush invented socialistic prescription drug programs - Can you say EXPANSION of Medicare.

Ronald Reagan made our banking system more Communist then Russia's when he bailed out the savings and loans, real bankers were destroyed by his Resolution Trust soviet style bureaucracy. The propped up, communist bankers caused the current financial crisis.

The Republicans want to jump in between family members and tell people that Government enforcers know better when loved ones should be kept on life support. Like they did to Terry Shiavo's family, the party of casinos, country clubs, booze, and mistresses claim they love your Grandma more than you.

These are all examples of hyperbolic attacks on Republicans that are more defensible than the one's Republican's mount against Democrats. The problem is we DON'T make them. The reason is we don't believe them enough ourselves. The Republicans on the other hand (like the Bachman statement and the non-reaction to it show)don't care when their attacks don't even make logical sense, let alone if they are are even partially true. All they care about is driving the narrative.

This produces a sort of reverse discrimination in the media. When Republican's exaggerate, Democrats go nuts and no one else cares. This means that when Democrats exaggerate at the same level, other Democrats shouldn't care. If Democrats react negatively to the hyperbolic Republican attacks made by their own party members - this then proves they are unacceptable.

In this world is where the president can't call a beat cop stupid for entering a guy's house uninvited when he committed no crime, but a Senator who calls stands up and shouts "You Lie" at his Commander in Chief is forgiven immediately and then canonized for his behavior.

Michele Bachmann is adorable. Dullards don't see the edge of her trenchant humor. She loves to play on words while formulating hard policy. Her support base continues to grow among the politically astute.