Oh shit, we're made.

[phantom power]

All this climate change and peak oil business, you see, is about our Horrible Plot to destroy suburbia and make everybody move to the Projects.

Because, I assume, we hate the American Way Of Life, and Goodness, Light and Ponies...

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) says it has not escaped Democrats what the cost of gasoline and loss of jobs are doing to the country.

"This is their agenda," Bachmann states bluntly. "I know it is hard to believe, it's hard to fathom -- but this is 'mission accomplished' for them," she asserts. "They want Americans to take transit and move to the inner cities. They want Americans to move to the urban core, live in tenements, take light rail to their government jobs. That's their vision for America."

Bachmann predicts gasoline will rise above $5 a gallon if Barack Obama is elected president.

http://www.eschatonblog.com/2008_08_03_archive.html#1135024238262940787

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=205272

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Michelle Bachmann is insane.

I mean, really. She's barking mad. And she's also as dumb as a sack of hammers. In fact, she's the worst imaginable combination of stupid, crazy and Republican. She's Bush in drag, only she might even be stupider, if you can imagine.

[phantom power]

3. That would explain it.

Taking Michael Crichton too seriously is not a recipe for good mental health.

[bowens43]

6. All republicans are insane to some extent.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Don't them Pubs Realize everytime they predict...it comes out WRONG

Their Creds are ZERO

They have OVER SPUN their BS Crap so much that only the ones with Stolem Minds suck it up....

Laughable....

[phantom power]

4. I would feel better about that, except...

I can't get out of my mind the image of all the people who voted for her.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Them voters had their minds stolen/kidnapped....a reasonable explanation???

[Doctor Cynic]

7. Rick Roll?

[napoleon_in_rags]

8. The horror...American's on transit!!! nt

[Indenturedebtor]

9. Actually I do want everyone to move to the cities and take light rail to work

But I'd prefer not working for the government, and I'd prefer that that 5 dollar gas was mostly tax to pay for the light rail ;)

[phantom power]

10. Yes...

But advocates of light rail, urban living, etc, advocate these things because they are solutions to problems like climate change and peak oil. What's so deliciously batshit insane about the conservatives(*) is that they seem to think that we want these things as an end unto themselves. In this woman's view, we tell scary stories about high fuel prices and climate change so that we can force Americans to take light rail and live in urban govt housing. Why? Who knows? Cause and effect have become totally reversed.


(*) at least, conservatives like Bachmann

[NickB79]

11. I grew up in her district, and by the mercy of God I made it out of there with my sanity

Minnesota is by and large a beautiful blue state, but there's this big red bullseye in the center that seems to spawn the nuttiest of the nutty.

To give you an idea of how rightwing the area is, my girlfriend and I count pro-life billboards and yard signs when I go up to visit my family to pass the time :eyes: Extra points for the misspelled ones!

Every time I see her on TV I die a little inside from the shame of being related to people who voted for her. What's worse is that we have a rightwing radio host that eats her shit up and has made it his life's work to spread her Global Warming = Socialism/Communism meme to the masses.