Michele Bachmann rides the Crazy Bus......again

[marmar]

:crazy:



from the dumpmichelebachmann blog:



Another Michele Bachmann Radio Eruption


U of M's Smart Politics blog:

During a Saturday afternoon interview on WWTC 1280 AM with The Northern Alliance’s John Hinderaker and Brian Ward, Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann discussed her staunch opposition to several Democratic-led efforts on Capitol Hill this session – such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the recently passed HR 1586 tax on bonuses for TARP recipients, and President Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan to reduce greenhouse gases.

Bachmann then began to talk about her role as Representative at the nation’s Capitol. Explaining the resources available at her U.S. House website which enable her to communicate what is happening in D.C. to the public, such as her Bachmann Bulletin, Bachmann Blog, and links to her Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace pages, the Congresswoman said, "I’m a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington."

It's a good blog post on Bachmann's incendiary rhetoric... read it. This bellicose quote is especially disturbing:

“I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.”

The segment with just Bachmann: http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-michele-bachmann-radio-eruption.html


Complete podcast at the Northern Alliance Radio Townhall site (first team hour 2).

Here's the money quote:

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-michele-bachmann-radio-eruption.html


UPDATE:

Bachmann says she is having meetings on April 9th in Saint Cloud at 1 PM and Woodbury at 4 PM featuring Chris Horner, a global warming skeptic who, according to Sourcewatch has received "more than $2 million in funding from ExxonMobil since 1998, among other corporate funders". We'll try to find out more about these meetings.

Bachmann is a strident global warming skeptic. According to this blog post, Bachmann heckled Al Gore about global warming at the Inauguration:

It’s a question the press didn’t dare ask, but a second-term Minnesota Republican congresswoman wasn’t afraid.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, told participants in a Jan. 26 Americans for Prosperity teleconference that at President Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20 she had asked former Vice President Al Gore if it was cold enough for him and noted this wasn’t “exactly a global warming day.” The 19-degree temperatures were too cold for even a quartet to perform a piece arranged by composer John Williams, forcing them to prerecord the performance.

“On the Inauguration Day, Dr. Tom Price can attest to this – we were freezing to death, sitting there during the inauguration, with our blankets huddled up there,” Bachmann said. “We were asking Al Gore when he came in through the door, ‘Hey Al, is it cold enough for you down there? This isn’t exactly a global warming day.’”

Bachmann cites an expert... her brother, a weatherman:

According to Bachmann, the earth is entering a stage of prolonged global cooling. She cited her brother, who dismisses the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

“My brother is also a certified meteorologist,” Bachmann said. “He agrees with you. He said there is nothing to this global warming phenomenon. As a matter of fact, we are now in a long-term global cooling stage.”

Bachmann also warned about pending cap-and-trade legislation and said it would not only have an economic impact.

“The cap-and-trade legislation is something that we all need to be very worried about, because what it would do in effect is give government the right to control almost every aspect of our lives. The economic impact is one thing. The freedom impact is almost worse because almost every activity that we engage in involves energy and government would now have the right to put a tax and control energy, which means they would have a right to control almost our every move.”

Here's where Bachmann said global warming is not man-made on Saturday: http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-michele-bachmann-radio-eruption.html

[Deja Q]

1. self-del?

Too crude, even by my standards.

But I'm sure the secret service will be keeping an eye on her in the future. Fortunately.

[jwirr]

2. Watch out for what you ask for. Does she have any idea that the

revolution in Minnesota would most likely target her?

[muntrv]

3. Bachmann won't "fight" in the so-called revolution. She's a chickenhawk.

[navarth]

4. More hijinks from Congresswoman Batshit? yay....

Who the hell votes for an animal like her?? Jeez, Minnesota, you sure have some variety.

[wellstone dem]

5. ok, everyone, head to St. Cloud for the 1:00 meeting

I'll meet you there.