Touting her global currency conspiracy, Bachmann insists: “This is not Michele Bachmann being a kook”
The right-wing continues its relentless march down the Road to Unwellville. Seriously. The right is becoming loonier and more detached from reality with each passing day. Here, for example, is the kooky Minnesota congresswoman spewing some of her “revolutionary” crazy-talk on Hannity’s yak-show. I guess this extreme kind of hyperbole fires up the red meat crowd, feeding into their paranoia that the UN is coming to take away their guns, convert them to Islam, and make their children gay, but I’d venture to guess that for most “normal” people she just comes across sounding completely nuts.
Over at Hardball, Matt Taibbi suggested that Bachmann had less mental capacity than someone under the influence of household chemicals.
“It’s funny, this morning outside of Penn Station, I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag and he was making more sense than Michele Bachmann was making,” Taibbi said. “I can’t believe you need to pass a written test to drive a car in this country, but I bet this woman can’t even write her name in the ground with a stick. It’s unbelievable to me that this person is in the Congress.”
On a somewhat related note, (unless I’ve missed it) I can’t understand why you’ve never given any space to the States’ Rights movement. There are now 32 states at one stage or another of introducing States’ Rights resolutions based on the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, i.e. infringement by the Federal government.
New Hampshire received the most internet recognition, although blacked out by the corporate media, with its defeated HCR 0006. Seems that the Dem-controlled House of Reps was uncomfortable with the secession trigger built into the resolution. The sponsors of the resolution may have over-reached.
Ohio is one of the more recent states to draft a resolution. For a good intro to the States’ Rights movement:
http://ohiorepublic.blogspot.com/
My husband and I saw her once on CNN (the talking heads stuff). She looked totally spaced out – her eyes were weird. Hubby said she had the look of insanity and I thought perhaps it was over-use of botox. And, for the camera I guess, she had this weird permanent smile on her face.
She’s creepy.
Shoter Hannity: “Congresswoman Bachmann, how dare the liberal elite media use your actual statements to demonstrate your insanity!”
Michelle Bachmann is living, breathing proof that you can be publicly, certifiably bat-shit crazy, but if your district is gerrymandered enough, you can be a multi-term congressman.
She should be a lesson to everyone out there that people who don’t blink are inherently insane.
The congresswoman is of little interest to me, but to focus on slinging brown stuff at her while missing the contradictions in Geithner’s, Bernanke’s and Obama’s recent statements seems more bat shit crazy to me than anything she said.
Ragging on this woman’s eyes is about the equivalent of ragging on Jean Chretien’s facial tick…it is in the same league. For all we know, she should toss her very uncomfortable contact lenses and go back to her glasses.
I guess throwing Bachmann’s statements back at her would be equivalent to “slinging brown stuff”. Never thought of it that way. Thanks.
A blogspot account is hardly a revolution. Sure you can discount me and say “by criticizing me you prove I’m on the right track” which I could respond by saying “by submitting blogspot accounts as links you hardly prove your case”. Then you’ll get mad and call me a fence sitter or canucklehead. It still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a less than convincing argument. What about Ohio’s piece of this mess? Do you think they could seriously walk away without taking their piece of the debts and all the mess? That is the consistent argument about Quebec separatism and I don’t think Ohio would find it easy to avoid taking their piece of the debt. Then there’s the entire area of trade. Say that part of your argument actually comes true and Ohio does separate (I’m using them as the case example) but the US doesn’t collapse as you predict. Then you have a country that for the most part is landlocked by two far more large and powerful countries that also control the sole external access to their country; the Great Lakes. How easy would it be for Ohio to succeed then? There’s long established treaties between the two countries and I don’t think either would be too eager to help the Republic of Ohio out.
What happens if America does fail as you like to constantly get worked up over? Do you think that makes the debt and financial mess magically go away? Or do you seriously think that the world will rapidly devolve to some sort of dystopian nightmare where we ride horses and eventually are ruled by apes?
On another note, can you provide actual measurable statistics as to public support of such a concept? Instead of the usual linking to papers written by the same professors, how about some actual numbers that can be verified from several different sources as to how strong the support for succession at state level is? I suspect, like many succession movements in the US, it is very small and driven by persons who have more self interest than national interest driving them.
You can go and scoff at those people as cattle or sheep but they aren’t supporting those successionist movements because they don’t believe in them. To get a movement or revolution started you need people to believe in them and so far none of those movements have managed to excite more than the easily excited. Maybe it will happen and you can have you dreamworld of collapsed society whilst you live in your palace of silver and off-grid power. I wouldn’t hold my breath on it though.
Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re wrong. I’ve just found that you can spend your entire life reading books and hypothesizing society and actually know very little about it if you choose to excise yourself from it. I for one would prefer to remain part of any society there is and do things for the common good rather than romanticize its destruction. People that romanticize the revolution often end up disappointed when it doesn’t unroll like they hoped. Aleksander Blok wrote many poems openly wishing for the Russian revolution though the actual revolution shattered his life and he died at 41 disillusioned with all he believed in. Be careful for what you wish for
S&S – I hope that Ohio doesn’t secede from union before June. I’m planning on driving through there and my passport isn’t up to date. Either that or, heaven forbid, I’d have to drive through Indiana!
The only folks who support these “states rights” secessionist movements are borderline militia types who’ve greatly misinterpreted the 9th and 10th amendments.
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” – George Orwell
Sanctimonious Ronan – tries to put me in my place. There’s a different between a facial problem due to a paralysis and someone who looks insane.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and perceptions about insanity are just about as diverse. Some of the kookiest of kooks I’ve known earn their living counseling others. Heh..
What is it they say about he who is mad, is usually the last to know? Something like that.
Good grief, it wasn’t about her appearance (she’s actually attractive) – it’s about a look in her eyes – EXPRESSION.
And, her actions and statements, etc. show something is amiss.
And, those who lecture and preach….well, let’s leave it at that. If you know kooks that counselling, perhaps you should report them. (this is getting rather silly)
Although Michele’s a nut, it’s not inconceivable that the “super reserve currency” that China suggested to limit their exposure to the American dollar wouldn’t one day be a de facto world currency.
If China sees the greenback tumble I think they’d need to create it.
I’m just saying.
Comrade one,
some of the most effed-up people I know are social workers and personal counsellors.
I actually can’t watch her anymore so I didn’t click on your video. I don’t have to because I know what she is going to say, no matter what the topic. Crazy bullshit delivered with an arrogant, “I’m actually an intelligent news anchor, in my own mind” smirk.
My temples throb from an intense desire to morph into the video so I can pull down the curtain and go off on what a batshit idiot is, before turning to confront the idiot who allowed her to be a part of the discussion.
I’m not a big fan of Geithner (consider the verdict still out). But I watched the exchange between them earlier this week and would have paid to have seen him drop his manners and ask her point-blank if she even understands the form of government in the US. You know he was just itching to level her with annoying things called facts in this realm the rest of us call “reality.”
She’s seriously scary. In a world of morons (aka Rush, Steele, and company), she sets a new standard. So easy to imagine spending her off-hours marveling at the efficiency of the train schedules out of Berlin in 1940, wondering if it could be replicated on this side of the ocean. I can see her grilling the head of the Dept of Transportation with the same smarmy delivery, as she demands setting up meetings with Homeland Security.
I’m highly critical of a number of political players, but very few actually frighten me. She may top my list. God forbid she ever attains any actual authority beyond “bat-shit crazy ranter of the House.”
Why does Bachman have a “crazy” look in her eyes?
Maybe this will shed some light on the matter:
Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachman — a self-described “fool for Christ”…
Okhropir rumiani, re: those counselors etc. You know it’s your civic duty to report them, right?
I trust you will look after that forthwith. lol
Hallelujah, and pass the collection plate..
I wonder if anyone got a glimpse of Olmert’s eyes when he told reporters that he had called George Bush away from a speech in order to straighten him out on that UN security council resolution?
No shortage of nuts to keep the squirrels busy.