I’m getting more than a little tired of paying attention to the most certifiably batshit insane member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Michele Bachmann.
With that said, her latest frothing screed of lying, incendiary nonsense really takes the cake.
For some background, here’s Steve Benen:
About a week ago, the Senate easily approved legislation to expand national community service programs. The House had already easily passed a similar measure, and the president is anxious to sign it into law. As part of the effort, the number of positions available in AmeriCorps will increase from 75,000 to 250,000.And how did our dear Rep. Bachmann respond?The right’s reaction has been fascinating. One right-wing blogger compared community service programs to “Hitler youth.” Malkin called funding for the programs a “left-wing slush fund.”
“It’s under the guise of, quote, ‘volunteerism.’ But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. [...]Yep, she envisions our poor children being forced into mandatory government servitude and “re-education camps”.“I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
This woman is not only insane, she’s dangerous.
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"Cong. Bachmann burned up the phone lines and email to the show with callers and writers saying things like "I’ll have what she’s having," and "This should be our minority leader," and "This is the kind of conservative I’ve been looking for." [...] It’s been said of puissant and articulate women like Margaret Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick that sometimes they were the only man in the room. That is true of Michele quite often, no less so yesterday. Often we get guests that seem to be exactly what our movement wants and needs to hear. They slake a real thirst in a too often ideological desert. Yesterday was that day. She’ll be in leadership someday, someday very soon I’m sure–and hope." —William Bennett, 16 January 2009. He was Reagan's Secretary of Education and Bush Sr.'s Director of the National Drug Control Policy.
I don't understand these people.
quite honestly, i think that a good majority of them are either borderline insane or just plain stupid. That's not to say that they don't have some political skills — any successful con artist has to have some modicum of street smarts to trick you into handing over your life savings. couple this with a complete lack of morality, scruples, empathy or humanity, weld it onto the frame of a power-hungry auto-talking-points-bot, and stick them smack-dab in the middle of a know-nothing majority conservative district and voila!; the GOP Congressman Model 1896!