This should scare us all
Oct. 5th, 2011 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeislerWith a heading like that, it's almost inevitable that I'm talking about Michele Bachmann and her latest bit of hearsay. She told a town meeting in Iowa that North Dakota was the only state that last year ran a surplus, and they did it because they drilled, baby, drilled. Okay, she didn't use those words.
But she erred again: three other states last year had surpluses (Montana, Alaska, and Arkansas). She excuses the inaccuracies by saying "someone" told her whatever she's wrong about.
Someone frickin' told her? And she was too damned lazy and careless of the truth to frickin' *check* her information?
She had earlier claimed that HPV vaccines caused mental retardation. Wrong again. Not even close. But "a mother" "told her" about this.
She shrugged it off in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:
Let's all visualize a Michele Bachmann presidency, shall we? It goes like this:
Send this woman back to Minnesota with her electoral tail between her legs.
But she erred again: three other states last year had surpluses (Montana, Alaska, and Arkansas). She excuses the inaccuracies by saying "someone" told her whatever she's wrong about.
Someone frickin' told her? And she was too damned lazy and careless of the truth to frickin' *check* her information?
She had earlier claimed that HPV vaccines caused mental retardation. Wrong again. Not even close. But "a mother" "told her" about this.
She shrugged it off in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:
"I wasn't speaking as a doctor. I wasn't speaking as a scientist."You lazy damned idiot. You spread rumor and falsity from the bully pulpit and you think you should be the damned president of my country? You are appalling. You are self-aggrandizing. And you are the very worst in modern politics and the population: someone who thinks that the "experts" can be ignored and spat at, because in your lexicon, "experts" are just know-it-alls.
"I was merely passing on...what I had heard," she said.
Let's all visualize a Michele Bachmann presidency, shall we? It goes like this:
Pres. Bachmann: "So, I heard from this cab driver that the Russians are going to attack us next Tuesday."Unconfirmed rumor ("somebody said they had WMDs") is why we farkin' invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq. We don't need another president who commits us to anything ahead of the facts.
Chairman of Joint Chiefs: "Madame President, we have absolutely no reason to believe this. The Russians have been *dismantling* their long-range weapons. Our experts tell us that Russian stockpiles and aggression are at their lowest ebb in 50 years."
Pres. Bachmann (waving): "The 'experts' don't know anything, not when the cab drivers are all talking! Go to DEFCON 1. We start bombing tomorrow."
Send this woman back to Minnesota with her electoral tail between her legs.
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Ain't she
on 2011-10-05 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-10-05 01:48 pm (UTC)No, please!
on 2011-10-05 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-10-05 02:17 pm (UTC)They made us take Mitt back the last time. And Dukakis. And Kerry.
She's *your* burden.