bachmanniaRep. Michele Bachmann warned today that President Obama is turning America into a socialist state, according to a CNN report. In other news, Jim Ragsdale at the Pioneer Press says that Bachmann tends to exaggerate… a lot.

From CNN:

“What we’ve seen them do in the last five weeks is nothing short of a great leap forward toward [then] finalizing a place of socialism in American economic life,” Bachmann told radio host G. Gordon Liddy. “We have never seen this level of socialism in the history of our country, and I think the American people would be floored when they understand the dramatic steps that Obama has taken for our future.”

Bachmann called for a “a growth future, a prosperity future, a freedom liberty future.”

“Will we be a country that will go forward with liberty, freedom and prosperity, or will we be a country that’s mired in Eastern European, Western European doldrums, where freedom is limited and taxation remains high?” she asked.

Pioneer Press’ Jim Ragsdale:

[O]ur Republican congresswoman from Stillwater, is the empress of exaggeration.

She can turn a mote of dust into a flaming meteorite, a scintilla of evidence into a damning indictment, a stimulus bill into a payoff to felonious urban ruffians. I have heard her describe the faults of Minnesota graduation standards and vocational training in such a way that they appeared not just dumb, but damnation-worthy.

She once created a new Iranian sub-nation out of whole cloth, which some clever person dubbed Bachmannistan, and the last time I saw her in person, her attempt to find Democrats to blame for the foreclosure crisis led her to the obvious culprit: Jimmy Carter, who left office in 1981.