Bachmann goes on ‘global currency’ media tour, fails to add sponsors
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 at 3:46 pm
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Rep. Michele Bachmann took to Glenn Beck’s show on Fox yesterday, touting that she’d picked up 30 cosponsors for her constitutional amendment that would “prohibit the President from entering into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States.” Beck’s response: “I can’t believe that you’ve only got 30 cosponsors…” Bachmann’s reply: “Maybe with your show today we’ll get a few more sponsors…”
Not quite: a day later, the amendment hasn’t gained another House supporter.
A new Rasmussen poll, unsurpringly, shows that a majority of Americans — 88 percent — say it’s “important for the dollar to remain the currency of the United States.” Of course replacing the dollar as the national currency has never been on the table. But rest assured: says pollster Scott Rasmussen, “If the idea got around that this meant replacing the currency in your wallet, then absolutely there would be support building for protecting the dollar.”
6 Comments
Comment posted April 1, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
This bill prohibits treaties that abolish the dollar as our currency, but treaties are law according to the Constitution. In other words, any such treaty, being newer law, would supersede her bill anyway. What an idiot.
On the other hand, I’m sure by now someone has explained it to her in short words, so maybe we’re back to choosing between cynical and crazy.
Comment posted April 1, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
Someone should should suggest to Bachmann that she should change the amendment to return the country to the gold standard.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 7:44 am
As long as the Republican Party lets people like Bachmann, Palin, Beck, Billo, and their like speak for their party, they will consistently loose the center of their party in national elections.
Its not just that the folks are crazy, and lie a lot – its that they have power and great potetial for causing harm to this country if they manage, once again, to concentrate that power into the Presidency, or into the control of both houses of Congress.
Comment posted April 2, 2009 @ 9:14 am
Marnie, you forgot the grand poobah of toxic republican spokesmen: Rush!
Comment posted April 4, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
May Michelle continue her fight against all things “not real right”. She’s the gift that keeps on givin’. So, why can’t Dems, IP, or Greens get this seat??????
Comment posted April 5, 2009 @ 10:20 am
Let’s face facts: Bach saw what one wingnut in a skirt could do to the Repub white male whackjobs and their closeted bisexual wives, and is turning on the rhetoric for 2012….
I can’t wait for the Nailin’ Palin sequel: Poppin’ Bachman.
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