Bachmann blames FDR for effects of ‘Hoot-Smalley’ tariffs

Franken on the brain already? pwned, I say!

i really hope the people in the sixth district have realized what they have done. this woman is insane and obviously says anything she wants that will make democrats look bad regardless of whether its true or false. this is not the kind of person we need representing minnesota. she is not looking out for the best interests of the people but the best interests of her party. and that is dangerous for us all.

“Hoot-Smalley” hahahahaha

Instead of hiring multiple press people to handle her media appearances, Bachmann needs to invest in a history book. If she had any sort of insight on the subjects she so loudly speaks about then she wouldn’t need a half-dozen people on her staff to send out her “that’s not what she meant” and “the media misconstrued her words” bulletins after the fact. At the very least, one of her media wonks should have the common sense to tell her to stop saying shit that blows up in her face.

I suspect that her handlers love it when she says stuff like this and the more outrageous she is the the better. I think we should leave her alone – she will eventually self destruct – but the more we legitimize her by pointing out what an idiot and embarrassment she is the more her hard-core fans know she is right and will rally behind her. Leave her alone and she fades away – keep her name in the papers and on TV and she gets re-elected.

can’t imagine that misquoting facts and historical events so often helps her cause, what ever cause that is. Can’t she afford a staffer to fact-check before she goes in front of the public with her misunderstandings?

Yeah, Thomas, telling the truth is always abad idea-just ask Fox News.

Perhaps this explains Ms. Bachmann’s support of household insecticide to reduce misery. Remember the court case? Woe vs Raid.

Aren’t the people in the Sixth District as embarrassed as the rest of us?

Are you going to re-elect this woman?

You know what really bugs me? She has a support and research staff paid for by tax dollars, and apparently she is using the funding to pay for a bunch of third-rate hacks who never learned how to look up historical nor scientific documents.

Thanks again, Michele, for the hoot. Laughing at you, not with you.

All I can say is WOW, and my heart goes out to you. Obviously, I don’t live in MN; but I know it as a state of beautiful lakes and wonderful people. Please pardon my unfamiliarity with your state politics, but is there any hope Gov Pawlenty will recall this person?

[...] Rewriting history again, eh Congresswoman? Please tell me she just had Al Franken’s Stuart Smalley on her mind and really does know the difference.  I can’t wait to hear what she says next.  It will be tough to top her statements about Swine Flu.  You can follow along with the fun at Bachmann Watch or at the Minnesota Independent. [...]

My favorite poster girl for the GOP strikes again. Yea!

@Paula: Not much chance of a recall, and really, except for the monotonous moronic drivel, she hasn’t done anything wrong (embarrassing the rest of the state notwithstanding.) Gov. T-Paw is actually pretty spineless, and the Republican version of the same to boot… he wouldn’t lift a finger if she went (more) bonkers with an AK-47 on the House floor.

MN-06 is effectively Minnesota’s “Bible belt”. MN-06 is NW of the cities, a district where every other billboard along the freeway is either a church’s call to worship or a Right to Life group. The majority of the district is farms, small towns, lots of open space. Driving out of the Twin Cities northwest along I-94 can feel like traveling back in time about 50 years, if you’re in the right frame of mind.

The short version is, she isn’t all that out-of-step with a slight-but-significant majority in the district she represents, and isn’t all that likely to be voted out any time soon as a result.

The real question will be, when Minnesota loses a seat after 2010 reapportionment, which seems guaranteed, what will happen to that district? I personally suspect it’s one of the few that won’t change much, despite being close to the Cities… I expect it will be gerrymandered to encompass as much conservative area as possible. In which case, I think we are likely to be cringing in shocked disbelief at Rep. Bachmann’s utterances for a long time to come…

Keep her in Washington. This is cheap entertainment.

does this wacko ever come out in public and say “oops … i was wrong”?

[...] hate crimes illegal means protecting pedophiles and not protecting 85-year-old grandmothers and FDR’s “Hoot-Smawley” tariffs turned a recession into the Great Depression. Of course, that’s actually the tariff authored by Republican Senators Smoot and Hawley, and [...]

Another right wing revisionist idiot…

Maybe if she would have been speaking “Austrian” it would have come out right. Maybe she had an asthma attack and didn’t have her “breathalyzer…er..um..you know…inhalator” with her. That can happen, you know, when you travel to 57 or 58 states in a short amount of time….

Face it, you are piling on Bachmann because it is now obvious that your Messiah is an abject failure and is in waaaaaaaayyy over his over-sized head. You can’t point to a single thing that your borderline-retarded President has done right, so you divert with stuff like this…I LOVE IT!! Bachmann has more intelligence than the ENTIRE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION COMBINED.

[...] happened under Carter (in a reality-based world, it happened under Ford); she blamed FDR for the “Hoot-Smalley” bill  (Smoot-Hawley) which two Republicans wrote and Herbert Hoover signed into [...]

The people in the 6th district knew Bachmann was crazy but elected her anyway. These are the same people who believe Dubya was a great president. Bachmann may be a nut who has trouble with the truth, but that’s why they like her. Bachmann’s stupid comments will not hurt her re-election. Don’t forget. . . stupidity did not dis-qualify Dubya. I think we should keep Bachmann because congress needs a class clown. The news would be too dull without someone who is a laughingstock.

History book? All she needed was a copy of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” to avoid this mistake. Anyone? Anyone?

“But it’s much worse than that. We let her drive a car!”
-Keith Olbermann, Worst Person in the World, 4/28/09 Countdown on MSNBC.

In case Michelle didn’t realize it…

The ‘roaring 20’s’ ended in a massive depression that wiped out mostly everyone and took a world war to turn around.

God these Republicans love financial disasters.