Bachmann: Financial reform is like Mussolini’s Italy

Let’s see, rebuild the Roman Empire, march around in pretty black shirts, regulate naked CDS’s. Yep, same thing.

Thank you, Minnesota, for electing this barking-mad, dishonest lunatic. In these troubled times, you have given the rest of the country something to laugh at.

Keep up the good work.

Wow…just wow. Let’s keep financial companies who almost destroyed our economy running just the same! She is so clueless it’s embarrassing.

To be sure, they are similar, in that they’re both things that Bachmann has heard of but has no understanding of and an inclination to open her ignorant mouth about.

To compare the US economy in 2010 to that of Italy in 1930 is ridiculous on the face of it. But the so is Bachman

Perhaps the more appropriate comparison is between the rhetoric of Republican Michele Bachmann and that of Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany.

Both Michele Bachmann and the Nazi criminal Goebbels use the BIG LIE approach – the bigger the lie, the more that people tend to believe it, because they tend to want to believe their leaders are telling the truth, would spin such outrageous falsehoods. Of course both leaders are perfectly willing to spin those falsehoods for personal gain

Only a fool would advocate that Wall Street continue to trade in financial derivatives in the unregulated fashion that nearly caused a global collapse of the financial system. Apparently Mrs. Bachmann qualifies though

oops – edit error above … should read, “…their leaders are telling the truth, and wouldn’t spin such outrageous falsehoods”

Having lived in Minnesota I just don’t understand how usually intelligent people even voted for this wacko. I certainly hope the people of Minnesota show much better judgement when it comes time for elections again.

To borrow the words that Keith Olbermann reserves for Soundbite Sarah, this woman is an idiot!. How Minnesotans can put up with a knuckle-dragging reactionary like this is beyond human

Jay, Dan, the explanation for Minnesotans electing her is she needs to get elected in just the most conservative one-eight of the state. There’s another district she would probably win, and another one two where she would have an outside chance. Statewide, she’d be a joke of a candidate.

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Bachmann illustrates the quintessential problem with todays messaging systems: they are all one-way. Whatever happened to debating, in person or in pro/con articles? If Bachmann had to actually answer to an opposing view, she’d have to moderate her statements.

Media, are you LISTENING????

I see that she picks and chooses what parts of history to misunderstand, just like she picks and chooses from the Bible.

A religious fanatic accusing someone else of being fascist – (your incredulity here)

I know! Let’s have the government run all the businesses! Yeah, that’s the ticket. Private enterprise is for suckers. And Obama and his crew have way more experience running things than the heads of these corporations do.

Straw man arguments are for suckers, too, Dennis.

Don’t the Republicans favor similar regulation of big financial firms, just wo/robust consumer protection? Are they in league with the Black Shirts?

Michele Bachmann, yeah like the United States is not in a tough financial position. Bachmann you are hot but you are just too stupid to be anything more than a tea party talker.

As usual Michele is spot on; she’s pinned the tail on the proverbial donkey. Socialist Mussolini pulled power into the central government just like our democrites. The outcome will be similar. We’re going to see once again that socialist anti-economics spread pain far and wide.

Dearest Dan and Jan,

Perhaps a refresher course in civics would help to remind you how voting for HOR seats goes down. This is not a senate vote, therefore, saying “Minnesotans” voted for her, while technically correct, is also more incorrect. Only a part of the state voted for her. If she tried running for senate, she wouldn’t even make it out of the primaries. Every state has a section where people enjoying living within the lie.

Jimmy,

Tee-hee, you’re funny what with your retrograde amnesia. I understand that you haven’t gotten over the election of Obama, but you probably need to make sure that the crap you are claiming doesn’t apply a wee bit more to the guy who was in office before Obama. You’re statement makes you look uneducated at worst, and selectively indifferent at best.

Your willful ignorance of history saddens me, Jimmy. Because you’ve got an axe to grind, you piss on the graves of the victims of Mussolini and his Blackshirts, and for what? To score insignificant political points in the comment field of some blog? From behind your veil of anonymity, you probably think it’s all a gas — bad word choice: probably shouldn’t trigger your inevitable Obama/Hitler comparisons — but… do you ever, in your quiet times, wonder if you’ve got a soul anymore?

Some of us would prefer the alleged Democratic centralization of American industry to the Republican/big Business plan of shipping it and all our jobs overseas.

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all you people are idiots.

you believe there is a dimes worth of difference between republicrats and demlicans? ha!

When is Obama gonna stop the war again? What campaign promises did he keep? None.

The great aduacious hope himself hasn’t turned one GW Bush policy around, in fact, he has strengthened them.

But you have the temerity to try to pile on to a bachmann basher like Birkey, who is a globalist, is anti-american?

You people make me sick…puking on birkey’s shoes.

Hegelian Dialectic has you all trained to act just the way you are acting.

Divide and conquer…wake up folks, we have little time left.

Me? A globalist? Anti-American? Please cite the source of this information, GWS.

I heard you were the globalist and Anti-American, GWS. That’s what I heard.

I’m just worried about your shoes…

GWS:

Apparently, we have a MSM news blackout:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100418/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_iraq

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/04/09/Leaving-Iraq-US-Armys-herculean-task/UPI-88171270837966/

By now every American should know, our MSM is not going to report anything positive about President Obama.

Bachman is a fool just like those who elected her.Italian Facism has always been defined as the control of the country by corporations.Bachman isn’t even smart enough to realize what facism is.The Republican supreme courts decision to let corporations buy candidates is what facism is about.The corporations put Mussilini in charge,just like they have put republicans in charge and now unfortunately my party the Democrats.To stop someone from gaining absolute power isn’t facism,its democracy, a concept Republicans don’t understand.As one letter writer said absolute power and deregulation almost lead to our financial collapse,allowing corporations to combine and form monopolies as republicans have always done and Democrats are doing gives them complete economic control of your lives.this is Facism Bachman,real facism like Italy had and the republicans want

Communism, socialism, and fascism are three heads on the same monster. They differ a little at the top, but really they are the same thing.

Democracy doesn’t withhold absolute power; it’s just tyranny by the majority. The only system that prevents absolute power is capitism, laissez faire style. Under such, people have exclusive right to their property and can’t be taken away unless the owner agrees or injures another person’s property.

Witness the return of McCarthyism and the renewed entrenchment of the military/industrial complex – complete with it’s own political party. Theocracy at no extra charge.

The party who’s leader once warned us of corporate takeover of politics now fully embraces that scenario over “We the people”. And they call themselves “patriots”.

Bachman basher? All one has to do is report some of the stupid crap that regularly falls like drool out of her mouth, and her supporters call you a “basher”

Would you like a little cheese with that whine?

Here’s another one:

“The only system that prevents absolute power is capitism, laissez faire style.”

Only a parrot could say that with such sincerity.

Dave, why do you hate freedom? I think you lust for power over your fellow citizens. You can’t articulate that lust so you vomit terms like parrot and whine. You’re fooling no one.

Jimmy and Bachmann whine about losing freedom because of government telling businesses what they can do yet I’m sure they are all for the religious right lobbying states to tell private insurers that they can’t offer abortion coverage through the insurance exchanges. They are against it only when they don’t agree with it.

Abortion has nothing to do with religion. If humanity needed a deity to order them not to kill children, we’d be a hopeless case indeed.

I was getting worried that there were less people with like minds. Bachman and Palin give women a bad name. I am going to use a cliche and say they are their own worst enemies. Keep up the good work girls! /sarcasm

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