WASHINGTON, DC, 04:02 PM, SAT NOVEMBER 21 | Advertise on Wonkette | tips@wonkette.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS
THE DUMB LADY

Michele Bachmann Tries To Save Dollar From Mongols

Here is a rather low-budget rip of “war correspondent” Michele Bachmann crying with Sean Hannity over how everyone makes fun of her for raising issues that literally do not exist. The actual elected Congressional legislator has judiciously spent her time introducing a constitutional amendment “to 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,” because she thinks the United States is trying to replace the dollar. Again: she thinks the United States is trying to replace the dollar, as its currency.

Now while we could be *fucked* currency-wise, it is not because Timothy Geithner is trying to replace the United States dollar as the United States currency. Our friends from China — or as Hannity prefers, “Communist China of all places,” because how dare we even talk to those Red Commies, who have literally paid for America over the last 15 years — and other places have been considering replacing the dollar as the sole world reserve currency, because we have a Treasury bubble (hooray! ugh) and will likely try to inflate away our public debt by printing dollars. Again, DOLLARS. No CHINA MUNNY over here!

Here is another terrible thing she said:

Bachmann: Do we get into an inner tube and float 90 miles to some free country? There is no free country for us to repair to. That’s why it’s up to us now. The founders gave everything they had to give us this freedom. Now it’s up to us to give everything we can to make sure that our kids are free, too. It’s that serious.

She’s being SUPER SERIOUS YOU GUYS. (What is this about an inner tube?) WE CANNOT SIMPLY INNER TUBE TO CATALINA ISLAND.

Bachmann Blasts Obama’s “Economic Marxism,” Calls For “Orderly Revolution” To Save Freedom [TPM DC]
Bachmann video roundup [Minnesota City Pages]
Bachmann bill would prohibit global currency [CNN]


3:15 PM on Mon March 30 2009
By Jim Newell
6950 Views

  1. Serolf Divad says at 3:19 pm, March 30th, 2009

    She’s speaking of Confederate dollars, right? ’cause that’s the only way I can make sense of this absurdity.

  2. The Unfairman says at 3:19 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Agggggggh! After I spend all that time defending Minnesota in the last thread!

    I’m sorry, Texan Bulldogette. You’re right, you’re right, you’re always right.

  3. iwillsavethispatient says at 3:20 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I suggest we tell her that France actually is a democracy with an elected president then put her on an inner tube in the middle of the Atlantic.

  4. Norbert says at 3:22 pm, March 30th, 2009

    don’t bother inner-tubing to Canadia, because Communist Mexico of all places is about to force the Amero on all of us up here. you can actually make out the black babies they sacrifice to the owl god of bohemian grove. join a militia, people, Glenn Beck was right!!!1!! Wait, do I hear black helicoXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZXZX

  5. ManchuCandidate says at 3:22 pm, March 30th, 2009

    It’s as serious as shoving one’s tongue down W the Blunder Preznit’s throat.

    Hey, Michelle. If you’re serious about floating down to Catalina in an inner tube may I suggest the following?
    1) Coat yourself liberally in chum
    2) Make like a Seal going “Arf! Arf! Arf!” and balance a ball on your nose
    3) Ignore all that talk about the waters around Catalina being a White Shark feeding ground.

  6. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:22 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I can’t even begin to express how happy I am that this woman didn’t lose her seat in the last elections.

  7. StephanieInCA says at 3:23 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Between this and the Franken/Coleman mess, I’m pretty sure it’s time to foist Minnesota off on Canadia.

  8. Lascauxcaveman says at 3:23 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I’ve been to Catalina, an believe me, it’s not free. It’s not even close to cheap.

  9. Do we get into an inner tube and float 90 miles to some free country?

    And here I thought you could just drive into Canada. Huh.

  10. Judas Peckerwood says at 3:24 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I tried to explain this non-outrage to my half-wit Limbaugh/Hannity-worshipping parents and siblings, but there was no getting through to them. So I switched tactics and started talking up the benefits of converting to Ameros. Admittedly juvenile, but much more fun.

  11. The Unfairman says at 3:24 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The Unfairman:

    You mean SPENT, you illiterate asshole. Probably can’t speak right because of your ridiculous accent.

  12. Magnus Maximus says at 3:24 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Awesome, it’s rightwing crazy-point #213: DEY GUNZ SWITCH R MUNNY 2 MEXICAN DOLURZ OR SUMFIN YALLZ.

    Yeah man…one world currency is, like, one of the signs that something’s gonna happen to Kirk Cameron, plus goat-men from hell will come to rape the childrens. I think I read that one a badly-printed leaflet once.

  13. 4tehlulz says at 3:24 pm, March 30th, 2009

    She fails as a Christian, as she is attempting to forestall the rise of the Antichrist and the accompanying Rapture of the faithful.

  14. I know I keep saying it, but elected officials are absolutely unsuitable for work in the private sector.

  15. SuperRounder says at 3:25 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Senator Franken needs to hurry to DC so he can balance out Minnesota’s representation.

  16. facehead says at 3:25 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Obama’s plot to make white people the new currency is doomed!!!

  17. jagorev says at 3:25 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Well, the wingnuts could get on an inner tube and try to float to Canada across Lake Ontario, and probably freeze to death in the process. So… win win!

  18. P Drizzle says at 3:26 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Whatever. I’m saving my nail clippings as the most obvious form of post-apocalypse munnies.

  19. Serolf Divad says at 3:26 pm, March 30th, 2009

    iwillsavethispatient:

    France is decidedly not a Democracy: it’s the Socialist pit of Hell where all women are required by law to have at least one abortion by the age of sixteen, and everyone sits around all day eating snails and frog legs (because no one goes to work because there are no jobs and there’s like only a 35 minute work week anyway and your commute counts).

  20. jagorev says at 3:26 pm, March 30th, 2009

    We could have a whole offshoot of Wonkette filled with nothing but Crazy Minnesotans.

  21. OReillysVibrator says at 3:27 pm, March 30th, 2009

    What do you expect from an anti-American politician like Bachmann?

  22. mdotsota says at 3:27 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The Unfairman: As a Minnesotan, I don’t even consider her one of us, so I don’t feel like I have to defend MN for anything she says. I don’t even believe she’s really from here, and by here I mean Earth. WHY WON’T YOU SHOW US TEH BIRTH SERTIFIKUT BABYFARMER????

  23. DeathOfIrony says at 3:27 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I will not suit up, Ms. Bachmann, the constitution says nothing about pants.

  24. StephanieInCA: I think Canada would kick our collective asses, if we tried. Nobody wants to import crazycakes.

  25. Thegreatbacon says at 3:28 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Luckily, we get another shot at kicking her out in two years. I’ll be sure to send the democrat opposing her all my “Ameros.” She’s almost as ignorant and belligerent as a Texan (see: John Cornyn).

  26. jagorev says at 3:29 pm, March 30th, 2009

    StephanieInCA: No! Canadians have done nothing to deserve this. If anything, you send these people back to Sweden, where they came from. Sweden has committed many crimes against humanity (Ikea, Saab) and deserves to be punished.

  27. V572625694 says at 3:31 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Yet another reason to read Michelle’s official bio, where one learns that she was a “federal tax litigation attorney” (i.e. probably a tax denier) for years.

    http://bachmann.house.gov/Biography/

    She really doesn’t understand what “reserve currency” means, does she?

  28. ForTheTurnstiles says at 3:31 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Min: Australia, mate. They’ll take anyone. If you put up with their ridiculous vowels for two years and pass a quiz, they give you a passport.

    Unless you’re an Arab in which case you’re living on a prison island called Salusa Segundus.

  29. bitchincamaro says at 3:31 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Bachmann is comedy global currency. What crazy-ass fucking telepromptor is she reading from?

  30. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:32 pm, March 30th, 2009

    jagorev: I dunno. Have you even spent time in Manitoba? THEY SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME.

  31. V572625694 says at 3:32 pm, March 30th, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: Is it Australia or New Zealand where the only vowel is “e”?

  32. charlesdegoal says at 3:33 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Clams. I thought clams were legal tender in the United States. No?
    And can’t she get her ass into an inner tube and float to Canada from where she is, overflowing rivers and all?
    Great American political light. Be proud of her, you morans.

  33. El Pinche says at 3:34 pm, March 30th, 2009

    GOD, GIVE US THE POWER TO INNERTUBE TO FREEDUMB!!!!

  34. proudgrampa says at 3:34 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Omigod - this woman is a real piece of work. Can we keep Minnesota and just send her to Canada? Or would that be considered un-neighborly?

  35. Kev-O-Tron says at 3:35 pm, March 30th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: I like commenting on her blog or Facebook page. I always check back the next day and there’s always some smart rebuttal that goes something like:

    “Keep up the good work Rep. Bachmann! It’s encouraging to see these librul comments. It shows just how much a true conservative scares them! Palin/Bachmann 2012!”

    Yep. We’re scared. As scared of her as I was Santorum in 2006. Idiots.

  36. Woodwards Friend says at 3:36 pm, March 30th, 2009
  37. El Pinche says at 3:36 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Have you noticed that Sean Hannity’s forehead real-estate is shrinking? Everyday he’s looking more like a god damned cro-magnon.

  38. prizepig says at 3:38 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Communist China my ass. I converted all my assets to Chuck E. Cheez game tokens last July. That’s the REAL global currency.

  39. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:39 pm, March 30th, 2009

    OT, but for those of you who have some free time and want to work on your satire (with Michele here giving you so much to work with):

    http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/wrg/1096586963.html

    “Patriot Press Review http://www.freewebs.com/thepipedreamer/index.htm

    Got something to say. Let it out!

    We are looking for conservative writers to do short articles (300-1000 words) on current events also adding “letters to editor” section. We will consider all response’s. We get thousands of hits monthly. This is a chance to be heard! You can send submissions to the craigslist address for this add. No pay at this time but regular contributors will be considered later at $0.05- $0.15 a word. Satire and humor is welcome!

    Thank you”

    Obviously, spelling and grammar skills are not key.

  40. Cape Clod says at 3:39 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Hard to top what Matt Taibbi said on Hardball about huffers making more sense than this woman.
    Her staff must have to trail her with buckets to catch all the crazy that drops off of her.

  41. jagorev says at 3:40 pm, March 30th, 2009

    ForTheTurnstiles: Also, as long as you stay out of Queensland, where (I think) they hunt Asians and other immigrants for sport (Queensland is their Arizona).

  42. Hooray For Anything says at 3:40 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: I think she’s talking Schrute Bucks.

    The sheer amount of idiocy shown in that interview is breathtaking. You could probably add Hannity’s IQ and Bachman’s IQ and still not get to triple digits.

  43. SayItWithWookies says at 3:40 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Someone should tell her not to worry about no foreign currency replacing the dollar. It’s gonna be tattooed bar codes.

  44. 2druk2phluq says at 3:40 pm, March 30th, 2009

    People mock what they don’t understand. It’s not easy for people like Michelle, who literally spent five and a half years in captivity. She was one of the chosen few that were abducted to provide anal probe entertainment for the Imperial Draconian UFO fleet. Unless you have been through such a traumatic –

    Wait a second, I mixed up my famous wingnut backgrounds. Michelle is just fucking stupid and crazy. It’s that old guy with the 5.5 trauma hallucinations.

  45. Mr Blifil says at 3:42 pm, March 30th, 2009

    That’s it. NO MORE CURRENCY EXCHANGE FOR YOU.

  46. Larry McAwful says at 3:42 pm, March 30th, 2009

    A global currency? Dammit! I just converted all my savings to ameros, and now they’re going to change it again?

    That’s it, I’m switching over to Ron Paul dollars and I’ll count on that rEVOLution coming.

  47. jagorev says at 3:42 pm, March 30th, 2009

    2druk2phluq: I call Rule 34 on “Michelle Bachmann anal probe entertainment”

  48. bitchincamaro says at 3:43 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Was the “90 mile” reference some Freudian dig at Castro, or something? Repubs, always the anti-commie platform, even subconciously.

  49. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:43 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The Unfairman: Hahahahahahaha. Michelle is almost single-handedly making up for the entire suck of W. She negates our John Cornyn & half of Tom Delay.

  50. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:45 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: Triple digits? You’re feeling generous; I’m not sure combined they’d beat Barry’s infamous PA bowling score (wasn’t that a 37 or something?)

  51. bricks says at 3:45 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Oh Michelle! Third eye blind, other two crazy as hell.

    I love she! She’s incorrigible!

  52. Greg Comlish says at 3:45 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Our transportation infrastructure isn’t a ‘truck’. It’s a series of inner-tubes.

  53. vitira says at 3:46 pm, March 30th, 2009

    She can be put on a innertube and float across Lake Superior (in her own Minnesota) to Isle Royale, where she can be summarily eaten by wolves. Please!

  54. ManchuCandidate says at 3:46 pm, March 30th, 2009

    proudgrampa:
    Hey now! No way. She’ll burst into flames the moment she has to deal with our “hate” speech laws and universal healthcare.

  55. tootsieroll says at 3:47 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Kev-O-Tron: The NYT did a story on Glen Beck today, and by about the 5th page of comments you could tell someone had emailed the piece out to the “ALL MERICAN WINGNUT ARMY” because then were all these comments about how “Libruls hate beck because he speaks the truth!” and “Libruls only are for free speech when they agree with what’s said!” “GLen BECK SPEAKS FOR ME! I am DISENFRANCHISED AND MARGINALIZED.” Also.

  56. prizepig says at 3:48 pm, March 30th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun:
    I’d love to contribute but the design of that site gave me explosive brain death.

  57. chascates says at 3:49 pm, March 30th, 2009

    We also need a constitutional amendment to reaffirm Old Glory as our flag before Obama adopts the U.N.’s blue flag. And what about the Star Spangled Banner? We need to protect it from L’Internationale!

  58. bitchincamaro says at 3:49 pm, March 30th, 2009

    bricks: + for “I love she!”

  59. Custerwolf says at 3:51 pm, March 30th, 2009

    “…and thanks again for the invitation.” There is nothing these assholes say that isn’t a strategic attempt at some sort of perceptual manipulation. She’s not genuinely thanking him - she just wants folks to know that FOX does NOT think she’s some batshit crazy twat with a jones for Jeebus, but is instead a valid individual leading a valid and noble cause. Sure, I know that’s politics and all - but it’s the hypocrisy that gets me - that and the Godfather-styled orange peel grimace she perpetually wears. Fuck I’m glad teeveeless.

  60. vitira says at 3:52 pm, March 30th, 2009

    mdotsota: If the DFL controls the legislature after 2010 (likely) they should make it top priority to redistrict Bachmann out of a seat. It’s a friggin’ R+5 district (!) and the state may have to redistrict down a legislator after the 2010 ACORN-Census anyway (although the bitters fleeing places like Floreclosurida might make that not happen or something) and I think everyone could agree that she should be the one to go, right?

    Or we make a deal with her: we pass you dingbat amendment as long as we also pass an amendment requiring NASA to send Michele Bachmann to Mars on a one-way mission. It will be called “Send Michele Bachmann Home.”

  61. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 3:53 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The founders gave everything they had to give us this freedom.

    Oh teh stupid. It hurts!

    The founding fathers were really just whiney bitches who didn’t like paying taxes. Which sounds familiar…

  62. gurukalehuru says at 3:54 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Am I the only one here who actually thinks a global currency sounds like a pretty good idea?

  63. Hart88 says at 3:56 pm, March 30th, 2009

    And here I’ve been worried about who would replace Kitty Harris as the resident batshit-crazy female Republican. Silly me.

  64. El Pinche says at 3:57 pm, March 30th, 2009

    TRIG PALIN/MALACHI BACHMANN 2024!!!

  65. Custerwolf says at 3:58 pm, March 30th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: Fuckers spelled Milla Jovovich’s (one of Satan’s trollups) name wrong, now I want nothing to do with them.

  66. TestRat1 says at 3:59 pm, March 30th, 2009

    She looks like my old lab instructor.. Mr Batshit Krazy

  67. snideinplainsight says at 3:59 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Her plan is to say enough crazy things that every rational person’s head explodes. With me, she’s getting pretty close with me already.

  68. vitira says at 3:59 pm, March 30th, 2009

    V572625694: They don’t mention on her official bio that she went to ORAL ROBERTS wingnut school of law. But, seriously, oral? Is that okay before marriage?

  69. The depth of her incomprehension is… well. incomprehensible… It doesn’t appear that she has even gotten as far as reading Article I., Section 1. of the US Constitution. The only thing she said that made sense was “Its beyond me.”

  70. Hooray For Anything says at 4:02 pm, March 30th, 2009

    vitira: Isn’t the whole point of the 2010 Acorn Census is to do away with the districts of truth-tellers like Bachmann? Once Bachmann goes, then it’ll be that much easier for Obama to install that international currency like he’s been planning since back when he went to that Madras school in Indonesia

    Custerwolf: New Fox News slogan– “Crazed and Imbalanced: We bring the crazy. You decide to hole up in a bunker with all your guns to fend off the great Communist Takeover”

  71. TheMac says at 4:02 pm, March 30th, 2009

    DeBlumes. We should switch to gold DeBlumes and Galleons and shit.

  72. Mr. Todd says at 4:04 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Hm, I didn’t think Hannity would run with this, too. I’ve underestimated his stupidity somehow. :kills self:

  73. ColdCupofHope says at 4:06 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I guess my plan to “just innertube me there” to Amero paradise is dashed. So, this is what it’s like to live with disappointment.

  74. CreationSchwarzkopfPalin says at 4:06 pm, March 30th, 2009

    But she’s a hot Conserva-Milf
    jessayin.

  75. CorkPopper says at 4:07 pm, March 30th, 2009

    momus: See, I’m never completely sure if she (and Hannity) really confuse the global reserve currency with the US currency. I’m more prepared to believe they’re lying to stir up the wingnuts. I mean, they can’t really be that stupid, can they? Can they???

    (Weeping for my country)

  76. CampbellBrown' says at 4:09 pm, March 30th, 2009

    What a great idea that lady’s got. Accuse your opponents of doing something that they have shown not even the slightest tendency to do. I think Barney Frank should introduce a constitutional amendement banning Bachman from renaming Minnesota after Lenin.

  77. S.Luggo says at 4:11 pm, March 30th, 2009

    “And I believe that my job here is to be a foreign correspondent, reporting from enemy lines.”

    The literacy hurdle aside, if you’re a Klackon, wouldn’t that make you an alien correspondent?

    TheMac: Or to de yuan.

  78. Johnny Zhivago says at 4:11 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The United States is STILL using the Dollar??? I thought we switched to Ameroes or something last year??

  79. S.Luggo says at 4:13 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Johnny Zhivago: We switched to store coupons.

  80. picyou says at 4:14 pm, March 30th, 2009

    She’s passionate and not very smart. In college days I would have considered that to be a winning combination, but in the adult world it doesn’t work too well.

    As for Hannity, he’s just another loud-mouthed dick.

  81. snideinplainsight says at 4:15 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Ok, just for the sake of entertainment, let me ask for a second this one question; why not ratify this amendment? Considering, the ability to print money is the only thing keeping this country afloat at the moment - it seems self-evident that the country would collapse into oblivion if we discarded the dollar, if that were even possible.

    Let’s have a big parade, sign the amendment with a goose-quill pen and gold ink, thank her for her services, throw some confetti, and make a big cheer! Since she apparently has no sense of irony at all, we should award her the Green Tiara of Congressional Freedom, make March 30nd official American Currency Independence day, a day where we all use dollars to buy things. Elton John could write a stirring tribute, to the tune of Levon. Burger King could name a sandwich after her (extra cheese, extra lettuce). I want to watch that moment when it dawns on her that she’s the last person in America to be in on the joke - that the rest of us were all intending to keep using the dollar anyway.

  82. qwerty42 says at 4:16 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: “She’s speaking of Confederate dollars, right? …
    So it’s true: Save your Confederate dollars, …
    geeze. Is she fer or agin’ re-monitizing Confederate money? kinda odd her being from Minnesota and all.

  83. S.Luggo says at 4:17 pm, March 30th, 2009

    picyou: Behind those brilliant blue eyes is the last blaze of a million dying neurons

  84. DeLand DeLakes says at 4:17 pm, March 30th, 2009

    JUST LEAVE ALREADY BITCH!!! If she and her loony crew would actually just secede to the bottom of Lake Superior or whatever like they’re always threatening to do, then this state would be freakin’ OWNED by teh gays! Whee!

  85. NoWireHangers says at 4:17 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Inner Tube
    - noun
    1. a plastic, inflatable device used for riding
    2. one part of the larger Series of Tubes
    3. a plastic, inflatable device used for riding the Series of Tubes
    4. a small, plastic tube used for Felching

  86. Custerwolf says at 4:19 pm, March 30th, 2009

    You just know Hannity is beating himself up for saying “communist Chinese” when he COULD have said, “atheist communist Chinese.”

  87. Schadenfried says at 4:21 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I just want her face to wrinkle, very, very badly, so she looks like the evil lady in Coraline.

  88. Custerwolf says at 4:21 pm, March 30th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: Hannity does like to go on about her feltching smile.

  89. bitchincamaro says at 4:22 pm, March 30th, 2009

    snideinplainsight: Makes me fearful of what she’s planned for April Fools Day.

  90. I would like to take a moment to thank Minnesota for directing Wonkette’s attention away from Tennessee. It won’t last, but the effort is certainly appreciated.

  91. K. Signal Eingang says at 4:23 pm, March 30th, 2009

    In our defense, MN also brought you Keith Ellison, who really *did* take the oath of office on a Koran. So it all balances out, in a way.

  92. DangerousLiberal says at 4:24 pm, March 30th, 2009

    NoWireHangers: Tubes, did someone say “tubes”? Because as Alaska’s former senior senator, I know a lot about tubes. The intertubes, oil pipe tubes, tubes of money that flow to my hut in Girdwood…yeah, I know all about tubes.

    Yours,

    Ted Stevens.

  93. Schadenfried says at 4:30 pm, March 30th, 2009

    facehead: Would blondes be equal to the $1,000.00 bill?

  94. Schadenfried says at 4:31 pm, March 30th, 2009

    AnnieGetYourFun: LOL @ freewebs!

  95. frailamerica says at 4:31 pm, March 30th, 2009

    That bitch is straight-up fucking nuts. Oh, and so is that Irish gentleman with the pudgy face.

  96. Mr.BorgtoYou says at 4:36 pm, March 30th, 2009

    These two people are complete idiots. “keep it up congresswoman”, yeah right.

  97. picyou says at 4:37 pm, March 30th, 2009

    “What will be left for our children?” That’s rich. We *need* those children, you know, because we’ve gotta have fresh meat to send over to fight stupid foreign wars. Well, your children maybe; not our children.

  98. S.Luggo says at 4:43 pm, March 30th, 2009
  99. rocktonsammy says at 4:47 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I think we underestimate Sannity’s genius, he reels in the crazy ones and keeps them in the boat for our entertainment.

  100. MegsOfMegs says at 4:55 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The inner-tubes may not take you to a free country, but it can take you to free pr0n. Bachmann and her red-staters still haven’t figured that out yet, I guess.

  101. lampadadog says at 5:00 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Did you know that at the end of the clip–I assume many could not stand the pain and had to turn it off before this point–Hannity actually replays the travesty of her questioning Geithner and Bernanke on the Constitutionality of their actions? Then, they attempt to spin it like Geithner is the crazy one, because he does not grasp that in following the orders of That One, his Boss, he is also trampling upon the Constitution. He must be called to account for this.

    In Bachmann’s world, it’s not that the Congress granted him authority to act in a certain way, and that he must act on behalf of the Executive to carry this out. Rather, it’s that Geithner must rise up as a rebel against both Congress and the President and refuse to lay out their horrible TARPS and such. That’s what the Constitution demands of him!

    CAN YOU IMAGINE? This woman has real power, in office. I blame this on decades of crap education, and this is a problem because the upper Midwest is supposed to be outperforming all the other public schools. We are doomed.

  102. CorkPopper: If you look at her complete oeuvre you would have to conclude that its stupidity. I can cite Hanlon’s razor, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Its a corollary to Murphy’s Law.

  103. Number6 says at 5:19 pm, March 30th, 2009

    We *already* have Confederate dollars, a/k/a “Federal Reserve Notes”. In Jan. 1865 an oz. of gold was $960 Confederate Graybacks. Today about 920 fiat Feds. per oz.

  104. I’d kind of like to bring back Dutch Guilders as a currency. It was far prettier than greenbacks and would be much more fun to spend (retail stimulus!)

    The Dutch gave it up for the Euro, so its free for Amerika to steal, right?

  105. bynrdskynrd says at 5:38 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I have to point out that insHannity stated that the Chinese want to move to a global currency; do you realize your fanbase shop @ the Church of China (Wally-Mart)AND have bought all our debt? WHAT IF THEY CALL THAT IN? I guess we’re using Remembi anyway!

  106. bynrdskynrd says at 5:42 pm, March 30th, 2009

    bricks: Can we get the ghost of Bill Hicks to feed her five dried grams of Psilocybin?

  107. El Pinche says at 5:53 pm, March 30th, 2009
  108. The Frogurt Is Also Cursed says at 5:54 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Two things:

    1) Who is this ‘sean hannity’? I only know of one person with a similar name – ‘known anus sean hannity’ - same person?
    2) I used to wish this crazy bitch would go away, but now I can’t imagine living without her… Shine on you crazy diamond!

  109. tootsieroll: Are those commenters still trying to earn enough points for Walnuts golf gear?

  110. doloras says at 5:59 pm, March 30th, 2009

    V572625694: That’s South Africa you’re thinking of. In New Zealand the only vowel is “uh”.

  111. doloras says at 6:00 pm, March 30th, 2009

    jagorev: Actually, Queensland is their Florida and Louisiana combined.

  112. comradepaulson says at 6:07 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Minnesota’s quest to become Florida is complete.

  113. Jukesgrrl says at 6:23 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Kev-O-Tron: Now that you mention it, I’ve never seen Bachmann and Santorum in the same room. Tranny, anyone?

  114. CthuNHu says at 6:25 pm, March 30th, 2009

    So, lemme get this right, she wants to “prohibit … as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States.”

    But silver and gold come from the earth, which, as Genesis 1:1 helpfully points out, was created along with heaven by “an entity other than the United States.”

    Why does Ms. Bachmann reject the gifts of God? And of Ron Paul?

  115. SHIT! The stuff I miss when I’m in common mode rejection hell!
    Fuck the inner-tube! I’ll build a Commie-Tiki reed boat and sail away to freedumb!

  116. Hooray For Anything says at 6:37 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The Frogurt Is Also Cursed: It’s stuff like this that shows that Hannity got rid of Colmes not because he was too “liberal” but that he was too “sane.”

  117. Oh hell to the no says at 7:06 pm, March 30th, 2009

    A few things:

    Bachmann is from the Sixth district, which is the a pretty fucked up district to begin with. We’d gladly get rid of that district if we could.

    Bachmann only won because 10% of the people didn’t know that Tinklenberg had the Independence Party endorsement and the DFL endorsement and voted for some schlub who paid a couple hundred bucks to get on the ballot and have himself listed as Independence Party because they weren’t gonna vote for the DFL or the GOP.

    I’m sort of glad that Bachmann is safely in Washington. The last thing we need right now is a crazy unemployed person roaming the streets babbling nonsense. Although, should she ever lose her job, I will support her panhanding with my stash of Canadian coins I have been hoarding for a hilarious use TBD.

    But really, I hate that woman and I wish she’d associate herself with Wisconsin instead.

    Also.

    Also.

  118. Don’t blame Bachmann. She’s just pretty enough that she spent her 20’s saying these ridiculous things to men who readily agreed in order to bed the crazy bitch. I blame men. Every time they nod indulgently to a piece of ass, they create another Bachmann for the rest of us to deal with.

  119. If anyone watched the Olbermann piece on her, I noticed a TeLePROMpTeR. Does that mean her remarks are actually prepared and not off-the-cuff lunacy? Who the fuck is her speechwriter?

  120. Custerwolf says at 7:26 pm, March 30th, 2009

    The video still has her looking like she’s cruising on a post electro-shock high.

  121. Why is her spiel surprising to anyone? She’s using code words familiar to her fans, she specifically said she’s preventing the “one world” currency, associated with the “one world government”, you know, the antichrist one, that clearly Obama is; this is straight out of Hal Lindsy.
    To her supporters, its very clear that the literal forces of darkness (Obama) could only have won against the true forces of light (Palin) because this is it, the big one, the one-world government is on its way. And if you don’t know that, well, you’re in big trouble soon when the rapture happens….

    (Quote from Time: “Conservative Christian author Hal Lindsey declared in an essay on WorldNetDaily, “Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him — a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib … The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.”" )

  122. Hooray For Anything says at 7:34 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Custerwolf: I’d guess more like she’s cruising on some sort of mixture of crystal meth and PCP

  123. assistant/atlas says at 7:35 pm, March 30th, 2009

    K. Signal Eingang: Nice try, but you’d need a couple of Keith Ellisons, a few Claiborne Pells, a Daniel Patrick Moynihan, AND a Barney Frank to make up for this level of insanity.

    Then again, most of us can sympathize. I’m pretty sure my home state is now represented by a Palin-style Know-Nothing, a yokel-cum-corrupt farmer/politician and a boll weevil. And I think the boll weevil might be a Democrat.

  124. Darkness says at 7:49 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Stunning. She doesn’t know what a f*cking reserve currency is. Or she doesn’t care and intends to foment more mental violence from her mentally unstable supporters.

    I guess I choose B. It’s easier to cope with.

  125. Here is a site that sounds like its her talking points bulletin, its quite fascinating as a guide to what goes on in the minds of people like her:

    http://www.jeremiahproject.com/trashingamerica/money.html

    One World Currency
    The forces today that unite the greed of the moneychangers with the power play of elitists that see an opportunity to grab more of America are taking us down a road that lovers of freedom will not like.

    And here is what’s behind this one world currency move:

    http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/

    The New World Order
    As the 20th-century idols of atheism, humanism and communism are falling worldwide a spiritual vacuum is left that must be filled. In the resulting contest for the souls and minds of Americans in this new world order, the Church faces formidable opponents in godless liberal collectivists, neo-conservative fascists, globalists, New Age religion, Islam and Satanism. (Next to this paragraph is a big picture of Obama)

  126. Custerwolf says at 7:55 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: I suppose you’re right. Electro-shock would have played dangerously with the perfectly synchronized synaptic symphony of crazy that she keeps so delicately balanced.

  127. Zarathustra's doppelganger says at 8:06 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Where is Minnesota?

  128. President Beeblebrox says at 8:07 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Kev-O-Tron: If the Dems can get a candidate to run against her in 2010 whose name doesn’t remind one of a peeing elven creature, she’s toast.

  129. President Beeblebrox says at 8:14 pm, March 30th, 2009

    maven: So which is Barry: a godless liberal collectivist, a neo-conservative fascist, a globalist, a New Ager, a Mussulman, or a Satanist?

    Or all of the above?

  130. President Beeblebrox:

    Apparently it doesn’t matter. What matters is that through all of these traits, he is clearly the Antichrist and hell bent on establishing the One World Government, which is being bravely fought by those on to his secret, such as Bachmann, and apparently Hannity, who seems to get the references,and wasn’t he sort of insinuating, by showing Geithner’s response, that he’s one of Satan’s minions bent on overthrowing the Constitution? If you watch the video again with all these code words in your mind, you’ll see exactly where these two are coming from. And, of course, adding in those early clips about Alaska being one of the sacred sites that will be spared during the Rapture (which is why Palin had to have her baby there and not on the soiled soil of the continental USA), it all comes together. Especially if you are on Meth.

  131. wickedlittledoll says at 9:30 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Someone please tell me what the f*ck this chick is on? Not even crystal meth and PCP mess you up this bad…

    http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/

  132. Hooray For Anything says at 9:35 pm, March 30th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: He’s all of the above, which is kind of the fun of the Republican reaction to Obama- they all think he’s evil but can’t decide in which way he’s evil. Which, I guess, makes him even more evil.

  133. Custerwolf says at 9:44 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Where is Minnesota? Well, when you’re heading north on the interstate and you come to the evolutionary fork in the road, you just follow the sign on the right that says, “Dead End.”

  134. Hooray For Anything says at 9:54 pm, March 30th, 2009

    President Beeblebrox: He’s all of the above, some mutant form of both socialism and facism. He’s a facialist.

  135. Guppy06 says at 9:55 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Maybe she should go back to St. Paul and convince them to exercise their constitutional right to mint gold and silver coins as currency. Imagine the Paultard starbursts!

  136. DoctorCulturae says at 10:53 pm, March 30th, 2009

    Yes Sean, she is being besmirched, besmeared, and b’attacked because she is a b’wingnut.

  137. Custerwolf says at 11:17 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I’d like to knock that besmirch right off her face.
    Although I do have some regard for her after finding out that one of her favorite pastimes is adopting children. I came across this picture of one of her little darlings and it really attests to her merit as a wonderful parent:

    http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/vox.jpg

  138. CanadianBacon says at 11:20 pm, March 30th, 2009

    I found it so cool watching Geithner’s facial reactions to her line of questioning and Hannity saying that Geithner doesn’t understand her question. But she was right. The Constitution does’t have any provisions for saving the economy after some rich people screwed it up. It also doesn’t mention saving companies that make vehicles propelled by internal combustion engines. But it does mention the right to bear arms. So, unless a problem can be solved with a gun, it must be left alone.

  139. trondant says at 11:25 pm, March 30th, 2009

    S.Luggo: Behind those brilliant blue eyes is the last blaze of a millionfive dying neurons

  140. hobospacejunkie says at 1:28 am, March 31st, 2009

    Seriously? 139 comments and not once has any hetero male made the obvious comment? Must I be the sacrificial lamb? Yea, saith the lord.

    I’d still hit it.

    You’re welcome.

  141. We should change the name of the dollar to the smabolean just to make Bachmann lose her shit.

  142. CreationSchwarzkopfPalin says at 3:31 am, March 31st, 2009

    hobospacejunkie:
    I said I’d hit it this morning, and drinkin hasn’t changed my mind!

  143. TonySidaway says at 4:26 am, March 31st, 2009

    Quiche Moraine, a joint blog run by three Twin Cities locals, Mike Haubrich, Greg Laden and Stephanie Zvan, has a semi-regular Michele Bachmann blog carnival that mines the Congresswoman’s deep vein of insanity. The latest edition is here: here (quichemoraine.com)

  144. zhubajie says at 7:46 am, March 31st, 2009

    Min: Get a job teaching in China and they’ll pay for your ticket. You do have to be a can-do personality, which excludes cry-baby whiners like Bachmann.

    Zhu Bajie

  145. zhubajie says at 7:51 am, March 31st, 2009

    Is she talking about the Ron Paul Gold pieces? So will she abolish Paultardism?

    Zhu Bajie

Leave a Reply