Michele Bachmann Insane-O-Matic Quote Generator
''That's why people need to continue to go to the town halls, continue to melt the phone lines of their liberal members of Congress, and let them know, under no certain circumstances will I give the government control over my body and my health care decisions.''
—Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), a pro-lifer who completely missed the irony of using the same slogan as the pro-choice movement in arguing against health care reform
''The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.''
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, grossly exaggerating the expense of Obama's trip, which cost a fraction of that ($200 million is more than the entire war in Afghanistan costs per day), Nov. 3, 2010
''During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed ... The government spent its wad by April 26.''
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, accusing the Obama administration of premature fiscal ejaculation, May 2009
''And what a bizarre time we're in, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.''
—Michele Bachmann, March 2004
'I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country.''
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, March 2009
''There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.''
—Michele Bachmann, Oct. 2006
"FDR applied just the opposite formula -- the Hoot-Smalley Act, which was a tremendous burden on tariff restrictions, and then, of course, trade barriers and the regulatory burden and tax barriers.
-Michele Bachmann, April 2009
...at an earlier political event, Bachmann, one of the Tea Party's shining lights in Congress who is considering a run for president, betrayed major gaps in her knowledge of the Revolutionary War.
"You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord," she told a group of conservatives and students gathered at a local school, in Manchester."
Of course, that shot was heard in Massachusetts, not the Granite State.
Medicare would continue to exist using vouchers, the complaint from the left is it supposedly does nothing about cost, but the goal is to save the program itself, this would do that.
