Tea Party GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann thinks founding fathers ended slavery

Is there a history tutor in the house? 'Cause Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-MN, needs one bad. The Tea Party fave said that "the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States....Men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country."

True, J.Q. Adams didn't rest before slavery ended...he died. Or maybe he was just taking a dirt nap.

As for a few other points from the rest of Bachmann's Bizarro U.S. History Class, Thomas Jefferson -- who wrote that all men are created equal -- owned slaves. And perhaps did more than own them. George "Father of the Country" Washington owned human property, too.

Oh, yeah, and that Constitution that Bachmann waves around, it established that a slave counted as 3/5ths of a human being.

.....................anybody who makes comments THIS stupid and ignorant about American history is UNFIT per se to serve in congress. Has NO ONE told this dumb azz woman that the Founding Fathers WERE slave owners? And slavery didn't end until the 1860's during Lincoln's administration, long after the Founding Fathers were dead and gone.

God help us.

I'm so conflicted as I watch Michele elbow her way into Sarah's space.

A Palin-Bachmann ticket would suit me just fine. A guy can dream, right?

Michele Bachmann, who organized classes for the congressional newbies (although the invitation was extended to all) on the constitution and who instigated the reading of the Constitution at the beginning of the new session, doesn't know shit about it!




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Oh, and less than three dozen showed up for Scalia's lecture.

Article 1 Section 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

I'm so conflicted as I watch Michele elbow her way into Sarah's space.

On one hand, watching them compete for the same wingnut sliver of the population is great fun. OTOH, I soooo want Sarah to win the nomination.

A Palin-Bachmann ticket would suit me just fine. A guy can dream, right?

"And, Mr. Speaker, likewise, as President Obama insisted a Catholic university cover the image of Christ during the Easter season while he spoke at that school, George Washington, our first President, demonstrated that he was not offended by the image of the risen Christ. In fact, our Nation's first President let his views be known quite clearly on his inauguration by a prayer which George Washington himself gave at his inauguration. He said, and I quote, Mr. Speaker:

"'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally, that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.'

Does Michelle Bachmann have any staffers to fact check her statements?

anuary 26, 2011, 7:10 am
TV Watch: Michele Bachmann’s Rogue Rebuttal Defies Unity Theme
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Representative Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party leader, didn’t bring a “prom date” to the State of the Union address, she didn’t wear the ribbon corsage and she crashed the after party known as the official Republican response. When Ms. Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, addressed the nation with her own, more alarmist assessment of its state, [highlight]she seemed almost like the telekinetic high school heroine of “Carrie.”[/highlight]

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It wasn’t just what she said, though she used words like “explosion” and “exploded” and “Obamacare” a lot. It was the way Ms. Bachmann spoke, smiling and gesturing with an intensity that almost cracked the screen.
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During Mr. Obama’s speech, Ms. Bachmann defied the bipartisan seating plan, electing to sit between two fellow Republican congresswomen instead of a Democrat. (Even Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina who famously shouted “You lie” at Mr. Obama during the president’s 2009 address, sat between two Democrats.)

Ms. Bachmann didn’t wear the black and white ribbon in honor of Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of the Tucson assassination attempt that so many of her colleagues, including Mr. Ryan, donned for the night.

I had tweeted out that Hardball one and Sharon Meroni retweeted it, adding "Sal is great!"

During Mr. Obama’s speech, Ms. Bachmann defied the bipartisan seating plan, electing to sit between two fellow Republican congresswomen instead of a Democrat.
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Ms. Bachmann didn’t wear the black and white ribbon in honor of Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims ...

Dear #TeaParty, Toldya so. http://bit.ly/fwXPp4 Bachmann finally admits she can't defund #HealthCare reform. #phnm #p2 #sgp #tcot

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Thursday it's not for her to say whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States — or a Christian.

"That isn't for me to state; that's for the president to state," Bachmann, the leading Tea Party lawmaker in the House, said on "Good Morning America" on ABC. "When the president makes his statements, I think they should stand for their own."

At issue is the lingering belief, among so-called birthers, that Obama was born outside the U.S., which would make him constitutionally ineligible to serve as president. (The state of Hawaii has produced a birth certificate showing Obama was born there.) Some also inaccurately believe that Obama practices Islam, rather than the Christian faith he routinely claims.

"We should take the president at his word," Bachmann said.

"We should take the president at his word," Bachmann said (Wink, wink, hint, hint, say no more).

On the GMA interview she was also blathering on about Michelle Obama promoting breastfeeding and equating it with using the tax code for social engineering. I wasn't familiar with the breastfeeding issue and couldn't figure out how it related to the tax code (other than Michele wanting to promote her history as a tax attorney).

Are the giving tax credits for breastfeeding? Or is Michele just being Michele.

Michele Bachmann wants Michelle Obama to quit meddling with American moms - especially their breastfeeding habits.

The Tea Party darling and Minnesota congresswoman slammed the First Lady for supporting a tax break on breast pumps, accusing her of trying to lead a "nanny state."

"I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies," said Bachmann earlier this week on Laura Ingraham's radio show. "To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny."

"I strongly believe in breastfeeding," Bachmann said on Thursday's "Good Morning America," but argued the "tax code is used by government as social engineering."

Of course, Bachmann is completely mis-representing what’s going on here. If this were really the “Nanny State” then the government would be mandating that all babies be breast-fed, although it’s unclear how such a mandate could ever be enforced. What this is all about is a question of whether or not a breast pump should be considered a medical device under the tax code, and thus a tax deductible as a medical expense (although, of course, medical expenses are only deductible if they reach a certain percentage of Adjusted Gross Income). While I would much prefer a simpler tax code with fewer of these types of deductions. I don’t see how a breast pump isn’t a medical device, and I don’t really have a problem with making it deductible.

And thanks to Bachmann they are after the first lady.

Megan Kelly of Fox News provided “Breaking News” on Tuesday morning about Bachmann’s statements immediately following her interview with Ingraham.

Fox contributor Sandy Rios said she had concerns about Mrs. Obama’s proposal because it’s being promoted in the African American community. Rios is the former head of the religious right organization Concerned Women for America and current head of the Culture Campaign, a group “dedicated to involving citizens in the culture war.”

“You have to remember that 75 percent of American women already breast feed,” said Rios. “We are talking about a problem that is specifically in the black community and so for you to change federal law and IRS regulations and start forcing businesses to make accommodations for nursing women to promote it in the black community is the problem that I have with it and I agree with Michele this is the nanny state on steroids.”

Sarah Palin, who has made a frequent target of First Lady Michelle Obama, poked fun at her attempts to encourage breasfeeding in her Long Island appearance today.

"No wonder Michelle Obamais telling everybody 'you'd better breastfeed your baby,'" Palin said, after suggesting that increases in prices for commodities and gasoline since 2009 are the consequence of her husband's policies. "Yeah, you'd better, because the price of milk is so high right now."

During an episode of her reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” that aired last December, Palin, while searching for S’ Mores ingredients, said she’d make the treats “in honor of Michelle Obama, who said the other day we should not have dessert."

Michelle Obama, for her part, has not entirely sworn off junk food. In an interview just before Thanksgiving, the First Lady said that special days are deserving of indulgences.

"Don't worry about how much you eat. Just enjoy it," she told Walters. "This is the time. Have pie."

The First Lady’s endorsement of breast feeding has apparently struck a nerve with some popular Republican women.

Palin swiped as well.




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mean girls.