Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the energizer bunny of crazy, is at it again. This time it's another two-fer. She repeats a prayer she attributes to George Washington that he never said and she talks about orgies in public.
Let's start with the crazy: the orgy business. The Republicans held an anti-tax rally at the State Capitol yesterday. This in and of itself isn't unusual. But Bachmann saying "orgy" and "wad" in connection to each other is a tad bizarre (mad props to Dusty Trice for the vid).
"We have seen an orgy... The government spent its wad."
This is just a bizarre rant about government, evil, shackles, chains, orgies and taxes.
Now let's get to the stupid: the Washington prayer. The kernel of this fake prayer is Gen. Washington's resignation letter after the Revolutionary War. Along the way some Christians added Thee's and Thou's as well as Almighty God and the Jesus bit at the end. This pretty much makes it not anything that Washington would have written. Washington never referred to his faith in his writings.
But the truth and facts have never stopped right wing Christians like Princess Sparklepony before.
Bachmann then proceeded to spew out a fake Washington prayer found on numerous Christian nationalist websites, compounding the lie by attributing this prayer to Washington's inaugural address, something that even the Christian nationalist history revisionists aren't stupid enough to try to get away with.
"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.'
"Mr. Speaker, our first President, George Washington, insisted on his inauguration day as the first President of this great country, that unless the citizens of our country imitate the example of Jesus Christ, that we would not be a happy Nation. What a clear contrast between our first President and our current President."
