One of the sweetheart Bachmann interviews that appeared here in the Minnesota press over the past month gave her the chance to distance herself from some her notorious extremist remarks.
Here's that moment, from Bachmann's interview with Larry Bivins, reporting to the St. Cloud Times on November 22, 2009:
Q: A lot has been made of some of your statements - the "gangster government" comment, the "anti-American" comment. Is there anything you've said that you regret?
A: Oh, gosh, absolutely. Of course, I wish I could be more artful in the way that I say things.
Actually, we know that she doesn't regret calling Obama and her Democratic colleagues "gangster government." We know that's another Bachmann lie. Because she just did it again, on the floor of Congress.
Here's Bachmann addressing Congress, the date is December 9, 2009.
"As harmful to freedom as (the bailout bill, the health care reform bill and energy bills are,) they don't hold a candle to the government takeover and control of every financial transaction of the financial industry. And why? Because when government controls credit, when government rations credit and bails out its politically well-connected friends, that's gangster government at its worst, and that throws a net of government control over every financial transaction entered into in this country."
And here she is repeating "what she says she regrets saying, absolutely," at conservative event in St. Louis in September of this year:
God, I love the fact that people record what she actually says. That means we don't have to rely on Minnesota's political reporters--who take her lies at face value in return for the honor of interviewing her.
