When we claim that she's crazy, we're not simply saying that because we dislike her. We say that she is insane because there is a pattern of saying and doing amazingly unhinged things.
Michele Bachmann has said some really crazy things. Her behavior can be quite erratic as well. If she would occasionally spout nonsense, okay. Every right winger occasionally let's their guard down and shows their true feelings. Sadly, we've become accustomed to it. But she's out on the lunatic fringe of things more often than not.
In a fiery speech that had her conservative Colorado audience cheering, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann railed against the dangers of health care reform and other Democratic initiatives, warning the proposals "have the strength to destroy this country forever."
"This cannot pass," the Minnesota Republican told a crowd at a Denver gathering sponsored by the Independence Institute. "What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass."
See the World's Worst Person archive for Keith Olbermann's take on her behavior.
If you were to watch just two videos to gain some insight into what makes her sparkle so brightly, these two videos are probably the ones:
"What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or Anti-America? I think the American people would love to see an expose like that."
"I'm a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington."
She asserted that we don't need to save the planet from global climate change because Jesus had already saved it.
"[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, he saved the planet -- he didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that."
Last time I checked in with the evangelicals, Jesus only saved people's souls.
She claimed that the stimulus bill passed at the beginning of the Obama Administration included a rationing board for health care.
the "Community-Organizer-in-Chief" is also orchestrating a conspiracy involving the Census Bureau, which the president will use to redraw congressional lines to keep Democrats in power for up to "40 years." When the host said he was confused, noting that congressional district lines are drawn at the state level, Bachmann said Obama's non-existent plan is an "anti-constitutional move."
After only a few months of the Obama Administration she told Sean Hannity that conservatives need to stage an armed revolution to prevent the Democrats from "achieving their ends. She believes Obama wants to end freedom in America.
After a Homeland Security report about domestic terrorism was leaked, she ranted that conservative, pro-gun veterans were now considered domestic terrorists.
Bachmann: And then the Lord showed me that I needed to go to college,
and so I went to college...
...And the Lord then led me to this man, stand up, darling, this is
Marcus Bachmann, my husband (applause).
Led me to him, and showed me that this was also part of my calling.
That my calling was to marry this man.
And I tell you that, because, I hate to disappoint you, darling, but
it wasn't a big romantic surge that led us to each other. It was His
Word.
We were praying one night, a girlfriend and I, not Marcus, and the
Lord gave each one of us the same, exact vision. And it was this: It
was a picture of me, marrying this man, in the valley where his
parents have a farm in western Wisconsin.
And we got that word, we were praying in the Spirit, I'd been baptized
in the Spirit, we were praying in the Spirit and the Lord showed us
that, and I just said, "Well, Lord, that's really strange, I'll just
put in on the shelf."
And I put it on the shelf, put it in His hands, and said: "You make
the calling sure."
I had no idea: at the same time, the Lord was speaking to my husband,
and He showed my husband, he was repairing a fence on the farm where
he worked, and the Lord showed him in a vision that he was supposed to
marry me.
...And during those dorm years, when I was busy studying, the Lord put
in my heart, that if I would be diligent and I would be steadfast, He
would take me to law school. And I thought, law school? I have no
interest in going to law school. But I put that in His hands and I put
in His plan, and I put it in His hands, and pursued that, and
eventually He did, He took me to law school.
And I went to the first Christian law school that there was in the
United States, down at Oral Roberts University, where they taught the
law from a Biblical worldview.
And from there, my husband said "Now you need to go and get
post-doctorate degree in tax law." Tax law? I hate taxes. Why should I
go and do something like that? But the Lord says: Be submissive,
wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.
And so we moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, and I went to William and
Mary, to law school there, for a post-doctorate degree in tax law, and
I pursued this course of study. Never had a tax course in my
background, never had a desire for it, but by faith, I was gonna be
faithful to what God was calling me to do through my husband, and I
finished that course of that study.
...And in the midst of all this, as if we didn't have enough to do, He
called me to run for the Minnesota State Senate. I had no idea, and no
desire to be in politics. Absolutely none.
...And even though we were not successful getting (same-sex marriage)
on the ballot, guess what? Although we were attacked, the message
remains the same. As Pastor Mac (Hammond) has said: He is the same
yesterday, today and forever. And His word will always be true, that
He created them male and female, and that he brought them together,
and that's what marriage will be.
And in the midst of that calling, God then called me to run for the
United States Congress.
And I thought, what in the world would that be for. And my husband
said ?You need to do this." And I wasn't so sure. And we took three
days, and we fasted and we prayed. And we said "Lord, is this what you
want, are You sure? Is this Your will?" And after, along about the
afternoon of day two, He made that calling sure.
When we claim that she's crazy, we're not simply saying that because we dislike her. We say that she is insane because there is a pattern of saying and doing amazingly unhinged things.
