Tuesday, April 07, 2009
More Noxious Fumes Escape From Notoriously Large Minnesota Gas Bag
Thgis is an excerpt from an interview with Minnesota Republican Representative, Michele Bachman, who I referred to in my last post on eliminationalism. I see that John Amato of crooksandliars.com is now using the term Eliminationism to describe this irresposible usage of free speech, with out regard for the havoc and consequences.
Minnesota Independent:
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums.”
Here’s what Bachmann said on Minnesota radio station KTLK-AM (podcast) this weekend (in reference to The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, a proposed expansion of the AmeriCorps program that Obama may sign into law this week):
It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. …
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."
This doesn't mention the FEMA Concetration Camps put that Glenn Beck hyperventilates about, but Bachman has been a guest on Becks program and has legnthily fantasized with him on the air about this demented paranoid right wing nightmare..
To take and twist a concept into something as imflammatory as Bachman has done here is beyond irresponsible. She talks of an "orderly" Revolution. She refers to herself as an enemy combatant as to her role in congress.
I believe she is an insult to the intelligence of the voters of Minnesota, but then again, I have never been there.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
I'm still laughing at your title. But, listening to the interview is not funny at all. "Propaganda camps" indeed. What a bunch of fear mongers.
I got a particular kick out of a woman calling upon the sacred Founders, saying it's not what the Founders envisioned. Well, how about what those same founding fathers envisioned for women, not to mention blacks? I don't know whether to laugh or cry at an influential woman who has the stupidity to cite the Patriarchal Founding Fathers in making her point.
And yet, her constituents must be as odd as she because they re-elected her again. There must be clusters of nut-settlements across America. It would be interesting to map them out and display the locations of these miscreants.
Well, having lived (sadly enough) in St. Cloud, I can tell you they are a peculiar bunch of fundamentalists, libertarians, and right-wing Republicans. Miscreants is indeed their appropriate appelation.
As for Ms. Bachmann, in addition to supporting a nuclear attack on Iran, opposing an increase in the minimum wage, attributing sexual dysfunction to all gays, and attempting to privatize Social Security, she has introduced one bill. It is the 2008 Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, which suggests that Democrats are attempting to limit available light bulb options and as a result she recommends that we "don't trust them with our country."
Aren't you glad you are in France!
I will get some eye witness revelations from the heartland in just 8 days....
By the way, after revelations that Richard Poplawski, the Pittsburgh white supremacist cop killer had posted videos of Glenn Becks ranting about FEMA Concentration Camps, he did an about face and discredited the claims.
Too little, too late!
Minn. is right up above Iowa, my home state. Excluding Native American and recent Hispanic settler stats, Minn is superior to Iowa in a few ways.
Their dropout rate is lower than Iowa's. Their infant mortality rate is lower. Functional illiteracy is lower in Minn. Their health care is better. Minn's judicial system by the way of fairness in child custody is far superior.
Minn is the home and founding place of the American Indian Movement, AIM. Hispanics are polarized and targeted by most law enforcement agencies. Neither group are equally employed.
I'm thinkng this woman you mention lacks for nothing in her croniness. The Midwest? Overall, Midwesterners fly by whichever way the wind blows.
As long as we can get steak 'n eggs at the local truck stop, it don' matter much. Whatever is good conversation for your neighbor is good philosophy for the day.
Post a Comment