Bachmann: "Gangster Government" Turning U.S. Into "Sinking Titanic"

[sarah553807]

I was wondering what happened to this nutjob


Congresswoman Michelle Bachman took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to call out the "gangster government." She also likened America to the sinking Titanic.

"We will always be a superpower," she said. "But one thing that has kept us a superpower has been freedom, free market economists. We are in the process of watching the deconstruction of free market economists before our very eyes, something we have never seen. But as the ice ripped that hole in the Titanic, water started being taken on, and the engineer came out and brought the blueprint of the Titanic. Water came into the first chamber, spilled over to the second, spilled over to the third, and by the time it filled up so many chambers, it was over. It was impossible to resurrect that ship."

Bachmann's gangster accusation was part of a larger diatribe:

I'm very concerned again about these motor takeovers from the federal government.

I saw today where a constituent had contacted one of the representatives, a Democrat representative here in this chamber, Representative Barney Frank. Barney Frank was able to go and talk to the right people and get this dealership back open.

Is that what we have come to in this country, that rather than a private business with a private contract with another private corporation, they're no longer able to work out their agreements because, as columnist Michael Barone has called, he said, now we've moved into the realm of "gangster government."

We have gangster government when the federal government has set up a new cartel and private businesses now have to go begging with their hand out to their local -- hopefully well-politically connected -- congressman or their senator so they can buy a peace offering for that local business.

Is that the kind of country we are going to have in the future?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/10/bachmann-gangster-governm_n_213847.html">Huffington Post

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Where was this fuckin' twit for the last 8 years?????!!!!!!!! nt

[SuperTrouper]

9. French-kissing G.W. Bush

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. AAAAAAHHHHHCK!!!!!! I knew I'd regret asking that sooner or later. nt

[Deja Q]

2. Well Bachmann, at least we voted MOST of them out in November.

Can't win them all...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Bachman "mixed metaphors" turn political speech into "meaningless word salad".

[Arkana]

4. Rooting for America to fail, Ms. Bachmann? Tsk tsk.

That smacks of anti-Americanism to me. Maybe we should have you indefinitely detained and waterboarded as an enemy combatant.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. this rat is talking about her own party - she will flee the SS GOP when it finally sinks

[joeybee12]

6. Actually, there are differing theories as to why the Titanic sunk...she apparently

learns history from bad movies. And as to differeing theories, I don't mean that it wasn't struck by an iceberg, but as to where and where the damage happened.

[SuperTrouper]

7. ROFLMAO!

:rofl:

[KingFlorez]

8. This statement would have been more appropriate during the Bush Admin

Of course, she wouldn't have said it then, she thought Bush did a good job.

[SuperTrouper]

10. "The Kiss"

[KingFlorez]

11. Oh, yes. Who can forget that display?

[bdamomma]

13. blah,

how did this woman even get to be in House of Representatives?