Hey, I certainly think everyone's entitled to their own opinions and views. But Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Pluto), Tea Party darling, not only has her own views, but apparently she writes her own history books as well. Facts don't get in the way of this Congresswoman's thinking! She just makes up her own! How enterprising. Hey, Michele, here's the rule -- you don't get to just make crap up.
Some have called her a LooneyTunes, but hey, don't go around insulting Bugs Bunny! How can people from the 6th District in Minnesota keep electing someone to Congress who: 1) called for an investigation of Democratic Congressmen and women for being "anti-American" (whatever that means to her)? 2) said President Obama didn't say "God" enough? This being the same woman who wasted Congress' time and taxpayer money by having them start the 112th Congress by reading the Constitution aloud, apparently ignoring the fact that it only mentions religion to give us freedom of it? 3) claimed that President Obama's trip to India would cost $200 million a day, blindly accepting a discredited and completely untrue account from an Indian news agency, and 4) taped a separate rebuttal for the Tea Party to the President's State of the Union speech where, along with making up her own ideas of which President was responsible for the bulk of our national debt, gave her own version of history by saying that the Founding Fathers worked tirelessly until slavery was no more? Really??
Ms. Bachmann, maybe you didn't read that part of the Constitution, which you so famously wave around, written by said Founding Fathers, where they specify that slaves were to be counted as 3/5ths of a person? Maybe you never heard of a certain conflict where over 600,000 people died, a war fought largely over slavery, called the Civil War? Remember hearing about that? That was 1861-1865, Ms. Bachmann, not the 1700's. Remember a President named Abraham Lincoln? The Emancipation Proclamation? Any of this ringing a bell?
This reminds me of former Bush press secretary Dana Perino, who didn't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. Yeah, a little thing like coming thisclose to nuclear war and Ms. Perrino didn't have a clue.
No wonder people say our schools are failing our kids! But what's really sad is that there are Tea Partiers out there who will believe anything that comes out of Ms. Bachmann's mouth, in part because they have an expectation, as do we all, that someone who could become a member of Congress ought to have some common sense and some idea what they're talking about. Unfortunately Ms. Bachmann does not. This is an embarrassment to this country, to Congress, to the Republican Party that she nominally belongs to, to the Tea Party, and especially to her elementary school teachers!
People of the 6th District of Minnesota -- please get a clue and elect someone next time who is at least somewhat knowledgeable about the Constitution, about basic American history, and who is worthy to sit in Congress and participate in creating legislation for all of us. Ms. Bachmann does not qualify.
