Bachmann: Turn Her Overdrive off!

There's a woman from Minnesota, name of Michele Bachmann, who occupies a seat in the US House of Representatives - home to great statesmen of our land such as Salvatore "Sonny" Bono, the guy who played "Sonny" on "Sonny and Cher," Ben Davis, the guy who played Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard, and Fred Grandy, the guy who played Gopher on tv's "The Love Boat."

Michele, Sonny (no Cher), Cooter and Gopher.

The latter three served without great distinction in the House, but Rep. Bachmann (R., MN) is quickly developing a reputation for saying outlandish things. This past Monday, she hit the bell twice.

First, in a discussion of the Swine Flu, she said, "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

Well, thanks, Honorable Representative of the Land of 1000 Lakes! Because when the swine flu scare occurred in 1976, Gerald R (as in Republican) Ford was president. Mr Carter was elected in November 1976, and sworn in in 1977.

And then that night, Ms Bachmann spoke from the House floor again, and talked about how great the Republican economic policies of the 1920s were, under Calvin Coolidge. These wonderful policies, as any semi-educated person knows, led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. But Ms Bachmann hit the jackpot again, blaming the Democrats (and pinpointing President Franklin Roosevelt) of the 1930s for turning a "recession into a depression" by use of such means as the "Hoot-Smalley Tariffs."

One only needs to watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" to see Ben Stein droning on about the Smoot-Hawley Act, but Ms Bachmann must have cut class the day they were teaching that in Econ 101.

You have to like her attempt to link the Democratic party to an outbreak of a flu strain. I would love to meet someone who actually voted for her.