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Bachmann Jumps the Shark Again, Likens Financial Reform to Mussolini’s Italy

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), who can always be counted on for hyperbole and assorted fabrications chained together in to her very own special drivel-language, jumped the shark, yet again, during a Tuesday evening webcast with a Tea Party PAC. She likened the financial reform bill currently in Congress with the policies of the fascist government in Italy during Mussolini's reign:

Let's remember really what this is. This has a lot in common with Italy in the 1930s and they way Italy dealt with economics. It still continues private ownership of business but government is in control.

So government control of the private business, while it's private ownership, that's still at the end of the day the federal government virtually having a say over private business. We lose freedoms; we lose economic competitiveness.

And don’t forget, Italy is in tough shape financially, and that’s not what we want for the United States.

MICHELLE BACHMANN: A Covenant to Slit Our Wrists....

Speaking to the conservative group, Independence Institute, at a fundraiser in Colorado, Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) had this to say in reference to health care reform:

This cannot pass.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.

Slasher movie, anyone?

Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.

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Source: Colorado Independent, August 31, 2009

MICHELLE BACHMANN: SBHC and THE BAD SEX CLINICS

Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has decided that health care reform will open up the schools for.....SEX CLINICS!

She has apparently interpreted a section in the bill as relating to "school based health clinics" (SBHC), to mean that schools will be offering abortions to students. Bachmann:

The bill goes on to say what's going to go on -- comprehensive primary health services, physicals,

treatment of minor acute medical conditions, referrals to follow-up for specialty care -- is that abortion? Does that mean that someone's 13 year-old daughter could walk into a sex clinic, have a pregnancy test done, be taken away to the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, have their abortion, be back and go home on the school bus that night? Mom and dad are never the wiser.

Section 2511 of the bill Bachmann refers to, does not mention abortion. It further states/enjoins: 

SBHC services will be provided in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws governing-- (I) obtaining parental or guardian consent; and (II) patient privacy and student records, including section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and section 444 of the General Education Provision Act.

From HuffPost:

The concept of "school based health care clinics" was introduced under the notion that students achieve higher academic performance when they are healthy and receive adequate medical attention. According to the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, if implemented SBHCs would give schools access to physicians "so students avoid health-related absense and get support to succeed in the classroom."

Seriously, Bachmann has some sanity issues.

Michelle Bachmann on the Stalking Census Takers

In memory of Bill Sparkman,

the teacher, loving single father, and part-time census worker who was bound, gagged, and hung naked with the word "FED" scrawled across his chest on September 12, 2009, in Clay County, Kentucky.

On June 25, 2009, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) made the following inflammatory statements about census workers.

I think there is a point when you say enough is enough to  government intrusion. Source

If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations, at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.  I’m not saying that’s what the Administration is planning to do. But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to the census bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up.Source

You will receive approximately six contacts from them [Census workers], either through phone calls or they will knock on your door. If you still do not give them the information, they said they’ll contact your neighbor to the left of you, to the right of you to get information Source

Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Republican, Minnesota, 1956-

Michelle Bachmann Wants Her Constituents Armed and Dangerous

Rep. Michelle Bachmann, on March 21, 2009

I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue

of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people – we the people – are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

Rep. Michelle Bachmann, Republican, Minnesota, 1956-