It saddens me to report that the last little marble caroming around inside Michele Bachmann’s skull has exited the building and was last spotted rolling down Wabasha St., headed straight for the river:
Bachmann’s proposed constitutional amendment states: "The President may not enter into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States."
Oblivious to the hospital orderlies with the straightjacket tiptoeing up behind her, Bachmann, her nostrils flared in righteous indignation, has spent the last week railing against some mist-shrouded concept of a global currency that would replace the U.S. dollar. Never mind the fact that nobody in the Obama Administration has ever said anything about replacing the country’s legal tender. That’s irrelevant. What’s got Bachmann’s "freedom cut" panties in a twist is the paranoid thought that Communists and Socialists and Fascists (oh my!) would financially humiliate . . . HUMILIATE! . . . the U.S. dollar, and by extension . . . enslave the god-fearing Americans who voted for her.
With the disproportionate moral certainty worthy of Ted Haggard amped up on Tina, Bachmann has turned her amendment bill into a klieg light that illuminates her colossal ignorance. What’s worse is that there are at least thirty other tweezerheads in the House of Representatives who share in her misplaced "patriotism" willing to co-sponsor this piece of congressional detritus.
Bachmann’s sophomoric examination of Tim Geithner last week made for great comedy, but she’s come completely unhinged with this proposed legislation. I wonder what might have happened who’d be wearing the Crown of Crazy if only Kit Kat Harris hadn’t had her own delusions of grandeur.




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It’s Bachmann-Turner (Diaries) in overdrive! I really do fear that the entire rightwing has gone into full metal mental meltdown mode.
‘evening, all-
That’s funny. Currency isn’t issued by the US now. It’s not a Treasury Note-it’s a Federal Reserve Note.
Not the same thing at all.
I keep waiting for her to go all revenge-minded on the Bushes for bailing on her, after all she did for them.
Does this mean people will stop honoring my occasional Canadian nickel for fear of imprisonment?
Whatever happened to KitKat? Where is she when we need her?
Don’t forget her Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the President from appointing Chewbacca as ambassador to Bespin.
The wingnuts never were god’s brightest bulbs and never had more than a nodding acquaintance with reality to begin with, but they all seem to have fallen off the edge of the world since the election.
I’d be careful about letting anyone know you’re in possession of foreign coinage.
There are a lot of businesses along the Highline (Montana’s northern tier of counties) here that would go broke if they had to do that.
Woman’s flip-city. I only hope that she was wearing her trademark YELLOW as she introduced the bill.
I think we need a constitutional amendment banning huffing Cheetos dust and mainlining Mountain Dew. Just look what it did to poor Erick Ericksdottir.
I’m confused. Does that make you Communists, Socialists, or simply anti-American?
I’ll hide my pesos and colones.
Great Scott! All those Greek coins my cousins brought me back a few years ago could conceivably put gas in my tank?
Stop Bachmann Now! Go Barack!
In reality, we need to include Sarah in the brunette nutcase club.
Generally speaking you can color those counties deepest (batshit crazy) red (when you get into the northwest corner, you are in deep black helicopter country).
In her defense, nothing can top ‘freedom fries’ for idiocy.
how I long for KitKat to come forward, and not just to present her boob job in 3/4 profile.
I can just hear it
I found a rejected campaign commercial from her 2006 senate race.
http://current.com/items/88018….._video.htm
I can just see it
Actually it fell into the sewer en route.
Me too. I can’t believe she won’t write a tell-all eventually.
In Canada, we have a loon on our currency. In the US, you have a congresswoman who talks like a loon about currency.
Guess you missed the little tidbit in the news earlier this week. This is not in response to Obama’s team, but is in response to a very serious push by the People’s Republic of China’s calling for a single world currency. Be carefuly whose marbles you make fun of…yours might be taken away by the largest lienholder on our great nation.
We’ll see how much she’ll be able to write about Jeb before the Special Ops guys show up at her place in the middle of the night.
She can write? Who knew?
Evenin’ watertiger and firedogs,
believe it may also be a dog whistle to the Left Behinders who believe a world currency foretells end times – that Chinese talk of a week ago was probably like a burning bush to that crowd
ooh yes, a righteous tip of the spear
This was all prompted by China hinting a couple weeks back that maybe it was time to replace the U.S. Dollar as the international standard. The context, of course, was lost on Bachmann, who really has no concept of where or why the voices in her head originate.
Ah, but Michele Bachmann wouldn’t be caught dead anywhere near Wabasha Street — she’s an exurban type all the way, and the closest she comes to either Minneapolis or St. Paul is having a satellite office in the highly-Republican St. Paul suburb of Woodbury.
There is a fine old American tradition of electing loons to Congress. At least we have not had any physical brawls or duels lately.
Excuse? If there ever were a world currency, it wouldn’t affect individual country’s currencies. From where do you come?
Eggzacktly. Karl Rove’s been pushing it too, which is a sure sign that this is all about keeping the Birchers from bolting the party.
And if you think that the Europeans or anyone else will go along with that, you are a bigger loon than Bachmann.
Will you trade?
Woodbury is a slightly licentious nomenclature for a Republican suburb, doncha think?
dugg
I haven’t seen any French Francs minted in the past few years–have you?
That’s the problem. We don’t speak the same language. There are all these buzz words that ignite the fundies and we don’t know what they’re talking about. I think of Huckabee and all that vertical nonsense. We’re all shaking our heads and his followers are all nodding theirs.
You apparently haven’t heard the protesters outside the G20 who are Europeans, and who are calling for a world currency…
They really have all come totally unhinged.
Your pointiness?
That often results from loose screws.
The Republican Party is beginning to sound more like the Donner Party. All of them are nuts.
Bachmann has gone into Hal Turner overdrive.
I think the constitution has this covered. It gives congress the power over money. That means even Presidential leg humpers like Bachmann. Even though she obviously doesn’t have a clue what money is.
Rumor had it back in the day down here that Jeb made a LOT of money in S. FL real estate. Buy a piece, sell it back and forth to pump up the value, then borrow against it and default. Can’t source it, but a pretty common story back when…and the fact that he got a pardon for Orlando Bosch, the “deadliest terrorist in the Western Hemisphere” from his dad over the objections of his own DOJ, when he was the campaign manager for wingnut Representative Illeana Ross-Lehtinen, is undeniable.
Fringe anarchists and far left socialists are in anyway representative of the opinions of the European elites??? I say this as an actual socialist. They barely got agreement on the Euro (and Britain won’t even join that). Any talk of a world currency in the foreseeable future is quite simply delusional. China’s talking point was really more about moving away from the dollar as the default currency and it is not clear that they were serious about that, rather than simply making cheap political points.
You have apparently not read the post above, or have not seen recent Bachmann sightings, in which she excoriates Team Obama and Democrats broadly for considering it, for allowing even for the mere suggestion…Which they have not.
If she were complaining about something another government was talking about, as opposed to “Not-Whackjob-Republicans”, why, you wouldn’t be here.
I don’t think the entire Donner Party was nuts, just real hungry. Shame people have to get stranded in the mountains to enjoy cannibalism.
Cannibalism… not as pretty as liposuction I’ll grant you but nonetheless a cheap and effective weight-loss strategy.
Doc, since we’re all socialists now, you must be feeling pretty vindicated.
My “pointiness” is that when a nation gives up its currency, it gives up its sovereignty, as so many of the European nations have done in adopting the Euro. Why do you think that the U.K. is still using the Pound and Switzerland is still using the Swiss Franc? It amuses me to no end that when a liberal amends a bill to protect U.S. sovereignty, it’s in the interest of national security, but when a conservative does it, he/she is a “loon” with a loose marble. Study some history before you attack my “pointiness.”
I can’t be a socialist, folks always accuse of me of being antisocial.
I never understood why there’s so little attention paid to the Bush Family monies and crimes.
disagree with the message but do not attack the messenger. flaming is not permitted and will result in comments being moderated
Or espouse certain religious values. From the Last Supper:
“This is my body; take, eat.”
If there were an Alaska Secretary of the Treasury, Michele Bachman just might be convinced by Sarah Pain to move here to take the post…
“This is my body; take, eat.”
mmm…kinda tastes like chicken.
The dollar has lost 98% of it’s value since 1913, so on that score, the one which drives various flavors of worrywarts crazy, it isn’t like the dollar has been such a great thing. On the other hand the amount of dollars has increased thousand and thousands of percent. I wish I had the number. Point being we all have a lot more of them. Some more and some less of course. Well most less now.
Please all you worrywarts. Legal tender in the US will be this dollar or some new dollar the congress may devise in the future. Your worry should be if you or Uncle Sam can borrow dollars. It’s not impossible that some day you may not be able to borrow dollars. You might have to borrow Euros or RNB’s because the lenders don’t want to get payed back in dollars. Dollars that we just might print.
This is the crux of the issue. The day when American have to borrow in someone elses currency, and pay back same, is the day of your nightmares.
It has always astounded me that people accept the most outlandish Bible stories or interpretations of same as perfectly normal when by any objective measure they are completely bizarre. The Holy Communion analogy is a prime example.
its so much worse he single handedly killed BROWARD SAVINGS AND LOAN,ten there was the medicaire fraud
miz bachmann is under the mistaken impression that the currency we use is issued by the u.s. government. as was pointed out earlier, our currency is issued by the fed, not the u.s. government.
she’s also under the mistaken impression that obama was talking about a world currency. he’s not.
other nations, as also was pointed out earlier, are talking about no longer having the u.s. dollar be the standard internationally. that’s not the same thing as having a global currency.
As the expression goes (and the note on my office door says), “Socialism, your doing it wrong!” In actual socialism the profits go to the masses and the costs go to the elites (”from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”). The bitter truth that no one wishes to acknowledge is that capitalism simply does not work (not that I am sure anything else does either). The kinds of clusterfucks we saw in the 1890s, 1930s, 1980s, and again today are features, not bugs. While socialism may not be anymore efficient or perfect, at least it is far more fair in its distribution of rewards. As Adam Smith observed in The Wealth of Nations, the only value of a thing is the labor which goes into its production. All profit is effectively theft from the workers who made it.
Just think of the potential for a Vegas act (well…circus act, maybe) if we could get Palin, Bachmann and KitKat together. I’d probably spring for a pay-per-view on that deal.
I’ve also been getting paranoid-wingnut freak-out emails for about a year about a pan-American currency called the “Amero”. I don’t think this is an entirely new alarm.
This is the crux of the issue. The day when American have to borrow in someone elses currency, and pay back same, is the day of your nightmares.
Bingo.
Hasn’t the Android Sisters already been done?
While I have not received those, I wouldn’t discount another Rovian cloud-seeding operation.
theBUSH BANKSTERS
http://rationalrevolution.net/….._the_s.htm
Just one more example of why you do not want to look too closely at anybody’s religion – they all contain fairly icky and/or insane bits like the symbolic (or metaphysical, if you are Catholic) cannibalism inherent in the Eucharist.
I said the other night, Michelle Bachmann is playing the role of resident female wingnut for the GOP mouthbreathers.
In the 90’s it was Idaho’s Helen Chenowith who helped inflame the McVeigh wing of the GOP.
After Oklahoma City people didn’t listen to her as much.
Then she got voted out of office and died when an SUV she was in went off a mountain.
I see Bachmann ending up like Katherine Harris.
-G
Their MC/Manager should be William Kristol
Suzanne: disagree with the message but do not attack the messenger. flaming is not permitted and will result in comments being moderated.
Title of editorial:
Late Nite: Michele Bachmann Is Loonier Than Minnesota’s 10,000 Lakes
But flaming our elected representatives is fair game? The very tone of the articles on this website invites flaming in the comments. I have never been one to resort to ad hominem attacks, but the writers here can’t expect to put out a fire by dousing it with gasoline…
it is given to BOOM AND BUST CYCLES
I think it has. We’ll need some new schtick.
Then the Banana Republicans will have won by turning us into the third world nation they want us to be.
my statement was clear and moderator decisions are final.
What the hell are you talking about? Who among us is advocating giving up the dollar? WHO?
I see Bachmann ending up like Katherine Harris.
Where is Harris now? Did she fall off the flat earth, or what?
Jebbie the smart bro
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
I disagree. I thought Harris handled that horse beautifully.
i agree
Are you accusing me of attacking someone?
She’s probably advertising in the swinger’s sections of Craigslist.
-G
i do not see your name in my admonition – there was no name just the statement.
Yup.
Don’t write off Katharine Harris. Parts of her will probably be around for thousands of years.
The thing is, if Bachmann were here on a live thread, everyone would be completely respectful. Tough, but polite.
A live thread with Bachmann would be fun, Think she’d do it?
You’re no doubt right, newtonusr. It’s another grand and ***brilliant*** plan instituted by the nutcases.
What the hell are you talking about? Who among us is advocating giving up the dollar? WHO?
I am accusing the Chinese government of pushing for a world currency, and defending Michele Bachmann’s concern for same.
ya know Doc, there is anecdotal evidence seeping out – that post last night about the group that rejected Coulter and some other equally bizarre story today about another group of forced birthers – tone more strident than we’ve heard of late, reminiscent of 90’s Kansas City. without big daddy, many rudderless bottom feeders gonna do the crazy
That is the least of its problems. Corruption, cheating, and fraud are endemic (it is a system of adverse incentives). It also invariably tends toward monopoly or oligopoly (through what in evolutionary biology is called competitive exclusion). We have been keeping capitalism on life support for over a century through various forms of government regulation (which the Republicans have been systematically rescinding since 1980).
Gotta recover that campaign deficit somehow…
Can’t guarantee everyone would be respectful. Mods would have to stay on their toes.
Nobody in the US or anywhere else in the sane, reality based universe.
extremely well said
That would be an E-Ticket Thrill Ride.
The thing is, if Bachmann were here on a live thread, everyone would be completely respectful. Tough, but polite.
A live thread with Bachmann would be fun, Think she’d do it?
She probably would. I have neither her experience nor her savvy, yet here I am in the lion’s den.
She’s probably still licking her wounds. And emailing Michelle daily.
No.
The closest I ever saw to anyone being as ass on a live thread was during a Hillary thread a few years ago, and a bunch of those people haven’t been back since.
It is what they pay me to do.
G’nite all. Time for this billy goat gruff to bed down… on one side of the bridge or the other.
In that light, is it my imagination or has Faux become noticeably more shrill these days? Which, for them, is saying something…
you deserve a biggggggggggggg bonus imo
ducks and runs
Damn. Suzanne, if we could get Bachmann to come to the Lake, don’t we kinda gotta do it?
nite ratty
Well, you seem to have admirably dodged the troll. 8-)
Night.
I know I’d have a real problem muzzling the snark. I’d try, but when there’s a target like that? Damn…
oh puleeeze,id have to indulge in some xanax
The Chinese government can do whatever they like. It doesn’t mean that anyone with authority in the American government will do it.
Chill.
Beck had a full screen behind him full of Nazi’s marching today. And he was shrilly declaring that he was wrong about the US creep towards socialism and said that it is creeping towards fascism.
Beck is going to have a mental breakdown soon.
He’s devolved into turning 9/11 into a marketing shtick.
Nuts as I have ever seen.
-G
i doubt anyone on this thread is authorized to speak for her – until i hear that from her, it is not gonna happen.
But, neither has Hillary.
I haven’t seen a good pie fight for a while.
Hi Hi.
I try not to pay any attention to Faux Noise (I do not watch them ever – I made that mistake once many years ago), but you could be right, based on what I have seen on the blogs.
I give respect where it is due and this is not one of those places.
he seems to be a stranger to reality….
………………………….PSYCHOTIC BREAKTIME
I have the occasional misfortune of visiting clients who would invariably be watching Faux in the middle of the day in their offices. Man, does it burn!
Beck has either gone completely off the deep end or there is a serious effort by some on the right to incite an actual revolt. I favor the former, but cannot rule out the latter.
Night, ratfood.
They’re scared to death.
I have caught brief snippets in public places in the past. Those are businesses I do not frequent again.
.
Naw, man, it’s not like that. Say hi, explain your position, a little tact, you’ll do fine.
This is a very cool place. Hang out.
He really is straight-up crazy. I mean Billo and the rest of that bunch are offensive, but Beck? A Section 8, if I’ve ever seen one.
Yep. Just when good sense tells one to turn down the volume, they turn it up to eleven.
(beavis & butt-head)
Huh uh, huh huh uh, he said “wood”
(/beavis & butt-head)
Saw that. I’m not sure where the line between free speech and treason lies.
It would seem so.
I wholeheartedly believe that there is a strong element agitating people to act out violently.
But these idiots are playing with fire.
First, they are pushing populist rage and these nitwits are the biggest fanboys of the money elites and big business leaders. So, they are pushing people to the edge and they are actually IN the targeted demographic.
Secondly, they have this silly notion that Democrats and leftists are a pack of wallflowers without any fight in them. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
-G
If this is the “lion’s den” (I always thought of us as pussy cats), I hate to think what Sadly, No! is.
Nicely articulated.
.
I wholeheartedly agree with you, and there will be apologists for it when it happens.
See? Proof that RD is the most polite guy on all of the internets.
Here there be monsters….
are actually IN the targeted demographic.
=======================
becareful whatyou wish for,while playing with fire
while?
I do think there are some on the right pushing for violent action. Fortunately, the whack jobs they are talking to are a very small minority and do not constitute any serious threat to the country. They are, as Timothy McVeigh demonstrates, still capable of causing huge damage to innocent people. As to progressives being milk toasts, I am armed and leftist. Bring it on, MoFo.
And you’re sweeter than a stolen kiss, but I really just like to hear what people think. People with which I can disagree vehemently, yet still be civil with, are a mild treasure.
Please think about the people who actually do get discharged from the military for psych problems; a dear member of my family tried very hard and was discharged on a Section 8. He’s very sweet and not at all like Billo or Beck.
Snark Dragons to be exact.
Hey lady…you feeling better?
An impossibly good comment.
I am generally polite to everyone, no matter how delusional, unless they directly attack me or are in a position of power like La Bachmann.
Point taken.
ditto
You firepups are a sight for sore eyes!
Well, I called Bush a neo-fascist and a crypto-Nazi a whole bunch of times, so I’ll vote against treason charges for Beck on that one.
Think Klinger
and i prefer cows,cats dogs ducks and turtles,or if human below 10 years ofage
Pretty much better, but dang it does seem to want to hang on. Thanks for asking. See how nice RonD is? *g*
Dr. Dick, how long did it take you to get over the ick?
where you been?!?
True. Patience truly is a virtue. I give, but I admire you so much!
I give him a pass on the Nazi bullshit, but the calls for violent resistance are clear calls to treason and meet the basic definition of sedition under federal law (not that anybody has ever been tried under the statute in living memory).
hey brat how are you doing down there in Monterey??
Oh, Margot! Who would ever compare a discharged military person with Glen Beck or Bill O’Reilly?
There is absolutely no comparison.
Well, the other thing these raging idiots have forgotten is that this is a post 9/11 nation.
If or when something happens, all of those Beck and Limbaugh quotes are going to come back to haunt them.
-G
hehe.. well, if the US economy keeps tanking and central bankers around the globe decide to abandon the dollar as the universal reserve currency, then SDRs (standard drawing rights) may make a come back. One will need ‘em to afford the black helicopters we will need to raid the Bachmann family compound in MN.
imho we’ve been somewhere between creeping and galloping towards fascism for quite a while now. certainly during the reign of bush 43. i don’t feel like noticing that qualifies me for treason. on the contrary. i care about the erosions of democracies that have occurred so very rapidly.
The admiration is very mutual, dear.
But… But… But the Country is in the hands of – THEM!!! No measure is too strong to prevent inhalation of our valyews™
About two days after the doctor gave me the Z-Pack antibiotics. We truly live in an age of miracles. I noticed a difference within 24 hours. Of course what I had was a bacterial infection and not the flu (praise Pasteur for flu shots!).
Calling someone a name and inciting are different. I’m not clear on when it gets dangerous here.
You don’t have the platform these folks do.
Colbert is as strong a patriot as I can think of, though!
The reality is that domestic far right extremists are and always have been the greatest terrorist threat to this country. They have caused far more damage than all the Islamic terrorists combined.
Yeah, NPB. Where have you been?
True. Hannity has been making a lot of the same kind of noise on his radio show.
The election of Barack Obama has given me quite a good deal of entertainment, listening to right-wing talk radio freakouts…especially since I know one of the people they’re bitching about is me.
eagggggggggggggh.how did get so late,shuttin down dears, nite,nite
I agree. After his Correspondant’s Dinner appearance, he never has to lift another finger a far as I’m concerned. He and Stewart both.
Thanks. I think I’ve just got the regular old bug. It’s a good thing I really enjoy reading. Really want to get back to the gym. I did some catching up housework this morning and then ran some errands. Had to take a nap when I got home. It’s hard for me to stay “down”.
Where’s that patience Loo Hoo and Ron were talking about?
Sweet dreams Sadly.
I always have been one of “those people”. Living on the far left fringe of America (what would be center left in Europe or most of Asia) does provide a certain perspective on things.
His deconstruction of Beck was a glory to behold.
Oh, gawd. Have we changed languages now?*
Colbert is truly one of the great patriots of our time.
His Press Club Dinner speech was legendary.
Took on the political class and the media without flinching.
-G
What?
Yep. Epic.
And Really, the victim did all the work.
No, but t hey have. They now only speak Murkin. That is a pidgin English suitable to a 4 year old’s comprehension.
It’s foggy on the edge of the Great Swamp, and summer is charging in. The bugs are back, and hordes of small lizards chasing them. Snakes on the move, too. Already nearing 70 at night, which means 90+ in a couple of weeks, and the daily thunderstorms. Crickets are raising hell, and I can hear an owl in the distance.
Goodnight, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.
Think I will head out. Have to take a glucose tolerance test in the morning to see if I am diabetic. Take care all.
Greg, I go back and watch that from time to time just to get centered. He was brilliant and deserves medals upon medals for that work.
It was a scary time, and he showed bravery like no other.
nite RonD. always a treat.
nite doctor
Nightie nite RonD.
And Dr. D, best of luck with that test. That’s stuff’s really, really sweet.
Sorry. Said goodnight before I saw your question…since Obama was elected, I’ve taken to listening to right-wing talk radio, just to listen to them cry. It’s a faintly sadistic kind of fun.
Oh, and I found a meat market today that sells gator tail. Woo Hoo!
‘night…
(((Loo Hoo)))
The shot of courage and laughter that was needed for that time.
I get the Chris Matthews thrill up my leg just thinking about it.
-G
Best with that, DrDick.
Well, I’m glad for Suzanne that the flinging’s over, but I was kind of hoping for a splat of coconut cream splat to come in my direction.
gator tail. I’ll wait for the explanation. Sleep well, bud, hope no gaters get you!
I didn’t mean to say splat twice. I guess we know what that means.
It was patriotism like we haven’t seen since I’ve paid attention. He showed his willingness to put his ass on the line before things turned around. That’s why I respect him SO MUCH!
The wonderful work Stewart did a couple of weeks ago was worthy, but the tide had already turned.
Colbert is a true hero.
He’s not just a hero, but stingingly, brutally funny, night after night.
Sometimes that show borders on comic genius, and some of those nights, it goes beyond.
So true.
Sorry, Margot. No trades. Your dollar may be worth more than our dollar but Bachmann’s entertainment value is far outweighed by her aggravation factor. Please keep her down there.
The irony not lost on Bachmann or her handlers is that that’s exactly what’s taken place under Bush’s watch and increasingly under Obama’s. Except for the global currency part, which even Bush Hugger Bachmann would know. And some of them are republicans and monarchists, too (which on the full spectrum horror Michelle posits usually fit somewhere between the socialists and the fascists).
Her antics mock — and therefore understate — the real threats we face, just as they mock and devalue the legislative and constitution-amending process. She uses the faux concern about some mythic global currency as disguise. As if new, funny faced and colored paper were what was required to devalue the dollar or topple it as the world’s reserve currency.
If the point is to hide the damage caused by Bush, and to derail rational responses to the problems we do face, I’d say the GOP was getting its money’s worth from Michelle and then some.
Balk-mank is going to continue to take to the mound of nuts to toss a bunch of crazy hoping to throw a strike. Unfortunately it seems as if the umpire is no long blind in one eye and unable to see out the other. Hopefully she’ll soon be known as the bore who cried wack and travel furthur into the twilight zone of irrelevance.
The Ameros question is answered at Snopes but from my experiences, checking sources for possible fraudulence is somehow unChristian to the faith-biased.
Apparently being a strict constructionist doesn’t preclude one from introducing idiotic and empty amendments to the constitution.
No serious person – and no one would mistake Bachman for one – believes our country would sign on to a world currency, even if there was such a movement afoot.
There is no incentive for us to do so.
It’s really awful to watch these people treat the public as rubes.
…On the other hand… Credit Default Swaps seem to have become the coin of the land. W00t! Good thing we have Michele Backmann to keep us safe from those!
Both China and the Soviet Union have called for a worldwide currency, so this issue is definitely on the table. This is fact, not hyperbole. But it seems that most of the contributors prefer to deal in hyperbole. Their attacks serve no constructive purpose other than to make them “feel good.”
Feel good? Yeah, I can say I feel much better knowing I have a President who is now assuring the American people that the warranties for GM and Chrysler built cars will be fully backed by the United States government. President “Goodwrench” makes us all feel better, just as he did when he campaigned on the five magic words of “hope, change, yes, we can.”
Bachmann’s concerns are dictated by President “Goodwrench’s actions.” He is now running a failing automobile company. I didn’t see his automobile experience on his resume during the campaign, did you? Can you imagine? Here’s a guy who never ran as much as a corner grocery store and he is now running an American automobile company.
So even though you didn’t hear about it in any of his speeches, a global currency might not be out of the question. Stay tuned….