Michele Bachmann says the Darnedest Things!

[clockworkgirl21]

I wonder if Bachman really thinks she can bring gas back to around $2. Is she just lying, or is she really that stupid?

[davedan]

I think she knows she's lying. I think she just has such casual disrespect for her audience that by the time they find out she thinks they won't care.

[Jodie]

OMG THE SOVIETS !!!1!!1!1!!!

I take it that she is not aware that the cold war is over?

[Hyperio]

Rise of the Soviet Union... WTF.

Is she aware that Russians have problems on their own that won't be solved by going back 20 years or more?

[Amaranth]

Aug 18, 2011 23:18:14 GMT -5 kzn02 said:

Didn't Reagan take care of the Soviet Union or something?

Apparently, she lacks faith in Reagan.

[Armand Tanzarian]

Aug 19, 2011 1:23:11 GMT -5 clockworkgirl21 said:

I wonder if Bachman really thinks she can bring gas back to around $2. Is she just lying, or is she really that stupid?

Or she could be telling the truth. From The Economist:

How on earth could she accomplish this, the critics ask. Where will she find the new supply? But supply is only one half of the equation. Petrol plunged from above $4 a gallon in July of 2008 to below $2 a gallon in January of 2009 thanks to the impact of economic collapse on oil demand. Ms Bachmann, meanwhile, was a strong opponent of an increase in the debt ceiling. Failure to raise the debt ceiling would have produced an immediate cut in government spending of 44%, leading to a larger output decline than was observed in 2008. Personally, I have total confidence that Ms Bachmann can bring back cheap petroleum, one way or another.

www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/08/energy-prices
ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/08/18/why-michele-bachmanns-2-a-gallon-gas-promise-is-a-fantasy/

Translation: Trash the economy so hard no one around the world can even afford to drive, depressing the price of gas by half as a disastrous consequence. Sounds like a sound plan.

[Vene]

Aug 19, 2011 1:23:11 GMT -5 clockworkgirl21 said:

I wonder if Bachman really thinks she can bring gas back to around $2. Is she just lying, or is she really that stupid?

She's that stupid. She is dangerous because she truly believes the shit she says.

For example, she was held against her will in the bathroom by lesbians.

[Kit Walker]

People, this is a woman supported by the Tea Party. The people she's talking to on the campaign trail probably ARE afraid of the USSR.

[Vene]

As well as their own shadow.

[Thejebusfire]

The Soviets?
Did I go to bed and wake up in the 50's?

[Admiral Lithp]

I wouldn't complain if I was about to be raped by lesbians.

No part of that didn't make sense.

[malicious_bloke]

1986 called and they want their stupid back.

[strings]

For example, she was held ... in the bathroom by lesbians.

Darn, why can't this ever happen to me?

[kzn02]

What if she said North Korea instead?

[Amaranth]

Aug 19, 2011 10:34:56 GMT -5 Vene said:

As well as their own shadow.

As well as the sun not coming back when it "goes behind a cloud."