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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMichele Bachmann: Congress Needs To Give Obama A 'Spanking,' Take Away His 'Magic Wand'
By Nick Wing
7/15/13
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) dished out an oddly phrased and factually challenged takedown of President Barack Obama in a recent interview, claiming that Congress needed to give the president a "spanking" in order to stop him from using his "magic wand" to create a new generation of Democratic voters.
Speaking to WorldNetDaily about her opposition to the Senate-passed comprehensive immigration reform bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, Bachmann argued that Republicans "could actually lose the gavel in 2014" if they allowed the legislation to pass. They'd do so not just because the bill would make them unpopular, she said, but because Obama would "wave his magic wand before 2014 and he'd say now all of the new, legal Americans are going to have voting rights."
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Bachmann then continued to describe a fantasy world in which Obama's magical powers would allow Democrats to enact changes to election laws and rule the nation forever. Only Republicans could prevent this nightmare from supposedly becoming a reality, Bachmann continued, and they could do so by giving Obama a "spanking."
"I'm not crying wolf here," she said. "This is working for the president. It's not working for the American people, but, hey, it's great by him. He has a perpetual magic wand and nobody's given him a spanking yet and taken it out of his hand. That's what Congress needs to do -- give the president a major wake-up call. And the way we spank the president is we do it through the checkbook. We're the ones who say, 'No, you can't have the money.' What's wrong with us?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/15/michele-bachmann-obama-spanking_n_3600799.html
Bachmann has got to be one of the biggest idiots to serve in Congress. Isn't her time up yet?
derby378
(30,252 posts)Some people...
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Unfortunately, Gohmert, Issa, Inhofe, Cruz, Paul, Ryan, et al. are staying.
Roy Rolling
(6,932 posts)She's just repeating her husband's sexual fantasies that he utters in his sleep....
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Her hubby wants to spank Obama?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)lasts more than 4 hours, seek medical attention.
riqster
(13,986 posts)obama2terms
(563 posts)I just spit soda all over my new hardwood floor, and sprite hurts when it comes out of your nose. This made my day
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)bigoted contempt for the man. She belittles him by calling him a child. It's very unprofessional of her, to say the least.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)She's reducing him to a spoiled child.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)I know what you are up to.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Don't overthink things. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)and you have said worse about the President than this OP states Bachman has.
I have never seen you in even a slight defense of Obama, so of course I find this OP of yours just a weee weee bit, odd, shall we say?
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Keep talking to yourself.
Ciao.......
Whisp
(24,096 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)You have said far worse about the President than stated in the OP, and I am to believe that you posted this to mock Bachman and her obvious hate and craziness...
You have said far worse for many years and now you suddenly have a change of heart just out of the blue?
sure!
Didn't a lot of us do the same thing to George W. Bush? Of course, we had truth on our side, which lent a lot of much-needed gravitas to our barbs.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)She just calls for spanking him like a child, no foundation.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Then again, W may have liked that.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)We're mere assholes on a website. She's a government official - a representative in a chamber that should be above such childish attack.
PsychGrad
(239 posts)Because to her, and people like her, he is still "boy".
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I'd like to see Congress paste some duct tape over her mouth, put a dunce cap on her head and make her sit on a stool in front of the rest of them. That's what my second grade teacher used to do to kids who wouldn't stop talking when she told them to. That's what they ought to do to members of Congress who say dumb things and talk too much.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Like on the farm bill and food stamps. He kept interrupting Democrats by yelling "objection" over and over. Who elects these dopes?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)But I would cringe in horror if a Bagger wins the WH. Then I would know that we have lost all our common sense and decency.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)God, won't she just go away? Magic wand? Spanking? As if we've been able to do much of anything what with the idiots in the House and the filibusterers in the Senate.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)The woman is an idiot. Every time she opens her mouth something stupid comes out of it. I can't wait until she leaves Congress.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)that district gets to vote again. They ought to get a time out for inflicting her on us. Time to think about what they did. Time to have to watch her most embarrassing moments over and over again and the world's reaction to them - the gales of laughter, the snorts, the uncomfortable silences.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)They'll probably send to Congress someone similar to her.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Is it?
Beacool
(30,250 posts)How else can you explain anyone voting for her, Gohmert, Issa, Cruz, Paul, etc., etc., etc.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)interesting... this is a little bit out of your usual way, isn't it Bea. This OP?
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)niyad
(113,532 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)niyad
(113,532 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)Hers probably involves leather, latex and a whip.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)the rolling eyes don't cover it.
last1standing
(11,709 posts)If she is then I think it's reasonable to ask exactly which "Americans" should have them. White "Americans" making over $200k/year perhaps? Only "American" landowners? Maybe only "Americans" with a certain level financial portfolio.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)by Congress, that Obama is going to fast track their path to citizenship so that they can vote for Democrats in 2014. She wouldn't consider these immigrants as "legal Americans". What do you expect from a Bagger like her?
Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)Being a witch she should definitely know a magic wand when she sees one
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Remember her? I forgot her name.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)Could that be any worse than the right wing gerrymandering of election districts?
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)her is beyond me. I live in MN and there are very few people dumb enough to believe that President Obama has a magic wand. If he did we would have a lot more passed than we do now. What she has is a witches wand.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)When she finally leaves, she'll pass the baton to Gohmert. I hope that the next person her district sends to Congress is better than this nut.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)...wielding a whip. And I'm kind of turned on. Lord, I need some help!!
Beacool
(30,250 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)radhika
(1,008 posts)polichick
(37,152 posts)Maybe the poor woman finally figured out that her husband likes men better than her.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)She's projecting.......
polichick
(37,152 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)like Bachmann in Congress. Wasting time and American taxpayer money by continuously and repeatedly attempting to repeal the ACA, even though everyone knows it doesn't stand a chance of happening.
This woman truly is crazy--mentally unstable--unable to rationalize or comprehend. She's also a corrupt crook who should be removed from office.
If she were smart, she'd just shut the hell up and lay low until her term expires. But...of course...she's not smart.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Some of her assertions are just plain nutty.
When did the Republican party become so extremist that the average Republicans like Dole and others state that nowadays they wouldn't be elected? Ditto for men like Ike, Nixon and maybe even their hero, Reagan. Almost every person they have been sending to Congress the last few years has been one extremist after the other. To top it all, they may even have a chance to gain enough seats in the Senate to tip it over to their side.
It's beyond depressing.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)I agree with you, there is something very basically wrong with Michele Bachmann. She has no concept of reality, and as such is ineffective in representing her constituents. She isn't doing them or anyone else good by wasting time on the crap she spews forth.
She's not the only one. Most if not all of the others who are just like her are also on the right side of the aisle. They've made our government ineffective, and they're wasting taxpayer money when they spend their time on "issues" that are nothing more than a pile of steaming excrement. Meanwhile, Americans are suffering and waiting and hoping for the government they fund to do their jobs.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Last edited Tue Jul 16, 2013, 04:53 PM - Edit history (1)
I agree with all you wrote. What's going on in Congress, and how it's affecting the country, is no joking matter and it's a disgrace.
AndyA
(16,993 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)Marcus needs to loan her some of his 'therapeutic toys' quite soon!!
Metro135
(359 posts)Aunt Clara on Bewitched made more sense than this addle-brained idiot
faithnomore
(41 posts)why don't we just give you a spanking Michele, (you'd probably enjoy it,) and take away your broom.
Sand Wind
(1,573 posts)I think she have some fantasies about Obama.
Rex
(65,616 posts)This ilk of criminal GOP strategists (known as congress people) are trying their BEST to destroy the country! Bad enough we have crazy people like Machmann in a position of power...HEY...isn't she in trouble with the law? I keeeeddd...I KNOW the GOP never gets in trouble, they are all saints...
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)What did he steal?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)him stealing 'two envelopes of cash'.
The 37-year-old Virginia resident has been charged with second-degree theft, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. It applies when less than $1,000 has been stolen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/15/michele-bachmann-staffer-javier-sanchez-arrested/
i'm assuming that means only the two envelopes of cash, not the other thefts.
she also had a staffer arrested for terrorism:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/bachmann-staffer-arrested-for-terrorism-in-uganda-in-2006/243711/
Beacool
(30,250 posts)The two envelopes with cash is intriguing. Hmmm, maybe he was taking bribes?
Thanks for the info.
Duval
(4,280 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Should we start referring to her as "Aunt Petunia"?
Beacool
(30,250 posts)The woman is repressed and she projected.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)magic pills... or share them with the rest of us who want to live in a deluded state of mind.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and the one that Boehner gives you makes you batshit insane.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)MAKES ME WANT TO SCREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAM!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)of making up my own lyrics. I even do this to Zeppelin tunes.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Tom Emmer, should he win.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I never heard of him.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)now that she's retiring. He ran against Mark Dayton (D) for governor last time around. He's a piece of work.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/tom-emmer-michele-bachmann_n_3389533.html
Beacool
(30,250 posts)juajen
(8,515 posts)Steviehh
(115 posts)Negro.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I had forgotten the "magic negro" song that asshole Rush had at one time.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)she outdoes herself every time she opens her mouth
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)We let the rethugs get control at the wrong time and they drew a very long, very crooked line around craziest people in the state. They are the people of the 6th District and they are the ones that kept sending an Idiot Out Wandering Around to Washington. I recently listed Minnesota's major sins that I know.
Michele Bachmann
1921 Duluth lynchings
1862 Mankato mass execution.
We are very sorry and embarrassed that you have been subjected to her.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)Sad moment in history.
"The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, (and the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.Dakota War of 1862 or Little Crow's War) was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux (also known as eastern Dakota). It began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota. It ended with a mass execution of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)with a character that was an idiot, I don't think I could top Bachman.
juajen
(8,515 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the stuff she says, I don't think Word Salad Sarah fully does.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)announcement that he may run for president. They were all saying why do some politicians run when they know that they don't have a chance in hell of getting elected. They used Bachmann as one of their examples. Don called her a crazy alien who is married to a double fruit salad. The others agree. Even non Democrats know that's she's nuts.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)So if you are a white Democrat you are a traitor to your race and you need to fear the armed rednecks that are coming to get you.