This is NOT from The Onion; she actually said this:

[JDDavis]

To summarize Michele Bachmann's speech on the floor of the House: God gave Moses the Ten Commandments so America would be rich

In her farewell speech on the House floor, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) said that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is “under the authority” of the ancient biblical figure Moses.

... More word salad, anyone?

“Because you see, Mr. Speaker, Moses is given for the full honor of the greatest lawgiver in this chamber, because he was chosen by the God that we trust to be entrusted with the basis of all law. The ‘basis of all law’ as was written by Blackstone, the famous English jurist, was the Ten Commandments, that were given by none other than the God we trust on Mount Sinai,” the congresswoman said.

“We know those laws, those laws are the fundamental laws of mankind, and here in the United States, the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses is the very foundation of the law that has given happiness and the rise of the greatest prosperity that any nation has known before.”

“Mr. Speaker, it could be no coincidence that this nation, knowing and enjoying the heights of such great happiness and such great prosperity, that it could be built upon that foundation of the Ten Commandments and of the law given by the God in whom we trust.”

Watch full word salad video below:

or don't bother

Remember: religious people have very little real influence upon our wonderful democracy, so I have seen written many other times somewhere else on DU.

[frogmarch]

1. 'Twas a thing of beauty.

Yep.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I have no words....except

to say that I have often worried about this country when people are ignorant and bat-shit crazy as Bachmann can have positions of power.

[Warpy]

3. We've always had them, especially from rural districts

but they were outnumbered by sensible people.

The problem now is that the sensible people are outnumbered and the nuttiness has migrated into the cities as rural jobs dried up or got shipped to Asia.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. That is truth.

Sensible people are being outnumbered. When I think of the past nutty politicians, I realize that they would be the sanest today. I can't figure out how this has happened. It must be that many sensible people no longer want anything to do with politics.

[JDDavis]

5. And remember, we have that new Bat-sh*t crazy Iowa Senator to

look forward to, coming in January to the floor of our U.S. Senate.

The one who still believes Saddam had WMD's and the one who castrated pigs as a child, and promises to do the same to liberal handout government spending.

She also has some religiously-based reasons to want to make abortion illegal everywhere again, believes science is lying about evolution, and thinks that it is just a reporter's "opinion" that we are not faced with an imminent nation-wide threat from Ebola, because of Obama's lax policies on securing the borders, or something like that.

But, remember, we have been scolded time and time again for thinking that these "fringe" varieties of Christians really do not have much influence in our democracy these days, the "real" and "rational", science loving Christians far outnumber the influence of these fringe elements.

[RussBLib]

6. so, where are they?

those "real" and "rational", science-loving Republican politicians that far outnumber those fringe elements that we should not be concerned with?

I can't recall hearing ANY, in fact, in years.

Yes, it's a rhetorical question.

[JDDavis]

7. Rhetorical question, and thus no real answer

But some DU posters continue to insist they are out there, somewhere, and do good stuff.

I think we need to find out if those DU posters are speaking from facts they alone see, or if they are speaking "on faith" that those nice Christians are out there.

[progressoid]

12. Grrrr. Don't remind me.

Batshit crazy is an understatement. I still can't fathom how she got elected. My state has gone batshit crazy.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. This is like that part in a fireworks show, when the end of the 1812 overture cranks up and everyth

ing goes off all at once.

Except the show is her career, and the fireworks are purestrain concentrated crazy

[trotsky]

9. Correct, they are but a tiny inconsequential minority with no real influence whatsoever.

But don't get me started on those "New Atheists" - even the dead one is so powerful, his corpse is routinely dug back up to whip again!

[JDDavis]

10. It was that atheist Christopher Hitchens that started the war in Iraq!

Don't CHA KNOW?

And that Dawkins guy, thinks he's a scientist, but just goes around on lecture circuits and on twitter and all....insulting real Christians calling them ministers and priests and parents "child-abusers" (for threatening the kids with going to H-E-double hockey sticks if they don't do exactly as they are told...no matter whatever it is that the kids, especially the pre-pubescent boys, are told to do.)

Dawkins and Hitchens, the worst and most "militant" atheists there could possibly be around in our Christian nation today, (even if one of them is dead over a year, and even if both of them were/are not Americans.) Those two militants have done more damage to our "Christian" nation than any other guy since... well... Hitler, I guess.

Don't get me started on the leadership of the atheists today, Dawkins, then there's that guy who runs a web channel on science, another Brit, come to America to make trouble, teach college kids science, (chief Thunder-something), and is a high priest of the atheist anti-feminist movement that has so much taken over in the atheist "community"... an atheist guy with a Youtube channel is dictating how women should act...and he has Catholic apologist folks all in a tizzy... (as contrasted with the wonderful, kind, compassionate and equal ways that modern Catholicism is treating women and gay folks these days.)

Just don't get me started.

[trotsky]

11. Why yes, I believe he did!

[progressoid]

13. I know someone in MN who thinks she is "just great"

When I heard that, I was thunderstruck.

I wanted to knock on her head to see if it was hollow.

[AlbertCat]

14. Ahem....

1) Moses is a myth for all we know. Not one part of his story has actual historical evidence.

2) burning bushes do not speak to sane people.... in any era

3).... oh never mind!....

[JDDavis]

15. burning bushes do not speak to sane people.... in any era

We are talking of Michele Bachmann here.

Distinguished Christian Republican Representative, duly elected by the people of her district.

By the way, who is replacing her in the next term? I failed to follow that race. Another Christian Republican, I imagine.