Michele Bachmann Watch - 4-2-08

[marmar]

from the DumpMicheleBachmann blog:



Michele Bachmann on Chris Baker Transcript - Part 1
MB on Chris Baker Show 100.3 KTLK 3-28-08

Part One

Transcriber's Note: Chris Baker has been KTLK's mid-morning host for about a couple of months. He was let go from a Houston talk radio
station.

MB: Thank you Chris Baker. What an honor to be on your show –

CB: Are you all right over there?

MB: I'm great over here, and your reputation precedes you. Because we have mutual friends in Congressman John Culberson of Texas and Congressman Ted Poe. Every time I see Ted Poe, I say, "Ted Poe, you're my hero."

CB: And Ted Poe is a rock-solid, a rock-solid guy.

MB: Rock-solid conservative. There's a lot of good rock-solid conservatives in Texas. We've got a few here too, fighting the overwhelming swell of socialism.

CB: Would somebody please stand up on the floor of Congress – this, you know, I think of the history of the great leaders who have stood there and passed such meaningful legislation. Would somebody – I, I, I'm gonna absolutely flip out if somebody does not shame these people about wasting time talking about stupid light bulbs. Light bulbs! What in the world - would you ask them, where in the Constitution does it say that you can tell me what light bulb I can have?

MB: That's the first order of business. That's what inflamed me when I was – when I had heard that in the energy bill that Congress – and most Americans still don't know this yet Chris, so you're doing a tremendous service to the people here in Minnesota – they don't realize that Congress outlawed the ordinary household light bulb, incandescent light bulb. And it will be outlawed by the year 2012. And I, I looked at my fellow members of Congress and I said, "Do you realize what's happening here? The American people can't buy a light bulb. We will be forced to buy a compact fluorescent bulb that costs five times more than the ordinary light bulb. So this is a tax on the poor. And it contains mercury! We're talking about light bulbs, that's
right!

CB: My goodness! Who's the lobbyist? Who's making the money? Because this is money! This is all money. Right?

MB: You know, I think it has to do with an adherence to an ideology of human activity as the causation of global climate change. I think that's what it's about.

CB: Isn't GE now invested heavily into so-called "green technology"?

MB: Well, you know it may be – that's - I – I don't - I don't have that background on whether or not there's a corporation that's attached to it. All I'm attached to are freedoms. And the fact that Americans are losing their freedom and their ability to be able to choose which light bulb they want to buy. This is the symbol, to me,
of overt socialism. The nanny state telling us even which light bulb we can or can't buy.

CB: Who comes up with this? Who's the person that as they were crafting – by the way in this energy bill, can we drill off the coast of Florida?

MB: We cannot.

CB: Can we build new refineries?

MB: We cannot.

CB: Can we, I don't know, maybe look into – I believe - isn't the Rocky Mountains, there are vast oil reserves in the Rocky Mountains that –

MB: We are –

CB: --we could easily tap into? And tell these goof ball weird beards to get out of our face?

MB: And we are not. As a matter of fact, we are not allowed to permit yet even one more nuclear power facility in this country.

CB: Right, and yet these guys are telling you that obviously we need to outlaw these light bulbs. Who actually puts this in?

MB: Well, this was Nancy Pelosi and her party put this together. The interesting thing about the energy bill is that there's not one new drop of oil in this bill. There's not one new watt of energy. We're looking potentially at $4 a gallon for gasoline. Gasoline costs have gone up 46% since Nancy Pelosi took over as the leader of the speaker of the Senate. That's how much gasoline prices have come up. And
they're solution to energy problems and issues is taking away people's light bulbs, not increasing the source of supply. ......(more)

The complete interview is at: http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/2008/03/michele-bachmann-on-chris-baker.html

[last_texas_dem]

1. Tackling the light bulb issue is the "first order of business"?!?

Glad to know this wingnut has her priorities straight!

[depakid]

2. This woman is delusional- quite literally

What an embarrassment to Minnesota....

[Rick Myers]

3. God, I hate that woman

Bush and Cheney are 'oil men,' and it's Nancy Pelosi's fault gas costs $4.00 a gallon???

:grr: