Bachmann makes Swine Flu - Democrat connection

Michele Bachmann has noticed a disturbing link between Democrat presidents and Swine Flu outbreaks:

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

Holy crap.  She cannot possibly be this stupid, can she?  Can she possibly explain the cause of this alleged link?  I doubt it.  And actually, the earlier Swine Flu outbreak to which she refers began under the Ford administration, not Carter.

And speaking of Michele Bachmann...

If you want a clear example of the kind of batshit crazy that the religious right is pushing into positions of power, just spend some time with the Wikipedia entry on Michele Bachmann.  Don't blindly trust the article itself, check out its cited sources.  They're not making this stuff up.

• Holds a degree from Oral Roberts University
• Opposes phasing out incandescent light bulbs, believing that the government has no right to tell consumers what kind of light bulbs they can buy, but favors federal legislation banning online poker
• Claims that homosexuals suffer from sexual dysfunction and sexual identity disorders, and that gays are specifically targeting children
• Believes that evolution is unproven, and that intelligent design should be taught in public schools
• Belongs to a church that believes the Pope is the antichrist, but doesn't have the guts to admit that publicly
• Calls for the investigation of "anti-American" members of the Obama administration, and then, with no sense of irony at all, calls for armed revolution over environmental legislation
• And it just goes on and on and on...

Folks, this is what you get when fundamentalist morons get together in large groups and use their tax-exempt war chests to push their toadies into elected office.

Michele Bachmann joins the idiot brigade

Good god.  Here's another one.  Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) on carbon dioxide and global warming:

"Carbon Dioxide is Natural. It is not harmful. It is part of earth's life cycle. And yet we are being told we have to reduce this natural substance, and reduce the american standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is a naturally occurring in the Earth."

Here's a test you can do, Ms. Bachmann, to determine how harmless carbon dioxide is:  Take a plastic bag, put it over your head, tie it tightly around your neck, and breathe deeply for, say, 10 minutes.  Let me know how that goes for you.  Oh, by the way, you're an idiot.

Thanks to Greg Laden's Blog for this.