Yesterday, on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. sident Johnson’s declaration of war on poverty, Michele Bachmann tweeted “50 years and $20 trillion later, the ‘War on Poverty’ did not accomplish its goals,’” and then followed by linking a manifesto about the so-called liberal failure that is the “War on Poverty.” Bachmann said after Johnson’s declaration, “What followed was five decades of government expansion and spending on new programs that have largely been ineffective.”