Rep. Michelle Bachmann, the distinguished crazy person representing
Minnesota’s sixth congressional district, is a normally a 24-hour quote
machine, spewing out the sort of insanity you might expect if Ann
Coulter and Joe Biden had a baby and then the baby lost 100 IQ points.
She’s getting hammered, as she does most weeks, for another controvesial statement. This time, however, she is innocent of all stupidity.
A life dedicated to public disservice
Historically, Bachmann is money in the bank if you’re banking on lunatic fringe paranoia, misstatements and overall idiocy:
• She’s questioned President Obama’s patriotism and that of her fellow members of Congress. Her own party beat her down for that one.
• She offered up a bill that would prohibit the U.S. from adopting a global currency, which is curious since no one in the U.S. government is pushing that concept.
• Her global warming tirade on the House floor is still a pseudo-science classic.
• She thinks AmeriCorps and the FEMA emergency relocation centers are future concentration and re-education camps for political dissidents, i.e. Obama’s critics.
• On April 27, she pointed out (incorrectly) that the most
recent swine flu epidemic occurred during the Carter Administration (it
was the Republican administration of Gerald Ford), and then, after a
quick, pre-emptive qualifier, implied Democrats were causing the epidemic.
• On the same day, she blamed FDR for the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, and got that wrong, too — it was Republican Herbert Hoover who signed the bill three years before FDR took office.
Wad are you talking about?
That’s just a small sampling, but we’ve established that Bachmann is a loon. This time, however, she did nothing wrong.
Appearing at a rally with Gov. Tim Pawlenty, she said:
have seen an orgy of spending … The government
spent its wad. … Notice there’s no TelePrompter here.”
left and the media — or the Lemedia, if that’s how you roll — have
been hammering her for making a crude sexual reference. They saw “orgy”
and “wad” and went to town.
She’s talking about
government spending. And the word “wad,” in its pre-sixties, G-rated
incarnation, means “a large sum of money.”
Another clue: If she was being crude, the verb would have been “shot.”
Instead, it’s “spent,” which completely fits in with the “money” meaning
of the word “wad.”
Bachmann is innocent of being crass and stupid this time.
That’s okay. She’ll say something stupid tomorrow. Or later today. Or by the end of the week.