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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:44 AM Jul 2014

ASSHAT OF THE DAY: Michele Bachmann calls immigrant children ‘invaders’ and compares them to rapists

Outgoing lunatic Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) derailed a CNN discussion on Tuesday about the thousands of undocumented immigrants arriving in the U.S. from Central America by calling them “invaders” and linking them to at least one rape case and an auto accident from six years ago.

“Foreign nationals that have come into the United States are between 300- to 500,000,” Bachmann told an incredulous Crossfire co-host Van Jones. “My heart is broken for a female college student in Minnesota who was raped, murdered and mutilated by a foreign national who came into our country. We had a school bus full of kids in Minnesota — four children were killed on that school bus because an illegal alien driving a van went into that schoolbus.”

“There are lines that can’t be crossed here,” Jones responded. “I’m sorry, congresswoman. Are you gonna scapegoat children for the crime of this despicable person?”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/15/michele-bachmann-calls-immigrant-children-invaders-and-compares-them-to-rapists/

Are you sure that Bachmann and Gohmert aren't brother and sister?

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ASSHAT OF THE DAY: Michele Bachmann calls immigrant children ‘invaders’ and compares them to rapists (Original Post) doxydad Jul 2014 OP
Bachmann is a really sad and mean person Gothmog Jul 2014 #1
Amen shenmue Jul 2014 #3
Out of all of the kids she adopted, were there any of color? Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #9
Bachmann never adopted any of those kids, she was a foster parent. Ikonoklast Jul 2014 #14
I stand corrected. I didn't think it was possible for me to lose anymore respect for this woman, Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #22
Eeeeew shenmue Jul 2014 #2
Unreal! Just too crazy!! hue Jul 2014 #4
Not crazy. pangaia Jul 2014 #5
Absolutely! Beyond any doubt! marew Jul 2014 #11
The Minnesota Loon. mac56 Jul 2014 #6
Have to disagree! marew Jul 2014 #12
What is it with Republicans NewJeffCT Jul 2014 #7
That was my first thought, as well...add Louie G. to that same obsession. Frustratedlady Jul 2014 #29
First cousins at least madokie Jul 2014 #8
I'm ashamed some Americans elected her. Sunlei Jul 2014 #10
these clowns have turned congress into a joke spanone Jul 2014 #13
Bachmann is a direct result of religion and her education. TxVietVet Jul 2014 #15
Looney - yes, but a smart looney tune packman Jul 2014 #16
How much longer is that piece of crap going to be able to flap her embarrassing clap-trap from a lonestarnot Jul 2014 #17
I work in Hollywood SCVDem Jul 2014 #18
They would cheer... doxydad Jul 2014 #21
I used to think Bachmann was Minnesota's nuttiest. Archae Jul 2014 #19
Maybe they are the same person n2doc Jul 2014 #20
Anti-immigration is about.. KyleMcShades Jul 2014 #23
Stop staring at my... KamaAina Jul 2014 #24
equal time ... napkinz Jul 2014 #25
I would call her a fitting and appropriate name but a righty here on DU would report me randys1 Jul 2014 #26
Why are we even listening to her? KansDem Jul 2014 #27
Michele Bachmann ranks extremely high on my list of Extremely Annoying People Who Louisiana1976 Jul 2014 #28

Gothmog

(144,945 posts)
1. Bachmann is a really sad and mean person
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:48 AM
Jul 2014

She should be busy adopting these kids and helping them instead of attacking these refugees

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
14. Bachmann never adopted any of those kids, she was a foster parent.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:02 AM
Jul 2014
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/23/988141/-About-Bachmann-s-Twenty-Three-Foster-Kids

She has five of her own, and fostered 23 kids over a period of nine years.


The Bachmanns were allowed to foster three children at a time, getting up to $50,000.00 a year from the state to do so.



Bachmann and her husband have also provided foster care for 23 other children,[30][31] all teenage girls. The Bachmanns were licensed from 1992 to 2000 to handle up to three foster children at a time; the last child arrived in 1998. The Bachmanns began by providing short-term care for girls with eating disorders who were patients in a program at the University of Minnesota. The Bachmann home was legally defined as a treatment home, with a daily reimbursement rate per child from the state. Some girls stayed a few months, others more than a year.[24]



- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann



I'm sure the money had little or nothing to do with the Bachmann's decision to become foster parents, after all, we all know Michele and her husband aren't huge con men running a scam.

Dustlawyer

(10,494 posts)
22. I stand corrected. I didn't think it was possible for me to lose anymore respect for this woman,
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 12:33 PM
Jul 2014

respect being a very generous term here, but it is way below zero now!

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
5. Not crazy.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 07:33 AM
Jul 2014

This woman is emotionally and mentally disturbed.
In addition to which, and having no connection with, she is a blind, hateful, stupid sick fucker.

marew

(1,588 posts)
11. Absolutely! Beyond any doubt!
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:13 AM
Jul 2014

And they elected her more than one! Some really sick people out there!

marew

(1,588 posts)
12. Have to disagree!
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:20 AM
Jul 2014

She is waaay beyond loon. She is ugly, cruel, mean-spirited, obnoxious, self-absorbed, and sociopathic for a start. Anyone who can say these kinds of things about refugee kids is so devoid of any human kindness!

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
29. That was my first thought, as well...add Louie G. to that same obsession.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:23 PM
Jul 2014

It never fails. Add probably 50% of the rest of the circus train. Do they ever think of anything else?

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
10. I'm ashamed some Americans elected her.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 08:04 AM
Jul 2014

Never thought I'd see the day where a lunatic is on national news speaking for all of us Americans

TxVietVet

(1,905 posts)
15. Bachmann is a direct result of religion and her education.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:03 AM
Jul 2014

Xtian and Oral Roberts University.

That's what she represents.

She's a sick evil bitch and the conservanazis love her.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
16. Looney - yes, but a smart looney tune
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:08 AM
Jul 2014

She knows exactly what to say about anything to bring out the fear factor in her audience. Have an upset stomach, some foreign person somewhere spat on your food. Shoes too tight, some illegal working on a machine stitching them together hates Americans and did it deliberately. She knows what buttons to push.

And ALL OF YOU ARE BEING TOO HARD ON HER. A little respect, after all--- she's on the House Intelligence Committee and you know how smart you have to be to sit on that committee.

 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
17. How much longer is that piece of crap going to be able to flap her embarrassing clap-trap from a
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:21 AM
Jul 2014

platform that is broadcast?

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
18. I work in Hollywood
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 09:28 AM
Jul 2014

I wonder how this would go over with the RW asshats?

Pull a bus up to the protestors, unload the kids into a field, set up a machine gun and mow them down.

Of course it's all special effects and actors but they wouldn't know that.

How would Fox, Rush and all these despicable people react? Would they cheer at how quickly the 'problem' was solved or would they get offended?

Well, you wanted them gone! Now they're gone!

Let their true colors show.

Reveal the ruse after a week to give them all time to do themselves in!

Got to have a "Making of Documentary' just so people around the world know we haven't lost our minds.

Thoughts?

doxydad

(1,363 posts)
21. They would cheer...
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 10:35 AM
Jul 2014

I'm one of ...maybe 500 people in the entire County I live in who are not TeapubliKKKans. I have a field day whenever I run into one of my 'christian' neighbors, and as of late, I have been spending the bulk of my time cleaning up tiny brian parts when their heads explode. They do not know ANYTHING EXCEPT WHAT THEY HEAR AT FAUX NOISE!... and the other tea-hadists who live all over here. Nevertheless, I'm having a ball hearing ridiculous shit falling out of their mouths everyday. I was at the bank and some old hopped-up hosebag actually blamed Obama for taking away her light bulbs. By the time in injected logic into her conversation with the teller, I had 3 tellers laughing and she stormed out before even putting her money and receipt in her purse.

Archae

(46,301 posts)
19. I used to think Bachmann was Minnesota's nuttiest.
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 10:09 AM
Jul 2014

Until I saw this guy, and his "Sperm cause AIDS" and "Dinosaurs washed up on the shores of the Great Lakes."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025243511

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
27. Why are we even listening to her?
Wed Jul 16, 2014, 06:54 PM
Jul 2014

Fuck the media for constantly giving these morons air time!

Next time some rambling dipshit makes a stupid comment, just ignore them! Capiche, media?

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