Bachmann connects Ten Commandments, U.S. prosperity

[KamaAina]

One last encore for Bachmann Loser Overdrive.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/bachmann-connects-ten-commandments-us-prosperity

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) congressional career is nearing its end, and yesterday, the right-wing Minnesotan delivered her final floor speech as a member of Congress. She used the opportunity to argue that the Ten Commandments led to U.S. prosperity. Or something.

“Because you see, Mr. Speaker, Moses is given for the full honor of the greatest lawgiver in this chamber, because he was chosen by the God that we trust to be entrusted with the basis of all law. The ‘basis of all law’ as was written by Blackstone, the famous English jurist, was the Ten Commandments, that were given by none other than the God we trust on Mount Sinai,” the congresswoman said.

“We know those laws, those laws are the fundamental laws of mankind, and here in the United States, the Ten Commandments that God gave to Moses is the very foundation of the law that has given happiness and the rise of the greatest prosperity that any nation has known before.”

“Mr. Speaker, it could be no coincidence that this nation, knowing and enjoying the heights of such great happiness and such great prosperity, that it could be built upon that foundation of the Ten Commandments and of the law given by the God in whom we trust.”

[Turbineguy]

1. Sticking with the script to the bitter end.

I would hardly expect her to say that she'd been spouting pure bullshit for her entire time there and it was time for a redress.

[Action_Patrol]

2. There is a bust of Moses in the chamber.

Above the visitors gallery seating, there are profiles of a multitude of people that lead to our current form of law (Moses, Hammurabi, Napolean, Innocent III...). Moses is the only one facing forward.

This is just a small statement of fact for context. This is no way endorses what wacko was talking about.

[kwolf68]

3. It is her right-wing ideology at odds with the commandments

She says the 10 commandments brought us PROSPERITY...

a list of laws that say

DO NOT COVET?
DO NOT HAVE FALSE IDOLS?
DO NOT STEAL?
DO NOT MURDER?

The entire basis of our rogue economic system is to exploit the above...get people to COVET by creating false idols we aspire to be like (via advertising) and to make those products we COVET cheap, STEAL the land or natural resources from a weaker nation. And if anyone gets in our way have the CIA create death squads to overthrow democratic governments or MURDER those standings in our way at the behest of our corporate masters.

Fuck Michelle Bachmann and her sadistic ideology wrapped in what is otherwise decent "laws".