Michele Bachmann: I have no facts, so I'll just make sh*t up.....

[marmar]

March 28, 2010

Bachmann Offers Big Numbers, Little Proof
Minnesota Republican Says Gov't Controls Majority of U.S. Economy, and She Plans to Repeal Health Care

By David Riedel


(CBS) In the past when talking about the health care bill that was just signed into law by President Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has referred to the bill as "tyranny."

On Sunday, she told "Face the Nation" anchor Bob Schieffer she meant it.

"Now we have the federal government taking over ownership or control of 51 percent of the American economy. This is stunning. Prior to September of 2008, 100 percent of the private economy was private."

Ms. Bachmann offered no facts to back up her assertion that the government owns or controls 51 percent of the U.S. economy.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis data since 1929, the highest percentage of government spending as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product was during World War II when government spending was 47.9 percent (in 1944). The lowest level of government spending as a percent of GDP was 9 percent in 1929 at the outset of the Great Depression. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/28/ftn/main6341097.shtml

[SoCalNative]

1. Yeah good luck with that ya crazy bitch

[Turbineguy]

2. This woman is crazed

and should ask to have her brain removed for examination.

[Xipe Totec]

3. 100 percent of the private economy was private

Just like 100 percent of batshit crazy people are batshit crazy.

[fasttense]

4. She's a female with a Napoleon complex.

She thinks she can make it and every one will bow down to her ignorance.

[onethatcares]

5. imagine having relations with that woman

:evilgrin: ya know it would be weird, but what the hell.

[glinda]

9. Her husband counsels gays into being straight. Bet she is sexually frustrated.

[pscot]

13. When the going gets weird

the weird get going. She has crazy eyes. I wonder if she's a screamer.

[seeviewonder]

6. It's like saying 60% of the time, it works everytime a la "Anchorman".

[spanone]

7. she's an insult to nuts

and out of her fucking mind

[Brundle_Fly]

8. 60% of the time, it works every time.

[seeviewonder]

11. Thanks for the Sex Panther picture!

It added the element to my comment that I couldn't find! LOL

[zbdent]

10. can't tell from the story, but did Schieffer at all ask her

for any proof?

[gulliver]

12. GOP lie fetish sex bomb number two on the charts. n/t

[Doremus]

14. Yet she's allowed to spout outrageous lies as if they're fact.

Was she even asked for substantiation?

I don't know who's crazier -- Moonbat Bachmann or us for putting up with shit like this for so long.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. "100 percent of the private economy was private"

Any idea how it could ever be anything besides 100%?