Bachmann Endorses Repealing No Child Left Behind, Parts Of Medicare, And All Foreign Aid

[pampango]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/28/bachmann-nclb-repeal/

"When a man named Doug called into Scott Hennen’s radio show yesterday, Bachmann gave an indication of just what she would like to repeal. Doug said that he “very rarely” hears “anybody speaking about repealing all the government programs that have no constitutional warrant” such as No Child Left Behind “and all the money that goes to foreign aid for countries like Haiti.” When he asked Bachmann if she was committed to cutting such programs, she said that she agreed with everything he said:

DOUG: My question to you though, is, has to do with the Constitution and all that I’m hearing people say from the Republican and more conservative sides, very rarely do I hear anybody speaking about repealing all the government programs that have no constitutional warrant. And, as you know better than must of us, that even under the Republicans in the last administration and beyond when we had control of both the House and the Senate there was a lot of things like Medicare B and the farm bill expansion and No Child Left Behind that there’s really no constitutional basis for and all the money that goes to foreign aid for countries like Haiti that we really don’t get any real return on.

My question to you, to hear how you would address it, is your commitment to taking Washington, what is your commitment to cutting programs in an appropriate time frame, but cutting of programs and institutions, and institutionalizing a commitment to say no new programs that the Constitution does not warrant that program. Live by the Constitution as the basis for cutting the budget.

BACHMANN: Doug, I’m in agreement with everything that you said. We wouldn’t be in the problem that we’re in today if the federal government would have followed the constrictions of the Constitution in the first place. … So yes, I am committed to getting our nation back to a constitutional form of government and doing the cutting that will be required, number one, because of the Constitution, number two, because we are looking at certain economic collapse if we fail to do that.

[Scuba]

1. Yeah, let's cut foreign aid to countries like Haiti and Israel !! Oooops.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. I don't understand how Minnesotans (land of Wellstone and Franken) can bear

to have this bizarre nutcase represent them.

[Scuba]

4. Weird, huh? Bob Dylan and Michelle Bachman?

[secondwind]

3. she's afraid her "welfare queen subsidy" status will be found out!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Well goddamn I agree with Batshit Crazy Bachman on something

I've been wanting NCLB repealed since before it became law.

[Lerkfish]

6. you beat me to it. NCLB was a trojan horse for Bush's sibling's educrap company

[earthside]

7. Feels weird ...

... to 'agree' with Bachmann on anything.

However, no doubt that 'No Child Left Behind' should be thrown on the trash heap of history.

Maybe a better way to look at it is that Bachmann unwittingly (how else?) agrees with the true educational reformers who want NCLB repealed.