Bachmann Hunts for Traitorous Muslims; McCain Shames Her
Most of the outrage that follows a politician decrying "treason" is manufactured. Democrats raised hell when Rep. Allen West joked that there were "79 to 83" communists in Congress; anyone who asked West knew he was referring to the House Progressive Caucus. In 2008, Chris Matthews tripped up and fileted Rep. Michele Bachmann when she went along with the idea of checking fellow politicians for "un-American" ideas. It's fund-raising fodder.
Bachmann's fact-finding mission (I'm being kind) for Muslim treachery is a little different. For quite a while, since her presidential campaign diminished her political stature, Bachmann has been amplifying the worries of Frank Gaffney and other "anti-Islamofascists." They wonder whether the Muslim Brotherhood has inflitrated the United States government. So does she. After a challenge from Rep. Keith Ellison, her fellow Minnesotan and the first Muslim in Congress, Bachmann issued a 16-page letter explaining where the treachery might be coming from.
It's mostly familiar, public domain stuff. Apart from Fox News, ABC News, and other sources, Bachmann relies on documents from the Holy Land Foundation trial that informs a lot of worry about the Brotherhood. She scores a point on the Obama administration for pooh-poohing the risk of Brotherhood wins in Egypt.
more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/07/18/bachmann_hunts_for_traitorous_muslims_mccain_shames_her.html
