Michele Bachmann Speaks !!! (PS - She really shouldn't)

[marmar]

via AlterNet's PEEK:



Michele Bachmann: A Wordsmith She Ain't

Posted by PZ Myers, Pharyngula at 4:33 AM on March 6, 2009.

Minnesota's gift to politics.



Uh-oh. She opened her mouth again.

BACHMANN: If you want to look at economic history over the last 100 years. I call it punctuated equilibrium. If you look at FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama, this is really the final leap to socialism. ... But we all know that we could turn this around and we can turn this around fairly quickly. We're still a free country.

And as the Democrats are about to institutionalize cartels -- that's what they're very good at -- they're trying to consolidate power, so we need to do everything we can to thwart them at every turn to make sure that they aren't able to, for all time, secure a power base that for all time can never be defeated.

She calls what punctuated equilibrium? I don't think she knows what it means, and I don't believe she knows anything about either biology or economic history. It's interesting to see the Republican version of bipartisanship so nakedly exposed, at least.

(By the way, I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, "Honk if you understand punctuated equilibrium!" No one ever honks.)


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/130350/michele_bachmann%3A_a_wordsmith_she_ain%27t/

[tavalon]

1. Poor Michelle

She just can't wrap her little head around STFU, can she?

[terisan]

4. Possibly she believes that she has First Amendment rights. I applaud those who speak up whether they

are male or female, members of Democratic Party or Republican Party, self-educated or franchise-educated.

[tavalon]

5. I just wish she would stop saying such stupid things in front of cameras

[malaise]

8. It is one thing to speak

It is quite another to speak and expose your ignorance.

Sometimes it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

[terisan]

12. What specifically is it that you think "exposes her ignorance ?"

[marmar]

13. Argumentative today, are we?

:eyes:

[terisan]

18. Did you not post for discussion? nt

[MattBaggins]

14. Do you think that a clever question?

What words that have passed her lips in the last few months, have not been ignorant?

[Deja Q]

2. People understand the words. People cannot understand HER. And who'd want to honk her anyway?

:hide:

[terisan]

3. PZ Myers seems to suffer from Professorial Syndrome. nt

[BlooInBloo]

6. I wonder if she's dumber than Palin, or not. Tough call.

[malaise]

7. You missed an absolute comedy show in the house last night

Bachmann and King provided the most asinine discourse of socialism for ages and ages. It was fall down funny.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5195108

[monmouth]

9. I have no doubt her equilibrium has been punctured...Bless her heart.....n/t

[tanyev]

10. She be da gal! She be da gal!

[acmavm]

11. This woman is totally unhinged. It's almost like someone kept

smacking here in the cranium with a two-by-four and she enjoyed it.

[keroro gunsou]

15. sound political advice:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

something that ms. bachmann should take heed of.

[DS1]

16. punctuated equilibrium is when you ignore everything standing in the way of your conclusion

[LeftinOH]

17. Michelle finally found a way to work "punctuated equilibrium" into a sentence....n/t