Bachmann: Irene is God's message for Washington

[maxrandb]

Source: Yahoo News

MIAMI (Reuters) - For Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, Hurricane Irene and last week's earthquake in the eastern United States were a message from God that Washington needs to change its policies.

Even as Irene was beginning its raking course up the East Coast over the weekend, which killed 21 people and caused widespread flooding and power outages, Bachmann told senior citizens in Poinciana, Florida, on Saturday that the hurricane was an "act of God" that Washington should heed.

The Minnesota congresswoman, who has gained media prominence for her fiery attacks on Democratic President Barack Obama and against big government, recalled Washington and the east had already felt a 5.8 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday.

"Washington, D.C., you'd think by now they'd get the message. An earthquake, a hurricane. Are you listening? The American people have done everything they can, and now it's time for an act of God and we're getting it," she said, drawing some laughs from her audience.



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[truthisfreedom]

1. Yo, Bachmann... go rapture yourself.

Obviously your husband isn't going to.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If there were a God, the message to D.C. would be to strengthen

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

Buzz off, False Prophet!

[geomon666]

3. I knew it!

I fucking knew one of these nutjobs would show up sooner or later and it just had to be Bachmann.

[rurallib]

4. how can the media possibly treat her as normal?

[truthisfreedom]

6. Because she's carrying a cross and is wrapped in the flag!

[smirkymonkey]

48. She's the Antichrist.

Actually, it's a tossup between her and Rick Perry.

[bigworld]

5. If there is an all-powerful God, I think He'll just tell us

instead of sending cryptic messages. BTW, what's God telling Texas with the drought?

[RobinA]

50. Yeah, I Mean

"a message from god." Could mean anything. Maybe he is telling Washington to go socialist. Maybe he is saying the the Capital city should be moved to...I don't know, Omaha. Maybe he's punishing us for killing Moslems? Who knows. Shouldn't god have learned to speak simple English after all these years? At least carve the message into stone tablets and toss them down!

[woodsprite]

7. I'm Christian, but I'd don't buy into the "God punishes people"

If He really did, He would have punished those a$$hats and the previous administration way before now. She sounds a bit like she goes to the church of the wackos - what is it? Westboro Baptist?

That one stupid ass quote can sink her prospects of being crowned "President Bachmann".

[Kablooie]

32. Actually God does punish people.

But it's totally indiscriminate and has nothing to do with our measly human values.
Obviously some good people have hard times and some bad have good, and vice versa.

What we do here on our tiny planet affects us but in respect to the totality of an immense and possibly infinite universe we account for nothing.

[Fuddnik]

45. Marcus has been a very, very bad boy.

His punishment is being tethered to a twit for the rest of his life.

[Botany]

8. the stupid is strong w/ this one

God's earthquake hitting the National Cathedral

[Fresh_Start]

9. flooding and tornadoes in Minnesota are God's message for MN

get rid of false prophet Bachmann

[rocktivity]

10. Maybe the message is directed toward REPUBLICANS, Michele

Maybe God is saying that you're the guilty party!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Ship of Fools]

11. I knew she'd do this. What I didn't know is that she'd exclude HERSELF

from the "DC is Evil" mantra. That takes some major balls.

[Little Star]

17. Good Point!

[Control-Z]

52. No. It takes chootspa.

Michelle Bachmann has chootspa. She said so herself.

[wilt the stilt]

12. this one used to be on the corner

street corner prophet

[bongbong]

13. Real message

"Michelle, quit public office, quit running for it, quit living off the government tit, and check you & your husband into a mental health facility."

[Mr Deltoid]

14. Republcians believe that natural disasters are God agreeing with their talking points?

Lovely.

[xxqqqzme]

16. Why yes, that is how important

and powerful they are - God listens to THEM then acts as ordered.

[struggle4progress]

44. Yes, their "god" shakes the ground two miles beneath MIneral VA and floods Brattleboro VT

to send messages to Washington DC

It seems somewhat careless telegraphic work, of course, but who are we to question the "almighty" if Bachmann can grab a news spot?

[Fuddnik]

47. Actually I think he was trying to smite Pat Robertson.

But, he missed.

[hlthe2b]

15. I am hoping that she keeps spewing this BS....

because statistically, the more she does, the more the majority of Americans will wake up to these fundy nuts and drive a stake in the dominionist movement.

[maxrandb]

19. Got to wonder if she is spewing this crap

so a "real" ass-hat like Perry can fly under the radar.

Then, I listen to her, and realize she actually believes this stuff.

Great field you've got there Repukes. This is what happens when you "teabag" an entire nation.

[PatSeg]

40. I'm thinking the same thing

Lets hope that Rick Perry does the same. He got off to a good start with his Prayer-a-thon, but I think he knows not to take it too far nationally.

[EFerrari]

18. Bachmann is God's warning to Washington to stop screwing with our schools. n/t

[struggle4progress]

20. Sure enough! I found it in the First Book of Appendices: "And lunatics will wander the land,

like a plague of locusts, speaking all manner of inanities. And many people will turn briefly away from youtube and place their faces in their palms, before they return to youtube"

[maxrandb]

21. When does she break out the

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

[fascisthunter]

22. a sociopath who says anything to get attention

especially from her nutbag supporters. She is missing the swastika armband...

[BlueMTexpat]

23. DC actually came through both the quake and the hurricane

fairly well for the most part.

I drove down Sat mid-afternoon to be with Son, Wife & small grandsons. It was raining, but not heavily, and at that time the winds had not yet arrived. I stayed put once I'd gotten there though, as did we all, mostly to keep out of the way if emergency services needed the roads.

We were among those who did not even lose power. While several branches and some trees came down throughout the city, in that neighborhood - a progressive one - only a few twigs.

If there was any Divine Message, it was that God helps those who help themselves, IMO. The authorities were prepared for this and so were we. But that is lost on people like Bachmann.

[treestar]

24. Wonder if she has considered that maybe Irene is God's messenger

to the Republican House of Representatives?

[Angry Dragon]

25. Beware of false prophets

[onehandle]

26. Yes, God is clearly gunning for the hateful conservatives that control Congress.

So get the message and fucking resign before the lighting bolt finishes the job.

[SKKY]

27. Say what you want about the GOP candidates, but there is no denying the fact that...

...it is a barrel of monkeys watching them try and "out crazy" eachother.

[SoapBox]

28. Let's Make Bachmann a NO-TERM President!

...what an idiot.

Hey, Idiot, I assume that you are talking about YOUR God, not everyone elses God.

Yours is the one that hates anyone that is not white, Thug and angry? Right?

[madmom]

29. Yeah, the message is for repugs to stop obstructing!

[saras]

30. "Stop tolerating right-wing extremists or they will kill everybody through stupidity" - God

The full message:
1. you've fucked up the climate something fierce,and that has consequences
2. stop asking me to save you. I gave you brains. Use them.

[JackInGreen]

31. The woman just

westboro'd the entire east coast.....

[Zorra]

33. Dear Scary Crazy Lady: "Evil sometimes seems good to a person whose mind

God leads to destruction".
-Sophocles, from the play Antigone

(rephrased for modernization)

[Kablooie]

34. Interesting how some news reports say it was a joke and others that it was sincere.

[truth2power]

35. Oh shut. up. Michele. This is getting tiresome. There are 165,000 people in Quebec

without power today because of Irene. No info yet about injuries or deaths. So, what's God's message to the Canadian people??

Geez! Give it a rest! x(

[Botany]

42. God hates Poutine?

[truth2power]

53. Yikes! I had to look that up...French fries, gravy and cheese....

About 2000 calories? :)

[Rambis]

36. When everything was good in the 90's under Clinton where was god?

:shrug:

[AlbertCat]

37. And Glenn Beck said...

"It is God reminding you, as was the earthquake last week...you're not in control."

Who the fuck thinks they are in control of the weather or plate tectonics????

Oh yeah... religious dupes. :eyes:

[AlbertCat]

38. a message from God that Washington needs to change its policies.

Couldn't god just write us a note? On some nice stone tablets or something?

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[tavalon]

39. Shut up Michelle, you're no better than Pat Robertson

At least pretend not to be batshit insane, for a little while, mkay?

[mwooldri]

41. I had to check that this was *NOT* an Onion news story...

Sadly it isn't.

Saying this is God's message to Washington DC is about as sensible as saying that the earth is flat.

Mark.

[madrchsod]

43. i`m blaming mother earth....

you know it`s not nice to fool mother nature..........

[DinahMoeHum]

46. OMFG, take a look at the photo of Bachmann at ThinkProgress!

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/29/306436/bachamnn-hurricane-message-god/


You could easily mistakenly assume that she's giving everybody the finger on both her hands.

Then again, she IS figuratively giving the finger to all "unbelievers"

:evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

49. That NYC and DC were spared massive damage and death is a sign from Gawd that

that he loves teh gays and the way Obama is presidentin'.

[SemperEadem]

51. and that message is that we are all charged with caring for the

welfare of our brothers and that is accomplished most expediently through the fair taxing of all of our citizens, from the richest on down, so that when events like this happen, the lives of all people can be restored to some semblance of normalcy as quickly as possible. This isn't a time for selfishness that is constantly being demonstrated by those of the right wing, the republicans and most certainly, the selfish, self-centered and self absorbed tea-bagger ilk, such as yourself, Michelle.

Also, you don't speak for god. You never have and you never will.

earthquakes and hurricanes have nothing to do with god.

[and-justice-for-all]

54. Irene is the result of scientific principles she can not understand.nt

[LatteLibertine]

55. I've a novel idea, Michele

why doesn't your just all powerful god punish those he considers wicked instead of >everyone< in a given area.

[sakabatou]

56. I'm sure she'd be marching with the Phelps klan soon.