TPM: Bachmann at it again

[BurtWorm]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/EK0jK_uEXEQ/bachmann_at_it_again.php

The Minnesota congresswoman takes to the floor of the House to claim that the TSA is going to start picking pro-life, pro-gun conservatives out of the security line at the airport for extra scrutiny.

[damntexdem]

1. They probably should.

But they won't -- and how would they identify them, anyway?

[phantom power]

2. If they've done nothing wrong they have nothing to hide.

Isn't that right, GOP?

It's our police state now, motherfuckers.

[piratefish08]

3. Can't happen Michelle - you know as well as I that the TSA handbook only allows

brown people to be pulled out of line.

[lapfog_1]

5. No, the TSA pulls me out of the line every time I fly

and I'm as white as white can be (well, almost, I'm actually 3/8th's Native American).

My "crime"... I purchase one way tickets (because I don't know when I'll return, usually) and I often pay with cash (I use a debit card, but that's not good enough, apparently).

Those two features (one way, cash purchase) are enough to "profile" me as a potential terrorist.

I allow 20 minutes extra to get through security because I an usually pulled from the line for extra searching and wanding and sometimes questioning.

[county worker]

9. Soon you'll be going through the "see through your clothes" x-ray machine too!

[piratefish08]

13. That was just my sorry attempt at irony - Michelle and other bigots like her have

never had an issue with "profiling" when it was primarily directed at Muslims.

Funny how they all go completely FUCKING APESHIT when Bushy's rule book is turned against them.



:nuke:

[peacetalksforall]

17. Mexicans, Muslims also -Mexicans who arNative to the Americas specifically,

not necessarily those who are of full Spanish descent and where a tie with Western suit. When it comes to Muslims - all Muslims except the families of the House of Saud, but including Sikhs who are not considered to belong to the Muslim faith by anyone except the ignorant in the U.S.

Funny, I was feeling a little relaxed for some reason, then I came to DU and read about Michelle Bachmann.

It's great that we have modest, delightful person with talent like our singer-starlet from the UK to break up days like this when Michelle decides to speak. The madness of Ms Bachmann - the Representative from the once great State of Minnesota - she who is always clawing, climbing to the stage to say something so bizarre that all the cameras swing around and sart clicking to make sure the ears heard her right - to document the madness. She who has attempted to hide behind bushes and wall retainers - crunched down.

Has she been analyzed?

[Tempest]

4. Did she say how TSA is going to know who is pro-life and pro-gun?

Between Coleman and Bachmann, Minnesotans must be awfully embarrassed.

[phantom power]

6. We're going to tatoo them with bar-codes.

I bet if we told Bachmann that, she would believe it.

[Believing Is Art]

7. I hear she already has a back alley laser tat removal date scheduled n/t

[BurtWorm]

8. Those will be the ones wearing hunting knives and cammies and carrying sacks of fertilizer.

[lapfog_1]

12. Don't forget those misspelled signs they carry...

and the classic

[JimWis]

10. She gets dumber by the minute. Wow.

[Union Yes]

11. Incandescent light bulbs have a warrior in Bachmann.

Seriously, that wingnut actually wants to save the inc light bulb from us librul global warmingists.

[Sparkly]

14. Insert "dim bulb" joke here.

[90-percent]

16. oh, i got it

I thought you meant entities with the intellect of a lightbulb have found an excellent representative for their community in Michelle!

-90% jimmy

[90-percent]

15. in terms of debate practice

to kind of diagram her sentences or dissect the logic:

she created a hypothetical TSA that filters right leaning people and labels them potential terrorists.

Does this mean she is complaining about her own yet to transpire hypothetical?

Shes placing presumably the Democrats in to a hypothetical that only exists for now in her mind, and then criticizing them for the actions she predicts they will do?

Do she have any facts of this type of wrong doing that has happened during the last 100 days anywhere?

It's an argument entirely free of tangible facts! It's only about her hypothetical!

What else is this besides stupid flawed, erroneous, extremely misleading, untrue, and incoherent?

Any one who believed this is very gullible and stupid, yes?

Am I missing something? Have I lost my eye for satire? Was there some big Obama fascist news I missed?

Her district must be pretty horrifying, on a collective intellectual scale?

-90% Jimmy

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Without ID tags, just how is this possible?

I know it's Bachmann saying this, but this kinda question oughta at least illicit smoke from her ears.

:evilgrin:

[Dappleganger]

19. Why can't the Rapture happen already...

so God can rescue the rest of us from this creature?