Why God Invented C-SPAN

This was great. The look on Geitner's face when he realizes that she is actually batsh!t crazy is priceless!

I never thought I'd see someone more stupid than Sarah Palin, but I think Michele Bachmann has captured that crown.

Too funny, are members of congress and whomever they're asking questions to allowed to bring computers in with available wifi to these meetings? Cause that would seem to clear up so many questions these members of congress don't look up theirselves.

Can I blow in her left ear just so that I can watch the hair move by her right ear?

"She came from Planet Claire . . . "
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I wouldn't laugh so hard. After all, disbelieving that Congress had the authority to pass FISA, The War Powers Act, and the Presidential Records Act were SOP in the Bush White House. And those guys were WAY smarter then the gentlewoman from Minnesota.

Michelle Bachman asks:
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"What provision in the Constitution can the Treasury Secretary point to to give authority for the actions that have been taken by the Treasury?"
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Umm...It's right here in Article I:
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Legislative Power Vested In Congress
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“ All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. ”

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As a corollary to the fact that Congress, and only Congress, is vested with the legislative power, Congress (in theory) cannot delegate legislative authority to other branches of government (e.g., the Executive Branch), a rule known as the nondelegation doctrine.[5] However, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress does have latitude to delegate regulatory powers to executive agencies as long as it provides an "intelligible principle" which governs the agency's exercise of the delegated regulatory authority.[6] In practice, the Supreme Court has only invalidated 3 statutes on non-delegation grounds in its history, all 3 of which were invalidated in the mid-1930s.[7] The nondelegation doctrine is primarily used now as a way of interpreting a congressional delegation of authority narrowly,[8] in that the courts presume Congress intended only to delegate that which it certainly could have, unless it clearly demonstrates it intended to "test the waters" of what the courts would allow it to do.[9]

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That said, this is incredible --but she's not crazy.
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She's like Antonin Scalia and every other rightist; she believes in the Constitution in Exile:
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The Constitution in Exile is a controversial term that refers to the situation resulting from provisions of the United States Constitution allegedly not having been enforced according to their "original intent" or "original meaning". Some originalists might argue, for example, that the Commerce Clause and Necessary and Proper Clause do not authorise economic legislation dating all the way back to the New Deal.

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She's not insane, she's a conservative. She's just not the type of conservative that Meet The Press likes to have on --the ones who don't really like to tell us what they actually think about things.
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The ones who lie about their ideology in public are asked to come on centrist news programming so that they can lend legitimacy to the centrists' claims that we must compromise with their demands, and not give in to liberals who were actually right about everything for the past eight years.

I'd like to defend the intelligence of our elected representatives, but I can't. Some of them are truly dim bulbs. Before the last election wasn't there some sort of scandal when Michelle stole some of Ann Coulter's Nazi memoribilia or something?

Michelle Bachmann is the gift that keeps on giving for political junkies...

http://www.political-buzz.com/

She's nuts.

I live in Minnesota and it's pretty shocking to me that this woman got elected.

Did I say she's nuts?

SZ, I don't see that what you're saying is inconsistent with her being batsh!t crazy. It simply doesn't constitute proof that she's batsh!t crazy, a determination that flows from considering her body of work as a whole.

FT:
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SZ, I don't see that what you're saying is inconsistent with her being batsh!t crazy.
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This is also true.

Can't we have a basic sanity test added to the swearing-in process for public officials? It's not helpful to have our government in the hands of the mentally ill.

Thank you FT for expressing my opinion about SZ's cogent comment. I have paid a bit of attention to her oeuvre and was one of those in the country who contributed to her opponent's campaign.

Hard to top for hilarity, but even more amusing is going to YouTube and reading the comments there. Those lunatics are convinced that Bernanke was LYING to Bachmann and that we will be converting to the Yen any day now.

Ladies and gentlemen, your modern Republican Party.
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If Eisenhower were alive today, he would throttle every last Republican congressman with his bare hands.
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(OK, that might not actually be true; he would more likely make noncommittal public statements, allowing his subordinates to take the heat for opposing them. But the idea is, he has _nothing_ in common with today's GOP.)

To quote Homer Simpson..."See...democracy just doesn't work"...
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Prom Queen Congresswoman Michele aside, the financial system requires serious overhall. The jump in the stock market yesterday caused me to watch closely today. Yep...drop..."profit taking".
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"Profit taking" is a serious problem, folks. It does not contribute to productivity, it does not benefit anybody other than the manipulators. It is wrong. Things need to be done to correct matters in the financial market that are legal, but should not be. I will get into consumer loans, credit practices, auto loans, usersy, in a later chapter.
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Meanwhile, back to Michele (is she hotter than Sarah?) and the rest of the idiots in congress.

Katherine Harris goes, Bachmann comes. You had the crazy ones from Colorado and Idaho too. I think ever since Bob Dornan lost the GOP has decided that they wanted their crazy crazy crazy members to be women. It's just a pet theory.

Is anybody else have problems connecting to the swamp, getting aborted messages, or is it just me suffering abortion in my system?

Ms. Bachman tends to make follks like J.D. Hayworth and Sarah Palin look intelligent. In fact, she tends to make a stump look like a genius.

Come on how much do you just love Michele Bachmann. I'm with her. Everybody take up arms and have Giether's a** investigated. We all know he's just a commie behind a wooden desk.

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gunny, we all love her. It's just sort of make love, not stupid statements. We love Sarah, too, just not deciding laws. Call me a macho pig if you want.

Again, is anybody else having abort messages connecting to the swamp?

As I was saying earlier, B-1 Bob Dornan was even crazier than Bachmann. He was what had me glued to CSPAN in the early 90's. I always thought he was going to stroke out on the floor. That was entertainment I tells ya.