And I'm not even talking about the whole armed insurrection thing that BarbinMD and oregonj covered in the past couple days, which are probably worse.
No, I'm just referring to her line of questioning in today's House Banking Committee hearing.
It's like Bachman never say a pile of poo that she didn't want to step in. I just feel sorry for the people of Minnesota. Who do we get to knock her off in 2010?
I'm watching this morning's House Banking Committee hearings (no links I'm watching live), starring Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, when Rep. Michele Bachman (R-MN6) gets her opportunity to insert foot in mouth speak. "Is their government making a historic shift jettisoning the free market in favor of centralized government economic planning. Mr. Secretary (addressing Geithner), what provision in the Constitution would you point to give authority to the actions taken by the Treasury since March of 08?" Hmm, March 08 weren't the Republicans in charge of the Treasury department then? So Geithner respectfully answers her question citing the laws duly passed by Congress and signed by the President in the past year, when she interrupts: "Sir in the Constitution, what in the Constitution could you point to to give authority to the Treasury for the actions taking over the past year?"
This woman is a legislator right? Did she not get the basic premise of how laws were passed in her freshman orientation when she was first elected to Congress?
Her next brilliant line of questioning: "We've seen both China, Russia, and Kazakhistan [sic] make calls for an international monetary conversion to an international monetary standard as soon as the G20, and I'm wondering would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar?"
Okay, I don't even get where that last line of questioning came from, but out of the dozen or so legislators whose questions I've listened to Bachman takes the cake for being non-germane, irrelevant, and paranoid.