Days after setting the political world ablaze with her tease of forming a presidential exploratory committee, Michele Bachmann is already in Iowa for Congressman Steve Kingâs âConservative Forumâ. The event is an early opportunity for GOP presidential hopefuls to out-crazy each other on issues of such national import as gay marriage, abortion and disbanding health care for children.
Michele Bachmann came barreling out of the gates with a conveniently misleading tidbit, that national debt had increased 75 percent in the four years that California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was speaker, beginning in 2007.
Bachmann would sincerely hope you take her at her word because as soon as you delve into the facts, her statement loses all credibility.
Experts agree that nearly the entire deficit can be attributed to Bush's tax cuts, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic recession. Perhaps Bachmann forgot that George Bush was still president for half of Pelosiâs tenure as Speaker?
The most troubling aspect of this is that Bachmann, a would-be president of our nation, is either woefully uneducated when it comes to the cause of our deficit or she is knowingly peddling falsehoods with the hope that nobody calls her on it.
Both possibilities should immediately remove her from contention for the presidency, but in the modern Republican party it instead means she will be catapulted to the head of the class, where the mainstream, corporatist media will give her ample opportunity to reintroduce erroneous and deceiving âfactsâ, without bothering to inject a dose of truth or reality AKA, do their job.
Crossposted at Gabbing with Graff