Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: Wicky Wacky speaks again

April 9, 11:22 AMSouth St. Paul ExaminerRob Shirk

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Congresswoman Michele Bachman of Minnesota(R) is clogging the blogosphere with yet another crackpot observation, this time concerning AmeriCorps, a program created way back by Franklin Roosevelt.

Interviewed on The Sue Jeffers Show on local right wing radio KTLK on April 4th, Minnesota's "free ranging cougar" had this to say:

It's under the guise of -- quote -- volunteerism. But it's not volunteers at all. It's paying people to do work on behalf of government. ...I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums-- Michele Bachmann

 

AmeriCorps, by the way, is a national service program open to people of all ages. Here are some of things that Americorps members do: tutor and mentor disadvantaged youth , fight illiteracy, improve health services, build affordable housing, teach computer skills , clean parks and streams, manage or operate after-school programs, help communities respond to disasters, build organizational capacity. It sure sounds like Cambodia to me.

Congresswoman Wicky Wacky is becoming a jack-in-the-box representing the 6th District of Minnesota, known in some circles as Wingnuttia (wing-nut-ee-ah, like the almond). The good citizens there have repeatedly voted her into public service as a state senator and then twice to th U.S. House of Reps. Nobody in the Republican party in Minnesota or Washington has seen fit to maybe pull her aside and ask her if she wouldn't mind toning down the rhetoric. Far from it.

We know she's a nut, but at least she's OUR nut!

It must be like being a Mets fan in 1962.

She does have an ardent political base built on her reputation as a tax hawk getting awards from business associations and her strident intelligent design and anti-gay rights views earn plaudits from the evangelical right wing. Yet, she says ridiculous things, fanning the fires against the "tyranny" for the Republicans against the democratically elected Barack Obama administration.