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Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, following Rush Limbaugh's cue, suggested on Tuesday that President Obama was to blame for the swine flu crisis. She went even farther than the talk show host, implying that swine flu epidemics are a Democratic phenomenon that dates back to President Carter.

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

Unfortunately, Bachmann's facts are a little off. As Glenn Thrush notes, Republican President Gerald Ford, not Carter, led the country during the last outbreak of the virus.

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It's comforting to know there are people out there crazier than me.

Yep, the GOP are really prepping that comeback in 2012...

I thought this one was funny because when it gets to the point that blame is being thrown around for something like this, well I think it is safe to say all real political debate has pretty much ended.

Ronald Reagan turned us on to crack.

Baraka Bryan wrote:

and I suppose Jimmy Carter was responsible for the onset of AIDS and Clinton for its proliferation eh

Well, you are dead on about Clinton...

I thought FOX News had determined that the swine-flu was brought
in by all them unwashed illegal immigrants from Mexico ....

Could this be moved to the Toxic Waste (=Politics) Forum where it belongs?

I thought you guys all balmed Canada when things got rough

I thought about politics... but this is beyond the realm of rational political debate

Which is exactly why it belongs in The Crapper.

Chigger I know you love when I post about Michele Bachmann.

She tickles your fancy.

Moved to the crazy ass forum. I mean the politics forum.

I thought crazy female politicians were a Southern plague. She's as batshit crazy as Ronda Storms and Catherine Harris.

Mandy wrote:I thought crazy female politicians were a Southern plague. She's as batshit crazy as Ronda Storms and Catherine Harris.

All women are crazy, it's just a question of degree.

SandRider wrote:I thought FOX News had determined that the swine-flu was brought
in by all them unwashed illegal immigrants from Mexico ....

That's a pretty progressive theory for FOX isn't it? I would have thought they'd anounce it was god's punishment for legalizing gay.

A Thing of Eternity wrote:

SandRider wrote:I thought FOX News had determined that the swine-flu was brought
in by all them unwashed illegal immigrants from Mexico ....

That's a pretty progressive theory for FOX isn't it? I would have thought they'd anounce it was god's punishment for legalizing gay.

No, you're confusing it with AIDS.

I guess it's all the same kind of porking to them

Freakzilla wrote:

Mandy wrote:I thought crazy female politicians were a Southern plague. She's as batshit crazy as Ronda Storms and Catherine Harris.

All women are crazy, it's just a question of degree.

Mandy wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:

Mandy wrote:I thought crazy female politicians were a Southern plague. She's as batshit crazy as Ronda Storms and Catherine Harris.

All women are crazy, it's just a question of degree.

Don't worry, you're the least crazy woman I know.

I'm hanging on to my sanity by my fingernails.

Freakzilla wrote:

Mandy wrote:I thought crazy female politicians were a Southern plague. She's as batshit crazy as Ronda Storms and Catherine Harris.

All women are crazy, it's just a question of degree.

Hey! You've got to remember; there are at least three types of crazy: The good crazy and then the crazy crazy. and then there's the politicians.

I didn't say it was necessarily a BAD thing! I make no claims of sanity either.

I thought we already had a Bachmann thread. She's really been giving quite the history lessons on C-Span lately. Holy shit she's dumb.

Also, I believe that the Swine flu is now called the NAFTA flu. Just another little gift of Free Trade.