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.

formerly, I had my computer lock up yesterday while posting a comment – no error messages, but I had to call up task manager and dump IE. Serves me right for not using Firefox.

formerlyjames: I haven’t had any problems getting into swampland or getting aborting messages. Has your computer been consorting with “unclean” computers of dubious reputation? Do you know where it was last night and who it was with? All this talk of abortion belongs in Amy’s salacious sex thread by the way.

formerly, the problem is that you’re commenting on one of these-here librul blogs.
You need to be commenting on a good ol’ Americun red-meat red-state blog, where they don’t cotton to abortions.

trifecta-
Do you suppose they’re Stepford representatives?

Hey, it’s possible for Swampland bloggers to be relevant and funny. At the same time. Simultaneously. Wow. I hope those other two bloggers who need not be named study this post.
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And why does such a stolidly liberal state like Minnesota put so many dimbulbs, creeps and crackpots in office?

I want to know why nobody in Congress ever calls her out for the bullsh*t she says. She called for arm insurrection to the government yesterday and I am not exaggerating. She called for an investigation of Congress last year and I say it should start with her crazy ass. The truth is her statement yesterday was blatantly treasonous and her questions today were idiotic. Everybody in Minnesota who voted for her should have to walk around with a frikkin dunce cap on.

And what is with Fox and sex? Need to turn a fire hose on these people.
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Fox Business Network anchor Dagen McDowell made her case against a new tax on Wall Street bonuses funded by the government by comparing it to sexual abuse.
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McDowell: “You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the internet.”
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http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/fox-anchor-compares-taxing-bonuses-sexual-ab

Fox’s audience is getting crazier. The programming will just get worse. They are just catering to the loony ward.

sg-Actually she is a foreign correspondent on enemy lines and she is trying to let everyone back in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.
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She is under cover. Like Jack on 24. Don’t you get it. Its not crazy at allll.

Make that double secret under cover.

Do you have to be criminally insane to get a seat on this cmte?

Bernanke can barely contain his impatience. I’d like someone to ask Bachmann to paraphrase the answers he gave her. She clearly doesn’t understand a word. She’s just rattling off something a staffer wrote for her.

McDowell: “You don’t want to think if you get into bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed,leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the internet”.

As a matter of fact, that is exactly what I would expect. Dagen is awfully naive. She works at Fox for heaven’s sake! There’s more kinks there than in a slinky you tossed in the dryer.

It’s funny, but it’s also terribly sad and horrifying.
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Do you have to be criminally insane to get a seat on this cmte?
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Cooke Puss, that or corrupt. Or both.

I keep watching it because Geithner’s reaction to her is an instant classic. And it’s all Bernanke can do not to show his contempt of her ignorance.

“You don’t want to think if you get in bed with Uncle Sam he’s going to strip you naked, chain you to the bed, leave you there and then take nasty pictures of you and then put them on the internet.”
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One of my daughter’s acquaintances helped pay for college by working for a phone sex company. According to her, that’s a typical request from clients who at least claimed to be “conservative, successful guys”. Then there’s recent the porn study. So McDowell may be giving her FBN just what they want…

Sorry — the link to the porn study, in case you missed it.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa-conservatives-are-biggest-consumers.html

On another note, it appears that President Obama is ready to stop singing and start swinging.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009903240386
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“I do think that the Republican Party right now hasn’t sort of figured out what it’s for,” Obama said in a White House interview with The Courier-Journal and reporters from five other newspapers. “And so, as a proxy, they’ve just decided ‘we’re going to be against whatever the other side is for.’ That’s not what’s needed in an economic crisis.”
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He added that “you could play that game maybe in the early ’90s, when basically we were pretty prosperous. Right now, everybody’s got to pull together.”

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“What we still haven’t seen from those who would argue that we’re trying to do too much is an alternative budget,” Obama said. “And the reason we haven’t seen an alternative budget is because they know full well that the real drivers of our deficits long term have almost everything to do with our rising health-care costs.”

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He said the “problem is Medicare and Medicaid, and we can’t fix that unless we fix health care as a whole. That’s why our investments are so important.”

Dagen, meet Ben Wah. Ben Wah, I’d like you to meet Dagan. Oh, I see you’ve already met.

Sorry I was away, thanks for all of the comment on my computer and it’s possible nasty habits. I really think it may be a new anti virus program playing games.

How was this woman voted into Congress,not once but twice?

Who are the people who honestly think she is doing a good job?

Matt Taibbi’s over in the comments section at firedoglake.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/24/talking-economic-accountability-with-matt-taibbi/#comments

That is some AWESOME craziness. ‘Will you reject Chinese and Russian efforts to develop an international currency, and will you affirm that you will not move away from the Dollar?’
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God, what I wouldn’t give to have had Geitner tell her that, in fact, the US is going to announce this afternoon that we are going to create a global currency with the Russians and the Chinese. The funny thing is that I doubt she would have reacted. She would have just kept asking the questions that her bat-sh!t crazy staffers wrote for her.
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I know that there are some truly worthless Dems out there. My guy, Jim McDermott, has accomplished precisely nothing despite representing the one of the safest Dem seats in the country. But now that Cynthia McKinney is gone I can’t think of one Dem is who is as ignorant and crazy as Bachmann. She truly knows next to nothing to nothing. And what few facts that have managed to penetrate her thick skull are tortured and twisted into some breathtaking leaps of logic.
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Next thing you know, she’ll be calling for armed revolt against the U.S. . .

Obama said. “And the reason we haven’t seen an alternative budget is because they know full well that the real drivers of our deficits long term have almost everything to do with our rising health-care costs.”
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Really, Republicans know that full well? With all due respect to the president, I don’t think that’s true at all.
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Republicans think that if we would eliminate earmarks, stop paying UN dues, and cut taxes, we would balance the budget by next Thursday.

“She’s nuts. I live in Minnesota and it’s pretty shocking to me that this woman got elected.
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Isn’t Minnesota where Al Frankin is trying to steal and election and have the first comedian elected to a high office? Well 2nd comedian, Obama definately takes the title of “laughing loon” and is the biggest joke ever played on the American people.

“But now that Cynthia McKinney is gone I can’t think of one Dem is who is as ignorant and crazy as Bachmann”.
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Ah….two words, Barney Frank!!!

Gee guys, take your shots at Bachmann, at least she knows how to pronounce Orion, unlike your sainted president.

Gee guys, take your shots at Bachmann, at least she knows how to pronounce Orion, unlike your sainted president.
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Well, that is pertinent to the Constitution and the functioning of the Federal Reserve.
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Maybe you could make that Sarah Palin’s campaign slogan for Palin/Bachmann ’12

Should we call this the “Bachman Frown” for the facial expression she inspires with her insanity?
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spob Says:
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Gee guys, take your shots at Bachmann, at least she knows how to pronounce Orion, unlike your sainted president.

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Given that all the evidence so far suggests that Michele Bachmann hails from outer space, she ought to be able to say “Orion”. But would you care to explain why Bachmann thinks the Constitution is the same as detailed regulation of financial powers and bodies? She really is the Teri Hatcher of politics.

I’ll see your Bachmann and raise you a Maxine Waters:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/24/comedy-gold-maxine-waters-grills-geithner-on-the-secret-goldman-sachs-cabal-or-something/

And you can yap all you want about Bachmann, she’s a Congresscritter, your saint is president, and doesn’t even know how to pronounce “Orion”. That goes along with the 57 states, not knowing Illinois and Kentucky bordered each other, “typical white person”, flip-flopping within days on the threat posed by Iran, but the saint is an intelligent man, so all they are intelligent men.

spob, I’ll see your Walters and raise you a Sarah Palin. Hell, I’ll even throw in a Steve King, a Jim Bunning, a Jim Imhofe and a free George Bush with matching cowboy booties accessorization. Don’t you know when it’s time to fold, kid?

Yeah I wonder why anybody would ever ask Geitner and Bernake about ties to Goldman Sachs
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http://www.forbes.com/feeds/reuters/2009/03/17/2009-03-17T223858Z_01_N17127064_RTRIDST_0_AIG-GOLDMANSACHS-ANALYSIS.html

note, junius, that you don’t even defend the saint

spob, why bother defending him against a non-case made by a sad little loser?

nice ad hominem junius–typical liberal nonsense, SFB

Not at all, spob. I read your illiterate nonsense and disdain it. You really need to stop equating masturbation and education.

spob:
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I thought Rush Limbaugh was the One? I mean, why else do we have dittoheads.
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BTW spob, he’s on TV now and isn’t using any teleprompter to get him out of those sticky, difficult questions. Y’know, like he said to that journalist asking the question of why he took so long to express his outrage. To which he said, and I will have to admit that it is a whole lot more intelligent than those ntiwits over at Pravda, er, I mean Fox:
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“Because I like to know what I’m talking about.”
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And spob, obviously, you don’t

juniusredivivus:
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I’ll meet that and I’m tossing in Ann Coulter.

“You really need to stop equating masturbation and education.”
junius:
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spob thinks with his “head”…

Sorry junius, just wanted to take this opportunity to T-bone him as he and you passed by.
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Saw ‘im and I just tromped on the pedal…

spob obviously didn’t bring his/her/its A-game tonight. It’s not as fun when he and rustypoog are just phoning it in.

OT, I do find it amusing that nobody’s bothering to comment on Klein’s foreign policy posts any more. He had to play “me-too” on the AIG thing to get a 60-comment thread yesterday.

53_3.. well, intellectual roadkill is roadkill, slice it how you like. Put your foot to the boards, good sir, and let the perp have it.

junius:
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WHUMPwhumpwhumpwhumpwhumpfumpfumpfump fump fump…fump.
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Jeez.
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Friar, care for some? Plenty here, if you don’t mind picking out the gravel…

Friar:
Spob had his A-game the other night. Wasn’t good enough. Now that was tiring…

Friar, does Klein talk about foreign policy? I always thought that the quill was the quill of Klein, but the voice was the voice of Hoekstra.. to steal a reference to a more famous tale.

Friar
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I think its because at this point Joe Klein doesn’t have a lot new to say about AfPak that we haven’t heard. Until the president comes out with his own plan I am pretty sure folks won’t be as interested. But as soon as it comes out I imagine his comments will pick back up.

I actually like Joe’s foreign policy posts. He ususally serves up some pretty meaty subjects instead of topics like this one, which are just the thing to make the likes of spob and rusty happy.

Can someone explain why Time bothers to pay Mikey Scherer to be their White House correspondent when he NEVER gets to ask a question? Hell they would be better off just letting someone watch Tee Vee and read the pool reports.

We’re the Beverly Hillbillies of the Western World.

Can someone explain why anybody needs to go through these press conference rituals at all?
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This practice is about as relevant as the whistle-stop train tour.
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I don’t think that the public is well-served by these high-ceremony events.
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I think that the press corps are perhaps the greatest beneficiaries.
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The ritual is meant to suggest that the press corps are acting in some sort of institutional role that is as valuable as the role of the state, but exposure only demonstrates the press’ lack of value.
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It’s like watching the National Association of Ice Deliverers negotiate with the President.
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It’s a joke, really. These things are so Daily Show that they’re beyond ridiculous, beyond self-parody.
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Something else needs to replace these things. Something more interactive. Something less institutional, more valuable to people.

The Press Corps are essentially the AIG of the information world. Bloated, corrupted, overpaid and about as much use as a sense of ethics to a Republican.

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Bachmann is just repeating what Mark Levin says on his radio show. The legal wingers try to convince people that the Constitution muct explicitly allow all Federal programs, which would rule out the Air Force.

Also, briefly… “jettising.” Was that supposed to be “jettisoning”?
And, “Kuh-ZACK-i-stan”. Should someone tell her it’s “KAH-zack-stahn”?

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