Title: Bachmann ‘Hearing Voices’ Other Than God’s, Says Top Dem Source:
Minnesota Independent URL Source:[None] Published:Sep 3, 2009 Author:Minnesota Independent Post Date:2009-09-03 12:24:18 by Brian S Keywords:None Views:414 Comments:11
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s talk of stopping health care reform by fasting, praying and wrist-slitting has prompted not only lefty pundits but a top Democratic colleague to question what’s going on between her ears. Jim Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, remarked Tuesday: “I don’t think God’s talking to her anymore. I think she’s hearing other voices.”
It wasn’t a one-off gag line for Oberstar, who earlier called Bachmann “a sweet woman” but had this advice for elderly health care reform advocates in Duluth who were planning to visit her: ”Tell her that there are voices other than God that are informing her.” [Via Tom Elko]
It wasn’t immediately clear whether one of those voices is that of Rep. Ron Paul, who has Bachmann’s ear on financial policy and will appear with her at a town hall in her district this month.
Oberstar’s comments are of the sort more commonly heard from cable TV yakkers like Ed Schultz, whose show featured her “psycho talk” two days in a row, and Dan Savage, who linked God-inspired politics to hate rhetoric of the worst sort:
When you have a party that claims to speak for God or says God is on its side, the rhetoric heats up and the anger heats up, because it’s not just a battle about ideas and positions and what’s good for the country and bad for the country. It’s a battle about what God wants and what God doesn’t want. And it’s easier to demagogue about your enemies and to despise them and to dehumanize them in this really personal and vicious way. And the religious right is fomenting this kind of hatred in this country at our peril. I really do think that the Michele Bachmanns of the world and the Glenn Becks of the world are actively and consciously, or subconsciously, trying to get — I’m just going to say it — trying to get the president killed. This kind of rhetoric — this paranoid style on the religious right, from Birchers to birthers — doesn’t usually end well. And somebody’s got to put the brakes on it. Unfortunately in the Republican Party, there’s no adults left in the room. There are only the Michele Bachmanns and the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs running the show.
I really do think that the Michele Bachmanns of the world and the Glenn Becks of the world are actively and consciously, or subconsciously, trying to get — I’m just going to say it — trying to get the president killed. This kind of rhetoric — this paranoid style on the religious right, from Birchers to birthers — doesn’t usually end well.
This is exactly the point I made on your article about Levi Johnston: the dems and their stooges use any language they can get away with to demonize their opponents. Hence, my use of disparaging language about Levi Johnston being the son of a crackhead whore and being an untrustworthy source of info on the Palin family.
Ask yourself this question: why did the Palin's take him in under their roof and feed him and clothe him?? Did he not have a home with his mother?? Why won't the MSM ask about that situation?? He's an ungrateful brat after all the Palin's did for him, giving him a home and taking care of him. He's currently living off of "contributions" from unnamed democrats for as long as he keeps cursing the family that took him in when he had NO home.
Ask yourself this question: why did the Palin's take him in under their roof and feed him and clothe him?? Did he not have a home with his mother?? Why won't the MSM ask about that situation?? He's an ungrateful brat after all the Palin's did for him, giving him a home and taking care of him. He's currently living off of "contributions" from unnamed democrats for as long as he keeps cursing the family that took him in when he had NO home.
The Palins do seem to attract some strange types. Maybe if they hadn't encouraged Levi's free ride, he might have taken some personal responsibility for his own situation. Letting transient teenagers of the opposite sex from your children live in one's house basically unsupervised while one is away being a governor is asking for trouble. More of Palin's poor decision making ability. She should consider herself lucky worse didn't happen.