Deep Thoughts: Embarrassing moments with Rep. Michele Bachmann

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Embarrassing moments with Rep. Michele Bachmann

Rep. Michele Bachmann is a constant source of embarrassment. Her latest antics were caught on CSPAN.

Representatives from the CIA, including newly-installed Director John Brennan, didn’t quite know what to make of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) this week when they sat down to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee. Each topic she raised seemed to draw blank stares and more questions from the intelligence officials, who could not believe the congresswoman was broaching various classified subject in the open forum.
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What scares me the most is that Bachmann does things like this:

But the most bizarre moment came at the end of Bachmann’s time when she asked about Iran’s “heavy water reactor.” The CIA men conferred amongst themselves for several seconds before politely informing Bachmann that it would be better to have that discussion in a “closed session.”

How hard is it to know the difference between something you can discuss in public and something you must discuss in private?

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v1car 40p · 629 weeks ago

Dunno; it would be delightfully refreshing if the government were actually to open up on the subject so we could see/hear what evidence they actually have as to Iran. I'm guessing -- since all the inspectors and experts are pretty much agreed that Iran is no threat and probably would take at least 10 years to become one, if they actually started taking steps which they aren't -- that it amounts to "well, Israel has told us every year since 1996 that Iran was going to have nukes the next year*, and we always listen to them". After all, about 10 years the government told us all that they had intelligence about Dubbleya Em Dees in Iraq, and we couldn't be told about it because it was all so seeeeeecret, but we had to trust them, because it was all so scary and so seeeeecret. And now the same people are claiming to have seeeeeeecret scary information about Iran. At the best, we're talking about the boys who cried wolf; at the worst, we're talking about a bunch of charlatans who have discovered a way to get the U.S. taxpayer to pay an endless series of bills for needless death and destruction at the cost of making the Muslim world hate us with a white-hot passion. So, embarrassing as Bachmann is -- and, incidentally, there used to be a ripoff of Pac-Man for old black-and-white one-piece Macs called Bachman, and I can never hear her name without thinking of it -- it's still interesting.

*This is actually true. Which gives you some idea of how reliable Israel is on the subject of Iran.

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Sooz · 629 weeks ago

It is still bemusing how the GOP chooses to ignore the fact it was their own flag pin wearing Halliburton who built the nuclear power plant Iran. When the that information became common knowledge, Halliburton shut it's American headquarters and moved it to the middle east to avoid charges of treason, the penalties of doing business in a sanctioned nation.

Halliburton is not adverse to the GOP's false propaganda against Iran... since it will be they who profit yet again rebuilding whatever their cronies destroy if getting their wish to blow them up.

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sooz · 629 weeks ago

so sorry just caught the incorrect 'it's" . . should have said "Halliburton shut its American headquarters . . . "

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