Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on Wednesday opposed the National Women’s History Museum by connecting it to “eugenics” and same-sex marriage. During a House debate on whether or not Congress should appoint a commission to study how to move forward with building the National Women’s History Museum, Bachmann stood up and urged her colleagues to vote against the measure…. “I rise today in opposition to this bill because I believe ultimately this museum — that will be built on the National Mall on federal land — will enshrine the radical feminist movement that stands against the pro-life movement, the pro-family movement and the pro-traditional marriage movement,” she announced.
I’ve had some truly crummy luck when it comes to Congressional representation. I lived in Tom DeLay’s district for 10 years…yeah, your condolences are welcomed. Even worse was going to high school in the district currently represented by Michele Bachmann. I’ve spent years trying to wrap my head around how the seemingly sane, lucid people I grew up with could willingly (and repeatedly) vote for someone convinced that her God’s a Republican God and that she has a direct line to Him. It hardly seems a stretch to argue Bachmann’s the reason the Minnesota state bird is a loon. From the beginning of her tenure representing Minnesota’s 6th Congress District, Bachmann has been an embarrassment- to herself, her constituents, the state of Minnesota, the Congressional Republican Caucus, the House of Representatives, and to humanity in general. You might think she’s embarrassed herself in every manner possible…but her latest foray into the realm of the absurd is one of her wackiest efforts yet.
Being a woman herself, one might think Bachmann would realize that being female doesn’t ipso facto translate to being a radical feminist - you know, the type that gets gay married, aborts their babies, raises children without having a man in their lives, and denies the existence of Almighty God. In fact, some women are every bit as hyper-religious, intolerant, and ridiculously self-righteous as she is…they just don’t have seats in Congress. (And since when is embracing “liberal ideology’ considered to be just this side of pedophilia?)
Having convinced herself that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a champion of infanticide and eugenics, Bachmann’s latched onto the long-discredited myth that Sanger founded the organization as part of an insidious plot to commit genocide against African-Americans. Why should we spend tax dollars celebrating a woman who dedicated her life to sterilizing women and killing babies and African-Americans?? This is what the radical feminist Liberal agenda has led us to. (Sanger actually opposed abortion, though more out of concern for a woman’s health than morality.) Shouldn’t we be spending it on teaching Creationism in public schools…right after students are forced to pray?
Oddly enough, the museum’s planner had hoped to include Bachmann in an online tribute called “Profiles in Motherhood.” When you finish cleaning up the coffee you just spewed on your keyboard, consider this: Bachmann fostered so many children in Minnesota that she’d developed a reputation as something of a “baby farmer,” taking in children for the stipend provided by the state. Mother of the Year she wasn’t, but to her credit she did provide a roof and three squares a day to a large number of children.
One of the things that makes Bachmann so unique is a world-class lack of self-awareness and an hyper-inflated sense of her own significance. Most lucid humanoids recognize that she’s bat-shit crazy. She truly sees herself as the last bastion of sanity and decency. Her opposition to the National Women’s History Museum is genuine, and she’s absolutely convinced of the moral rectitude of her position. Unfortunately for her, her arguments are baseless and her conduct’s made her a late-night talk show host’s dream come true. This saga is merely one more entry on the hit parade that’s been her career on the House Republican Caucus’ lunatic fringe.
I shudder to think where this country would be today if she’d been successful in her run for President.
