Bachmann: History fail of epic proportions

Batshit-crazy Michele Bachmann pulled a history fail of epic proportions this week.

On Monday night Bachmann took to the House floor and paid tribute to the economic policies of Calvin Coolidge and the "Roaring 20s" (the era that ended with a massive monetary contraction and the Great Depression). One particular line really does stand out, though -- saying Franklin Roosevelt turned a recession into a depression through the "Hoot-Smalley" tariffs:


OUCH! Double fail!
First, when Franklin Roosevelt took office, unemployment was already about 25%. He didn't start the depression, he inherited it from Hoover, a Republican.

Second, the tariff referred to here was actually the Smoot-Hawley bill, co-authored by Republicans Sen. Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep. Willis Hawley of Oregon, and signed into law by Republican President Herbert Hoover.

How Michele is able to get her underwear on without strangling herself is amazing. Bob Stack and Unsolved Mysteries should investigate.

But she takes it one step further. She's blaming swine flu on Democrats. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter," said Bachmann. "And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."



Fail number three: The swine flu epidemic hit in 1976. Jimmy Carter didn't take office until January 1977. The president in 1976 was Republican Gerald Ford.

YOWCH!
(TPM)