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Michele Bachmann: Obama Led Spending "Orgy," Government "Spent Its Wad" (VIDEO)

First Posted: 06/04/09 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 02:20 PM ET

Rep. Michele Bachmann is on a roll. Less than a week after suggesting a link between the swine flu outbreak and Democratic control of the U.S. government, the Minnesota Republican penetrated a heretofore unseen zone of weirdness and accused the Obama administration of premature fiscal ejaculation.

On Saturday, May 2, Bachmann delivered a rally speech in which she said the administration had engaged in an "orgy" of spending and that the government "spent its wad" too early. The previous administration, she noted, hadn't spent its wad until early August.

"During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed," Bachmann said. She then told the crowd that April 26 was National Debt Day, which conservatives commemorate as the moment government spending outpaces revenue. As Bachmann explains, "The government spent its wad by April 26. Every dime government spends after April 26 throughout the rest of this fiscal year is borrowed money."

WATCH (orgy talk starts at 3:30):


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Rep. Michele Bachmann is on a roll. Less than a week after suggesting a link between the swine flu outbreak and Democratic control of the U.S. government, the Minnesota Republican penetrated a heretof...
Rep. Michele Bachmann is on a roll. Less than a week after suggesting a link between the swine flu outbreak and Democratic control of the U.S. government, the Minnesota Republican penetrated a heretof...
 
 
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HUFFPOST PUNDIT
StJames
In absentia luci tenebrae vincunt
09:57 AM on 05/07/2009
Imagine how mortified her constituents must feel every time the national media quote her or show her on TV. when even Alabama's Sen Sessions can appear on Cavuto's show and sound more rational than Michele!!!!
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regellner
Writer of politics etc.
03:26 PM on 05/06/2009
This is the same "representative" who said that we should have hearings to find the unpatriotic anti-american liberals.
There is nothing more american than having one's own opinion and being able to voice it. What is completely unamerican and unpatriotic is to cast out those who have a differing opinion from yours.
Michele Bachmann has shown time and time again to which category she belongs.
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Lefty83
03:54 PM on 05/05/2009
Was she high through the entire Bush Administration? I'm so sick of these bitter right-wing hacks blaming President Obama for W. Bush mistakes. I guess they live by the saying "if you tell often enough, people will start to believe it." Hey, that should be the new slogan of the GOP.
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Lefty83
04:03 PM on 05/05/2009
I forgot "lie." :P

"If you tell a LIE often enough, people will start to believe it."
04:58 PM on 05/06/2009
Obama spent more in 2 months than Bush spent on Iraq and Afghanistan in his entire two terms.
03:01 PM on 05/05/2009
Michelle, you were invited to the party but nobody came.
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drewziGNY
03:11 PM on 05/05/2009
Maybe if she had pizza.....
03:00 PM on 05/05/2009
she's worn out from bending over backwards for the oligarchical members, only to end up taking it on the chin...

..good Lord Michele, hire a speechwriter
02:36 PM on 05/05/2009
Michele says: "During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed," Don't you wonder where she has lunch and what menu she's choosing from?

It's becoming increasingly clear who is the true leader of the Republican party. The question will be settled after she and Rush have lunch together.
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FGDinVA
E pluribus unum
06:04 PM on 05/05/2009
I think that, as with history and science, she also doesn't understand what the word "orgy" actually means. She must think it means to over-eat.
02:01 PM on 05/05/2009
I would love to see her and Palin on the GOP ticket, together. Wow. Talk about some comic relief.
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FGDinVA
E pluribus unum
02:47 PM on 05/05/2009
Please oh please oh please...
12:26 PM on 05/05/2009
Wow, she is the NEW SARAH PALIN!! I thought the Republicans can't seem to get it right with the women....
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Gregor53
Remembering your past gives power to the present.
12:04 PM on 05/05/2009
There must be something in the water up there.
jaslyn
don't go away mad, just go away
11:32 AM on 05/05/2009
This woman becomes more of a joke everytime she opens her mouth. The people who didn't vote for her in Minnesota, must be cringing in horror.
03:26 PM on 05/05/2009
And more than a few who did, I imagine...
10:43 AM on 05/05/2009
Bachmann claims to be pious, but she knows very well that she's using sex appeal and sex language to sway her audience. All the time.
10:36 AM on 05/05/2009
I'm officially nervous about some of my fellow citizens. We know Michelle is "out there". But do you hear the crowd cheering at the stooooopid things she says?

Ey carumba!
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drewziGNY
03:56 PM on 05/05/2009
No, but the laughter flushes out the cheers when she's speaking.
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peaches49
10:09 AM on 05/05/2009
Where was this chick when Bush was running up the deficit? Minnesota wake up!!!!!!!!
05:02 PM on 05/06/2009
So since Bush was bad and ran up a deficit then Obama can be worse and run up a bigger deficit. Is that a fiscally sound way to run a country.
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10:07 AM on 05/05/2009
Let the empty wagon rattle. She's definitely a tasteless WAD.

This incarnation of the GOP are on borrowed time. Young adults think they are nuts. Middle aged adults think they have no bottom and older adults think it's the worst party in their long-lifetime.

This is the longest death spasm I've ever seen!
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sbvpav
10:03 AM on 05/05/2009
let's see: clinton budget surplus spent on tax cuts for the wealthy (that good ol' trickle down never works except for the wealthy) and $10 billion a month on an unnecessary war that, to date, has killed over 45000 young american men and women.

have decided every criticism of the good ol" we pander to your fears, prejudices and ignorance" gop is only what they themselves have done; think that's called transference.