Bachmann: "Gangster Government" Turning U.S. Into "Sinking Titanic"

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman took to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to call out the "gangster government." She also likened America to the sinking Titanic.

"We will always be a superpower," she said. "But one thing that has kept us a superpower has been freedom, free market economists. We are in the process of watching the deconstruction of free market economists before our very eyes, something we have never seen. But as the ice ripped that hole in the Titanic, water started being taken on, and the engineer came out and brought the blueprint of the Titanic. Water came into the first chamber, spilled over to the second, spilled over to the third, and by the time it filled up so many chambers, it was over. It was impossible to resurrect that ship."

Bachmann's gangster accusation was part of a larger diatribe:

I'm very concerned again about these motor takeovers from the federal government.

I saw [an article] today where a constituent had contacted one of the representatives, a Democrat representative here in this chamber, Representative Barney Frank. Barney Frank was able to go and talk to the right people and get this dealership back open.

Is that what we have come to in this country, that rather than a private business with a private contract with another private corporation, they're no longer able to work out their agreements because, as [Washington Examiner] columnist Michael Barone has called, he said, now we've moved into the realm of "gangster government."

We have gangster government when the federal government has set up a new cartel and private businesses now have to go begging with their hand out to their local -- hopefully well-politically connected -- congressman or their senator so they can buy a peace offering for that local business.

Is that the kind of country we are going to have in the future?

Bachmann, however, has been interfering in the auto-industry herself. On her own website, she recounts an instance in which she "led a rally" on behalf of a Lake Elmo, Minnesota Chrystler dealership.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann was on hand to lead the rally to save the dealership. She said she will take their fight to Washington on Wednesday when Chrysler leaders will be questioned by members of the senate about the future of local car dealers.

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Comments

[bellabeach]

10:58 AM on 06/12/2009

People of Minnesota, please for the sake of our country.....make sure you do not vote for this women again...she is an embarrassment to you and your state!!

[BrannigansLaw]

10:46 AM on 06/12/2009

I find it incredibly frustrating that someone this amazingly stupid can get elected in this country.

Idiocracy here we come.

[carpdd]

09:35 AM on 06/12/2009

Maybe we would be better off with the new HIP HOP GOP, oh thats right they are the same group that got us into this mess to begin with. Michele you should really read up on your own positions before going all Gangsta in U face.

[moxieme]

08:11 PM on 06/11/2009

I don't know which of these bimbos is worse, Bachmann, Palin, or Steele. They just ramble on endlessly about nothing. I ber Minnesotans are crying in their beer and will be for the next two years. She doesn't have to be recalled but you folks up there need to help her understand she's on borrowed time. I still don't understand how the citizens in that state haven't made it clear to Noem Coleman he needs to end his madness.

[LeftLeanWing]

05:00 PM on 06/11/2009

You can always tell which movie she just rented from NetFlix

Next she'll be saying: " Obama is a evil robot from the Future and Sarah Palin will make preparations to save the planet from iPods running amok"

[Subterfuge]

04:18 PM on 06/11/2009

She's right. The Gangster Government did turn the U.S. into a sinking ship.

As usual. The dems have to bail them out for their reckless spending and deregulation.

Remember kids, you can't break the rules if there aren't any rules.

[cuomofied]

04:51 PM on 06/11/2009

Your heart is in the right place, but if you think that reguation does anything but protect the interests of large corporations that have their hands in government then you are a tad naive. if you want a good example, you need not look any further than the FDA. Total disaster.


Should there be rules? You bet. But it shouldn't be cost prohibitive to the individuals with small businesses, which are exactly the people who get hut the most by "regulation".

[myarmsaregreen]

09:38 PM on 06/11/2009

Who enforces the rules?

A completely corrupt Congress.

Good luck with regulation

[cuomofied]

03:35 PM on 06/11/2009

First, your little game of gotcha is garbage. She is complaining about the process that she is forced to now participate in. She is not interferring, she is following the new rules. Let's try to maintan some journalistic standards, please.


She's dead on, but she is irrelevant. She helped Bush push through the massive expansion of executive power that Obama is now abusing in the same fashion.

i live in MN and she is a terror/ The only good she has done was fight TARP and jump on the increasing bandwagon for Ron Paul's HR 1207.

[Loki11467]

02:57 PM on 06/11/2009

Funny how the Ganstas call the kettle black. Michelle do us a favor go jump off a very tall cliff or bridge. It is you patriotic duty to do so!

[cuomofied]

04:37 PM on 06/11/2009

It is your patriotic duty to slow down and learn to spell.. Yikes.

[mivogo]

01:52 PM on 06/11/2009

Once again Bachman is in overdrive. And I get the feeling we ain't seen nothing yet.
Funny she didn't notice the "gangster government" and Titanic sailing straight for the iceberg from 2001 to 2008, before our ship of state sunk and Obama had to bail us out. (Funny peculiar, not funny haha)

[LiarLiarIraqsOnFire]

02:02 PM on 06/11/2009

She can smell ice, ya know.

[LeftLeanWing]

04:51 PM on 06/11/2009

The Bush government was more likened to Vesuvius and Pompeii.

[BlueFloyd]

01:08 PM on 06/11/2009

That's truly funny. I wrote and published an entire novel called "America's Most Gangsta".

It was written during the bush administration. Guess who ends up being America's Most Gangsta?

[Tena]

12:47 PM on 06/11/2009

Yeah, Michelle, cause FDR was really a communist dictator.

SMH

[bogues]

12:43 PM on 06/11/2009

Michele Bachmann is one of those Republican politicians who are faning the flames of hate and division and now violence.

[bellabeach]

10:59 AM on 06/12/2009

That she is...and her smile is SCARY!!

[bentheimmigrant]

12:09 PM on 06/11/2009

I didn't realise personal freedom was so reliant on free market economics.

[mryan]

02:22 PM on 06/11/2009

No. It's "free market economists" that provide personal freedom. And sadly, these individuals are being destroyed before our very eyes. I think I saw this being advertised on Pay-Per-View.

[LooktotheLeft]

06:58 AM on 06/11/2009

She and Sarah Palin should put their heads together so we can finally find out who helped knock off JFK, if Amelia Earhart is living in a retirement community in England, who s*hot J.R., on what island Jimmy Hoffa is vacationing, if man really landed on the moon or was it a hoax, who's buried in Grant's Tomb, if the Earth is round or flat, and where the h*ell Elvis is.

[ranchero42]

01:04 AM on 06/11/2009

Did the GOP promise Michelle something in exchange for these high-profile attempts to make Sarah look like a genius by comparison?

[IhaveaDREAMwhitegirl]

06:23 PM on 06/11/2009

Red FancoSarto wedge shoes?