Fundie GOP Rep says no need for “pesky environmentalists” . . .
15 August 2008 by Stardust . . . because “someone did that 2,000 years ago ” 
GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet
We like to keep track of the, er, intriguing sayings of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the Christian Right champion from Minnesota. But this latest is really out there — Bachmann says we don’t need pesky environmentalists like Nancy Pelosi around, because Jesus already saved the planet!
“[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet,” Bachmann told the right-wing news site OneNewsNow. “We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.”
Wow.
Other recent Bachmannisms include the claim that there isn’t actually any wildlife in the areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge where she wants more drilling, and the allegation that Democrats want high gas prices so as to force people to move into “inner cities” and “the urban core.”
Michele Bachmann Accuses Pelosi of “Global Warming Fanaticism”
15 August 2008, on 9:21 pm
Hey, this gal, as with all other fundies, places little value on reality. Their bestest buddie is an invisible man who can take his morning constitutional on top of water and change water into merlot. (Does this mean, by extension, that he can walk on wine?)
When put in this perspective, her latest claims seem pretty mundane, huh?
15 August 2008, on 10:19 pm
I know that stuff like this shouldn’t surprise me anymore. But holy shit, that is insane! Not only insane, but quite dangerous as well. Hey what the hell, the planet’s already saved so let’s just strip it of all it’s got and kill every animal that gets in our way! This woman needs to be chucked in a mental institution where she belongs, and she certainly should not be in our government.
15 August 2008, on 10:37 pm
Is this not the charmer who puked on the floor in the House ladies’ room, which puke Mean Jean Schmidt from Ohio slipped and fell in, during a house CHRIST’S BIRTHDAY PARTY a few years back? She, like virtually all repubs is a lying sack of shit.
16 August 2008, on 12:41 am
But when you remember that she is a United States Congresswoman, it goes from being mundane to downright horrifying. This isn’t the crazy old bat you run in to at a PTA meeting. This woman has the power to write laws.
16 August 2008, on 8:36 am
News flash for Bachmann: um, since that initial saving, the one by the magician on a stick- some sort of giant rake, presumably, for rounding up the scourge of camel and donkey droppings that littered the streets of Jerusalem. Anyway, since then we’ve had outbreaks of everything from plague to Nazis, influenza to Inquisitors, AIDS to communisses. We’ve hauled heaps and heaps of black crap from the earth, both in solid and liquid forms, set it alight, and danced in the sooty plumes of our progress, hacking up great loogies of black, phlegm, and lung. Made a nuclear family out of man, woman, and two point five automobiles- the “.5″ generally being the one on blocks with strange weeds growing up through the vents. We’ve mortgaged the world our grandchildren’s grandchildren may or may not survive for the profitable convenience of our own. We’re in serious need of a flea-dip and a delousing and this is hammered home to me every time one of you opens your great maw and sinks those itty bitty teeth into my ankles.
With apologies to the completely unassociated Randy, I now will have a real problem listening to either the Guess Who or BTO. Sorry, buddy. Burton freaking Cummings.
16 August 2008, on 10:16 am
But when you remember that she is a United States Congresswoman, it goes from being mundane to downright horrifying.
And even more horrifying is the number of people who voted for her to get her elected who think the same way she does.
16 August 2008, on 12:05 pm
Seems Bachman should be arguing that we shouldn’t even be drilling for oil. What do we need it for? Obviously, we should be following her example of riding an ass to work, beating our clothes on rocks at the river to clean them, living in houses made of camel dung, without air conditioning or central heat. I’m amazed she finds time to be a Congresswoman after grinding corn for her meals, weaving flax for her clothes, and having to separate herself from the menfolk for a week out of every month. And if she believes that jeebus already saved the world, what’s she doing in Congress? She should be home, being submissive to her husband and spitting out chilluns.
16 August 2008, on 12:32 pm
i agree karen, Bachman belongs in the kitchen where jesus needs her.
16 August 2008, on 1:57 pm
Yeah…the inevitable “dumbing down” that religion has ALWAYS been so adept at….
akin to what George Carlin noted:
“One has to stand (or maybe sit?) in AWE of the all-time champion…”!
And that reminds me that tonight (Sat, Aug. 16th, 2008 at 8:00 PM) is the night that Bill Maher is due to be protested by the Bill Donohue motivated Cat-licks, outside his comedy venue appearance at the Murat Theater in Indianapolis, IN)…
Maher, by the way, is due to appear on CNN’s Larry King Live on Tues., Aug. 19th. I’m guessing there’ll be some comments about that stupid protest shtick.
And, of course…also tonight…CNN is covering the totally inane, “Faith-based” ass-kissing appearance of McLame and Obama in that, sure to be moronic, Town Hall fiasco with the “Porpoise Driven Life instigator/author…”Pastor” Warren.
Yeah…this is what we’ve finally come to in our, 200 year or so, agonizing, historical evolution as a so-called “Secular Democracy”…making absolutely sure that our top-most leaders are certifiably delusional enough to lead the terminally mindless sheeple majority directly over the proverbial cliff!
Yeah…shear…woolly-brained…utterly stupid…almost totally unrecognized…fuck EVERYBODY in the ass…
madness!
“Baaaaah!”
[cue echo, falling sheep FX...and turbulent ocean surf noise!]
16 August 2008, on 3:31 pm
Bachmann falsely claims Dems blocking renewable energy
(This is just audio, no video to view)
16 August 2008, on 4:52 pm
It does my heart good to know that she’s from Minnesota, where PZ rides her ass regularly.
16 August 2008, on 7:02 pm
Sargoth
“But when you remember that she is a United States Congresswoman, it goes from being mundane to downright horrifying. ”
Agreed. I guess I’ve just become accostomed to the “Cacocracy” (rule by the least qualified) that is our government. As long as religion is such a pervasive element in our society, we can never hope to have a government that legislates in the best interest of the planet and mankind. Considering we are a global power with empirialistic endeavors, it is indeed horryfying.
When I stated that her comments were mundane, I guess what I was really saying was that I’m daily becoming increasingly numbed to the self-imposed, willful ignorance that pervades our collective national (and international) intellect. Her comments are entirely predictable. Additionally, there are so many people that think like her, comments such as these are interesting only in how incredibly common they have become. I (almost) don’t have the energy to get angry about these things anymore.
We’re in the 21st century. We have more access to knowledge than ever. Science is accessible to all in industrialized nations. It’s post-fucking-enlightenment America, for fuck’s sake. And fuckwits like this are not only common, but “running” (in the loosest sense of the term) our country.
Sorry for the rant. Someone please give me a reason to abandon my cynicism.
16 August 2008, on 8:20 pm
Tonight is the Rick Warren Fuckwittery Summit and Testimonial with the presidential candidates. Cue skewering Obama for trying to actually win the election in 5…4…3…
16 August 2008, on 11:01 pm
RDZ, isn’t that a bunch of crap that Rick Warren has such power to bring two candidates together in a religious forum? And they basically have no choice but to show up. It’s depressing.
17 August 2008, on 1:03 am
While Warren is most assuredly a troglodyte on issues like gay marriage and reproductive rights, he has come around on global warming. I’ve got to give him props for that. As for the socio-political climate in which he commands such respect, while I agree that both candidates are obligated to show up, I’m just about certain that Obama is the only one with anything to gain at this shindig. The most fervent of the evilgelicals hate him anyway. That won’t change but amongst the moderates, Warren’s constituency say, Obama’s poignant(to them) testimony may actually influence some votes his way. C-c-Cain doesn’t have that inexplicable Bush-like hold on the religious voters maybe because, at various times over his political career, he’s actually been quite liberal on social issues and that blatant inconsistency cheapens any appeal he might have once had. I reckon it’s a win/win for Obama a no change/loss for C-c-Cain.
17 August 2008, on 1:59 am
If the only human beings left on the planet were me, Michele Bachman, and Katherine Harris, I would have to consign myself to living alone and celibate for the rest of my days, hoping neither of them would ever find me.
17 August 2008, on 5:46 am
Tommykey:
If it was down to me and them two, I’d hope that I could make a good stew out of the bubbly Ms. Bachman and the stringy Mean Jean.
17 August 2008, on 11:01 pm
She also hasn’t done her math right. Bible “scholars” put Jesus being crucified at age 33. Even when those “scholars” think that he was “born” in the year 4 B.C., that put 2000 years being at 2029. So, we’re not over the 2k mark, yet.
I got kinda hung up on that point. It’s been a long day.
5 September 2008, on 5:36 am
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