Right-wing congresswoman Michele Bachmann-- known primarily for championing the Lightbulb Freedom of Choice Act and calling for the investigation of Anti-Americanism in Congress, was the featured speaker at a health care reform protest rally on Capital Hill yesterday.In past protests, tea-baggers had infamously compared Obama to Hitler and Heath Ledger's Joker character-- but they keep upping the ante. Prominently featured at yesterday's rally was a sign that compared the "socialist health care" effort with the Holocaust-- and it featured a 1945 image of dead bodies from the Dachau death camp in Nazi Germany. Bachman is well-known for being a virtual mouthpiece for the fringe right, but associating herself with such hateful and disgusting tactics goes beyond the pale.
This isn't the first time the Minnesotan congresswoman has found herself amid controversy and/or facing ridicule. Bachman earlier this year also publicly criticized the AmeriCorps program as a socialist re-education camp for youths, unaware that her own son had taken a job with AmeriCorps.
Bachmann has also continually promoted violence in her public statements while in office. At a Colorado rally against health care reform she said, "This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass."
In speaking out against Obama's cap and trade policies, she called on Minnesotans to be "armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back." She later said that according to Thomas Jefferson, "having a revolution every now and then is a good thing."
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