If the Repubs gain control of the U.S. House this fall, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann believes they should use their control over the subpoena power to investigate all of the "nonsense" that has occurred during the first two years of the Obama administration, and then use the blocking power that either house would have over the appropriations process to "defund" everything that's been enacted (Obamacare is specified but many other actions are included).

The version of the statement below comes from the Minnesota Progressive Project, but there's also an audio tape on YouTube so you can hear it for yourself.

Here's the tape, followed by a transcription:

Now the transcript, the question that sets up Bachmann's statement was posed to her at the GOP Youth Convention yesterday:

QUESTIONER: "I may be putting the cart before the horse here, but assuming the Republicans win the House back this next cycle: how do you feel about the chances for a little oversight and a little accountability now that the Republicans would have the subpoena power, how aggressive do you think--"

BACHMANN: "Oh, I think that's all we should do...I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another. And expose all the nonsense that has gone on. And it's very important when we come back that we have constitutional conservative leadership because the American people's patience is about this big.

So we have to make sure that we do what the people want us to do because one thing that you should is that the most dramatic story that's happened in the last 18 months is that the federal government - before 18 months ago, the private economy was 100 percent held in private hands. But today 65 percent of the economy is now held in government's hands - either in direct ownership or in control. This is your future we're talking about. So we got to unravel that and we got to get the private sector back to being private and the government back to being government.

This is the year - this is it. All of our chips are on November. If we don't get it back and then starve the beast - the House, we have the power of the purse - so we can starve ObamaCare. We don't have to fund any of these programs and that's exactly what we need to do - defund all of this nonsense and then unwind it. So anyway, thank you very much..."

Bachmann has been claiming for some time that the government has taken control of 65 percent of the private sector, although this is the first time I have seen where she has it has gone from zero to 65 just in the last two years. That part is kinda crazy torturing of the numbers that Bachmann has done before.

From past statements, I believe she is taking the entire health care industry, for example, and saying it was private at the end of 2008 and now it is "held in the government's hands," as if the government had no involvement in health care before. She is assigning a shift from zero to total government control of the auto industry, based on the bailouts of GM and others, while disregarding those companies that have paid back their government loans.

But the talk subpoenas, "exposing all the nonsense that has gone on," and "defunding" seems relatively new.

She's right, too, that a party controlling either house of Congress can, if it sticks together, prevent any appropriations from passing. It's quite possible that not every single House Republican would go along with such an agenda.

I've been thinking that all the talk of repealing the various enactments of 2009-10 was silly, since repeal would require a House majority, a Senate supermajority and a presidential signature. And I still think that. There will be no repeal. But the kind of defunding project that Bachmann describes could be done with a majority in just one house.