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Michele Bachmann might know the cause of the swine flu outbreak

By Ken Ronnan | 04/28/09

During an interview Tuesday on Pajamas TV, Rep. Michele Bachmann had some interesting commentary about the swine flu outbreak and Democrats.  As MinnPost's Eric Black notes, "The problem, of course, was that the 1970s swine flu scare started in 1976" under Republican President Gerald Ford.

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Comments (3)

Submitted by Brenden Schaaf on April 28, 2009 - 8:19pm.

Absolutely amazing that she got elected not once, but twice.

Submitted by William Pappas on April 29, 2009 - 8:49am.

Of course she made this comment to deflect attention from the Republican Party and the Bush Administration as they repeatedly reduced the budget for the CDC and have severely reduced our effectiveness in dealing with pandemics. To make this statement is unbelievable demagoguery. It's how she does business. I am sincerely embarrassed that I am from her district. My acquaintances from all over the country express disbelief with respect to Bachmann that the electoral process actually took place here at all.

Submitted by Dave Porter on April 29, 2009 - 3:03pm.

It is hard to expect anyone to start a serious campaign to unseat Ms. Bachmann in the November 2010 election without knowing the district boundaries for the years after 2010. Since Minnesota is likely, but not certain, to lose a congressional seat after the 2010 census, the future boundaries remain uncertain.

She lives in the Stillwater area, which has a well-educated population alongside a stable source of fundamentalist Christian supporters. The existing district stretches
up to St. Cloud, through and into an area that has more fundamentalists with less education.

She knows how to appeal to her voting base, and she really knows how to work the media for support from her nationwide donor base.
Her craziness deceitfulness, carelessness, and ineffective constituent representation do not bother them one bit.

The only viable candidate I can think of who will splinter her base enough to let someone rational win the election would be a Steven Colbert - someone so over the top that her base won't comprehend the irony.