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Honestly, this woman is so stupid she makes Sarah Palin look like a Rhodes Scholar. Oddly, the history lesson she is parroting is not far from right wing teaching, what they tell us is “Econ101”.
Piece of Mindful 
Right wingers dream of the second-coming of Reagan – Nancy Reagan. God save the Queen.
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Word transpositions aside, the woman’s argument is historically accurate.
But I’m with you, Mark, women have no place in politics.
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I knew it! I knew it! I knew someone would say that. It’s not that she’s stupid, it’s that she’s a woman. You’re playing the gender card.
Stupid is stupid.
Hoot-Smalley was passed before FDR took office, under Hoover, btw. And the tax cuts of the early 1920’s led to the bubble of the late 1920’s.
So much for historical accuracy.
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You didn’t like Hillary and you didn’t like Sarah and now you don’t like Michele. That’s three of a kind. Pretty good hand for a guy not playing the gender card.
But if you’re gay, that’s okay with me. Just don’t hide it by saying women are stupid.
The Michele Bachmann’s outline of economic events in the 1920s and early 30s was correct, especially her mention of the 1920-21 depression, something most people are unaware of. That depression wiped out the farmers long before the Dustbowl. So she got her presidents mixed. Not a big deal. Her economic outline was correct.
Nice try there saying the prosperity of the 1920s was a bubble. I suppose that means it wasn’t real in your book. Dream on.
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I did not say women were stupid. Michele Bachman is stupid. Sarah Palin is stupid. You’re the one extrapolating based on small data set.
The wealth of the 1920’s was not a bubble? As Howard Cosell would say, “You’ve got a scoop!”
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I’ll let a woman school you on this subject. End of lesson.
Excerpts from “Obama Democrats Accent Bullying Over Governing,” by Amity Shlaes
Another force at work is the relevance of history. The most recent attack on Bachmann came after she misspoke and called the 1930 tariff “Hoot-Smalley” rather than its accurate name, Smoot-Hawley. Bachmann also implied that Franklin Roosevelt signed the tariff into law, rather than its actual signator, Herbert Hoover.
Vice President Joseph Biden made much larger slips when talking about the same period on the campaign trail. In an ecstasy of anachronism, he told Katie Couric, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”
The problem for Bachmann was also her implication that the New Dealers’ policies failed to bring recovery. Since this happens to be accurate, it’s a sensitive point, as I myself have noted watching the bile poured on my own 2007 book on the period.
The Democrats of 2009 are showing less awareness than their predecessors did in President Bill Clinton’s time on the importance of low taxes and reasonable regulation. Only these permit strong growth, a point made articulately by none other than Bachmann herself, in the now-infamous “Hoot-Smalley” TV clip.
Because the ruling Democrats have tilted too far left, their allies are out on a mission of distraction, trying to prove that everyone else is too far to the right. On the key question of trade, Americans are pretty sympathetic to Bachmann’s pro-trade views, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Citizens don’t necessarily line up with the protectionist unions and House Speaker Pelosi.
(Amity Shlaes, author of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” is a Bloomberg News columnist.)
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Nah, Peck _ I’m pretty sure Bachmann is stupid. I’m pretty hard to fool on that, as are most people.
Biden, the former Senator from DuPont, is no prize either, and gets his cage rattled pretty good for his stupid statements. Obama was crazy to take him on. Were it not for the Palin fiasco, Biden would have been the center of a lot of controversy in the campaign. But she outshown them all.
By the way, bubbles are not the same as growth. Low taxes and free trade do not produce prosperity. Everything you know is wrong.
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I’ll stick with the experts rather than a blog bloviator.
What’s next on your idiotic posting schedule? I’m sort of enjoying this. You’re so easy.
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Only one thing – pick an expert who saw the bubble and forecast the collapse. If you know any. it didn’t exactly fit with right wing “econ101”.
Blog bloviator – not bad. You do have your moments.
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