Bachmann Spinner Overdrive and April Fools’ Day Year ‘Round 0
Dick Polman shines the light (sorry, couldn’t resist) on Michelle Backmann’s crusade against CFLs* (follow the link for the complete article):
Seriously, this is one of Bachmann’s big causes. She happens to be flat wrong on the facts, but people who pay attention to facts probably wouldn’t vote for her anyway. Besides, she’s interested in being visceral, not empirical, and the lightbulb shtick is a wonderful way to quicken tea party pulses.
The last sentence of the excerpt above does not go far enough.
Bachmann, Palin, and, indeed much of the Republican Party don’t care for or about facts–consider Newt the Gingrinch’s flippity flops on intervention in Libya.
They say today whatever they think will get attention, feed the base, and fool the middle, then say the opposite tomorrow, if they think it will get attention, feed the base, and fool the middle.
Republicans don’t have positions.
They have press releases.
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*The bill requiring more efficient light bulbs was passed under George Bush with support from his administration.
