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Minnesota’s biggest talker, Bachmann fears ID cards for prolifers
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| Contributor | Eric |
| Last Edited | Eric Apr 24, 2009 05:08pm |
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| News Date | Friday, April 24, 2009 10:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Rep. Michele Bachmann spends more time than any other Minnesota representative speaking on the House floor, according to C-SPAN’s archive. So far in 2009, Bachmann has addressed the body on 19 different days for a total of four hours, 32 minutes, roughly double that of Minnesota’s second most talkative rep, Democrat Keith Ellison (see times for other legislators after the jump). But how long Bachmann talks is of less interest than how she fills all that time: with impassioned speeches about fears of “political show trials,” ID cards for prolifers and a huge federal police force created to track down “rightwing extremists.”
For instance, on Wednesday, she asked if Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano has gone “absolutely stark raving mad” for producing a confidential report on potential rightwing extremists — while waxing paranoid about what she fears Barack Obama’s plans entail for the likes of Bachmann: “What’s going to happen now? Will the federal government start IDing returning veterans? Start IDing gun owners? Start IDing prolifers — and then pull us out of the line for special searches at the airports before we’re allowed to get on the plane because we could be considered a rightwing domestic terrorist while we would see Osama bin Laden and his friends skate by because they’re not…?” |
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