El Tinklenberg, a moderate Democrat who is running against Michelle Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th district, raised $125,000 in the last 24 hours after Bachmann spoke on Hardball yesterday questioning Barack Obama’s “anti-American views” and calling or the media to investigate which members of Congress share those anti-American views. If you missed her disgusting tirade, follow the above link and watch as much as you can stomach.

There is a website up where you can sign a petition to censure her anti-American, fascist rhetoric. If you believe that there should be no place for comments like this in our political discourse, sign the petition.

Bachmann, an attorney, attended the Coburn School of Law, an affiliate of the now defunct Oral Roberts University.

Some of Bachmann’s previously espoused views:

“hyper-regulation” by the federal government created a chain of events that caused bank failures and credit freezes. (source)

Congress has been pushing banks to make risky, subprime loans. Using the authority of the Community Reinvestment Act, the big push for subprime mortgages (source)

“Loans started being made on the basis of race, and often little else.” Blaming minority lending for economic crisis ‘does not mean I’m a racist’ (source)

challenging the nation’s embrace of energy-efficient compact fluorescent lights, saying the government has no business telling consumers what kind of light bulbs they can buy.” (source)

told her local St. Cloud Times that she knows of a secret plan by Iran to partition Iraq and turn half of the country into a “terrorist safe haven zone” called the “Iraq State of Islam.” (source) She later recanted this accusation.

“[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet,” Bachmann told the right-wing news site OneNewsNow. “We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.” (source)

“We’re losing our country. People are not assimilating themselves to America. They’re not speaking English, and you must speak it if you want to succeed here in this country,” she said. Bachmann also compared the situation on the border to the Israel/Palestine conflict, saying “the argument that fences don’t work doesn’t hold water. Look at Israel and Palestine. Fences work.” (source)

“Some suggestions are that perhaps we would see an enhancement of wildlife expansion because of the warmth of the pipeline,” she said. […] The pipeline has now become a meeting ground and “coffee klatch” for the caribou, she said. (source)

I could list many more lunatic rantings of Ms. Bachmann, but I think I have provided enough that you can come to a reasoned conclusion about this woman. If you feel that America has had enough of Michelle Bachmann, please feel free to donate what you can to her opponent, El Tichlenberg. The people of this country deserve better than having someone as morally and ethically bankrupt as Bachmann representing them, and the type of rhetoric and hatred that she warmly embraces and espouses. As we all know, money is needed to win these races. Do what you can.

UPDATE:

Update: $438,346.57. That’s how much El Tinklenberg says has flooded in so far. He’s aiming for half a million.

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