Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) is by no means the only member of Congress willing to believe bizarre ideas, but even among her strange colleagues, the right-wing Minnesotan tends to be the most outlandish of the bunch.
This week, for example, Bachmann appeared on Glenn Beck’s website, complaining about comments from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who recently explained to lawmakers that contraception access helps lower medical costs overall. The failed former presidential candidate didn’t find the observation compelling.
“Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services Secretary, it isn’t far-fetched to think that the President of the United States could say, ‘We need to save health care expenses — the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family.’ That could happen. We think it couldn’t?”
It’s possible, I suppose, that Bachmann doesn’t know what “far-fetched” means.
For what it’s worth, one of the network’s hosts seemed slightly taken aback, questioning whether it’s realistic to think U.S. officials would ever “advocate a one-child policy like communist China.”
Let that dynamic linger in your mind for a moment: Glenn Beck’s network thinks Michele Bachmann’s ideas seem a little over the top.









