She has stupid by the barrelfull

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), AKA the dumbest sitting member of Congress, is at it again (from TPM with video goodness!).

On Monday night, our friends at Dump Bachmann reported, Bachmann took to the House floor and paid tribute to the economic policies of Calvin Coolidge and the "Roaring 20s" (the era that ended with a massive monetary contraction and the Great Depression). One particular line really does stand out, though -- saying Franklin Roosevelt turned a recession into a depression through the "Hoot-Smalley" tariffs [Ed. Note – every time I read Smoot-Hawley, I can’t help but think of Ben Stein in Ferris Buehler’s Day Off].

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Interestingly, this speech also happened on the same day as when Bachmann connected the 1970s swine flu outbreak to Democrat Jimmy Carter being president, even though it was actually Gerald Ford in office at the time.

I would absolutely consider amending the Constitution to demand that members of Congress must not only wins the most votes in the election to be seated but also pass a basic civics test or at least demonstrate the ability to use an encyclopedia or the Google. What a moron…