Ethics

Bachmann Blocks Hawaii Obama Resolution

By Ed Brayton

In addition to all the other neighborhoods she visits in the loonisphere, Michelle Bachmann appears to be on the birther bandwagon as well. When a congressman from Hawaii offered a routine resolution celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii becoming a state - a resolution that noted that the state was the birthplace of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama - Bachmann rose to block the resolution.

Her claim is that a quorum is not present, which is silly. Such resolutions are passed virtually every day in the House with virtually no one present, passed by unanimous consent with maybe 3 or 4 people in the entire chamber. They're passed as a purely perfunctory matter without anyone ever objecting to them. Until now. What the hell, she's got every other form of insanity, why not that one too? Video below the fold.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).