I came across this blog post through a link by Cubadebate.cu, of all places, on Facebook. The author is Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte, a Spanish tv journalist with long experience in the Middle East who's now working online. The blog is called "Guerra eterna," Spanish for "Eternal War," and he's got Daily Kos on his blogroll. That might even be how he came across this item.
The blog post I want to talk about is called "The eternal and immutable dollar," and he starts it like this:
Cuando comentaba que nos íbamos a reír con Michele Bachmann no lo decía por nada.
In English, that might be something like this:
When I mentioned we'd be laughing at Michele Bachmann, it wasn't just talk.
What we're laughing at on the flip...
Sáenz de Ugarte then includes a blockquote, in English, from Bachmann, one you've probably already seen:
The shorthand way of describing to you what quantitative easing is is a license to print money without any value behind it... In the last two years of the Obama administration, if you pull a dollar out of your pocket, you have lost 14 percent of the value of that dollar. That means the federal government has stolen that money from you... They’ve been printing essentially valueless money and flooding it into the money supply. I don’t stand for that. A dollar in 2011 should be the same as a dollar in 1911. A dollar should be worth a dollar.
Then he goes on to laugh at her (my translation):
Such enormous economic illiteracy would disqualify a candidate in any country not named Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia, to give two quick examples. The idea that over a century the US would not have had any inflation would make the hair stand on end of any businessman or even any person that has been to college. In reality, that last bit isn't even a fundamental factor for understanding the enormity of her blunder.
Subscribers to the Wall Street Journal would die from fright if they read these declarations. The leadership of the Republican Party is, with reason, thinking about what to do if this woman happens to win the Iowa caucuses at the start of the primary season. The way things are looking now, she just might do that [link in the original].
All this goes to show that mocking Michele Bachmann can be an awful lot of fun, so much fun that you don't even have to be American to do it. Let's just hope that we can continue laughing at Congressman Bachmann (R-Looney Tunes), or maybe even private citizen Bachmann, but that under no circumstances will we be mocking President Michele Bachmann.
The stakes are just too high.