August 29, 2011 06:59 PM UTC

Fine, You Win, Bachmann - You're The Craziest

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• by: Colorado Pols

Hurricane Irene is God’s way of complaining about the budget deal in Congress. Or so says Republican Presidential contender Michele Bachmann. From The St. Petersburg Times:

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

God certainly uses hurricanes in mysterious ways, but times seem to be changing. It was just in 2006, after all, that Hurricane Katrina was unleashed on New Orleans because of the gay people. In 2011, hurricanes don’t come because of the gay folk, but because of the federal deficit. That’s progress, or something.