Bachmann Blames FDR For "Hoot-Smalley" Tariffs

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Rep. Bachmann (R-MN), April 27, 2009

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[MewFushisDad]

WOW! You sound just like the leaders of Iran

Bachmann hasn't a clue as to what she is talking about.

It's the "Smoot -Hawley Tariff Act" written up by two Republicans and signed into law by Republican President Herbert Hover in 1930.

It was FDR, a democratic President, who signed "The Trade Agreements Act" that reduced such high tariffs in 1934.

I can see her getting the names mixed up but as for the rest of it, it's pure falsehood.

[SatanLivesTennessee]

Thank you Miss Bauchman for proving all the liberals right, you are a fucking moron and your breathe smells like liverwurst.

[H1TMANactual]

@jackhammer111 If FDR was so successful, explain the recession of 1937-38.

When Obama took office the unemployment was 7.7%. He has spent $5 trillion in office, most of which went to stimulus and bailouts. With that amount of money every American family should have a Mercedes outside their homes.

[H1TMANactual]

@roosevelt1933 What "defense" numbnuts? FDR took office in '33, the depression officially ended in 1947. A whole 14 years after FDR took office. Yeah some "success". Hell there was even a recession in 1937. Look up the famous quote by FDR's treasury secretary and the planner of New Deal, Henry Morgenthau Jr.

[formerlymiddleclass]

What a Moron! I can't believe this idiot had the audacity to run for president.

[jackhammer111]

@slkinia It is fitting that fans of Bachman lie about history the same way she does. This shows the same ingorance. Unemployment was 25% when Roosevelt took office.

It's the same kind of lying that calls this economy Obama's economy. The crash happened in Sept 08, when Bush was President. Obama was handed a blown up economy. The stock market decline ended in April 09, just after Obama signed the economic stimulus package. The investor class has recovered. They're sitting on cash.

[Sevenfold120]

The rolling 20s a decade of unregulated banking free enterprise. Glorious days. 

[roosevelt1933]

To criticize our country's greatest president in this manner is just plain wrong. Shame on Bachmann for this attack on FDR with all of her false propaganda. He took office when the depression was at its worst and when he died 12 years later the United States was the most powerful country this world has ever seen. The defense rests your honor!!

[slkinia]

@roosevelt1933 Sorry, YOU don't know what you're talking about. The '29 crash was the first of 4 phases, & it was a recession. It was made worse by Hoover's interventions, & turned into a disaster by Roosevelt's.

Roosevelt gave us 25% unemployment; 9 million unemployed on Pearl Harbor Day. He drafted 11 million men in response to the attack, which in one respect ended the depression.

Bachmann is far ahead of the rest of you clowns, despite flubbing the name of the tariff.

[roosevelt1933]

Michelle Bachmann knows NOTHING about history or anything else. The stock market crashed in 1929 and that is basically when the depression began which was a full four years before FDR even took office and unemploymeny was at 25% when FDR took office. All he did was fix the mistakes of Coolidge and Hoover. She should be ashamed of herself for disrespecting the best President ever.

[59swl]

@sefinaz1 Now, now. We mustn't make fun or ridicule the people in Congress with mental deficiencies...it's far too easy!

[59swl]

@warbler44 Enough to first elect her and re-elect her again in 2010...