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Michelle Bachmann's hypocrisy
BACHMANN'S HYPOCRISY: I actually don't think this is as bad as people would like to think. Not only that, but I think that her rebuttal, contrary to the Think Progress view, was well formed and thought-out. "It’s almost impossible to buy a home in this country today without the federal government being involved." To be completely honest, none of Bachmann's fiscal policies concern me in the slightest – in fact, I happen to agree with many of them. Where I do harbour profound concern regarding her candidacy, however, is in her disgustingly invasive social policy: my mood runs a fine line between amusement and surprise when I consider that the GOP denounces big government, yet somehow finds it ideologically acceptable for government to put bans on things like gay marriage and abortion. It seems so contradictory to me, and yet it appears to be commonplace. Bachmann's social policy, it must be noted, is further polluted by her husband, Marcus Bachmann, who operates what could only be accurately described as a 'gay curing clinic', and has even received taxpayer money for his 'services'. Ugh.