There is a pretty strong stench coming from some of the republican candidates these days. If they have not been drawn into an argument yet about who among them is the most frugal with the tax payer's money, they soon will. Who is leading the charge? Representative Michele Bachmann, Congresswoman of Minnesota's 6th District and republican candidate for president in 2012. Bachmann has remade herself into a Tea Party darling by relentlessly criticizing the President's health care initiative and any government spending that she and the Tea Party see as wasteful spending. Some say that she has stolen Sarah Palin's schtick as the poster child for capitalism made in the USA. This shameless pandering to the Tea Party has made her the movement's unofficial leader.
But for someone who is such a visible and vocal opponent of wasteful government spending and the free market has Representative Bachmann towed that same line when she represents those in her own district? An even more serious question arises when we ask if she has ever received a handout from the government for herself or her family?
Now to make things perfectly clear, part of the job of a state level or federal level representative is to do just that; represent the constituents in their districts. Sometimes that includes something as easy and simple as a proclamation. At other times it includes money for projects. But in the case of Bachmann's district it would apply to subsidies for pork farmers. Some call the appropriation of funds for project which have no merit "pork." In the case of Bachmann's request it would appear that this is pork for pork.
But what is so astounding about this is that it would appear to be the height of hypocrisy for someone like Michele Bachmann. Not only does she vocally proclaim that the American free market is the greatest system on earth. She also rails against earmarks and giveaways.
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