Michelle Bachmann: Feculent, Suppurating, Oozing, Running Sore

Michelle Bachmann, stalwart of the "teabagger/birther/anti-reform" movement of the Fucktard Right, opposes all manner of provisions to bestow federal largess upon average citizens. So it shouldn't come as any surprise to learn that the atrociously stupid, insipid, vacuous, venal, mendacious slag has been the recipient of over a quarter-million dollars of Federal assistance, should it. Cuz she has.

No, really! Via Truthdig:

Michelle Bachmann, welfare queen
By Yasha Levine

Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.

And she’s not the only one who has been padding her bank account with taxpayer money.

Bachmann, of Minnesota, has spent much of this year agitating against health care reform, whipping up the so-called tea-baggers with stories of death panels and rationed health care. She has called for a revolution against what she sees as Barack Obama’s attempted socialist takeover of America, saying presidential policy is “reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom.”

But data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann has an inner Marxist that is perfectly at ease with profiting from taxpayer largesse. According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized—or “socialized”—businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. These subsidies are at the heart of America’s bizarre planned agricultural economy and as far away from Michele Bachmann’s free-market dream world as Cuba’s free medical system. If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse.

However, Bachmann doesn’t think other Americans should benefit from such protection and assistance. She voted against every foreclosure relief bill aimed at helping average homeowners (despite the fact that her district had the highest foreclosure rate in Minnesota), saying that bailing out homeowners would be “rewarding the irresponsible while punishing those who have been playing by the rules.” That’s right, the subsidy queen wants the rest of us to be responsible.

Who ELSE is on the Federqal AgPad? The whole Grasseley family, even unto a grandson; the Brownback clan, among the Pukes: both are deeply indebted to Fed ag subsidies for the family wealth, to the tune of millions of dollars over time. Not surprisinig, either, is the fact of Max Baucus' family's receipt of $250k in farm subsidies, or Blanch Lincoln's family's glad appropriation of more than $750k over the years.

I will be glad when these venal slags are all coated in hor tar and chicken feathers, and are ridden off to some poor-house, there to languish and repent their sins...