Michele Bachmann: A Wordsmith She Ain't

Posted by PZ Myers, Pharyngula at 4:33 AM on March 6, 2009.

Uh-oh. She opened her mouth again.

BACHMANN: If you want to look at economic history over the last 100 years. I call it punctuated equilibrium. If you look at FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama, this is really the final leap to socialism. ... But we all know that we could turn this around and we can turn this around fairly quickly. We're still a free country.

And as the Democrats are about to institutionalize cartels -- that's what they're very good at -- they're trying to consolidate power, so we need to do everything we can to thwart them at every turn to make sure that they aren't able to, for all time, secure a power base that for all time can never be defeated.

She calls what punctuated equilibrium? I don't think she knows what it means, and I don't believe she knows anything about either biology or economic history. It's interesting to see the Republican version of bipartisanship so nakedly exposed, at least.

(By the way, I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, "Honk if you understand punctuated equilibrium!" No one ever honks.)

Tagged as: economics, obama, michele bachmann, crazy, vocab

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He runs the science blog, Pharyngula.