This time, Michele
Bachmann may have outdone her crazy old self. Now she claims that President
Obama is welcoming all those Central American kids at our border because he
wants to use them as guinea pigs for
medical experimentation.
Apparently,
Bachmann’s latest fixation is on children who become a ward of the state and
her bizarre belief that current federal law allows the government to conduct
medical experiments on these kids.
In an
interview Wednesday on a right-wing radio show, Bachmann tried to make the case
that Obama hasn’t fixed the refugee crisis at the border because he sees all
those kids as fodder for medical research.
According to
Salon and a group called Right Wing Watch (which has a tape of the interview),
here is what the Minnesota Republican said:
“President Obama is
trying to bring all of those foreign nationals, those illegal aliens to the
country and he has said that he will put them in the foster care system,”
Bachmann explained.
“[W]e can’t imagine doing this, but if you have a hospital
and they are going to get millions of dollars in government grants if they can
conduct medical research on somebody, and a ward of the state can’t say ‘no’ —
a little kid can’t say ‘no’ if they’re a ward of the state — so here you could
have this institution getting millions of dollars from our government to do
medical experimentation and a kid can’t even say ‘no,’” Bachmann said. “It’s
sick.”

For the past
six years we’ve heard some on the right-wing fringe try to compare Obama to
Hitler. It sounds like Bachmann, in her final five months in office and time
running out on her wacky rantings, has decided the appropriate comparison is
that Obama is another Mengele.