Rep. Bachmann Confused, Unimpressed by President’s Oil Spill Response
Tina Korbe /
For more than 50 days — ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded — Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) has been “shocked.” She’s been moved by “tragic” and “heartwarming” TV scenes of the disaster. And she’s been confused by President Obama’s “weird,” “bizarre,” “odd” and “infantile” response to the oil spill.
But she hasn’t been impressed. And she doesn’t expect to be impressed tonight when the president delivers his first prime-time Oval Office speech.
“It appears what we’re going to hear tonight is a call for more legislation,” Bachmann said today at The Bloggers Briefing. “When are we ever going to talk about actually capping this hole?”
In the weeks since the spill, Bachmann said, Obama has done precious little to present a solution to the actual problem in the Gulf – the as-yet-uncapped oil.