Tinklenberg has great response to Bachmann oil lunacy

For about the umpteenth day in a row, Michele Bachmann continues to harp on her illogical, irresponsible, not to mention impossible plan to "Drill Here, Drill There, Drill Everywhere." The Minnesota Independent's Andy Birkey notes that her plan is "a brilliant strategy. She promises a popular yet impossible outcome and then blames her opponents when the outcome doesn’t happen—before it ever could (emphasis added)."

Of course it's impossible--Bachmann's plan would barely budge oil prices. I wrote on Monday about how drilling more oil won't save us. But it's also true that Bachmann doesn't really care about oil prices--she just wants to score political points.

Her opponent in MN-06, Elwyn Tinklenberg, had a great response to her ridiculous plan for $2/gal gas:

"[Bachmann] presents the false hope that we can drill our way out, against all the evidence to the contrary," Tinklenberg said.

As for Bachmann's promise of $2 gas, he said, "that undermines the seriousness of the problems consumers are facing."

Bravo to El Tinklenberg for this point. Bachmann is telling her constituents that they don't have a real problem. Maybe it doesn't seem like a major problem to her, but I guarantee you it is hurting real people in the 6th district. Maybe instead of using a major problem like gas prices to score political points, Bachmann should trying to fix it. Instead, she's doing things like voting against the DRILL act in Congress.

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By the way, the blogosphere has been full of great retorts about Bachmann's drilling plan. Here's a Bachmann oil-drilling roundup:

A Bluestem Prairie: New Ulm Journal on Bachmann's horse apples: "A lot of oil experts dispute that"
Across the Great Divide: Postage Stamp on a Football Field? More Like a Pile of Horsepuckey.
mnpACT!: To Lower Oil Prices -- Let Bachmann Rant
MN Independent: Gassy: Adding up Bachmann 's $2-per-gallon promise; and Freshly minted energy expert Michele Bachmann invents a new measurement for natural gas reserves
Twin Cities Daily Liberal: Drilling more oil won't save us

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