Bachmann to Democrats: Don't tell Americans what light bulbs to buy
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011.
/ Alex BrandonMinnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann on Tuesday reintroduced the "Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act," a bill to repeal a 2007 law mandating that incandescent light bulbs be phased out.
"The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy," she said in a news release Wednesday. "In 2007, Congress overstepped its bounds by mandating that only 'energy efficient' light bulbs may be sold after January 1, 2012. This mandate has sweeping effects on American families and businesses and needs serious consideration before taking effect."
Bachmann says the mandate should only stay in place is (1) there is proof that alternate bulbs save consumers money, (2) there is proof that alternate bulbs significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and (3) that it's shown that alternate bulbs "would not lead to a health risk for consumers, particularly those in hospitals, schools, day care centers and nursing homes."
The bill isn't the first "nanny state" critique to come from Bachmann, who said with regard to the IRS making breast pumps eligible for tax breaks: "To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump - you want to talk about nanny state, I think we just got a new definition."
Bachmann, founder of the House Tea Party Caucus and a potential GOP presidential candidate, has also gone after Michelle Obama's campaign to reduce childhood obesity, which she casts as "very consistent with where the hard left is coming from."
House Republicans have already taken advantage of their newfound power to dial back some of Democrats' environmental initiatives. This week, foam plastic coffee cups reappeared in Congressional cafeterias after a four year absence, the result of new Republican Speaker John Boehner moving to reverse much of former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Greening the Capitol" initiative.
Pelosi had introduced compostable cups, forks and knives into the Congressional cafeterias, a cause of consternation for some customers who complained that the cutlery broke easily. She also introduced compact florescent lighting, healthier food and energy-efficient vending machines to the Capitol.
The most controversial part of Pelosi's initiative was the decision to convert the last coal-powered power plant in Washington to cleaner burning fuel, which Boehner has not moved to reverse. The speaker has also not changed any of the anti-smoking rules that Pelosi instituted despite the fact that he is an unapologetic smoker.
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If you want to save the laws and budget of theis country, then I suggest that you and your family give back the subsidies you have taken from the American people to run your farm and help the poor buy the bulbs they need to light their lives up and you and your family can work your farm the way many of us have to work every day....... the hard way with no government hand outs........
I find it laughable that with all the problems this country has before it that you take on the light bulbs and breast pumps... go to work Ms Backmann and do the job that is before you and stop looking for the lint in your naval.......
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people..."
When did it become OK for the government that was established to escape tyranny and oppression from another government to resort back to exactly what we escaped from in the first place? This is tyranny and oppression of a different sort.
Nice one...but it worked fine in other fixtures.
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Even if provided what she seeks, she would dismiss it as "voodoo" science.
This broad is past daft......
Liberals need daily spoonfeeding and scripted breathing instructions from the government to survive.
And they try to make fun of Michelle Bachmann for thinking on her own.
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Bachmann is known for many things.
Thinking is not one of them.
Maybe you, Barbara, and Sarah could go on tour ... as the THREE B1TCHES ...
I can hear the argument now .... NO, I AM THE DUMBEREST .....
I did start to buy the CFLs, but when I found out you had to wear a hazmat suit to clean them up when they broke, that was the end of that. I did some research on them and found out they put off very dirty electricity and people were getting sick from them. You can't sit too close to them. That is the OPEN coil ones. Apparently the better ones are the closed ones. They look similar to the incandescent ones. BUT, they are still toxic.
Soooo, then I heard that the LED lights were good. I phoned and asked some idiot at Home Depot if they were toxic and he said "no" (which is the same thing they told me about the CFLs). But again, I did some research on them, and they are toxic. No mercury, but loaded with heavy metals. They too put off a gas and can cause liver and kidney damage. And you have to wear a hazmat suit to clean them up too. : ) Those bulbs ran anywhere from $35 to $50 (in Canada). They last around 22 years. I would have gladly spent that if only they were NON-TOXIC!
Of course in that bit of research I found that my LED TV is Toxic! What now?? Of course it doesn't give off radiation, so that's one good thing. : )
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