It never fails, folks. Like clockwork, after every major natural disaster, a religious right luminary sees fit to suggest that it was some sort of divine retribution for something that we did as a nation. So, it wasn’t all that surprising when Michele Bachmann found a way to blame the horrific 1,000-year flood that much of South Carolina endured last weekend on the White House. As the Mad Minnesotan sees it, Columbia and surrounding areas got flooded because this country hasn’t been supportive enough of Israel.
On Tuesday morning, Bachmann tweeted this:
Bachmann apparently had a hunch something like this would happen. Back in April, Bachmann appeared on “Understanding the Times,” a Christian radio show that has a significant following in much of the area she represented in Congress for eight years. She claimed that President Obama has effectively “declared war on Israel”–and has thus put this country at risk for “negative blowback, or curses, in biblical parlance.” Host Jan Markell ate it up, saying that economic issues and weather problems–such as the rash of snowstorms we saw this winter–could be part of that “blowback.”
However, Bachmann thought this was only a “down payment.” If we actually do “turn our backs on Israel,” she warned, this country could “reap a whirlwind” in the form of “economic disasters, natural disasters.” So, if we’re to believe Bachmann, Columbia got flooded as part of reaping said whirlwind. And Charleston could potentially get flooded this weekend as well as a result of this whirlwind.
Unless I missed something, there is nothing on Bachmann’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds offering sympathies and condolences to the people who are suffering as a result of the floods. Indeed, the only time Bachmann saw fit to say anything at all about the floods on social media is this callous tweet. We already knew that Bachmann was a brainless wingnut. But this tweet, combined with the total lack of any sympathy for those who got flooded, proves that she’s heartless as well.
