As the Republican Party tries to sort out its stance on the impending immigration bill, Michele Bachmann stepped in with a bit of unusual advice. Bachmann said in an interview with World Daily Net this week that the GOP should take the riegns against the bill -- as well as take President Barack Obama's "perpetual magic wand" away, MSNBC reported. She suggested that her party believes passing reform would gain it new voters, but she cautioned the decision as a chance to bear the negative onus if the bill becomes law.
She cautioned that Obama could use the bill's passage as a springboard to "wave his magic wand before 2014 and he'd say now all of the new, legal Americans are going to have voting rights," the Inquisitr reported. The problem, however, is that the bill would not actually grant undocumented immigrants the right to vote. Bachmann used the DREAM Act as so-called proof that such a power exists, though that bill only allowed undocumented children to work and receieve an education in the U.S., not voting rights. She alleged that this would gain traction and allow the president to alter voting laws to create a sort of Democrat stronghold in office, the Huffington Post reported. Bachmann proposed the solution of giving the president "a spanking" as a way to stop this supposed destruction.
"I'm not crying wolf here," she said. "This is working for the president. It's not working for the American people, but, hey, it's great by him. He has a perpetual magic wand and nobody's given him a spanking yet and taken it out of his hand," she said. "That's what Congress needs to do -- give the president a major wake-up call. And the way we spank the president is we do it through the checkbook. We're the ones who say, 'No, you can't have the money.' What's wrong with us?"
Bachmann said that the president is pushing a legislative agenda on the country, only further perpetuated about his attempt to pass immigration reform. She cited an executive order Obama issued that temporarily halted deportation as an example, though the order did not grant deportees any other rights. Bachmann said she would not seek reelection in 2014, but maintained that the GOP should do what it can to halt Obama from reigning freely.
"Of course he does what he wants, unless we pinch his ears back," she said.
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