Bachmann Back At It: Congresswoman Calls 9/11 And Benghazi ‘Judgments’ From God

Minnesota Congresswoman and former Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann has been conspicuously silent since her nail-biter of a congressional re-election, but was back at her sound bite machine ways this week, calling 9/11 and the Benghazi consulate attacks “judgments from God.”

Bachmann spoke at a D.C. prayer event named “Washington: A Man of Prayer,” linking the tragedies of 9/11 and Benghazi to the hand of the almighty.

“It’s no secret that our nation may very well be experiencing the hand of judgment,” Bachmann espoused. “Our nation has seen judgment, not once but twice, on September 11th.” She went on tell the audience that there is no better way to spend 9/11 than to “humble ourselves” and “pray to an almighty God,” calling for a 9/11 prayer day.

This isn’t the first time Bachmann has used her political perch to share religious beliefs, as back in 2011, she surmised that Hurricane Irene and recent earthquakes were really an angry message from God warning, “Are you going to start listening to me here?”

Going back a little further to 2006, Bachmann used God to link her career as tax attorney to the Lord’s belief that women should be “submissive wives.”

“Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, ‘Be submissive wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.”

Watch Bachmann at “Washington: A Man of Prayer”

h/t RWW

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