No. While it may be fun to snark about Michele Bachmann's expensive makeup, which I am guilty of doing myself, or her horde of foster children, you don't need either of those things to find something about Bachmann which warrants genuine criticism.
The shear amount of hypocrisy that flows from her mouth on a daily basis is enough by itself. Never mind her disastrous policy positions and Reagangelical screed.
Just a few weeks before Bachmann called for dismantling the programs [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] during a House Financial Services Committee hearing, she and her husband signed for a $417,000 home loan to help finance their move to a 5,200-square-foot golf-course home, public records show. Experts who examined the loan documents for The Washington Post say they are confident that the loan was backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. [...]
Seeing problems with the programs — especially the high costs to taxpayers — hasn't stopped a concerned public or other members of Congress from taking advantage of the lower interest rates that come through government backing. [...]
They also have other loans, including a home equity line of credit, a business mortgage and another business loan for their Christian counseling clinics, bringing their liabilities to more than $1 million, according to the most recently available public records.
She is also a leading critic of expanding the federal debt limit. "When managing your family budget, you don't spend money you don't have," she said in a statement last year, "and our government should be no different."
You don't spend money you don't have, except the part where you currently have over $1 million dollars in obligations.
Does the Bachmann family have a debt-ceiling? If a member of her family became gravely ill and required treatment, or in the federal government's case - stimulus - would she vote to increase her family's debt-ceiling?
Could the Bachmann family, with its $1 million dollars in obligations, survive a balanced budget amendment? Would they cut their own children's education or healthcare to live within the constraints of a balanced budget?