I don't get it.

Not just making the paper trail far more obscure but also being able
to claim a whole host of "protections" for any financial irregularities
being investigated ...

Hooray!!!

Please don't tell me she won't be here to do that anymore. Now I'm sad

OT: could it be my spell check is broken as it didn't flag batshitcrazieness,

Batshitcrazy is now officially a word. No definition given or needed- just a picture of Michelle Bachmann.

Why would somebody running for the US Congress become a citizen of
another country?


"The Minnesota lady is bat shit crazy too." New Swiss Yodel

Bachmann in a Dirndl and pigtails?

n/t

Let's form a caravan to escort her. I94 will be backed up like never before!

Can you imagine if a Dem did this? "So & so is too good for America"..."So and so is an elitist with a taste for swiss truffles"...

they showed great resourcefulness milking various benefits out of the U.S. treasury, now they're going international.

Sheesh. I wish I were that unaware. Life would be so fun.

I'm working on an engineering project with someone who just doesn't see the light with this concept we're working on. Someone has already done it. It's over, and time to move on to something else. I had to write "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.".

How can she be a Swiss citizen and still serve in our Congress?

for a far away canton with secret banking laws.

Maybe she'll have to renounce her US Citizenship...

There are in fact a number of politicians that owe allegiance to multiple homelands.

However...

if you exercise your priviledges as that foreign citizen (e.g. run for political office, enter or leave the USA on the foreign passport) then you lose your US citizenship - and you don't even need to formally renounce it. Just demonstrating your loyalty to another country and having that country's citizenship is

That is the problem with being a dual citizen - sure you can have the two passports but to leave and then re-enter the USA you have to use your US passport. You buy your plane tickets using your US passport information... but when you get to your destination you whip out your other passport and enter the citizens line for that country.

And has never had any problem with it whatsoever, and also hold a rather high US security clearance. He's been told on both sides of the pond this is fine, and he also voted in all the British elections.

I just texted my friend with US-Irish, and she does the same thing.

Your required to use your American passport when entering the US, but even if you don't its not an offense that could cost you your citizenship.

"Most U.S. citizens, including dual nationals, must use a U.S. passport to enter and leave the United States. Dual nationals may also be required by the foreign country to use its passport to enter and leave that country. Use of the foreign passport does not endanger U.S. citizenship."

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html

"Most US citizens must use a US passport to enter and leave the US. "

What if a US citizen uses a non-US passport to get back INTO the USA? That's my point.

Although the State Department says use of the foreign passport does not endanger US citizenship, it doesn't state what the consequences are of not using a US passport to get into the USA - as a US citizen. I can imagine that the person would be fingerprinted... if they're not from a country where the visa waiver pilot program is in place they'd be asked for their visa... and if they are in a country under the visa waiver pilot asked why they did not enter their information into the website before going to the USA... and if they're let in they may get clearance for 90 days and treated as a visitor. If the immigration officer treats it as such. The immigration officer may also turn around and say "welcome home" and you're good... the officer may also say "you're not allowed here" and send you on the next flight back to where the other passport says you come from.

It's this intent thing in US law that makes it easier for US citizens to lose their citizenship.

Although it is only recognized from certain countries, like Canada, the EU, etc. I have three friends who hold it: Irish, British, and German. They have two different passports.

About the only thing they can't do with it is hold certain government jobs (foreign service, and I think FBI and CIA).

My mother, for example, has both Cuban and American citizenship. There's no law prohibiting recognition of dual citizenship from any single country.

Doesn't that make her a SLAVE to the tyranny of having health insurance, ZOMG DID SHE GIVE UP HER FREE-DUMB TO BE UNINSURED? Cuz compulsory health insurance is super s-s-scary according to her.....just sayin!

as if.


ha!

which is odd, because her district takes in some of the northern suburbs.

But if the story is true, I'd love to see the righties' reaction when their goddess becomes a citizen of a country in Europe.

Again, if the story is true and she moves to Switzerland, she may move right back, because the Swiss are too educated and sensible to fall for her demented Barbie doll shtick.

Maybe they've seen many of Mom's political associates up close and personal and it scares even them.

Yeah, I know they didn't do anything to us and I really like their cheese. But, she has been dragging the good name of Minnesota through the mud long enough. Besides she is really an Iowan as anyone in Minnesota they will tell you.

The Swiss People's Party is a national conservative and right-wing populist political party which focuses on issues such as euroscepticism and opposition to immigration.

In its foreign policy the SVP opposes increased involvement of Switzerland in intergovernmental and especially supranational organisations, including the UN, EEA, EU, Schengen and Dublin treaties, and closer ties with NATO.

The SVP supports supply-side economics. Thus it is a proponent of lower taxes and is against deficit spending.

In terms of the environment, transportation and energy policy the SVP opposes governmental measures for environmental protection.

In social welfare policy the SVP rejects expansion of the welfare state, and stands for a conservative society. It opposes the public financing of maternity leave and nursery schools. The SVP is sceptical toward governmental support of an equalisation of both genders...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_People's_Party

Those all sound like positions that Bachmann has already publicly supported, so the Swiss far-right should welcome her with open arms.

Or will she be the first-ever candidate for office who needs to give speeches through an interpreter?

more so, she was persuing this while running for prez?

oh I wonder how her fundie few mouth breathing supporters square with this?

she is such a sideshow.

was one Francis Schaeffer. He and his wife founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer

Bachman has mentioned several times that reading his books were instrumental in bringing her to a pro-life position. Maybe she just wants to be like her idol?

Harry Lime: Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

I feel sorry for Switzerland!

If this report is true, Michelle Bachmann must have a direct familial line to Swiss immigrants. It would be a funny spectacle indeed to see this very loud and apish woman trying to learn to live in a civilized nation like Switzerland, where she would have no clue about how to behave (not to mention trying to learn German - priceless.) The closest thing to Bachmann in Switzerland that I can imagine is Limbaugh going to the Opera in Paris.

ya know...you don't see people his size walking around Paris.

I mean, WTF... what is her motive?

Well, Switzerland is famous for its cuckoo clocks; maybe now they will manufacture clocks where every hour a Michelle Bachmann doll jumps out and cries 'Cuckoo! Cuckoo!'

Yodel-li-li-hey-hoo!

All full of holes, appearing larger than it really is.