When Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was running for president in 2012, Time magazine came out with particularly snarky criticism of one of her campaign promises.
On Aug. 18, 2011, in an article titled “Why Michele Bachmann’s $2-a-Gallon Gas Promise Is a Fantasy,” Time senior writer and energy expert Bryan Walsh mocked the congresswoman for pledging, “Under President Bachmann, you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again. That will happen.”
“On Wednesday Michele Bachmann said something that’s just very, very wrong,” Walsh quipped. “Which isn’t unusual in and of itself but is something that needs to be debunked.”
Continuing his derision, Walsh wrote, “If you see sub-$2-a-gallon gas again, I strongly suggest that you stock up on bottled water and canned tuna, because the economic end times may be at hand.”
As gas prices have plummeted across the country in 2014 and the early days of 2015, however, Bachmann noticed – despite no “economic end times at hand” – that in many places gas has indeed fallen below $2 a gallon.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/michele-bachmann-gets-last-laugh-at-her-critics/
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