It's the cold weather up in Minnesota. It's enough to make anyone crazy.

Nah, that is draconian. Lots of good people were born to parents, or one parent, from another nation and have dual citizenship from birth. We need all the talent we can get. It's not a child's choice to whom he/she is born.

In Bachmann's case, she actively choose the dual citizenship option. She declined when the citizenship hit the fan. In her case, let the voters put her in political hell. It is something we need to remind her district of if/when she runs to pretend to represent them again.

You don't see a conflict of interest in that someone with e.g., a Swiss citizenship, on a banking rules committee, or on an investigating committee say of Swiss involvement and encouragement of tax evasion by American citizens, as a potential conflict. How about someone with an Israeli dual citizenship on an intelligence committee dealing with Iran? I see major conflict of interest problems.

I see transparent conflicts of interests, like dual citizenship, to be less of a problem than the HIDDEN conflicts of interests when corporations and the uber rich can buy politicians and put them on banking rules committee, or investigating the people/industries that basically bought them.

Conflicts of interest are systemic. Banning people who may hold the option of dual citizenship, which is generally a result of parentage, much like skin color or ethnic heritage, is no solution to the systemic problem. It would, however, act to keep people who may be more fair and ethical than the corporate whores our Supreme Court protect from adequate scrutiny by voters via allowing all those secret donors to weld such power in funding campaigns.

Joe Leiberman's wife made lots of money lobbying for particular industries that Joe was in a position to help. His citizenship was not the problem. And he is hardly unique in government.

I think both are a big problems that need to be dealt with; But I would not delay a solution to one because another hasn't been addressed effectively. We do what we can, when we can.

Agree I'm much more concerned by the revolving door-politics and politicians pretty much out-right bought-and-paid-for by the corporates.

Thanks, msii. Yep, there is a lot more to loyalty and moral compasses than the origin of one's parents.

Have to admit, this thing where a person can adopt dual citizenship from their spouse's option for it was an aspect I did not know about. Don't know if it applies to all nations, or just some, like Switzerland.

But dual citizenship is generally decided by circumstances of our births, so it seems a poor metric for judging loyalties.

The money buying offices seems much more imperative to scrutinize in this age where multi-national corporations are buying pols everywhere to get the legislation they want all over the world. When that is going on, and it is, there really are no national boarders or national governments. Everything is decided by $$ and most $$ doesn't hold allegiance to anything but ways to get more $$.

Were it not for Bachmanns constant ragging about 'un-American' Congressmen, I wouldn't even discuss her particular situation. Her nationalistic blather as a basis to attack colleagues makes her fair game on this one. And we must take our good clean fun where we can. ;^)

Well said, I agree 100%!

The half that yammers?

Yeah, and the blooper reel will be great too!

She is a living breathing blooper

...the whole thing would be the blooper real, always is with her.

Lol. Me too, leen! I am also disappointed...

I totally agree, I hope she change her mind and go, stay for always.

I feel your pain, nanac!

Me too, llip! BTW, who is that as your avatar?

Cracks me up that an attention whore like her thought she could fly this dual citizenship thing under the radar.

She really is clueless about EVERYTHING yet thinks she is so much smarter than anyone else. Maybe someday medical science will have a vaccine for what ails her.

ROFLMAO!

Lol! ....:)

ROFLMAO!

"What about the chocolate!"

OMG... this IS serious! ;-)

"Will Switzerland get all hurt and angry that crazy congresswoman rejected them? "

That loud noise coming from across the Atlantic is the population of Switzerland breathing a collective sigh of relief. They need look no further than Norway to see what right wing extremists are capable of.