Rep. Michele Bachmann accused President Barack Obama of “waving a tar
baby in the air” by blaming oil speculators for the “poor choices” he’s
made for energy policy.
“This is just about waving a tar baby in
the air and saying that something else is a problem. I have never seen a
more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way that he
continually blames everybody else for his failure to first diagnose the
problem, and second, to address the problem. It’s always everyone else’s
fault,” the Minnesota Republican told Florida-based conservative blog The Shark Tank in an interview on Wednesday.
In the Uncle Remus stories, the Tar Baby is a doll made
of tar and turpentine that’s used to trap Br’er Rabbit. The phrase has
come to mean a sticky situation, but some also consider it a derogatory term for African-Americans.
