1) FDR's Presidency came several years in to the Great Depression, and did not precede it.
2) It was called Smoot-Hawley, not Hoot-Smalley.
3) Those also predated the FDR Presidency, and were signed in to law by a Republican President, one Herbert Hoover.
But then, linear time has
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As pointed out in the same story, Bachmann also earlier in the same day said that the Swine Flu outbreak in the 70s happened under Jimmy Carter, rather than Gerald Ford. (And it wasn't just an off-hand reference either - it was crucial to her narrative linking Obama and Carter together).
She's what my dearly departed grandfather would refer to as "an idjit". Really, I hope her constituents are watching her and enough of them take notice in a couple years to boot her out of office and replace her with someone less embarrassing.
--NonyNony
Maybe she suffers from the same speech impediment that resulted in 'NU-CU-LER'.
2) is called a phonemic paraphasia and is a super common linguistic error. It's very possible she knew the correct name and simply made a paraphasia.
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