WATCH: Rep. Michele Bachmann Explains Opposition to National Women’s History Museum (VIDEO)

ep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)87% was on the House floor Wednesday where she clearly and compellingly explained why she is concerned about the potential creation of a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall in D.C.

Bachmann said no one in the House disputes the idea that celebrating women is admirable, but expressed what she thought would become the true function of the museum:

I rise today in opposition to this bill because I believe ultimately this museum that will be built on the National Mall, on federal land, will enshrine the radical feminist movement that stands against the pro-life movement, the pro-family movement, and the pro-traditional marriage movement.

Absolutely. Leave the Mall alone. The Vietnam and Korean memorials are shoehorned into tiny places where they are out of place. The WWII memorial is just an expanse of concrete interrupting green space. Trees and graceful landscaping were sacrificed to wedge the FDR and MLK memorials into places they don't really fit. The Museum of the American Indian is a nice enough building, for some other site, but it destroyed sight lines and is completely out of place on the neo-classical Mall. (Its content is hopelessly, embarassingly dull as well; it takes truly inspired levels of incompetence to take the story of the American Indians, and make it boring, but they managed it.) The black history museum now under construction will be another highly politicized, micro-targeted, sectarian temple, again killing sight lines on an already overcrowded Mall. Etc., etc., ad nauseam.

I'm about to the point at which I think we should simply move the real museums -- History and Technology, Natural History, the National Gallery of Art, the East Wing, Air and Space, the Sackler and the Freer -- to another location. The Mall can keep the Hirschorn, as there's nothing in it worth the cost of a U-Haul to move. Then simply pave over the Mall, rename it the Plaza of Grievances, and assign spots by random draw to any advocacy group big enough to maintain a Washington office. Require that all such "museums" on the Plaza be temporary structures so that grievance mongers can be circulated at two year intervals.

The reason the advocacy groups are so desperate for a spot on the Mall is that they realize that their little identity politics shrines will not draw an audience anywhere else. Come to think of it, let's let that be the test. Build the Museum of XYZ anywhere you like, somewhere else. If it consistently draws at least a million visitors a year, we can consider moving it to the Mall, on condition that we remove something else and repurpose the space, as opposed to cramming another building into limited space.

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