Unfortunately, it appears that the "ignorant one" is held in some esteem in her district. My Minnesota friends in sane parts of the state are just plain embarrassed.

Reading her blog, there are those who are cheering her on, without any indication that they consider her stupidity to be, well, stupidity. One or two brave souls try to wade in with facts, but to no avail...

Okay everyone, Name the Global One-World UN Conspiracy Currency Unit Competition.

I propose "Quatloo."

Hurry and enter. The black helicopters that will be delivering the bundles of new currency are warming on the pad.

Better to be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Ah, the old "keeps the tigers away" method! She'll know doubt be crowing to wingnut audiences for years about her victory in keeping the dollar as the US currency.

Hey...it might be worth listening to Representative Bachmann. I mean, she's the brilliant mind who wondered what our founders would think about taxation WITH representation. At first I thought that they'd be quite OK with that because, well, representation was kind of what they were fighting for during the War of Independence...they weren't fighting against taxation. And then they went and gave Congress the power to lay and collect taxes in the Constitution. But then I realized that the founders were likely speaking in a super secret code that only a select few can understand, like Bachmann. So I guess that's what's going on here - while the discussion was about an "exchange unit made up of a basket of individual countries' currencies", what they were really saying in secret code was that they want to replace the dollar with a global currency so that instead of buying things at stores here in the US with a Washington or a Jackson or a Grant or a Franklin, we'd be using the new Mao Che Obama bill.

Michele Bachmann's paranoid delusions are sometimes frightening, sometimes comical, but always real. I typically find myself alternating between disgust and pity when I take pause to consider her outlandish, ignorant behavior.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

These folks are crazy!

This lady is a laughing stock:

http://www.businessinsider.com/crazy-right-winger-wants-law-to-protect-the-dollar-from-global-threats-2009-3

But I still think China's proposal is foolish and will not take off.

This "derivative" currency would still be essentially a fund of several currencies. I'm not sure why we need this. The prices of oil can be set in multiple currencies in real time. Ever hear of computers?

This sounds like China trying to impose a solution that seems to help China with China's particular problems.

In other news, Michelle Bachman is also fighting to keep the American Flag and Apple pie.

fwiw, her district is exurban fundie-land. Lotsa dead fetuses on billboards there, if you get my drift.

The Bachmann Event occurs when a parallel universe, The Bachmann, collides with ours releasing a furious outburst of energy, altering fundamental laws of physics within the Bachmann Bubble. Observed phenomenon including Localized Up-Is-Downism and Cascade Incoherence.