The chick is on psych meds!

I think if I was in Bachmann's district, I'd have to move. How she could get not only elected but re-elected is beyond me.

It's the batshit crazy eyes.

When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you.

"The chick is on psych meds!"


No... I think that is the problem.

Michelle, you've got to take your medicine every single day. Its not OK to skip a day, even if you are feeling better.

It's like when someone brings a cricket bat to a basketball game and insists on using it - you know the rules have gone out the window.

As a native, but for years relocated, Minnesotan I particularly appreciate this succinct video summary of Ms. Bachmann's ridiculousness and idiocy. Along with the passing of Prop 8 in California, Bachmann's victory last November was the only truly devastating election night defeat.

There is, however, some benefit in having her as a leading figure in the GOP given that 75-80% of Americans will view her as semi-insane (even my conservative, very conservative grandmother back home thinks she's a bit whacko). Democrats should piggyback the "Michelle Bachman strategy" onto the "Rush Limbaugh strategy" whenever possible.

Forget Bachmann, we need to examine the heads of the people who voted for her. We need to investigate everyone in her district.

Um...the answer to that first one is "The Commerce Clause"...

...so either Bachman has some weird televised bingo/drinking game going on with her constituents or she had some cutesy slogan she wanted to hang on him playing on the word "Commerce"....giving her the benefit of the doubt which she clearly does not deserve.

I think the Bachmann effect echoes one of Steven King's (the writer not the other congressional horror)pen names. In fairness to Minnesota, Congresswoman Bachmann was born in Waterloo, Iowa but moved to Minnesota at an early age. We in Waterloo are now well represented by a Democratic Congressman Bruce Braley. Strange as it may seem in small world coincidencs, while Jesse Ventura is not from Waterloo (we have real wrestlers from here such as Dan Gable)his cousin is a member of the police force. I think there has also been some press about Bachmann misstating her experience as a practicing lawyer and the status of her Minnesota law license. Hopefully the people in her district will adopt a rule that the third time is not the charm and bring her back to Minnesota. Her election this time was helped by a third party candidate who took 10% of the vote so she got less than 50% and since Minnesota is definitely not a southern state she didn't need to face a run off election (Southern Dixiecrat and Republican for keep out Blacks and Liberals from elected office.)

This woman is batshit crazy----I think she is very narcistic--she is always looking directly into the camera when she is on CSpan and today I noticed that her makeup is specifically the kind used on tv personell.

If she is this nuts, can you imagine how crazy her constituents must be?

Also, Barney Frank really let her have it when her time ran out when she was questioning Geithner. He doesn't put up with her bullshit.

Rep. Bachmann (R)is just a scapegoat for all of those intelligent women that are clueless, such as herself.

I thought Gov. Palin was obtuse. We see the next Republican women leaders in play, and it is not good.

This is what happens when you marry ineptitude and fanaticism.

The scary part is that she doesn't just make this shit up. Whatever crazy nonsense comes flying out of her mouth on a given day is usually what's circulating in those insane emails that the thirty percenters feverishly send to each other. It's scary because that's where almost a third of the voting population gets most of what they stuff into their heads in lieu of information.

(After all, it's the only news source where they can dare speak the truth that the liberal media conspiracy is supressing.)

I live in her district and am always ashamed to admit it.

On another note, why no shout out or hat tip to the guy who had to sit through her entire debate filming her lunacy?

http://liberalinthelandofconservative.blogspot.com/2008/10/tinklenbergbachmann-debate-101608.html

Great post Eric,

I had the blessing to be on break at work with the TV tuned in to the hearings on CNN. I just sat down to eat a twinkie when Bachmann began her "questioning". When she asked her ludicrous question a second time, and Geithner was looking at her as if she was some exhibit at a freakshow, I nearly blew twinkie cream through my nose. I turned to a co-worker in shock and exclaimed, "that's the single stupidest question I've ever heard!" Just in time for her to ask it a THIRD time!

Did Bachmann ever take civics? I suspect she went to college. At least I like to think so. Does she realize that congress, authorized by the constitution, writes laws and except those laws be invalidated as unconstitutional by the judiciary, then they are constitutional? One follows from the other. Is this concept too complicated for the good Congresswoman?! Even my republican co-worker was shocked by Bachmann's interrogation.

I left to go back to work shaking my head, and refreshed in the knowledge that it was assclowns like Bachmann who ruled the roost these past eight years and grounded our ship of state on the sandbar it finds itself on.

That's just about the funniest thing I've ever seen. I love it. I could watch her (and the reactions) forever. "In the constitution!"

She really is the bottom of the barrel of Republican politics. Course it's a very wide and shallow barrel.

Ha. The depths of ignorance this woman plumbs are vast.

I was in class in college once (and only once!). The lecturer gave a somewhat longish, but splendid, exhortation on a point raised. He was excellent. First question came from someone in the row behind me: "Well, Professor, based on what you are saying, right now, isn't that the case?" The prof paused, looked a little funny, and said, "Well, yes, that's why I said it."

His look was identical to Geithner's, Tinklenberg's and Carville's. He had The Look!

Do you see how she sort of hunches forward? I'm not expert on body language, but Bachmann is delivering some strange stuff.

BWhahaha! Sean Hannity portrayed Bachmann's exchange with Geithner as her "slapping him around", implied she had stumped him, then gave her props for her constitutional knowledge. Sorry, no link.

Leaving aside the creepy domestic violence metaphor, it really drives home what far away universes conservatives and liberals now live in. Anybody that could watch that video and claim all that bushwa . . . I really can't wrap my head around that POV.