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Sabato: Bachmann "Needs To Take A Deep Breath, And Maybe A Tranquilizer, Too"
I suppose the moderating element "orderly" saves her from the charge of sedition! Concern about the national debt is perfectly legitimate, but her comments are fringe--and not for the first time. Her phrase, "reporting from enemy lines," is inflammatory. We're all Americans, not enemies simply because we disagree about a president's budget. Bachmann doesn't have a clue what "economic Marxism" is; the Obama administration is not seizing the means of production. The Founders rebelled against "no taxation without representation". That's very different than having an argument about the proper levels of taxation in a representative democracy. Congresswoman Bachmann needs to take a deep breath, and maybe a tranquilizer, too.
Meanwhile, Bachmann went on Glenn Beck's radio show, to continue talking about the imminent danger of a one-world currency, and had this to say: "Well, Glenn, I have experienced that throughout my political career, being labeled a kook."
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That's it. Perfect nickname. The kook.
March 27, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno, I personally believe she has mad cow disease.
March 27, 2009 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, Debra, you BAD Girl!! LOL
March 27, 2009 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which is an insult to Mad Cow!! LOL
March 28, 2009 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just because she acknowledges her reputation as a kook and continues to act like one doesn't invalidate the label. If anything, it raises the level of kookiness.
March 27, 2009 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sabato is great. Very adult response to the Kook. Sort of like a polite pat on the head of a little child.
March 27, 2009 6:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Josh nails it out front with "slapstick fascism."
If she is to be executed for treason, I suggest the fake-arrow-through-the-head.
March 27, 2009 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
This woman really needs help.Hearing voices in your head telling you all kinds of things are going to happen is schyzophrenia. She really needs a doctor. What is wrong with the people of Minnesota.
March 27, 2009 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's a complete act. She's not sick. She's ruthlessly focused on promoting herself. She's Ann Coulter goes to Washington.
The only question I have is if it is possible for her to become so outrageous that her constitutents figure out that she's making fools of them. So far, she seems to have accurately assessed their stupidity.
March 27, 2009 7:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Batshit insane" and "rutheless focused on promoting herself" are not mutually exclusive, you know. I think "megalomania" is the word we're looking for here.
I really don't think this woman is bright enought to be running the same kind of scam Coulter has made a career out of. It takes brains to stay in character as long as Coulter has and however much we hate her, she does have a certain sociopathic wit about her.
Bachmann is just stun you into open-mouth silence stupid. I think she really believes this stuff, the say way the 25% of the voters who get all their "news" from chain emails believe it.
Hold on, Minnesota, help in the form of the 2010 census, followed by redistricting by a Democratic legislature, is coming!
March 27, 2009 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
From what I've heard, Minnesotans are asking that very same question.
March 27, 2009 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
As luck would have it, just today I posted a primer on the political spectrum for our friends on the Right (mentioning Bachmann specifically): http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/americandad/2009/03/a-political-primer-for-our-fri.php
March 27, 2009 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe she's taking lessons from St. Sarah and plains to run for president in 2012.
March 27, 2009 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn. You beat me to it. I was just thinking the same thing. They can duel it out and the loser gets the vp nod. Two for the price of one. Rambo and the kook in 2012! That's a winning ticket.
March 27, 2009 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
And she still gets elected? Minnesotans must be desperate for entertainment.
March 27, 2009 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Raging reactionaries like Bachman provide cover to make raging reactionaries like Palin seem middle-of-the-road.
All the more reason to find ways to lump them all together into a...lumpenproletariat?
March 27, 2009 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Geez, I wonder why so many people have labeled her the kook.
March 27, 2009 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is really beginning to make kooks look bad.
March 27, 2009 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
And its really unfair to kooks.
March 27, 2009 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sont les mots qui vent tres bien ensemble
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x274a0_the-beatles-michelle-ma-belle_music
March 27, 2009 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Michele, ma folle, sont les mots qui vent tres bien ensemble.
March 27, 2009 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good. I just blogged with that. hahahaha
March 28, 2009 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
“The more shrill and hysterical they get, the more they isolate themselves.”
Sean Rushton
March 27, 2009 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Minnesota's state bird is the loon. Coincidence? You decide.
Someone with more tech savvy than I have might be able to combine Bachmann's image with this page: http://www.50states.com/bird/loon.htm
March 27, 2009 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the tranquilizer boat has already sailed a long time ago for Bachmann.
March 27, 2009 8:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who will tell her that the world is about to dish the dollar?
March 27, 2009 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
*scratches head*
Rep Bachmann needs to be reminded (not that it'll do any good) that we just had an orderly revolution, often normally called an election, to make Barack Obama the President of the United States. Her candidate for president did not win. Obama won decisively. That election also put a few more Democrats into the Senate and House. If I remember right, Democrats almost succeeded in kicking Bachmann out of office because of some lame thing she said during the campaign.
The entire Republican party has to calm down. They're practically no good the way they are now.
The only thing propping up the Party is Democrats in the Senate having only 58 votes. You'd think the GOP would work a lot harder to win that Senate seat in Minnesota.
March 27, 2009 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, someone with some photoshop skills, please plese superimpose her onto that iconic Che Guevera photo. Please.
She's probably look good in that "Tanya" photo of Patty Hurst, too.
March 27, 2009 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay. The Patty Hearst was easier, and I'm way rusty, but is this what you were imagining?
view at:
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q219/sgarystewart/Revolting_MichelleBachman.jpg
March 28, 2009 3:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
not bad, but you should desaturate the kook's face.
March 28, 2009 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great! You are truly talented, unlike you-know-who! I wonder how long we will have to endure that big open mouth at the top of the page. It really bothers me.
March 28, 2009 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure what's crazier, Bachman's bizarre, factually challenged fulminations, or the overpaid morons that give her a forum for her bizarre, factually challenged fulminations.
March 27, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
The fact that Hannity agreed with her when any responsible person would be backing off from her statements just shows how insane the Republican party has become. What Bachmann is advocating is for our country to become a banana republic, ignore elections and overthrow a democratic government. It's like they are saying, if we don't win then the elections don't count. You just have to wonder what they would do if Obama had won by an order of the Supreme Court.
March 28, 2009 12:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, she IS from Minnesota, where they are trying to do just that.
March 28, 2009 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Debra: "...It's like they are saying, if we don't win then the elections don't count. You just have to wonder what they would do if Obama had won by an order of the Supreme Court."
What they're saying is that if they can't steal the elections, then they don't count. If Obama had one by an order of the Supreme court, they wouldn't like it, but it would be something they could grudgingly *understand.*
March 28, 2009 1:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
"I have experienced that throughout my political career, being labeled a kook."
throughout her career? I bet she was hearing it in kindergarten.
March 28, 2009 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Kooks have been known to incite other kooks, sometimes shooting presidents. This women is dangerous.
March 28, 2009 12:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. I thought the same thing about Palin's comments, comparing Obama to terrorists and such. Her crowds were in a frenzy; at least Bachman doesn't have any charisma.
March 28, 2009 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink