She must hate Minnesota winters. She wants to do anything possible to turn her district into Florida.

"We Choose Liberty, Or We Choose Tyranny"

That's classic Manichean thinking. Everything is either white or its black. White is totally good so black is irredeemably evil and must be rejected, even destroyed.

According to David Neiwert in his superb new book "The Eliminationists" such Manichean thinking is characteristic of the radical extremists of the right wing. Their views of their enemies (there are no opponents, only enemies - you can only be right or wrong), justifies anything those on the side of light, truth and right do to those evil ones who are side of evil, lies and wrong. So they are glad to encourage and support those who would kill or destroy their enemies.

Those who accepted the charge and proceeded to kill the enemies include Terry McVeigh and the recent killers to the abortion doctor in Kansas and the security guard at the holocaust museum as well as the religious fundamentalists in both Christianity (Eric Rudolph) and in Islam (Osama bin Laden.) Most of them (Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachman, Randall A. Terry) just encourage and support the most extreme individuals who go out and do the killings the supporters and talkers want done.

These people like Bachman are dangerous, not just jokes.

Norrow win in the House. This thing goes to die in the Senate. If it's that narrow in the House, how to they get 60 for cloture?

Congress is quickly turning into California-style politics where nothing critical can get done. Which leads us to the cliff.

John

You know, I used to think of Bachmann as a hard-core Christianist pol. She still is, of course, but she's more of the pseudo-militia, black-helicopter breed of conservatism.

Swine flu, the Census, cap-and-trade; everything is a Socialist conspiracy by the feds to deny Michelle her liberty.

There really is no way she's not standing in front of the mirror every morning practicing that day's looney line to see if there is even a hint of a smile or evidence that she is about to crack up. I really have to hand it to her. I would never have thought of running for office as performance art, but I'll be damned if she hasn't pulled it off. Andy Kaufman and Sasha Baron Cohen would be so proud of her. Almost brings a tear to my eye.

Her next speech will be about how Obama's latest program is designed to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Most every state, even "Blue" (or purple) like Minnesota, has their wackos that make it to Congress. Believe me, here in California we have our fair share, most of them from the right wing (and, geograhically, from Orange County in the South up through the Central Valley). Anyway, Bachman is the perfect product of the "suburban" anti-tax/Fundamentalists phenomenn.

To be moderately fair to her district, the majority doesn't vote for her--about 46% do. The relatively vibrant third party ethos is Minnesota creates difficulty in defeating her. Still, that's a pretty big core wingnut vote.

One surefire way to tell that what Bachmann is about to say is 101% pure bullshit is when she prefaces it with "Did you know that..." or "We know that..." or "And it's a fact that..."

Pathological liar or just someone who's so dense that she never learned what the words "know" and "fact" mean?

There have been 25 comments since 6 pm on this post about Bachmann plus mine. You all know how many comments any post about Bachmann racks up. Every time she opens her mouth she is on TV and gets at least a couple of million people talking about her. By most politicos lights Bachmann is extraordinarily successful. Limbaugh is probably jealous of her numbers. If she hasn't put two and two together yet some agent will and have her sign a talk show (or radio) contract.
Josh is probably happy with her numbers too - more eyes for more ads here!