What I have a problem with is that she thinks that what is good for her is good for everyone. That's great that she was able to have a "good life" without the help of the government; but not everyone is as lucky.

She's a True Believer, and a Loon.

And, if I were Bachmann (or any woman)-- Billy Boy telling you that you're attractive would be a very large red flag. I assume he'll ask her next if she uses a Loofah at home when she showers.

How much rightwing talk radio/Tv these days is just this kind of self-congratulatory backscratching? I seem to recall that Republicans and the right used to deride this kind of self-serving pseudo-psychoanalysis, yet it now is part and parcel of everything they say and do.

Oh how the times have changed.

Bother? You've got to me kidding me. "Successful"? Successful at what? Being a pinhead? Bwa haa haa

It seems that her biggest "success" was pulling the wool over the eyes of her constituents. There can't possibly be a majority of mouth breathers in her state coherent enough to continue reelecting her...can there?

More self-righteous, self-congratulatory twaddle from a seriously deluded woman. I'm happy for her success, but her desire, along with that of her fellow travelers, to use their success as a cookie cutter for all else is what really bothers me. They are the sorts of people who will never acknowledge the advantages they received, or the luck that came their way. They truly believe that they did it all by themselves. Nor will they ever acknowledge their galling sanctimonious hypocrisy. As a rule I don't wish misfortune on others, but for her, I'll make an exception.

What bothers me about Bachman is not her "success" but her arrogance, obnoxiousness and sheer stupidity. One example: she says she doesn't need the government. Yet she is a former federal tax attorney who is now a member of the U.S. Congress. She is completely dependent for her livelihood on the government! It's just mind-boggling that someone so ignorant is considered a "leader" of anything.

Why didn't she just say "They hate me because I'm beautiful" and be done with it.

With Bachmann, it's always all about her.

Er, is it too much to ask .... Rep. Bachman, former Gov. Palin, and others like you (I do NOT want to get to know them or how many there are) ..... if you're really so happy without any involvement in government, could I ask - respectfully, pleadingly - that you not bother with it. Okay? Then we can *all* be happy.

She's right about one thing: she and Palin and others of their ilk seriously bother me. I'm literally stunned, and very bothered, that they are anywhere near positions of power in this country.

I don't think much of Bill O'Reilly, but I do think he is fairly smart. I like to think he had to quell his gag reflex just a bit when he had to say, "Why are they coming after you? I don't get it."