Bachmann Invokes 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' (Note: They Lost!)

Bonus Irony: The Tea-Partiers (Like the Light-Brigade chargers) are sent into battle on faulty orders from their incompetant leaders.

Atta girl, Michelle! Lead all your little baggers and birthers into the mouth of Hell. Seeya!

And it went over the head of 99% of the people in the audience and on the stage with her.

Also nice slam on the hearing impaired. "I guess they must be deaf...".

Irony. And, hopefully, prophecy.

More like the Charge of the White Brigade.

Not only was the famous charge at the Battle of Balaclava a disaster, it was a MISTAKE, the result of a misunderstood order.

It is really sad how these people have been misled. The Tea Party's inception was brought about by Ron Paul to protest the IRS and Taxes as well as the Fed Reserve. Then along come these douchebags that took a fine principal and warped it into something unholy. They have no idea how they have been lied to and twisted into God only knows. It is doubly sad how these people that call themselves Christians project such hatred and it is only self loathing that they are projecting. They hate themselves and their surroundings to the point that they wish for everyone to be as miserable. Misery loves company.

"....Into the valley of death rode the Tea-Baggers!" Hey it IS sort of stirring, isn't it?

Play Michelle Bachmann off, Keyboard Cat!

"charge of the light brained dame"

ohoh, i saw that movie, errol flynn starred. the light brigade got slaughtered. another one of those 'british moral victories'.well, keep a stiff upper lip.

Ooh boy.. If Michelle wasn't so bone-headed and her followers too she would invoke a charge led by a future Republican President that actually succeded in making such a charge.

Theodore Roosevelt in fact led the voluntteer Rough Rider Cavalry Regiment, supported by the 10th Cavalry 'Buffalo Soldiers' (an African-American regiment led by 'Black Jack' Pershing, later head of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI) up San Juan Hill to victory and ultimately the Vice Presidency and then the Presidency.

Of course course Teddy ended up busting the Trusts, establishing the National Park System, and perhaps worst of all sharing a last name with distant cousin FDR which if Bachman. Is even dimly aware of history may have been a bridge too far for our gal pal Michelle, but at least unlike Lord Cardigan managed to win.

Nobody hates myself more than me right now, but it just goes to show the lack of originality and basic research coming from the far right. She clearly swiped that reference from the movie "Blind Side" (I know, my grandmother wanted to see it and I thought I would humor her by taking her over Thanksgiving). Bachmann, who clearly has no understanding of the historic context of that fight, saw the Tennyson poem in the movie and thought "this will make me look like an intellectual superior." Without of course, ever reading the poem to make sure the comparison holds. (And, note, the movie also completely twisted the poem into being about standing strong in the face of challenges and not the folly of bad leadership).