A Michele Bachmann revue

In my morning column I helpfully, even heroically, I think, suggested to the GOP that it abruptly sever relations with sizable portions of its base, but I had no time or space to recommend that it do the same with some of its own Congressional caucus.

Like ... Minnesota's Rep. Michele Bachmann, about whom I began to offer, here, an itemized list of sound reasons, in my own words, as to why the GOP should disown her, until I realized -- well, duh -- the most precise indictment of Michele Bachmann is, of course, Michele Bachmann in her own words.

For instance how soon we forgot that on one fine day just a couple months ago, Ms. Bachmann referenced the "Hoot-Smalley" Tariff -- a Hoover administration bill she somehow accredited to FDR's Depression-exacerbating hands.

Or two summers ago, when foreign-affairs specialist Michelle reinforced the chief reason behind our divine and continuing mission in Iraq: To wit, in the Green Zone "there's a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it's on that proportion. There's marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere. [Saddam] had manmade lakes all around his personal palace -- one for fishing, one for boating." Ooookay.

Or in March before last, when she meditated that the scariest "massive Big Brother intrusion into our homes and our lives" is -- ready? -- these "newfangled, hippie-environmentalism, group-sex fluorescent light bulbs."

Or how about this March, as Congresswoman Bachmann pleaded with her fellow Minnesotans to be "armed and dangerous" against President Obama's plan to turn down the global heat, which, in Michele's opinion, "has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States."

Or a month later, when biologist-physiologist Bachmann wondered why would we ever want to regulate "carbon dioxide, Mister Speaker, [since it] is a natural product of nature. Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs on Earth. It is a part of the regular life cycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can't even exist without it." Now why didn't climatologists think of that?

Or perhaps one month earlier, when this congresswoman of the people convulsed in deliberative agony that we are "Running out of rich people in this country."

Finally, although there are others and this surely won't be the last, the grandmammy of 'em all, the one that launched Rep. Michele Bachmann into the public limelight and electorate's heart, from October 2008, her desperate plea on "Hardball" that investigations be launched into "anti-American" members of Congress; adding that as for Obama, "I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views," too. And "that's what the American people are concerned about."

That's not quite all they're concerned about, Michele.

Comments

[Truthseeker]

See, this is where I disagree. Don't help this dinosaur party.
I say good riddance to the entire lot. Since these cretins kept their mouths shut for all 8 years, starting with the theft of the election, to the illegal war etc. I don't want to hear anything out of any Republican's mouth. I don't trust a single one of them. And by the way, wasn't it interesting how at the RNC convention in August they really didn't want to mention Bush or Cheney. Well, where were they for eight years. I didn't hear criticism from them then. Just dutiful goose-stepping, in typical Republican fashion. Screw all of them. Let them kiss ass Rush. Don't give them helpful hints. It is not our job as Democrats. It drives me crazy when I hear spinning heads try to help them. Screw 'em. Just let the party implode.

[Bachman Mouth Overdrive]

She doesn't even know her own damn job. This submoronic idiot doesn't even realize that Congress makes laws and the judiciary determines the law's constitutionality:

“What provision in the Constitution could you point to to give authority for the actions that have been taken by the Treasury since March of ‘08?” asked Bachmann during a hearing on March 24. “What in the Constitution could you point to to give authority to the Treasury’s extraordinary actions that have been taken?”