Bachmann Campaign Staffers Give Up in NH

The six or so folks who comprised Michele Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign staff have resigned en masse. Now, if we can only get Michele to follow suit.  

Doesn't she know there are things she could still be screwing up in the House of Representatives?

Of course the bigger question is when will she resign from her congressional seat so she can have time to write a book about her journey, moderate a Fox News show, begin collecting mammoth speaking engagement fees, and start preparing to pretend to run for office in 2016?

Bachmann Gets Another Taste of Shoe Leather

Just when you think she can't do more to hurt her own chances of becoming President, Michele Bachmann has done it again. 

This time, Bachmann "blamed" the President's Middle East policy for inciting the "Arab Spring." Apparently, Bachmann thinks it's a bad thing that Arab populations in several countries have risen up against long-standing despotic rulers. 

Democracy as we say, not as we do? Is that it Michele?

Michele Bachmann's Lie of the Week

Is this a face you can trust?

Michele Bachmann's latest lie, stated during the September 22 Republican presidential debate, is that President Obama has the lowest approval rating "in modern times." In fact, even at its low of 38%, President Obama's approval rating is still 13% higher than President GW Bush's lowest approval rating of 25%.

I debated calling Bachmann's statement a lie, wondering if maybe it was just (another) uninformed misstatement. When someone demonstrates a consistent pattern of stating things as fact, that are in fact either unproven or untrue, particularly when those things stated are for personal gain, that person is lying. 

Medical Community Repudiates Bachmann's Comments

Doctors anticipate that Republican candidate Michele Bachmann's candid off-hand remarks about the HPV vaccine could have an actual negative impact on the health and welfare of Americans.

For the love of all that is good, candidate Bachmann just stop and go home.

Republican Presidential Debate Starts Cannibalism Season

Party politics in the United States seldom yields anything surprising or new, but nothing is so predictable as the intra-party cannibalism that occurs during one of the major parties televised Presidential candidate debates.

If you belong to the party that currently holds the White House, there is almost nothing so wildly entertaining as watching opposition party maneaters swarm into a feeding frenzy when they think they smell an open wound on one of their own kind. It's like watching wild antelope race across the savanna, and then suddenly turn and attack the weakest of their own herd. (Okay, that would actually be grotesque to see in the animal world, but it's great when you are watching opposition party politics.)

At last night's Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Texas Governor and newly-crowned front runner Rick Perry was the seemingly pre-selected target of his peers. Perry took shots from a host of other candidates on topics ranging from taxes to Social Security to the mandated vaccine against HPV in young girls. Pundits generally say that Perry weathered the attack reasonably well...but I say, who cares!

 The almost-primary-season Republican political cannibalism is well underway, and that's the show I'm excited to see. The only thing I will enjoy more is when the race really heats up and they all take outlandish and absurd ultra right-wing political positions ("God makes my tough political decisions," "Gays aren't actually people," "For better or worse, James Earl Ray was just trying to make a point") that will push me solidly back toward my Democratic core and cement my support for President Obama in 2012.

I know the nature of televised intra-party political debates encourages politicians to say the craziest things. Still, these eat-your-own party member buffets do help us see how far to the right (or left) a candidate will go to differentiate him/herself from the field. They probably don't truly believe all the wacky shit they say during the intra-party debates, but they might. Right, Michele Bachmann?

Michele Bachmann Predicts Failure, Offers Nothing

Republican Presidential hopeful (and the most embarrassing thing to come out of Minnesota since Sen. Larry Craig's restroom toe-tapping incident) Michele Bachmann has already started spouting her typical worthless partisan rhetoric in response to the President's jobs plan. As expected, her empty words provide no factual back up for her statements and she offers absolutely ZERO alternative ideas of her own. She is poison and she is simply bad for us all.

President Obama: Please Give Michele Bachmann a Megaphone

President Obama continues to attempt to change the way things work in Washington, once again reaching across the aisle in good faith. Meanwhile, Michele Bachmann continues to say every ridiculous thing that comes to mind in an effort to stay at the center of attention.

At the request of Speaker of the House John Boehner, the President has agreed to move the date of a key jobs speech  he plans to give. Apparently, the speech was inadvertently scheduled to occur at the same time as an upcoming debate between Republican Presidential hopefuls. While the President took a cooperative approach to the logistics challenge, Michele Bachmann used it as an opportunity to take a shot at the President saying his speech was purposely scheduled to conflict with the debate, indicating a sure sign of insecurity on Obama's part.

Representative Bachmann - Please know that if the President was truly worried about your candidacy for his office, then he would beg the media to give you more attention, not less. All you need to be defeated is a little more time and a media platform so that you can hang yourself in a noose constructed of your own inane, meaningless, and imbecilic words.

Michele Bachmann: Lunatic or Just an Idiot?

Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Congresswoman and Republican presidential hopeful, "joked" that Hurricane Irene and last week's rare East Coast earthquake are God's way of getting the attention of Washington politicians who are failing to effectively address our nation's fiscal woes. Most people didn't find her supposed attempt at humor to be all that funny, particularly the millions of mid-Atlantic folks who were impacted by the storm and who are still without power.

I really hope she stays in the presidential race for a few more months. America needs someone with her obviously well-honed comedic instincts to keep the political mood from getting too tense.With the ten year anniversary of 9/11 coming up soon, I can hardly wait to hear her World Trade Center one-liners.