Michelle Bachman is one crazy person
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Mar 18, 2008 4:50pmI try pretty hard to not be judgmental and to try to look at things from different perspectives to understand where a person is coming from. I've tried that with Michelle Bachman (R-MN06) too, but I'm sorry, she's just nuts. There's no two ways about it. Keep in mind that this is the same person who couldn't keep her paws off Bush after the State of the Union last year. And then there was her statement that Americans like working two jobs. Maybe that should have tipped me off.
But Bachman is not done speaking out and MN Publius has the highlights:
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann just put a face and a name to the GOP base’s unhappiness with the Republican nominee for President. Referring to John McCain, Bachmann told the West Sherburne Tribune:
“He is not my man,” she said. “Our candidate was chosen by the media. But there are other races out there.” [..]
Uh no, Bachman, he was chosen by the voters, despite the right wing media talking him down. However, it is true the MSM loves them some McCain. But since there's nary an original thought in your head, I'd have thought you'd be good with McSame, seeing as he's running as Bush 2.0.
On global warming:
“The big thing we are working on now is the global warming hoax. It’s all voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax,” Bachmann said.
And on Iraq:
“What our service men and women have accomplished over there has been nothing short of astounding,” she said “Though you never hear about it in the media. God has not abandoned us.“
But wait, there's more. Earlier this week, Bachman wrote an op-ed for the Star-Tribune blaming the Democrats for standing in the way of American safety. Why? For not passing the PAA with telecom immunity, of course.
Bob Olson is Bachman's Democratic challenger for the MN06. Bachman's war chest is significantly higher than Olson's, so if you can help, wouldn't it be a blessing to flip this seat to a Democrat?
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John McCain is unfit for command.
He surrendered once to the Viet Cong and became a POW.
He'll surrender us again.
What a bonehead.
Like all Republicans, she needs to spend less time making crazy stuff up and more investigating reality.
But when the media laps up your lies, why bother?
Jeezzz, I wouldn't want to live in the area that supports her. She's sounds like she's completely unglued. Damned stupid frightening woman. I thought the media tried to make Rudy the candidate of the republicans. McCain was all they had left in the end.
I do live in the district 6 and did not vote for her the last time, voted for Patti Wetterling. The woman is a goof. There was an illegal immigrant who was driving a car, crashed into a bus, and killed 4 children. Congresswoman Bachmann made the comment that if the licenses had been in Spanish and signs were in Spanish, this may have prevented the accident. Hello!! She was an illegal immigrant. What part of this do you not understand!! She has no idea what she is talking about. This is a woman who has 5 children and took in like 15 to 20 foster children. Now, if I believe this to be true, don't you get money from the State for taking in foster children (or the County). Then, she has the nerve to cut back children's programs and insurance. She is not in the real world.
Bachman to Bush sounds like Lewinsky to Clinton. Unfortunately, if Bush had affairs with this woman, there will likely be no impeachment and go largely unreported in the media.
True. The best we can hope for is that no offspring would result from the affair. The future of this country is at stake.
You are an idiot. Your comment is stupid and only highlights what a deficient, damaged idiot you are.
She's a rapture nut.
She says some unbelivable things. But the Rapture is real and I pray that you are ready.
Well when is it coming already? If it is going to rid the earth of entities like Bachman and Palin, I am anticipating its arrival.
I can't wait for the rapture to be rid of these rightwing nuts...
Yeah...then all that will be left is you left wing nuts. Enjoy.
At least it will peaceful.
"What our service men and women have accomplished" !!!
She should have a leg blown off and thrown on the pile of anonymous Iraqi corpses, just her small addition to the "accomplishments".
Anyone who thinks war is an accomplishment is a murderer at heart.
People who sell God are con artists, in this case, she's a neo-con artist.
Yawn.
Conservatvies need to play a new tune....I've heard this one a zillion times. Global warming: hoax....MSM: evil...US military: beyond reproach....liberals: scum.
Did I miss anything?
There's only one 'l' in Michele Bachman.
Just a note.
If we found out that bush had gotten a bj in the white house, this woman would be my first suspect.
So voodoo is a hoax. Way to go after that Haitian vote!
Reasonstein @ 4:
bush is too busy screwin Americans to be interested in a Bach man.
pissed off patricia @ 9:
My first suspect would be Rove.
She is a freshman Representative, replacing Mark Kennedy in the 2006 election.
So she is already making her record shine like gold(en turds).
She could have drawn the same conclusion with a hammer.
She tried to push Intelligent Design though when she was a school board member, and then denied it later.
Yes, cry out to a Holy God, while endorsing the slaughter of innocent women and children in Iraq. So this is a primary Islamofascist boob, and helping remove her (she only got in because two opponents split the ticket, that and the votefraud) would be an EXCELLENT effort.
Wow, what an embarrassment. Her comments on Iraq notwithstanding, who could read that comment about global warming and not cringe? Um, there is this crazy little things called scientific proof, but if that wont work, you can step out your fucking front door in July sometime, or Google yourself up a picture of some melting glaciers.
To say "global warming" is anything other than factual, man made or not, shows an incredible ignorance.
Obviously Minnesota voters didnt know what they were voting for, she must have kept her mouth shut when running for Congress. Now shes opened it and removed all doubt
Ew...she's into chimps. Kinky.
Al Qaeda waited until a Republican half wit was in the White House to attack us, why? Bin Laden wants to bankrupt America. What better time to attack then when incompetent war profiteers are running the country who could be counted on to gin up the terror threat, real and imagined, while trashing US military power, shattering US world prestige, eroding the US dollar and generally looting the Treasury aka Kenny Boy at ENRON. Bush, Bachman and their supporters have been a boon to Islamic radicalism and a disaster for America, Bush, Bachman and their ilk are a threat to our way of life.
bat shit nuts...
I think this is as good a thread as any to make another use of my post from one of the McCain threads below. Only a few changes are called for:
Dear (insert moron politician/spokeswhore name here),
Dude (or B*tch). Please shut up. You are becoming an embarrassment. We’ve already had almost 8 years worth of that and our image really cannot take much more. Many of your countrymen are drinking heavily and having thoughts of suicide as a result of being governed by idiots like yourself (or those you serve). And these people aren’t even Democrats - they are the moderate Republicans.
Thank you and have a nice day.
Sincerely,
The American People
Why we wasting our time gossiping about this mush brained woman?
We need to be going after Kissinger, Baker, et. al, and the NWO Bush Cabalists.
stonicus @ 10:
Lots of Haitians in the MN-6. But she's polling really well among Hobbits, so that balances it out.
Hopefully, she will go on vacation in Aruba.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Are they up for reelection this year? No, they are not.
please oh please help us here in the 6th district! There are way too many voters who will vote for anything with an R by its name. Example: Michele Bachmann
"wouldn’t it be a blessing to flip this seat to a Democrat?"
No way that's happening. I used to work in the district that she represents in Minnesota, and trust me when I say that the majority of people there are just as bat-shit insane as she is. My boss (who lives in the area) once asked a client who's brother had died of AIDS how she felt about the fact that he was going to spend eternity in hell.
Luckily I lived in the district of Minneapolis that got to vote for Keith Ellison. Very rarely have I felt proud to vote for someone that actually won.
---Tom
Who in the hell votes all these wack-jobs into office? Are there really that many f-ing stupid people out there? I know it's a rhetorical, but thinking about it is really depressing.
Yes! I have been thinking the same way. I often find myself wishing that the wackos could be sent to another planet. They can elect one of their own kind into office or choose a dictator. They can wage all of the wars they want to. They can wait for the "Rapture" and condemn anything that is not in line with their hypocrite mentality. They can pollute their atmposphere and kill off the wildlife, all the while denying that it is happening. They can force a young girl that was raped by a relative to have the child and in doing so they will be able to proliferate more idiots into their already idiotic population.
They can corrupt every facet of whatever form of government they set up, be it Fascist or otherwise. They can steal from each other, they can lie to each other and they can even eat their young...just get them the hell out of here already!
Paul in LA @ 22:
These guys don't need an election. McCain is their next puppet. He's been in the Middle East playing Commander In Chief in training.
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What's next for Ms. Bachman? "American's LOVE living in tent cities instead of their old homes because American's are natural lovers of the outdoors."
odanny @ 14:
She did not. She had two challengers, and the off-party one took 8% of the vote from Patty Wetterling the Democrat.
So that's the margin, 23,000 votes. She's not going to look so hot at the end of this brutal economic year.
Not to worry Michelle, he's not my man either.
She's a real candy cane, when it comes to far right money:
If you know even half of those 'donors,' you are a troll. :-)
I'd still do her..
somebody has done her too much, no brains left!!
She's also the consolation prize, since the former Rep in her seat, Mark Kennedy (R), decided to run for the U.S. Senate, and lost.
Spock @ 32:
Yeah, she's kinda hot in a batshit-crazy-kinda-hot MILF way.
Kinda a niche hot.
The people who put her over the edge in that particular district are affluent white professional suburban fundamentalists who have reaped the benefits of Bush at the national level and Gov Pawlenty at the state level--tax relief for the rich at the expense of big cities and any kind of social service program, including gutting the parks, the libraries, police and rescue services, public education, higher education, and any kind of aid to the vulnerable or less fortunate. It's my hope that the incredible rage that a lot of folks have right now about this state of affairs will get people off their whining asses to vote.
She's got the kinda face I'd like to take to the chimp cage at the zoo and let them fling something at it.
"God has not abandoned us"?
She wouldn't know God if it kicked her in her ungodly ass.
"G0d has not abandoned us.“
leave me out of this.
This bimbo looks a heckuva lot like Katherine Harris, doesn't she? And the similaritits don't stop there either.
John Barringer @ 38:
OOPS! "similarities! That really was a mistake. Honest!
perfect reflection of the people she represents. only in america. no wonder we are in such a mess. wonder what they will do to her when the revolution begins.
She's not crazy - she's bat-shit crazy.
She's the kind of representative - that if for whatever reason - a challenge doesn't unseat her - the entire country regrets it for the next two years.
Minnesota!! PLEASE do something about this idiot!
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she is a religious nut and I hope she gets her ass kicked in the next election.
If we are going to bash McCain, let's try to get it right. He didn't surrender to the Viet Cong. He was shot down in North Vietnam (Viet Cong were in South Vietnam), whereupon a bunch of farmers beat him up and turned him over to North Vietnamese soldiers.
Additional thought: When you are shot down, you aren't surrendering, you are involuntarily falling out of the sky. It's a gravity thing.
I read somewhere that he crashed 3 planes. Not a very good pilot. You can probably fact check that. Hell, if some jerk was dropping Napalm on me and mine, I'd sure as s--t shoot them out of the sky too.
Ummm yea... given the leadin paragraph and what I've read about this 'person' (probably not my first choice of discriptive term) on this thread... yep she is one crazy... ahh person....JD
Michele Bachman is definitely perched within an inch of the insanity ledge but what about the people that voted for her? MN06 has got to be one hell of a psycho outpost.
I'm really hoping that Al Franken wins, and that this schizoid, idiotic cardboard Republican cutout loses. But she may barely have to try. In my district we have sent a Repuke to Congress for 90 years (none as stupid as this woman) and it wont change this year, I'm almost certain. The Democrats can barely find anyone willing to challenge the seat, bringing an old television news anchor out of thye woodwork to get a likely thrashing on election day.
odanny @ 46:
Franken is running for Senator. This is a Representative.
phlounder @ 45:
Half of it, maybe. She won by a tiny margin (a third-party spoiler put her in).
1st- If the Republicans are so dumb, incompetent, and/or weak that they let the media choose their candidate, we can only assume they're dumb enough, incompetent enough, and/or weak enough to let Al Queda choose their foreign and homeland security policies.
2nd- If that's what this obvious idiot thinks about global warming, we should be very afraid of the coming environmental catastrophe. However, like all the other politicians who agree with her statement on GW, it is 100% based on desire to be showered w/ cash and ego pleasing perks from the fossil fuel energy companies.
3rd- Re: her Star-Tribune op-ed- quoting her:
"The No. 1 job of the American government is to protect her citizens. House Democratic leaders, in forcing the expiration of the FISA updates, have shirked that most fundamental responsibility -- the safety of the American people."
Further proof she's an idiot, she has absolutely NO idea what her job priorities are, No. 1- "support and defend the Constitition". There is NOTHING in the Congressional oath of office about protecting citizens, it's first and foremost about the Constitution. It requires her to oppose any parts of FISA that violate the Constitution.
`I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.''The No. 1 job of the American government is to protect her citizens. House Democratic leaders, in forcing the expiration of the FISA updates, have shirked that most fundamental responsibility -- the safety of the American people.
I live in Minnesota and i just can't believe that People in her District 06 could be that stupid,that is until i went there and found out they are!
Mitchell Bachman is one crazy person.....oh my goodness are you just finding that out....
PS she was voted in from the St. Paul/Minneapolis area. JUST WHERE THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. Now you know what kind of people live there.
A correction to this story:
Bob Olson is NOT the candidate running against Bachmann.
Elwyn Tinklenberg is going to be the DFL nominee to take on Michele Bachmann.
Right now there is a significant rift in the Democratic Party in the 6th District after the contest between Olson and Tinklenberg.
thetide @ 50:
Two words: Jesse Ventura.
If a liberal said that John Edwards didn't succeed because of the mainstream media, would you describe that liberal as "one crazy person"?
Political Muse @ 53:
Elwyn Tinklenberg? Didn't he play Herbie, the Elf who wanted to be a dentist, in Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer?
Not only does Ms. Bachman need to go but in MN's district 7 (my home district), we are represented with wolf in sheep's clothing. Collin Peterson is a DINO and needs to be replaced with someone less likely to toe the corporate party line. His sole saving grace of late is that he voted with the Dems to not give the telecomms immunity.
John Barringer @ 39:
heh, heh... similaritits.
Andy "George W. Bush has never been elected. The ‘Machine’ took it and gave it to him." K Jong Il @ 56:
Yep, same guy. Although he couldn't make it as a dentist and became Transportation Commissioner in Minnesota instead. :)
Check out his website
Tim in Japan @ 57:
That's not enough. That was a total caucus vote, and he would have taken HUGE losses politically in the caucus had he gone it alone.
As you might imagine, we keep a close eye on the contributions that come in through our website. This afternoon we got a sudden spike of contributions from all over the country and it's all thanks to Bachmann.
It's no surprise that when Bachmann gets covered on Crooks and Liars, Bob gets contributions.
Thanks to all those who have contributed, as well as those who will.
~Olson for Congress
To those of you who are ripping on Minnesotans, allow me to say 2 words: Paul Wellstone.
We're not all insane.
BadKitty @ 62:
Over the years I've been to Minnesota a few times...Nice, regular folks. Then I see 'em dressed in that purple crap, wearing those little blonde pigtails.... ;^D
Marge @ 52:
Dear Marge,
Bachmann is crazy and a horror, but how dare you besmirch Minneapolis/St.Paul.
Minneapolis sent the FIRST Muslim to congress (can you get more progressive?)
Saint Paul's congresswoman is the esteemed Betty McCollum who gets in by a landslide every time(can you get more progressive?)
Saint Paul elected Mee Moua to the State House of Reps as the FIRST Hmong elected to state office in the contry (can you get more progressive?)
Now marge, you know what kind of people live here!
TRex @ 8:
One "l" -- and no brain.
Marge @ 52:
Not quite. She represents a district from the Twin Cities suburbs, but she was most certainly NOT voted in by the people of St. Paul (4th district) or Minneapolis (5th district).
Minnesota has its share of kooks on both sides of the aisle, but Bachman takes the cake. She was a theocratic nuisance in the state senate, and if she isn't nipped in the bud, will likely be the next Marilyn Musgrave. Her homophobia and general batshit insanity are legend.
As has already been pointed out, Olsen isn't the candidate. Tinklenberg will be. He will be an improvement, just as anyone would be an improvement over Bush, but isn't a committed progressive.
Another thing to remember is that unlike most of the US, third party candidates sometimes win and often get significant vote totals in Minnesota. It's unlikely, however, that there will be any competition for the wingnut vote, which gives Bachman an automatic leg up for November.
i don't know about her third quote on iraq but the first two are straight from Limbaugh and it is a good example of why progressives and esp. the Dem candidates or party leadership need to provide a site with daily searchable transcripts of the main talkers.
these so called republican 'representatives' need to be tied to the talking points machines that create them and without which they couldn't function.
But, but the repugs in MN are so proud of this air head. Doesn't matter that she talks crap out her back side...they know she toes the line for her dream boat, the monkey.
This is sad, but I'm coming to the rock solid conclusion that repugs have no conscience. They simply want more repugs in Washington. Doesn't matter how God awful stupid they might be.
WTFHITOMGHTHDTH?
If anyone translates this, they get a platter of cookies. ;)
As for this: another wingnut who wouldn't last a minute on the street for the cause she so fervently believes. As I said of Obama's pastor in the other thread: How many Brownshirts has Miss Bachman? If the answer is what I think it is, why worry? They talk tough but they lack the balls (especially the men on the Right) to bring it out. Your average fat, pimply, cheetos-loving rightist would piss his pants at a street brawl. I ain't worried.
The contest isn't over, yet, but Tinklenberg is definitely running ahead of Bob Olson, much to my regret. I went for Olson at the Sherburne County Convention last week, but Tinklenberg has more delegates for the party endorsement. If you check his website, you will not see that he is an anti-choice prospective Bush Dog-type, which, I suppose, is a positive for being elected in this district.
God may not have abandoned us, but I bet S/He is pretty pissed.
Wow. Who heard her comments on Chris Matthews show?? He was shocked. I don't think he is going to let her back on the show. Claiming that congress needs to be investigated for anti-american/un-american activities. She is insane. She is what we fear most in this country. Watch the show and then check out pat buchannan's follow up commentary. He has trouble answering for this nut. And she is nuts. This is the crazy thing about the new (last 8 years) Republicans. They are figure heads with fascit pigs backing them up. UGH.... Geoff
This B^^ch needs too GO!!!!
I just heard this women on Chris Mathews she spewed this crap about Obama and William Ayers he explained this over and over and we do not have the time too put up with anymore of this Fascist hate get this women out of Office Minnesota.
Is this woman for real!!! She associates all liberals with anti-americanism and identifies herself as the female Joe McCarthy of the 21st century. Liberalism is not subversive nor is right of center views Fascism.
She is a total nut. Let's hope the people of Minnesota wise up and vote her out of office before she sprews her gospel of hate around the world.
Did everyone see Congresswoman Michele Bachman on Hardball today? YOU MUST WATCH IT!!! Literally, the most frightening thing I've EVER seen in my entire lifetime! Are we witnessing a new era of McCarthyism? She actually referred to liberals as "anti-American" and called for an investigation of Congress to search for and root out anti-American elected officials.
Add this to Sarah Palin's incendiary comments that Obama "pals around with terrorists" and the McCain Campaign's new robo calls claiming that Obama "worked closely" with a terrorist whose radical group "killed Americans" and you have a recipe for the next great American witch hunt and a call to violence against Obama and his fellow Democrats.
This is very dangerous rhetoric coming out of the Republican Party!!! Every American should study McCarthyism and read the Crucilble TODAY!
This **** is a out of her fucking mind. Did anyone hear her on hardball today? This bitch needs to be ran not only out of congree but out of our country. Unamerican whore
I Watched this MORON on Hardball with Chris Matthews and I almost threw up. HOW can this person call herself American ? What the hell is wrong with the people of her District in MN ?? Is this the best they can do ? She would have fitted in so well during the McCarthy RED SCARE years. THIS moron thinks it is AMERICAN to call anyone who disagrees with REPUBLICANS , terrorists and anti American.
Let me give the people of her district some advice.
BE EMBARASSED NO LONGE. DUMP THIS BITCH IN TWO WEEKS> YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY DO WORSE. SHE IS A MORON.
But this person is Bat Shit Fuckin Crazy.
Her eyes. I've been watching her for awhile now.
Her eyes pulse. Like something I've never seen before.
She's lolo.
I still think she's bat shit fuckin crazy.
Strangest eyes I've ever see. They Pulse.
this whole neocon movement needs to be boxed up and dropped into the deep end of the ocean, hopefully Jan. 20 it will be.
I am Michelle Bachman's Tailor and I want you to know that not all of her 'White Sheets' have eye holes in them. She has one she uses only on Halloween that has her whole blotchy face exposed. She scares the living daylights out of the little kids in the neighborhood. Hell, she scares the hell out of me just looking at her. What's with them weird eyes of her's? She on drugs or what? First time I saw her on Larry King I thought she was a guy with long hair. Then I realized she was just a typical fascist hater related to Pat Buchannan and his twin brothers Bay Buchannan and Joe Scarborough Buchannan. I just wish the 4 of them would crawl back under their slimy rocks.
Does anyone believe that radical associations don't matter? Does anyone think that Bill Ayers is a patriotic American? Can anyone honestly say that Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not anti-American? These are the people that Barry Obama has chosen to associate with. What about Father Michael Pfleger, Tony Rezko and ACORN? You are known by the company you keep.
I think it is very appropriate for Michele Bachmann to question these radical associations. The media will not raise any of these questions. The media us in the tank for Obama (Chris Matthews says that Obama gives him a thrill down his leg).
Ms. Bachmann was correct in voting against the bailout package. Ms. Bachmann is correct to say that global warming is a hoax. Can any of you doubters explain how the last ice age ended without the aid of greenhouse gases? Ms. Bachmann knows we need to drill for oil. Ms. Bachman is in favor of lower taxes. Ms. Bachmann has an 11-point lead and every patriotic American should be happy about this.
THIS woman is a mean spirited fucking bitch...
ITS people like her...that say they are pro america...that actually cause hate and fear..
I never wish anyone bad..
BUT honestly..
They need to get this woman out of the race...
ANY one that votes for this creeply lieing woman...need thier head examined...