What is Michele Bachmann?

Michele Bachmann made the front page of The New York Times today, in a story showing her to be a beacon for conservative views and a lightning rod for liberal stupefaction, the second-most-popular woman to Sarah Palin among conservatives, a woman with a love of TV cameras, and a person who often plays fast and [...]

Who’s Lobbying the Bailout Congress (And What Does Turkey Want From Michele?)

Here’s a superb example of investigative journalism..the kind of reporting we can not afford to lose.
Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy of the blog Real Time Investigations are keeping an eye on who’s lobbying this bailout Congress. Fascinating.
Or, go to the site’s Foreign Agents Registry Act database and look up the PR firms that are [...]

Danger: “We’re Running Out of Republicans!”

Allow me to present Rep. Michele Bachmann on how Pres. Obama is planning to kidnap the census, redraw districts so that only Democrats survive and tax the remaining Republicans into extinction.
Does she really believe these statements or has she simply become the Congressional version of Rush Limbaugh? Hard to say, folks.
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Bachmann Back in the Bushes

Rep. Michele Bachmann, on MSNBC’s Hardball a week ago, was at least honest when she called Barack Obama anti-American and said many in Congress are anti-American. It wasn’t pretty, but she was right there and said it. Now she’s back to being less honest, less brave, less forthright. More slippery. Smile-while-knifing-you slippery.
In a new ad, [...]

Arne Carlson Comes Out

“Arne” is about useful as “Barack” in the political realm (don’t even get me started on “Elwyn”) so maybe it was the sympathy factor that led former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson to cross party lines and endorse Barack Obama today.
According to the Pioneer Press, Carlson told a crowd at the State Capitol that, “We have [...]

GOP to Tailgunner Michele: See Ya

According to the web site Talking Points Memo, the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled the plug on several hundred thousands of dollars of pro-Bachmann advertising and has redirected the resources elsewhere.
Not a good sign for the beleagured 6th District Congresswoman.  Nor is the news that her oppoent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has now passed the $1,000,000 [...]

“Trapped!”

“A trap was laid and I stepped into it.”
So says Minnesota’s beleagured 6th District Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, according to Pat Doyle at the Star Tribune.  Appearing in public for the first time (as far as I can tell) since Friday’s Hardball debacle, Ms. Bachmann’s latest spin is that she just didn’t know what she was [...]

Elmira Gulch Bachmann Spins Furiously

Michele Bachmann, Minnesota’s suddenly beleaguered 6th District Congresswoman, is this week’s winner of the Elmira Gulch Award for her furious pedaling to spin away the massive political problem she created for herself when she told Hardball’s Chris Matthews: “I’m very concerned that [Barack Obama] may have anti-American views.” and “I wish the American media [...]

Bye Bye Bachmann

We can hope that Michele Bachmann has cut her own throat with her idiotic McCarthyite witch hunt against liberal anti-Americans in Congress. Elwyn Tinklenberg has raised well over $400,000 since Bachmann’s intolerant fascist ravings were aired last week, and well over three times what had come in when Austin posted about Bachmann just yesterday.
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Tinklenberg for Congress

I just made a donation to Elwyn Tinklenberg.  I invite you to do likewise because it’s time Representative Michele Bachmann is excused from further duty in the U.S. Congress.
Ms. Bachmann, you may recall, was “called by God” to run for Congress and was elected from Minnesota’s 6th District in 2006 in a tough, but not [...]