Secrets of the City

Michele! My belle!

Expect more donations to pour into the “Tink in 10″ campaign.

God, she’s such a wingnut. I wonder what color the sky is in her world.

My guess is red.

Funny, there’s nothing about it on snopes.com.

Moreover, wouldn’t that be an “exurban legend”?

Lime green is my guess.

Lime Green? Is Michelle Bachman one of the Lizard People?

Considering she’s probably covered in scales under that Dress Barn pant suit and has a bifurcated tongue, my guess it that she’s a high-ranking officer in the Lizard People army, Dougnuts.

She’s kinda precious, like a cute dumb puppy, until she shits on the carpet.

Oh my goodness! A terrible 80’s TV show is coming to fruition! V!  Is that Michelle on the right there?  Clearly it is!

I’m never quite sure which is crazier Bachmann, or the craziness she inspires.

Why can’t she be from another state??

Embarrassment to MN.

What is wrong with the 6th district people to vote her in??

Never moving to that bizzaro place.

She gives those bastards at WISpeak plenty of ammunition!

What is wrong with the 6th district people to vote her in??

You liberal elitist “blame America first” types hate our Michele because she’s a Christrian, and a strong female leader in politics.

She is one of the few elected leaders in this nation not afraid to tell the truth!

You’d go through a lot of bike tires trying to get around, vlado. It’s kinda spread out.

Palin/Bachmann 2012?

They have a nice vision for the country.

I would like to nominate Bachmann for the most 1984-like representative in Congress!

One day she says one thing, the next it is the opposite.

She needs to get the ministry of Truth to do its job and touch-up her TV appearance so that she never really said that.

Oh and of course labeling people “anti-american” is key. How can you argue with that.

They have a nice vision for the country.

They are both rather attractive. 

I’m convinced that Michelle Bachmann has access to a secret stash of laudanum. That would explain oh so much.

Hmmmm. I’m a Christian, and a woman, and pretty strong myself, and I think she’s a moron. You can believe whatever you want, but in my mind she should be considered an embarrassment to true Christians and women everywhere. Case closed.

Given how poorly the GOP did elsewhere, did Bachmann actually benefit from the GOP pulling her funding during the election?

I would like to vote conservative.

I hope some decent conservatives come up next election.

Of course as soon as someone uses the label “anti-american” they loose my vote.

I think beth26 is new round these parts. Welcome!

The Republican Party needs all the members it can find, vlado4. Kwatt can show you the secret handshake.

G rote, I think both the GOP funding pullout and the flood of new money to El Tinklenberg came too late in the election cycle to have a huge impact.

or the craziness she inspires.

Explain.

I just noticed the italics HTML tags are turned off… can we get those back? Good for quotes.

They have a nice vision for the country.

I don’t think radical fundamentalism is a particularily nice vision of this country rat.

I was commenting on vlado, there Dave.

Still getting used to the text editing functions.

jeffk:

It seems the mere mention of this Bachmann woman and Katherine Kersten induces a certain form of spittle-flying rage. You got petitions to get one of them fired, whole websites devoted to the defeat of the other.

I’ve been told that this is not unique for people in public, but I just find it odd.

Yeah, I don’t like their vision for this country, either. They both hate cities, it seems to me, plain and simple. You could take any number of quotes from either of them to back this up. The only use they have for cities or the people that live there is to make them out to be an alien, ethnicy, elitist, un-American “other.” They both align themselves with and celebrate this fictitious vision of a Christian agrarian exceptionalist America. Which is nonsense, especially considering what percentage of this country lives in urban areas.

Bachmann and Palin are bound to be what George Wallace was to the Democrats in the late 1960s and ’70s — a weird, radical fringe that slowly and painfully drops out of the mainstream.

Rat, how do you suggest people react? These people – well, Bachmann anyways – represents us, and she’s a disgusting hateful theocrat and a moron to boot. You have this strange idea that pointing out craziness makes someone crazy, and I just don’t get it. If a whole website or a petition helps defeat her, then democracy is working. If it doesn’t, there’s no harm in trying. If you have another suggestion other than passive, obnoxious centrism, please indulge us.

It’s the damnedest thing that any sort of criticism, even against those who deserve it, rubs you the wrong way. I consider myself lucky that American history is full of people who were willing to react to bad representation.

Yeah sadly the rural areas of the US are fairly bleak.

Having visited MN, Iowa, Wisconsin, I can’t say I am too impressed with “real America”.

If industrial farming and monoculture is what you are into go for it.

The small-town, main street stuff I believe has been mostly lost.

The NYTimese and Daily show did reports on Waslla main street and it looked like a exurban shit-hole with 4 lanes of traffic, surrounded by Target, WalMart, Home Depot.

If that is small-town real American, I’ll pass and stay in the gheto inner city with the rest of the sodomites.

“If you have another suggestion other than passive, obnoxious centrism, please indulge us.”

Bachmann is going to end up talking herself right out of office. I say let her.

I don’t know why centrism is obnoxious. What’s obnoxious the ragged edge of hysteria.

George Wallace? Theocrats. C’mon.

Small towns aren’t for everyone, vlado. I grew up in one. But I’m fairly certain The Daily Show doesn’t give you the last word on small town life.

Centrism is obnoxious when it’s impervious to the reality around it, which begs for more passionate engagement.

“I don’t know why centrism is obnoxious. What’s obnoxious the ragged edge of hysteria.”

Rat, are you trying to call Bachmann a centrist? Because even the largest logical leap won’t get you there. She’s far right, especially from a social standpoint. Personally I believe she’s an affront to American values and politics, but the painful truth is that she represents the attitudes of the majority of her district fairly well. She loses in Stillwater and St. Cloud (narrowly for the latter), but the rest of the district is a rather distinctive step to the right. With no pelvic thrust.

No Rich, the centrist s me. The Rat is something of a Blue Dog Democrat and it drives people crazy.

When did the expression go from yellow dog to blue dog? Back when I was a kid folks said yellow dog, now all I hear is blue dog for party loyalty. Maybe yellow dog makes people think of Old Yeller and they choke up.

I’ve got no issues with centrism, Rat. But even centrists get worked into rabid frenzies when it comes to Bachmann. Centrism doesn’t preclude righteous indignation and fury, after all. It just denotes a particular geography on the political spectrum.

I don’t know that anybody has ever complained about you espousing the need for fiscal responsibility. If people are driven crazy by anything, it’s that you are a self-professed democrat who often seems more at ease with right wing talking points.

It didn’t change really.

Here’s the website for the Blue Dog Coalition.

http://www.house.gov/ross/BlueDogs/

Bachmann is going to end up talking herself right out of office. I say let her.

The only way that happens is if people react to her. If people just chuckle, and look the other way with a “there she goes again,” nothing will change. People have to make others aware that her comments are offensive and unacceptable.

certain form of spittle-flying rage

I totally read that as “spiffle-tying” and was very excited to find out what that might be, exactly.

Considering the entirety of her district, I’m sure as long as she keeps preaching the good word and keeping her foot on the necks of Teh Gays, they’ll keep voting her on in. Nothing short of some sort of sex scandal will change anyone’s mind in Stearns county.

The only sort of sex scandal the voters of her district would be swayed by would be Michele turning out to be a transgendered person who fornicates with holstein cattle.

You might be surprised to learn that El Tinklenberg beat Bachmann in both Sterns and Benton counties, aliecat.

He also did very well in his hometown of Blaine and in Stillwater.

It was the rest of the 6th that voted for Bachmann.

I stand by the Wallace comparison. Wallace says in 1968: “Yes, they’ve looked down their nose at you and me a long time. They’ve called us rednecks, the Republicans and the Democrats. Well we’re going to show Mr. Nixon and Mr. Humphrey that there sure are a lot of rednecks in this country!” How is that fundamentally different than what Palin was pitching, and what Bachmann is still pitching?

The difference is that in Birmingham they love their governor.

Bumper Sticker:

“HAVE YOU PASSIONATELY ENGAGED YOUR CENTRIST TODAY?”

Sweet Home, Anoka County, ooo, oo, oo!

Everybody sing the Song of the Sixth!

Rat is the John Mellenkampf of SOTC.

I hope the liberal elite will remember, CD6 don’t need them around anyhow.

M. Bachmann
better keep your head
Don’t forget
what your good book said
Anoka change
gonna come at last
Old Bill Luther
He was not the last
M. Bachmann

I saw Rum River
and I saw shacks
Tall mcmansions
and Lake Mille Lacs.
M. Bachmann
when will you
pay them back?
I heard ballots
for rights wing PACs.
How long? How long?

(guitar solo)

(wipes tear) I almost wet myself. This is so much funnier to someone who actually lives in the 6th.

Brilliant, Max.

I was sitting here for like seven minutes trying to riff on the Neil Young/Lynnyrd Skynnyrd bit and came up with nothin’. I was like David Brent trying to come up with another dessert pun.