I don’t care for Bachmann.  I don’t desire her as the U.S. President.  It remains sad to see the overwhelming, overly-emotion, political bigotry which lives and thrives on this Web space.

Where would Progressives be if not complaining about their status amongst the miniscule minority.

For what it’s worth, it pleases me greatly to see the Republican Party’s presidential candidacy pool turn into a production of “Send In The Clowns.” It will be a pure pleasure to see them try to find a viable candidate among this bunch of overdressed turnips. There isn’t a single one of them we can trust to run a used car lot, let alone a country.

The Republican debate is a dog-and-pony show matched only by the author of this article who is as delusional as they are.

I agree wth Billy Pilgrim, billtmore, and Vin Diesel.

Michelle Bachman only registered within the establishment MSM. All online polls
showed Ron Paul wining the debate with 73% on average.

E.J. is a hack for the establishment. A very dangerous and contemptible twerp.

Inherit The Wind

42 is the answer to the questions regarding man the Universe and everything, many believe that there is no explanation for the meaning of 42, but they are wrong. 

Zaphod Beeblebrox has been residing at area 51 since the shortly after the conclusion of the Second World War. After much study and contemplation the best minds were able to decipher the meaning of 42, thus the creation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 42.

“United Nations Security Council Resolution 42, adopted on March 5, 1948, called upon the permanent members of the Council to consult and inform it regarding the situation in Palestine and to make recommendations to the United Nations Palestine Commission. The Resolution also appealed to all governments and peoples, particularly those around Palestine to aid the situation in any way possible.”

Michelle Bachman was, without an in depth explanation, quite rightly warning the people of the U.S. and the world regarding a rejection of Israel. If we reject Israel, Israel will nuke us, with the approval of God.

It’s an abstract concept, very hush hush and top secret, and I don’t expect you to understand, you’ll have to take my word on this one.

No, this does:

42

This explains everything.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/55061/bachmann-america-cursed-by-god-if-
we-reject-israel

Had Poppy Bush known that Rummy, Darth Cheney and the rest of the gang had gone insane when he wasn’t around to keep them on the straight and narrow, he never would have put them in Sonny Boy’s cabinet and we MIGHT have come out of those 8 years in far better shape (albeit, not great shape).  But once they were in it was too late….

I blame Poppy for two unforgivable sins:
1) Not realizing those ass-clowns were 8 years beyond his more measured foreign and domestic policies.
2) Clarence Thomas.

Michele Bachmann even makes Trig and Sarah Palin look good. Compared to her, each of them is relatively intelligent, competent, knowledgeable, and qualified for the presiduncey.

Certainly, each of the three is the equal of ‘W’.

“...it is entirely possible that Americans will come out, once again, by the truck load for practicable reform of America…” -Layfayette

Wait, wait.  Didn’t we try that in 2008?

There’s good news and bad news; the good news is that Bachman is only preferred by 3% of Republicans. The bad news is that Republicans still darken the halls of Congress. Without Republicans there would be no serious deliberation about additional tax cuts that would add nearly 10 trillion dollars to the deficit over the next ten years. Without Republicans there would be no serious deliberation about ending the social safety net for the old and the sick. Without Republicans there would be more support for ending these insane wars. Without Republicans the Left – Right political paradigm would consist of an authentic Left and a Lieberman type group of reactionary morons, instead of the complete idiots that currently make up the Right.

I’ll confess to being naïve at some point regarding the intelligence of politicians. When I lost this naiveté’ is not clear to me, but do I remember thinking that politicians were educated professionals and people of some intelligence, but I don’t remember ever thinking that politicians had any real connection with the people, and that politicians were not corrupted and corruptible, or that many politicians were not wrong headed about militarism and foreign policy, I’ve always thought that our Representatives in government lacked sufficient understanding of, and empathy for, the people they represent and for the peoples of the world, but I do remember, at some point, in thinking that they had some semblance of intelligence, though a superficial kind of intelligence. Looking at the current crop of politicians, I can only deduce that most are educated fools. It was recently revealed that a significant percentage of our politicians lack even a basic superficial education.

I recently heard an interview with a well known national politician with much longevity in the federal government; the man could not complete a sentence without pausing to collect his thoughts, and he was months if not years behind the curve on political insight, and current issues. I’m certain that he thought he was being very informative and insightful, but the entire interview was a complete and total waste of the airwaves. There are other politicians who are proficient jabberers, who fluently attempt to advance their insane ideological objectives and others who are loud mouthed interrupters during political debate very skilled at obfuscating and ignoring indisputable truths. I heard recently that the Republicans specifically chose one of their members to be the spokesman on an issue because he was very good at obfuscating. How accurate this assertion about Republicans choosing their best obfuscators to be spokesman on certain issues is unknown to me, but it is clear to me, if to no one else, that obfuscation is an absolute necessity in order to advance Republican ideology.

Current Republican policies will decimate the American people and our government, continuing current Neo-liberal policies will destroy the middle class, further impoverish the poor, stifle any recovery from the recession, if not cause the global economy to collapse. It’s quite possible that the damage has already been done and that there is no escaping economic catastrophe. All political discussion today is concerned with austerity for the masses, prosperity, for all but the most wealthy, is off the table. Rational and humane foreign policy initiatives are filed neatly away and not a subject for serious discussion.

The proof of errant economic policies is evident in nations great and small. The recent historical record chronicles those failures, and only fools would perpetuate them. Even that bumbling, Ayn Randian, ideologue Alan Greenspan has admitted that his economic policies were “fundamentally flawed” and those who silenced Brooksley Born: Rubins, Summers, and members of Congress have admitted that they were wrong, but the Republicans want to push forward, full steam ahead with the same errant economic policies.

Intelligent?

“turn Michele Bachmann, of all people, into a political giant.”

Your article is much ado about nothing. The current state of our media and our nation has seen us descending into the pit of idiocy with a media whose only goal is profit and entertainment and a society allowing itself to be dumbed-down to our current blathering state.

We shouldn’t even waste time and energy on the “Michele Bachmanns, George Bushes or any other empty-headed cipher in a serious society, but we see it every day.

Unless it’s taken a quantum leap in the last two hours,
Bachmann’s poll numbers are still at 3%.  The media’s
take on her recent performance, and I mean
performance,is only further evidence that the media are
addicted to performers.

As far as the rats racing to win the Republican
nomination, even if he/she wins, he/she will still be a
rat.

ED: But she looked almost conventional only because the rest of the Republican Party has veered so far right that it has caught up with her. In the current GOP, she is the mainstream—and that ought to petrify more reasonable Republicans.

Perhaps, but that will work to the Dems favor next year.

In the mid-terms Americans wanted to punish BO & Co because, as (supposedly) promised, their leader could not walk-on-water.

This time around, that hurt is still there but it is entirely possible that Americans will come out, once again, by the truck load for practicable reform of America - which it needs so badly to correct Income Inequality and rein in the Plutocracy influencing Congress.

Just maybe ...

E. J. Dionne needs to get out more often and mingle with “real folks”. Ms. Bachmann sounds exactly like Mike Huckabee and his followers.

His claim that Ms. Bachmann is turning into a political giant is pure
fantasy. Since according to past reported comments by the
Congresswoman she is quoted as saying:-

” I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States
fails to stand with Israel, that is the end of the United States . . . [W]e
have to show that we are inextricably entwined, that as a nation we
have been blessed because of our relationship with Israel, and if we
reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play.

” And my husband and I are both Christians, and we believe very
strongly the verse from Genesis [Genesis 12:3], we believe very strongly
that nations also receive blessings as they bless Israel. It is a strong and
beautiful principle.”

>>Say what you will about his No Child Left Behind
education reform program. It accepted, correctly,
that the federal government has to play an important
part in reforming our public schools and held them
accountable to a set of standards.<<

Say what we will? Though it is minor next to the
felonies and international crimes (war) Bush
committed, and Obama carries on, this presumes facts
not in evidence, and affirms what is yet another
example of Federal criminal behavior.  The Federal
government has no authority or jurisdiction in such
things.  These are matters that are left to the
States.  Read the Constitution, Dionne, before
offering legal opinion.  The Federal government has
no jurisdiction in state and local schools.  Ron Paul
is absolutely correct on this issue.

The current gaggle of reactionaries are loyal to
their ideology, unlike the phony dems who cave at the
slightest provocation. Part of me hopes for a
Republican landslide next year, so we can see the
unfettered right in action, destroying what little
decency remains in order for the people to finally
wake up and forever banish these neo-fascists from
our nation’s political discourse. Lenin was ecstatic
when the Tsar mobilized the Russian military in
August, 1914, which gave the Kaiser the perfect
excuse to declare war against the Russian Empire. The
Bolshevik gangster knew that the corrupt,
incompetent, decadent, Romanov dynasty would be no
match against Germany, and that the collapse of
Russia would increase the prospects for revolution.

Ya know E.J., my only explanation for your adulation of the the Minnesota representative, (name withheld deliberately ~ I’ll refrain from adding anything to the circus MSM is perpetuating),and MSNBC’c Matthews is there with you, is a “please don’t throw me in the briar patch” scenario that you must acknowledge somewhere in your dithering pate, will never come to fruition. You’re not going to get your wish.

It’s an “Easy Street” rant. Do some research and give me the straight and skinny on Huntsman.

What a pile of crap.