Michele Bachmann’s recipe for success: Christian piety and not-so-Christian opportunism
Today’s Crazy Congressional Candidate: Michele Bachmann
[A]t a public forum on the gay marriage ban, Bachmann leaves early after an incident in a bathroom at the Scandia City Hall. She files a police report claiming she was held against her will by two members of a “gay and lesbian activist group.” “I don’t think there’s a crime for us to investigate,” Sheriff Jim Frank tells the Star Tribune at the time, even though the police report suggests that Bachmann was briefly blocked from leaving the restroom. An account of the episode posted on an anti-Bachmann website reports that people outside heard her “piercing screams” of “Help!!!!” and that when she emerged “in a crouching run” she cried, “I was being held against my will!” The Washington County Sheriff’s Department investigates Bachmann’s complaint and forwards the results to the county attorney’s office. The case is dropped.
Most of y’all would probably agree that former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener Cruella DeVille Katherine Harris is completely bat-shit crazy. If she were running for Congress in Minnesota instead of Florida, she’d be Michele Bachmann, who frankly makes Harris look almost reasonable and intellectually agile by comparison.
Though a state solidly Midwestern in attitudes and values, Minnesota has always had a decidedly leftward lean to it’s politics. Minnesota went solidly for John Kerry in 2004 and Al Gore in 2000. It also calls Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale native sons. Every now and then, though, Minnesota produces someone so “out there” that they almost defy rational explanation. Michele Bachmann is an intolerant, judgemental, and thorougly wacked-out as any Republican politician anywhere in the country (with the possible exception of “B-1 Bob” Dornan, the former Congressman and mean-spirited ignoramus from California).
Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District is where I lived when I was in high school. My, things have changed, haven’t they??
Referring to Bachmann as “Right wing” would be grossly inadequate (How nutty is Bachman? She was caught hiding behind a bush at a gay marriage rally). This woman is so far to the right that she’s just simply fallen off the right end of the political spectrum. A magna cum laude graduate of the Fred Phelps School of Politico-Religious Philosophy, Bachmann is a living, breathing Exhibit A for why the separation of Church and State is still a VERY good idea.
Yeah, I know; it can’t be easy being one of The Chosen. If you ask Michele Bachmann, though, she’s holding up very well under the burden….
Jesus loves me
This I know
For my President tells me so….
Jeebus…Bachmann makes former DUMB@$$ AWARD wiener and Colorado Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave look like the voice of sanity and reason….
I did a google news search on “Michele Bachmann” and didn’t find anything that mentioned this. Noting that the Star Tribune reporter was mentioned in the quote, I searched their site and again didn’t find mention of this incident, at all.
Maybe I missed something (or maybe not…)
At any rate, I did learn that she graduated from Oral Roberts University, has hosted 23 foster children, and has been down playing her views on abortion and gay rights in favor of hawking her views on taxes and other issues.
Now, you may not agree with Oral Roberts (I don’t) or you might even see him as an evil threat to freedom and world survival (Hi Dennis!) But comparing him or Michele Bachmann to the mutant phred felps is absurd enough to win the very first Bob’s TOTALLY BULL$#!T POST Award”
Congrats Jack, you’ve earned it :) And if it turns out that this bathroom “incident” was a fabrication, you’ll earn number TWO!
Hi Bob - I don’t particularly believe Oral Roberts to be an evil threat to freedom or world survival, any more than any other Christo-facist nutcase. Several of my family members used to regularly send him their hard-earned money, sure that he held the keys to the Kingdom, or at least the road map. I do think it interesting that the Methodists tossed his sorry ass out of the church years ago. And my belief in a divine Deity more or less ended when Roberts said he believed God would “take him home” unless several millions dollars were sent in. Sadly, it didn’t happen. I think that falls into the category of “show us a sign you exist, Lord.”
“Show us a sign, Lord”? SIGN???
Holy ***********, ******. If the Lord exists and the best sign His/Her Omnipotence bothers to offer us is ******* ******* Oral Roberts, then **** ************* ****, we’re all in profoundly deep **** [my asterisks].
“Charitable contributions” are “tax deductible” when they are given to those in possesion of government issued credentials. This practice benefits the wealthy far more than it does people who donate hard earned money, regardless of the motivation for doing so.
In effect, our government supports and promotes organizations such as ORU, The 700 Club, and even the likes of this snake oil salesman.
It is unlikely that a practical separation of church and state will exist while the state is empowered to declare or define what is or is not a “not for profit” organization.