even yet more Republican insanity

As you may recall, other than Proposition 8 the blackest mark on Election Day was the re-election of Michele Bachmann in MN-06.



The Moderate Voice gathered more recent evidence of her lunacy:

* ACORN is “under federal indictment for voter fraud,” but the stimulus bill nevertheless gives ACORN “$5 billion.” (In reality, ACORN is not under federal indictment and isn’t mentioned in the stimulus bill at all.)

* many members of Congress have “a real aversion to capitalism.”

* the stimulus bill includes a measure to create a “rationing board” for health care, and after the bill becomes law, “your doctor will no longer be able to make your healthcare decisions with you.”

* the recovery package is part of a Democratic conspiracy to “direct” funding away from Republican districts, so Democratic districts can “suck up” all federal funds. Bachmann doesn’t think this will work because, as she put it, “We’re running out of rich people in this country.”

* the “Community-Organizer-in-Chief” is also orchestrating a conspiracy involving the Census Bureau, which the president will use to redraw congressional lines to keep Democrats in power for up to “40 years.” When the host said he was confused, noting that congressional district lines are drawn at the state level, Bachmann said Obama’s non-existent plan is an “anti-constitutional move.”

Let you think she's out of the Republican mainstream, I give you William Bennett -- Reagan's Secretary of Education -- who posted:

Cong. Michele Bachmann appeared again on Bill Bennett’s radio show yesterday to discuss the RSC’s counter-stimulus proposal–and, it appears, this is just what free market-types and conservatives have been waiting for. So was she. Cong. Bachmann burned up the phone lines and email to the show with callers and writers saying things like "I’ll have what she’s having," and "This should be our minority leader," and "This is the kind of conservative I’ve been looking for." She sounds a great deal like Newt Gingrich did circa 1990, 1991, 1992.

It’s been said of puissant and articulate women like Margaret Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick that sometimes they were the only man in the room. That is true of Michele quite often, no less so yesterday. Often we get guests that seem to be exactly what our movement wants and needs to hear. They slake a real thirst in a too often ideological desert. Yesterday was that day. She’ll be in leadership someday, someday very soon I’m sure–and hope.

What a freak show the GOP has become.