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Crazed baby-farming Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann has recruited a robot army to stand as a first line of defense between her and her increasingly disillusioned constituents. One voter writes of a chilling episode in which robots called him at home, promising to let him speak with the elusive President-groper, and then hung up on him before he got to ask his question.
Write Karl Bremer gives a firsthand account of the whole sordid episode:
Our 6th District congresswoman isn’t known for her robust communication with constituents — at least those not on her list of supporters. In fact, Bachmann has nurtured a reputation over the years for not communicating with constituents at all, unless it serves to promote herself or her agenda in some way. Rare is the constituent who disagrees with Michele Bachmann and receives even an acknowledgement of a letter, email or phone call.
So it’s not surprising that she’d be the enthusiastic user of a service called Tele-Town Hall, which randomly dials households in a politician’s district and invites them to stay on the line to participate in a call with their representative.
Of course “participating” means “listening to the politician barf out a bunch of boilerplate garbage for 20 minutes,” at the end of which callers are invited to ask questions. But the queue can be so long—and so easily screened by caller name and address—that dissatisfied constituents can be totally ignored. It’s a 21st century solution to the age-old problem of people loathing Michele Bachmann!
Bachmann tele-town halls: The politics of exclusion [MinnPost.com]
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Someone needs to invest in some Robot Insurance.
And this makes her different from other elected officials how?
Big chicklet sized teeth, crazee eyes and a pearl necklace. Trying to tell me something, Wonkette?
It's getting harder and harder for Douchebag-Americans to hold public office these days.
I guess with her relative good looks, she's hoping her perceived half-effort will propel her back into the Congress.
The other night the caller ID says "NRA" when the phone rings. A woman says, "I'm Bambi Smith and I'd like to ask you a one question survey about the NRA." I told her, "You know they killed your mom."
Her looks would make the hatefucking a lot easier.
Seriously, can we all chip in and buy this service for Ron Paul?
@JamesMichaelCurley: hahahaha, awesome.
It's a crying shame she doesn't shake hands with homos. Lord knows she could use the makeup tips.
I'd like some action with her and Janine Turner, we'd put it into overdrive.
She looks like a second-string fembot.
If she gets reelected I'm moving to Wisconsin or whatever is left of it.
@loquaciousmusic: You know the NRA is very pro boob gun. They keep us safe. The boobs that is, not the NRA.
I would like to think that, after Teh Robot Apocalips, those robots will dial into a recording of me, reading my Mannifesto.
@Godless Liberal: Ah, the "I'd hit it" never gets old with Michelle. She's my dream dominatrix.
Doesn't Bachmann represent Stepford, Draconia and Orwellia Counties?
I prefer that the robots stick to vacuuming my apartment while I'm at work and not calling on the telephone when I'm trying to watch "Wheel".
Those crazy eyes signal: She'll bang you until you're exhausted and then kill you in your sleep.
What would be really sweet if when the guy picked up the phone,it woulda been Michelle screaming,Fuck you!!!
@DanofromRaleigh: I think it's actually kill you, then bang you.
In that photo, just out of frame, she's strangling a dwarf. I know it.
The plan is to placate all those pesky voters until all her foster children come of age and give her an eternal mandate.
Oh, I would totally and completely, but I would def not go to sleep or give her a real name or phone number.
She raised me, too.
@Godless Liberal: She's the newest member of my spite-fuck list.
"Strangling a dwarf" has my vote for Best Euphemism Of The Year.
I think she takes tips from Sean Young's How To Alienate Friends and Creep People Out, Vol. IX.
"In that spirit, Bachmann has not had one public town hall meeting in her district since being elected. And when she has appeared on local talk radio call-in shows, she has refused to take calls." Wonder why.
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