WASHINGTON, DC, 08:38 AM, TUE NOVEMBER 24 | Advertise on Wonkette | tips@wonkette.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS
LOVE THIS WOMAN

Michele Bachmann Worried About Lack Of Rich People In America

Last time we checked in on notorious idiot wingnut Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, she was almost losing her safe House seat after proposing Witch Trials for every Democratic member of Congress, because of socialism. She squeaked by, though, and thank God, because she’s funny. With the SOCIALISM WITCH TRIAL SCANDAL finally out of the way, she’s speaking freely again.

Over the course of this radio interview, Bachmann claims that ACORN is under federal indictment (false) and gets $5 billion in the stimulus bill (false), that members of Congress have “a real aversion to capitalism,” that Obama — the “Community-Organizer-In-Chief” — is hijacking the Census in such a way *cough cough counting Mexicans cough* that it would grant Democrats eternal rule, that a health care provision within the stimulus would mean, holy shit, that “your doctor will no longer be able to make your health care decisions with you,” and lastly, this: “We’re running out of rich people in this country.”

Idiocy Watch [Steve Benen]


5:05 PM on Tue February 17 2009
By Jim Newell
10406 Views

  1. Violenza says at 5:09 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Oh no! Who are we going to eat now?!

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 5:11 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Mish “Tongue” Bachmann’s worried about the lack of rich people?

    First she’s all for the deregulation of the financial markets and then whines when the financial explosion caused by deregulation takes down the fortunes of all the rich people who keep her in the krazy eyed lifestyle she’s accustomed to. She’s never happy, is she?

  3. chascates says at 5:11 pm, February 17th, 2009

    This is what the Fairness Doctrine was all about. Now, we get to hear this repeated by Limbaugh, Hannity, and finally by Karl Rove.

  4. Texan Bulldoggette says at 5:13 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Is she one of the Lizard people, because real people (homo sapiens) are not this dumb?

  5. I heard Obama had them all killed as a sacrifice to his god, Socialist Allah “Hussein” Muslin, who requires several gallons of blue blood every fortnight so that Michelle can catch all of the good stuff on sale at JCrew.com.

  6. assistant/atlas says at 5:18 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Isn’t Minnesota supposed to be one of the less-crazy-eyed states? Another one bites the dust, I suppose.

  7. qwerty42 says at 5:18 pm, February 17th, 2009

    if you repeat it enough, it becomes accepted wisdom. kinda like the way the executive pay limits were added in the last minutes to the stimulus bill. Not added by voice vote Feb 6.

  8. magic titty says at 5:20 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Throw her into the river and see if she floats.

  9. NewSpence says at 5:21 pm, February 17th, 2009

    chascates: That information flow runs the other way, my friend. Bachmann is to Rush Limbaugh like the office dingbat who tells you what happened on CSI the night before, but gets just enough details wrong that it makes absolutely no sense.

  10. randomsausage says at 5:21 pm, February 17th, 2009

    She reminds me of Diana — leader of the Lizard aliens in V.

    http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/Vser2.jpg

  11. Toomush Infermashun says at 5:27 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Michelle, ma belle, these are words that go together well, sorta…

  12. assistant/atlas: During the Democratic pogroms of the 1940s, the lunatics were all herded into the 6th Congressional District, where–instead of freezing to death as expected–they interbreed, grow their own food and have learned basic skills, like the fundamentals of speech. The rest of the state is OK, pretty much.

  13. The Frogurt Is Also Cursed says at 5:29 pm, February 17th, 2009

    oh god, I hope she stays off her meds forever… Shine on, you crazy diamond!

  14. randomsausage: LOL! My thoughts exactly. Remember how her jaws expanded when she ate the rat?

  15. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 5:31 pm, February 17th, 2009

    She and Marsha Blackburn (WINGNUT- TN) + Celebrity Death Match = Good Times! Let the bloodletting begin.

  16. HipHopOpotamus says at 5:31 pm, February 17th, 2009

    The libruls’ turned me into a newt!

  17. Yes You Can Own A Piece of History says at 5:32 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Jeebus Christ. Enough with the fucking acorns already. Shit.

  18. SayItWithWookies says at 5:33 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Wow. Was she dropped in a vat of batshit as a baby? Can she be helped? Or at least stopped?

  19. randomsausage says at 5:33 pm, February 17th, 2009

    cal: +1 on their eating habits. Had forgot about that. I bet Bachmann’s a gobbler!

  20. Toomush Infermashun says at 5:34 pm, February 17th, 2009

    6th District, and, well, all over the country, these wing nuts are slavering in the wings… having lost any practical belief that what they’ve been saying for the last 10 years made any sense at all, they’re forced by insanity to make transrational equations…little do they know that the cure is just more drinkin…. don’t try to do no thinkin…

  21. loudmouthredhead says at 5:35 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: Scientists were struggling with potential ethical issues in reviving extinct lesser forms of human beings. Here’s a poster child for letting bad genes die out…FOR.EVAH.

  22. CollegeStudent says at 5:35 pm, February 17th, 2009

    I have decided that making my own decisions in life is too difficult, and will get a new “WWMBD?” braclet to guide me. Everytime something important comes up, I am going to think “What would Michelle Bachman do?” and then do exactly the opposite.

  23. loudmouthredhead says at 5:35 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Alt Text: “Durr!”

  24. Internally valid says at 5:36 pm, February 17th, 2009

    NewSpence: Also. Bachmann isn’t nearly creative enough to come up with her own wingnutty “ideas.” I’ve heard all of this crap recently, somehow, and I have sworn off MediaMatters and such for the sake of my sanity. It all just gets out in the ether like the gaseous Limbaugh-effluvium that it is.

  25. Lascauxcaveman says at 5:38 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Ha! Michelle Bachman is just like my mom (only crazy-eyed sexeh.)

  26. mdotsota says at 5:39 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Michelle Bachman is officially the funniest person to ever represent Minnesota in Congress, and that includes Franken. She is a national treasure.

  27. She must represent the town of St. Olaf, made famous by one Rose Nylund of the Golden Girls.

    For those of you not in the know, St. Olaf, MN (the Rose Nylund version) is the wellspring of all that is stupid in the universe.

  28. StoneAge says at 5:44 pm, February 17th, 2009

    See how her hair (barely) hides an oddly shaped head? That’s where Rush Limbaugh’s mind control device receiver goes.

  29. madtowngooner says at 5:44 pm, February 17th, 2009

    And I thought the craziest fuck to ever come out of Minnesota was Jerry Lundegard, but Bachmann Turner beats him by a country mile. Has St Cloud turned into a retard factory to keep reelecting her?

  30. loudmouthredhead says at 5:44 pm, February 17th, 2009

    magic titty: I say force her to try and win Legends of the Hidden Temple. If she can assemble that f***ing silver monkey, she deserves her seat forever.

  31. Fivetree says at 5:45 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Oh Gawd, the Shit Demon is back. You’d think she would keep her cakehole shut for awhile after squeaking out a victory over that valiant Hobbit of the North Woods, Frodo Tinklenberg. I guess the reptilian thing that uses her outer skin as a ruse to fool us all is insatiable in its quest to do evil. What weapons exist that can defeat her? A wooden stake? A bucket of water? Salt?

  32. Campbell Brown says at 5:47 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Who knew Congress was so much like being forced to hang out with your semi-employed, three time divorced drunk idiot relative who listen to AM radio all the time.

  33. Come on, give her a break here. Everyone knows that rich people are just better than everyone else.

  34. Iggy Plop says at 5:50 pm, February 17th, 2009

    $5 billion for ACORN now? That’s a wingnut increase of 400% over previous wingnut predictions of $1 billion for ACORN. Is community activism the new hedge fund? We need an ACORN-based economy: they’re the rich people now apparently .

  35. loudmouthredhead says at 5:50 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Fivetree: Lithium and/or Haldol, crushed into powder and mixed into a liquid, injected via a single dart to the mid-thigh.

    She’s ornery though…bring two darts

  36. GlennBecksFelch says at 5:51 pm, February 17th, 2009

    GOP is providing great Daily Show fodder lately.

  37. loudmouthredhead says at 5:52 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Campbell Brown: Don’t you see, the people in her district voted her in so THEY wouldn’t have to hang out with her. They were sick of the crazy hobo lady ranting at passers-by on their streets.

  38. pdiddycornchips says at 5:57 pm, February 17th, 2009

    She’s dumb as a post but I would still totally wreck that shit.

  39. loudmouthredhead says at 6:00 pm, February 17th, 2009

    pdiddycornchips: Really?… REALLY!?

  40. SayItWithWookies says at 6:01 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Palin/Bachmann 2012!

  41. Rusty Shackleford says at 6:02 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Lordy! If she keeps opening up that nutty yap of hers, I’ll have to show her what the hole is really for.

  42. Oh, Mickey, you daffy, daffy dame. America will never run out of the rich people! Never! Our wealthy overlords spring fully-formed from the soil of places like Carmel and Shaker Heights when the earth is fed with the blood of the poors. The end.

  43. Red Zeppelin says at 6:02 pm, February 17th, 2009

    magic titty: No Sir! The true way to tell whether she is a witch is to weigh her, and if she weighs the same as a duck, then she is a witch.

    This is, by the way, what our grandchildren will think if the R’s continue to have any say in education policy.

  44. Scandalabra says at 6:03 pm, February 17th, 2009

    She looks like Marlo Thomas on angel dust.

  45. sarahconnor says at 6:04 pm, February 17th, 2009

    I’ve hesitated posting this, but given all the “retard” remarks, uh, well, yes. In fact, I have heard that St. Cloud, MN had more handicapped accessibility areas than any other place in the country… even before the ADA was passed. That’s all. Not that it’s a bad thing. Just, there it is. Also.

  46. loudmouthredhead says at 6:06 pm, February 17th, 2009

    sarahconnor: Does it also feature an unusually large amount of “greeters” in its Walmarts?

  47. assistant/atlas: colman, ventura, franken, backmann. less crazy eyes you say?

  48. pdiddycornchips says at 6:09 pm, February 17th, 2009

    loudmouthredhead:

    Don’t be hatin’…

  49. sati demise says at 6:10 pm, February 17th, 2009

    S.Luggo: well thats a relief. just say noes to teh death tax!

  50. Poor Backmann, is she no longer rich due to unregulated financial advisor gambling?

  51. El Pinche says at 6:14 pm, February 17th, 2009

    MICHELE BACKMAN IS A REAL AMERICAN , REAL CHRISTAIN AND REAL HOT TOO . ALSO ID SUPPORT HER 100% TO BE PRESDENT TO OVER THE MOSSLEM SOCAILIST IN 2010 ALSO TAXCUTS AND GOD.

  52. magic titty says at 6:14 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Someone people deserve bukkake.

  53. loudmouthredhead says at 6:20 pm, February 17th, 2009

    pdiddycornchips: No hatin’, I’m just worried about ya :)

  54. El Pinche says at 6:21 pm, February 17th, 2009

    El Pinche:
    damn, that almost sounds real.

  55. Canuckledragger says at 6:23 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Damn, that new Prez of your’n is good. Somehow Preznit Putney Swope rounded up all the rich whites and bankrupted them AFORE he were even Preznit.

    When asked to comment, Battering-Rahm Emanuel stated: “Putney sez the Bachmann Sex Girl has GOT to have SOUL!”

    Pressed for details, Preznit Putney Swope outlined his plans: “”The changes I’m going to make will be minimal. I’m not gonna rock the boat. Rockin’ the boat’s a drag. What you do is sink the boat! And there’s no sense sinkin’ nothin’ unless you can salvage with productive alternatives. And brothers, you can’t change nothin’ with rhetoric and slogans. Because if a man’s really got the truth in his pocket, he doesn’t talk about it. He hangs it out on a shingle where people can see it. So from now on, the name of this agency is TRUTH and SOUL.”

    Whereupon Preznit Swope caught nuthin’ but net with a three pointer from WAAAY downtown.

  56. Cape Clod says at 6:26 pm, February 17th, 2009

    That picture reminds me of that episode of the May Tyler Moore Show when Mary’s bat-shit crazy, serial killer sister comes to visit, gets wasted on Quaaludes and sterno, kills the entire WJM news staff, takes Mary hostage and starts throwing her own feces out the window at the SWAT team.

  57. Fivetree says at 6:35 pm, February 17th, 2009

    loudmouthredhead: But don’t get too close, apparently she/it bleeds acid.

  58. From the photo, I’m definitely not worried about the lack of *duck* people in this country.

  59. Scandalabra says at 6:48 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Canuckledragger: Thanks for the Putney Swope reference. That will separate the wheat from the chaff.

  60. Has anyone ever laughed during an interview with her? I mean, how can you not?

  61. Gayer Than Thou says at 7:00 pm, February 17th, 2009
  62. S. Cullen Bonz says at 7:23 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Someone slipped some acid in that MinneSoda.

  63. hobospacejungle says at 7:25 pm, February 17th, 2009

    pdiddycornchips: Hear hear! Hot & crazy is teh sexy combination. Tie her to the bed posts and listen to her scream.

    loudmouthredhead: Really! Tell me you wouldn’t given the chance. She’s 100x teh hawtness of that fat ugly troll Palin. The mom that is. As for the now-18-year-old Bristol…

  64. wickedlittledoll says at 7:29 pm, February 17th, 2009

    See, the devil really does wear Prada!

    http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/

  65. myheadsexploding says at 7:31 pm, February 17th, 2009
  66. Lascauxcaveman says at 7:53 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Cape Clod: HaHa! And Ted Baxter got his tie caught in the fax machine, AGAIN!

  67. comradepaulson says at 7:55 pm, February 17th, 2009

    She’s the truck-nutz of wing-nuts. In that she is too awesome for words. Also.

  68. bitchincamaro says at 8:07 pm, February 17th, 2009

    I haven’t seen it yet, but that Alexandra Pelosi doc captures the same crazy, all over this wonderland of ours. MN has no monopoly on full retards, failing up.

  69. saggyboobedhag says at 8:26 pm, February 17th, 2009

    MB has nothing on NC-5’s Virginia Foxx. Foxx is an old slutty right-to-lifer with a big nose and lazy eye. Too bad she hasn’t done more press conferences. Here’s her grabbing W for a disgusting smooch:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6mTyxekZ4

  70. hockeymom says at 8:28 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Fun Facts about Michelle!

    Her husband can cure gay people.
    She used to babysit Gretchen Carlson of FOX News.

  71. donner_froh says at 8:32 pm, February 17th, 2009

    How does this bonehead get any votes at all?

  72. Hopey dont play that game says at 8:41 pm, February 17th, 2009

    I am ashamed to admit it but I am right there with pdiddycornchips. I got a weakness for teh crazy and she’s got teh crazy squared (cubed, etc). This is why so many of my relationships ended with me having to change my address.

  73. Schmannity says at 8:47 pm, February 17th, 2009

    At least she had the decency to stay in the game, unlike Katherine Harris. I am beginning to fear that America is running out of crazy right wing bimbos.

  74. Ladies and Gentlemen.
    I give you…the GOP’s Crazy-eyed Chicken Little.
    CAUTION: Contains lead.

  75. I volunteer to become a rich person to make Michelle happy. All she has to do is cut me in for about 10 zrillion of that bailout cash she doesn’t want for her voters.

  76. Mr Blifil says at 9:47 pm, February 17th, 2009

    If it would help stimulate the economy, I would pay to see the Bachmann/Obama hate fuck. Live at a neutral venue, or pay-per-view, either works. I give the edge to the pay-per-view, since I’m guessing she’s prone to some rather nuk-yu-lar pussy farts, and you wanna stay well clear of the vicinity in such cases.

  77. DangerousLiberal says at 9:48 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Michele Bachmann is human (false)
    Michele Bachmann is at not as dumb as a sack of shit (false)
    Michele Bachmann in that picture sort of looks like Sarah Silverman (true, sorta)
    Every right thinking American thinks that Michele Bachmann’s district should be sawed out of the United States and sent adrift on the Pacific Ocean, with Harry Reid, also (true, true and true).

  78. AnnieGetYourFun says at 9:51 pm, February 17th, 2009

    SayItWithWookies: OMG, please. One can hope.

  79. El Pinche says at 10:04 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: and she’s a screamer when guys like Obama tap her. She’s a true Christian so she yells “jesus” with the Aramatic proper way , Oh my fucking Yeshua! Oh Yeshua! Slap my ass you muslin godless commie!

  80. WadISay: I think it might be time for another pogrom in the 6th district. Send out those Minnesotan Cossacks!

  81. Gosh darn it, kids! My grandparents were there when the filthy, reactionary bourgeoisie was exterminated AS A CLASS. Can’t we do something similar here in the good old US of A? Where is our class consciousness? Where is our Proletarian class solidarity? If we’re going to be painted as Reds by the Rove-Hannity-Limbaugh-O’Reilly demagogues, why don’t we grow a pair and organize the Masses to exterminate this scum? Like real Reds? Or do you just want to post snarky blogs and go back to catching up on your TIVO while you suck on your bongs, you mucky pseuds! Arise, bloggers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your keyboards!

  82. LeHanzka says at 2:29 am, February 18th, 2009

    El Pinche: You should hear her when she’s getting double-teamed by Obama and Keith Ellison…

    I grew up near the 6th (as it is today). Basically, if Orange County drunk-fucked greater Alaska and had a kid, but couldn’t afford to raise it so they dropped it off at Minnesota (who’s like Alaska’s distant gay relative), you would have the 6th.

  83. hobospacejungle says at 3:14 am, February 18th, 2009

    Zorg: As I wrote elsewhere, I’m with you, Zorg.

  84. PerhapsSo says at 4:34 am, February 18th, 2009

    Elwyn Tinklenberg would have been funny, too, if only because his name is Elwyn Tinklenberg.

  85. BobLoblawLawBlog says at 6:16 am, February 18th, 2009

    randomsausage: Yes. Let’s feed her a guinea pig to be sure, though.

    Hopey’s filled me with love now, though. Especially for these crazed wing-nut asshats who still think their great big opinions matter, durnit. *kicks pebble* Now that I know their only voice is on talk radio, I listen to them like hilarious-if-racist sketch programs.

  86. Folks! Folks! All of you underrate Michele Bachmann.

    Every other Republican out there can only parrot three or four of these talking points with any sincerity. Michele can hit them all with a tone of deep conviction and urgency, no matter how foolish they make her look. Who else among the Republicans can even come close to this level of blind courage and willingness to sacrifice their last ounce of integrity?

  87. Woodwards Friend says at 9:31 am, February 18th, 2009

    We’re running out of rich people because they all made stupid investments and capitalism worked. The end.

  88. AfghanVet says at 9:54 am, February 18th, 2009

    God, you just know she loves the back door action. Just sayin’.

  89. chascates says at 10:22 am, February 18th, 2009

    From her offical site:
    “Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, live in Stillwater where they own a small business mental health care practice that employs 42 people. The Bachmann’s have five children, Lucas, Harrison, Elisa, Caroline, and Sophia. In addition, the Bachmanns have opened their home to 23 foster children, …”

    Given her ridiculous statements I fear for the clients of said small mental health care practice.

  90. chascates: So their business involves inducing a need for mental health care?

  91. Captain Swing says at 7:03 am, February 19th, 2009

    chascates: Poor woman. At least she doesn’t have to go far to get the help she so desperately needs.

  92. I was just commenting the other day on how few rich people I run into anymore. Years ago, when I was a kid, you could find one on every corner! Guess that’s what 30 years of conservative rule will do for you.

Leave a Reply