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  • MICHELLE BACHMANN HAS A THEORY! “If you want to look at economic history over the last 100 years. I call it punctuated equilibrium. If you look at FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama, this is really the final leap to socialism.” HMM QUITE SO. [Think Progress]


3:15 PM on Thu March 5 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. EnBuenOra says at 3:18 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Wait — does Bachmann now believe in evolution?

  2. randomsausage says at 3:19 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Throw that bitch a gerbil before she starts loading us all onto big spaceships

    http://www.stargods.org/V_Diana.jpg

  3. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:21 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Fucking asshatted fucktard shit-fer-brain douche.
    YA TOTALLY THOUGH SHE IS RIGHT ON.
    When Reagan, Eisenhower, Bush, Reagan and Bush were around they were simply CRAFTING the Socialist Agenda (TM)

  4. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:22 pm, March 5th, 2009

    All yer Bachmanns are belong to us.

  5. loquaciousmusic says at 3:22 pm, March 5th, 2009

    “Punctuated equilibrium”? Did she read a book without pictures, for once?

  6. shortsshortsshorts says at 3:22 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Oh and Reagan again. Because why not.

  7. Joey Ratz says at 3:23 pm, March 5th, 2009

    “Punctuated equilibrium”? “Institutionalizing cartels”? “Economic history”? Sounds like Michele is burnishing her reputation as a public intellectual.

  8. Yeah but what a MILF!

  9. ManchuCandidate says at 3:24 pm, March 5th, 2009

    With Mish, it’s always a sexual overtone. Based on my Captain Subtext Translator, this is what she really said:

    “If you want to look at sexual GOP history over the last 100 years. I call it rhythmic fucking and chucking. If you look at Larry Craig, David Vitter, Warren Harding, and Mark Foley, the fact that Utah is the #1 Pr0n State of US America is really the final leap of GOP preversionism.”

  10. Cathangover says at 3:24 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Who let Michelle Bachmann near a widely accepted biological theory? Goddamnit, Steele.

  11. Jukesgrrl says at 3:25 pm, March 5th, 2009

    She can SAY it, but can she SPELL it?

  12. ManchuCandidate says at 3:25 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Holy fuck! It’s Bachmann Socialism Overdrive

  13. lampadadog says at 3:25 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Punctuated equilibrium? There comes a point when certain indignities simply CANNOT be tolerated. Punctuated equilibrium! The sheer repulsive idiocy of this woman is beyond belief. Punctuated!!! Equilibrium!!!

  14. snideinplainsight says at 3:28 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Let me just say, I think the use of the word “Lemurtard” is offensive and uncalled-for.

  15. Red Zeppelin says at 3:28 pm, March 5th, 2009

    She’s a follower of the late Stephen Jay Gould now? I guess she saw an opening and took it. I look forward to the MILF showdown between her and the Snowbilly, where they are debating punc-eke vs. gradualism. Also.

  16. randomsausage says at 3:28 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I’d punctuate her equilibrium anytime…..all over her face.

  17. flyingspaghettimonster says at 3:30 pm, March 5th, 2009

    treason. un-frakking-believable.

  18. If Stephan Jay Gould were alive today, this would kill him.

  19. Sussemilch says at 3:34 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Say what? She punctuated her equilibrium? Dammit you kids I keep telling you not to stick pencils in your ears!

  20. V572625694 says at 3:35 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Dontcha just hate it when the democratically elected representatives (FDR, LBJ, Obama) do what the people want them to do? How can we stop this?

    Joey Ratz: And nothing makes you sound more intellectual than talking to bloated compulsive gambler and former drug kingpin czar Bill Bennett!

  21. Serolf Divad says at 3:36 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I hear Bachman got her equilibrium punctuated in the back of an extended cab Ford F150 when she was just 14.

  22. qwerty42 says at 3:38 pm, March 5th, 2009

    and after socialism do we get communism? who gets to be the “left-deviationists”, or the “wreckers” or any of these fun groups. do we have show trials?

  23. ShamWow says at 3:41 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: Dammit, she got her equilibrium punctuated the same as me.

  24. Norbert says at 3:42 pm, March 5th, 2009

    why does Obama want to take away our prosperity?!?!?! (at 1:35)

  25. karenology says at 3:42 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Do you suppose she just holds an incandescent light bulb over her head until she has an actual idea?

  26. comradepaulson says at 3:43 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I love the new GOP. How do we keep this group (Spray-Tan Boehner, Bobby “The Page” Jindal, Snowbilly, Joe The Asshat Plumber, Rush, Bachmann Crazy Overdrive) together forever? They’re like The Beatles of wingnuttiness: every hit is a classic.

  27. Texan Bulldoggette says at 3:43 pm, March 5th, 2009

    “MICHELLE BACHMANN HAS A THEORY!” Now there’s a sentence I bet you thought you’d never type, along with:

    Michelle Bachmann has a thought.
    Rush Limbaugh is a nice looking man.
    Those Brits have great teeth!

  28. Woodwards Friend says at 3:45 pm, March 5th, 2009

    If you want to look at political history over the last 100 years. I call it stupidity equilibrium. If you look at William Jennings Bryan, Roy Cohn, and Michelle Bachman, this is really the final leap to retarded.

  29. randomsausage says at 3:45 pm, March 5th, 2009

    comradepaulson: you forgot their tranny back-up singer, Ann “Adam Apple” Coulter.

  30. donner_froh says at 3:48 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Its not surprising that this numbskull got enough votes to get elected its that she got any votes at all. The 6th District of Minnesota must exist in some alternate universe.

  31. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:48 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Serolf Divad:
    It’s more commonly known as the Minnesota Right of Passage.

  32. S.Luggo says at 3:50 pm, March 5th, 2009

    “Democrats are about to institutionalize cartels.” I believe that she confused “cartels” with the fair rides in which children sit on wooden horses mounted on a large turn table that goes round and round. And, of course, they should be institutionalized. They pretty. Make happy.
    Why do you hate fun, Michele? Why?

  33. teebob2000 says at 3:51 pm, March 5th, 2009

    First thing that popped into my head:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYDiPizDIs

  34. Monsieur Grumpe says at 3:52 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Maybe she’s trying to fill William F Buckley’s shoes.

  35. S.Luggo says at 3:54 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Serolf Divad: Is “equilibrium” another word for “uvula”? Wondering.

  36. Itsjustme says at 4:02 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Has anyone just said to her “Shut up, bitch”

  37. snideinplainsight says at 4:05 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Are we not men? We are Bachmann!

  38. gurukalehuru says at 4:06 pm, March 5th, 2009

    e.q,u;i:l-i.b,r’i;u:m

  39. bitchincamaro says at 4:06 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Rush: Yes, but only in a BIZARRE PENETRATIONS kind of way.

  40. jagorev says at 4:09 pm, March 5th, 2009

    And this is why I love Wonkette - the very first commenter made the connection between punctuated equilibrium and the theory of evolution, and then the rest of the thread is mostly made up of sick sex jokes.

  41. chascates says at 4:13 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Eugene Debs would disagree. Socialism is a long way off. Asshatism, on the other hand, is running rampant.

  42. CrunchyKnee says at 4:13 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I thought equilibrium was GOP speak for wide stance?

  43. iwillsavethispatient says at 4:18 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Michelle Malkin wouldn’t recognize Socialism if it nationalized her blog and forced her to plow fields for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, all for the reward of a turnip.

  44. I thought equilibrium is acheived with the right mix of Prozac and Valium. Plus a shot of Jack Daniels

  45. d4g33z says at 4:42 pm, March 5th, 2009

    EnBuenOra: Damn! The first comment! Never underestimatize the Wonkette crowd…

  46. lampadadog says at 5:00 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Bruno: That’s correct. The shot of Jack is the Punctuation. And I need one to restore my senses, after discovering that Rep. Bachmann is so enthusiastic about evolutionary theory that she is now applying it to Presidencies. Good GOD.

  47. assistant/atlas says at 5:12 pm, March 5th, 2009

    God, what I wouldn’t give for just one reporter, perhaps one who wanted to OWN THE NEWS CYCLE for a day, to just call her up and give her an actual interview where when she says stupid things like this, someone is all “Are you aware punctuated equilibrium is an evolutionary concept that explains all those gaps in the fossil record you say disprove evolution?” and “Name one thing Obama has proposed that is anywhere near actual socialism” and “”Tell me what the difference is between a no-bid contract like those given out by Cheney in Iraq and a cartel?” and “What do you have against phyletic gradualism?”

    But they won’t and that is why all media is dying. The End.

  48. problemwithcaring says at 5:47 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I missed a GOP talking point. What was wrong with what Johnson did in ‘65? The Civil Rights Amendment was socialism?

  49. Mr Blifil says at 7:15 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Wait, she punctured what?

  50. Tomthebunny says at 7:26 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Texan Bulldoggette: And: My English car has a great electrical system.

  51. Hooray For Anything says at 7:31 pm, March 5th, 2009

    assistant/atlas: I would too but I think the reporters are too amazed at the stupidity for them to actually ask a follow up questions.

  52. KTHXBAI says at 8:19 pm, March 5th, 2009

    Keep it up Michelle, please. You House Republicans have already been reduced to a washed-up irrevelant gaggle of right wing bimbo barbies and fat old Southern men stuck in 1957 who are completely dead in Northeast and dying a slow death in the Rockies and Midwest. Pump up the crazy, good old Pearl Necklace because I’d love a (third) blowout in 2010. Also.

  53. Red Zeppelin says at 8:40 pm, March 5th, 2009
  54. CaliforniaMike says at 8:59 pm, March 5th, 2009

    comradepaulson: Don’t forget Sean Insanity and Mann Coulter. This is the greatest collection of wackos in America since Richard Nixon dined alone.

  55. Tommmcatt says at 9:08 pm, March 5th, 2009

    problemwithcaring:

    Maybe she was referring to “The Great Society”. Or maybe somebody wrote down a list of Democratic presidents for her and Johnson was on it.

    More likely the latter.

  56. gliberal says at 10:02 pm, March 5th, 2009

    I am guessing, but I would hazard a guess that Bachmann enjoys being the recipient of anal sex.

  57. CaliforniaMike says at 11:16 pm, March 5th, 2009

    gliberal: As opposed to being the giver with a giant strap-on that makes a buzzing noise? Hard to say.

  58. Lola Getz says at 7:57 am, March 6th, 2009

    I have a theory too: Michelle Bachmann’s mother dropped her on her head as a baby.

    Fucking moron.

  59. supremecourtjester says at 8:34 am, March 6th, 2009

    Kinda just wondering–but if the American people WANTED a socialist government, Ms. Bachmann, — who the hell are you to stand in the way?

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