Minnesota marvel Michele Bachmann has filed papers to form the “House Tea Party Caucus” to promote “the timeless principles of our founding,” reports MinnPost.com. Hey, Rand Paul was just talking about forming a Tea Party Caucus in the Senate, if he gets elected! Looks like Bachmann has derived a little inspiration from the most visionary-est vision doctor in Kentuckyland. But wasn’t she ashamed of him just a few weeks ago?
After Paul’s medieval views on segregation and other issues started making him unpopular with people who enforce the “no hooded white robes after Labor Day” rule year-round, Bachmann vowed never to speak of him — telling reporters that she just wanted to “focus” on her race. But Paul’s been spending his summer getting “reeducated” at a Tea Party indoctrination camp and is now leading in some of the polls, so Bachmann is applauding him on the Twitter like nothing ever happened. What a fair-weather friend!
Bachmann says her new raucous new caucus will promote “fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution, and limited government.” Who do you think will join? Make guesses in the comments. Anyone who correctly names all future members wins a free box of patriotic diet cookies. [MinnPost.com]
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That’s a terrible photo of Sara Benincasa.
Bachmann will sponsor a House Resolution to have the hooded robes of the KKK declared burqas, and thereby protected religious expression under the First Amendment. This will allow the Tea Klux Klan to be grandfathered in, so they can exercise their Seoond Amendment rights and CCW at their rallies. What could possibly go wrong?
who will join this raucous new caucus?
why, none other than those well versed in the founding fathers ethic of owning a slave or three.
Well of course the teabaggers want to enforce the principals of the founder’s original Constitution, before they let the dark folk and womens vote and dropped slavery.
Someone please convince me this clip from a Tea Party rally is different from this.
I thought “focusing on his race” is what got Paul in hot water in the first place.
Everybody, then nobody, then everybody again, depending on the press the group is getting, and how many embarrassing racist gaffes get national publicity.
CAUCUSES AREN’T IN THE CONSTITUTION, MICHELE
In the interests of fiscal responsibility, she should exclude anyone who never brought a balanced budget to the floor of the House. But that would be like expecting a dog not to hump a perfectly good available leg.
I can totally see her getting all high school-ly on this. That Rand he is sooooo hot right now, we should make a secret club with him and a secret hand shake and everything. Let me give sister Palin a holla on this and we’ll so not invite those old bag RINO’s like McCain. Where my blackberry at?
Will Virginia Foxx live long enough to be invited? I hope so!
Raucous out with your caucus out?
This is just like when Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both independently hit on the idea of evolution through natural selection. Genius leads and we all follow.
Patrick “Fatprick” McHenry
Joe “You Lie” Wilson
I’ll never forget the time we bought Minnesota for two slightly used beaver pelts, with the caveat that “amongst their eleckted represnt’ives, they shall proff’r one village waterhead.”
Geeze…this is just like high school. She’s asking the “principal” if she can start a new after school club.
My guess as to who will join her??? I’m drawing a blank here.
She’s gotten a lot hag-like ever since she laid the lip lock on Bush. It’s almost like Lord Foul sucked what little bit of a soul she had right out of her.
One line from the original article:
“Dozens of caucuses exist currently, covering everything from mental health to microbrews.”
I think Michelle, along with anyone else who wants to join the teabag caucus, might want to try asking the mental health caucus for some help.
Lauri, I believe you coined the sobriquet “congressvixen” just for Michelle. Shouldn’t you use it at every subsequent opportunity?
Perhaps caucus was confused with caucasian.
Let me see:
1) Tax burden at lowest level since 1950 — check
2) Deregulation like crazy (BP Gulf spill, coal mines kaboom, Wall Street asplodes) — check
3) Replaced book learnin’ with Bible study — check (ain’t no evil-lution no moarz)
We have reached Ronnie Reagan paradise, with a crushing recession and debt for all, and to fix everything we need moar of 1, 2, and 3. Have I got Michele & Ron Paul about right?
I am 100% certain that Steve King will be in on this club. In fact, he is probably mad that Crazy Eyes Bachmann beat him to the punch in starting it.
[re=618812]norbizness[/re]: two slightly used beaver pelts
Do you have to bring sex into every comment?
[re=618802]Mr Blifil[/re]: What a disgusting thought. I hope you don’t shake your mother’s hand with the hand that typed that.
Well, hell, they aren’t in the House–but they DESERVE to be on the list because they are (were) just as “out there” as the lovely lady from Stillwater, MN (but actually Wissconsun, cuz that’s where her farm and farm subsidies are).
Jesse “The Body” Ventura (former MN governor and “pro” wrestler)
Norm Coleman (former MN sentaor and “trust me, I’m a Democrat” St. Paul politican)
Rudy Perpich (former [and dead] MN governor AKA “Govenor Goofy”)
God help us!
Help us loose our minds
These slippery people;
help us understand.
She’s just the Energizer Bunny of stupid. I suppose she’ll get her 467 children to join. Poor kids should run off and join a circus just get a chance at a normal life relatively speaking that is.
This group could almost match the power of the Bike Caucus!
SLAP FIGHT!
In thiiiiiiiiiiiis cornerrrrrrrrrrrrrr, weighing 135 pounds, in yellow heels and Bobbie Brooks suit, the esteemed Congresswoman from Minne– excuse me…I’ve just been informed that Minnesota has repudiated her…Michelle! BACHMANN! BACHMANNNNNNNNNN!
And in this corner, weighing 135 pounds…in yellow heels and Brooks Brothers suit….the esteemed Senate wannabe…RAND! PAULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! PAUL!
Hmm, I’m not sure why I just thought of this, but you really don’t see Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann sharing a stage much. I wonder why. Who dislikes whom?
[re=618822]weejee[/re]: #3 is neither widespread nor a Federal issue, to be completely fair. But #1 is spot on, of course, though nobody wants to hear / believe it.
[re=618817]JMP[/re]: Me, I’m going to need to join the microbrew caucus if this whole thing works out and Tea Partiers ride the wave into power. Or maybe the “tequila straight from the bottle” caucus.
What the hell does “adherence to the constitution” even mean? Good lord, please, let Hurricane Stupid lose steam before it hits DC again.
They already have that, Michele. It’s called C Street.
Um, she won’t be creating any caucus, because in the House, you have to have a Dem and a R to create a caucus, and no democrat will want to co-chair that shit with her. She is either tremendously stupid, or a liar, or both. I will go with both.
And nice horse teeth, bee-utch.
[re=618836]Terry[/re]: Ron Paul may be slightly deranged but at least he’s not a flaming idiot.
[re=618835]actor212[/re]: Excuse me, but Say-ruh says “refudiate”, so better update your spell-check. Also.
[re=618837]Mad Brahms[/re]:
On #1, it astounds me that the D-rats don’t just beat that drum 24/7. Make it a hard and fast talking point like the Rs do with their acorns (can I say that?).
On #3, those of us in the sciences might beg to differ, given the staggering influence the state of Tejas has over school books purchased everywhere and their school book suppository is in the process of getting texts that will put intelligent design on an even footing with evolution. Is that a Federal issue, perhaps in the context of church vs. state since there is no argument on the basic premise of evolution within the scientific community.
I love the idea of fiscal responsibility, constitutional adherence, and limited government. However I think if we could get to a stage where all of these things were to manifest, then the GOP would be extremely disappointed with the results. The Defense Dept. budget would be cut down to nothing, we wouldn’t be able to “stop” a mosque from moving next to ground zero, and we would have ghey sexy time on the Television without censorship.
Diet cookies aren’t patriotic.
Tea Party Caucus sounds like a girl garage band.
“fiscal responsibility (unless it’s to pay for wars or tax cuts), adherence to the Constitution (except for recognizing the 1st and 14th amendment don’t mention corporations), and limited government (unless you are doing something in your bedroom they don’t like).”
FIXED
[re=618843]freeradical[/re]: Nicest teeth I ever came across.
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE REMIND THESE FUCKOS THAT THE TEA PARTY WAS AN ACT OF DESTRUCTION TO CORPORATE PROPERTY IN RESPONSE TO WHAT AMOUNTED TO A TAX REPEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ben Franklin was repulsed by the BOSTON TEA PARTY and most people at the time looked at the participants as akin to the Weather underground of the 1960′s.
I can’t mutter “fuck” enough whenever I hear these uneducated ass clowns revising the nation’s history.
[re=618843]freeradical[/re]: “and no democrat will want to co-chair that shit with her”
If only t’were true.
dumb cunt is as dumb cunt does
[re=618883]WarAndG[/re]: You just don’t get it, do you? The Founding Fathers, like ol’ Ben, were REPULSED by the Saul Alinskys of their day. Don’t you ever follow Beck’s Blackboard O’ Truth? Fuck!
[re=618883]WarAndG[/re]: We are talking about the same people that think it’s a perfect way to show the world their grasp of history and politics by putting up a billboard comparing Obama to Hitler and Lenin.
So, yes, “fuck” sums it up perfectly.
Future members? At first I thought Steve King, Joe Wilson and the Texas Flat-or-Round Tag Team (Joe Barton, Pete Sessions, Ron Paul and John Culberson). But, then, I thought no one. The Teabaggers are the death of the existing Repuglican Party.
You, know, I actually agree with her. We need to get back to the Constitutional principles that started to be abandoned almost as soon as the dang fence thing was ratified. Like, the first thing we could do is take a stand on one of the very first examples of executive overreach of Constitutional limits on power.
MINNESOTA IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
I suppose that her first action to secure fiscal responsibility will be to refuse the $250,000 that her family farm receives from Uncle Sugar.
I swear, these republicans could fuck up a junkyard.
Every other word on her twatter feed is “Obama.”
I’m torn. I could send some more money to Tarryl Clark (tarrylclark.com) to help defeat this loon. But what about the comedy? Oh OK, I’m sure there’ll be plenty of comedy in the next congress. Never mind. I’ll send the money.
[re=618861]weejee[/re]: I’ll suppose I can buy your logic, re: ID; I just finished a masters in anthropology and am working on a PhD in the same, so I’m as aware of / irritated by it as anyone. I was mostly referring to Congress as actually proactively instituting / endorsing ridiculous creationist ideas or making them part of national education standards, which they haven’t – Bachmann and her ilk really have little to do with the issue on *that* level.
I am sort of hoping, though, that someone does actually try to make it a church /state case out of it and take it to SCOTUS, because Dover 2: Evolutionist Booglaoo could only ever result in a similar, incredibly snarky philosophical smackdown.
Can’t I just buy the damned cookies, in the name of capitalism?
[re=619077]Mad Brahms[/re]: How about doing your dissertation on how people get sucked into this Tea Party movement? A combination of fear of whites losing control, suspicion of change, inundation by Fox News and other outlets, or just plain rock stupidity?
[re=619002]mumblyjoe[/re]: Hell, for that matter, most of the country west of the Appalachians is unconstitutional. So I guess the caucus would be, uh, Democrats from blue states. And possibly Saxby Chambliss, though I remain unconvinced he can actually find his caucus with both hands and a flashlight.
[re=619134]chascates[/re]: It almost writes itself! I think it falls more into the political science domain in many ways, though, in terms of finding someone to actualyl accept / fund you. But there’s gotta be some crazy Marxist social critic writing journal articles about it right now, hopped up on class rage and opium, and oh, I’ll share if I find it.
[re=618822]weejee[/re]: See, the problem with your reasoning is you are relying on actual true evidence, instead of nostalgia and ad hominems about liberals to come to your conclusion.
[re=618826]tencentcomic[/re]: She’s proof that Stillwater doesn’t necessarily run deep. And her crusade to master the Mary Tyler Moore look really takes a tumble when she opens up that Buck Owens set of choppers.
he is Obama! SO……..
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