• May 27, 2012

Michele Bachmann Bravely Collects Salary For Not Doing Her Job

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson  11:24 am July 26, 2011

Give us a kiss???Why is Michele Bachmann trying to hypnotize this llama? Llamas are not television cameras, Michele. The llama looks a lot more calm than we would feel with Michele Bachmann right in front of our face like that. Here is a fun fact: Michele is more engaged in creeping out this llama than she is with her elected, salaried job of representing her constituents in Washington. Bachmann has missed nearly 40% of House votes since she began her campaign!

We bet any number of Americans would like this nice gig — a six-figure salary, solid health benefits, ample free time to pursue your personal projects. Getting paid for not working, though? That kind of sounds like… oh, what’s the word again…eh, nevermind.

From The Hill:

Bachmann, the chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus who has surged toward the top of the Republican presidential field, has missed 50 of 135 votes since formally announcing her candidacy on June 27 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Bachmann is one of three House members seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Both GOP Reps. Ron Paul (Texas) and Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.) are waging long-shot bids for the party nod.

Paul has missed 25 of 307 votes — about 8 percent — since entering the race May 13. McCotter has missed almost 10 percent: 13 of 135 votes since starting his campaign at the beginning of this month.

It’s also possible that Michele just likes campaigning better than her actual job, since the only bills she has passed to date include a bill to recognize the 150th anniversary of the state of Minnesota three weeks after the fact and a bill recognizing September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month.” Besides that, Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages notes that she mostly sticks to writing bills no one else will cosponsor, because she is a loon ball:

Despite Bachmann’s early success in the presidential polls, her congressional record is composed almost entirely of confusion and failure. She’s authored bills that not a single other lawmaker will cosponsor; she’s sponsored the exact same failing bills over and over again; she’s entered bills on obscure or trivial topics.

Oh well, at least as long as she is on the campaign trail she isn’t filling up everyone else’s desks with Xerox copies of her pointless legislation scribbled in the margins of Billy Graham Bible study guides. [The Hill/ City Pages]

{ 242 comments }

Barb July 26, 2011 at 11:27 am

Stupid bitch, you're trying to beat Obama, not a llama. I'd still vote for the llama over her. Vote Barack Ollama!

weejee July 26, 2011 at 11:32 am

With apologies to Tibet, you prefer the llama over than the dollie?

Barb July 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

See my lower post, lol.

tcaalaw July 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

But where's the llama's long-form birth certificate???

Lascauxcaveman July 26, 2011 at 11:46 am

He's a secrit Vicuña.

GunToting[Redacted] July 26, 2011 at 1:29 pm

Secret Stealth Alpaca!

CrunchyKnee July 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

Llamas aint got no birf certificates.

Mahousu July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

A llama might be a more effective negotiator than Obama: the llama would spit in Boehner's face whenever he started backtracking. Actually, the llama would probably spit in Boehner's face no matter what, which would also be fine.

genxr July 26, 2011 at 11:53 am

Now THAT would bring out the disaffected youth vote!

OneDollarJuana July 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Obama, llama, ding-dong!

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:56 pm

As distinct from that director who makes all those assy movies with the surprise endings?

GOPCrusher July 26, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Uwe Boll?

BitterKlingon July 26, 2011 at 3:39 pm

Ollama hu Barakbar!

ChurchofRealism July 26, 2011 at 11:27 am

She is actively engaged in using ex-llama therapy in that pic.

genxr July 26, 2011 at 11:53 am

Pray away the bray?

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:11 pm

More like pray away the spray.

Allmighty_Manos July 26, 2011 at 11:27 am

"Bachmann has missed nearly 40% of House votes since she began her campaign! "

To be honest, the less time she spends in Congress making actual laws, the better.

V572 Hair of Destiny July 26, 2011 at 12:16 pm

The beauty of it is, she doesn't actually make any laws when she is there, so: win-win.

Pragmatist2 July 26, 2011 at 11:28 am

Honestly, I'd rather have her not voting than voting.

superdave July 26, 2011 at 11:28 am

So does she support Woman-on-Llama marriage?

horsedreamer_1 July 26, 2011 at 11:28 am

IOKIYAR.

elviouslyqueer July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

That seems to be the prevailing sentiment in the Hill comments. Well, that and "Yea, and how many votes did that boy Obama miss when he was campaigning?"

FNMA July 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

Hey, I think I once saw this act in Tijuana!

genxr July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

Reaching for the brain bleach now…

WhatTheHeck July 26, 2011 at 11:46 am

What you saw in TJ should stay in TJ.

FraAnima July 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm
GOPCrusher July 26, 2011 at 2:22 pm

A burro wearing a sweater?

MinAgain July 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

The joke's on her. Silly woman thought she was meeting the Dalai Lama.

Lascauxcaveman July 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

She still does.

FlownOver July 26, 2011 at 1:45 pm

In fairness, the llama's name is Dolly.

Can't expect too much from our Mama Dizzly, now, can we?

DahBoner July 26, 2011 at 2:07 pm

FlwnOvr beat me to it.

Cheers!

Chet Kincaid July 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

Any month in which Bachmann makes a public statement is “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month.”

BaldarTFlagass July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

Anencephalis, more like.

elviouslyqueer July 26, 2011 at 11:55 am

Elephantiasis, also.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:45 pm

"Hydrocephalus"^^
"Anencephalis"^

Can you two guys please stop talking about her dick?

ttommyunger July 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

Give a girl a break, Kirsten! What with only her US Government Farm Subsidies and the meager shitloads of money her Liberace sound-alike hubby brings in from Uncle Sugar for his goober-smooching scam operation, why one can hardly afford Country Club dues anymore, much less private plane travel.

johnnymeatworth July 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm

"meager shitload" is my new favorite phrase.

ttommyunger July 26, 2011 at 9:04 pm

It do have a certain ring to it.

Crank_Tango July 26, 2011 at 12:42 pm

is goober-smooching another term for teabagging? cuz it kinda sounds like it…

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:15 pm

I thought Goober-smooching is what Gomer did on the back lot during breaks in recording Andy's show.

ttommyunger July 26, 2011 at 9:05 pm

That would be Redneck for cocksucking.

fartknocker July 26, 2011 at 2:58 pm

"Liberace sound-alike hubby"

Best description of Michelle Bachmann's husband ever coined.

ttommyunger July 26, 2011 at 9:08 pm

You must be an old, too. ;)

ManchuCandidate July 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

Judging by the look on her face, I'm betting that the next bill she'll sponsor or "write" will be "Kill All Llamas in US America H. R. Bill 666."

Come here a minute July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

Summertime, and the grifting is easy.

ManchuCandidate July 26, 2011 at 11:31 am

"Not if you're releasing a, um, blockbuster documentary and a bus tour to nowhere."
Sarah Palin

Dudleydidwrong July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

Praise Murphy! When Michele is trying to seduce llamas at least she isn't in congress trying to fuck over the country. I just feel sorry for the llama.

DashboardBuddha July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Imagine how that llama feels. He wakes up in the morning with Michele sleeping on his haunch. The first llama wolf-date!

archikvetch July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

I llama slap her.

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Send her alpacan?

jus_wonderin July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

So, we are paying her to campaign. Hmmmmm.

ifthethunderdontgetya July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

Was that llama named "Chimpy"?
~

V572 Hair of Destiny July 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Ha ha, great to see the Chimpy-Miche1e smack again.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm

Chimpy probably spit a big one too when Crazy Eyes attacked him.

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 11:30 am

What's with the chunky, sunburned, porcine-faced teens?

BaldarTFlagass July 26, 2011 at 11:40 am
riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 11:44 am

You don't want to know

(spoiler alert: remember the 294 foster girls?)

Goonemeritus July 26, 2011 at 11:45 am

That’s what actual farmers daughters look like, don’t let the porno version mislead you. We like to think of them as sturdy and generally we overlook the whole thick ankle thing.

freakishlywrong July 26, 2011 at 11:53 am

Those are the vaunted "real 'Muricans". All three of them.

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm

I think some of our Wonketteers of Colour need to impregnate those young women and improve that gene pool.

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm

There are not enough wine coolers in the world for that

elviouslyqueer July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

I'd bet this was taken at the Minnesota State Fair, where the main attraction seems to be gorging yourself on fried shit on sticks.

freakishlywrong July 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

That first pic. Marcus Bachmann's wet dream.

V572 Hair of Destiny July 26, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Every state fair is like that. Weird, isn't it?

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 12:49 pm

If only. MY state doesn't even have a fair anymore.

DashboardBuddha July 26, 2011 at 12:23 pm

that's quite the evocative photo. The mustard makes a nice touch…it is mustard, right?

ShaveTheWhales July 26, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Hey, compared to lutefisk….

Lascauxcaveman July 26, 2011 at 12:02 pm

'Nother bumper crop this year, ayup. Good size on them bumpers. That there's corn-fed; not that tough and stringy grass-fed beef.

prommie July 26, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Apparently what they say about the heartland is true. I have a visiting Wisconsonite in my midst, and I attempted to shock and awe her by showing a picture of our Governor Sandwiches McFatFuck, and she did not blink, she said, immediately, and not for effect, "oh, thats what everyone looks like in Wisconsin."

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Oh Prommie, are you in NJ?

prommie July 26, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Yes indeedy, doddily doo. Virtual neighbors. Come visit the Shore sometime! I'll take you out on my Yot. At sea, noone can hear you scream.

Chet Kincaid July 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm

Jesus, don't we have any more deserving targets for mockery than a bunch of kids with the misfortune to be in a photo with Bachmann?

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm

I am feeling mean and bitter today, show me a picture of that Reince Priebus character then, I could really go to town on that bastard.Oh and OT David Wu is resigning now, apparently.

fuflans July 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

well, he's a dem right?

prommie July 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm

You are a good man, Mr. Kincaid. But I think the term is "collateral damage." Or, what is called in Afghanistan, "wedding guests."

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Think of it as a light, palate-cleansing sherbet between Ken's courses of doom and gloom.

fuflans July 26, 2011 at 12:17 pm

i spend a lot of time with the peoples of my mother in ontario and outside toronto they look a lot like that.

actually come to think of it, outside any major city in the continent's midsection they look like that.

kissawookiee July 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm

Well, they're standing next to a politician in the summertime, so clearly = Hitler Youth.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:51 pm

"What's with the chunky, sunburned, porcine-faced teens? "

They just got finished pulling a wine cooler-fueled gangbang on Bristle and are in desperate need of some fresh air.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:22 pm

That's what happens when you take the Norwegians outta Norway. Must be something in the water there. Or in Minnie-sota.

RoboGuppy July 26, 2011 at 11:31 am

Llama, llama ding dong.
Michelle = ding dong.

Barb July 26, 2011 at 11:31 am

How silly of her. Now she's going to tweet that she met the Dalai Llama.

genxr July 26, 2011 at 11:32 am

This is good news for poor little Bill on Capitol Hill.

Chillwaver July 26, 2011 at 11:32 am

"Bachmann, the chairwoman of the House Tea Party Caucus who has surged toward the top of the Republican presidential field, has missed 50 of 135 votes since formally announcing her candidacy…"

Voters can return the favor by not voting for her. I'm starting to think that Michele might actually be worse than Sarah. At least the Snowbilly doesn't directly grift from tax payers.

Lascauxcaveman July 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm

…anymore.

GOPCrusher July 26, 2011 at 2:30 pm

The woman has not even submitted a single bill since she hit Congress. As far as she's concerned, her sole purpose of being in Congress is to be on camera spewing insanity.

metamarcisf July 26, 2011 at 11:33 am

Her latest bill, co-sponsored by Louie Gohmert, is designed to make Noah's Ark the Official Speedboat of the NFL

chicken_thief July 26, 2011 at 12:55 pm

But Louie only agreed on the condition that he gets a weekend with Marcus. You know, so they can attempt to cure each other. From behind.

Smitros July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

Getting up-close with a llama like that is a good way to get spat on. I learned the hard way. And everything you've heard about their hellish breath and saliva is true.

Mumbletypeg July 26, 2011 at 11:47 am

LLAMA LIBEL!!1!

Smitros July 26, 2011 at 11:51 am

I believe that's spelled "LLIBEL".

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 11:52 am

Yes, but the wool from any of those Camelids is fantastic, I knit with Alpaca yarn and it is delicious.

Smitros July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

The wool is indeed great from either, and alpacas are total sweethearts.

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

I met some llamas and alpacas at the Taos Wool Festival last year-I am a yarn nerd-and they were so beautiful.

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Oh snap–don't tell me you're on ravelry…

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm

"I knit with Alpaca yarn and it is delicious"

???
I'm not sure you're doing that right, Llizzie.

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 4:32 pm

Ok it feels, not tastes, delicious.

tessiee July 27, 2011 at 10:30 pm

Aw, I'm just funnin' with ya, Lizzie
.
Here in Oregon, there are a number of farms that have llamas and alpacas, and they are just amazing, with their fluffy fur, sweet faces, and long-lashed eyes — as though they were invented by six-year-old girls. I have an alpaca sweater that I bought years ago, and you're right, their fur (hair? wool?) is as soft as a dream.

Texan_Bulldog July 26, 2011 at 11:58 am

I would have given up one of my kids if that llama had spat on her…

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm

"Getting up-close with a llama like that is a good way to get spat on."

And this is a problem, why?

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 5:47 pm

I don't care what you say about llamas, Batshit-Crazy wins everytime

If that llamas got any sense, she will get the F away ASAP

(You don't think BsC gets those "migranes" from being scared of animals do you? She gets migranes from lack of fresh blood.)

ifthethunderdontgetya July 26, 2011 at 11:34 am

Bachmann has missed nearly 40% of House votes since she began her campaign!

Attention, teabagger Congresscritters: The Lord is calling all of you to run for Preznit.

Please get to campaigning now, for Christ's sake.
~

OneDollarJuana July 26, 2011 at 1:03 pm

Sounds like a good point to bring up by any opponents.

jus_wonderin July 26, 2011 at 11:35 am

When pressed, Bachmann said, “I’m not doing an interview with you now.”

"…I am seducing this Llama because I don't get any at home."

Mumbletypeg July 26, 2011 at 11:35 am

Llamas everywhere should be mortified by this pic.
Which reminds me of an earlier one featuring another dim bimbo.. All that's missing is the flag desecration but Bachmann is making up for that by pissing on the stature of her office instead.

genxr July 26, 2011 at 11:35 am

Actually I think the llama is whispering to her. Remember who is smarter in this picture.

arihaya July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

did she set up fake ranch/farm also?

if yes then she is shoe-in for GOP nomination

PubOption July 26, 2011 at 12:19 pm

Look at her upper arms, seems to be a farmer's tan there.

Callyson July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

This wouldn't be the first time Michele supported welfare…from City Paper:
she tried to add a pro-life section to the Social Security Act to pay for a variety of things that would discourage women from having abortions.
It's interesting just how far-reaching Bachmann imagined this bill to be. It proposes to fund "any other service designed to assist a qualified individual who is a woman" — that "woman" part is probably important — "to carry her unborn child to term…including the provision of…baby food, maternity or baby clothing, baby furniture, or information or education (including classes), regarding prenatal care, childbirth, adoption, parenting, chastity, or abstinence."
Essentially, this bill is offering chunks of money — under the broad label of "any other service" — just to stop a woman from having an abortion. Normally Bachmann doesn't support welfare handouts, but in this case she's willing to use unlimited piles of taxpayer money to pay for diapers, Gerbers, and chastity classes.
*and*
Bachmann isn't above introducing bills that seem tailored just for her.
On April 23, 2009, the congresswoman pushed for a law that would authorize state money to send foster kids to private schools. On top of tuition, the state dollars would also cover transportation costs.
This probably seemed like a fantastic idea to a woman with 23 foster kids and a distaste for the public school system.
But she won't vote to raise the debt ceiling. That would be bad.

Biel_ze_Bubba July 26, 2011 at 12:29 pm

I'm wondering how "chastity or abstinence" is going to help a woman carry her unborn child to term. Not hard to see why nobody will co-sponsor the mindless stream-of-consciousness crap she comes up with.

Oh, and shouldn't her so-called "salary" run out after 99 weeks?

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:05 pm

She may be a nut and a thoroughly reprehensible human being, but this?

"including the provision of…baby food, maternity or baby clothing, baby furniture, or information or education (including classes), regarding prenatal care, childbirth, adoption, parenting"

I have to say, is at least preferable to the kind of shitbags who want to outlaw abortion and birth control and also cut funding for mothers and babies.

Ruhe July 26, 2011 at 5:00 pm

I agree. It's weird that she went that way. I've thought for a long time that the best strategy for pro-choice dems to pursue would be to constantly challenge their dingbat counterparts to put their money where their mouth is and enact broad subsidies to support the actual carrying, birthing and raising of these precious fetuses they care so much about.

OkieDokieDog July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

One L Michele wants that llama's L.

Duly_Noted July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

I think continuing her salary while she's on the campaign trail is a small price to pay for keeping her out of the House.

weejee July 26, 2011 at 11:38 am

Hopefully Barry will be stopping the paychecks for all of Congress and their staphs on August 2nd. That'll learn 'em.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:33 pm

Agreed. The first boss I ever had in gubmint service used to come in at 8AM and talk on the phone for half an hour and go MIA for the rest of the day until 4:30 PM when he would come back in and talk on the phone for another half hour. We would grind our teeth that he was getting paid for doing almost nothing, but were grateful at the same time because on those rare occasions he actually attempted to "work" ( = bluster and throw his weight around), he invariably would phuck up what had been a smoothly-running operation in his absence.

SayItWithWookies July 26, 2011 at 11:36 am

Hey, Bachmann's not a failure, she's just ahead of her time — sooner or later we're going to want to pass a bill that adds the Nicene Creed to the Pledge of Allegiance, or the one that prohibits daycare centers from being run in accordance with Sharia law, or the one that prohibits building a tower so high it reaches heaven and offends The LORD. Just you wait.

Lascauxcaveman July 26, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Well, that first one obviously wouldn't pass the Senate, as it's clearly a church/state conflict, and the Senate, being the smarter ones, would catch that.

But those other two would pass both houses, easy, with significant Dem support. I mean, c'mon, it's all about the jobs!

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Not so sure the last one would pass, but I'm sure she would never introduce it. Building another Tower of Babel would be a memorial to Crazy Eyes herself.

LettucePrey July 26, 2011 at 11:37 am

I thought all Wonketeers were getting paid while not working? Also.

SayItWithWookies July 26, 2011 at 11:46 am

Oh shit — busted. Even so, I've gotten stuff done, lazy bastard that I am.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:42 pm

I only participate in Wonkette on my four-hour lunch break or my two, two-hour cigarette breaks.

BaldarTFlagass July 26, 2011 at 11:37 am

Good to see ole Fernando Llamas still has it going on.

metamarcisf July 26, 2011 at 11:48 am

She looks marvelous. Absolutely marvelous.

PuckStopsHere July 26, 2011 at 12:02 pm

What's going to happen to your immense neg p-ness w/out the downfist button?

Andrew Drinker July 26, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Breitbart's sites still have the downfist button…

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 5:49 pm

is that a uterus?

Thurman Munster IV July 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm

You think mebbe that Michele and her hubby are into rich Corinthian leather?

SayItWithWookies July 26, 2011 at 12:49 pm

I'll bet at least one of 'em's into leathery Corinthians.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:06 pm

I think that may actually be his son, Llorenzo Llamas.

elviouslyqueer July 26, 2011 at 11:38 am

Asked earlier this month whether she would forfeit some of her congressional salary, Bachmann replied, “No comment.” When pressed, Bachmann said, “I’m not doing an interview with you now.”

Shorter Michele: SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! MIGRAINES! LESBIANS! ACK!

Goonemeritus July 26, 2011 at 11:40 am

I know Michele is leading in votes missed but I still think she isn’t really applying herself sure missing 40% is a lot by I have faith in her. Given enough focus I think she could and should miss 100%.

Biel_ze_Bubba July 26, 2011 at 12:32 pm

Can we get her to use 40% less oxygen? Again, a bigger number is better, but 40% is a good starting point.

OneDollarJuana July 26, 2011 at 1:06 pm

If you have been listening to her over the years, it's apparent that she is often using less oxygen.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Give her 40 % more carbon dioxide. After all, it's naaaatural and there are no gubmint studies that show it is dangerous.

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 11:41 am

She's no Katherine Harris, Katherine wouldn't put up with that Frenchie kissing business

Katherine Harris would be ridding that llama, with a tight alpaca sweater

Sigh, I miss Katherine

fuflans July 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm

in five short years, republicans have now managed to make kitty look sane.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:09 pm

"I miss Katherine"

Drive through Crackton any afternoon, and you can see her double.
Saturday night live had the definitive word on Katherine Harris, "That bitch. She looks divorced."

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Is that similar to "rode hard, put to bed wet?"

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Pfft, you just miss her haboobs.

riverside68 July 26, 2011 at 3:10 pm

If you are refering to sweater puppies on a horse

I Know Nothing about that sir dog

. . . (she sure knew how to ride em tho)

jus_wonderin July 26, 2011 at 11:41 am

Well, that llama might be scarred from this encounter with Michele, but atleast it wasn't sniped from a helicopter.

fartknocker July 26, 2011 at 11:42 am

Kristen, that picture is absolutely precious. After a shitty morning dealing with the numbnuts at Time Warner Cable I say thank you for making me smile.

And all you other Wonketters – fight the good fight. Your comments are spot on.

user-of-owls July 26, 2011 at 11:43 am

confusion and failure

So very, very apt.

weejee July 26, 2011 at 11:45 am

♪♫ Michele's a one aye, many nayed
Flying furple logic eater… ♫♪

♪♫ Ooo eee, ooo, ah, ah
Ting, tang, she's a llama, llama ding dong ♫♪

so many songs, so little time…

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:09 pm

Just don't mention "Surfin' Bird", or else we'll all…

Oopsie.

LiveToServeYa July 26, 2011 at 11:47 am

Llame

simplyblue7 July 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

I hear she doodles all day and tries to submit that as a bill.

BaldarTFlagass July 26, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Like the Jackie Treehorn doodle, just a stick man with greatly exaggerated genitalia.

MLHencken July 26, 2011 at 11:49 am

Was that llama purchased with Ameros?

metamarcisf July 26, 2011 at 11:50 am

She's gonna ride her llama
From Peru to Texarkana

ThundercatHo July 26, 2011 at 1:29 pm

I wish she'd ride it good, to her old neighborhood (and fucking stay there). Oh, and STFU, also, too.

KeepFnThatChicken July 26, 2011 at 11:51 am

Stop it, people. Jesus told her to run, so it's okay if she skips on the votes. Would you tell Jesus no?

Steverino247 July 26, 2011 at 1:10 pm

Only if He wanted to go to Third Base.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:11 pm

Yeah, you'd think so, but you're forgetting the fact that He can turn Pepsi into wine coolers.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:49 pm

Nancy Reagan just said "no" to magic mushrooms, not Jesus. Oh, wait, same thing?

Steverino247 July 26, 2011 at 6:44 pm

It's been so long since I had to worry about getting whatever happens at Third Base, I've forgotten what it is you actually get.

metamarcisf July 26, 2011 at 11:52 am

Tarzan and Cheetah want to know why no down thumbs no more on Wonkette. What deal? Palin mad too. Must fix.

Tarzan, Cheetah & Palin, Attys at Law.

prommie July 26, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Tarz & Jane & Boy & Cheetah, bad bad bad porno from the 70s: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163153/

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:13 pm

Tarzan have pet cheetah named Monkey?

MLHencken July 26, 2011 at 11:52 am

"Despite Bachmann’s early success in the presidential polls, her congressional record is composed almost entirely of confusion and failure."

One of the better sentences I have read today.

BaldarTFlagass July 26, 2011 at 11:53 am

Ain't llamas from down south of the USA, from whence spring forth the undocumented brownz about which we hear so much?

GortRay July 26, 2011 at 12:55 pm

Yeah, I think they're some kind of Messicans, like Chilis or Guats or something.

ThundercatHo July 26, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Finish the dang fence!

PuckStopsHere July 26, 2011 at 11:55 am

I'd like to see her blow a goat, but I guess a Llama will do. In a pinch.

prommie July 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm

I think her hubby is the one who blows the goats.

MrFizzy July 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm

PETA ain't gonna like that one little bit.

DashboardBuddha July 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm

If I build a home, do they call me Michele the Builder? No! If I dig for gold, do they call me Michele the Miner? No!

But you blow one llama…

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:53 pm

I'd prefer to see her go blow a dead bear. It would keep her occupied longer, and it would be like blowing her hubby, so she wouldn't mind.

Biel_ze_Bubba August 1, 2011 at 1:19 am

Make it a hibernating bear, and I'll buy tickets.

bflrtsplk July 26, 2011 at 11:56 am

"Does anyone here speak llama? Mine's a little rusty."

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:14 pm

*raises hand hesitantly*
I speak jive.

widestanceroman July 26, 2011 at 11:57 am

That llama can smell where her mouth has been and wants no part of it.

JoshuaNorton July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Bachmann has missed nearly 40% of House votes

You say that as if it were a bad thing.

MinAgain July 26, 2011 at 12:01 pm

It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, she's not doing her job as a representative. OTOH, she's insane, so her failure to vote is probably a good thing.

HistoriCat July 26, 2011 at 12:27 pm

So two wrongs can make a right.

MinAgain July 26, 2011 at 12:44 pm

If you're saying the Right is twice as wrong, I would agree.

x111e7thst July 26, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Advice to llama. If Bachmann tries to kiss you avoid her tongue at all costs.

DashboardBuddha July 26, 2011 at 12:03 pm

Michele's new campaign song

fuflans July 26, 2011 at 12:05 pm

she's looking a little 'lizard people' like isn't she?

Redhead July 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm

"her congressional record is composed almost entirely of confusion and failure"
Wait wait wait. I thought "Undefeated" was the story of Sarah Palin's political "career," not Bachmann's.

orygoon July 26, 2011 at 12:08 pm

All I got is borrowed:

" The one-l lama,
He's a priest.
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama."

Odgen Nash, of course

MinAgain July 26, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Bow down.

genxr July 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

That look on her face shows her reaction to another "gotcha" question from the llama stream media.

kissawookiee July 26, 2011 at 12:15 pm

There was an old Inca from Puno
Who said, "There is one thing I do know.
A woman is fine, and a sheep is divine,
But a llama is numero uno."

Thurman Munster IV July 26, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Yay! It's no downfist Tuesday. Upfists for everyone, including the one for Boehner's ass

Oblios_Cap July 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm

the only bills she has passed to date include a bill to recognize the 150th anniversary of the state of Minnesota three weeks after the fact and a bill recognizing September as “National Hydrocephalus Awareness Month.”

That's a good thing!

KotBR July 26, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Poor Michelle, she thought she was getting on a reality show when she got the invitation from 'Lorenzo's Llamas'…

Eve8Apples July 26, 2011 at 12:31 pm

She's one of those people who actually does her employer a favor by not showing up to work.

johnnyzhivago July 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I'm pretty sure that's a gay llama…

randcoolcatdaddy July 26, 2011 at 12:34 pm

Jeebus, woman, did you steal that dress from leftover costumes tossed out from an episode of Doris Day's sixties sitcom by any chance?

There's a reason many sixties fashions died. If Marcus picked out that dress for you, you're going to have to find another ex-gay "friend" to pick out your clothing.

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 1:04 pm

I'm guessing it was sewn together by one of her dozens of foster girls from an old Mode O' Day pattern.

Lionel[redacted]Esq July 26, 2011 at 12:36 pm

From Michele's look, I'm betting the Llama is a lesbian.

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 2:17 pm

A Llesbian llama?
Who knew that there was such a thing as llivestock that lliked to llick…

*abashed*
OK, I'll stop now.

Nostrildamus July 26, 2011 at 12:40 pm

Michele to llama: Have you ever been in Patagonia? Would you like to be? I'm wearing them.

mumbly_joe July 26, 2011 at 12:44 pm

Well, it's not like she spent a good chunk of the past couple of years telling preposterous lies about the frequency with which Obama had voted "present" as a legislator or anything, so I don't see the problem.

weejee July 26, 2011 at 12:50 pm

Sticking with our editor's livestock theme, went to our beloved Sparky McDownfister's IntenseDebate profile and see that the annoying sheeple is following 1,103. Sweet baby jebus Sparky is stalking a grand plus. How long before ol' Sparky pullz out the gun and starts shooting?

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 1:08 pm

I'm good with it, as long as he starts with himself.

ThundercatHo July 26, 2011 at 1:42 pm

I'd like to remind Sparky McSpankypants that some libunatics own guns, too. My hubby took out a groundhog at 60 yds with a .22 pistol last night. Also, that liberal hunting permit that somebody linked to the other day really creeped me the hell out.

BarackMyWorld July 26, 2011 at 12:57 pm

Is there a way to pay the entire rest of the Republican conference to stay out of Washington?

ThundercatHo July 26, 2011 at 1:43 pm

Perhaps lure them the county fairs with the promise of tame livestock and deep-fried twinkies?

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:58 pm

Learn a lesson from Iraq – large pallettes of cash might help.

owhatever July 26, 2011 at 1:02 pm

You are getting sleepy, Michele. Your eyelids are heavy. Now lay down and get comfortable. We're about to make a little llama.

Nopantsmcgee July 26, 2011 at 1:05 pm

How'd they get that llama in that pretty yellow dress is what I want to know.

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Buckminster July 26, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Let's see if I've got this straight:
1. Welfare is bad.
2. Government if bad.
3. But government spending that benefits the Bachmanns is ok?

My head asploded.

Steverino247 July 26, 2011 at 1:15 pm

Again with the "O" face photos of Michele…

tessiee July 26, 2011 at 1:23 pm

If I absolutely HAD to pay her for SOMETHING?
Crazy going to the zoo is significantly better (or at least less harmful) than crazy making the laws that the rest of us have to follow.

poorgradstudent July 26, 2011 at 1:23 pm

Michelle Bachmann is more Sarah Palin than Sarah Palin.

justkillmenow July 26, 2011 at 1:44 pm

Kind of OT, but…
Sis who works in Ankeny, IA cruised by a Bachmann campaign stop over lunch, but sadly Crazy Eyes was running late. Only a couple of news outlets on hand (FOX of course) and no Teatards in tricorner hats.
Oddly, this stop is at a deli. Seems a little ethnic and elitist for Michele.

GOPCrusher July 26, 2011 at 1:45 pm

September is Waterhead Awareness Month?
Just another Hallmark invented holiday.

Manhattan123 July 26, 2011 at 2:07 pm

If that llama had spit in her face, or whatever it is llamas do, I would have made it King of the Llamas.

DahBoner July 26, 2011 at 2:12 pm

Michelle Bachman: Stoned Again…

An_Outhouse July 26, 2011 at 2:14 pm

I used to have drapes with the same pattern as her dress. They smelled like cigarette smoke and vomit.

randcoolcatdaddy July 26, 2011 at 2:30 pm

"I just saw it in the window and couldn't resist."

WABishop July 26, 2011 at 2:38 pm

You know who else thought their eyes had special powers?

GOPCrusher July 26, 2011 at 2:43 pm

Cyclops?

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Clark Kent?

weejee July 26, 2011 at 3:36 pm

Marty Feldman?

HelmutNewton July 26, 2011 at 6:39 pm

Dracula?

Biel_ze_Bubba July 27, 2011 at 2:53 am

Medusa.

YasserArraFeck July 26, 2011 at 2:48 pm

Q: What does a llama have two of, that Michele Bachmann only has one of?

1. Testicles
2. "l"s
3. Brain cells
4. "All of them, Katie"

Iam_Who_Iam July 26, 2011 at 4:35 pm

Me neither, I was just able to find a link to this post. Where have all of our Wonkettes gone? I feel a panic coming on! I need a fix, and I need it now!

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 4:41 pm

I'm here. Iam_Who_Iam, don't worry your pretty, little head about it.

Iam_Who_Iam July 26, 2011 at 4:45 pm

Oh phew! I found them… they are all here: http://wonkette.com/450077/yet-another-pro-life-o...

Pragmatist2 July 26, 2011 at 5:29 pm

A one "l" lama is a priest
A two "l" llama is a beast
But I would bet a silk pajama
You'll never see a three "l" lama.
Ogden Nash

JackObin July 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Well, we can add poor taste in clothing to this ridiculous fool's long list of stupidity. NEVER wear yellow prints to a llama show.

HelmutNewton July 26, 2011 at 6:27 pm

Confusion and Failure. Now THERE'S a disturbingly accurate campaign slogan if I ever heard one.

DemonicRage July 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm

This reminds me of people who bothered to count the number of times that State Senator Obama or US Senator Obama voted himself "present," rather than taking a stand on issues that came before the legislative body of which he was a part. Who cares about these statistics? She is out there, putting eye liner on, reminding us of how many children she funded as foster children, and how many gay men her husband "cured" by life management. Her base doesn't care about statistics such as the ones that you have tallied here. It's all about the deep sense of personal satisfaction each one of them feels, every time she looks into the camera (or off to the side, depending on how she feels that day) and says the magic mantra, "I know that President Obama will be A ONE TERM PRESIDENT!"

comrad_darkness July 26, 2011 at 7:10 pm

Who is looking after her 23 kids? Please don't reply "Marcus" . . .

Biel_ze_Bubba August 1, 2011 at 12:55 am

It's OK …they're all girls.

salt_bagel July 26, 2011 at 8:39 pm

Llama, huh?

Hmm Listen Wonkete. This, is not communist Mexico. How hard is it to SPEAK SOME ENGLISH? SOLDIERS ARE DIEING FOR YOUR FREEDOM and u have to use a SPANAISH word???Call it what t is and Respect! those who protect us!

FlownOver July 27, 2011 at 12:38 am

No tongues!

RociStone July 27, 2011 at 11:03 am

The poor gal must feel so inadequate.. The Llama can spit farther, has a better personality, is more truthful, and actually performs a useful function in the culture where it comes from. Poor Crazy Eyes", always coming off second best…

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Natch! Who are you there?

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 1:16 pm

I have the same name on Ravelry as on Wonkette, but I don't swear on Ravelry or talk about my tits.

AJWjr. July 26, 2011 at 1:17 pm

I'm not, but my friend Emma_Peel is…

nonbeliever7 July 26, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Tit talk? Damn I miss all the good postings…

mumbly_joe July 26, 2011 at 1:20 pm

I'm not sure exactly what Ravelry is, but you manage to make it sound frightfully dreary.

Limeylizzie July 26, 2011 at 1:26 pm

It's a worldwide knitting site…so I stifle my impulses as there are a lot of nice older ladies from Ohio and the like on there.

flamingpdog July 26, 2011 at 2:28 pm

Stop stifling your impulses. It will be a lot more humane end for the older ladies that what they'll be receiving from the tattered remains of Medicare in a few years here.

comrad_darkness July 26, 2011 at 7:08 pm

No one is happy with the Republicans outside of a few scooter bound frenzies.

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