The proudly ignorant baby farmer and bold anti-flourescent light crusader Michele Bachmann, Congresswoman from Minnesota, has been horribly victimized by the liberal left-wing anti-American attack machine. All these crazy leftists have been watching this Hardball interview she gave last week and reading the transcript of the interview, and, based on this publicly accessible and quickly verifiable information, reaching easily supportable conclusions! Well she’s had about enough of this nonsense. MORE »

We were this close to winning the war in Iraq! We had a plan and everything! MORE »

Is Dennis Hastert, in addition to being the silliest-looking, also the dumbest member of the House? MORE »

So, okay, George Allen doesn’t deal with ethnic types very well. Turns out he’s not very good at effective damage control, either. Allen’s peddling a new and, er, crappier explanation of what “macaca” really meant:

According to two Republicans who heard the word used, “macaca” was a mash-up of “Mohawk,” referring to Sidarth’s distinctive hair, and “caca,” Spanish slang for excrement, or “shit.”

Said one Republican close to the campaign: “In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance.” Allen, according to Republicans, heard members of his traveling entourage and Virginia Republicans use the phrase and picked it up.

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