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We won’t be missing Michele

Bachmann is out of office, fleeing political life one step ahead of being caught out in her ethics violations. But she’s still happy to lie for her cause, and brag about defeating liberals.

Well, telling the truth bothers them, Bachmann said. They don’t like to have the truth told about them, and that’s really what it is. I didn’t fear the left. I decided to take them on in the arena of ideas by attacking their false premises and their false narratives.

Bachmann told World Net Daily, which referred to her as a GOP legend in the headline, that she had become a media target because she had basically outsmarted her liberal foes.

That’s the best way to defeat them, by the way — defeat them with evidence and defeat them with their false premises, and I did that, she said.

Yeah, right.

As Right Wing Watch noted, Bachmann was so noted for her false claims that the chief fact checker for the Associated Press established a “self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota,” and Politifact found the Minnesota Republican had the worst record for accuracy by far of any 2012 presidential candidate.

She was also a complete dud in congress.

“She has an extraordinarily high profile for a lawmaker who has not produced significant legislative accomplishments,” Pearson said. There are other, lower-key lawmakers with similar résumés, she said, “but the difference is, we’re not talking about them when they retire.”

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“She never made it into any important committee leadership posts,” the DFL’s Udhal said. “She didn’t have the power to bring things forward to help citizens.”

Right-wingers must live on Planet Delusia.

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Comments

  1. Trebuchet says

    She’s seen the Sarah Palin example, and is going for it. It’s all about the Benjamins.

  3. Alverant says

    I can’t tell if she’s being delusional or projecting. In either case it’s really pathetic claims. She’s confusing shouting and God with logic.

  4. brett says

    The usual path for these celebrity Republican congressfolk types is the speaking circuit, ghost-written book, and contributor to Fox News. I’m tempted to think Bachmann is too crazy for that, but then I remember that Ann Coulter still has that stuff. More likely what will stop her is a lack of charisma.

  6. rogerfirth says

    I can’t wait for the reality TV show. Or for Marcus to get into a brawl in a gay bar…

  9. lpetrich says

    She once claimed that Communist China is an exemplary capitalist country.

    Michele Bachmann Is Completely Unaware That China Is Communist | Wonkette

    If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…They don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

  10. Janine the Jackbooted Emotion Queen says

    I have found memories of when she claimed that carbon dioxide was harmless because it was naturally occurring. We were all overwhelmed by the facts..

  13. Lofty says

    Bachmann has a mind?

    Of course she does, she’s demonstrably human and alive. it’s just that it’s adjusted at 90 degrees to reality. A sort of an i mind.

  14. omnicrom says

    The best description I’ve ever heard of Michele Bachmann was Matt Taibi’s description of her (pulled from Rationalwiki)

    [Michele] Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions… Bachmann is exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy… crazy in the sense that she’s living completely inside her own mind, frenetically pacing the hallways of a vast sand castle she’s built in there, unable to meaningfully communicate with the human beings on the other side of the moat, who are all presumed to be enemies.

    I can’t imagine a better summation of the woman.

  15. Akira MacKenzie says

    They don’t like to have the truth told about them, and that’s really what it is.

    Quid est veritas?

    (Oh, sorry, that’s that funny Mexican/French talk they use down in Latin America or by those commie Ivory Tower Intellectual Elitists when they want to show how much smarter they are than freedom-loving, Bible-believing, folk who talk ‘Merican just like our personal lord and savior Jesus talked.)

    That’s the best way to defeat them, by the way — defeat them with evidence and defeat them with their false premises, and I did that, she said.

    Inability to discern irony, projection, and the Dunning -Kruger effect all wrapped up into one sentence.

  17. raven says

    The GOP threw Michele Bachmann under the bus because she cost too much.

    She spent $10 million on her last election and barely won. And this is in a Minnesota district that would elect a ham sandwich if it had jesus written on it.

    When she got into trouble due to inability to focus on things like campaign finance laws, all of the sudden she retired, and those charges all went away.

  18. raven says

    It’s hard to tell when these people are just posing and when they really believe their delusions.

    AFAICT, a few of them are exactly what they seem. Glenn Beck is one for sure, no different now then when he was a Top 40 radio DJ. Except for $100 million richer.

    Bachmann most likely is just what she seems to be as well. IMO.

    PS: She is also the poster person for Fundie Xian Induced Cognitive Impairment, a real syndrome with known mechanisms. At one time she wasn’t this clueless. Two degrees, one in law, passed the bar. It’s fair to say that religion can seriously impair your thinking.

  20. Anthony K says

    PS: She is also the poster person for Fundie Xian Induced Cognitive Impairment, a real syndrome with known mechanisms.

    What’s it called when atheists just make up shit, Doc?

  22. Alaric says

    Unfortunately in the 6th congressional we have Tom Emmer replacing Bachmann. So even though she is gone I have a feeling we are not going to see an end to the crazy right wing comments on the national news coming from this district.

  23. scienceavenger says

    We won’t be missing Michele

    Oh how can you not? No one delivered 18th century ignorance with more sincerity. Do not compare her to that phony from Alaska, Bachman was the real deal. Now Rick Santorum will have to find another date for the Crazy Caucus Ball.

  24. twas brillig (stevem) says

    Oh she’s retiring, eh? Surely, it is just a small step in her Master Plan to take over the inefficient government that always thwarted her plans. This is just a breather from the relentless barrage from the fifth estate, that always demanded her words to be in perfect grammatical order, while she beat those libruls back with their false premises and atheism delusions.
    .
    IDK, as with Beck and FauxNoise Company, my imagination can only conceive of these people playacting a part that makes money roll in without having to explicitly beg for it (NPR-like), That what WE see of these people is just a character they are acting as, not the person themselves. So this lack of imagination I have, leads me into this grand delusion; that these people have overarching, villainous plans to take over the world, to rule the way they talk of, “HOW the world SHOULD be run”. I really hope Michele closes that door on her way out (so we can lock it behind her ;-| )

  25. caseloweraz says

    Michele Bachmann, a BLR soundbite

    Thanks — haven’t enjoyed hearing a woman speaking nonsensically so much since Marie Osmond read the Dada poetry.

  26. andrewmm says

    I personally give credit to Bachmann for helping me become and atheist. A number of years ago I read about some of her craze shenanigans (I think it was hiding behind bushes to avoid teh gays) and did a google search about her, which led me to Pharyngula. As well as becoming increasingly incensed that someone who was spouting religious justification for her horrible behavior, I read PZ’s other writing, which (too late in my life) got me really thinking about what’s actually true and what isn’t. Within a short time I was questioning what I’d been told for so long and was set free.
    So well done, MB, your holy posturing and nonsense created a nonbeliever, and I’m hopeful and sure that I’m not the only person to be impacted this way. In a way it’s a really positive legacy to be leaving, don’t you think?

  27. andrewmm says

    Btw my spelling’s usually pretty perfect – my apologies for all the typos there! Apparently I do need the Preview button after all…

  28. MJP says

    That’s the best way to defeat them, by the way — defeat them with evidence and defeat them with their false premises, and I did that,

    Logic-posturing: So easy, Michelle Bachmann can do it.

  29. John Horstman says

    Oh I hope she runs for president again. Always room for one more in the Republican Primary clown car.

  30. anteprepro says

    Anthony K :

    What’s it called when atheists just make up shit, Doc?

    Narcissistic Histrionic Megalomaniacal Disorder with Chronic Verbal Diarrhea comorbid with Acute Factual Dissociation Syndrome, by Proxy.

  31. raven says

    Anthony K:

    What’s it called when atheists just make up shit, Doc?

    What is it called when ignorant and stupid people just toss out some insults.

    Trolling. Fuck you Anthony.

  32. anteprepro says

    No raven, fuck you for inventing mental illnesses. Fuck you for using the stigma of mental illness, and furthering that stigma, to use as a cudgel to beat Christians with.

    You have been told that doing that isn’t acceptable for years now. Yet you haven’t fucking bothered to stop.

    What is it called when ignorant and stupid people just toss out insults and don’t care about splash damage? And continuing to do so after being told several, SEVERAL times about what their words entail?

    I am not sure, but I call it being a fucking ableist asshole.

  33. Anthony K says

    What is it called when ignorant and stupid people just toss out some insults.

    “Raven’s entire commenting history.”

  35. says

    Here’s something else Michele Bachmann said:

    So the Tea Party I think is a very important — and those ideals are a very important movement. People still believe in Second Amendment rights, people still believe in upholding the rights of the unborn, a number of us still continue to contend for traditional marriage between one man and one woman. These are all important value sets and I think that is part of the lamp that I tried to carry is to continue the values that brought us up to be the greatest country in the world in all of human history. We have a Judeo-Christian history. We are not a theocracy but we live on principles that are Judeo-Christian principles. […]

  36. says

    andrewmm @ 26:

    I personally give credit to Bachmann for helping me become and atheist. A number of years ago I read about some of her craze shenanigans (I think it was hiding behind bushes to avoid teh gays) and did a google search about her, which led me to Pharyngula. As well as becoming increasingly incensed that someone who was spouting religious justification for her horrible behavior, I read PZ’s other writing, which (too late in my life) got me really thinking about what’s actually true and what isn’t. Within a short time I was questioning what I’d been told for so long and was set free.

    That put a smile on my face. Nice story, thanks for sharing, Andrew.

  37. moarscienceplz says

    #5

    I wonder if she’ll pursue a career as a FOX News pundit now that she’s retired. She’s a good fit for them.

    I dunno Tony, she’s 58 and she’s not blonde. For a (female) Fox News employee, that makes her seriously unqualified. Of course, her PolitiFact rating as the biggest liar in the whole GOP may override those other shortcomings.

  38. coffeehound says

    I’m guessing she’ll score a regular spot at WND alongside intellectual powerhouses such as Joseph Farrah, Herman Cain, Chuck Norris, and Michael Savage.
    Favorite quote; (CPAC, 2014) You see, our movement ( the Teat Party) is at it’s core an intellectual movement.

  41. throwaway, never proofreads, every post a gamble says

    It’s like.. the Comic Sans of websites. I mean, the way her quotes are presented there are just a glorious reflection of the capabilities of her primary supporters.

  42. throwaway, never proofreads, every post a gamble says

    Best of all, it incorporates a right-click interceptor which… Oh hell, just right click! By gawdy, who would want to steal from that website?

  43. UnknownEric the Apostate says

    As far as I’m concerned, Michelle Bachmann has had just one career highlight.
    Michele Bachmann: a BLR Soundbite

    Milk, not backyard meth. It’s a prison party!

  45. CR Jackels says

    I live in her district and most of the people who voted for MBachs are just as clueless, if not more so, about reality. It’s been a rough 8 years.

  46. David Marjanović says

    Bachmann was so noted for her false claims that the chief fact checker for the Associated Press established a “self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota,”

    ROTFL!!!

    If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…They don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

    Well. China indeed doesn’t have food stamps; only recently war-torn countries and America have food stamps. It also lacks large parts of a modern welfare state, notably health insurance.

    But.

    Wait, her first name has one ‘l’,

    mee-KEH-leh “male Italian” Bachmann, I’ve been calling her.

    and her last name has two ‘n’s?

    That’s just German (where it actually represents a feature of the pronunciation). Bach, as in the composer, is running water smaller than a river.

    It’s like.. the Comic Sans of websites. I mean, the way her quotes are presented there are just a glorious reflection of the capabilities of her primary supporters.

    Scroll down to the WIKIPEDIA WARNING! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

  47. says

    @lpetrich – 18 December 2014 at 8:27 pm

    She once claimed that Communist China is an exemplary capitalist country.

    In that one instance she was correct — it is.