Michel Bachmann is a Minnesota Corn Flake

Minnesota is famous, famous, famous for breakfast cereal with this being the home of the Breakfast of Champions and all.
by Charlie Leck

Betty Crocker is from Minnesota. Even though she’s a fictional character she was a huge power in food economics. This is the home of General Mills and Pillsbury. It’s the home of Wheaties, Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Chex, Golden Grahams, Kix and many, many other successful breakfast cereals.

Minnesota is also the home of the biggest flake of them all – and that’s Congresswoman Michel Bachmann. And, at the moment, she’s as big a brand name as Wheaties or Cheerios. She’s as big as General Mills and Pillsbury put together.

And the news that rocked America this week was the general opinion that Michel Bachman came out of the New Hampshire GOP presidential candidate debates as the clear winner who gained more ground than any other candidate.

And I am sitting here this morning shaking my head, grinding my teeth and pounding my fists into my desk and wondering what in the hell is wrong with the world. I couldn’t understand how any congressional district in my state could have sent such a dumb-ass idiot to the Congress and now there are serious people in America thinking about putting her ass in the White House.

Oh, my! We really have approached the gates of Hades and America has sunk nearly to the rock bottom of the free governments of the world.

I don’t know how to explain it. I don’t think I could bear to live in a nation that had Michel Bachman as its President. This is the same woman who, while she was a state representative here, was crawling around in the hedges, bushes and general landscaping growth at the state capitol, in the dark of night, trying to listen to the conversations of members of the opposing political party. She was trying to make a damned determination about who was a real HOMOsexual.

Honest to God! This is the woman who has made so many erroneous and untrue statements in the last 8 years that she will mandate the largest fact-checking brigade in the history of politics JUST to check up on her.

This is the woman who couldn’t wait to get to war against Iraq and Afghanistan but now blames all the combined military expenditures of the United States on President Obama. This is the woman whose memory about our current financial crisis can not extend back to the Bush administration. She is currently blaming the entire collapse of our economy on Barack Obama.

Her major goal in seeking office is to make sure that “Barack Obama is a one-term president” no matter which idiot takes office to replace him.

Now that Anthony Weiner has resigned, there is not a crazier politician in America than Michel Bachmann. Here’s just a few of her craziest quotations:

“But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States.” [Huh? What? 1776? 1783? 1863? 1865? 140 years old? Are you flat-out crazy or what?]

“I find it interesting that is was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.” [Are you blaming the early incident on President Jimmy Carter – or just Democrats in general? Oh yes, and are you flat-out crazy?]

“Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I am not understating that.” [Uh, what? The last thirty years? You are not understating that? What? Are you flat-out crazy?]

“And what a bizarre time we’re in, when a judge will say to little children that you can’t say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it?” [What judge was that, Congresswoman? And, what children? And, are you flat-out crazy? I know you are homophobic, but are you flat-out crazy, too?]

“If we took away the minimum wage – if conceivably it was gone – we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.” [Hmm? Whatever! Is there a middle class working stiff in America who will really vote for this whacko? She’s flat-out crazy!]

“I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.” [Yup, this time I agree! You are NOT a deep thinker and we all also wish you were more knowledgeable. We also wish you would tell the truth more. You are just flat-out crazy!]

“I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?” [Congresswoman, have you ever heard of McCarthyism? Oh, yes, I forgot! You are not a deep thinker. NO? You are flat-out crazy!]

“It is a brand new, billion-dollar high speed train that is going to go from Disneyland up to Las Vegas… Harry Reid, the Senator from Nevada, was behind this measure, and it makes us wonder, is he more interested in making sure kids start gambling at younger ages?” [Umm! Um! Uh! Did she really say that? You gotta be a nut-case, Congresswoman? Do you really think you could be President? You must be a flat-out crazy nut-case!]

“Normalization through desensitization. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders is take a picture of ‘The Lion King’ for instance, and a teacher might say, ‘Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man? The message is: ‘I’m better at what I do because I’m gay.” [Did you say you are gay, Congresswoman? Is that what you are trying to get at? Or are you just dumb and flat-out crazy?]

“Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” [Er, what? Did you really say that? Chill out, girl, and read some science. Are you flat-out crazy? Do you really stand by that statement? And, do you really want to be President of the U.S.A. or what?]

“The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.” [Congresswoman! My Lord! You were off on this one by about 200 million dollars a day. You are a crazy witch, woman! Flat-out crazy!]

“We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves?” [Um, Yogi Berra never said it better! What?]

Folks, I’m just beginning here. One could go on and on, but then you’d think I was picking on this flat-out crazy woman.

In these debates that are going on right now, Michel Bachmann is actually being taken seriously. Are you flat-out crazy, or what?

I confess: Michel Bachman is from Minnesota! I’m embarrassed.

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Minnesota Without

My drawing is done from a Mordecai Specktor photograph in the American Jewish World magazine.

We have only one U.S. Senator representing us in Minnesota and the 6th Congressional District also has a vacancy and is without representation.
by Charlie Leck

At a snail’s pace, Minnesota is moving toward sending a second U.S. Senator to Washington. We’ve been under-represented in the Senate for three months now. Hopefully something good will come out of this debacle – like a modernized, infallible voting system that will be devised and put in place here before the 2010 national elections.

Though it’s a serious problem having only one Senator in Washington, causing our other Senator to bulk up her staff in order to respond to all the requests for help coming from all of us here in the state, it is nothing compared to the poor 6th Congressional District that is completely unrepresented in Washington.

You see, Michelle Bachman is the elected Representative in the House in that district – that’s Double-Zero Bachman (no brains, no heart). How could you folks up there in that part of the state ever elect such an idiot? Not only is she short on brain-matter, she’s keeps going on national TV and embarrassing all the rest of us here in the old home state.

Kevin Diaz, writing in our local StarTribune, calls her gaffs on these TV appearances “rhetorical grenades.”

Recently she complained that Obama was taking us “down the lane of economic Marxism.” Come on, Ms. Representative Bachman, it was your guy – the one you groped so publically in the aisle of the House – who started all this “bail-out” baloney. It was your guy who practically handed control of the nation over to corporate executives.

Most recently, Representative Bachman totally misunderstood the Chinese suggestion about replacing the dollar as the International Monetary Fund’s reserve currency for international investment. Poor Representative Bachman thought our Treasury Secretary was considering replacing the home currency – the good old dollar – and she introduced a resolution to prohibit removing the dollar as the legal U.S. tender. Oops!

We haven’t seen anything like Michelle Bachman in Congress since….. Well, since…. Well, in fact, we’ve never seen anything like Michelle Bachman in or out of the Congress.

Remember back in October when she ruminated aloud about Obama being anti-American!

Though there are videos everywhere that give witness to Bachman actually saying just that, she later suggested the claim was just “urban legend.”

She’s also suggested that earmarks are corrupt. Oops! Congressman Bachman was reminded that she had taken nearly four million dollars in earmarks. Now she’s pledged never to do it again. Oh boy! Her district is staggering over that blow to the jaw.

Recently, something she said sent most of us into hiding because we were too embarrassed to show our faces.

"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on the issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back.”

Congresswoman Bachman, you are armed and dangerous – that mouth of yours in more dangerous than anything in the state except you brain.

Congress recently raised funds for the popular Americorp Program. That move won great praise from many people. From Bachman it received a stinging, solely partisan criticism. She claimed Americorp camps would be set up to indoctrinate young people to be liberals.

Come on, you folks there in the 6th District, enough is enough. Your joke is getting pretty stale. Elect a Republican if you want to; but, please, give us one with a brain.

Tom Horner, owner of a local public relations firm and highly regarded as a Republican political analyst, even disowned the Congressional Representative this week, saying he disapproved of her approach to politics. You can click below to listen to the broadcast.

Don't want to listen to the entire broadcast? Here’s what the Republican, Horner, said about Bachman:

“She is an embarrassment to some Republicans, (uhm) myself included. I think that what she does moves away from being an opposition member who is going to elevate principles and issues to a person has who has decided that as a second term member of Congress from a rural district in Minnesota her chance for the limelight is to be intentionally provocative and I think she does it in a way that is designed to exploit fears, to exploit mistrust in government, to do all of the kinds of things that America does not need right now if it ever needs. And, unfortunately, she taps into a sentiment of mistrust and cynicism that is very, very strong and runs deep. I don’t think that’s what the Republicans ought to be doing and I don’t think it’s how we ought to be defined and I think we need some leadership in this party who is going to stand up and say, ‘Michelle Bachman is not my kind of Republican.’"

As strong as Horner's statement is, in my mind that’s an understatement.

But all of this makes the other party look pretty bad also. That a candidate as weak as Bachman can be elected and then reelected up there in that district is an indication that the Democratic Party (the DFL) is mighty weak up there and some reorganization is called for.