So apparently, crazy-eyed Michelle Bachmann is married to a homophobic bigot:
BACHMANN: We have to understand: barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps…
Maybe it is just me, but there have been so many closeted pervs in the GOP that when I read that barbarian part, all I could think was it sounded like role play dirty talk. “Whose been a bad boy? Who needs a spanking? Mommy doesn’t like.”
Basically, how long before this asshole goes the two wetsuit and a dildo route?
MAJeff
Not just married to one, she is one. Gotta love a state Senator who hides in the bushes to spy on LGBT rights rallies.
Then again, homophobic bigot is a synonym for Republican.
Thoughtcrime
Speaking of closeted GOP pervs, here’s 8 warning signs that your governor is hooked on Koch:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/06/27/8-signs-your-governor-has-a-koch-problem/
Joe Lisboa
Was wondering when people would start asking questions about this loon (the hubby, not the Loon-loon). Her people have done a decent job shielding him from the press so far, but we will see how long that lasts if she keeps up this polling.
For the record, there is no way she gets the nomination. Not that I am not hoping she does.
Not not.
Lev
Appalling statement.
By the way, my fiancee heard an interview with Bachmann in which she said that she became a tax attorney because her husband told her to, and because a woman is supposed to submit to her husband, etc., etc. When is a reporter going to ask her if, given that she takes career directives from Mr. Bachmann, is he going to have veto power over her (theoretical) administration’s domestic policy? Nuclear codes? Given what we know about HIS character, seems like something that should be asked.
Thoughtcrime
Barbarians can never be educated or disciplined to cure their sinful nature. Just ask Arnold:
Old Dan and Little Ann
If only he were a black comedian. Then he’d have to apologize.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Not to piss on your Wheaties, but his homophobia and supposed strong odor of mothballs have been common knowledge for a while.
j
He takes government funds to subsidize his religious “therapy” camps.
Cut off the money and put his ass out of business.
Free Markets, Y’All.
Rihilism
?????????? Cole, have you heard “Dr.” Bachmann speak? Clang, clang, clang went the trolley. Ding, ding, ding went the bell…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This level of homophobiah, the notion that sexuality is something that can be “discplined”? Yeah, I’m thinking he’s the one who put the Minneapolis airport on Larry Craig’s map
ETA: I used the Old Testament spelling
ant
I’d be curious to hear more about what this part means.
Does he mean like as a parent? Or the government?
What would Jesus do?
M. Bouffant
This is the biblical loon/Puritan attitude toward not just gay people, but everyone, starting w/ children: Humans are barbarians who must be beaten into a state of civilization.
As for speculation about where Marcus’s interests lie, I recently read that all 23 of the Bachmann’s part-time foster children were girls. Not that that means anything, of course.
This is “nice” too, & on about the same level.
Uncle Glenny
Not to piss on your Wheaties, but his homophobia and supposed strong odor of mothballs have been common knowledge for a while.
Indeed, and the first I heard of him he’d also claimed he has gay clients. But crickets on whether he does “reparative” therapy. (Either way, it can”t be good for his clients.)
JonF
Some friends with the Log Cabiners tell me that Bachmann’s husband is a sister. Has been for years. Bachmann’s sister or sister-in-law has been out for awhile also.
Cermet
Speaking of dildos – ie Murdock: Great news on his (lack of)NewsCorp. They just sold MySpace for $35 million in stock (haha!)and they had bought it for a cool $585 million in cash! Fake News will never report that little item. Couldn’t happen to a lower life asswipe!
Obama has hit back and murdock the ass wipe has been taken to the cleaners! We need more of these – maybe scalia of the inferior court will get very, very ill and quickly lose his appeal to the higher authority … can always hope.
ant
Oh my.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oyA5JV7kA
He sound like like he got a wide stance, if ya know what I mean.
Mnemosyne
Wait, you mean that you can’t just “Turn It Off”? But the Broadway musical said I could!
jl
Interesting coincidence, just read on the GOS that Bachmann’s husband runs a mental health clinic and gets plenty of Medicaid payments for it. Bachmann was asked about it, and did what she usually does, spin a fantasy, or lie, or unravel reality through several strands of some kind of dissociative fugue state.
Wed Jun 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann hates Medicaid and government funding, unless it’s for her family
by Kaili Joy Gray for Daily Kos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/29/989859/-Michele-Bachmann-hates-Medicaid-and-government-funding,-unless-its-for-her family?via=blog_1
@8 j: beat me to it. Anyway, the link above gives more information.
rob!
There’s no way Mr. Bachmann is not secretly gay. Just a matter of time till its discovered. If she becomes the nominee (please please please) it’ll take about a week.
kth
Actually it’s called sinful because of the class anxieties of Christians in classical times wrt the aristocracy (many of whom were libertines swinging from both sides of the plate). Clearly the Bachmanns needs to read Nietzsche, who would set her straight on such elementary matters.
Cat Lady
This is gonna get good. It’s only a matter of time before he does or says something fabulous that sets everyone’s gaydar off big time, and since they’re both new to the national spotlight they won’t know what hit them. The money boys will make sure of it. They DO NOT WANT crazy eyes Bachmann as the nominee. There’s a Mike Jones out there. There always is.
Narcissus
Holy crap that guy sounds like Mr. Garrison.
Joe Lisboa
Clearly the Bachmanns needs to read Nietzsche, who would set her straight on such elementary matters.
Blink. Blink. Last Man. Blink.
Uncle Glenny
Some friends with the Log Cabiners tell me that Bachmann’s husband is a sister. Has been for years. Bachmann’s sister or sister-in-law has been out for awhile also.
Stepsister, I believe.
Basically, how long before this asshole goes the two wetsuit and a dildo route?
He’s probably the type to be a really bad S&M top – the sort who gets ostracized from the S&M community. The sort who would take advantage of a client. Any gay person seeking treatment from him is likely already in a precarious mental state, and probably easy to take advantage of – even if it was only mental/emotional cruelty.
This sort of thing makes me cry.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t think Bachmann stands a chance as the nominee, but she could make for an interesting few weeks in January and February. In the recent media appearances (okay, clips) I’ve seen, she comes across as less nutty and more credible than in the past.
quannlace
But….if you’re not married, who the hell are you supposed to submit to? Me confused.
birthmarker
What offends me is that he throws off on the public school system, apropos to nothing. Just another spouter of the talking points. Cat Lady summarizes perfectly.
Come on down to the book chat. The topic is s e x. It’s not necessary to be up to date on the reading of the book. In fact a male perspective of the 70’s would be interesting.
kay
He sounds like her. Or, she sounds like him. Same hectoring, insistent, lecturing tone. Same enunciating every word like he’s talking to five year olds, rather than adults.
She speaks the same way. It’s maddening to me. It’s parental, in the worst possible way.
I don’t think that’ll wear well, for either of them.
Davis X. Machina
I think it’s very important for a couple to
likehate the same things.Mona
Disciplined? Disciplined?! Total tell.
jl
From link at GOS post on Bachmann:
‘ The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering “quality Christian counseling” for a large number of mental health problems ranging from “anger management” to addictions and eating disorders.” ‘
I am trying to link to the clinic webpage, but it loads even slower than Balloon Juice (if you can imagine that).
Well… its www dot Bachmanncounseling dot com, if anyone has the time to wait a few hours for the damn thing to respond.
Roger Moore
@quannlace:
Your father, of course, though his first duty is to make sure you’re married off good and quick as soon as you’re of age. If daddy is dead, you’re supposed to submit to your brother, uncle, or whomever winds up as your closest male relative. If you’re a widow, you’re supposed to submit to your son until you can be properly remarried.
Baud
As applied to tax cuts or deregulation or defaulting on our debt, it’s not bad advice.
SensesFail
Add this to the list of the 32 craziest things that Bachmann has said, which includes this statement regarding songwriter Melissa Etheridge:
And despite ALL OF THIS CRAZY, a segment on John King’s CNN show tonight was devoted to asking the question, “Is Michelle Bachmann being treated unfairly by the media because she is a woman?”
So there you have it: if you try to call out Bachmann for being batshit crazy, you are treating her unfairly. CNN IS SO SERIOUS!
Fuckers.
trollhattan
@Narcissus
For sure, Mr. Hand will be, uh, handling any disciplining.
jl
I was going to say that from the quote in the post, and the clip, I would guess he is into prissy spanking of very naughty people.
But that is just a uninformed guess, irresponsible speculation, and arrant meanness on my part.
But.. yeah, probably he’s into spanking.
Ed Drone
Fixed it.
\Pedant mode
Ed
Comrade Mary
Her husband sounds like a sanctimonious bigot through and through, but I wouldn’t conclude anything about his true orientation from an audio recording. After all, a lot of my contemporaries thought that this guy was gay.
gbear
But is he a flake?
Michele probably took him on as a project, kindhearted christianist woman that she is…
harlana
gbear: she secretly de-gayed him which is how he knows how to de-gay other people. well, at least, she thinks she did.
Roger Moore
I think we can finally understand why Michele wants to be a Republican Whip.
harlana
I can’t see this guy goin’ over at the Gun Club too well
I shudder to think whats on the ceiling over the Bachmann marital bed
scandi
I feel bad for the kids. With 28 of them, odds are pretty likely that at least one of them is going to turn out LGBT.
birthmarker
When I hear about 28 kids, or the perfect lawn, or endless home projects, or obsession with a hobby, I think, “Hmm, what problem are we trying to bury?”
kay
Well, don’t feel too bad for them. She exaggerates a bit:
Some of them are probably out there thinking, “she RAISED me? Really? And here I thought I was there for a week”
Jo Mamm
“how long before this asshole goes the two wetsuit and a dildo route?”
God dammit Cole. That’s why I love you. That’s what keeps me coming back.
Fat Man, you rock my world. And I say that in the most heterosexual of ways.
hilts
@25 Jim, Foolish Literalist
I like your suggestion for Bachmann’s campaign slogan
“Less Nutty”
I don’t know what clips of Bachmann you’ve seen, but she’s still behaving like a horse’s ass: Citing John Qunicy Adams’ career to support her contention that the Founding Fathers fought tirelessly to end slavery, ducking Bob Schieffer’s question about benefitting from agricultural subsidies by railing against federal limousines.
harlana
birthmarker: precisely
hilts
Good discussion of Michele Bachmann’s career with Michelle Goldberg and Minnesota reporter Karl Bremer
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/28/a_perfect_product_of_the_religious
Amanda Hugginkiss
My default assumption with “pray away the gay” types is that they’re closeted.
See Rekers, George.
boonagain
Gayer than a drag queen, wearing a red kimono and smoking a Virginia Slim in a long cigarette holder
cbear
It ain’t the “closeted” ones I’m worried about.
Hell, from what I’ve seen over the last ten years–these days your average gooper would just as soon cornhole you as say hello to you. I’m nervous everytime I leave the house.
And, I don’t dare let my pets out of my sight for even a second if I suspect there might be rethugs in the vicinity.
sistermoon
This “mental health clinic” smells mighty fishy to me.
I wonder what (if any) professional credentials he and his staff have. If he’s making such virulently homophobic statements, he should be stripped of any clinical social work or counseling credential.
And, if that clinic is providing that “pray the gay away” crap, it shouldn’t get dime one from Medicaid – that “therapy” has been very thoroughly denounced and discredited by the APA and is not reimbursabe.
UncertaintyVicePrincipal
This guy’s great, the following paragraph was even better:
Before we understand it, of course, it is large.
I wonder if “by these open doors” is something like “by Jove”?
Conversations around that house must be like “Dave’s not here, man” on a loop.
Southern Beale
And not just any homophobic bigot, but one who takes $137,000 in Medicaid funds annually… despite his wife’s repeated stated distates for the program.
SteveM
When I mentioned Bachmann’s husband on my blog, a commenter told me:
So I’m eagerly awaiting the men’s room arrest.
Mark S.
I remember seeing a youtube of Mr. Bachmann a couple months ago and had to take my gaydar to the shop because it exploded.
I’m really hoping Michele wins the nomination. The only thing saving her right now is that 98% of the country doesn’t watch cable news and they are unaware how batshit she is. If that were to change, it would make the treatment Sarah got seem like a walk in the park. I can already see the SNL skits they’d make for her.
David
Ed Rollins won’t let Marcus come within 20 miles of a camera until the inauguration.
Southern Beale
I know we aren’t supposed to talk about her any more but how fucking bizarre is it that Sarah & Bristol Palin showed up at Minneapolis’ Mall Of America for a book signing? I know Bachmann is in Iowa and all, but she’s from Minnesota — is Palin purposely trying to steal the spotlight from these candidates or what?
And how embarrassing for her that only 20 people showed up!
Anne Laurie
Oh, I’m sure he’s not ‘praying away gay’ anymores… he’s just ‘helping the client to overcome childhood trauma and achieve a more rounded social integration’, or some bullshite like that. Works out to the same result — bullying scared, hurting people into pretending to be whatever Mr. Godly Therapist ‘suggests’ — but it’s totally not religious, at least when the IRS is in the room!
different church-lady
Not a fuckin’ chance in hell she gets elected. I’d say not much chance she gets the nomination either.
If I’m wrong about the second, my marker: she’s trounced in the general election and the narrative becomes “the country isn’t ready for a woman president” and a world of right-wing butt-hurt hangs on that peg.
Signed,
D C-L +2
Mike Kay (The Base)
Gays Mob Obama
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/024VdNF9sX8Hv/610x.jpg
Don’t those stoopid gays know Obama hates them??
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07aL5Re1bf7Ut/610x.jpg
gbear
Ahh, now that’s my Minnesota!
Mike Kay (The Base)
Dan Savage is such a sellout!
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07wwdAkdqt9La/610x.jpg
Fucking gay Obots! How can they break Aravosis’ picket line!?
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gK33MP21ceuV/610x.jpg
Anne Laurie
I’ve heard it said that overstretched social workers, looking for a ‘safe’ place to house a possibly angry, suicidal, and/or acting-outing teenage girl on 15 minutes’ notice, might not consider a semi-closeted male foster parent the worst possible short-term option, ifyouknowwhatimean.
Reporters have been, quite reasonably, chary about digging into a story that’s going to involve the personal lives of a bunch of young women who’ve already been through hell. If Bachmann isn’t toppled as flavor-of-the-month quickly, that’ll change, but I can’t say I’m looking forward to the inevitable attack ads.
gbear
Actually, it’s specifically religious. He markets himself as a christian therapist.
edit: Oops, I should have included the end of your quote.
Mike Kay (The Base)
I thought gays were smart? Don’t they read blogs!?
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/08G0gb6aRA3o4/610x.jpg
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Jesusdan choi is weeping.RossInDetroit
Woah. Wait. 2 Palins at the biggest mall in the western hemisphere and a score of people were curious enough to drop by. I hope their publicist was tired of that job.
Edited for spelling. A colossal moth found my desk lamp and staged an attack. It has been detained and repatriated.
karen marie
@sistermoon: It’s not just a mental health clinic. Oh, no. Per Michele Bachmann’s spokesperson, it’s a “state-sponsored” mental health clinic.
Is that soshalism I smell?
Sly
Basically, how long until we find out that
beforethis asshole has gonegoesthe two wetsuit and a dildo route?Fixed.
RossInDetroit
Didn’t I read that there will be a gay pride celebration at the White House? That would be a first. Can’t wait for the outraged reaction to that.
Jules
Does anyone else watch House Hunters International and just want to smack the Americans? They are always just so fucking whiney and spoiled.
Except for that cute Mormon couple last season…
Constance
The Bachmanns are the sort of Christians who set loose my evil twin and then she makes vicious sweeping statements about religion, particularly Christianity, and then I have to apologize in case she said them around my friends who are good, decent practicing Christians. And then I remind myself that in 30 or 40 years the planet will no longer support human (or any) life, thanks to the assholes in Congress, mostly Christian and mostly Republican, who don’t believe there is global warming or if they do believe it they think it’s god’s will and it’s a signal of the end times and I am so sorry I quit drinking for the summer because I really want to have a large glass of wine and watch something violent like “Burn Notice.”
Jon H
I forget which comedian said it, but there’s at least a kernel of truth in it: Not all gay men have that voice, but every man with that voice is gay.
PK
Are you taking bets? I say after Iowa.
Bruce S
“So apparently, crazy-eyed Michelle Bachmann is married to a homophobic bigot”
Who else would have her?
Of course when it comes to collecting checks from the government to finance his bizness, Mr. Bachmann is all in.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/06/29/2011-06-29_michele_bachmanns_husband_accepted_over_137000_in_medicaid_payments.html
(probably late to this party – haven’t read all of the comments)
Except this: “In the recent media appearances (okay, clips) I’ve seen, she comes across as less nutty and more credible than in the past.”
This is what’s known as an extraordinarily low bar…
RalfW
I think it may have been local weekly the City Pages that reported it, but I know I read somewhere that Marcusssss picks out all of Michele’s clothes. Really.
RossInDetroit
I listened to that clip. If you take out the lisp as a probable recording artifact I’d say it’s not an open and shut case. Two of the gayest-sounding people I know are husbands and fathers. All the rest of the gay-sounding people I know are in fact gay.
One of my old bosses was in the closet. One day while out hiking way back in a nature preserve I came upon him on a trail by a restroom, in dress clothes and a tie calmly smoking a cigarette. It was too late to duck behind a tree and sneak off. Busted. the look on his face will be with me to my grave.
Bruce S
My guess is that if a foot-tapping incident in the Minneapolis airport involving Mr. Bachmann blew up it wouldn’t faze her true-believer base. A problem for the presidential candidacy, but wouldn’t kill her career. They are so f-ing nuts that it would become a redemption story and whoever shepherded Bristol’s memoir through the publishing industry would be waiting in line for the rights to his/her “coming about” book. Michele-babble would still be their heroin(e).
These people have zero standards. Reality is whatever they wish for.
dexter
“Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather
Whiplash girl child in the dark
Come in bells, don’t forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart”
My apologies to Lou and the band, but I could not resisit.
Anya
Mike Kay (The Base) @67 – who the hell goes to the Whitehouse wearing a short sleeved checkered shirt? That’s disrespectful to the occasion and the location. Was he raised in a barn?
MattMinus
I’d pay money to hear Mr. Bachmann say “Honey Badger don’t care. Honey Badger don’t give a shit. It just takes what it wants.”
Bruce S
“Marcusssss picks out all of Michele’s clothes. Really.”
Okay – that’s not definitive. It’s pretty well known that Nancy Pelosi’s husband shops for her. He’s that confident of his masculinity, obviously knows his brilliant wife’s taste, is a classy guy and a great husband.
That said, you’re probably on to something with this f-tard…
gbear
Tom Petty recently told Michele Bachmann to cease and desist (aka fuck off) using the song ‘American Girl’ at her appearances. So Bachmann goes ahead and uses a 29 second clip of the song (enough to get to the ‘American Girl’ lyric, then switches over to ‘Walking On Sunshine’ by Katrina & The Waves.
So today Katrina Leskanich tells Bachmann to cease and desist (aka fuck off) using her song at her appearances.
I hope this keeps up until the entire history of classic rock is out of bounds to her.
Mike Kay (The Base)
Tooo fucking funny
Suffern ACE
@Anya – well it does appear that the rest of the guys in suits are shunning them – at least they aren’t anywhere near them.
Violet
You’re only just finding out about this? I thought it was already pretty well known. I’m glad it’s not because that means there’s still plenty of room for it to be discussed.
Guy’s gotta be closeted. Who else sounds like that?
Anya
RossInDetroit @71 ~~ As this video shows, he’s just like Bush. All snark aside, the President’s remarks were beautiful. Listening to these remarks, I don’t think anyone can mistake his intent. LGBT PRIDE MONTH
RossInDetroit
Slate covered that issue and it’s not a clear cut as I thought. She might be able to tell him to fuck off right back.
RalfW
Bruce @ 83: It’s the combo with doing that freakin’ nutso “reparative therapy” on gays that is so damning.
Anya
Suffern ACE ~ I bet Dan Savage thinks, he’s cool and anti-establishment but that’s just disrespectful and uncouth. He’s in the freaking whitehouse, not in some neighborhood bar.
RossInDetroit
@Anya:
Thanks for the clip. Good speech. He definitely talked like he felt on solid ground with that crowd.
Loneoak
Man, I would think about letting Dan Savage’s husband Terry lift my luggage. And my stance is pretty damned narrow.
Mike Kay (The Base)
Video — Gays Riot at White House and Glitter bomb Obama!
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2011/06/obama-gay-activists-observe-lgbt-pride-month-with-white-house-video.html
It was like Stonewall Redux
trollhattan
@ gbear
Terrible Ted will totally let her use “Wango Tango.”
I approve of this message.
LaBriola
“How long before this asshole goes the… dildo route?”
Technically, it will be the other way around.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Wasn’t Mr. B prayered straight hisself?
MikeJ
One quick note for anybody attending a function at the White House: they have staff that are professional videographers and photographers, and they have equipment that is far, far better than your phone. Sit back, relax, enjoy your visit. You don’t have to work. Somebody else will take care of it for you. Don’t hold up your god damned phone and block the view of other people.
gbear
[email protected]: I suppose that even if they can’t get her to cease and desist they can still tell her to fuck off. I would.
xyzxyzxyz
When does the “mainstream media” start reporting on this? I wokeup to NPR this morning to a Bachmann story about how she is a serious candidate, staying on message and rallying the masses. When the fuck does the media come in and say, “Uh Michele, we have a few questions regarding the bat-shit crazy things you’ve been saying and doing for the past 6 years.” Mark Morford at the SF Chronicle wrote an op-ed today about the insanity that is Bachmann, with links and everything. Jesus, you’d think some lazy bastard (I’m looking at you Chuck Todd) would read the piece and say, “Great! I’m totally unoriginal. I can follow up on this and look like a genius!” In know, when pigs fly (or when the Silver Fox actually asks an informed question on “Meet the Press”).
RossInDetroit
Seeing video of Obama I can’t help being struck by how he doesn’t look his age. 50 years old in a month and he looks like President was his first job out of college. Must be good genes, because it sure isn’t a low stress lifestyle.
RossInDetroit
@Gbear;
Messing with musicians is risky. You could end up as the title of a very unflattering protest song.
Loneoak
Here’s that Moford article in the SF Chron. Dude knows how to win a knife fight.
quaker in a basement
Did he just say, “discipline”?
Green balloons! Green balloons!
Roger Moore
@xyzxyzxyz:
When her poll numbers start to slip. As long as she’s doing well in the polls, that will be the story and it will have to be backed up by positive stories about her personal life. Once she starts to slip in the polls, they’ll need a narrative for why and all the stories they’ve saved up about her negative side will start to come out.
Loneoak
I wonder if Michael Rogers of BlogActive is on this beat. Is it a step too far to out the spouse of an anti-gay politician?
Mike in NC
She made an appearance in Myrtle Beach this afternoon, where no doubt a couple dozen teabaggers materialized to collect Early Bird coupons for some local diner.
Origuy
Barbarians is a strange choice of words. Historically, the people called barbarians were usually sexually prudish and saw the civilized people as decadent and perverted.
Suffern ACE
@Loneoak-No. Mainly because he is in his own right an anti-gay public speaker. It is his primary public issue. That said, all he would do is talk about his cure. There is little point in going there.
hamletta
RossInDetroit: Exactly. “American Girl” came out in, what, 1977? Petty hit the top of the charts in what, 1979?
Performance licenses are all well and good and legal, but you wanna go up against a guy music lovers have held in their hearts for 30+ years?
There’s a reason Bruce Springsteen got a sitting president to back off: My guess is that when you’ve been around as long as he and Petty have, your catalog has made you a shit-ton of money, and you have lawyers who can bankrupt a campaign with minimal effort.
Besides which, Bachmann’s choice is as lunkheaded as Reagan’s was. I’ve always interpreted that song as being about a suicide. Not to mention its use in Silence Of the Lambs.
burnspbesq
Bachmann’s bio is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
I didn’t know until I looked at Wikipedia that she has an ownership interest in a farm that has received over $250K of Federal crop subsidies and disaster assistance. Small gubmint for thee, not for me.
Might be interesting to go on LEXIS and do a search in the Tax Court opinions file, to see if she was any good as a lawyer. When I was in the Office of Chief Counsel of the IRS, the St. Paul office didn’t have much of a reputation.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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You can stop right there. The correct answer in every case is, “Uncle Clarence Thomas.”
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Triassic Sands
So is her husband.
(I apologize if this has been said upthread — it seems pretty obvious. I don’t have time to read every comment right now and it seemed better to have this said twice, thrice, or more, than not at all.)
JaneGoth
Perhaps cos I’ve read one too many dominionist Christian bs blog too many, my gaydar didn’t go off. My probably thinks it’s ok to beat very small children for very minor infractions until they STOP crying -dar did go off. I doubt they laid a finger on the 23 foster kids but their own five?
Edit
Though frankly the closet case is a lot more satisfactory suspicion. What two/three/more consenting adults do to each other is ok by me. Even if their public personas are hateful bigots.
AxelFoley
@ RossInDetroit:
And by “cigarette” you mean a real cigarette, or…?
Rihilism
I might add, that a “gay” voice is not strictly indicative of sexual orientation. Coupled with virulent homophobia, however, it is not an unreasonable assumption to make…
alwhite
Those of you who read Jesus General http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/ already know about what sort of discipline she has in mind. The kind the godly general partakes of, administered by a large man in Seattle with the spatula of righteousness! Those of you who do not read him are missing out.
bemused
I’m remembering Bachmann making an ass of herself chasing after George Bush finally forcing a kiss on him. Very interesting.
Jon Marcus
Oh you sillies. Marcus Bachman isn’t gay. He’s EX-gay. He prayed his gay away because Jeebus loves him.
Bobby Thomson
From the Morford column, this is beautiful: