Building on the last post, just had a stray thought. Let’s just say Crazy Eyes Bachmann actually pulls this off. If she wins, who should be her VP? What would be the most fun ticket?
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Building on the last post, just had a stray thought. Let’s just say Crazy Eyes Bachmann actually pulls this off. If she wins, who should be her VP? What would be the most fun ticket?
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Dr. SkySkull
“If she wins, who should be her VP?”
The voice in her head that tells her to burn things.
Bubblegum Tate
Cain
JPL
Girl Power Bachmann/Angle
Tsukune
Cain as her VP pick.
Bachmann-Herman Overdrive – “You Ain’t Seen Crazy Yet”
Bobby Thomson
Hal Turner. Duh.
dpcap
Jesus of course, because she is supposed to be subservient to Him.
boss bitch
Her husband.
NobodySpecial
Well, she’d have to have a Southern or Western White male to bring balance to the ticket. Plus someone who looks less crazy than her. That leaves several dozen million candidates.
My guess would be Ted Nugent, who’s made a living at pretending to be a Westerner while living in Michigan, and made a living at pretending to be a man obsessed with warfare while dodging the draft.
gbear
Paul Ryan
Just Some Fuckhead
Alan Keyes.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
Turner-Overdrive
Alex S.
Newt Gingrich.
williamc
Herman Cain. Crazy Eyes is convinced that she’s not racist, so she just HAS to choose a colored fella as VP to prove that Republicans love black folks too.
ira-NY
Jane Hamsher!
KG
This is a huge parlay, but probably Cain, the guy from Florida (can’t remember his name). Then again having two not-white-men might just be too much for the GOP.
For the record, I think the vast majority of Republican voters would vote for any ticket with “R” after it, but I think the handlers would be scared of having such a nontraditional arrangement and would push for a white guy
ant
Bachmann is not gonna be nominated.
nope.
Brian S
Rand Paul. You get the Zombie Jesus/Zombie Objectivism combo.
Winston Smith
Gary Busey.
Dave
Louie Gohmert. The amount of stupid on that ticket would be epic.
Davis X. Machina
She has to pick someone who doesn’t overshadow her.
Which leaves her with the choice of anything now in my crisper drawer.
Martin
OT, or maybe not, CA might actually start teaching kids to be gay in public school! Ok, so not teach them to be gay, but teach them about gay history. It’s off to the Govs desk for signature. The GOP freakout should be epic if he signs it.
Gotta agree with JSF here – Keyes would be epic. That pair wouldn’t even win Utah.
Zifnab25
Rand Paul.
He’d give the entire establishment GOP fits.
CaseyL
Oh, let’s go for the gusto: Bachmann/Palin.
Yes, I know there’s very little chance in Hell, or anywhere else, because There Can Be Only One (Diva).
But it sure would be tops in entertainment value! The constant vicious competition for attention, the unceasing one-up(wo)manship, the perpetual Can You Top This…
The country would be a smoking crater, of course. But we’d be laughing all the way to Armageddon.
cleek
Cheney!
Jay Schiavone
There are so many potential bad outcomes to Bachmann’s nomination. The latest one that occurred to me is that her husband could be outed as so-called ex-gay and the campaign will get behind it (shades of Bristol Pailin) and extol the virtue of so-called conversion therapy. The tea party will get in line, because it will be the anti-liberal position. The lackey corporate media will be obliged to take them seriously and conversion therapy will be legitimized. And Glee will be cancelled.
wesindc
Cain! All the way. Imagine him being VP to her.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
It will be an old-school establishment Republican to calm nerves on Wall St. and signal that the business of American is business, along the lines of GHB with Reagan or Cheney with GWB. A calming influence behind the scenes as it were; they won’t say this in public obviously (we can’t signal that the candidate at the top of the ticket is cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs and all the pros in the party apparatus know it, now can we?), but it will be the unspoken context in the well appointed boardrooms where large checks are written.
My money is on Huntsman.
carolus
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH).
Think Overdrive.
Davis X. Machina
@Martin:
Angry Mormons stay home (they dissed Romney!) and then stay home again (they dissed Huntsman!).
Huntsman lost the Utah primary, BTW, as Jason Chafetz has bailed on his old boss for the Mittster.
buckyblue
Bachmann/Bachmann
If she’s killed, she’ll be resurrected and continue her term. Though there will be questions whether she’s killed, will she be acting as the VP or Pres thus limiting her chance at running in 2020 after serving more than half of her own term.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Vice President Glenn Beck
David Hunt
I don’t know about fun, but for maximum hate/crazy, I hear David Duke is running…
Woodrowfan
Gotta be the Hermanator!
Han's Solo
@ira-NY: Agreed. Jane Hamsher would be a perfect pick. Bachman would be able to claim (falsely) that it was a bipartisan ticket, but her base would love that the VP hated Obama more than they do, and for less reason.
Nemesis
Gotta be a buzzkill here. BaKKKmann is running to be willards VP.
Although I hear Mark Halperin is available.
murbella
Rubio.
Culture of Truth
I’m trying to think of single credible Republican who would be willing to run as her VP.
Those who would say yes would not help, those who would help would not say yes.
gocart mozart
Reagan’s re-animated corpse.
TR
Given her constant talk about all her foster kids, she’d probably pick the mom of the Dugger litter.
He loved Big Brother
Khaaaan!!!
TreeBeard
What, David Duke not free?
Han's Solo
Wouldn’t the best bet be for her to find someone who is strong where she is weak?
So, that would mean she needs someone sane…
I think she’ll have to go outside of the Republican Party.
TR
John Quincy Adams.
Martin
John McCain. He sold his soul for the last run. There’s no pride left in that hollow old body.
Brachiator
This is a terrible thought to contemplate. But I agree with the poster who suggested Rand Paul. You would have maximum ideological purity without the slightest degree of rationality.
Culture of Truth
I wonder if Rubio would do it. He might – he’s young enough that he could recover from the defeat, and might get credit for doing his bit for the party.
canuckistani
Space-hero Inanimate Carbon Rod
4tehlulz
Palin, just for the sight of them cutting each other on stage at the convention.
gocart mozart
Amazingly, Bachmann has a chance at the nomination. Perhaps because she is authentically crazy unlike poseurs such as Romney, Pawlenty and Newt but not unlike Santorum, Cain or McCotter who while having no chance, will lose for reasons other than mental illness.
Culture of Truth
She should pick a random America from a crowd, like in Rocky.
Jim C.
God above, please give me something like a Bachmann/Palin ticket.
The ongoing catfight would be the most entertaining thing I’ve seen in electoral politics in my entire life.
Jim C.
In all seriousness, if Bachmann does end up with the nomination, she’d probably be under some SERIOUS pressure to pick someone like a Romney or a Pawlenty.
Culture of Truth
She needs to avoid being overshadowed, so she has to choose someone she knows the media will ingnore no matter what he does.
Bachmann – Vitter 2012
JGabriel
For Bachmann’s VP you need an unprincipled brutal asshole who can control her, and is popular with The Village, business interests, and neocons.
Preferably, it should be white male to assuage the sensitivities of GOP gender role traditionalists.
Unfortunately for the GOP, they have no one who fulfills all of those criteria. Therefore, I’ll go with the one who comes closest:
Liz Cheney.
.
Bubblegum Tate
@David Hunt:
Yes, but he’s only running because Democrats are desperate and are playing the race card, of course. It makes sense if you don’t think about it.
Han's Solo
@Jim C.: No she wouldn’t. Sure, certain elements in her party might push her that direction, but she cares far more about the Tea Party than the Republican Party, and the pressure they put on her won’t be towards a Romney or a Palin.
Mike in NC
Agree that David Duke adds just the right ‘balance’: she waves the cross and he burns it.
However, still holding out for Rick Perry/Jim DeMint for Wingnut Event Horizon 2012.
Jim C.
BTW, here’s something.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/05/frum.democrats.debt/index.html?hpt=op_t1
I know, it’s David Frum, but I wonder if he might have a point with this little bit.
“As Marc Ambinder of the National Journal suggested at the time, the president could have included an increase in the debt ceiling in the December deal to extend the Bush tax cuts. The Republicans dearly wanted that extension. Obama did not use leverage when he had it — and so he became a victim of leverage when he lacked it.
Then, as Republicans discovered the power of their new tool, the president decided to assume they were bluffing, that they would never actually do anything so reckless. Waking up to the reality of the situation too late, he commenced bargaining by offering what he assumed would be an irresistible deal. Wrong again. The Republicans did resist. So Obama offered an even better deal — which predictably only whetted the GOP appetite for still more.
Obama never publicly branded the debt ceiling as “if the Republicans force this country into bankruptcy.” He issued no public call to constituencies like the financial industry to bring pressure to bear on the issue. He did not warn that he would manage any crisis in ways that Republicans would not like. (“If the Republicans in Congress deny me the authority to pay everybody, then I’m going to have to choose some priorities. I don’t think it’s likely that Texas-based defense contractors will find themselves at the top of my list.”)
Instead, he appealed again and again to Republicans’ spirit of responsibility. Good luck with that.”
I don’t think we’ve seen Obama play hardball with the Republicans one time during his tenure. I know it isn’t fashionable to criticize Obama on this blog, but I really do think there might be something to the Republicans perceiving him as someone who doesn’t have the stomach to really punch back and get into a messy public fight.
Ash Can
Alan Keyes was the first name that popped up in my mind too. Or maybe she could name Dubya — no law preventing him from being veep, right? Then, two weeks into the campaign, one of the tire swingers would catch them in flagrante delicto in the We Bring Teh Crazy To You! (TM) tour bus, precipitating the greatest “Mah sweet lord Jesus ah am a SINNER” public sobfest since Jim Bakker got caught being his asshole self.
cmorenc
Bachman/Palin in 2012!
The campaign would be both a contest for malapropism-of-the-day and a catfight.
El Tiburon
Why not Jesus Christ?
Linda Featheringill
From her point of view, Cain would be a likely choice for VP. But I don’t think he would take it. He probably can’t stand her. She would probably treat him like shit and he certainly would notice that. And he would have very little to gain from accepting the position.
She needs a VP with no interest in becoming President. People with her kind of crazy don’t die young. Her VP wouldn’t have a chance.
4jkb4ia
Coburn. I’m serious.
Rick Scott!
Paul Ryan would also be a fun choice. You can go too far with “the Beltway Media respects the VP candidate more than the presidential candidate” and get Bush-Cheney, but their confusion would be amusing for a few days.
Welcome, Libby, and all of that. I was trying to be under the radar because I was not sure if EEMOM had decided I was a troll or not, but then I realized that no one here lets that stop them.
Linda Featheringill
Bachman-Turner Overdrive would be a cool set, though.
Davis X. Machina
@El Tiburon: Wrong party.
Just Some Fuckhead
@El Tiburon:
Jesus is only 33.
Phoenician in a time of Romans
I’d say the money boys would make her take whoever they really wanted as a President in exchange for them supporting the ticket.
And if it wins, her life-expectancy in office will be measured in days.
Culture of Truth
He got killed once already.
Rihilism
@canuckistani:
ICR is a bureaucratic insider (NASA is socialist!). No, Bachmann needs a VP with corporate experience, a real job creating objectivist. Bachmann/Funzo 2012 (the likeness is uncanny…)…
Han's Solo
Because Jesus Christ was the father of ALL liberals.
Heal the Sick & Feed the Poor? What a fuckin’ commie.
jheartney
How about Newt? As both are lifelong grifters they’d be personally simpatico, and Gingrich is nominally southern. Plus, like Bachmann, he speaks Crazy in full sentences.
They’d make a perfect fugue of craziness.
Rihilism
Moderation hell? Was is “bureaucratic”?…
cleek
@Jim C.:
Frum is very concerned.
gene108
If they truly want to out inclusive liberals, she should pick Rep. Alan West.
(1) He’s blacker than Obama, therefore the Republican base isn’t racist at all.
(2) He’s a retired Army colonel, which will just stir the patriotic heart-strings of right-wingers (never mind their attacks on John Kerry and Max Cleland).
(3) He has “as much” experience in Congress as Obama did, when he ran for President.
Montysano
Ted Nugent.
“Cat Scratch Fever” as the intro at campaign rallies. It’s golden.
Suffern ACE
I’m going with the Rent-is-too-Damn-High candidate from last year’s NY Governor’s race. People liked him. He might even put New York state in play if he was on the ticket.
Maude
Hillary Clinton
celticdragonchick
Bachmann and Christine O’Donnell. We would touch the wingnut event horizon and then be pulled into anarchic insanity…
Kinda like the movie Event Horizon.
Ajay
Jim Demint
MomSense
@Dave
Bachmann Gohmert is pure genius! Can you picture Joe Biden trying to debate that mess?!
RalfW
Meanwhile, in her home state, at least one reporter, Doug Grow, is willing to tell the truth. On the shut-down, and Dayton v. the GOP machine:
slag
First choice: Sarah Palin
Second choice: John McCain (I miss the green screen)
edmund dantes
W is an interesting case. It would be intriguing to see which is controlling, the 12th or 22nd amendment.
Citizen Alan
I wonder if Haley “Boss Hogg” Barbour would consent to be the power behind her throne, the same way Darth Cheney was content to puppet Fuckwit George for eight years.
LanceThruster
Fellow Juicers (Balloonies?), isn’t the choice obvious?
Bill the Cat. Aack!
Jody
There is no “most fun ticket” here. I’ve see my otherwise reasonable GOP associates do rhetorical backflips to excuse and dismiss her nutjobbery. If she gets the candidacy they will paint her as a sane, legitimate candidate and the media will go right along with it.
Couple that with the Democrat’s ability to snap defeat from even the jaws of the most certain victory, and I see no “most fun ticket”.
danimal
Frum/Brooks/Cohen…Please stop the GOP crazy train that we have been feeding and supporting for the past few decades…
I’ve got a better idea: let’s push these “moderates” onto the train tracks and see if they can stop the train from below. I read Frum’s piece and it is beautiful in its horror. It is literally a plea for Dems to rebel against the weak Obama so that the GOP is contained. Mr. Frum, those dogs of war that you unleashed are barking at YOU!
As penance, you can be Bachmann’s VP pick. (First, we’d probably have to annex Canada, but we’ll work out the details later.)
mds
Rick Perry. White guy with fancy hair and “executive experience,” but with none of the Mittster’s downsides like sanity, intelligence, and Mormonism. And people who finally decided that George W. Bush was too liberal will be delighted with someone stupider, more reactionary, more religious, and even more vicious at executing people. He’d be even better at the top of a ticket, since then the woman would be subject to him, but VP would probably be close enough. There are members of the “women should be subject to a man’s authority” crowd who have nevertheless enthusiastically endorsed a Sarah Palin run because Todd would actually be in charge, so they could finesse VP Perry’s role similarly. Especially given what an obvious handpuppet Dubya was for Cheney.
Caz
Duh, Bachmann/Rubio of course!
mds
Oh, wait, I guess I didn’t emphasize the “fun” enough. Well, imagine a Bachmann / Perry campaign stop. She intersperses lies about how she’s still raising eighty-one children with stories of how Joseph McCarthy is her favorite founding father; he’s too busy ostentatiously praying to Jesus while beating a starving undocumented immigrant child to death in the parking lot to take questions. Hilarity! Until January 2013, anyway.
wrb
David Brooks
For gravitas and intellectual depth
wrb
Andrew Brietbart
WereBear
Republican Jesus.
Of course.
I mean, you gotta clean him up, give him a shave and a haircut, nice gray suit (Republican Jesus has blue eyes!) and a tie that screams BLOOD and PAIN (I’m thinking Franco Moschino back from the dead for that resurrection vibe.)
He’ll start out looming behind Michelle but soon, very soon, she submits and talks about submitting and how much she likes submitting and gets her photograph taken washing his socks (because feet would be nekkid and think of the children) and rightwing pundits die from the starbursty goodness.
Before you know it he’s top of the ticket and the world ends in flames.
Then, profit!
Un-dang-beatable.
Rhoda
@Jim C.: I’m just going to point to the deal made during the lame duck in which the President was savaged for giving away the store when in reality he cleaned the GOP’s clock during negotiations. And frankly, I think he’ll do it again during this debt fight. The lack of trust on the left is astounding to me: President Obama has managed to achieve historic progressive legislation and the answer to every one of these achievements is “Yeah, but what about….”
Frum can be as concerned as he fucking wants to be; he’s got enough problems with the loonies in his base that are determined to destroy the country. And these loonies have achieved real power in 2010 which is why the GOP actually has a chance of not gaining seats in the senate when the math is there for them. The GOP governors and legislatures are fucking up their chances and the chances for their POTUS nominee.
I understand the President isn’t the leader most progressives seem to want; but he has won his fights and looking at the score board done amazingly well after losing the house in 2010 he’s rebounded faster than Clinton did.
I think this is bullshit. Progressives don’t seem to understand losing the house in ’10 was a game changer. We’re playing defense now and we are on Republican turf; the motherfuckers won in ten and the MSM has given them a mandate. Thankfully, they’re fucking it all up and POTUS is doing a great job of boxing them in.
It’d be nice if he could get some help, a bit of backup, a modicum of trust.
Len
Definitely Bachmann/Perry. Crazy all the way!
Jamey: Bike Commuter of the Gods
Luke Russert.
4jkb4ia
I will not be seen for the rest of the day because of fainting at agreeing with m_c, but Rubio SHOULD be the candidate. He’s Hispanic, he’s from a swing state, he doesn’t have the terrible approval ratings that all these governors have, he can speak.
And for fun, Roy Blunt. See if the national media can do what the Carnahan campaign could not.
kd bart
Tim Teufel. The Backman-Teufel second base platoon worked for the 1986 Mets.
mellowjohn
@ Culture of Truth:
“Bachmann – Vitter 2012”
given the 5 of her own and the 23 foster kids, crazy eyes probably has a fair amount of experience changing diapers.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
I suspect her handlers may urge her to choose someone that might make her somewhat more attractive to the more mainstream members of the party — perhaps Jon Huntsman? Don’t know that she’d be willing to work closely with a Mormon, but, realistically, I don’t see either Romney or Gingrich as being willing to play second banana.
Jim C.
@Rhonda
Talking Points Memo is reporting basically the same offer that Frum is claiming in his article. Essentially “holding the line” at roughly 90% cuts (including Medicare/Medicaid) and 10% revenue and, btw, reporting a stealth Social Security cut included.
TPM is hardly a Firebagger source that gets all panicky at the drop of a hat or a “blame Obama for selling us out” type source. If they’re concerned, then I’m concerned.
I absolutely agree that Obama has done very well, but I also question whether or not he should really get the lion share of the credit that you seem eager to give him. He was handed a huge majority in both houses of Congress to work with. If he had taken a bare knuckled approach with folks like Lincoln, Nelson, Lieberman and Baucus who knows how much MORE he could have gotten?
This is a big thing being negotiated right now. I trust Obama to a point, but not blindly. This is like anything else. He needs to feel a certain amount of pressure from his left flank, not unwavering and unswerving support.
And examining the tactics to how we got to this state isn’t unreasonable.
Rhoda
@Jim C.: I don’t have any idea what the eventual deal will be; so I’m not going to comment on it. I will just say that I’m hopeful that out of this crazy situation the President will hold the line.
As for taking a bare knuckled approach with Lincoln, Nelson, Liberman, and Baucus I’ll just post again that these people are mother fucking SENATORS. They have enormous power given to them by the constitution and Congress as a whole out ranks the President. Liberman is retiring for a reason; he’s hated. The other three are in states that being a democrat is liability they have to overcome as Lincoln illustrated; and I think there’s a racial component to it as well. The Democrats hung together amazingly well given everything that went down and the insane bitching over the public option. If we’d taken the triggered public option; who knows we might have gotten the ladies from Maine on board too since Snowe walked the plank once on health care.
You can examine tactics all you want; I just think the results speak for themselves.
kindness
I’d really like a Palin/Bachmann ticket myself.
Watching the Teahaddists cry and wail after getting soundly beaten in an election would be the best Mojo any of us could want.
Jim C.
@Rhoda
I hope that Obama holds the line as well. Obviously we can examine and dissect any final deal on it’s merits and anything prior to that is speculation.
But I disagree with your assertion that examining the available evidence being reported by multiple sources across the political spectrum of the offers that Obama has supposedly put on the table is bullshit or unreasonable.
Basically, my opinion is that you ARE allowed to discuss and give opinions on a work in progress. Nobody stopped talking about the health insurance reform debate while it was happening. Talking about the things that were happening and the updates was part of the process.
And RIGHT NOW, I’m not fond of the supposed offers that Obama has made and where the line on cuts vs. taxes is being drawn. I reserve the right to adjust my thinking when the final deal (if there is one) comes out. Shrugging and saying, “Let’s just wait until the deal is in” is largely pointless because once the deal is in there’s no influencing it.
How often have you seen “call your Senator” type posts on this very blog when we’ve wanted to influence a work in progress? Or, a couple of weeks back we saw that Bernie Sanders speech asking Obama not to cave on Entitlements posted here? (Which was very popular if you look at the comments section…)
WereBear
@Rhoda: I agree; show me anyone else who got health care reform passed.
OR getting rid of DADT
OR Lily Ledbetter…
There’s plenty, some decades old.
The man just makes it look easier than it obviously is; or why would people scream for even MORE?
Puzzles me, it does.
Rhoda
@Jim C.: I don’t have a problem with this either. I was just taking exception to the idea you raised that the President doesn’t have it in him to fight back against the Republicans, that he doesn’t, that he loses these fights…that’s all. I think that’s bullshit.
Jimperson Zibb (formerly Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
@ Ajay, no. 78:
De Mint was the first one to pop into my head, too. It seems to me that they’d get along well enough. I don’t doubt that he’d rather be president than vice president, but they see eye to eye on about everything, so I could see him taking it.
Unlike a lot of people here, I do think Bachmann could win the nomination. She’s about as beloved by the teabaggers as Palin, and she’s far less lazy. She’s willing to work for what she wants. And I don’t believe the “reasonable” Republicans can control the teabaggers any longer. We saw how they threw away a bunch of races last year (Delaware and Nevada’s U.S. Senate races spring to mind) that they likely would have won with better candidates. It really is conceivable that they might have won the Senate with a few better candidates in Delaware, Nevada and Connecticut, and they might have even had a shot at Washington and California. I think the Republican establishment has at long last learned how dangerous this movement is, but I think it also might well be too late for them to do anything about it.
Say Bachmann wins Iowa. She’s suddenly a real threat to win New Hampshire, and they can be wildly unpredictable there. If she wins there, I think she’d head into South Carolina as a strong favorite, and if she wins there, I don’t see how anybody else can overcome her. Nobody really likes Romney; nobody even gives a shit about Pawlenty; Huntsman is more personally likeable than Romney, but his reasonableness about policy will hurt him among the primary voters There aren’t any other “serious” candidates left after that. Newtros Newtros-Gingy? Man-on-Dog? Pizza Guy? Is there anybody else running? I think there might be, but I can’t even think who they are.
Davis X. Machina
@kd bart: Somebody back in the day used to keep separate stats for when Tim Teufel met Jim Gott.
The fate of the entire universe, obviously, was in the balance for those at-bats.
Donald G
Not gonna happen, but the most fun would be Bachmann paired with Jimmy McMillan of the “The Rent is Too Damn High” Party. For political satirists, it’d be like Perot and Admiral Stockdale all over again
PaulW
If Bachmann wins, the most likely candidates would be from the Southeast region. I got odds on it being Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida in an attempt to secure Hispanic and Florida voters.
Jim C.
@Rhoda
I think that Obama has a compromising nature to him. This is an admirable quality if you’re dealing with reasonable people. It worries me that he still didn’t realize he isn’t dealing with reasonable people at the beginning of this debt ceiling debate.
Hopefully I end up being wrong and I’ll happily have people point it out to me how stupid I was to be worried if the debt ceiling thing ends up being a fairly reasonable compromise where the Democrats and Republicans end up somewhere in the middle between raising taxes and cuts to defense/entitlements.
Rick Taylor
@Jim C.
I certainly think he does. And it’s a point that’s been made by others such as Matt Yglesias and even Kevin Drum. I don’t know if Democrats really could have gotten the Republicans to agree to raise the debt ceiling back when they had some leverage, but they should have tried. Harry Reid even argued it was good they were leaving the debt ceiling to the next congress, so that Republicans would have to take some responsibility both for raising it and for proposing specific cuts.
Catsy
@Jim C.
I have to strongly disagree. TPM has been getting more and more tabloid-like in the past several years, and has repeatedly engaged in sensational headlines that aren’t supported by the article, as well as sensational articles that aren’t supported by the facts.
They’re still a go-to source, but I take anything alarming I read there these days with a huge grain of salt until it’s corroborated.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Patrick McHenry- the only man as not gay as her husband.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
i’m gonna go off the board, because michelle bachmann is nothing if not a creative thinker.
i say hugo teufel III
bachmann-teufel the platoon for america, consider new york in play.
also it helps that he was chief privacy officer in the department of homeland security, and freedom of information act chief.
that will come in handy in a bachmann administration. trust.
Rhoda
@Rick Taylor: ITD. I remember reading the Republicans weren’t going to provide any votes on raising the debt ceiling and the Democrats (coming off a historic loss) were unwilling to raise the debt ceiling with their lame duck majority. Similarly, they refused to enact the Obama tax cuts for the middle class and end the Bush tax cuts for those over 250k when they had that option and could have branded serious tax cuts for the President and by extension the party.
These were stupid decisions made by CONGRESS and the President didn’t call out his party on these issues.
ETA: Crazy Chelly’s surging in NH according to PP.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/the-real-deal-polls-show-bachmann-surge-in-new-hampshire.php?ref=fpb
MomSense
@Jim C
I would just like to point out that “huge majorities” in both houses does not mean 60 Senate votes–which we never had on health care, banking, or finance.
And just a little tidbit of information. If the triggered public option had been included–Baucus and Bayh would have been out. Collins was a no, no matter what.
To see just how destructive the filibuster is I always tell people to take a look at the bills that passed the House. Health care, climate change, banking reform–all much, much better.
One would think that a majority would be enough in a democracy but sadly 41 > 59 in the Senate.
Ken
Bachmann/Palin.
This gives the 27%’ers a potential PILF as well as a PILF-in-waiting.
scarshapedstar
Duke fo sho.
scarshapedstar
Duke fo sho.
Rupert
I hope she picks Pawlenty. Then at least one of them will have to move away from Minnesota.
Larkspur
Bobby Jindal. He has things she doesn’t, like a penis and some extra melanin. They would make beautiful cartoon music together.
No one named Teufel is going to get elected; “teufel” means “devil” in German.
crsbfish
Duncan Hunter (father) or Tom Tancredo. Pump up the crazy!
Hawes
An actual Grizzly Bear. No Mama Grizzlies, get a real bear. This will sideline the possible damage that Colbert’s SuperPac might do to the top of the ticket.
Plus, the Bear and Biden debate will be Must See TV.
I think they will look for some old General. Odierno possibly. Maybe Tommy Franks.
Libby
Landed early today so I can comment.
Fun suggestions. If she actually won, the serious choice would be Perry. Crazy Eyes and Goodhair. Photogenic team and I’m hearing the Southern fundies LOVE him. He’s got the Tea Party creds to draw in the redneck indies. And he’d probably take the job.
“I’m not a witch” O’Donnell was my first thought for a funny ticket but the clown car is so crowded, the choices seem rather endless. Can’t believe nobody suggested The Donald. That would be funny.
CJ's dad
John Wayne (either one)
slightly-peeved
I do not get why people assume Obama negotiates with Republicans out of an assumption they are reasonable. The police doo not negotiate with hostage-takers because of an assumption they are reasonable; it is because they have power. The reason he acts reasonable is (a) to help calm the crazy people down (like police negotiators) and (b) to convince the swinging centre that he’s the adult in the room.
Greg
Scott Walker. He’ll need something to do after he’s recalled.
Jeffrey Kramer
We’re looking for someone who would look serious, but still appeal to the base. I’d go with Binyamin Netanyahu. This would also show religious inclusiveness.
ReaganRaisedTaxes
C’mon. Cain would have to be the VP nominee. That way the neoconservative hacks can accuse the librulz of being the real sexists AND the real racists.
DougW
Should she get close to being nominated, she will pick Jindal as her running mate.