Remember when this was the great hope for the teahadists:
According to a tweet from NBC News’ Jamie Novogrod, Bachmann responded to the recent raiding of the British embassy in Iran, by saying that if she was President, she would close down the U.S. embassy there.
There’s just one problem: The U.S. has not had an embassy in Iran ever since the Iranian hostage crisis, when revolutionaries from the budding Islamic state held 52 Americans for 444 days.
Clowns.
Maude
Bachmann made my day. I was waiting for a Repub to come out with this.
Gromitt Gunn
I am sure that she was referring to the super secret embassy that our Kenyan Muslim overlord was instructed to set up by George Soros.
cathyx
She’s never really been a contender, wouldn’t you agree?
Jenny
In related news, Marcus Bachmann says the Iranians are barbarians who need to be “disciplined”.
cathyx
@Jenny: Does he mean disciplined like all bad boys need to be ‘disciplined’?
trollhattan
I don’t know nuffin’ and durn proud of it!
Maybe mama doesn’t get a what-what.
b-psycho
@Jenny: preferably in his mind on camera, so he can watch and discipline himself.
Napoleon
Cathyx, she won the straw poll in Iowa and was high in the polls for a while.
eemom
@Jenny:
Wait just minute, yer on to something here.
Is there a way to convince him to go to Iran and set up a branch of his gay-curing thing there, except to convert the barbarian mooslim infidels to Christianity?
Cuz that would totally Rock all kinds of Casbahs.
Tone In DC
Bachmann Crazed Overdrive does it again.
West of the Cascades
I’m sure she meant the Foreign Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran (http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/asia/virn/fosteh.html). Because, after all, people spent a week singing her praises because she gave one coherent answer to a question about Pakistan.
Cat Lady
@cathyx:
After the Iowa straw poll David Gregory told me that she was the most in synch with the Murrican people. David Gregory wrong? Unpossible!
kindness
@b-psycho: Well, you spank one Marcus would certainly want to spank the other…..
Jim Faith
Maybe she could break into a version of ‘Amazing Grace’ and nobody would notice …
Amir Khalid
This post just cries out for that Captain Picard face-palm picture.
gbear
But if we had an embassy in Iran, and she was president, she would close it. It’s the thought that counts.
I hope her district in MN is finally sick of her.
Chet
@Cat Lady: In my darker and more misanthropic moments I fear Gregory may well be correct.
re-ality czech
i would like to preempt my american cousin and his ranting about 57 states. my cousin is a confused person.
Arky Vaughn
That Shelly is damned efficient. She is so efficient that she closed our embassy 34 years ago. How is that for swift and decisive!
The Other Chuck
Larnin’ is for librulz. She’s real ‘merikin folk!
patroclus
I’m guessing Bachmann would close down our North Korean and Cuban embassies too.
Pongo
And now Spiegel’s masterful takedown of the Republican presidential field seems only so much more relevant:
Spiegel via Harper’s via Sully: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/11/hbc-90008328
sacrablue
Isn’t she a member of the House Intelligence committee? I feel so much more protected now!
g
It’s “Michele” with one “l”, not “Michelle” with two.
boss bitch
Who the fuck is running this woman’s campaign?
Baud
You guys, you’re completely taking her out of context. When she said she would close the embassy in Iran, she meant she would sell arms to Iran and use the money to fund the Contras.
JCT
Yeah, well whether it’s one L or two I suspect that the number also represents the number of firing synapses in her uh, “brain”. What a moran.
mclaren
Cole!
What do you mean, “clowns”???!?!?!?
As soon as Michelle Bachmann becomes president, she can proudly hold a press conference and smirk, “See? I’ve just fulfilled my first campaign promise!”
priscianusjr
Her statement was cruelly misinterpreted. She just meant she would close down the U.S. embassy in Iran IF THERE WAS ONE.
TrumanDem
Well, I look at this way. This eveing I was watching Jay Carney on Lawrence O’Donnell’s ‘Last Word.’ For some reason I kept thinking to myself that his previous counter part under the Bush “administration” former Press Secretary Dana Perrino had to admit in a live press conference she had no knowledge of the Cuban missile crisis. I was thinking I was corforted by the fact I was sure Jay Carney knew. What a fucking bar we have on competence….
Bokonon
This is all Jimmy Carter’s fault!
If Jimmy Carter hadn’t closed the embassy 31 years ago, then Michele Bachmann could close it now! When she becomes president!
DARN YOU, JIMMY CARTER!!!! Now everyone is laughing at us, since the only extreme and disproportinate gesture we can make is closing a THEORETICAL embassy!
[Remember … Bachmann is on the House of Reps intelligence committee. So it is scary that she appears not to know the implications of not having diplomatic relations with Iran – you know, things like having no embassy, and having no ambassador – or that this sounded good for the TV cameras, and she doesn’t care.]