I agree with Pat Buchanan. I really don’t feel safe now.

I have a head cold so it’s really not a good time to have anything spraying out of my nose.

Bachmann and Palin should quit politics and do standup together:

Palin credited Bachmann with “leading the charge” to repeal health care reform and warmly recalled the first time the two met.

“I knew we would be buddies when I met her [in Alaska] and she said that we should ‘drill here, drill now.’ And I replied, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’ And we both said, ‘You betcha,’” said Palin, who also noted the similar accent and background the two women share.

I guess it has now dawned on me why there don’t seem to be other intelligent life forms in the universe. Either there are, but their surveys of the Earth have uniformly led them to the conclusion to ‘stay the hell away from these guys’.

Or manifestations of ostensibly intelligent beings like Michelle Bachmann are symptomatic for a generic hiccup in the development of intelligence in organic life forms and there comes a point when all of them just can’t resist the temptation to turn themselves into a flash in the pan.

I’m still holding out some hope for the former, but a somewhat depressing voice tells me it’s more likely to be the latter.

Good Lord. I can picture them giving each other hugely exaggerated winks while having a conversation that would embarrass Spongebob and Patrick. And people vote for them …

I need to go lie down in a darkened room now.

“….resulting in a blasted landscape of death not unlike Wyoming and some parts of Indiana.”

I gotta admit that being from the great state of Indiana (a thriving center of teh crazy), I was mildly insulted by this. But then I thought, well, clearly TBogg has visited that portion of the state known as The Region, which includes such garden spots as Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Calumet City. Blasted landscape doesn’t begin to cover it; one vast toxic waste site with occasional green spaces. Great smell, too.

Do we really need any more proof that conservatism has evolved from a philosophy to a mental disorder?

Forgive the intrusive word-wonkery, but when you said “Congresslady Michelle Bachmann, who has been godsmacked so many times…”, I think you meant gobsmacked. In cockney Brit, the “gob” is the mouth, and someone who is rendered speechless–without words–is thus described as someone who has been smacked in the mouth, or gobsmacked.

Godsmacked means something else altogether! (Hint: think snorkeling that has nothing to do with Caribbean holidays and exploring coral reefs. Well, not *that* much to do with it.)

…garden spots as Gary, Hammond, East Chicago and Calumet City. Blasted landscape doesn’t begin to cover it; one vast toxic waste site with occasional green spaces. Great smell, too.

That area is a pristine example of what “the free market ™” will always lead to when left unchecked. Always.

Of course, it did produce the Jackson 5, although that didn’t end up so well when all was said and done, did it? Must be something in the water.

Sarah and Michelle are interchangeable idiots who look, jibber, pose and ‘think’ the same. It’s burlesque politics with other great acts like Gush & Beck, OReilly and Hannity and the creme de la turd, Goldberg and Kristol, dedicated hookers…er…hoofers, all.

“Buchanan: I don’t think I’d strike with nuclear weapons if they hacked into my computer, no.”

Pat Buchanan as the voice of reason … ?

We are in the end times.

She may be insane, but I bet the sex would be really great.

Great Caesar’s Ghost! This is only true if your sexual fantasy involves an android with the brain of a rabid pygmy white-toothed shrew.

It is a ravening beast, feigning itself gentle and tame, but being touched it biteth deep, and poisoneth deadly. It beareth a cruel mind, desiring to hurt anything, neither is there any creature it loveth.

Pat Buchanan as the voice of reason … ?

Send him a DVD of Ghost in the Machine and he will understand Bachmann’s point.

Actually, better make it a VHS tape. Super 8 film. Clay tablet.

I am still trying to imagine how Buchanan managed to stumble onto rationality. This isn’t even a broken clock thing. And he openly disagreed with a wingnut to do it. Is it opposite day? Will Pat attack Glenn Beck next?
I’m scared…

I do believe it’s wordplay. She is a wingnut of the supply-side Jeebus school, hence “godsmacked” in place of “gobsmacked”.

“Buchanan: Well I see, you mean just computers. Do they mean computers?”

No, Pat, it means a cyber attack that hacks directly into your brain.

Which would actually explain a lot about Dr Strangelove’s Stepford assistant.

Boy, sometimes she’s only mildly crazy, but I love watching Bachmann turn her overdrive on.

the private Vatican server that hosts nakedjonasbros.com

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican is so over the Jonas Brothers. It’s all about Justin Bieber now….

Maybe Bachmann thinks “a cyber attack” is when somebody attacks your cyber. No, no, when somebody attacks you WITH a cyber. Like, a light-cyber. If that’s not worth launching at atomic bomb at, what is?

I don’t think Michelle’s really thought this through. Think about it. How’re our nukes going to track down Orpheus, who knows where the real culprit of all these cyberattacks is: the dreaded Neo.

Her mind has been taken over by, yes, the Matrix.

Good lord. I had forgotten those two clowns would be hamming it up in my fair state yesterday (in Keith Ellison’s district, per Benen)until I saw mention of it over at BJ. And, Ratface Pawlenty was on stage to introduce them. Fuck them all with a rusty pitchfork. Seriously. I can’t even snark here. Bachmann is an embarrassment, but Pawlenty is the real danger.

It appears that the do-nothing namby-pamby hopey-changey Kenyan terrorist President is covering for his African 4-1-9 scammer friends in Nigeria and has totally ruled out dropping the big one on their jungle-country resulting in a blasted landscape of death not unlike Wyoming and some parts of Indiana.

That was one sentence! How did you get that out of your head without surgery or using a chopstick? Very impressive.

Pat Buchanan as the voice of reason … ?

The “Overton Window” in action. The more frothy/dingy the fringe gets, the more “centrist” the regular whack-jobs appear.

Godsmacked means something else altogether!

That is somewhat unpleasant!

I thought Godsmacked was a play on word mocking batshit fundies.

Having grown up in Indianapolis and graduated from IU (Bloomington, of course), I had exactly the same reaction – right down to the second thoughts – the Region fits the description precisely.

I thought what Lesley did. I mean, it’s entirely possible that the articulate Tbogg made a typo, but more likely that he was playin’ around with words again and chuckling to hisownself while he thought about our reaction to “godsmacked”.

I have been bashing Buchanan since 2009. You see that Hitler guy wanted peace but Churchill and FDR were mean and wanted to conquer Germany. Pat is a non reality based historian.

Had exactly the same experience, Indianapolis and Bloomington, the latter of which was my first encounter with folks from the Region. It was an uplifting experience, so to speak. Place seems to produce a particular type of people – they don’t know but one way to party (hard) and one way to play music (LOUD). Something about that area seems to make all the natives, a shitload of whom are Poles, Hungarians, etc etc, want to leave as quickly as possible.

The Hemingway-Joyce-Faulkner-Heller force is strong in this one [scuba noise]

Love that pic. “Lights on, Nobody’s Home”

That eyes-bugging-out expression seems strangely common amongst wingnut public figures, and not only the females of the species. Maybe it’s thyroid.

(chuckle, chuckle) Thanks for the analysis – right on! Especially the (scuba noise). I think TBogg may have escaped from a Terry Gilliam movie and no one has missed him yet.

Probably not, not if she could still talk……

You’re right about the smell. I distinctly remember driving past/around Gary on various trips to the upper Midwest and finding the smell so bad that we rolled up all the windows, even though it was 90 and we didn’t have A/C in the car. Still one of the worst smells in my memory.

Thank you, DennisSGMM, for giving me the opportunity to drag out one of my all-time favorite quotes, for both style and accuracy:

John Stuart Mill, letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March, 1866):

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

Truer words were never spoken.

I can only tell of my own experience in Virginia, somewhere in the time Gilmore and Allen were governors and had legislatures that were pretty much all-GOP. Gilmore was bad enough, and Allen was worse, sucking all the money out of the budget and coming up with schemes to keep new money from getting in.

Seemed like things were about to be even worse for the Old Dominion when a strange thing happened. Officials seemed to spontaneously turn into Democrats, bucking their own party to urge some degree of sanity. The Dream had happened, and some of them were able to see where it was headed, and they wised up. It was pretty amazing. It wasn’t the end of the commonwealth’s problems, to be sure, but it was the beginning of tentative steps away from hitting absolute bottom.

ps: I grew up next to Wyoming. I will stipulate the presence of whackjobs there, but the only blasted hellhole parts of it are in Yellowstone park, and that’s the result of volcanic mojo, and it’s actually kind of neat.