The last two weeks of a closely contested presidential campaign usually feature the dregs of what our society has to offer. It's the two-minute warning, the pressurized time whereby sleazy political operatives get to heave barrels of sludge around with relative impunity, knowing that everything from here on out is going to be a blur and accountability gets shoved aside.
Sometimes, though, a piece of detritus will float to the surface of the maelstrom for all to see. We have a couple of examples. Michelle Bachmann, congresswoman from a country-club district in Minnesota, has been cruising to an automatic re-election. Then she opened her Big Mouth the other day on "Hardball". It's a wonderful seven minutes of talking-point posturing which suddenly and wildly veers into political insanity:
This is the same Representative who latched onto a startled President Bush after his last State of the Union address and wouldn't let go until she had left her saliva deep within his gullet. After "Hardball" her race has been regraded by political handicappers from Favored to Toss-Up. Throw-up would be a better description.
Then there is Representative Robin Hayes of North Carolina. He, too, has been infected by the Real America virus which seems to be affecting so many Republican candidates lately. Here is his money quote:
Needless to say, the sooner we get away from the Liberals Hate America/Conservatives Are Evil mantras, the sooner we can start to solve the immense problems facing us. Here is Uncle Zbigniew, who touches on this point, and a few others:
Now for some Real Madness from my new Favorite Live Band, the collective of East European gypsy punks known as Gogol Bordello!!
Very refreshing. And here is our Quote for the Day:
"[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she's just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet -- we didn't need Nancy Pelosi to do that." -- Representative Michelle Bachmann
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