The Party of Bachmann
In the GOP civil war , moderates seemed to gain ground this week as center-leaning Republicans won two governors' races, while the conservative candidate lost in NY-23. But days later, in the far right came out again big. Thousands heeded Rep. Michele Bachmann's call to fill the National Mall and protest Democratic Health Care reform. Commentators say Thursday's rally--which included signs comparing the Health Care bill to The Holocaust--is proof that the Republican Party is embracing its right...

Thousands join Bachmann rally against health care bill
Rep. Michele Bachmann says her "Super Bowl of Freedom" at the U.S. Capitol today can torpedo Democratic Health Care overhaul plans by enlisting "the voices of freedom." At noon eastern time, the lawn near the Capitol's West Front was crowded with thousands of protesters who chanted "kill the bill." "Are they going to listen?" Bachmann asked the throng of cheering protesters, referring to House Democrats. "Oh, yeah, they're going to listen."...

Bachmann Health Care Rally Draws Thousands
Thousands of Health Care reform protesters gathered in Washington today as part of Michele Bachmann’s “Super Bowl of Freedom.” Participants wielding signs like “Waterboard Congress” and chanting "kill the bill" congregated outside the Capitol to hear Bachmann, other GOP lawmakers, and even Jon Voight assail the reform legislation as too costly and too partisan. “Are they going to listen?” Bachmann asked the crowd. “Oh, yeah,...

Bachmann, Other Gargoyles To Throw Terrifying -Harass Yr Representative' Party, Thursday: PHOTO
Person for whom there are no more nicknames Michele Bachmann is teaming up with the #1 asshole in Congress, Iowa’s Steve King, to throw “a big party” on the National Mall this Thursday against Health Care reform, the worst idea since 9/11 and, before that, The Holocaust. Also on the “worst guest list you can imagine” guest list are Betsy Mccaughey, Jon Voight, and Mark Levin of National Review . As best we can interpret, the “idea” is for wingnuts...

Michele Bachmann - Tell Pelosi to STOP: PHOTO
Snooper here … Indeed we were all there. Below are a set of pictures for us all to see. I could not get close enough to get the interviews seeing that the Critters were all going back inside the whole in the wall to vote on some junk… The crowds below represent the untelling of the unconstitutional federal Health Care debacle: The signs presented are very worth well reading… Below and to the right above is LtC Dawson, Retired 2007. In the photo above, we were right up there at...

Beneath the Ugly Signs, Fear and Frustration Dominate 'House Call' Protest: PHOTO
In front of the steps where President Obama was sworn into office in January, one protester's sign at the Capitol Hill House Call on Thursday asked, "Ken-ya Trust Obama?" Another featured a pile of lifeless bodies from the Dachau concentration camp under the banner, "National Socialist Health Care." The images were disturbing, disgusting and impossible to miss. But they were also vastly outnumbered by the thousands of other hand-made posters, most written with red and blue markers, that bobbed...

Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" protest was "spontaneous"
Fox News has repeatedly advanced, and in Sean Hannity's case adopted, Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) false claim that her November 5 House Call protest in opposition of Health Care reform was "organic" and "spontaneous."  In fact, the protest was organized by House Republicans in collaboration with conservative activist groups, and was promoted by right-wing media outlets in advance of the actual event. Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" protest was "spontaneous," "organic,"...

Deranged Simpleton Leads Hilarious -Uprising' to Thwart Obama's Homocommunist Health Care Reform Plan: VIDEO
Yesterday on Fox News , America's other retard wingnut princess, Michele Bachmann, called on all of her fellow tea-bagging wingnuts to scrape up a few pennies from behind the Dorito-stained Lazy-Boy in the double-wide, hop on a Greyhound bus and join her on the steps of the Capital so they could all storm the building and violently force the traitorous pinkos in Congress, aka the new Kremlin, to vote against Obama's homocommunist Health Care plan. Bachmann said: "This is the Super Bowl of...

Michele Bachmann calls for revolution
She's done it before. Appearing on Sean Hannity's radio program earlier this year, Michelle Bachmann called for an ‘orderly’ revolution against the government of the United States. This, after she had appeared a few days earlier on a Minnesota radio program asking listeners to get - armed and dangerous .' (See - Michelle “Mama Che” Bachmann Officially Insane' ) Today, Bachmann took her plea for revolution to the steps of Congress as she led a Tea Party protest...

House call: Michele Bachmann's healthy prognosis
Rep. Michele Bachmann stood alone at a podium at the foot of the Capitol Thursday, blowing kisses and waving to the fawning crowd of thousands she had assembled. The tea party rally against a Democratic-written Health Care bill was over, and the other lawmakers had cleared the stage. But the love affair between Bachmann and her fans was reaching its apex. Brushing off an aide’s reminder to go inside and vote, the fiery Minnesotan with the fierce blue eyes descended toward a crowd penned...

Michele Bachmann's army marches on Washington
The Tea Party crowd descends on the Capitol to fight Socialism, healthcare and President Obama By Mike Madden AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., addresses the crowd on Capitol Hill Thursday. Rep. Steve King., R-Iowa, holds the healthcare bill at left. WASHINGTON -- Most of the time, the halls of the Cannon House Office Building are pretty sedate. Every now and then, the soles of a pair of expensive loafers clack on the marble, and echo down the corridor; sometimes an...

Michele Bachmann's army marches on Washington
The Tea Party crowd descends on the Capitol to fight Socialism, healthcare and President Obama By Mike Madden AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., addresses the crowd on Capitol Hill Thursday. Rep. Steve King., R-Iowa, holds the healthcare bill at left. WASHINGTON -- Most of the time, the halls of the Cannon House Office Building are pretty sedate. Every now and then, the soles of a pair of expensive loafers clack on the marble, and echo down the corridor; sometimes an...

Bachmann's Capitol Tea Party: Offensive Anti-Obama Signs and Arrests
November 5, 2009 (ChattahBox)—Right-wing wacky lawmaker, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) planned an anti-Health Care reform tea party rally on the steps of the Capitol building on Thursday. The event to fight the “crown jewel of Socialism,” was endorsed and promoted by Fox News and funded by the Astroturf corporate lobbying groups Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks. About 4,000 tea party protesters transported in free buses provided by AFP, shouted...

Behold, the Essence of Michele Bachmann's Orgy of Retardation Captured in a Single Photograph
Of all the photos that I've looked at from yesterday's Michele Bachmann-led wingnut invasion of Capital Hill, this was probably the worst of the worst. Yes, that is an image of the bodies of dead Jews killed by Nazis that was used to make the not-so-subtle insinuation that Obama's homocommunist Health Care plan with kill all of America's God-fearing white people. This + John Boehner mixing up the constitution for the Declaration of Independence + Todd Akin performing an Abortion on the Pledge...

Bachmann Wants 'Scare' Tactics
During a conference call on Wednesday night, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann called on protesters to "scare" members of Congress into killing Health-care reform. "Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving Americans," Bachmann said. At noon, Republican organizers plan to have activists head into the House buildings and U.S. Capitol to confront House members after a press conference at noon. "Don't bring your pitchforks," Bachmann said, "bring your video cameras." She believes...

Thousands of protesters pay -House call'
Conservative protesters chanting “Kill that bill!” stormed the Capitol on Thursday as Republicans launched a last-ditch effort against the Democrats' healthcare bill. The protesters from around the country entered House office buildings after attending the “House Call” rally on healthcare, largely the brainchild of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

Bachmann eyes opposition of heathcare bill: PHOTO
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann , R-Minn., said opponents of the proposed healthcare reform bill should take their complaints to the U.S. Congress. Speaking on a conference call Wednesday with members of the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, Bachmann urged bloggers and activists to contact members of Congress in an attempt to thwart the bill's passage, Politico reported. "Nothing scares members of Congress more than freedom-loving Americans," Bachmann said....

Which side of the health care debate is more Christian?: PHOTO
Suzy Khimm has an interesting piece up about the new rise in religiosity at the Tea Parties: “We are turning to Socialism and away from God!” Joseph Grab said as he stood amid the thousands who gathered on Capitol Hill today to attend Michele Bachmann's “House Call” protest against the Health Care reform bill. Grab, a retired engineer from Hershey, Pennsylvania, was clutching a leather-bound King James in his hand and a green sign that simply said “Pray” in the other. “This bill...

Bachmann's Angry Mob
The gray-haired curiosity-seekers assembled by the Tea Party’s Wonder Woman, Michele Bachmann, in D.C. is part of the GOP purge that plays well on cable TV. But that’s not the party’s biggest threat.

In brief: PHOTO
Investigators are searching the New Orleans offices of the activist group ACORN in connection with embezzlement and tax fraud allegations. click image to enlarge Dublin workers stage protest Workers from the public sector stage a protest on the streets of Dublin, Ireland, Friday. Tens of thousands of workers marched through Dublin and seven other Irish cities in protest against government plans to impose an emergency budget and rein in the nation’s soaring deficit. The Irish Congress of...

Bachmann Leads Protest Against Health Care Reform
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann led a protest in the nation's Capitol Thursday to try to kill the Democrats' plans for Health Care reform. "

Bringing Down Bachmann
The far right’s star House member just hit the headlines with a rowdy Health-care rally on Capitol Hill. Benjamin Sarlin reports on the Democrats lining up in Minnesota to send Michele Bachmann into early retirement.

Capitol Overrun by Tea-Party Protesters
Michele Bachmann's "Super Bowl of Freedom" is off to a good start: The 4,000 or so protestors who showed up at the Capitol Building on Thursday were greeted by 45 to 60 members of the GOP. Speaking to the crowd, House Minority Leader John Boehner called the Democrats’ Health-care bill “the greatest threat to freedom that I’ve seen in the 19 years I’ve been in Washington.” Michele Bachmann told the crowd, “It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now...

Olbermann to 'House Call' Organizers: Pay 'Black Faces,''Brown Faces' to Attend; Says It Looked Like a 'Pro-Apartheid Rally': PHOTO
Leave to a brilliant mind like Keith Olbermann, who finally decided to show his face on live TV after Nov. 3's Democratic defeat, to throw a temper tantrum about the public display of opposition to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's that occurred on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Nov.5 . After Olbermann and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson all but declared Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., organizer of the "House Call" event , an enemy of the state, they predictably came...

NFL Great, Dana Stubblefield, Hit With Restraining Order From Ex-Swirl-Fiancée “He Is An Animal!”: PHOTO
Terez, I'm not an animal.. I just turn into one when I'm angry.. Dana Stubblefield is already on Probation for lying in the BALCO incident, now his ex-fiancée has hit him with some new charges that could lock his crazy tail up: Stubblefield was a defensive star for the 49ers. After helping the team win a Super Bowl and becoming the NFL's defensive player of the year, he scored a six-year, $36 million contract with the Washington Redskins, and landed a role in a Hollywood film...