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Krazy says Food Industry Over Regulated?

20 Sep

In the typical conservative bait and switch move, Republican Tea Party (GOTP) pugilist Michele “Krazy” Bachmann is claiming regulations are overburdening American food producers, while at the same time offering zero specific rules she’d repeal either as a congresswoman or as the president. Her statement comes little more than a week after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it was going to implement wider testing for potentially deadly E. coli in meat.

“We want to have safety,” she said. “But we also want to have common sense.”

According to the Associated Press (AP) Bachmann says a lightened regulatory load would allow employers to spend money on expansion rather than federal compliance.

And her Brain Captain was screaming, “Because the biggest thing Government should ever do is to make sure businesses can make more money!”

“That’s part of the problem, the overkill,” Krazy told reporters. “And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.”

“So, they should just make everything really simple, and then it would cost less, and people could make more money, and the size of government would shrink, and we could get back to making sausages the way we used to with pieces of children who get caught in the grindy-upper machines after working long hours for next to no pay, and the businesses will make lots more money and we will have more delicious sausage,” her inner voice said.

The Agriculture Department said expanding testing of E. coli in meat from one strain to seven would hasten recalls of tainted products and help officials identify more food borne illnesses.

But, surprise, surprise, the meat industry opposed the move as too expensive without enough benefit.

Wow, “too expensive without enough benefit.” Really, how much is a single life worth compared to the meat industry’s profits? Well, one is priceless and one is not.

“Why do we need to expand the rules to allow for more testing,” Krazy no doubt wanted to ask? “E. coli is a natural occurring bacteria and is one of God’s ways of thinning the herd and we shouldn’t be forcing businesses to spend more money while we’re interfering with God’s plans of how to run things. If people had more faith when they blessed their food they wouldn’t get sick, like duh.”

Or maybe she could’ve said, “E. coli outbreaks are God’s ways of sending messages to Washington that they need to start listening to the people more; the government is the meat and we – the Tea Party – is like the bacteria telling it to listen to us!”

Congress passed a sweeping food safety bill at the end of last year – before the GOTP took over the House – with strong support from the Obama administration. Bachmann was – of course – among those who voted against it.

Krazy takes all these uber-conservative positions the Tea Party wraps itself around and with each one shows herself to be more fanatical and more ignorant of facts; Ron Paul says we should end FEMA, and Bachmann pushes for the curtailing of USDA and the EPA; while these agencies makes our lives better, two make them cleaner and safer and another helps us recover when the world gets turned upside down. Bachmann and Paul are not only out of touch with reality, they’re wrong.

 
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Posted by on September 20, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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It Wasn’t Me Who Said That?

20 Sep

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In yet another attempt to back pedal from the brink political extinction Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential wanabee Michele “Krazy” Bachmann reportedly said Monday – according to the Associated Press (AP) – she was not arguing a vaccine intended to prevent cervical cancer caused mental retardation when she repeated the scientifically unfounded claim last week.

Oh OK; so, a responsible candidate would normally just throw stuff like that out there because she didn’t believe it? Excuse me, but does anyone out there speak “Krazy” talk?

Krazy said she was only relaying what a seemingly distraught woman had told her after the last GOTP presidential debate in Florida. It was during that “debate” that Bachmann criticized rival the Reverend Ricky Perry for ordering the vaccine in Texas.

“All I was doing is relaying what a woman had said,” Krazy told the AP. “I relayed what she said. I wasn’t attesting to her accuracy. I wasn’t attesting to anything.”

“I was only, sort of, saying what she said was true,” her Brain Captain tried to get her to say.

Krazy has accused Reverend Ricky, the once and future king of Texas, of abusing his authority by signing a 2007 executive order requiring school-age girls to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted disease linked to causing cervical cancer. Following the debate, Bachmann described – for Sean Hannity – an alleged encounter she had with a woman she says approached her.

“There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine,” Bachmann reportedly said on FOX PAC. “She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result. There are very dangerous consequences.”

Perry said Krazy’s comment after the debate was unwise “when she had no scientific backing, to say the very least.”

Come now Reverend, when have facts ever stood in the way of accusations leveled from the mouth of any conservative?

I was going to say Krazy’s antics demonstrate how desperate her campaign is becoming, but she’s always been like this; she’s always said whatever her Brain Captain says – even though he’s apparently DWI most of the time – and then she tries to recant what she’s said. It’s the whole, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain” moment, repeated over and over again. It used to be fun watching her, now it’s just becoming sad and pathetic.

 
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Posted by on September 20, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Privatizing Social Security – Another Good Reason not to Vote Republican in 2012

17 Sep

According to the Associated Press (AP) most of the current crop of Republican Tea Party (GOTP) hopefuls running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, reviving the very contentious issue that thankfully fizzled under former President George W. Bush. If there was no other reason to oppose the election of any of the crazy eights, this would be enough – however, there’s a lack of other reasons as well; but his will do for now.

President Obama’s would-be rivals are fanatical on letting younger workers divert part of their payroll taxes into some type of personal account to be invested separately from Social Security. Key phrase “being invested” which brings us the GOTP candidate’s true motivation; lining the pockets of Wall Street contributors – who always want more, and who are willing to pay for it.

Michele “Krazy” Bachmann and Ron Paul say younger workers should be allowed to invest in alternative plans, while the Reverend Ricky Perry says that whole groups, such as state and local government workers, should be allowed opt out of Social Security altogether.

The AP is reporting that Mittens Romney says the stock market collapse in 2008 shouldn’t scare workers away from investing in private accounts, but acknowledges it’s an issue.

“Given the volatility of investment values that we have just experienced, I would prefer that individual accounts were added to Social Security, not diverted from it, and that they were voluntary,” he wrote in his book, “No Apology.”

Thankfully Progressives and Moderates alike don’t share this “privatize everything” version of the Brave New World under GOTP leadership. They say it would drain resources from the more than 50 million people who now receive benefits, and of course raising the privatization issue could likely give Democrats a potent political weapon.

“We’ll fight that fight anytime,” said Congressman Sander Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees Social Security. “Bad policy is usually terrible politics, and that’s terrible politics.”

Levin is more than likely right, there is a large voting block of seniors in this country and their rolls fill with more and more voters with every presidential election; the GOTP likes to reason that business can handle everything this country needs, from its prison system to its retirement payouts; how long before some would be GOTP candidate suggests police forces and the military should be privately run as well? Wouldn’t that be great, officers and soldiers swearing an oath to some investment house instead of the Constitution?

 
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Posted by on September 17, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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One Flew Over Something

14 Sep

 
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Posted by on September 14, 2011 in Humor

 

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So Vaccines Cause Mental Retardation?

14 Sep

So, at a time when Michele “Krazy” Bachmann could have scored real measurable points against the Reverend Ricky Perry in their Republican Tea Party (GOTP) duel for the evangelical anointing, Krazy takes a perfectly good foil to stick Perry with – the forced vaccination of teen age girls in Texas – and bends it into a pretzel by claiming the vaccine can cause mental retardation?

Are you kidding me?

On a subject that is one of the soft underbellies of Reverend Ricky’s campaign, Bachmann – as a woman, and mother – could have skewered him with it, but instead she goes right off through the looking glass into Krazyland.

Reverend Ricky – who swears to oppose “big” government interfering with little folk’s lives – signed an executive order in Texas requiring young girls to get a Gardasil vaccine to combat sexually transmitted disease that could lead to cervical cancer.

“I’m a mom of three children,” Krazy mewed. “And to have innocent little 12-year-old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat out wrong. That should never be done.”

To his credit – as much as I hate to say it – Perry has conceded he mishandled the issue, but while appearing on FOX PAC Krazy attempted to launch a blitzkrieg against him and came up looking dimmer than usual. “I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate,” she said.

“She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter.”

Back in the real world, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that out of 35 million doses of Gardasil distributed in the US only about 0.05 per cent have led to any side effects. No instance of mental retardation was reported.

As a conservative, you know your political world has taken a wrong turn when Rush Limbaugh, says you’ve screwed up, “Michele Bachmann, she might have blown it today. Well, not blown it but she might have jumped the shark today – if she’d have just left it alone on this vaccination thing from last night.”

Someone needs to tell El Rushbo that Krazy jumped the shark a long time ago, and she did it in a train with square wheels going round the bend. Bachmann just can’t keep from saying obtuse things; somewhere someone is writing “Politics for Dummies” and her picture is on the front cover.

 
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Posted by on September 14, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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What the debates show us the GOTP stands for?

13 Sep

Watching two so-called Republican Tea Party (GOTP) debates, I finally started to figure out a lot of what these dim witted presidential wannabe candidates – and the not so bright masses following them – stand for:

They stand for ENDING SOCIAL SECURITY as we know it – The Reverend Ricky Perry has said, “[I]t is a monstrous lie. It is a Ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today; you’re paying into a program that’s going to be there. Anybody that’s for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it’s not right.

“You cannot keep the status quo in place and not call it anything other than a Ponzi scheme. It is. … [T]hat’s provocative language — maybe it’s time to have some provocative language in this country.”

Michele “Krazy” Bachmann weighed in, “… this isn’t going to work anymore. We have to be an ownership society, where individual responsibility, personal responsibility once again becomes the animating American principle. And we can’t be ashamed of that.”

They stand for ENDING HEALTHCARE to MILLIONS of AMERICANS – Jon Huntsman said, “We cannot go forward with Obamacare.”

Krazy said, “Repeal Obamacare.”

“… We have to have someone who is absolutely committed to the repeal of Obamacare and I am. I won’t rest until it’s repealed.”

“And this is why I’m running for the presidency of the United States, because 2012 is it. This is the election that’s going to decide if we have socialized medicine in this country or not. This is it.

“Why? I just have to say this. It’s because President Obama embedded $105,464,000,000 in Obamacare in post-dated checks to implement this bill. We are never going to get rid of it unless we have a president committed to getting rid of it. And if you believe that states can have it and that it’s constitutional, you’re not committed. If you’ve implemented this in your state, you’re not committed. I’m committed to repealing Obamacare.”

Herman “Pizza Man” Cain, “Repeal Obamacare in its entirety.”

Mittens Romney said, “And with regards to Massachusetts care, I’m not running for governor. I’m running for president. And if I’m president, on day one I’ll direct the secretary of Health and Human Services to grant a waiver from Obamacare to all 50 states.

“It’s a problem that’s bad law, it’s not constitutional. I’ll get rid of it.”

They stand for MAKING THE RICH RICHER (at everyone else’s expense) – Ricky Santorum said, “My plan takes the corporate tax, which is 35 percent, cuts it to zero, and says, if you manufacture in America, you aren’t going to pay any taxes.”

Jon Huntsman said, “On the corporate side, I think we recognize the reality that a whole lot of companies can afford to have lobbyists and lawyers on Capitol Hill working their magic. Let’s recognize the reality that they’re all paying 35 percent. We need to lower that to 25 percent. So let’s phase out the corporate subsidies and clean out the cobwebs and leave it more competitive for the 21st century.”

On the idea of a fair tax, basically a national sales tax, Mittens said, “Yeah. Yeah. The — the idea of a national sales tax or a consumption tax has a lot to go for it. One, it would make us more competitive globally, as we send products around the world, because under the provisions of the World Trade Organization, you can reimburse that to an exporter. We can’t reimburse our taxes right now. It also would level the playing field in the country, making sure everybody is paying some part of their fair share.

“And so my plan is to take the middle class individuals and dramatically reduce their taxes by the following measure. And that is for middle income Americans, no tax on interest, dividends or capital gains. Let people save their money as the way they think is best for them, for their kids, for their future, for their retirement. We’re taxing too much, we’re spending too much and middle income Americans need a break and I’ll give it to them.”

There’s just one big problem with Mitten’s idea, a flat national sales tax is lopsided sharply against the middle class and especially the poor. Everyone doesn’t pay their fair share, the rich don’t even come close. It’s a greedy tax being pushed by a greedy group of politicians. Oh, and by-the-by how many middle class Americans pay a lot of tax on interest, dividends and capital gains? That’s all designed to help the wealthiest among us not the middle class.

They (Tea Party Members) stand for DEATH – during the debate last week the loudest cheers of the night came as the moderator brought up the total number of people (234 was the number given) executed under Reverend Ricky Perry’s regime in Texas. And last night people began cheering when Wolf Blitzer asked, “What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? Are you saying society should just let him die?”

“Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.

If nothing else demonstrates the reality of the Tea Party being the great unwashed mass, nothing will. They are a blood thirsty group who want people who – in their view – are not productive to die or to be killed. Hey if that fella got cancer, or slipped into a coma and had no health insurance, well, he had better die and decrease the surplus population.

They are for CUTTING EDUCATION and CUTTING PROTECTIONS – Congressman Ron Paul said to loud applause, “What we need to do is cut the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and all these departments, and get rid of them.”

They stand for RACISM – during the CNN/Tea Party debate last night, Ricky Santorum said, “Well, I mean, what Governor Perry’s done is he provided in-state tuition for — for illegal immigrants. Maybe that was an attempt to attract the illegal vote — I mean the Latino voters.”

Yeah because basically they’re one and the same? Are you kidding me?

Ricky continued, “But you track Latino voters by talking about the importance of immigration in this country. You talk about the importance of — as — as Newt has talked about for many years, having English as the — as the official language of this country.”

He’s basically talking about the little brown people out there, you know, the ones who didn’t come through Ellis Island, the kind who lived in the southwest before we conquered it. The one’s who the GOTP wants to sweep up in a net and deport, or just lock away in prisons; after all they are here illegally.

And of course, not to be out done, “Krazy” chimed in, “And I think that the American way is not to give taxpayer subsidized benefits to people who have broken our laws or who are here in the United States illegally. That is not the American way. Because the immigration system in the United States worked very, very well up until the mid-1960s when liberal members of Congress changed the immigration laws.

“What works is to have people come into the United States with a little bit of money in their pocket legally with sponsors so that if anything happens to them, they don’t fall back on the taxpayers to take care of them. And then they also have to agree to learn the speak the English language, learn American history and our constitution. That’s the American way.”

Yep, the good old white uber-conservative American way. Perhaps Bachmann should learn American history before she expects immigrants to do so; where’s Lexington and Concord Congresswoman?

As Ron Paul tried to explain (correctly) why the United States was attacked on 9-11 he said, “This whole idea that the whole Muslim world is responsible for this, and they’re attacking us because we’re free and prosperous, that is just not true.

“Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda have been explicit — they have been explicit, and they wrote and said that we attacked America because you had bases on our holy land in Saudi Arabia, you do not give Palestinians fair treatment, and you have been bombing …”

The Tea Party crowd showed its collective ignorance when it started booing …and that’s the crux of the issue right now, the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan has become the Republican Tea Party of today, and in a political world where perception is reality, the reality is the GOTP is full of hate, anger and malice. They don’t care about anyone but wealthy white Christian America. The perception is the Tea Party wants to take America back to a time when whites ruled and no one else did; they want the poor to serve them, and the sick and the elderly to hurry up and die already. They are not the party of Ronald Reagan.

 
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Posted by on September 13, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Bachmann called Social Security ‘a tremendous fraud’?

12 Sep

Well what do you know? Republican Tea Party (GOTP) used-to-be darling Michele “Krazy” Bachmann, said just last year that younger workers should be “weaned off” Social Security, and that it’s “a tremendous fraud” and anyone who ran a business modeled after the program would be “thrown in jail.”

“It’s a tremendous fraud,” Krazy told Fox Business host David Asman after he called the program “one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American public.”

“No company could get away with this, they’d be thrown in jail if they ever tried to do what the federal government did with people’s Social Security money,” Krazy claimed. “What we need to do very quickly is take the money that is coming in for Social Security, and truly lock it up so that we aren’t putting it out the door anymore.”

Wow, you mean like you voted to do during the Bush/Cheney years Congresswoman? Like the many times you voted to help spend billions in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where’d you think the money was coming from, besides out of thin air?

“Michele was referring to the fraud being the federal government who has stolen money out of the social security trust fund. People have the illusion that their money is safe in a vault somewhere, but the money is being spent on big government programs,” Stewart told The Ticket in an e-mail. “Michele will protect Social Security because the government should keep its promise to those who have paid into the system.”

Well, maybe Mr. Stewart, but Bachmann has called Social Security a “criminal fraud”, and has proposed changing the eligibility age for Social Security, reducing or eliminating the program for high-income people, and privatizing the program for younger workers by giving them individual accounts similar to a 401k.

Bachmann likes to say that Social Security should not be changed for those who have paid into the system their entire lives, and that older workers and retirees should remain within the current system. For everyone else, she thinks they should be “weaned off” the program’s current structure and said, “we just have to be straight with people.”

“[W]hat you have to do is keep faith with the people that are already in the system, that don’t have any other options, we have to keep faith with them,” Krazy has whined. “But basically what we have to do is wean everybody else off. And wean everybody off because we have to take those unfunded net liabilities off our bank sheet, we can’t do it. So we just have to be straight with people.”

Here’s an idea, how about Michele and company (GOTP House) increase the tax on every single penny everyone makes, making your rich buddies pay for Social Security on all their income instead of the first $140,000 or so. That would probably make up any difference we the people are lacking, and keep the program solvent until the population swings again to more people paying in than taking out.

Bachmann is done; you can stick her with a fork. All the “krazy” talk had caught up to her, as well as Ricky Perry entering the race, and voters are beginning to see that she just isn’t presidential, much less congressional material.

Turn out the lights the party’s over they say that all good things must end …

 
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Posted by on September 12, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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As Bachmann’s star begins to plummet?

09 Sep

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) wannabe Michele “Krazy” Bachmann’s presidential star is plummeting faster than it rose, so, what to do; what to do?

I know! Go back to Iowa! They love her there!

“We know that when Michele is in Iowa, she wins,” said Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman, Kent Sorenson. “If she’s here, she’ll win Iowa.”

Of course, but what about all the other primaries after that, all the ones you have to win to take the nomination? It’s time to realize that as presidential candidates, and as presidential campaigns go, you guys suck. It’s time to pack up your circus tent and go back to your shabby little congressional office.

Face it boys and girls, Krazy’s been eclipsed by someone even more crazy, and more right-wing and more appealing to the uber-conservative evangelical voters of the Tea Party; she’s been eclipsed by the Reverend Ricky Perry’s travelling prayer fest and secession tour.  She no longer holds the interest of her base. Uber-conservative evangelicals don’t want a woman for president if they can have a man any more than they want a black man in the White House. They want their women submissive and in the kitchen, not in the Oval Office. Krazy was an anomaly, and then Reverend Ricky came along; a person with the same crazy message but who was a man.

As Dandy Don used to sing at end of Monday Night Football games, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over …”

 
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Posted by on September 9, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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Why I can’t vote Republican

08 Sep

I’ve been asked why I couldn’t vote Republican, well – if the election were held today – here are my reasons why I couldn’t vote for the current crop of Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidates:

Michele Bachmann – why would I vote for an uber-conservative evangelical candidate who is certifiable and who makes wild claims and then denies she made them? She hasn’t said one thing I agree with or could ever agree with.

Hermann Cain – won’t vote for a racist, and yes his views on Islam are racist.

Newt Gingrich – He’s a typical “family values” conservative;  had an affair while persecuting President Clinton for having an affair; told his wife he was divorcing her to marry his mistress while she was undergoing chemo therapy for cancer; claimed he had his affairs because he loved America too much.

Jon Huntsman – Wants to end Obamacare; wants to cuts taxes to corporations and the wealthiest 2%. Millions of Americans now have health care but Huntsman wants to eliminate that; can’t support that, much less supporting tax cuts to the wealthiest 2%; it’s time for the wealthy to pay their share, if not some back interest as well.

Ron Paul – He’s a kook; says he would do away with FEMA, enough said …

Rick Perry – no one who ever said secession was a viable answer for a state should be president. We don’t need a red neck deciding our country’s domestic and foreign policy. His desire to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments are two more reasons not to mention his wild idea that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme …

Mitt Romney – Flip flops every other day; changes his mind depending who he’s talking too; he has a used car salesman feel; claims to be a job creator, but while governor of Massachusetts his state ranked 47th out of 50; he bought American businesses and chopped them up and sold them to the highest bidder – he took away people’s jobs while adding millions to his private fortune; runs from his faith … Corporations are not people Mitt …

Rick Santorum – Another uber-right wing candidate who makes wild statements and in particular his stern view on abortion, and homosexuality. Ricky claims, “Its murder, no matter what the circumstances. Doesn’t matter if it’s incest, or rape, doesn’t matter if the victim is eleven years-old.”

The Republican Tea Party, and its policies, has become something I can’t support, and quite frankly can’t conceive of any situation where I would ever do so.

These candidates don’t represent what’s best in America, they represent what’s worse.

They represent an America Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize, and a party where the Gipper wouldn’t be welcome; Reagan would be a Democrat today.

They represent racism, lying, hurtful aspects of America …

They represent an America where people applaud and cheer wildly when 234 people have been executed in Texas …

They don’t worry about facts they just make stuff up- they lie …

They represent a far-right form of Christianity that doesn’t recognize the Christ …

They represent the wealthiest among us while grinding down the poorest ..

They are not what’s good for America.

 
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Posted by on September 8, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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The rats begin to leave the sinking ship?

06 Sep

Just when it appeared her presidential aspirations were heading into the historical dust bin – turns out they were; Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential contender Michele “Krazy” Bachmann has lost her campaign chief, along with his close deputy, in a campaign shake-up according to the Associated Press (AP) that Krazy’s aides are trying to downplay.

Where have we seen this scenario before? Oh yeah, when the Newt’s staff abandoned ship; clearly Krazy’s staff has finally figured it all out – she doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in south Texas of ever being nominated, much less of actually becoming the president.

Citing “health reasons”, veteran GOTP strategist Ed Rollins stepped down as Krazy’s campaign manager.

“In less than 50 days and with fewer resources than other campaigns, Ed was the architect that led our campaign to a historic victory in Iowa,” Bachmann said in a statement released late Monday, pointing to her win in the Ames Straw Poll last month. “I am grateful for his guidance and leadership, and fortunate to retain his valuable advice even though his health no longer permits him to oversee the day-to-day operations of the campaign.”

Speaking to CNN, Rollins said the front-runners were now Mittens and Reverend Ricky. He said Ricky’s late entry into the race slowed Bachmann’s buzz and fundraising; which was his cue to make a hasty exit to the role of “advisor”, meaning his finger prints won’t be on the campaign’s body when it’s thrown into the ditch in the next few months.

“I think legitimately it’s a Romney-Perry race,” he said. “I think she’s the third candidate at this point in time – which is way different and better than we’d thought when we started this thing – and she’s very much in this thing.”

Rollins continued, “I have great affection for her. I’ll do everything I can to help her. It’s still very much the team I put in place. I just don’t have the endurance to go 12-, 14-hour days seven days a week anymore.”

No doubt wanting to add he couldn’t take the non-stop gaffs and back peddling every time Krazy opened her mouth.

According to the AP, “Bachmann, who won election to Congress in 2006 and was a leader of tea partyers on Capitol Hill, had been making great strides in her presidential bid. Her strong showing in debates and forums lent her credibility, and her win in the key early test vote in Ames, Iowa, showed she was serious about building a campaign organization.”

First, the Iowa straw poll doesn’t mean jack; Ron Paul won it the previous times and he was never a serious contender for the candidacy; and second, Iowans obviously have a fetish for crack-pot conservatives and Krazy is the latest fad.

Krazy is of course no stranger to turnover. Her congressional staff has been a non-stop revolving door with no less than six chiefs of staff in four years, five press secretaries, five legislative directors and three communications directors.

It’s a dizzying thing and leads one to ask, “What’s the matter with Michele”? Well, besides the fact she’s insane?

Reportedly some former staffers have complained about Krazy’s style; saying if you question her decisions it draws immediate suspicions of disloyalty and that she insists on being involved in even the smallest details.

Krazy says her never ending staff changes are nothing more than “growing pains” in an office that “moves at a fast rate of speed.”

That or some people just don’t function well as an extra in a Marx Brothers’ movie – no insult to the Marx Brothers intended – and they couldn’t function in her Capitol Hill version of Romper Room.

Krazy has never been a serious contender, and she never will be; flashes of lucid moments in the midst of an otherwise lake covered in the white caps of madness does not a good ruler make – just look at King George III. Hence, it won’t be long before we bid adieu to Krazy, and she is sent packing back to her shabby little Congressional office making occasional appearances on whatever cable news channel (FOX) is looking for some lunatic to spice up its content.

 
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Posted by on September 6, 2011 in 2012 Election

 

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