The next issue is our "all gay!" issue that tells how Michele rode a wave of Minnesota homophobia into [...]
As posted on MDE earlier today, Public Policy Polling has Congresswoman Michele Bachmann polling a full 18% points above Taxin’ Tarryl Clark.
Andrea Mokros, spokeswoman for Senator Clark filed this statement with the St. Cloud Times:
“It’s plenty early. In a district with the state’s highest unemployment rates and [...]
Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann is on solid ground heading into her 2010 relection fight, a polling firm associated with Democrats has found.
The results, released today, show Bachmann with support in the mid-50s against either Dr. Maureen Reed or state Sen. Tarryl Clark. Both potential challengers got 37 percent [...]
Tom Scheck from Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that Rep. Michele Bachmann is leading State Senator Tarryl Clark by 18% points. The full story is here.
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Public Policy Polling (a Democratic affiliated pollster) says GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann is leading her DFL opponents in Minnesota’s [...]
Michele addressed the rally in the company of other teabagger-courting politicians:
...The crowd's message and energy was only intensified by the encouragement of some of [...]

‘Tis the season: Members of Congress — including Minnesota’s Michele Bachmann — are again gearing up for another “War on Christmas” with a resolution that “strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas and expresses support for the use of these symbols and traditions [...]
Number 6th Congressional District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, among the fans of humorist Garrison Keillor.
“I adore Garrison Keillor,” said Bachmann, speaking in a recent interview.
“He and I are on the opposite side of our political beliefs. But I adore him,” she said.
“I think he’s brilliant. I think he’s a genius,” [...]

On Wednesday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann participated in the Family Research Council’s “prayercast” against the health reform bill being debated in Congress. Bachmann and religious right leader Lou Engle led the group in prayer as participants chanted and churchgoers watched around the country.

MnIndy file photo
Rep. Michele Bachmann backed off her statement about anti-healthcare reform advocates being the “light brigade,” after MinnPost shared with her that the term referred to a British cavalry division that was crushed by Russian troops during the Crimean War. “Oh, what [...]
But she rates extended discussion in this Australian writer's brief explanation of America's tea bagger [...]

Michele Bachmann wasn’t alone Tuesday in probing unlikely links between politics and poetry. Two Minnesota bloggers also used poetry to illuminate the political landscape, adapting familiar lines by the late New Hampshire poet Robert Frost to Gov. Pawlenty’s trip to New Hampshire today.
Bluestem Prairie’s [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent choice of words suggests she knew what she saying when she invoked the “sadly ludicrous” Crimean War episode from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade” at a Capitol Hill anti-health care reform rally.
The Minnesota congresswoman’s rallying cry, “[...]
I first noticed the streaming banner Fox News ran over Bachmann while looking into her nomination as a finalist for PolitiFact.com's "2009 Lie Of The Year."
Here's that screenshot, once more, from Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive's appearance on Faux News' Sean insHannity Show:
Check out that caption, above Bachmann: "Universal Nightmare."
I [...]

Minnesota is still in danger of losing a seat in Congress — with the odds on Michele Bachmann’s disappearing, some speculate — if the U.S. Census count comes in just a bit shy as experts have been warning it could. But the state demographer [...]
Another day of LTEs in the St. Cloud Times, another liberal attack Michele Bachmann. That’s as surprising as finding out that President Obama is a narcissist. We’ve all seen the DFL use lies to advance their agenda. This time, though, it’s too far over the line to not slap [...]
Another day of LTEs in the St. Cloud Times, another liberal attacks Michele Bachmann. That's as surprising as finding out that President Obama is a narcissist. We've all seen the DFL use lies to advance their agenda. This time, though, it's too far over the line to not slap' [...]
"That will tie up their staff in knots."
-- Michele Bachmann, 12 December 2009
And with Bachmann MotorMouth Overdrive, you know - KNOW - that's not the only outrageous stuff she spewed.
Like, this:
"That's literally what it felt like yesterday. It felt" [...]

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann claimed again Monday that Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, estimated health care reform would cost 5.5 million jobs. Last month PolitiFact called that claim “problematic and contrary” to Romer’s statements. Now Media [...]

Rep. Michele Bachmann will join members of the religious right in a “prayercast” on Wednesday to pray for defeat the “Government Takeover of Healthcare.” The prayercast is sponsored by the Family Research Council.
Joining Bachmann will be Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kans., and Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and [...]
Talking Points Memo announced they are accepting nominations for their 3rd Annual Golden Duke Awards. The award is named after convicted Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham.
I think that Michele Bachmann is a serious contender in the "Meritorious Achievement in The Crazy" and "Best Public Policy-based Fib" categories. She's' [...]