Sarah Palin has a well-documented history of stabbing in the back (only figuratively, as far as we know) every old white man who helped her along the way in her rise to prominence in Alaskan politics. She's about to do the same thing on a nation scale.

Anyone with any sense can see that she will lead an effort to take on the big-money Republican Party establishment in their 2012 nominating convention. Her name will be placed in nomination for president at that convention. She will narrowly miss being the nominee and will promptly start a third party campaign, thus leading the birthers and far right wing Christianist wing out of the party.

Sarah will successfully break up the Republican coalition pulled together by Ronald Reagan. Unlike recent efforts, her third party will persist for several election cycles and may even eclipse the Republican party in certain areas of the West and South. The entire political landscape of the U.S. is about to change in major ways, and, although Sarah will never be elected to major office, she will be the one to spearhead the change.

Ms. Bachmann simply pulls out of thin air the things that suit what seem to her to be the needs of the moment. She's the kind of woman who has little identity of her own but relies on her connection to the men around her to give her an identity (severely co-dependent). For example just find the clip of her clinging to and eventually kissing President Bush at his second inauguration. Classic co-dependent behavior to the point of inducing nausea in healthy people who watch it.

No doubt she pulled the pro-choice language out of thin air because she'd heard it before, but couldn't remember where. Still, it seemed to say what she wanted to say. No doubt she'll soon dismiss as an "urban legend" that she ever said it, just as she did when she borrowed language from the John Birch society demanding that all the members of Congress be investigated to see which ones are pro-American and which are anti-American.

One last thought... PLEASE don't think of Michelle Bachmann as representative of the state of Minnesota. She was elected from a district gerrymandered out of the most conservative Catholic area of the state combined with the most conservative evangelical Christianist northern suburbs of the Minneapolis/St.Paul metro area. Those of us in the rest of the state cringe just as much as moderates and liberals throughout the nation cringe every time she opens her mouth.

I definitely smell Orly.

But I smell Orly

In it's original context, has nothing to do with taking care of other people, rather, it is Cain's rebellious, adolescent, mouthy response to God when God challenged Cain immediately after Cain had murdered his brother Abel.

A quick thumbnail sketch: Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's first two children (traditionally the first two human children to be born in history). Cain was a grain farmer, while Abel was a shepherd. When the two brought offerings to God, God accepted Abel's offering of the fat from the first lambs born of his flock, bur rejected Cain's offering of grain (for reasons not made clear in the story).

Cain, who grew angry at God's slight, invited Abel out into a field and murdered him. God (knowing what happened of course), found Cain and asked him where his brother was.

It was at this point that Cain responded rebelliously, "Am I my brother's keeper?"

God responded "What have you done? Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!"

Then Cain was cursed by God... his crops would become much harder to grow because the soil will not cooperate with him. He must then leave his family behind and wander the earth.

When Cain complained that, if he was forced to wander the earth as a fugitive and stranger, people would want to kill him wherever he went, God put a mark on Cain so that everyone he met would know who he was and that God had forbidden anyone to kill him.

So the very ironic point of the story when applied to the right wingers who seem to want to ask the same rebellious, sarcastic, adolescent question of the rest of us (and God) is that Cain, whom they seem to admire?, was mouthing off to God to try to cover his backside because he had just MURDERED his brother.

Perhaps they don't realize it, but in asking derisively, "Am I my brother's keeper?", they are claiming the honor, the mantle, and the tradition of the first murderer recorded in the history of the Judeo/Christian tradition, and perhaps in some kind of Freudian slip, revealing their true nature, a nature which is no more pleasing to God than was Cain's.

Rubaugh has been complaining for months about having to bend over... let's just fulfill his wildest, most feverishly desired dreams.

When congress comes back into session, nail down the details, pass the bill, get it signed, then, IMMEDIATELY start the campaign against all those who were already killing grandma and grandpa and brothers and sisters and children - all those who were dying for lack of medical care who will now be covered...,

all those whose small businesses were saved because they could finally afford health care for their workers, a whole series of testimonial commercials from regular folks telling how the new health care reforms saved them, reminding folks who were the ones responsible for saving them, and who were the ones opposed. Be sure to feature Jim Bob and Mary Sue from somewhere down south in the commercials that air in that area.

Let the Repubs. respond with their typical red-faced bluster and blow. They'll just look like the selfish, angry, rich old (mostly white) men they are.