or they should just choose somebody at random. Whatever they do, it's funny.

If a little American style socialism is what it takes to undo the carnage that three decades of the "greed is good" mentality has wrought on the economy, then bring it on. This whole unregulated free market capitalism thing is looking more and more like a global Ponzi scheme every day.

The nearly pure speculative market we've seen in recent decades IS a Ponzi scheme in the only way that matters: Everybody's payout consists entirely of someone else's new investment.

So here Bachmann is trying futilely to tie democratic policies to some extremists, the same way the democrats did so successfully with Limbaugh. However, her attempt is about as impotent as it gets. Wade Churchill and Bill Ayers? What on earth do they have to do with the Democrats? Do they hold positions of power? If a democrat criticizes one of them, do they later have to grovel with an apology?

Michelle Bachmann is another GOP idiot. Keep 'em coming!

Please continue, Rep. Bachmann. Please continue to utter the initials "FDR" and "LBJ" in the context of the current President. Most Americans know that FDR gave us Social Security and a few more will recall that LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act into law. If they think that the current proposals will be as forward-looking and helpful to the vast majority of Americans, they will support them 100%.

How's that Perm Repub Majority going?

Not with a bang but a whimper, I'd say.

Bachman seriously needs to get some new writers: if Ward Churchill's ideas were being implemented, she'd probably be getting evicted by the original owners of her state.

She does know that FDR died BEFORE the sixites, right? She also knows that Obmaa was in grade school at the time of Bill Ayers, too? The GOP must really think the general public is stupid if they think all they have to do is throw around some names and the public will make a connection. BTW: I think most people have a rather positive view of FDR so yeah, you run with that. Talk about being out of touch.

Bachmann said. "If you look at FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama, this is really the final leap to socialism."

Timothy3 said, "If you look at Bachmann, Limbaugh, Steele, et.al., this is really the final leap to uttery idiocy."

Michelle Bachmann has always struck me as being mentally ill. People can disagree, there are some bright conservatives out there even if I don't agree with them, but the combination of her delusions and behavior at various times indicates that MB has some sort of condition.

**Michelle Bachmann is another GOP idiot. Keep 'em coming!**

Bachmann is in the top-five list of most unhinged GOP House members in Washington.

Oh my....Congresswoman Bachman, I am sorry.

I sometimes say the opposite of what I mean.

If anything that may have been said was misconstrued in any way (such as 'you are a loony fucking douchebag fascist and a willfully ignorant fundie, flat-earther'), then I am deeply sorry.

You know what we should do? Nationalize health care. Then she'll really see what the "final leap to socialism" is. Then she'll regret her intemperate rhetoric! Don't spend it all in one place!

is a republican, you dummy.

Hugo Chavez is somewhat different than Obama. True, he is nationalizing industries, just like some of the plans under consideration in Washington (e.g., Chris Dodd and the banks). Today, Chavez nationalized the assets of Cargill, the American ag company, and threatened nationalization of a local ag company as well. He criticized the Cargill executives with rhetoric similar to, but more harsh, than that used by David Axlerod, Dodd, and others to vituperate car and bank executives here at home. Of course, the big common denominator is Billy the Bomber Ayres, who has been in Venezuela working with Hugo on his various schemes. It's nice to see Bill find a new pal. (No one word yet on what Mrs. Ayres is doing; maybe she could find a right wing judge's house in Caracas to set on fire at night, for old time's sake).

Seriously, though, Obama is no socialist. He's just a liberal goofball. We'll get through our ordeal in a lot better shape than the folks down south.

Well, considering what unfettered capitalism did for all of us, maybe, just maybe that socialism like, oh, Sweden, isn't such a bad idea after all.

Bachmann, go lock yourself in a room with Rush Limbaugh. All the hot air would keep Minnesota warm next winter.

when Bachmann, or Zach Wamp, spew this completely deranged gabble I generally assume they're just parroting the equally deranged gabble of the constituents in their districts.

But...in the case of Bachmann, I'm really beginning to wonder if she's got a clinical problem. I hope she's just a pathetic panderer. And I have the dreary feeling that's all it is.

But what if it's not? Can you remove a congressperson for being crazy? Sorry. What a stupid question. Of course you can't, if you could, there'd be no GOP House members left.

Socialism, basically, is when there is no private industry.

The government, in the words of the old Clause Four of the British Labour Party's constitution, controls the "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.".

ie the govt makes everything and sells everything. No Ben and Jerry's, Ford, Apple, GE, Google, Barnes and Noble or L.L. Bean.

Conservatives, even the loony from St. Cloud, know that what the Dems want to do is nothing like "socialism". They just hope that there are enough people out there who buy it...

however it has to be pointed out that their belief that private wealth should rule unhindered has been thoroughly discredited before and has always, because it could afford unlimited propaganda, made a comeback. We should be confident but not careless.

Republicans are compelled to redefine themselves, and if they keep positioning themselves AGAINST things or people, they are bound to remain at least one step behind things and people :

http://e-blogules.blogspot.com/2009/03/gopgle-dont-be-evil.html