Here's some of my favorite Bachmann testimonials. Please add yours in the comments:
"We'll wrap up the sex survey here, and just when we're in the sexin' up mood, then we'll turn to Michele at 8 o'clock for a happy ending." Tom Barnard, KQRS Morning Show, May 12, 2005.
"Hot Sexy Minx" - Tom Barnard, May 11, 2005
"Senator Eye Candy" - JB from Fraters Libertas.
Jim Bernstein, Commerce Commissioner under Jesse Ventura:
She will manipulate, fabricate, restate, obfuscate, misrepresent, misquote, mistreat and use whatever tactic she thinks she might be able to get away with to make her point. Sen. Bachmann knows no ethical boundaries and has no discernible conscience except that whatever moves her agenda forward is acceptable because her agenda is "right" and everyone else is wrong.
Sen. Bachmann believes in "scientific creationism" (an oxymoron if ever there was one)as passionately as she believes in anything. She has also spoken quite often about the need to insure that children are given "all sides" of the origin question but that "scientific creationism" is the only true one because it comes from God! - Former Commerce Commissioner Jim Bernstein, February 2004.
PZ Myers from Pharyngula:
That Bachmann. She is simply an awful legislator, a far right wing ideologue who was behind the pressure to include Intelligent Design creationism in our public school curricula, and completely derailed the last legislative session with her crusade against gay marriage. She's a disaster. - PZ Myers, Pharyngula, 3/02/05
Constituent Corbett Johnson, Forest Lake:
I am sixty years old, happily married and have one son who is thirteen. I am terrified by the direction people like Senator Michelle Bachman are trying to take this state and this country. What would Abraham Lincoln think of our party today? I am embarassed by the positions taken by Senator Bachman and equally appalled by the retoric on both sides of the aisle. If we all could tone things down and calmly look at the isues I believe Senator Bachman's views would finally be seen for what they are and in the light of day she would have to go away. Pandering to the fears of uniformed people is not Christian. Jesus never said, " Come unto me, some of you." We need to get serious about real issues.
Constituent Karl Bremer, Stillwater:
March 3, 2003
To the Editor:
When I think of State Sen. Michele Bachmann, hard-working aren't the first words that come to mind. Self-serving maybe, but not hard-working.
Bachmann has the lightest workload of any state senator. Although she serves on only three committees, two of them meet at exactly the same time. That means Bachmann only attends a maximum of four committee meetings a week. The rest of her colleagues' calendars, with the exception of two in leadership positions, are filled with anywhere from six to 11 committee meetings a week.
According to the Secretary of the Senate's office, senators are "strongly discouraged" from requesting assignments to committees with conflicting schedules. An aide in Bachmann's office says she often attends committee meetings in lieu of the senator. Is this the kind of representation Washington County voters elected in November?
When Bachmann's not skipping committee meetings, she's promoting herself with meaningless resolutions-six of them already this session, dealing with such matters as a missile defense system and the federal estate tax. Bachmann is well-versed in the art of authoring these self-serving public relations gimmicks. In her first two years in office, she authored 21 of them-10 percent of all the resolutions proposed by the entire 67-member Senate during that period. When you add up the cost of drafting, printing, voting on and recording these resolutions, the cost to taxpayers for promoting Michele Bachmann starts to look like real money.
When Michele Bachmann's lease is up in four years-after all, she says she's just renting the office - the voters of Senate District 52 should evict this deadbeat tenant and elect someone who at least pays the rent. - Karl Bremer, Letter to the Editor, Stillwater Gazette, March 3, 2003
Joe Mayo at First Ring blog:
For reasons I cannot explain, Bachmann keeps bringing in the cash, which is not the most essential part of the endorsement process (remember that Brian Sullivan outspent Tim Pawlenty in 2002). While this will undoubtedly bolster her candidacy, one wonders when she will slip up again. Trust me Bachmann-philes, we are only moments away from another Bathroom-gate and hiding behind the bushes incident. |
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