
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
for the week ending 1/27/07:
August 30, 2006 The congressional candidate [Michele Bachman] weighs in on the visit from President Bush with Jason Lewis on KTLK-FM (100.3). First she notes that Dubya is an "awesome date," before adding, "He's so buff. He's like you, Jason, he has 1 percent body fat."
1/20/07 — Dear Diary:
Ohmigod! The State of the Union speech is in, like, THREE days! I still haven't decided what to wear, although I've already called dibs on an aisle seat. Marcus tells me I'm being silly, but then again, Marcus is too busy spending time down at the health club sauna rooms deprogramming those terrible homosexuals. He won't even help me pick out a pants suit for this party! Ohmigod, George Bush in PERSON! In THREE DAYS! I can't believe it!
I hope this SOTU is as exciting as his last one was. Heavens, when he speaks in that wonderful cowboy accent, I just swoon.

1/21/07 — Dear Diary:
God woke me up this morning and told me to wear something ivory-colored on Tuesday night. I think I know just the outfit. Now what to do about jewelry? I can't ask Marcus – he's sound asleep after last night's session of making homosexuals ungay at those evil nightclubs in St. Paul. I wonder if God will speak to me (I mean, The Father, not studmuffin George Bush!
) before the speech like he did when he told me to cast my vote to eradicate the minimum wage. I wonder if I have time to get another botox shot before the show. I have to look my very best for the President! Ohmigod, when I saw those photos of Bush in his running shorts, I felt faint!
Oh, and Son #4 failed shop class. Marcus is going to have to have a talk with him about how it's not very Christian to prefer home economics to shop.
1/22/07 — Dear Diary:
IT'S TOMORROW! I quarreled with Marcus this morning because he told me to wear that horrid magenta suit he bought me last week, while God told me to wear ivory. Sorry, Marcus, but God wins this fight. And he won't talk to Son #4 about his bad grades. He says it's God's Will that the boy is all thumbs around the lathe. Oh well, so much for this year's prize at the church fair. #4 is such a disappointment to me.
But I will be seeing the President tomorrow night, and that really makes me tingle!
I wonder if I can have a private chat with George, and remind him of our custard-sharing moment last summer. Oh, he is sooooo dreamy and macho! Marcus swears he doesn't know how my framed photo of the President in his flightsuit wound up in his closet. It's probably the cleaning lady's fault.

1/23/07 – Dear Diary:
I can't believe I kissed the President. I KISSED George Bush — and he KISSED me back! Oh, I could see the love in his eyes as he turned to face me after that evil black person distracted him before our embrace. And that old cow who kept talking to him even though I could see how much he ached to have a private moment with me! But I felt his muscular shoulders with my very own hands, and God kept him standing there for my eyes to drink in. Oh, I am the luckiest woman in the world right now!
And what I relief that I stood my ground about the magenta suit. That horrid First Lady showed up in the very same outfit!
[More info about the delightful Ms. Bachman here.]
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Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog rather efficiently distills the SOTU down to its impure essence, while Media Needle's Tengrain captures the moment of the SOTU in one photo.
Agitprop's Blogenfreude once again rounds up the right-wing crazies. Such stamina…
Kerry at 100 Monkeys Typing notes that Bush is on track to meet his political capital expenditures. WTF Is It Now??'s Maru the Crankpot finds additional evidence that it's time to cart Poppy Bush off to the old folks' home.
Rising Hegemon's Attaturk nominates Jonah Goldberg for stupidest pundit in the universe. Spork_Incident at the eponymous A Spork in the Drawer finds it difficult to believe that Le Pantload du Dough is so blunt-skulled to get the reference in a pop culture reference. P O'Neill at Best of Both Worlds highlights some of the Pantload's finest racist douchebaggery, with a hat tip to the white supremacist rantings of Mark Steyn. First Draft's Holden provides the photographic evidence to substantiate all of these claims.
I'm with Roy at alicublog. Enough with the Iraq/sports analogies. This is war, not a game.
Holy crap. August J. Pollack proves that Tom Tancredo only gets stupider as the days progress. And Joe Lieberman gets even scarier.
The Booman Tribune's Steven D sees a vague resemblance between the work ethics of the "sovereign" Iraqi government and Congressional Republicans.
Brad DeLong takes a baseball bat to Dana Milbank's smarmy analysis of the revelations that resident Punkinhead and White house lie-regurgitator Timmeh Russert is Cheney's lapdog.
Uh-oh. Steve O. at Bring It On! identifies the main reason why we're going to invade Iran.
Jill at Feministe finds a survey for "modest" males looking to save their souls from the vile grasp of women. Judging from the results, women are at their best when immobile, and breathing very, very shallowly. TBogg tackles the latest "abstinence-only" wingnut with a porn star's sobriquet: Dawn Eden. The HELL? Meanwhile, our Lady of Perpetual Persecution, Sister Nancy Beth Eczema at Edicts of Nancy, bemoans the availability of birth control in the United States.
And speaking of Pleistocene thinking, Jesus' General writes a letter to fraternity assclown Jeremy Pelz. Rorschach at No Capital provides the back story.
Richie McWhite at Little Green Fascists rushes to poor, browbeaten Dick Cheney's defense.
Oliver Willis pokes Hugh Hewitt with a poin-ted stick, while Thers at Whiskey Fire holds him down. Clif at Outside the Tent stabs Dinesh D'Souza with an electric cattle prod.
Roger Ailes has a very dirty mind.
Travis G. at Sadly, No! channels Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco. BTW, congratulations to S, N!'s Retardo Montalban for coming up with an equally hysterical new pseudonym: HTML Mencken. Er…at least I think they're the same person…
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Watertiger! Fitz!
Watertiger!
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Elizabeth de la Vega will be interview 12:00 PST on KPFK in Los Angeles: http://www.kpfk.org/
typing nitpick: wingnut with a pron star’s sobriquet
s/b porn
they never show until you hit ‘post’
BTW, the march down in D.C. was great.
OMG.
She did slip him the tongue.
Eww.
HotFlash @ 5
Actually, I believe that is an accepted spelling variation (not to mention probably less likely to get caught by spam filters).
Although I believe the technically correct variation uses a “0″ instead of an “o”…
MysteriousTraveler @ 7
No, she just leaned in and told him he was a good, patriotic American.
“pron” is now porn!
watertiger @ 10
Pron is the new porn.
Or something…
Too funny!
Watertiger is too modest to note that Michelle sent a painting she commissioned off to the Decider.
The Naked Moron
HotFlash @
6
I thought “pron” was euphimism to avoid filtering.
Michele Bachmann, one “el”, two “ens”. It’s important, I think, to be accurate.
She’s such a freaking loon, may make Katherine Harris look sane. On the one hand it’s embarrassing to have her represent Minnesota, but on the other hand she’s no longer in the state senate and has been rendered an ineffectual clown in Washington D.C.
puppethead @ 16
My bad. I’m a bit sleep-deprived at the moment.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government discovers the joys of tokenism. And just when you thought the Likud and the Republicans couldn’t get much more alike if they merged outright.
puppethead @ 16
Was she a more effectual clown as a state senator?
If Michele Bachmann did not exists, it would be necessary to create her.
…or was that the other way around and it was Kathryn Harris.
Nice job, as always on the Snark Mistress Watertiger.
puppethead @ 15
Just think Romy and Michele.
EvilDrPuma @ 18
Seems to me she’d be a pretty effectual clown anywhere she went.
Thanks, Dr. Turk!
I completely blanked on the art. Sorry!
watertiger @ 23
That’s okay, you’re one tired hippy.
Eli @ 10
But did she have to do that with her tongue? That’s so French.
Attaturk @ 14
Good thing I wasn’t eating when I clicked on the “work” of art! What is it about these women? Do they send them to some special Republican training school on how to do the Decider?
EvilDrPuma @ 19
No! She was taken seriously in Minnesota, because we have an idiot GOP governor and the GOP controlled the House. Even though the Senate was DFL-controlled (Democrats), she was still a major voice. Now all that’s left is the idiot governor (DFL took control of the House, kept the Senate), and she’s gone to D.C. to act out her man-crush fantasies with Bush.
Some of her notable moments in Minnesota include:
1) Crouching in bushes to spy on pro-gay demonstrations. (See the photos!)
2) Videotaping people “stealing” light rail train rides, even though a ticket is good for all the riding you want for a few hours. She made the Senate watch her “proof”.
3) Running screaming out of a public appearance because she thought she was being attacked in the ladies’ room when some people who didn’t agree with her “cornered” her in the restroom. She ran out of the building and sped away in a waiting SUV.
4) Wearing high heels to a county fair (in the mud and stuff), during her campaigning, which everyone thought was asinine.
Attaturk @ 14
“Farewell, friend. Thou wert a thousand times more evil than I.”
EvilDrPuma @ 28
Oh, you don’t know the HALF of it! ;-)
puppethead @ 27
I am awed. Only a Republican governor could have saved this woman from being the first state senator to be served with a restraining order by her own constituency.
watertiger @ 29
I’m 2,003 times more evil.
Attaturk @ 31
And yet, you are still dwarfed by the monumental evil that is Joe Lieberman, for whom my contempt will never subside.
And yet, you are still dwarfed by the monumental evil that is Joe Lieberman, for whom my contempt will never subside.
His evil is a ever-exploding supernova of evil.
BTW, there were about 10 Freepers in a counterprotest at the march in D.C. yesterday. They were an embarrassment to themselves and others like them.
They also needed a cop to protect them from the smelly hippies. I kid you not.
watertiger @ 33
Joe Lieberman is so evil that, if I were as evil as he is, he would still be more evil than I.
watertiger @ 34
Were they young enough to serve? And if so, why weren’t they?
how many protesters?
(tens of thousands-how many 10’s?)
EvilDrPuma @ 36
Many of the hippies in their typical button-down shirts and Tretorn tennis shoes were asking them the very same question.
“I can’t ask Marcus – he’s sound asleep after last night’s session of making homosexuals ungay at those evil nightclubs in St. Paul”.
Just wanted to jump in to point out that St. Paul and Bachman have NO NO NO connection. She was elected by the eastern and northern suburbs, part of the evil conservative white-flight donut that surrounds Mpls/StP, and unfortunatlely contain about 51% of the state’s population now (hense the idiot governor). These are the folks who left the city to have a more ‘country’ experience and then demanded that Target, Kmart, Walmart and every junk food joint under the sun follow them out to service their needs.
Very snarkworthy:
Miss America also making fans out of men
Golly, Sarge! And all this time I’d believed this was mainly a lesbian thing.
I could spend the rest of my life searching the world’s various thesaurus’. And the simple matter of it is, is that the word ‘fake’ best suits our president. Fake businessman, fake prez, and above all, fake cowboy. Real cowboys, and cowgirls, don’t dress, act, talk, or for that matter think like Bush. This man is really aggravating when he affects that hobby-horse cowboy sh’t. This president is as much of a cowboy as was his hero, Ronald Reagan. At least Reagan could act the part.
Here’s one image of the Freeper contingent.
There were far more than ’10s of thousands’ of people there.
I was out for a bit. Just read Pach’s article in the prior thread. Nice work, Pach. Veddy interesting. I appreciate your perspective.
watertiger @ 42
excuse me-is that his real belly-guy with gas mask???
re numbers-I know better than to beleive any MSM numbers and was wondering if you heard any real counts while there…
Last DC march I was at was pro choice-over a million folks….it was amazing. Cant remember how many the news claimed but it way way low
Hey I have question (left it in the last Libby trial thread as well). Has anyone looked into the date/time where the VP office was filling in the conservative commentators to see if it matches the Secret Service records released for Jeff Gannon’s White HOuse visits? I’ve been meaning to look into it but have been busy. I don’t know what the real point would be, but it would be another interesting aside.
ruffian @ 43
You have to ask?
ruffian @ 44
That’s his gut, as far as I can tell. A blogger I know was at the start of the march, and she said that by the time she finished the circuit around Capitol Hill, there were still thousands waiting to start the march.
Ok I called my sis who was there and she est 70-75K. She lives in DC and is very active so I think its as good as an estimate as any
My brother was at the march and his best guess was “over 100,000 easily”.
EvilDrPuma@25: “But did she have to do that with her tongue? That’s so French.”
She was actually passing him a microchip detailing the location of the Nigerian yellowcake with the yummy Twinkie-creme filling.
It the presidential election in ‘08 comes down to Hagel vs. Clinton (and I don’t expect it to), and Hagel and Hillary are still as far apart on the Iraq issue as they are now, then this life long Demo just might vote Republican for the first time. I know full well about the conservative luggage that Hegel carries. And I don’t like it. But without peace in the world, the impression is, not much else matters.
From Vietnam to Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel has never been afraid to fight. Now he talks about what could be his biggest battle yet: a run for the White House.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16…../newsweek/
Holy Moly, so many links so little time. #4 sounds like a product of his environment!
Hil clobbers McCain & other Dems in poll
http://www.nydailynews.com/fro…..4956c.html
Oklahoma kiddo @ 41
The guys in Brokeback Mountain were real cowboys. Bush is a Dimestore Cowboy a Midnight Cowboy, a Howdy Doody puppet, a sh*tkicker…
The cowboy facade is recycled republican trickery well-suited for cardboard cut-out candidates whom exhibit low intellect, poor vocabulary and can feign a homespun, folksy demeanor or southern accent.
Reagan – an actor who played in cowboy movies was effective in this role.
He seemed a bore to me with his tiresome old man stories and corny jokes. Dubya, OTOH, simply had the phony exaggerated southern accent and a load in the pants swagger.
OT –
Holy *shit. I think they are starting to rev up for a pardon. Check out this quote from Cheney in Newsweek:
NEWSWEEK interview
It is easy for the debate about the numbers to sidetrack the impact and purpose of the event.
choochmac @ 54
I am afraid that this is coming – soon.
I actually don’t think they’ll try a pardon in the middle of the trial. It would be too obviously obstruction of justice–a way to interfere with something that they want covered up. I believe they’ll wait until after the trial is over, but may do it before a verdict, or before sentencing. I think they know that if they do it now, they could have another reaction like the one after the Saturday Night Massacre on their hands.
Ann in AZ @ 57
I agree, but I bet they would take awhile to set the stage. That way by the time it happened (their hope would be) it would seem not such a big deal.
oooh – just got here. Re the picture at the top:
Hey, that’s not LauraBot! He’s a philanderer! A man of loose morals! Where are his family values?
Where’s her left hand? I think his toes are curling.
Does Bachmann earn the title of Official Fluffer To the President?
Good God, get some dignity.
-GSD
watertiger @
42
Dear. Heaven’s. Sake.
Watertiger. FANTASTIC JOB! :-))))
Do not miss MUCH more at the Dump Michele Bachmann site, particularly Avidor’s Rodin Theocrats Kiss on Jan 26. Scroll down a little….
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/
“According to one Iraqi political source, hundreds of fighters drawn from both Sunni and Shia communities were still fighting.“
The US and Iraqi military are claiming to have killed 250 in this day long battle in Najaf.
Najaf which is way far away from Baghdad and from the Sunni triangle by the way.
-GSD
NOW we can impeach him!!!
This trial has actually garnered a lot more MSM attention than I thought it would, and certainly more than this administration hoped it would. I don’t think they’ll find it easy to convince folks that it’s no big deal anymore. And I gotta say, I give some credit to Chris Matthews, who has been pounding away at this from the beginning. Truth is, he has been against the Iraq venture from the beginning, and he seriously questioned the whole “mushroom cloud” bit. Can’t help it, I gotta give credit where credit is due. (Matthews has been so against the war that during the election cycle this time, although on one of his shows he said to Ned, “Sorry I can’t endorse you, but good luck to you.” on another show I heard him say, “To be very clear, to the people of Conneticut, if you’re against the war, go to the polls!” That’s sort of a paraphrase, but I think it’s pretty close to his actual words.)
Snarky Galore! Thanks for the screensprays!
You neglected the awarding of The Kippies at The Poor Man Institute, with featured presenter, Mark Foley
GetAFirstLife.com, as channelled by the incomparable Julia of Sisyphus Shrugged.
Plotlines from the Libby Trial & Other Headlines, from Sheri at World o’ Crap.
Optimus Cheney, from Norbizness.
Who Killed E. Howard Hunt? by Jon Swift, featuring a reply from Hunt’s son!
Setbacks for 2008 GOP hopefuls, from Corey Anderson.
And it’s been since Christmas that I checked up on David Rees, the toonest with the mostest.
[Mod Note; in the future, please limit your links to three or four per comment. Thanks.]
Doesn’t she know how gay it is to fellate the President of the Newnited Snakes?
And she’s not even a portly pepperpot!
Have a nice cigar!
Ann in AZ @ 65
The problem with Matthews is that he has flipped-flopped so much on it. I, too, remember he was skeptical at the beginning, but then he really got suckered into it. I remember him at times talking about the “visonary” aspect of Bush’s war (in a good sense) and how it demonstrated “strong leadership”. Even when the war started going badly, Matthews seemed to applaud Bush for “sticking with it” and “that’s how great men made their mark on history”. It has only been since this summer that he has consistently been anti-war.
Oh, and Son #4 failed shop class. Marcus is going to have to have a talk with him about how it’s not very Christian to prefer home economics to shop.
Take it from someone who grew up in rural Minnesota and preferred Home Ec to Shop (and Ag), this is a very big deal. At least it made me the topic of conversation among the town’s men-folk, and my father caught more than a little bit of crap about it.
They can nuke Sherburn, MN, for all I care.
Another helicopter shot down, this time in Najaf.
Given the recent number of these events, there has to be a new stash of arms coming into the country, and no telling from where at this point.
It might be crazy to suggest this, given that the downings have occurred in apparently Shia areas, but the guys with Stingers (many of them unaccounted for at the end of the Soviets’ war in Afghanistan) were bin Laden’s boys. Is it too much to posit that al-Qaeda hates us enough to give arms to Shias capable of shooting down our helicopters?
Choochmac @ 58, this Administration sure knows all about foreplay.
Bachman is a true Minnesota Original. Her big thing in the State Legislature was to try her best to get the anti-Gay Marriage amendment on the ballot — she tried three times, lost three times.
She had lots to do with ending a fairly progressive High School Achievement evaluation system called Profiles of Learning, and replacing it with standardized tests of rote learning. Sadly, she also does not believe in the Public School System, and her great dream is to Abolish Public Education. She home schooled her children, I think she has a total of eight, five of whom are adopted or are foster children. And yes, her Husband is a psychologist or counselor of some sort with a practice devoted to converting Gay’s to Straights.
She is totally opposed to abortion, of course, but also to birth control and all sex education in the schools, including AIDS awareness programs. She apparently left the Catholic Church some years back, because it was too liberal, and she and her Husband apparently are Wisconsin Synod Lutherans. But she is also big on the Mega Church non-denominational circut — she did lots of campaigning that way. I think her race was the second most expensive in the country — her DFL opponent was Patti Wetterling. The DFL may need to re-think 6th District strategy for 2008.
Geez, is she creepy. Did that church where she spoke before the election ever get investigated?
Off topic, but I just posted some of what Douglas Adams had to say about different forms of communication, and the new form that the internet affords us here.
Okay, I have a class to go to. By-ee!
montaq — keep in mind that the Saudis are probably not happy with us going after Sunnis.
I suspect the announcement in the SOTU that Bush wants to double the size of the strategic oil reserve was a kiss-and-makeup to the House of Saud. Too bad they might have already bought some stingers and spread them around.
Sara @ 72, this doesn’t quite fit the picture of her at the SOTU panting after (yuk) GWB. There’s no accounting for taste.
Rayne @ 74
The spreading them around is what confuses me a bit. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, or what???
montaq — I remember seeing explained once, can’t remember where…in Muslim cultures, it works more like this: me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin; me, my brother and cousin against my neighbor; me and my neighbor against outsiders, and so on.
It’s fluid and depends on the dispute. Americans are definitely outsiders. Period.
It seems to me I do vaguely remember Matthews being pretty suck-up and gushy about Bush as a “visionary” leader, blah, blah, blah… And I sure don’t like the way he always wants to talk over his guests, like what he says is ever-so-much more important than anything anyone else says. And I remember him saying, if Bush is right, he’ll be applauded and a hero, if not… But it does seem to me that he did pound on this case more than the rest of the MSM, so for that alone, I give him some credit.
That’s a great diary but I enjoyed The Washingtonienne’s diary a little bit more.
:-) …give her time and she’ll be hittin’ on Hannity like our gone but not forgotten pink sugar. Can she do that subtle chest thrust in the interviews?
Terry Olson @ 61
Looks like they both swallowed a coupla hippies, there.
You guys do know that Ricki Lee Jones is upstairs, don’t you?
We do now….thanks!
Ugh, I just ate! You need a warning like some kind of squidge alert level orange (magenta?) on this posting!
What to wear..at least TWO panty liners, he’s so buff.
All I can say is, I’ll be devastated if Jason Lewis (Samantha’s hot younger boyfriend Smith Jerrod in Sex and the City) is a Rethug.
I smell a meeting going on somewhere…
Don’t you?
It’s like the Force has collected itself and is organizing, even as I type this. Better feeling than in my corporate drone days, wondering what management was up to when they went silent and disappeared into cavernous rooms or off-site meeting locations, when you knew the outcome would be no good.
I sense being watched, too. Makes me want to stick out my tongue and blow raspberries.
Thhhbbbppppp!!!!
Who was the black woman dressed in red falling all over Bush at the SOTU?
Michelle put her box in a box for Dubya!
barrelhse @
84
barrelhse, EXCELLENT.
Dump Michele Bachmann has moved their “Kiss” up for easier viewing. Don’t miss it!
http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/