So, let’s see… where did I leave off when I last posted here, two weeks ago? Oh, yeah, something about how the short-lived front-runner status of GOP presidential wannabes like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry demonstrated that “there’s something inherent about Republican party politics that makes being new and untested a plus and sustained public exposure a problem.”

Somehow this makes more sense than Bachmann herself.

Michele Bachmann retreats to a pumpkin farm to continue her homophobia, but some students follow her and are met with police who make sure Ms. Bachmann is not attacked by a gay pumpkin . . . or something.

The way the Republican Party keeps shuffling through front-runners for its 2012 presidential nomination, you almost start to wonder if these folks aren’t firm advocates of recycling after all.

Disposability is certainly something they have down pat.

Obama must be stopped while we still have some tyrants left!

This week, Michele Bachmann tries to convince us that Hezbollah is going to use Cuba as a missile base.

The same Republicans who are making the most noise over the Bush-backed Solyndra loan guarantee (yeah, Diaper David Vitter, I’m looking at you) are being oddly quiet over Bush’s role in making it happen, just as they’re being oddly quiet over their own support of loan guarantees and outright grants (aka free taxpayer money, folks) for energy-related projects in their own Republican districts. And you won’t hear Darrell Issa talk much about the burgeoning San Bernardino Airport scandal that’s unfolding, complete with an FBI raid, in the home district of Issa’s fellow California Republican congressman, Jerry Lewis, the former head of the House Appropriations Committee and a big fan of the Berdoo Boondoggle

In what appears to be an attempt to make light of her husband’s controversial, bogus ex-gay therapy service, Michele Bachmann bizarrely throws him under the bus while on Jay Leno’s show.

Just as Norm Coleman and other relatively progressive — or at least pragmatic — Republicans try to reassure Latino voters that the GOP isn’t stuffed stem-to-stern with lily-white bigots cowering in fear of skins browner than theirs, Michele Bachmann has to go harsh their mellow by visiting Joe Arpaio for the second time this year.

Michele Bachmann yearns for the good old days of whites-only immigration policy before those damn liberals ruined everything: