http://cornerhousecomments.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/wellstone-mental-health-parity-moves-foward/

tanglewood Says
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Seriously, anyone know what kind of district she comes from? She’s absolutely nuts.
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She comes from Minnesota’s sixth district, which lies north of the Twin Cities. It contains St. Cloud and goes east to the Wisconsin border.

Bachmann is currently serving her first term in the House, which she won with the help of very well-organized evangelical Christian groups.

I don’t know how her re-election campaign is going.

I live in the Minnesota Sixth – St. Cloud to be exact. While I can’t speak for the rest of the district the area around St. Cloud is heavily conservative. And while conservativism in and of itself is not an inherently bad thing, a lot of these folks are “true believers”. They believe everything that comes out of any Republican or right-wing source – no matter how rediculous it may be. When given a choice between fact and ideology, they’ll choose ideology every time. These are the kind of people that John Dean writes about in Conservatives Without Conscience.

That said, the Tinklenberg campaign seems to be polling very well throughout the district, even around here. Hopefully, this will be Mrs. Bachmann’s one and only term.

Just stick to the script of God & Country (only to drill by all means necessary…by the rich elite wh0res, to the rich elite wh0res and for the rich elite wh0res) and you’ll be set.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-OffshoreDrilling.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in an month-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.

Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election.

Fother Chuckers!

This rationale of using “new” oil to pay for the Bailout rings very familiar; along the lines of the Iraq War will pay for itself, and we know how that has gone. In regards to Palin’s ‘Pipeline to Nowhere’, this weeks issue in Newsweek has a nice write-up. The Indians of the First Nation in the Yukon are less than pleased with plans for pipeline going through their territory. Their plan is to litigate, so the stated 7-year completion of the project will be quite a bit longer.

As an aside, ‘drill baby drill’ is a nifty little mantra (short, not too many syllables), but where in the hell will all this oil be refined? Aren’t the refineries close to capacity? If so, this fetish for drilling seems rather Nazi’ish, since Hitler was obsessed with capturing Russia’s oil deposits in the Caspian.

It’s not just a bailout of junk assets owned by investment firms, it’s corporafornication! Bend over taxpayer, Michele and McCain are coming…

Ummm, no thanks. I suspect that well is dry. Light a candle by one of her ears, walk around to the other side, and you’ll see what I mean.

Cheers,

THEY’VE GOT 68 MILLION ACRES ALREADY LEASED FOR DRILLING! WHY DO THEY NEED MORE?
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Eh, you’re wasting your breath. Nobody will ever explain that. If you ask questions like that, you must not want lower gas prices, and everybody knows that in order to get gas prices to go down, you must drill baby drill (never mind how little sense that makes).

And if you still want to ask why oil companies aren’t drilling on the leases they already have despite the logic outlined in the above paragraph — well, you must not be a patriotic American.

/snark off

Then they were elected using national party resources to manipulate anyone who thinks “Christian” means “trustworthy” while their over matched opponents were unable to motivate a disinterested/disgusted/detached majority.

The only real difference between them is that, so far, Palin has been able to avoid live microphones.

Evening show-Iran

Get your tickets now!

Only the super rich can afford to pay last week’s $900,000 price for a credit default swap on Goldman Sachs’ debt. But they wouldn’t stand for payday loan rates and the credit market froze up.

However, the wealthy do want those poor, tax paying people to foot the bill for their devalued troubled assets. Limiting purchases to “mortgage related securities” made it too easy to connect the problem to wealthy Wall Street.

If silly people like Michele Bachmann are going to blame the poor, the bailout has to go beyond CMBS facilities and credit default swaps.

Only these Republicans are willing to shoot themselves in both the feet and legs before they put the gun to their own heads for kicks…and it is all “our” fault they did it!

So she’s saying the oil companies will be “taxed” to help recoup the costs? Sure.

THEY’VE GOT 68 MILLION ACRES ALREADY LEASED FOR DRILLING! WHY DO THEY NEED MORE?

Please watch this….it really needs to go viral! Rep. Kaptur hits the nail on the head!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S27yitK32ds