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	<title>Comments on: Touting Her Currency Conspiracy, Bachmann Insists: &#8216;This Is Not Michele Bachmann Being A Kook&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: Serg909</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-7/#comment-5571540</link>
		<dc:creator>Serg909</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>id hate to see her im full kook form</description>
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		<title>By: Serg909</title>
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		<dc:creator>Serg909</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wow this is her not being a kok</description>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5570652</link>
		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to see a kook follow this link and read a few articles from the archives.

http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to see a kook follow this link and read a few articles from the archives.</p>
<p><a href="http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://dumpbachmann.blogspot.com/</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570652', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: blood1</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5570614</link>
		<dc:creator>blood1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, most of us WHO ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE STORY know that this fire storm is coming...so we are forewarned.

If the GOP legislatures actually jump onto this bandwagon, which will be debunked, they will only look more lost than they currently appear.  

This will be just another distraction and waste of energy, but what I am seeing is that many bloggers are not reading or doing any research before they respond to information and so many of the discussions are screaming, yelling, name calling and a waste of time.  

This is almost as depressing as listening to Bachman make her own reality and the talking heads allowing it to air...aren&#039;t these individuals suppose to be adults?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, most of us WHO ACTUALLY READ THE ENTIRE STORY know that this fire storm is coming&#8230;so we are forewarned.</p>
<p>If the GOP legislatures actually jump onto this bandwagon, which will be debunked, they will only look more lost than they currently appear.  </p>
<p>This will be just another distraction and waste of energy, but what I am seeing is that many bloggers are not reading or doing any research before they respond to information and so many of the discussions are screaming, yelling, name calling and a waste of time.  </p>
<p>This is almost as depressing as listening to Bachman make her own reality and the talking heads allowing it to air&#8230;aren&#8217;t these individuals suppose to be adults?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570614', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Kookster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You people want to see a Kook? Get up go into your bathroom and look in the mirror. 

Or you&#039;re simply in denial. I guess I would deny the inevitability of anything that makes me uncomfortable, and globalization of currencies will indeed be VERY uncomfortable, but it doesn&#039;t make it any less inevitable. Get ready for it, it&#039;s coming!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You people want to see a Kook? Get up go into your bathroom and look in the mirror. </p>
<p>Or you&#8217;re simply in denial. I guess I would deny the inevitability of anything that makes me uncomfortable, and globalization of currencies will indeed be VERY uncomfortable, but it doesn&#8217;t make it any less inevitable. Get ready for it, it&#8217;s coming!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570590', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Getting reinforcement for your delusions from Conservapedia, stupid trollette?

Since I am neither a liberal nor a progressive, we can dispense with that bit.  guess that you will have to take it on faith that I can tell the difference between a political argument and an insane rant.

As I have made abundantly clear, my objection to Crazy Shelly is not her politics, it&#039;s her long record of erratic and bizarre behavior and proudly maintained ignorance of the issues she is charged to make decisions about.

I have followed her career for years and I do not make these statements out of ignorance, indifference, malice, or political gain. My observation of her and her related record has convinced me and others, beyond any doubt, that she is fundamentally incapable of being trusted to make a rational decision about anything.

All this would be bad enough but, she goes on. She has a disturbing habit of using any microphone she can find to incite a bunch of inbred hicks to begin an armed insurrection against our lawfully elected government. She is, at best, a dangerous kook. At worst? She&#039;s a traitor who, along with other voices of the Radical Reich, may end up with even more blood on their hands. And that would be an unbearable tragedy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Getting reinforcement for your delusions from Conservapedia, stupid trollette?</p>
<p>Since I am neither a liberal nor a progressive, we can dispense with that bit.  guess that you will have to take it on faith that I can tell the difference between a political argument and an insane rant.</p>
<p>As I have made abundantly clear, my objection to Crazy Shelly is not her politics, it&#8217;s her long record of erratic and bizarre behavior and proudly maintained ignorance of the issues she is charged to make decisions about.</p>
<p>I have followed her career for years and I do not make these statements out of ignorance, indifference, malice, or political gain. My observation of her and her related record has convinced me and others, beyond any doubt, that she is fundamentally incapable of being trusted to make a rational decision about anything.</p>
<p>All this would be bad enough but, she goes on. She has a disturbing habit of using any microphone she can find to incite a bunch of inbred hicks to begin an armed insurrection against our lawfully elected government. She is, at best, a dangerous kook. At worst? She&#8217;s a traitor who, along with other voices of the Radical Reich, may end up with even more blood on their hands. And that would be an unbearable tragedy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570399', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mary Lamb</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mary Lamb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Eugene:
Mary Lamb Says: 

STUPID check

Delusiona check

product of intense brainwashing check

Ok MaryhadalittleLamb. That was the ignorant troll trifecta. Your post was possibly the stupidest thing I have read this week. Do you post the conversations you have with the voices in your head often?

It really is true, liberals have no sense of humor.  My, my, such anger spewing hatred, Eugene.  I hope this article helps you:

Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

&quot;Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,&quot; says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, &quot;The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.&quot; &quot;Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.&quot;

While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to &quot;the vast right-wing conspiracy.&quot;

For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.  

&quot;A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,&quot; he says. &quot;A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation&#039;s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.&quot;

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization; 
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government. 
&quot;The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,&quot; he says. &quot;When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Eugene:<br />
Mary Lamb Says: </p>
<p>STUPID check</p>
<p>Delusiona check</p>
<p>product of intense brainwashing check</p>
<p>Ok MaryhadalittleLamb. That was the ignorant troll trifecta. Your post was possibly the stupidest thing I have read this week. Do you post the conversations you have with the voices in your head often?</p>
<p>It really is true, liberals have no sense of humor.  My, my, such anger spewing hatred, Eugene.  I hope this article helps you:</p>
<p>Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.</p>
<p>&#8220;Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,&#8221; says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, &#8220;The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.&#8221; &#8220;Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.&#8221;</p>
<p>While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to &#8220;the vast right-wing conspiracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.</p>
<p>Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by both Barack Obama and his Democratic primary opponent Hillary Clinton can only be understood as a psychological disorder.  </p>
<p>&#8220;A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,&#8221; he says. &#8220;A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation&#8217;s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:</p>
<p>creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;<br />
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;</p>
<p>augmenting primitive feelings of envy;</p>
<p>rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.<br />
&#8220;The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,&#8221; he says. &#8220;When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570310', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5570278</link>
		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, Mary Stupid Troll.

Crazy Shelly&#039;s political ideals never even reach the threshold of relevancy because her intellectual, and behavioral, shortcomings are so very glaring. She is so completely unqualified to make decisions that influence others that I weep when I consider the fact that such monumental idiots actually have a voice in the adoption of public policy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, Mary Stupid Troll.</p>
<p>Crazy Shelly&#8217;s political ideals never even reach the threshold of relevancy because her intellectual, and behavioral, shortcomings are so very glaring. She is so completely unqualified to make decisions that influence others that I weep when I consider the fact that such monumental idiots actually have a voice in the adoption of public policy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570278', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pete</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5570257</link>
		<dc:creator>pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s of no use to argue with someone too stupid to realize Crazy Shelly is a danger to the continued survival of the human race. Reeducation is not even an option because she doesn&#039;t have anything that equates to a real education here in the reality based community.

As for the rest of it, it reads like old pulp fiction. Plus, when one looks at some of the crap done under Chimpy? We should be carrying some guilt around. In fact, if one is not ashamed by the crimes committed in our names, there is a fundamental flaw in your intellect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s of no use to argue with someone too stupid to realize Crazy Shelly is a danger to the continued survival of the human race. Reeducation is not even an option because she doesn&#8217;t have anything that equates to a real education here in the reality based community.</p>
<p>As for the rest of it, it reads like old pulp fiction. Plus, when one looks at some of the crap done under Chimpy? We should be carrying some guilt around. In fact, if one is not ashamed by the crimes committed in our names, there is a fundamental flaw in your intellect.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570257', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Eugene atrax robustus Debs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5570174</link>
		<dc:creator>Eugene atrax robustus Debs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mary Lamb Says: 


Sorry Mary I dont go to sites linked to by crazy people. You are simply too stupid to take seriously</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mary Lamb Says: </p>
<p>Sorry Mary I dont go to sites linked to by crazy people. You are simply too stupid to take seriously<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570174', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Eugene atrax robustus Debs</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eugene atrax robustus Debs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mary Lamb Says: 

STUPID  check

Delusiona   check

product of intense brainwashing   check

Ok MaryhadalittleLamb. That was the ignorant troll trifecta. Your post was possibly the stupidest thing I have read this week. Do you post the conversations you have with the voices in your head often?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mary Lamb Says: </p>
<p>STUPID  check</p>
<p>Delusiona   check</p>
<p>product of intense brainwashing   check</p>
<p>Ok MaryhadalittleLamb. That was the ignorant troll trifecta. Your post was possibly the stupidest thing I have read this week. Do you post the conversations you have with the voices in your head often?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5570171', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: myworld</title>
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		<dc:creator>myworld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congress needs to get a EPO they will never know when the knife will come out.This stateswoman is unfit</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congress needs to get a EPO they will never know when the knife will come out.This stateswoman is unfit<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569982', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mary Lamb</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5569877</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lamb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, so sorry, comrades, I forgot to send you the link to the guilt quiz.  I&#039;m afraid Michelle will have a high score!

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=3154</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, so sorry, comrades, I forgot to send you the link to the guilt quiz.  I&#8217;m afraid Michelle will have a high score!</p>
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		<title>By: Mary Lamb</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5569862</link>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lamb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes comrades, she is crazy and will need the re-education camp.  As soon as Obama&#039;s army of brown-shirts can detain her, she should be indocrinated fully through the Karl Marx treatment center:

We don&#039;t believe in chance, that&#039;s why we are disposing of capitalism. We can&#039;t leave Guilt™ to chance either - it is a fickle sentiment and, therefore, it must be systematically reinforced and replenished. In order to support a massive guilt-fueled American economy, both Guilt™ and Sharing™ must be institutionalized and managed in a planned, scientific manner from a central location by experienced professionals.

To rule over the guilt-driven nation more efficiently, the Obama administration needs to create the US Department of Guilt - a government agency intended to stimulate and enhance guilt complexes among the population through coordinated guilt-inducing campaigns in the media, entertainment, and public education. 

Guilt czar is to be selected from among the best professional guilt trippers on the raster of Socialist International, to oversee the proper distribution of Guilt™ among all Americans in accordance with assigned quotas (see diagram below). Guilt czar will steer and support the transition from Conspicuous Consumption™ of the Gilded Age to Conspicuous Compassion™ of the Guilted Age, as mandated by government edict. 

To this end scientists at Karl Marx Treatment Center developed the following Progressive Guilt Quiz. It is to be taken by all Americans at the start of each fiscal year, to estimate their position in the Guilt™ hierarchy. The level of Guilt™ they are required to feel is directly proportional to the money they are required to Share™ with the Party and its organs in order to receive their annual Guilt™ Offsets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes comrades, she is crazy and will need the re-education camp.  As soon as Obama&#8217;s army of brown-shirts can detain her, she should be indocrinated fully through the Karl Marx treatment center:</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t believe in chance, that&#8217;s why we are disposing of capitalism. We can&#8217;t leave Guilt™ to chance either &#8211; it is a fickle sentiment and, therefore, it must be systematically reinforced and replenished. In order to support a massive guilt-fueled American economy, both Guilt™ and Sharing™ must be institutionalized and managed in a planned, scientific manner from a central location by experienced professionals.</p>
<p>To rule over the guilt-driven nation more efficiently, the Obama administration needs to create the US Department of Guilt &#8211; a government agency intended to stimulate and enhance guilt complexes among the population through coordinated guilt-inducing campaigns in the media, entertainment, and public education. </p>
<p>Guilt czar is to be selected from among the best professional guilt trippers on the raster of Socialist International, to oversee the proper distribution of Guilt™ among all Americans in accordance with assigned quotas (see diagram below). Guilt czar will steer and support the transition from Conspicuous Consumption™ of the Gilded Age to Conspicuous Compassion™ of the Guilted Age, as mandated by government edict. </p>
<p>To this end scientists at Karl Marx Treatment Center developed the following Progressive Guilt Quiz. It is to be taken by all Americans at the start of each fiscal year, to estimate their position in the Guilt™ hierarchy. The level of Guilt™ they are required to feel is directly proportional to the money they are required to Share™ with the Party and its organs in order to receive their annual Guilt™ Offsets.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569862', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: E Z Rider</title>
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		<dc:creator>E Z Rider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bachmann, Palen, Jindal they are all out of the same box.

The true future of the republican party.

Doncha jest luv it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bachmann, Palen, Jindal they are all out of the same box.</p>
<p>The true future of the republican party.</p>
<p>Doncha jest luv it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569745', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: faultroy</title>
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		<dc:creator>faultroy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, I must be pretty stupid, since I see Bachmann&#039;s point.
I mean from an economic standpoint, if there was a world currency, the United State&#039;s dollar would have to float on a &quot;crediblity,&quot; scale.  Since our country saves less per capita than any other industrialized country in the world and we are awash in consumer dept, and since our economy is based on agriculture (our #1 export)finance and housing, what will we have to support our huge deficits???
   It really would be a no brainer to infer that (world currency) would seriously impact the value of the dollar but also to loose value against other countrys&#039; currency.  Of course this is happening as we speak--which is why the Fed is bailing out all these major corporations--to save the dollar from spiraling down on the world trading market.  But Bachmann is correct in saying that a world currency--which would probably be guaranteed by the major world powers would certainly negatively impact the dollar--how could it not???
  And a world currency makes perfect sense to every major international company out there.  If the entire world--made up of individual countries unilaterally guaranteed the efficacy of said currency, then no country--even the USA would be imperiled should one country go bankrupt.  It will definitely happen.  It will of course not be to our advantage,
but hey we are talking about the world!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, I must be pretty stupid, since I see Bachmann&#8217;s point.<br />
I mean from an economic standpoint, if there was a world currency, the United State&#8217;s dollar would have to float on a &#8220;crediblity,&#8221; scale.  Since our country saves less per capita than any other industrialized country in the world and we are awash in consumer dept, and since our economy is based on agriculture (our #1 export)finance and housing, what will we have to support our huge deficits???<br />
   It really would be a no brainer to infer that (world currency) would seriously impact the value of the dollar but also to loose value against other countrys&#8217; currency.  Of course this is happening as we speak&#8211;which is why the Fed is bailing out all these major corporations&#8211;to save the dollar from spiraling down on the world trading market.  But Bachmann is correct in saying that a world currency&#8211;which would probably be guaranteed by the major world powers would certainly negatively impact the dollar&#8211;how could it not???<br />
  And a world currency makes perfect sense to every major international company out there.  If the entire world&#8211;made up of individual countries unilaterally guaranteed the efficacy of said currency, then no country&#8211;even the USA would be imperiled should one country go bankrupt.  It will definitely happen.  It will of course not be to our advantage,<br />
but hey we are talking about the world!!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569673', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Geezer Antman Bee</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5569570</link>
		<dc:creator>Geezer Antman Bee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Compared to Bachmann&#039;s latest seditious statements this rant is a bit mild. She is more than merely unhinged, her outbursts border on the criminal. In making a calculated appeal to the the armed wing-nuts for armed insurrection against a legally elected government she has crossed the line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compared to Bachmann&#8217;s latest seditious statements this rant is a bit mild. She is more than merely unhinged, her outbursts border on the criminal. In making a calculated appeal to the the armed wing-nuts for armed insurrection against a legally elected government she has crossed the line.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569570', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: LibertyLover</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/27/bachmann-kook/comment-page-6/#comment-5569517</link>
		<dc:creator>LibertyLover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The stupid is strong in this one....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The stupid is strong in this one&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569517', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zooey Lepidoptera</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zooey Lepidoptera</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Touting Her Currency Conspiracy, Bachmann Insists: ‘This Is Not Michele Bachmann Being A Kook’ &lt;/strong&gt;

It&#039;s weird that she feels the need to clarify this...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Touting Her Currency Conspiracy, Bachmann Insists: ‘This Is Not Michele Bachmann Being A Kook’ </strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s weird that she feels the need to clarify this&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569515', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tpafla Says: 

You need to be careful of your hateful posts. When Mr. Podesta sues Bill O, all Bill O will have to do to prove his case is show them your hate filled rants to an opposing view. Think, Mr. Hate, think!!!
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My GOD you are stupid. Go pour yourself a nice steaming hot cup of STFU</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tpafla Says: </p>
<p>You need to be careful of your hateful posts. When Mr. Podesta sues Bill O, all Bill O will have to do to prove his case is show them your hate filled rants to an opposing view. Think, Mr. Hate, think!!!<br />
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<p>My GOD you are stupid. Go pour yourself a nice steaming hot cup of STFU<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5569453', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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