Laugh now, cry later when your hard-earned greenbacks are declared illegal and worthless by the United Nations. This is clearly a bipartisan issue that should unite all Americans.

This is fine as far as it goes, but what is really needed is a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the President from entering into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency of aborted fetuses.

My question for Michele is whether her amendment would forbid the return to the gold standard. It seems to me that it would. This, of course, would be problematic for many of her unhinged allies.

Yeah, OK Al. You and your militia buddies see another black UN helicopter while you're out playing GI Joe?

Of course, when the crazies do get it through their thick skulls that such a proposal wasn't made, they'll be congratulating themselves on how they saw the threat coming, forced the administration to back off, and by their quick and decisive action saved the Republic. Again.

Again, not to deny Ms. Bachmann her well-earned reputation for stupidity, but this issue has gone beyond "teh stupit." She doesn't care if it's a "non-issue" and I suspect even she knows that it isn't one. She's trying to gin it up into something that she and other wingnut crackpots can make sound like an issue and get a small but very whacko nutcases to saturate the email boxes of various politicians and hope the always willing to oblige MSM to cover and leave out that little detail that there is no proposal to replace the U.S. currency in the U.S.

Actually, under Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, the power to coin money and regulate its value, along with the value of foreign currency, is already given exclusively to Congress. I guess Bachmann is just being super extra vigilant to make sure Obama doesn't do something he doesn't have the power to do.

Unfortunately, yet another unhinged freeper is trying to join Michele Bachmann in Congress. Has anyone checked out Rosanna Pulido who is the GOP candidate to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress? After a blog complied a listing of her most hateful, racist, homophobic postings, she is losing support hand over fist. She's trying to smooth things over with a weak apology, but her statements say a whole lot about the kind of person she is. In any event, now she is saying that if she can't get money from Steele, she'll go over his head to Boss Limbaugh. I wish someone had discovered the lunacy that is Michele Bachmann before she ever got her seat in Congress.
Check this out:
http://progressillinois.com/2009/3/27/pulido-apologizes-crude-joking

[bangs head against desk]

Don't do that. You don't want to end up like Bachman, do you?

Republican politicians have the same credibility as those proposing financial transactions by e-mail from Nigeria.

Republican voters have the same discerning minds as those who respond to the e-mails.

This too:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/GOP_Not_Fully_Embracing_Their_Candidate_for_Congress_Chicago.html

Quite so, Al, @15:42. And I think she'd get more co-sponsors, if she were to add two other clauses to her proposition. 1) That the greenbacks *remain* green (not red, blue or, God forfend, white/blank). And, 2) That, under no circumstances, will the portrait of either Barack or Michelle Obama replace that of George Washington on the $1, not even if the said one dollar is so devalued (due to their policies) that it's pulled out of circulation altogether. There had been some whining on his part during the campaign, on the issue (something about no dollar bills having a guy who looks like him), so we can expect an assault from that quarter as well. And it behooves us to be forewarned and forearmed.

Now, can I run for office in Minnesota (as a Repub, naturally) too? I know I live in Virginia but such details should not stand in the way of a larger cause.

Steve, you've got a short memory. You do remember these were the same idiots that gave us 'Freedom Fries' right?

Heh. And we wonder why our economy is in such bad shape. And how we spent so much during the Bush years. And why we couldn't have responded with competence and compassion to Katrina. And how we ended up in a war of convenience in Iraq ... and how we flubbed up in Afghanistan ... and ... [sighs]

Wonder no more, gang. Behold your Republican leaders.

Of course Steve King is one of the 32!
Its the merger of Teh Crazee into one super crazy power!

Don't laugh too heartily at Michelle Bachmann, just because the proposal she's crusading against does not exist. As long as it continues not to exist, she can claim victory.

Tactically speaking, it's almost brilliant.

It always amazes me how the pseudopatriotic right is so deeply ignorant of American history.

Why do we have "dollars"? The "dollar," in colonial times, was a Spanish coin widely circulated in America . . .

Bachmann is doing much more for the Democrats now than she ever could've done by losing her election in November.

Not so fast, zeitgeist. King has been slacking for weeks now. Your talking him up like this doesn't negate the fact that he's getting pwned by a girl.

I arrived late for the show (wandered past during a commercial break on MSNBC), so all I saw was Glen and the Rep. visiting fantasyland with "what ifs" if the dollar was replaced.

What If is a time honored jumping off point for science fiction. . .

Who knew Ms. Bachmann was such an accomplished prankster? Best. April. Fool's. Joke. EVAR!

Of course, no one needs to "save" social security, either, but that doesn't stop them from trying.

This is fine as far as it goes, but what is really needed is a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the President from entering into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency of aborted fetuses.

I believe you mean gay Mexican terrorist aborted fetuses.

Or, uh, is it good to abort the gay Mexican terrorist ones? I get so confused.....

I kind of admire her cynical use of a non-issue to gather publicity and whip up the wingnuts. The substance of the issue is about equal to the substance of the flag-burning amendment: that is, approaching zero. Yet like the flag-burning amendment, this legislation gives GOPers something to rail on about whenever they need a distraction. I don't believe Rep Bachmann is the least bit confused; she knows exactly what she's doing. And it'll work with the Fox News crowd better than you may think.

Will this site ever stop injecting "Wait for it" in between random parts of sentences? It wasn't funny the last 354 times you did it, it's not funny the 355th.

[bangs head against desk]

Don't do that. You don't want to end up like Bachman, do you? - DanP

Sorry Dan, too late.

It's official: there are at least 32 TOTALLY FUCKING CRAZY PEOPLE in the House of Representatives.

I sure hope someone points that out if this bill ever reaches the floor (which I seriously doubt it will). Or maybe it should.

Will this site ever stop injecting "Wait for it" in between random parts of sentences? It wasn't funny the last 354 times you did it, it's not funny the 355th.

In contrast, your constant bitching about it under an array of handles never loses its charm and freshness.

On the other hand, this could benefit the nation as a whole ... as it makes Paul Krugman the only competent opposition to Obama's plans. So, keep up those cards and letters all you Republican types out there!

There is also nothing in the Constitution that prohibits werewolves from working as daycare providers. This is an outrage! Why hasn't Rep. Bachman taken a stand on this important issue?

who are the other Republicans voting for this? Name names.

New republican litmus test...

Are you, or have you been, a member of a group interested in creating a global currency?

Here Bachmann submits the truth serum to Geithner and Bernanke: (2:42 mark.) Note how quickly Timmy clicks his heels and comes to attention. I swear he was ready to salute.

Rather than play along: When is someone going to sit up and tell this woman she is an embarrassment to her country? This is one dumb broad. Will someone with some national cachet please stand up and call stupid... stupid?

Republicans as a whole are an embarrassment to the institution. This bill is just a symptom of a larger disease.

So the WSJ ran a piece saying the exact thing:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854671487576275.html

The relevant bit:

"And in recent days, the Chinese government has raised concerns about U.S. government borrowing, even raising the idea of a global currency to replace the dollar as international finance's default trading option. Mr. Obama will meet Chinese President Hu Jintao Wednesday, too."

I don't know what to make of this. Shoddy reporting, perpetuating the lie, poor translation of Chinese statement?

I was very interested to see the list of GOP Reps who were foolish enough to sign onto the Bachmann Crazy Train. Most were expected; it was a list of party hacks (Issa, Hensarling, Shadegg, Wamp, Blackburn, etc.) and crazies (King, Broun, Foxx,etc.) and full out eccentrics (Paul and Burton), along with a few fresh faces (i.e. Bill Posey, the Florida freshman who's pushing the "Obama's not native born" crowd's cause in the House). A couple, though, are just odd. Mark Kirk? I thought that guy had statewide aspirations and hooking onto Bachmann's craziness is not a wise move in that direction.

Roddy wrote: "As long as it continues not to exist, she can claim victory.
Tactically speaking, it's almost brilliant."

This takes up where I left off. She gets repeated denials that the govt is going to do anything of the kind and then sends out a press release: "Rep. Bachmann forces govt to abandon plan to replace US currency." The bill isn't going to get on the schedule but it doesn't have to. This is just pure showmanship. Clown showmanship, yes, but that's effective with the constituency that backs the Republican party right now. Utterly meaningless unless you're just wanting to keep your core nutcases satisfied and impressed.

You know, asisde from lack of capability, why does the Loyal Opposition fuck around with thsi stuff when they really should be doing some serious work?

OT somewhat, but as an American, I'm disappointed that the Republicans have devolved into such a bunch of paranoid whiners, but as a Democrat, I am... wait for it 'laura'.. glad to see the GOP continually get their asses kicked.

Maybe they can use the new currency to pay for the North American Superhighway.

I, too, am amazed. There are only 30 batshit crazy Republicans?

I thought it was way more.

It would be useful in these types of stories to have the names of the pols who climbed aboard the bus to the asylum. I'd like to make sure my reps aren't on the journey. How about a link?

several commenters have asked for the names or a link -- Steve has a link to the list already. The TPM "promoting her nonsense" link includes the list of cosponsors at the bottom of the linked story. That's how I knew Steve "Second Only to Bachmann" King was onboard.

Am I the first? Let's see Michelle Bachmann battle it out with Sarah Palin for the GOP presidential nomination. The ratings would be phenominal.

They would need a foil for the debates so throw Steele, Gingrich, The Plumber, Jindal, and Sanford up on stage. (Save Pawlenty, please.) Those girls would eat them up. YouTube could charge per view.

For warm-up how about Palin, Bachman, Boehner, and McConnell on MTP. Gregory would only need ask his initial, ignored, question.