Not to mention Bachmann seems to think that the good citizens of Wisconsin are somehow enemies of the US. She truly cannot envision anyone she disagrees with as less than an enemy.

Atlanta? Maybe somebody should ask Bachmann if she knows which city was the capital of the Confederacy...

Michele Bachmann demonstrates what a health hazard aluminum can be -- it can lead to debilitating brain damage if it's in very thin sheets and worn too tight as a hat.

In previous generations, Michelle Bachmann would have been kept inside the family house her entire life as her parents wouldn't want to feel the shame of hoisting her upon society!

Bachmann's warped sense of reality gets a megaphone, sadly, because she gets elected. A quick glance affirms her sketchiness. Just look at the amoral hollow look in the eyes when she uses big words! -Kevo

"both sides giddily await" the shutdown of the Federal government?? Both sides? Giddily?

Even when Milbank sides toward the moderate/left side of the issue, he's still a DC beltway tool.

So, for all of the people out there screaming about union thugs and goons, which one is your Governor?

A thug?
A good?
A hooligan?
Or, is it a combo package, or is it all three?

I'd like to laugh at the fact that the same people who were bitching from their Motorized Medicare Moped's about a government takeover during the Health Care debate, are the same imbeciles rooting for the government in this REAL (not astroturfed) protest about workers rights.

I'd laugh, but it's not funny...

c u n d gulag asked:
So, for all of the people out there screaming about union thugs and goons, which one is your Governor?

A thug?
A good?
A hooligan?
Or, is it a combo package, or is it all three?

As I said a few days ago, it's obvious what Walker is. The real question is: Are the Koch brothers Walker's pimps or his johns?

One day Walker's courageous stand will be taught in schools along side the Gettysburg address and "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall" as defining moments of the 20th century.

Too bad he isn't related to George Herbert Walker Bush and the the dauphin, George Walker Bush. That would at least provide some context.

Al, you forgot to include the Reichstag Fire. . .

The Repukeliscum are the enemy of working people. I wonder if the morons who are on welfare and vote Repukeliscum will put 2 and 2 together, and realize that the Repukeliscum have been lying to them all these years.

If there's a nuclear war, I want Michele Bachmann between me and the mushroom cloud -
she's denser than lead.

"...when he fired the air traffic controllers." That, Walker said, 'was the first crack in the Berlin Wall.'"

Because there was a straight line between the unions and Moscow.

And now to Soros...and the Caliphate...and the Obama White House...and the Anti-Christ.

I'm sure Gov. Walker has all the dots connected on a secret chalkboard in his office that was sent to him by Glenn Beck.

"We saw Abraham Lincoln push back the Confederacy in Atlanta."

She just lost 90% of her support.

The central bank of Wisconsin [Federal Reserve] gave the Wisconsin public union an award for being 100% [self] financed.

Secondly Wisconsin politicians created a law where they cant raise taxes so instead they borrowed. Alot. Not only that much of the debt is owed to ond holders. Anyone for busting bond holders?

The public workers are being singled out by the politicians that caused the problem and the taxpayers that elected them arent.

If there were no Wisconsin public union Wisconsin would still have a budget problem because the problem is the politicians.

Bachmann says government is the problem
Ergo Bachmann is a member of the problem

And that problem is ignorant politicians that are turning America into one huge austerity program because of their shortshightedness of Hayekian spending coupled with borrowing.

C u n d gulag raises an interesting point. The tea party isn't really opposed to all government action.

They gladly support govt action against those that they disagree with and govt action to keep programs they do like. Too bad they're too simpleminded to realize that their being used. When they finally wake up to this fact, it will be too late.

Too bad they're too simpleminded to realize that their being used. When they finally wake up to this fact, it will be too late.

It's a cookbook!

A better label for him is Corporate Stooge.

In an effort to buck the trend of data-free news, I find the NYtimes to actully provide some useful info. Check out the table in the Sunday mag- showing how much each household would have to pay to cover the unfunded pension and health care liabilities for public employees. Essentially, this is a measure of how well the states have managed to set up programs in which their outyear liabilities are covered.

THen, find Wisconsin. Compare to, say .. Alaksa, CN, HI, NJ.

How, exactly, is Wisconsin "broke" ?

Walker is a liar. Pure and simple.

I don't think Walker was crediting firing of the air traffic controllers with the fall of the Berlin wall -- I think he was speaking metaphorically.

The "crack" was Reagan firing the air traffic controllers, the "Wall" was the union front that hems in business and governments, and the "Communists" are liberals and union members.

It may feel good to vent one's anger and frustration over scum like Walker, but the propaganda machine is working for him, and his patrons, not for the little guys and girls. Once again, until the Dim-Dumbocrats understand the communications gap the bad guys win.

Notice how little we hear these days about the so-called 'liberal media'. Even the supremely hypocritical Rethugs can't use that perennial whipping boy anymore because it can't pass the laugh test. Unless you're totally deranged, of course. Oh, Bachmann is deranged, but she still gets lots of attention.

If you make over $250,000/year with benefits you're overtaxed and underpaid, especially the higher up your income goes, but if you make less than $150,000/year with benefits you're undertaxed and overpaid.

Now I understand why there's been a chipping away at education standards. It's a problem making that scheme work if people understand basic math.

Attention to anyone reading this that has not attended a rally -- GET OFF YOUR ASS.

We saw Abraham Lincoln push back the Confederacy in Atlanta.

And with that Bachmann pisses away the Republican nomination;>

Saint Zak already pointed this out and I agree:
Michele almost had the GOP nomination for 2012 in her pocket, but that thing about Lincoln pushing back the Confederacy in Atlanta isn't gonna go down well with the Sons and Daughters of the Grey Coats. She's toast.

"Check out the table in the Sunday mag- showing how much each household would have to pay to cover the unfunded pension and health care liabilities for public employees."
Posted by: bigtuna on February 27, 2011 at 11:16 AM

Interesting chart; many thanks for suggesting it.
For anyone else who doesn't have a hard-copy of the Sunday Times handy, here's a link to 3rd page of the cover story (on Jersey's Chris Christie), the page to which the chart is attached:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27christie-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=magazine

(For some reason, I can't copy the url for the chart itself from the window in which it appears.)
Two things in that chart surprised me a bit, and one didn't at all:
First, California and New York are nowhere near the "worst."
(That is, "worst" if you assume that "having greater potential unfunded pension/health-care liabilities for the state's employees / retirees" is necessarily an entirely "bad" thing. Not at all clear to me that that's the case. Some of the states w/ lower values for this are almost certainly indicative not of good fiscal management and/or prudence in planning, but because their employees / retirees never got that much by way of pensions / health-care coverage to begin with -- and/or there were notably fewer public employees in proportion to the states' populations.)
The "worst" states are, in declining size order: Hawai'i (at over $35k), New Jersey, Alaska (now tell me you didn't see that one coming), and Connecticut (just over $30k).
No other state comes anywhere near these ostensible per-cap unfunded-liability figures for those four states. Of the remaining 46, Illinois has the largest number, just under $20k.

Atlanta? Maybe somebody should ask Bachmann if she knows which city was the capital of the Confederacy...
Posted by: Matt on February 27, 2011 at 9:33 AM

Irrelevant. She's got her data from watching Gone With the Wind. The burning of Atlanta made an indelible mark on her.

The Republican Party, damn near to a person, are full of simpletons and idiots and flat-out unintelligent people who only have the capability of seizing one idea ("Reagan is God!") and using their meager intellectual capacities to tie everything to it -- usually by repeating ad infinitum talking points that get further and further disconnected from reality (as we see The Bastard Scott Walker continue to do because it is literally all he can do).

And this is not name-calling. I defy people to try to defend Bachmann, Walker, et al of having any kind of intellect. Only the insane and overwhelming dollars of puppet masters like the Kochs (mostly, it seems) props these jackasses up. By design, I'm convinced with each passing day ...

Damn those unions! We'll know we've beaten them when we're all working 10-hour days, six days a week, without overtime or any kind of benefits, right alongside 11-year-old kids, in dangerous working conditions.

Wait, what?!

The whole hit focusing on public employees and their unions is rubbish. There is no excuse to single out the money that taxpayers have to pay them, versus all the other demands from lobbyists, contributors, etc.

A Reagan for Our Time

Much snarkery has ensued from Scott Walker's belief that his breaking the Wisconsin public service unions will embue him with the legendary qualities of St Ronnie the First.

But in your heart, you KNOW he's right.

If Walker succeeds in stripping collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin workers, after weeks of protests which grew larger every day, and are being echoed in cities throughout the rest of Wisconsin and the nation as a whole - if he can achieve this IN WISCONSIN, a state historically on the cutting edge of worker rights - then what chance do unions have in ANY of the other states?

Sometimes the "domino theory" makes sense. If Walker opens the floodgates by breaking Wisconsin unions, expect the rest of Republican-controlled states to follow in quick succession.

Then Walker will indeed become legendary for having broken the backs of unions throughout the USA.

Michelle Bachmann (who is NOT from my Minnesota District, BTW) is the new Bob Dornan. Sorry, old Bob Dornan. Your ship of crazy has passed.