Tagged: michelle bachmann

Bachmann, Obama and lactation hysteria

by Russell Saunders Few things are as simultaneously joyous and utterly disruptive as the arrival of a new baby.  Between the culmination of months of anxious anticipation, hovering family members, sleep deprivation and maternal...

Bachmann, Burr, and Patriotism

How about a break from arguing over the mandate? I’m in the middle of Burr, Gore Vidal’s fictional account of the life of America’s most reviled duelist. Why am I reading it? Well, the...

The Flake-y GOP

Over at True/Slant, E.D. makes a valuable and important comparison between Jeff Flake and Michelle Bachmann and the future of the GOP.  I’m not looking to re-open the whole “reformer” vs. “base” vs. establishment...

Obama Youth

Michelle Bachmann isn’t really all that crazy.  She’s just finding a better way – a more purified way – to voice what the conservative movement has been saying all along.