Michele Bachmann

Progressives Should Defend Romney Against Religious Barbs

October 9, 2011 by The Political E...

Liberals and other genuinely tolerant citizens, regardless of political party, need to push back publicly against discriminatory campaigning for cheap political points directed against Republican candidate Mitt Romney over his Mormon faith.

Regrettably, conservative GOP/Tea Party candidates Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain are side-stepping the issue, so are giving their assent to the bigots because Cain and Bachmnn think there are votes from narrow-minded constituencies to be gathered through strategic silence.

Shame on them. This is every American's fight.

Religious intolerance was wrong when John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was made into a campaign issue by bigots during his 1960 Presidential run, and it's just as wrong today.

The flip side is that the overall emphasis of religion in US politics is out of place, too: Media should back off demanding answers and explanations about candidates' faith. And candidates should stop pitching themselves as believers worthy of votes because that translates as exclusionary, or judgmental, against other religions and their adherents.

If North Dakota Is A Nation, Maybe We Should Invade It For Its OIl

October 5, 2011 by The Political E...

I didn't know North Dakota was a nation until I heard it from Michele Bachmann, and she heard it from...

Uncomfy conservatives and their enablers now even busier dismantling dissent

September 23, 2011 by Uppity Wisconsin

You've got to admire the chutzpah (pronounced "chuts-paw" by Michele Bachmann) of Republicans and conservatives and their opinion-leader enablers. First they mounted a bald attempt to seize permanent control of government -- and that's hardly an overstatement, since at least one GOP party official a couple years ago said flat out that was their goal. But the effort hasn't been going entirely as planned, so they're doubling down.

How, exactly, do you go about seizing control when the public isn't keen to vote your political cabal into undismissable majorities? Well, there are ways, as we are learning in Wisconsin. For example:

* Trying to eliminate or make much more difficult our state's constitutional provision for recalls of state elected lawmakers. The recalls can be for any reason the voters choose. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as of this morning has now written at least two editorials backing this dumb-down of what we ought to rename Constitutional Recall.