Oh, say it ain’t so, yo! Michele Bachmann is not running for re-election? No way! News people are celebrating today, but they will soon change their tune, once they realize they won’t have Michele Bachmann to kick around anymore. (That’s what she should have said, like Richard Nixon famously said. But he was lying then too, because he came back and became the president later. Hey, wait: could it be that…?)
Oh, the ranting and raving I have heard this evening from Democratic pundits, complaining about Michele Bachmann’s factual inaccuracies. Oh, but her inaccuracies were really funny! It was totally entertaining to hear her do that stuff! And once Democratic pundits realize that there’s just going to be some boring nobody replacing her, and there’s nobody else like her to demonize Republicans with*, surely they will crawl back to her on their hands and knees begging her to come back to Congress, promising to pay for her whole campaign! (They’d be fools not to do it, when you think about it.)
Now, I am on record here as claiming she should be appreciated as performance art, and once she’s gone, I promise her haters that they will miss her dearly. We all will: you’ll see. Yeah, every once in a while you can nail another Tea Party Republican with some laugh-riot quote, but it will only be in dribs and drabs from now on. Without Michele, it will never be the same again. And we will be far less entertained as a result. (Jon Stewart’s & Stephen Colbert’s jobs just got a lot harder!)
Here’s the sad, sad story that will leave us in boredom forever after:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us/politics/michele-bachmann-wont-seek-re-election-next-year.html?_r=0
* In retrospect (as of October 2013), I may have wrong about this point, as there seem to be plenty other dolts attempting to fill her shoes.
* In retrospect (as of October 2013), I may have wrong about this point, as there seem to be plenty other dolts attempting to fill her shoes.
