Surely you're now curious about whether Rep. Michele Bachmann, everybody's favorite right-wing nutcase of the hour, has any chance of actually being unseated in the coming elections.
There's good news for you, courtesy of the DCCC.
Grove Insight for the DCCC. 10/10-12. Likely voters. MoE 4.9% (No trend lines)
Bachmann (R-inc) 42
Tinklenberg (D) 38
This is perhaps not surprising, for if ever there were a Representative who defines the term "Bushbot", it is Michele Bachmann. That's best illustrated in picture form by her famous kiss of the President (after the 2007 State of the Union). But as this ad from Alliance for a Better Minnesota notes, it's in her voting record as well.
Now that the Bestest President Ever is no longer in public favor, of course, Bachmann's trying rather hard to scramble away from her beloved Decider. She isn't that close to him, she says...no closer than that Democrat opponent of hers, anyway!
Bachmann even tried to link her Democratic challenger, former state transportation chief Elwyn Tinklenberg, to the GOP president.
"He is more line with President Bush's policies than I am," said Bachmann, ticking off issues where she has disagreed with Bush, including the $700 billion financial services bailout. Bachmann voted against the bill twice. Tinklenberg has said he would have voted for it.
Yeah, I'm positive El Tinklenberg would vote with Bush 89% of the time, as Bachmann has done.
And as for the kiss...well, she'd be just as thrilled to kiss that Obama fellow as well!
"If the presidency would somehow go to Barack Obama, I would welcome him to the 6th District as well," she said after the debate. "As a matter of fact, I would put my hand on his shoulder and give him a kiss if he wanted to."
There's no word on why she'd kiss a man she publicly believes to be anti-American, though. Perhaps she just likes making out with Presidents; power is, after all, one hell of an aphrodisiac.
What makes Michelle Bachmann a double disgrace to her constituents, of course, is not solely that she's an embarrassing right-winger. It is also that she persists in seeking as much media attention as she can find in order to publicize this fact. Witness her now-legendary argument with James Carville, attempting to defend the qualifications of Everybody's Favorite Governor of Alaska:
The polling suggests that the good people of Minnesota's Sixth District have had quite enough of being represented by someone who frankly is rather like a Sarah Palin who gets to do as many media appearances as she wants.
And the netroots have done a stellar job today of helping Democrat Elwyn Tinklenberg bring about the change Minnesota needs. From thereisnospoon's diary earlier:
Unfortunately, Tinklenberg hasn't gotten the Netroots love he deserves: he's only raised $2,500 on ActBlue so far. We can do better. Show him some love today. And kick the anti-American, McCarthyist Bachmann out of the Congress she defiles with her bigoted presence.
Yeah, well, thanks to that diary, and Stiffa's, and the combined efforts of the online progressive community, Tinklenberg has now raised over $30,000 on ActBlue, and that is climbing by the minute.
That's people power at work.
On the web:
Elwyn Tinklenberg for Congress
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