# The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes, part II, crazy in the head **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420 "2011-05-01T23:36:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/681 "2012-11-08T05:38:44Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > You’re thinking tank as in fishes. They’d have a think tank as in Shermans. Trudging on day in, day out regardless of the slings of adverse opinions, reality, elementary logic, the mildest sense of shame, that kind of thing. And shooting back with the weaponized crazy. Fish? Sherman? What are you on about? With all this talk of Bachman, Beck, Palin, etc., clearly the correct tank you want is ‘septic’. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/682 "2012-11-08T05:45:30Z")
Or the tank will just implode into a [white-hot ball of rage](http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-whitehot-sphere-of-p,30284/) that consumes every living thing in its path, giving the GOP a possible front-runner for 2016. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/683 "2012-12-13T01:43:45Z")
[Michele Bachmann says Obama wants to ‘lift up the Islamists’ and allow Sharia law in America](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247024/Michele-Bachmann-says-Obama-wants-lift-Islamists-allow-Sharia-law-America.html?ito=feeds-newsxml%5Burl) oy! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/684 "2012-12-13T02:14:08Z")
Hopefully soon, people will stop paying any attention at all to what this nutbar has to say. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/685 "2012-12-13T13:18:27Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hopefully soon, people will stop paying any attention at all to what this nutbar has to say. Isn’t that how she keeps getting elected? I say, hopefully, because I’d \*really \*like to think that if people \*were \*paying attention to what she says, she wouldn’t be elected _ **ever again** _. Then I remember how stupid a lot of people can be, and all hope shrivels. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/686 "2012-12-13T14:53:17Z")
Racist old people is how she keeps getting re-elected. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/687 "2012-12-13T15:34:34Z")
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/688 "2012-12-13T22:03:55Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. There are very few farmers in CD6; they make up only a small number of the voters. Her district is mainly suburbanites. Many of them overloaded with debt, a lot of it from high mortgage payments. This district has the highest foreclosure rate in the state. Bachman herself is a ‘farmer’. Despite railing against entitlements and farm subsidies, she accepts about a quarter million dollars worth each year for the farm inherited from their parents. > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Racist old people is how she keeps getting re-elected. Here in Minnesota, we think much of it has to do with a suburban mentality that dislikes political parties and wants to be an ‘independent’ voter. So after voting for Democrats Barack Obama for President and Amy Klobuchar for Senate, they feel like they should vote for the Republican Bachman for the House. They don’t want to vote for Democrats all down the ballot. The district is actually a swing district. The vote is so close that any small group, like moronic farmers or racist old, people could be enough to win this district. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/689 "2012-12-13T22:27:56Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > There are very few farmers in CD6; they make up only a small number of the voters…The vote is so close that any small group, like moronic farmers or racist old, people could be enough to win this district. Whoosh? The line is from _Blazing Saddles_… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/690 "2012-12-13T23:33:09Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I still have mixed feelings about Gacy because I worked nights at the Greyhound terminal when he cruised it. On the one hand, he didn’t kill me. On the other hand, I was AT LEAST as cute as those guys he did kill, so it was insulting he didn’t try. On the other hand, I’d’ve been on my break when he asked guys for help and, as a union man, there was no way I was lifting anything into somebody’s van while I was on break, especially because, as a private contractor, he probably didn’t hire union labor if he didn’t have to. > > My wife says I looked too strong for him to overpower. She knew me then, so I think she’s humoring me. How would he overpower a man with three hands? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/691 "2012-12-13T23:38:11Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. Another proof that Mel Brooks is a prophet from God. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/692 "2012-12-13T23:48:19Z")
Well, yeah. He’s two thousand years old. Saw Rob Reiner’s Dad interview him. Several times. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/693 "2012-12-14T03:20:31Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons. LOL Mr. Brooks. That is about the truth too. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/694 "2012-12-14T14:44:23Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > The district is actually a swing district. The vote is so close that any small group, like moronic farmers or racist old, people could be enough to win this district. Wut She’s won re-election 3 time now and before her it was Kennedy, a republican. This was the closest election yet and it was probably because it was a presidential election and Graves just was able to throw so much money at the race. Tinklenberg was what? 5 points behind her but Clark was almost 10. I don’t have high hopes for 2 years from now. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/695 "2012-12-15T17:36:21Z")
Her district shifted recently with re-drawn lines that did move away from a liberal-drenched area. My brother, who resides in a conservative area next to the liberal area was relieved though. Though a conservative, he thinks she is a whack job and is relieved not to have her representing him any more. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes-part-ii-crazy-in-the-head/580420/696 "2012-12-15T23:04:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How would he overpower a man with three hands? I see what you did there… and it was brilliant. ---
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