# The Congresswoman with the crazy eyes. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 11, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471 "2009-06-11T18:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/41 "2009-06-22T08:43:01Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Well, now she has some competition for leadership of the Guano Caucus, from the Oh, Just Fuck Me! state of Missouri… > > [http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/21/cynthia-davis-hunger/](http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/21/cynthia-davis-hunger/) And this would be why, sometimes, America scares the everliving piss out of me. As an ironic aside, anyone notice the proeminent cross she bears ? 'Cause you know, Christ verily told these freeloading assholes to get the hell out of his bread & fish buffet, get off their asses and get a job if they didn’t want to starve. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/42 "2009-06-22T14:54:43Z")
Clearly, you have the outdated Jesus. You need to upgrade to Jesus 2.0. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/43 "2009-06-22T15:15:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Clearly, you have the outdated Jesus. You need to upgrade to Jesus 2.0. Vaporware! They’ve been promising that upgrade for 2000 years. That’s longer than we waited for Duke Nuke’Em Forever\*! \*So far… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/44 "2009-06-23T05:35:17Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Vaporware! They’ve been promising that upgrade for 2000 years. That’s longer than we waited for Duke Nuke’Em Forever\*! Maybe Sen. Cynthia Davis has got a leaked alpha version ? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/45 "2009-06-23T11:28:00Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > [And she’s not even a cheap embarrassment for Minnesota. Stupid and crazy apparently costs more.](http://politicalblogs.startribune.com/bigquestionblog/?p=1325) It’s gotta be the heating bill. It gets cold in MN. At first I thought it was the amisulpride but it’s pretty obvious she’s not [getting enough.](http://www.minnpost.com/client_files/alternate_images/5458/mp_main_wide_BachmannRally452.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/46 "2009-06-23T11:47:13Z")
Pity me… JustThinkin’ and I bought this house before our neighbors elected BatShit. Now we have to go around with Groucho Glasses on whenever political discussions might arise. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/47 "2009-06-24T15:18:40Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > Because the fags are ruining the country. Plus think of all the foreign policy experience. Both states touch Canada! Touching in a correct, heterosexual way, of course! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/48 "2009-06-24T15:46:23Z")
> [@Spiff](#): > > Touching in a correct, heterosexual way, of course! The Northwest angle isn’t just for show. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/49 "2009-06-25T15:57:59Z")
The git that keeps on giving! From _Talking Points Memo_, without which no citizen can hope to be well informed… [http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-warns-of-link-between-census-japanese-internment.php](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-warns-of-link-between-census-japanese-internment.php) > [@](#): > > Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is taking her refusal to fully fill out her Census form, which is a crime punishable by a $5,000 fine, to a whole new level: Invoking the memory of the Japanese internment during World War II, and the evil role that the Census played in it!.. > [@](#): > > …For some context on how this fits into Bachmann’s overall worldview, keep in mind that she’s previously warned of the threat of “re-education camps” where young people would be indoctrinated into the government’s official philosophy… Guano. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/50 "2009-06-26T00:24:22Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > The git that keeps on giving! The typo, keep it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/51 "2009-06-26T16:54:41Z")
Rule of dumb: if it could be a typo, but could be snark, its snark. And this just in: [http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-speaks-out-against-census----and-government-asking-about-peoples-mental-stability.php](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-speaks-out-against-census----and-government-asking-about-peoples-mental-stability.php) > [@](#): > > …Bachmann also differentiated between the 28-page American Community Survey, which only a tiny fraction of Americans will receive, and the short form that everyone gets – and she objected to both of them. “Does the federal government really need to know our phone numbers?” she asked. “Do they really need to know, like you said, the date and time that we leave mental stability?”… (emphasis added) I swear, I am not making this up! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/52 "2009-06-26T17:46:47Z")
> **[Michele Bachmann's Census Theories Too Much For Glenn Beck](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michele-bachmanns-census_n_221427)** > > Bachmann has drawn a line in the sand, and will not fill out the Census, and no one really cares because who in America really wants to see government resources allocated to the Bachmann demographic, anyway? She is too crazy for Beck. That is saying a lot. Yet she was elected. What does that say about her constituents. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/53 "2009-06-26T17:51:49Z")
Could it be she’s just preparing for her next career, in talk radio? ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/54 "2009-06-26T18:45:41Z")
I wonder where her husband got his training? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/55 "2009-06-26T20:28:58Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > I wonder where her husband got his training? Having been married to a complete psycho, this very idea gives me nightmares. Thank you so much for forcing me to think about what it would be like to be married to someone like this. Up until now, the thought had never entered my mind. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/56 "2009-06-26T22:25:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Rule of dumb: if it could be a typo, but could be snark, its snark. I’ve just never known you to engage in snark. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/57 "2009-06-26T23:23:01Z")
> [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](#): > > I wonder where her husband got his training? Dunno about the hetero training, but I bet he’s got some self-defense moves. He must have, or else she’d have eaten his head after mating with him. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/58 "2009-07-01T13:44:06Z")
The census? A government plot to put us all in concentration camps. Cap and Trade? [Virtual control of our lives by the government.](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/bachmann-on-climate-change-bill-we-choose-liberty-or-we-choose-tyranny.php) Her latest fundraising letter is based on this ‘deleting of liberty’ aspect of the bill. Liberty or Tyranny–Which will YOU choose? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/59 "2009-07-01T14:45:36Z")
> [@5-4-Fighting](#): > > I’ve just never known you to engage in snark. Its true, I’m but a timid woodland creature, searching here for nuts and berries. Haven’t had much luck with the berries. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/60 "2009-07-01T14:47:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Liberty or Tyranny–Which will YOU choose? Cake, please. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471.md?page=4)