# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/121 "2009-09-01T19:15:10Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > She’s going to make an awful mess on the Senate floor, though. No; she’s going to make an awful mess on the **House** floor. The Founders of the Republic, in their wisdom, established an upper chamber and a lower chamber in the hope of confining this sort of vulgar display to the latter. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/122 "2009-09-01T19:56:03Z")
I hope that Ms. Bachmann (R - Batshit Crazy) acts like a true leader and goes first, instead of expecting her zombie-like followers to act instead of her. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/123 "2009-09-01T20:03:19Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > I hope that Ms. Bachmann (R - Batshit Crazy) acts like a true leader and goes first, instead of expecting her zombie-like followers to act instead of her. “Don’t laugh – you’re next!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/124 "2009-09-01T21:11:51Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Bachmann thinks that health care reform will force all doctors to give abortions.](http://minnesotaindependent.com/42612/bachmann-prayer-and-fasting-will-help-defeat-health-care-reform) And that the good citizens of this country should pray and fast to stop reform. Yes! **Yes!** In fact, let every American receptive to this message pray and fast continuously, to the exclusion of all other activity, for . . . let’s see . . . four weeks ought to do it. 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 1, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/125 "2009-09-01T23:25:51Z")
> [@](#): > > This cannot pass…What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. Oh great. Now she she’s Gandalf and health care is The Balrog? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/126 "2009-09-02T00:37:02Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > … Now she she’s Gandalf … Worse … [Glenn Beck thinks _he’s_ Gandalf](http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en#complete=1&hl=en&safe=off&num=100&newwindow=1&q=glenn+beck+You+shall+not+pass&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=bce3c16629f5c09e)\* :eek:. CMC fnord! \*It’s not up on YouTube yet, but I’m sure it will be. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/127 "2009-09-02T00:57:47Z")
That doesn’t sound like she’s proposing suicide. Not when she goes on to say blood brothers. You guys do remember the blood brothers thing, right? It’s overblown, but less overblown than a suicide pact. And she should have said something like ‘nick’ instead of ‘slit’. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/128 "2009-09-02T01:01:01Z")
I want to commend all the Dopers who are firmly and resolutely ignoring the set-up to vulgar and tasteless humor. Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/129 "2009-09-02T01:17:15Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > That doesn’t sound like she’s proposing suicide. Not when she goes on to say blood brothers. You guys do remember the blood brothers thing, right? It’s overblown, but less overblown than a suicide pact. > > And she should have said something like ‘nick’ instead of ‘slit’. Nonsense I say. Why go for the weak fellowship statement when there’s a much grander one just waiting to be made. And always remember, [it’s down the block not across the street.](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp08312004.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/130 "2009-09-02T02:05:14Z")
Still and all, [it could be worse.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn) [Much, much worse.](http://www.alternet.org/rights/20162/) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/131 "2009-09-02T02:10:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I want to commend all the Dopers who are firmly and resolutely ignoring the set-up to vulgar and tasteless humor. Keep up the good work! I’d like to go with the Slit, really. But with her “blood brother, ripping the guts out, man up” babblations, all that pops into my brainpan is: “You, Sir, are no Joe McCarthy.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/132 "2009-09-02T02:19:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Still and all, [it could be worse.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn) … Worserer, the [Congressman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Coburn_official_portrait.jpg) with the [crazy face](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Face)? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/133 "2009-09-02T02:29:50Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Still and all, [it could be worse.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn) > > [Much, much worse.](http://www.alternet.org/rights/20162/) Well, yeah, I mean, Oklahoma, you know? Llike Texans but lacking the worldly sophistication. But better armed, as a general rule. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/134 "2009-09-05T22:43:53Z")
Posted without comment because I’m laughing too hard. Audio at the Media Matters link. > [@](#): > > [Rep. Bachmann: Dems Want To Sabotage Me Because I Might Become President](http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200909040004) > > > [@](#): > > > > BACHMANN: Also with women politicians, they want to make sure no women, no woman becomes president before a Democrat woman, and so they’re doing everything they can to, I think, sabotage women like Sarah Palin, perhaps women like myself, or similarly situated women, to make sure that we don’t have a prominent national voice. But the thing is, the people in our country, they don’t care who the voice is, they just want someone, they want to know that someone is speaking out for them against what will certainly bring about the destruction of our great country if we continue to go down the Obama path. BACHMANN/PALIN 2012! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/135 "2009-09-06T00:45:48Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Posted without comment because I’m laughing too hard. Audio at the Media Matters link. > > BACHMANN/PALIN 2012! Repubs would be foolish not to go this way. They have such strong followers that they can not fail. I recommend they go this route to victory. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/136 "2009-09-06T01:21:36Z")
Heretics. It’s Palin/Bachmann '12. Vote Dingbat/Batshit. All the other countries will be so confused, they won’t know what the fuck to do. Which is just as well, our own country will be so confused that even WE won’t have a clue what our government may or may not do at any given moment. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/137 "2009-09-06T02:20:02Z")
Yeah, but, Batshit Dingbat works too. Either way, we not only win, we’re wildly entertained too. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/138 "2009-09-06T02:24:22Z")
During the campaign, that is. Double if Sarah has her eye on the top spot and then she and Batshit duke it out during the primaries. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/139 "2009-09-06T02:54:24Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Double if Sarah has her eye on the top spot and then she and Batshit duke it out during the primaries. Now that would be some fine Presidential Election Comedy there, Lou. Damn. I almost have to hope for that, on the simple premise that we won’t be terminally bored by the long, drawn out campaign process. Pretty much any other Republican would look good standing on the same stage saying “At least I’m not as batshit crazy as these two.” It’s just so crazy it might work! ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471/140 "2009-09-06T03:24:07Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > During the campaign, that is. > > Double if Sarah has her eye on the top spot and then she and Batshit duke it out during the primaries. Catfight! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-congresswoman-with-the-crazy-eyes/499471.md?page=8)