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Is it just me?
May. 30th, 2013 10:19 amSo, before I left for work yesterday, I saw a banner headline on MSNBC; Michelle Bachmann will not run again for congress in 2014. (Say amen!) Then last night before leaving work, my NY Times app announced she's being investigated for misuse of campaign funds from her unsuccessful bid last year for the Republican nomination for President. (Say AMEN!!)
Rachel Maddow had a segment about her last night which featured a series of Bachmann misstating facts on the floor of Congress and in front of news cameras, which would be pretty funny, were she not such a lightening rod for the far right. (Picture Glenn Beck in a bra, a wig & a string of pearls, on the floor of the House.) At one point she went off about the "Hoot-Smalley" Act, enacted under Roosevelt, how awful a government overreach it was, and how wonderful it was finally gotten rid of. (How about Smoot-Hawley, Michelle, enacted under Hoover?) Frankly, I'm not so certain that the current globalization of our economy is serving the American worker all that well, given the amount of manufacturing that was once done here in the US and is now off-shored. Today, the American worker competes with labor costs in the third world, while factories here are shuttered and our workers wind up on the dole. But I digress.
Last night, I dreamt of a scene from the Wizard of Oz with hundreds munchkins singing gleefully the wicked witch is dead, except the house that had been dropped on her had the Capital dome on in, and it was Mrs Bachmann that laid under it, striped stockings, ruby slippers and all.
Now, if only that scene could be re-enacted, but with Reps. Steve King, Louis Gomert, as well as Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Not that I wish them ill. I just wish them out of positions of power. Legislatively emasculated, so to speak. *sigh*
Rachel Maddow had a segment about her last night which featured a series of Bachmann misstating facts on the floor of Congress and in front of news cameras, which would be pretty funny, were she not such a lightening rod for the far right. (Picture Glenn Beck in a bra, a wig & a string of pearls, on the floor of the House.) At one point she went off about the "Hoot-Smalley" Act, enacted under Roosevelt, how awful a government overreach it was, and how wonderful it was finally gotten rid of. (How about Smoot-Hawley, Michelle, enacted under Hoover?) Frankly, I'm not so certain that the current globalization of our economy is serving the American worker all that well, given the amount of manufacturing that was once done here in the US and is now off-shored. Today, the American worker competes with labor costs in the third world, while factories here are shuttered and our workers wind up on the dole. But I digress.
Last night, I dreamt of a scene from the Wizard of Oz with hundreds munchkins singing gleefully the wicked witch is dead, except the house that had been dropped on her had the Capital dome on in, and it was Mrs Bachmann that laid under it, striped stockings, ruby slippers and all.
Now, if only that scene could be re-enacted, but with Reps. Steve King, Louis Gomert, as well as Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Not that I wish them ill. I just wish them out of positions of power. Legislatively emasculated, so to speak. *sigh*
