Comedy, thy name is Bachmann

You've gotta admit that Kommandant B. gives good clown show. First there was the first annual Dana Bash track meet. Now, it turns out, she's gotten into returning invisible punts at press conferences. With her staffers blocking for her, no less:

Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, under an ethics investigation into her brief 2012 presidential campaign, bolted from reporters Tuesday after they began asking questions about the ongoing probe following a press conference.

When reporters began to question Bachmann, who was participating in a press conference about Medicaid reimbursement, about the congressional ethics probe into the alleged campaign finance violations, Bachmann darted away.

In Bachmann’s scramble to escape the questions, her aide Deb Steiskal physically blocked reporters away from her boss’s path, photographs taken by the Star Tribune showed.

Other campaign aides were also photographed pushing reporters out of the way as Bachmann left the room.

Fantastic. It's almost as if a comedy writer was scripting her career, not that she hasn't become wacky just now, of course.

In case you're interested, this is the investigation in question that seems to have convinced the Kommandant that she's playing in a mime football game:

Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, is the subject of an ethics investigation examining allegations of wrongdoing that emerged in the aftermath of her failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, a lawyer for the lawmaker confirmed Monday.

The inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics — a quasi-independent agency that acts as a grand jury to address allegations of wrongdoing by House lawmakers and their staff members — follows claims by her former campaign aides that Mrs. Bachmann may have improperly used money raised by one of her House-affiliated political action committees to assist her presidential efforts in advance of the Iowa presidential caucuses in January 2012.

Peter Waldron, a political organizer who once served as national field coordinator of Mrs. Bachmann’s presidential campaign, is among those who raised the accusations, which he also brought to the Federal Election Commission, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported in January.

It's odd: considering that the Kommandant has said and done many, many other completely insane things during her political career (for examples, read this and this), it turns out that one of the blander examples of her chicanery may be the ultimate cause of her undoing instead.