Kommandant B(atsh*t) rides again

[the_archfiend]

Some of you may have been nearly convinced that Michele Bachmann (R-Clown College) might have done something completely unexpected as of late and actually become sane, seeing as there's been a recent paucity of quotable Kommandant droppings in the wake of the 2012 election.

Wrong.

First off, there was her typically inane speech at the CPAC conference in which she asserted that we'll cure disease through "caring" (whatever that is to her pointy little mind) and apparently not through scientific research, which is how most treatments for disease end up getting produced these days. The obvious subtext of this is that Barack Obama is uncaring and that she and the other would-be theocrats present at the CPAC rodeo are The Most Caring People Of All in comparison.

Think that was funny? Just wait:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) marked the third anniversary of health care reform’s passage in the House of Representatives Thursday by warning that the law will soon begin to kill American citizens.

Bachmann, who has kept a low profile since her unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, came out swinging against President Obama and health care reform in a speech that lasted more than 10 minutes.

“Let’s repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens,” Bachmann said on the House floor. “Let’s not do that. Let’s love people. Let’s care about people. Let’s repeal it now while we can.”

Because, you see, "caring" is a magical panacea for everything ranging from AIDS to cancer to multiple gunshot wounds to lack of health insurance and even Communist invasion of the US via black helicopters! Caring is sharing. But not neccesarily with the news media, of course. To wit:

CNN’s Dana Bash recently tried to track down the congresswoman to ask her about remarks she’d made at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) alleging that the current occupants of the White House live too lavishly: “A new book is out talking about the perks and the excess of the $1.4-billion-a-year presidency that we’re paying for. And this is a lifestyle that is one of excess. Now we find out that there are five chefs on Air Force One. There are two projectionists who operate the White House movie theater. They regularly sleep at the White House in order to be readily available in case the first family wants a really, really late show. And I don’t mean to be petty here, but can’t they just push the play button? We are also the ones who are paying for someone to walk the president’s dog, paying for someone to walk the president’s dog? Now, why are we doing that when we can’t even get a disabled veteran into the White House for a White House tour? That isn’t caring!””

Yup, "caring". That magic word again. What a panacea it is! Truly! Except against reporters willing to a jog a bit with her, of course:

So let me get this straight: this is a legitimate, freely elected representative to the House of Representatives from a district in Minnesota. And actual people in that district voted for her. Not cats. Not dogs. Not the occasional really tall cockroach, either. People did.

Oooooookay, then.