How can any sane person support Michele Bachmann?

Even Governor Sarah Palin is critical of Michele Bachmann's latest foot in the mouth rant:

Speaking with reporters in Colorado yesterday, Palin said she does not agree with Rep. Michele Bachmann’s recent comments suggesting that some congressmen hold “anti-American views,” NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger reports. “Well that's quite subjective,” she said of Bachmann’s comments. “I would think that anybody running and wanting to serve in Congress is quite pro-American because that's what the mission is, to better this country, so I would question the intent of that."

Who are the people who are supporting Bachmann? There is no way she represents mainstream conservatives and Minnesotans.

Brilliant

A brilliant observation by Boris Johnson:

However well-intentioned it was, the catastrophic and unpopular intervention in Iraq has served in some parts of the world to discredit the very idea of western democracy.
The recent collapse of the banking system, and the humiliating resort to semi-socialist solutions, has done a great deal to discredit - in some people's eyes - the idea of free-market capitalism.

Democracy and capitalism are the two great pillars of the American idea.

To have rocked one of those pillars may be regarded as a misfortune.

To have damaged the reputation of both, at home and abroad, is a pretty stunning achievement for an American president

This is why our country is in a mess

Is the rest of America populated by people as stupid as this? Or is it just Minnesota?

It's all over the media, how John McCain dialed back the hatred and incitement at his rally in Lakeville, Minnesota, where he defended Barack Obama and asked for respect for his opponent. The eyes of the world are on Minnesota once again.

Here's how the Star Tribune reported one particularly boneheaded Minnesotan's racist remarks at the rally:

Late in the town hall meeting, Gayle Quinnell of Shakopee called Obama "an Arab." Taken aback, McCain shook his head and, taking the microphone from her, said, "No, ma'am. He's a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."

After the rally, Quinnell was unrepentant. "You can't trust Barack Hussein Obama because he is a Muslim and a terrorist," she said.

Obama is a Christian, and has been all of his adult life.

Moreover, what if a politician were Muslim? Or Jewish? Or Buddhist, or Catholic, or whatever religion? Should it matter in a country where church and state are supposed be separate?

Gayle Quinnell of Shakopee is just exactly the kind of person who has caused this country to sink so far from the Founding Fathers' vision. Ignorance is not bliss, and bigotry is worse. It's harmful to our nation and to the well being of all its citizens.

What is Norm Coleman hiding?

This video of Senator Norm Coleman's spokesman repeating himself endlessly in stonewall mode over a couple of suits is both hilarious and worthy of some concern. If this is how Coleman reacts to minor questions about something as trivial as the shirt on his back, what kind of reaction can we expect over more serious and controversial issues?

Actually, we should already be very concerned. Anybody who would stonewall on such a trivial issue must have something to hide. The more he refuses to simply answer yes or no, the more it looks like he's got something to hide. What is it?

No Bailout!

It looks like Congress is about to stick us poor taxpayers with the $700 billion bailout of the fatcats on Wall Street -- tonight.

Citizens contacting their representatives and senators were 100 - 200 to 1 against the first bailout bill, and that's why it failed to pass. Now is the time to call your Congress person and tell them no again. Otherwise, they'll sell us down the river.

No economist has made the case that if this bill does not pass, we will suffer 10 years of double-digit unemployment like we did during the Depression. But politicians and Wall Street bankers all throw the word "Depression" around to cow the taxpayers in fear, even though there is no evidence we are facing such a thing.

If this bill passes, once again the wealthy gamblers on Wall Street will make out like bandits, not learn their lesson, and continue their greed-filled business as usual while we taxpayers and out children and our grand-children get stuck paying the bill. And because Wall Street didn't have to feel the pain and pay the piper, this same mistake and cycle will happen all over again before the 22nd century. Will the taxpayers get screwed again then?

Tell your Congressman: vote no on this $700 billion bailout bill!