You understand that a 2012 Romney-Bachmann Ticket would be forced to have a bloody lil’ foster child, right? If you wanna clutch the carnage, you must click it.
It’s Back To The Future Friday, kids, and you know what that means— supercilious speculations are in order. The latest Quttapadlock Poll says serial loser Mittens Romney is leading Stepford bot Michele Bachmann by a mere eleven points, which, according to our crystal balls, means they may as well be joined at the junk… or whatever they have down there.
No, this isn’t an ad for the Ban Republican Marriage Coalition, it’s from the Hypnotic Wallpaper Association, who, I know it’s crazy, support theBachmannish-Romneyesgue 2012 Ticket.
And that disgusting visual forces us to take a moment to speculate on just what would happen when Mittens’ magic Mormon underoos are politically wedded to the homophobic ex-Lutheran straightjacket of Michele Bachmann. These garments are generally considered orthodox raiment by casual observers such as ourselves, but putting them together on a political ticket could produce a volatile ensemble clash that will surely incense gay fashionistas all across America.
But. Let’s move on to more frivolous stuff. Like, just yesterday, when only the quick-of-eye caught the subtle hip-twitch by Romneywhen he was asked, “Is Homosexuality a sin?” Clearly the magic undergarment was at work, as Romney reflexively responded, “Nice try.” Which is magic Mormon underwear-speak for “Fuck off.”
But enough about Mittens. Once these two get ticketed up, he’ll be even more irrelevant than McCain was after he got his first Palin chubby.
And you must remember the protracted and outraged tarring of then candidateBarack Obama the Repugs indulged in over his pew time at Rev. Jeramiah Wright‘s church— well now word comes fromJoshua Greenat The Atlanticabout candidate Bachmann‘s recent termination ( in writing) of her membership in the Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Stillwater, Minnasoda, [sic] which hates the sin of homosexuality, and oh yeah, that guy in the red shoes that they call the Pope is the Anti-Christ. Now that’s some pre-emptive political sagacity.
Bachmann, who has a gay stepsister, has spent most of her adult life fibrillating over TEH GAY. Now Bachmann is just a Christian wife who happens to be running for “the President,” a woman who is subservient to her Christian husband, Marcus Bachmann, who claims his words were altered on this interview where he infers that gays are sinful “barbarians” that need to be educated.
And she’ll need lots more sagacity too, when the Lamestream Mediarrhoids ask her if, like her hubby-wubby, she believes you can pray away teh gay. But like all good tail-wagging the head Christians, she believes she is obligated to rule, and it will take all the obligates she can pray her hands on to rule her precious little Tea Baby, the reckless mutant spawn of 2010.
As the self-appointed foster mother of this little anti-tax monster, she will find out just how much God loves her when it starts to bite her in the ass, which should be right after someone asks her how she plans to keep it from running all over the national mall devouring gays and and anti-American Congressmen.
Let the foster parenting begin!
Awwww… terrifyingly cute… and gay! And all cleaned up for a new election cycle.
Justin Bieber disappointed U.S. representative and potential presidential candidate Michele Bachmann at last night's Time 100 by not showing up — she'd brought copies of his book to sign for one of her older sons, who is a special-ed teacher. But she did delight her other, younger children (she's taken care of 23 foster kids over the years) by meeting another popular teen icon and singer. At the event last night, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Bachmann and her husband posed with Glee star Darren Criss and e-mailed the pictures to their children. "We looked for Chris Colfer," she said, but they didn't find him. "We don’t watch TV, generally speaking. But the kids were thrilled. What kids don’t watch Glee?" Well, maybe the children of potential presidential candidates who think God sent them to stop gay people from having equal rights? Maybe Bachmann doesn't know that the main message of the popular teen hit is tolerance, respect, and equal treatment — particularly for gay people. She doesn’t watch TV, after all.
I wonder if she will loose any endorsements or financial backing on her campaign for this. If anyone has the photos of Marcus and Michele with Chris, please, by all means, send them to me..... please!!!!!
There are 2,060,000 results for a Google search with keywords "bachmann 23 foster". And it's no wonder since Bachmann's constant mantra is " 5 biological kids and 23 foster kids" whenever she's being interviewed.
But, as Bachmann takes wing toward the highest public office in the land, will these 23 seemingly selfless acts of altruism stand up to media scrutiny? Or will her resume, like the wax wings of Icarus melt under the glare?
DB reader Betty comments:
She took money from the state and her school district to home school her kids. The biggest scam justified as an exercise of our "freedoms". Parents receive a generous refund from their school district. They can spend that money on anything they want. These home schooled kids are some of the most socially challenged people later in life. The whole thing stinks. If someone wants to skip the public or private school scene, do it on your own dime, with no help from the state.
She took money from the state to feed and house her 23 babysitters. (And didn't pay these teenagers for babysitting her 5 biological children).
Marcus' family continues to take farm subsidies from the federal government.
Their Christian counseling company doesn't provide health care to it's employees, but Marcus can get whatever foot surgery he wants because his wife can access a group insurance plan from the insurance exchange for federal employees. Our tax dollars subsidize that.
So, you're welcome Michele. Because of government your in- laws didn't move in with you. Your kids stayed home from school every day. You had free babysitting service. And your husband will always have that lovely swish, courtesy of foot surgeries.
...and...
If you ask people in Stillwater what they know about these foster children of the Bachmanns, they will say it's common knowledge that these kids were used to babysit her young children while she spent time at the capital in St. Paul. This was before she even won the seat or was "begged" to run for a MN Senate office. When she says that she was called by God or prayed and fasted for a sign from God as to whether she should take the political path, don't believe it. She specifically prepared herself and sought out groups to surround her, sought endorsements, cozied up to local party officials and built the power she needed to run. This takes a lot of time. A lot of time away from home, your job in and outside the home. These foster children were nothing more than a resume item and free labor. And my dear Canadian friend, there is a nasty little secret in the heartland that you may not be aware of. It was typical a few decades ago for farmers to "take in" orphaned children or children under the protection of the state, during planting time and/or harvest, and then return them to the state, claiming some kind of charge that the child or children were disobidient or tried to run away. The farmers basically make things up. Sometimes the state authorities went along with the arrangement.
This doesn't happen today, but because the identiies of these children are protected by state and county authorities, we will never know the full story.
Here’s some news to dry House Speaker John Boehner’s tears. I called to get a statement on Egypt from Minnesota Representative and House Tea Party Caucus founder Michele Bachmann and was told that, in spite of numerous requests, she wouldn’t be giving any interviews this week while she concentrates on district work.
What a break, as Bachmann would be unlikely to follow the Republican leadership in praising President Barack Obama’s handling of the crisis in Cairo. Boehner, since lifting the speaker’s gavel, has had to spend too much time managing Bachmann, who can draw cameras with the lift of a penciled eyebrow. So her silence since last week’s renegade response to the president’s State of the Union speech must sound golden.
Boehner’s opportunity to rope the new crop of Tea Party members into his agenda runs through Bachmann. She isn’t making it easy.
After Boehner handpicked House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan for the high-profile role of rebutting Obama’s speech, in swept Bachmann to make a separate but equal -- in the judgment of CNN -- response on behalf of the Tea Party. Who knew one wasn’t enough?
Could there be a more vivid demonstration of the divide between mainstream Republicans and the Tea Party? Bachmann went rogue and no one could stop her. Boehner said “other obligations” kept him from watching her performance. But lots of other people watched, as it grew from a Web-only event to live coverage on CNN, to the consternation of Republicans who wanted it buried.
It wasn’t a boffo performance. Looking into the camera feeding the Web, she looked odd on the more important camera, the one providing pool coverage to CNN, among others. Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, whose conservative credentials are sterling, criticized Bachmann -- “To try to upend Paul Ryan was just wrong” -- only to take it all back the next day.
Boehner has to find a way to control the diva in his midst or lose the opportunity to show Republicans can get things done. Boehner successfully kept her from winning a leadership spot and instead put her on the Intelligence Committee, which keeps secrets and prohibits cameras. My money’s on Bachmann to find a way to stay in the spotlight.
No amount of nonsense has held her back.
She said she wouldn’t fill out her 2010 Census forms because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used such information to round up Japanese nationals for internment during World War II.
She credited the Founding Fathers with ending slavery.
She latched onto an India newspaper’s unattributed and unsupported claim that Obama’s trip there last year would cost $200 million a day, a preposterous sum.
She says Obama runs a “gangster government” and is taking the United States on “the final leap to socialism.”
She voted against efforts to help people facing foreclosure. Yet her family pocketed $251,973 in federal farm subsidies between 1995 and 2006, according to the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog.
Bachmann, a lawyer educated at Oral Roberts University, was a Democrat until she was turned off by the writings of Gore Vidal, she says. She says she fasted three days before deciding to run for Congress in 2006, ultimately launching a campaign based on fervid opposition to abortion and gay marriage.
Nowadays, she’s equally obsessed with deficits and health care. Her alliance with the Tea Party was cemented when she spoke at a rally on the Capitol grounds against Obamacare and the crowd chanted her name.
While insisting she isn’t the leader of the movement, because it shouldn’t have one, she’s the elected official (as opposed to the unelected Palin) who comes closest.
With 88 percent of Republicans telling a Gallup/USA Today poll that congressional leaders should take into account the Tea Party’s ideals when developing policy, Boehner can’t afford to offend Bachmann, who is better known than any member of his leadership team. Now that she’s considering a run for president in 2012, she’s assured near-round-the-clock coverage for her every utterance.
How far will Bachmann go in her quest for Tea Party and world domination? She could prove her clout by organizing a vote against raising the federal debt ceiling. Then Boehner really would have something to cry about.
Dr. Marcus Bachmann, (left) husband of Michele Bachmann, runs a Christian clinic which uses "therapeutic training programs" to remove homosexuality from children and Barbarians (his word not mine).
FRESNO, Calif. — When Seth Walsh was in the sixth grade, he turned to his mother one day and told her he had something to say.
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“I was folding clothes, and he said, ‘Mom, I’m gay,’ ” said Wendy Walsh, a hairstylist and single mother of four. “I said, ‘O.K., sweetheart, I love you no matter what.’ ”
Last month, Seth went into the backyard of his home in the desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., and hanged himself, apparently unable to bear a relentless barrage of taunting, bullying and other abuse at the hands of his peers. After a little more than a week on life support, he died last Tuesday. He was 13.
The case of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after a sexual encounter with another man was broadcast online, has shocked many. But his death is just one of several suicides in recent weeks by young gay teenagers who had been harassed by classmates, both in person and online.
The list includes Billy Lucas, a 15-year-old from Greensburg, Ind., who hanged himself on Sept. 9 after what classmates reportedly called a constant stream of invective against him at school.
Less than two weeks later, Asher Brown, a 13-year-old from the Houston suburbs, shot himself after coming out. He, too, had reported being taunted at his middle school, according to The Houston Chronicle. His family has blamed school officials as failing to take action after they complained, something the school district has denied.
The deaths have set off an impassioned — and sometimes angry — response from gay activists and caught the attention of federal officials, including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who on Friday called the suicides “unnecessary tragedies” brought on by “the trauma of being bullied.”
“This is a moment where every one of us — parents, teachers, students, elected officials and all people of conscience — needs to stand up and speak out against intolerance in all its forms,” Mr. Duncan said.
And while suicide by gay teenagers has long been a troubling trend, experts say the stress can be even worse in rural places, where a lack of gay support services — or even openly gay people — can cause a sense of isolation to become unbearable.
“If you’re in the small community, the pressure is hard enough,” said Eliza Byard, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, which is based in New York. “And goodness knows people get enough signals about ‘how wrong it is to be gay’ without anyone in those communities actually having to say so.”
According to a recent survey conducted by Ms. Byard’s group, nearly 9 of 10 gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual middle and high school students suffered physical or verbal harassment in 2009, ranging from taunts to outright beatings.
In Mr. Clementi’s case, prosecutors in New Jersey have charged two fellow Rutgers freshmen with invasion of privacy and are looking at the death as a possible hate crime. Prosecutors in Cypress, Tex., where Asher Brown died, said Friday that they would investigate what led to his suicide.
In a pair of blog postings last week, Dan Savage, a sex columnist based in Seattle, assigns the blame to negligent teachers and school administrators, bullying classmates and “hate groups that warp some young minds and torment others.”
“There are accomplices out there,” he wrote Saturday.
In an interview, Mr. Savage, who is gay, said he was particularly irate at religious leaders who used “antigay rhetoric.”
“The problem is that kids are being exposed to this rhetoric, and then they go to the school and there’s this gay kid,” he said. “And how are they going to treat this gay kid who they’ve been told is trying to destroy their family? They’re going to abuse him.”
In late September, Mr. Savage began a project on YouTube called “It Gets Better,” featuring gay adults talking about their experiences with harassment as adolescents.
In one video, a gay man named Cyrus tells of his life as a closeted teenager in a small town in upstate New York.
“The main thing I wanted to come across from this video is how different my life is, how great my life is, and how happy I am in general,” he says.
Glennda Testone, the executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City, said their youth programs serve about 50 young people a day, often suffering from “bullying, harassment or even violence.”
“The three main groups of pivotal figures are family, friends and their schoolmates,” she said. “And if they’re feeling isolated and like they can’t tell those people, it’s going to be a very rough ride.”
Here in Fresno, in California’s conservative Central Valley, groups like Equality California have been more active in trying to establish outreach offices, particularly after an election defeat in 2008, when California voters approved Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage.
In Tehachapi, in Kern County south of here, more than 500 mourners attended a memorial on Friday for Seth Walsh. One of those, Jamie Elaine Phillips, a classmate and friend, said Seth had long known he was gay and had been teased for years.
“But this year it got much worse,” Jamie said. “People would say, ‘You should kill yourself,’ ‘You should go away,’ ‘You’re gay, who cares about you?’ ”
Richard L. Swanson, superintendent of the local school district, said his staff had conducted quarterly assemblies on behavior, taught tolerance in the classroom and had “definite discipline procedures that respond to bullying.”
“But these things didn’t prevent Seth’s tragedy,” he said in an e-mail. “Maybe they couldn’t have.”
For her part, Ms. Walsh said she had complained about Seth’s being picked on but did not want to cast blame, though she hoped his death would teach people “not to discriminate, not be prejudiced.”
“I truly hope,” she said, “that people understand that.”
Ian Lovett contributed reporting from Tehachapi, Calif.
It’s not the only instance of Marcus Bachmann taking government dough; his family farm has taken in nearly ten times that amount in federal farm subsidies. Paying Marcus Bachmann to not produce corn and dairy? Oh, that’s just fine. But health care for poor children? ABHORRENT! This is the face of evanglical Christianity. Hope they’re proud.
Michele Bachmann's husband, Marcus, issued an urgent appeal to supporters Friday: we cannot let the assaults on her virtue stand!
The Bachmanns are concerned about a concert in Minneapolis entitled "F*** Michele Bachmann," which they apparently think is a reference to the organizers' desire to engage in coitus with Mrs. Bachmann rather than a desire to see her out of office. To help them get over the pain and despair, they would like their supporters to send them money...more
You understand that a 2012 Romney-Bachmann Ticket would be forced to have a bloody lil’ foster child, right? If you wanna clutch the carnage, you must click it.
No, this isn’t an ad for the Ban Republican Marriage Coalition, it’s from the Hypnotic Wallpaper Association, who, I know it’s crazy, support theBachmannish-Romneyesgue 2012 Ticket.
Awwww… terrifyingly cute… and gay! And all cleaned up for a new election cycle.
