January's GOP Asshat of the Month

Given her track record of public displays of insanity, it was only a matter of time until Minnesota's newly-elected Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann embarrassed Minnesota on the national stage. She lived up to expectations and even exceeded them with her performance at last week's State of the Union address, groping the President like a pre-teen schoolgirl at a Jesse McCartney concert.

For those of you who didn't notice, the attractive but batshit crazy freshman Congresswoman grabbed hold of the President's shoulder as he was exiting the hall during the State of the Union address, refusing to let go for nearly 30 seconds until he finally gave her a smooch. If I was trapped in confined quarters with a lunatic female stalker, I'd take my odds with Glenn Close's "Fatal Attraction" character any day over my home state's nutball Congresswoman.

One has to expect that the negative media exposure is giving plenty of the North Metro's voters buyers' remorse for their decision to elect this lunatic last November, despite mountains of evidence that she was dancing on the edge of both mainstream American political ideology and of sanity. But Bachmann was operating on favorable turf in Minnesota's 6th Congressional district, the most conservative of the state's eight districts....and even there Bachmann only squeezed out a bare 50% majority against a divided center-left vote which split between weak DFL challenger Patty Wetterling and a third-party newcomer who is not yet 30 years old.

With the demographics of her district, Bachmann probably gets a little bit of slack in the rope voters handed her before she hangs herself with it.....but MN-06 is not Utah, West Texas, or suburban Atlanta. Too many more incidents like what the whole world saw on the night of the State of the Union address and even the fatcat Republicans of Forest Lake and St. Michael are gonna cry fowl.