Ridin’ the Crazy Train
Better-than-usual commentary from Jon Stewart on the current political santa anas. Our own state bird, Michele Bachmann, makes a cameo partway through.
Side note: to all the non-Minnesotans reading: sure, we may have inflicted upon you the crazypants likes of Michele Bachmann, Norm Coleman, Al Franken, Jesse Ventura, and Prince. Those of you not living in a state governed by an Austrian weightlifter might be tempted to view us Minnesotans as having, shall we say, questionable taste. To you I would just like to point out that we also gave you F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Garrison Keillor, the Mayo brothers, Winona Ryder, Bob Dylan, and the Coen brothers. Oh, and Kevin Sorbo. Hercules, huh? How ’bout that?
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(Oh, was Winona not a good example?)
Even Dylan and Fitzgerald won’t make up for Michele Bachmann.
Come on, buddy, you’ve got to DO something about that one. Revoke her crazytrain pass before I put my good foot through the TV.
Comment by monda — April 8, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Firstly, Prince is awesome, and did you not also give us The Replacements?
Comment by Strikethru — April 8, 2009 @ 11:02 pm
Monda: i wish I could. Bachmann represents our 6th Congressional District; I live in the 1st. Only voters of a Representative’s district have the power of petition and recall. I honestly can’t believe she got re-elected last November, even after her call for an investigation to expose “anti-American” members of Congress. (Hey, Michele, I’ve got a good idea for what you could call that investigative board. How about The House Un-American Activities Committee? What? No, it has nothing to do with Dr House.) It’s probably partly because her district is composed of a lot of Old Money, and partly because her opponent himself drifted half a bubble off plum in the other direction.
The way I see it, right now she’s the best argument the left has against radicalization of the Republican party. During the campaign, a lot of commentators were calling that wing the GOP’s “base”. But really it’s the fringe, and if the Republican’s want to start winning elections again, they’re going to have to denounce the Bachmanns, Limbaughs, Colters, and Hannitys of the world and re-identify their party with their true, halfway right of center base. It’s exactly what the Islamic world needed to do with the dangerous and extremist 2% of their population that garnered all the world’s attention and shaped western opinions of Muslims as a whole.
Whew. [catches breath]
Cheryl, yes, we happily claim The Replacements as well. Price… I like his music, but he’s not exactly the image of well-adjusted.
Comment by olivander — April 9, 2009 @ 6:40 am
I guess you’ll have to sell your house and move to the 6th district, then. We will ALL appreciate you for throwing yourself under the bus on this one.
I shudder to think how crazy her opponent must have been. Unimaginable.
I shouldn’t talk, really. I’m from the state that gave you Huckabee.
Comment by monda — April 13, 2009 @ 9:07 pm