• February 13, 2012
  • MICHELLE BACHMANN HAS A THEORY! “If you want to look at economic history over the last 100 years. I call it punctuated equilibrium. If you look at FDR, LBJ, and Barack Obama, this is really the final leap to socialism.” HMM QUITE SO. [Think Progress]

{ 59 comments }

EnBuenOra March 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Wait — does Bachmann now believe in evolution?

randomsausage March 5, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Throw that bitch a gerbil before she starts loading us all onto big spaceships

http://www.stargods.org/V_Diana.jpg

shortsshortsshorts March 5, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Fucking asshatted fucktard shit-fer-brain douche.
YA TOTALLY THOUGH SHE IS RIGHT ON.
When Reagan, Eisenhower, Bush, Reagan and Bush were around they were simply CRAFTING the Socialist Agenda (TM)

queeraselvis v 2.0 March 5, 2009 at 3:22 pm

All yer Bachmanns are belong to us.

loquaciousmusic March 5, 2009 at 3:22 pm

“Punctuated equilibrium”? Did she read a book without pictures, for once?

shortsshortsshorts March 5, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Oh and Reagan again. Because why not.

Joey Ratz March 5, 2009 at 3:23 pm

“Punctuated equilibrium”? “Institutionalizing cartels”? “Economic history”? Sounds like Michele is burnishing her reputation as a public intellectual.

Rush March 5, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Yeah but what a MILF!

ManchuCandidate March 5, 2009 at 3:24 pm

With Mish, it’s always a sexual overtone. Based on my Captain Subtext Translator, this is what she really said:

“If you want to look at sexual GOP history over the last 100 years. I call it rhythmic fucking and chucking. If you look at Larry Craig, David Vitter, Warren Harding, and Mark Foley, the fact that Utah is the #1 Pr0n State of US America is really the final leap of GOP preversionism.”

Cathangover March 5, 2009 at 3:24 pm

Who let Michelle Bachmann near a widely accepted biological theory? Goddamnit, Steele.

Jukesgrrl March 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm

She can SAY it, but can she SPELL it?

ManchuCandidate March 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Holy fuck! It’s Bachmann Socialism Overdrive

lampadadog March 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Punctuated equilibrium? There comes a point when certain indignities simply CANNOT be tolerated. Punctuated equilibrium! The sheer repulsive idiocy of this woman is beyond belief. Punctuated!!! Equilibrium!!!

snideinplainsight March 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm

Let me just say, I think the use of the word “Lemurtard” is offensive and uncalled-for.

Red Zeppelin March 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm

She’s a follower of the late Stephen Jay Gould now? I guess she saw an opening and took it. I look forward to the MILF showdown between her and the Snowbilly, where they are debating punc-eke vs. gradualism. Also.

randomsausage March 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm

I’d punctuate her equilibrium anytime…..all over her face.

flyingspaghettimonster March 5, 2009 at 3:30 pm

treason. un-frakking-believable.

FMA March 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm

If Stephan Jay Gould were alive today, this would kill him.

Sussemilch March 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm

Say what? She punctuated her equilibrium? Dammit you kids I keep telling you not to stick pencils in your ears!

V572625694 March 5, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Dontcha just hate it when the democratically elected representatives (FDR, LBJ, Obama) do what the people want them to do? How can we stop this?

[re=258744]Joey Ratz[/re]: And nothing makes you sound more intellectual than talking to bloated compulsive gambler and former drug kingpin czar Bill Bennett!

Serolf Divad March 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm

I hear Bachman got her equilibrium punctuated in the back of an extended cab Ford F150 when she was just 14.

qwerty42 March 5, 2009 at 3:38 pm

and after socialism do we get communism? who gets to be the “left-deviationists”, or the “wreckers” or any of these fun groups. do we have show trials?

ShamWow March 5, 2009 at 3:41 pm

[re=258769]Serolf Divad[/re]: Dammit, she got her equilibrium punctuated the same as me.

Norbert March 5, 2009 at 3:42 pm

why does Obama want to take away our prosperity?!?!?! (at 1:35)

karenology March 5, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Do you suppose she just holds an incandescent light bulb over her head until she has an actual idea?

comradepaulson March 5, 2009 at 3:43 pm

I love the new GOP. How do we keep this group (Spray-Tan Boehner, Bobby “The Page” Jindal, Snowbilly, Joe The Asshat Plumber, Rush, Bachmann Crazy Overdrive) together forever? They’re like The Beatles of wingnuttiness: every hit is a classic.

Texan Bulldoggette March 5, 2009 at 3:43 pm

“MICHELLE BACHMANN HAS A THEORY!” Now there’s a sentence I bet you thought you’d never type, along with:

Michelle Bachmann has a thought.
Rush Limbaugh is a nice looking man.
Those Brits have great teeth!

Woodwards Friend March 5, 2009 at 3:45 pm

If you want to look at political history over the last 100 years. I call it stupidity equilibrium. If you look at William Jennings Bryan, Roy Cohn, and Michelle Bachman, this is really the final leap to retarded.

randomsausage March 5, 2009 at 3:45 pm

[re=258786]comradepaulson[/re]: you forgot their tranny back-up singer, Ann “Adam Apple” Coulter.

donner_froh March 5, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Its not surprising that this numbskull got enough votes to get elected its that she got any votes at all. The 6th District of Minnesota must exist in some alternate universe.

Monsieur Grumpe March 5, 2009 at 3:48 pm

[re=258769]Serolf Divad[/re]:
It’s more commonly known as the Minnesota Right of Passage.

S.Luggo March 5, 2009 at 3:50 pm

“Democrats are about to institutionalize cartels.” I believe that she confused “cartels” with the fair rides in which children sit on wooden horses mounted on a large turn table that goes round and round. And, of course, they should be institutionalized. They pretty. Make happy.
Why do you hate fun, Michele? Why?

teebob2000 March 5, 2009 at 3:51 pm

First thing that popped into my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYDiPizDIs

Monsieur Grumpe March 5, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Maybe she’s trying to fill William F Buckley’s shoes.

S.Luggo March 5, 2009 at 3:54 pm

[re=258769]Serolf Divad[/re]: Is “equilibrium” another word for “uvula”? Wondering.

Itsjustme March 5, 2009 at 4:02 pm

Has anyone just said to her “Shut up, bitch”

snideinplainsight March 5, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Are we not men? We are Bachmann!

gurukalehuru March 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm

e.q,u;i:l-i.b,r’i;u:m

bitchincamaro March 5, 2009 at 4:06 pm

[re=258746]Rush[/re]: Yes, but only in a BIZARRE PENETRATIONS kind of way.

jagorev March 5, 2009 at 4:09 pm

And this is why I love Wonkette – the very first commenter made the connection between punctuated equilibrium and the theory of evolution, and then the rest of the thread is mostly made up of sick sex jokes.

chascates March 5, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Eugene Debs would disagree. Socialism is a long way off. Asshatism, on the other hand, is running rampant.

CrunchyKnee March 5, 2009 at 4:13 pm

I thought equilibrium was GOP speak for wide stance?

iwillsavethispatient March 5, 2009 at 4:18 pm

Michelle Malkin wouldn’t recognize Socialism if it nationalized her blog and forced her to plow fields for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, all for the reward of a turnip.

Bruno March 5, 2009 at 4:22 pm

I thought equilibrium is acheived with the right mix of Prozac and Valium. Plus a shot of Jack Daniels

d4g33z March 5, 2009 at 4:42 pm

[re=258733]EnBuenOra[/re]: Damn! The first comment! Never underestimatize the Wonkette crowd…

lampadadog March 5, 2009 at 5:00 pm

[re=258856]Bruno[/re]: That’s correct. The shot of Jack is the Punctuation. And I need one to restore my senses, after discovering that Rep. Bachmann is so enthusiastic about evolutionary theory that she is now applying it to Presidencies. Good GOD.

assistant/atlas March 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm

God, what I wouldn’t give for just one reporter, perhaps one who wanted to OWN THE NEWS CYCLE for a day, to just call her up and give her an actual interview where when she says stupid things like this, someone is all “Are you aware punctuated equilibrium is an evolutionary concept that explains all those gaps in the fossil record you say disprove evolution?” and “Name one thing Obama has proposed that is anywhere near actual socialism” and “”Tell me what the difference is between a no-bid contract like those given out by Cheney in Iraq and a cartel?” and “What do you have against phyletic gradualism?”

But they won’t and that is why all media is dying. The End.

problemwithcaring March 5, 2009 at 5:47 pm

I missed a GOP talking point. What was wrong with what Johnson did in ’65? The Civil Rights Amendment was socialism?

Mr Blifil March 5, 2009 at 7:15 pm

Wait, she punctured what?

Tomthebunny March 5, 2009 at 7:26 pm

[re=258789]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: And: My English car has a great electrical system.

Hooray For Anything March 5, 2009 at 7:31 pm

[re=258925]assistant/atlas[/re]: I would too but I think the reporters are too amazed at the stupidity for them to actually ask a follow up questions.

KTHXBAI March 5, 2009 at 8:19 pm

Keep it up Michelle, please. You House Republicans have already been reduced to a washed-up irrevelant gaggle of right wing bimbo barbies and fat old Southern men stuck in 1957 who are completely dead in Northeast and dying a slow death in the Rockies and Midwest. Pump up the crazy, good old Pearl Necklace because I’d love a (third) blowout in 2010. Also.

Red Zeppelin March 5, 2009 at 8:40 pm

[re=258925]assistant/atlas[/re]: Brill.

CaliforniaMike March 5, 2009 at 8:59 pm

[re=258786]comradepaulson[/re]: Don’t forget Sean Insanity and Mann Coulter. This is the greatest collection of wackos in America since Richard Nixon dined alone.

Tommmcatt March 5, 2009 at 9:08 pm

[re=258992]problemwithcaring[/re]:

Maybe she was referring to “The Great Society”. Or maybe somebody wrote down a list of Democratic presidents for her and Johnson was on it.

More likely the latter.

gliberal March 5, 2009 at 10:02 pm

I am guessing, but I would hazard a guess that Bachmann enjoys being the recipient of anal sex.

CaliforniaMike March 5, 2009 at 11:16 pm

[re=259211]gliberal[/re]: As opposed to being the giver with a giant strap-on that makes a buzzing noise? Hard to say.

Lola Getz March 6, 2009 at 7:57 am

I have a theory too: Michelle Bachmann’s mother dropped her on her head as a baby.

Fucking moron.

supremecourtjester March 6, 2009 at 8:34 am

Kinda just wondering–but if the American people WANTED a socialist government, Ms. Bachmann, — who the hell are you to stand in the way?

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