Think Progress , huh ? Waste of time .

Jon, TFA is noted as being a resume enhancer these days, plus, it used to have (and may still) bonus points when applying to certain graduate programs. Lastly, given the dearth of jobs for twenty-somethings with only an undergraduate degree, TFA is a pretty good deal- if you get a school that’s not in a neighborhood where you need to have a concealed carry permit.

Bachmann is a loon and I would think her relatives are running as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Can you blame them?

Garth said:
Bachmann is a loon and I would think her relatives are running as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Can you blame them?

She is a Waterloo girl Garth, you should be very afraid. My money would be on her kicking your butt!

Ms. Bachmann’s son sounds like a fine young man. Too bad his mother has guano for a brain.

It sounds like Rep. Bachmann is going through a difficult time. I wish her and her son all the best as he begins his career.

My sympathies to Ms Bachmann. Sounds like Junior has run off to college and turned all liberal on her. Probably a reaction to growing up with a crazy loon neocon mom who was devoutly batshit. He will probably go on to become lead a productive life as a community organizer or Democratic candidate.

BatBoy said:
She is a Waterloo girl Garth, you should be very afraid. My money would be on her kicking your butt!

My money is on you and your nose up her ass. Waterloo girl. LMAO!!

Rep. Bachmann statement:

“”"“I believe that there’s a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service.”"”

As it is NOT mandatory, (key word “mandatory”) I doubt Bachmann would have an issue with her son working with the students in rurall or inner cities.

As Rep. Bachmann has fostered and adopted many children, I’m sure she (more than most people) realizes the importance of helping children in need in securing a better future.

Please keep us all informed about what Bachmann’s other kids are up to. We wouldn’t want Palin’s kids to be the only targets now would we?

Why does Michelle Bachmann say such stupid things? She could stop, presumably. Think before you speak. It’s a good plan for an elected official.

Um, I see the Think Progress piece was written by Amanda Terkel, who has been at the Huffington Post for a while now. Did you notice the date on this is 2009?

To think she was once a liberal….*shudders*.

This moron and the half-term nit wit are national embarrassments. They are reminders of how stupid the tea-bag party really is and we should never forget their stupidity.

It appears to me the chicken is coming home to roost for Mitchell. You can only mention certain crap for a number of times around people, before it gets in their head.

Wow, you just can’t make this shit up. I guess it’s a lot like all those farm subsidies. When it comes to Bachmann, it’s do as I say, not as my family and I do…

Man, the lefties are out in force today.

They kind of run in packs, don’t they?

BatBoy said:
Man, the lefties are out in force today. They kind of run in packs, don’t they?

The “Gimme-More!” Riots in Wisconsin must have let out.
LOL

@Jon Bershad

Is this another son joining or is 2009 recently?

Either way – seeing it again is no less HILARIOUS.

mamaearth said:
Rep. Bachmann statement:

“””“I believe that there’s a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service.”””

As it is NOT mandatory, (key word “mandatory”) I doubt Bachmann would have an issue with her son working with the students in rurall or inner cities.

As Rep. Bachmann has fostered and adopted many children, I’m sure she (more than most people) realizes the importance of helping children in need in securing a better future.

The point is, the Moron would call it indoctrination if Obama were adopting,.

Garth said:
Bachmann is a loon and I would think her relatives are running as fast as they can in the opposite direction. Can you blame them?

Is that why you have abandonment issues, and your stupidity can never be forgotten, no matter what names you post under?

Gasket said:
To think she was once a liberal….*shudders*.

Everyone grows a brain sooner or later except liberals who are perpetually stuck on stupid.

Some regresses. Witness pathetic Arianna Huffington.

Most grows. Ronald Reagan was once Democrat.

Yukon Jack said:
Everyone grows a brain sooner or later except liberals who are perpetually stuck on stupid.

Some regresses. Witness pathetic Arianna Huffington.

Most grows. Ronald Reagan was once Democrat.

I think if Michelle Bachman was your prime example of the mental progression/advancement/evolution of a liberal to a conservative, you already lost the race before the christmas tree lit up, Sparky.
Ronald Reagan was a scared old man who could barely discern reality from fiction. He was a GOP President, one of many. Not exactly a genius.

Garth said:
This moron and the half-term nit wit are national embarrassments. They are reminders of how stupid the tea-bag party really is and we should never forget their stupidity.

Your idol, the occupier of the White House delivered a cliche-ridden “speech” that catapulted him into the State Senate. He quit that after 130+ gutless “PRESENT” votes which catapulted him into the United States Senate. He quit that to run as the historically least qualified pretender for the Presidency.

To their everlasting shame Americans – feeling guilty for mostly imaginary sins – elected this phony to the highest office in the world.

Talking about half-term? Obama never had the guts to serve even a third of his terms as either a State or a Federal Senator.

And of course, Michelle Bachmann more than makes up for the leftover from a botched abortion, Al Franken, which, along with Jesse The Body is the everlasting embarrassment for Minnesota. Not to mention being the only one State in 1984 who……..

Gasket said:
I think if Michelle Bachman was your prime example of the mental progression/advancement/evolution of a liberal to a conservative, you already lost the race before the christmas tree lit up, Sparky.
Ronald Reagan was a scared old man who could barely discern reality from fiction. He was a GOP President, one of many. Not exactly a genius.

And yet, Ronald Reagan beat (admittedly no big deal) a piece of crap who will undoubtedly will go down in history as the WORST President AND the worst ex-president and then also the Minnesota Mistake, by a landslide.

When she dives off the deep end like that, I can’t take it. Vote her out and get a serious thinking conservative candidate.

Even Bachmann’s son knows she’s a looney toon space cadet.

I seriously have to question where the people of Minnesota’s collective heads are electing the folks that they elect. I think I can guess.

A few years ago I did some voluntreer work in Homestead, Florida. I shared accommodations with a bunch of youngsters proudly bragging about being part of AmeriCorps.

Well, the following morning, when it was time to go to work, most of them was sleeping off a gigantic hangover.

Enough said.

Jmat40 said:
Even Bachmann’s son knows she’s a looney toon space cadet.

I seriously have to question where the people of Minnesota’s collective heads are electing the folks that they elect. I think I can guess.

Michelle Bachmann is a great lady and a great mother. Look it up. If I were like you I would call you a looney toon, but ad hominem insults are the true and real property of the real true looney toons.

Like the ones in Minnesota who elected Jesse The Body Ventura and Al Franken.

Yukon Jack said:
And yet, Ronald Reagan beat (admittedly no big deal) a piece of crap who will undoubtedly will go down in history as the WORST President AND the worst ex-president and then also the Minnesota Mistake, by a landslide.

What are your predictions for next year Gramps?

Yukon Jack said:
Talking about half-term? Obama never had the guts to serve even a third of his terms as either a State or a Federal Senator.

Obama was a US Senator for 4 years until he was sworn in as the US POTUS. Last I checked, he moved UP, not DOWN like your 1/2 term QUITTING goofball Gub’nor of Alaska. I didn’t know ambition was a sin. He definitely didn’t QUIT. Americans don’t elect losers or quitters.

Yukon Jack said:
To their everlasting shame Americans – feeling guilty for mostly imaginary sins – elected this phony to the highest office in the world.

Still a little bit bitter confederate Jack? Be ready for the gnashing of teeth next year when your candidate gets raped at the polls…..AGAIN! (Note: To the teabaggers, “rape” in this context is a figurative trope. I am not saying that your candidate will actually be forced to engage in a sexual act.)

If any of you have children (which I doubt most of you lefties here do) you’ll quickly realize they do things you’d rather they didn’t. It’s part of life. It doesn’t make her remarks any less accurate, Americorps is a ridiculous excuse for picking up the tab on student loans that are to expensive to be repaid.

da-wdc said:
Um, I see the Think Progress piece was written by Amanda Terkel, who has been at the Huffington Post for a while now. Did you notice the date on this is 2009?

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The story is from August 2009.

http://minnesotaindependent.com/41747/bachmann-son-teach-america-americorps-reeducation-camps

One would think that that fact would be worth at least a passing nod rather than this opening phrase “Michele Bachmann’s son has recently joined an…”. that actually claims it as current news.

Not the best form, IMO.

da-wdc said:
Um, I see the Think Progress piece was written by Amanda Terkel, who has been at the Huffington Post for a while now. Did you notice the date on this is 2009?

Remember when Bill O’Reilly had his cabana boy stalk her on her vacation? Ah right wingers….

Yukon Jack said:
Like the ones in Minnesota who elected Jesse The Body Ventura and Al Franken.

You mean the majority?

CosmosDan said:
Yukon Jack said:
Like the ones in Minnesota who elected Jesse The Body Ventura and Al Franken.

You mean the majority?

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Ventura, definitely.

Franken, that’s a tossup.

Bachman, definitely.

At ant rate, I’m happy to see that you honor the wishes of the majority no matter what side of the aisle they come down on.

Grammie said:
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Ventura, definitely.

Franken, that’s a tossup.

Bachman, definitely.

At ant rate, I’m happy to see that you honor the wishes of the majority no matter what side of the aisle they come down on.

Bachman was elected in a district with many like her.
She would never be elected by a majority of Minnesotans

In office, Jesse was a lot like Ron Paul. Gave back taxes that were over budget (when both sides wanted to spend it) started mass transit that the outgoing pinhead is now taking credit for, and why pay for a bunch of millionaires to play a game in a new building.

nutsofast said:
Bachman was elected in a district with many like her.
She would never be elected by a majority of Minnesotans

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And that means that she did not receive the majority of votes cast in her political unit or you just want to throw something out there that you think will diminish her?

Bachman is duly elected by a majority, period. I’m so sorry that free and fair election results don’t always meet with your approval. But, hey, you can always hope that someone dies and leaves you ruler of the world so you can right all those stupid mistakes by people like bachman.

Grammie said:
I’m happy to see that you honor the wishes of the majority no matter what side of the aisle they come down on.

Of course they are free to elect whomever they choose. I just don’t think she’s really helping the conservative cause or moving the country forward in a meaningful way so I encourage the GOP to find someone to replace her. Not that I expect it t happen.

Kudos to her son.Bachmann is a loon.She should go to the “re-education” camp.

timzank said:
If any of you have children (which I doubt most of you lefties here do) you’ll quickly realize they do things you’d rather they didn’t. It’s part of life. It doesn’t make her remarks any less accurate, Americorps is a ridiculous excuse for picking up the tab on student loans that are to expensive to be repaid.

It’s true children tend to go the way their parents are generally averse to.. by the time they become parents…

Bachman is Crazy, I really hope she does run in 2012….And Palin too, the GOP presidential debates will be off the hook with the two mama grizzlies tearing into each other fighting over who’s more rightwing batshit crazy. That would give all the late night comics some hilarious material…hmmm…I wonder who would play Bachman on SNL? ;)

When I want to get a good dose of how ‘the other side’ thinks, I just login here.

CosmosDan said:
When she dives off the deep end like that, I can’t take it. Vote her out and get a serious thinking conservative candidate.

She takes the dive to get her face – which is pretty enough to challenge Palin – on camera. And it works. Look how long it took for her to go from being a joke, to being one of the talking heads in the media. Don’t blame her, she’s just taking the opportunity the media keeps handing her. Blame the news organizations’ assignment editors, who decide what he get to see. Better yet, blame the news media marketing departments and their focus group buddies, who tell assignment editors what WE want to see. Yup.

Alex Lanni said:
It’s true children tend to go the way their parents are generally averse to.. by the time they become parents…

…OR the kid decided mom’s a wacko. Mine was. She just wasn’t in politics – thank God.

Yukon Jack said:
A few years ago I did some voluntreer work in Homestead, Florida. I shared accommodations with a bunch of youngsters proudly bragging about being part of AmeriCorps.

Well, the following morning, when it was time to go to work, most of them was sleeping off a gigantic hangover.

Enough said.

Strangely enough, it’s possible to do work for the community – or the world, for that matter – and get stinking drunk ALMOST at the same time. As I recall, when I was young that worked for me. But then I was arrested in Grant Park. You probably don’t even know what that was all about.

Yukon Jack said:
Michelle Bachmann is a great lady and a great mother. Look it up. If I were like you I would call you a looney toon, but ad hominem insults are the true and real property of the real true looney toons.

Like the ones in Minnesota who elected Jesse The Body Ventura and Al Franken.

“Look it up?” You’re kidding, right? I don’t need anyone else to tell me what to see. I can see for myself how she plays to the crowd. Presumably, her kid exercises his own opinion, as well. If this organization he’s working with really looks for excellent teachers, then she really was a good mother, she raised him to know being smart isn’t a bad thing. But she’s still a wacko.

Elaine Jesmer said:
Don’t blame her, she’s just taking the opportunity the media keeps handing her. Blame the news organizations’ assignment editors, who decide what he get to see. Better yet, blame the news media marketing departments and their focus group buddies, who tell assignment editors what WE want to see. Yup.

She’s an elected official paid to do a specific job so I think I’ll blame her as well. Although, you’re right, our media loves controversy and outrageous BS , more than they love actually informing us.

Jon,
I’m afraid you need to do some research, Jon, as “well-trained” educators are not sought by Teach for America.