As our sister site The Jane Dough reported Wednesday, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann recently became an official citizen of Switzerland. It may have seemed like a bizarre move, but she was eligible for dual-citizenship since 1978 when she married husband Marcus, whose parents are Swiss.

After much heated controversy (not really — more like a few jokes here and there), Michele Bachmann released a statement today officially renouncing her Swiss dual-citizenship:

As my colleague Noah Rothman reported earlier today, former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told the Christian Broadcasting Network that her presidential campaign was “extremely careful” and “almost mistake-free,” citing her infamous Elvis Presley and John Wayne Gacy gaffes as the only mistakes.

Former Republican presidential candidate and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) told the Christian Broadcasting Network that her presidential campaign was “extremely careful” and “almost mistake-free.”

Michele Bachmann hasn’t endorsed a candidate yet, and on Tuesday night, she danced around the endorsement question even more as Fox’s Greta Van Susteren questioned her on the issue. “It’s not about me,” she insisted, adding that she’s focused on bringing the party together.

In an interview with Florida conservative political website Shark Tank, former GOP Presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann deployed an unfortunate (and confusing) metaphor, saying of President Obama’s recent remarks on oil speculation that “This is just about waiving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem.”

Aside from the offensive racial connotations, Bachmann doesn’t even seem to understand the “tar baby” metaphor.

The “war on women” reached new heights today when Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmannn appeared to talk about Hillary Rosen‘s controversial comments and debate which political party is launching a war on women to begin with. Bachmann took great offense at Rosen’s words, having worked as a tax litigation attorney and a mother over the course of her life.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann appeared on ABC’s This Week earlier today and right off the bat, George Stephanopoulos asked her about Newt Gingrich‘s controversial remark last week that President Obama‘s comments on the Trayvon Martin shooting were “disgraceful” and “appalling.”

Following the media outrage over Rush Limbaugh‘s provocative remarks, Michele Bachmann took to CNN make an argument we’ve heard from some others already: that the media doesn’t express the same disgust when the woman being attacked is conservative. When violent statements were made about her, she said, there was no response.

It’s no secret Michele Bachmann opposes President Obama‘s health care plan. On Tuesday night, she made this abundantly clear during her appearance on “Real News From The Blaze.” Bachmann, touching on the economic argument for the birth control mandate, said the federal government, should it choose to do so, could limit the number of babies born per family.

When Michele Bachmann took to CNN to discuss the Republican primary, it was hardly surprising when the topic of a “Republican war on women” came up. Bachmann, who of course was once a presidential candidate herself, repeatedly refused to comment on the Rush Limbaugh ordeal, not-so-subtly dancing around the questions. Toward the end of the segment, though, she made a valid point about the focus of national discussion.

Piers Morgan had former presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann on for the hour tonight, and picked her brain on every topic from Rush Limbaugh to Mitt Romney, but the tensest part of the conversation surrounded none other than Kirk Cameron. Morgan asked Rep. Bachmann several questions about his comments on homosexuality, particularly whether she agreed with Cameron that homosexuality was “unnatural,” and after arguing that “traditional values” people were offended publicly more, she simply stopped answering questions.

Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann got into a tête-à-tête with CNN’s Piers Morgan after the anchor referred to her as being judgmental. “I am not here as anybody’s judge!” Bachmann exclaimed. “Well you’ve been pretty judgmental in the past, come on!” Morgan retorted.

“Me?! Hardly! Hardly! Hardly!” Bachmann responded incredulously. “Well that’s rude! That’s absolutely rude!”

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie appeared on Face the Nation today to make the case for Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday’s critical primaries in Michigan and Arizona. He said that he fully expects Romney to win in Michigan, a state that the candidate has certainly been hard at work to win, but did not discount the possibility of Romney losing the state and the nominating convention in August would grow incredibly contentious with no candidate having enough delegates to safely claim the nomination.

On Tuesday morning’s Starting Point, host Soledad O’Brien led yet another discussion of the Obama administration’s decision to give non-church religious employers one year to comply with the Preventive Services Mandate, which some claim is an “attack on religious liberty.”

O’Brien did a good job of challenging that false premise, but allowed guest Rep. Marcia Blackburn (R-TN) to slip in the lie that the mandate covers the “abortion pill.”

The lie that emergency contraception is the same as the “abortion pill” RU-486 has just completed the jump from the minds of Republicans like Michele Bachmann, to Fox News opinion programming, to the broader mainstream media. On Sunday morning’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos sat mute as columnist George Will repeated the lie that the Obama administration’s Preventive Services Mandate would force religious employers to “provide…abortion-inducing drugs.”

There has been a lot of high-minded chatter among the political media elite deriding the proliferation of presidential debates this election cycle. As CNN prepares to air the 19th Republican Primary debate tonight, Starting Point anchor Soledad O’Brien wondered if this GOP reality show is a good thing. Roland Martin argued that the debates have been revealing, noting “If we didn’t have 19 debates, trust me, Rick Perry would still be in this race.”

Politics is a name game. It is about who you know– at least in the sense that knowing who the players are in this elaborate dance that defines how we govern ourselves as a nation is critical to successful analysis. And then there are anomalies like Tim Tebow, black holes of cable news time and energy that, through no fault of their own, become fault lines along our political geography.

SNL’s Weekend Update had Michele Bachmann on for her swan song following her disappointing finish in the Iowa caucus on Tuesday. Although she was bummed that her time as a Republican candidate was over, she was much more excited about being able to blink “for the first time since this all started.” Seth Meyers quizzed her about her statement that God told her to run for the presidency, and Bachmann placidly acknowledged that it may have been a mass text.

When Michele Bachmann dropped out yesterday after coming in a disappointing sixth place in the Iowa caucus, it piqued the Mediaite staff desk’s curiosity about who had made recent predictions about the Congresswoman’s success in the Hawkeye State.

On the heels of her distant sixth-place finish in the Iowa Caucuses, and the announcement that she had canceled a planned visit to South Carolina, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann held a press conference Wednesday morning to announce that she is ending her presidential campaign. With the likely end of Rick Perry‘s run, Bachmann’s move presents an opportunity for surging Rick Santorum to consolidate the social conservative vote.

After finishing a disappointing sixth place in the Iowa caucuses, gathering just 6,073 votes — or 5% of the total — Rep. Michele Bachmann announced Wednesday morning that she would be holding a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, at 11 a.m. There were no details given on the nature of the presser.

So. Now that the results of last night’s Iowa caucus are in and we can all celebrate with / mumble about the winning candidates accordingly, let’s focus a bit on those who didn’t fare so well in The Hawkeye State. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who took in 5 percent of yesterday’s days, and Texas governor Rick Perry, who brought in 10.3 percent, have both decided to cancel appearances in South Carolina.

In one of the closest races in recent memory, in which, as numbers rolled in, the lead depended sometimes on as little as 15 votes. With the full assessment of the votes in, it is now clear that Rick Santorum eked out a double-digit (in actual votes, not percentage points) victory over Mitt Romney, with Rep. Ron Paul in third place followed by Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and Rep. Michele Bachmann rounding out the top.

During MSNBC’s Iowa Caucus coverage, The Huffington Post‘s Howard Fineman divulged to Chris Matthews that Michele Bachmann‘s “inner circle is in the process of telling her it’s time for her to drop out.”

As I was (briefly) watching Fox and Friends this morning, I heard Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) reference the “morning-after abortion pill,” the second time I’ve heard a GOP candidate mention the mythical drug in the past week. Host Steve Doocy failed to correct Bachmann, and although this bit of misinformation hasn’t spread much yet, I’d like to dispel it before it attaches itself to the media’s uterine wall. Any interviewer who hears this phrase has a duty to correct it.