Park51, the proposed Islamic community center and mosque in downtown Manhattan, has applied for federally-funded grants, prompting shrill cries that the "Ground Zero mosque" is looking for a taxpayer handout.

After Rep. Charlie Rangel was recommended for formal censure yesterday, he glumly headed down the hall, chastened, alone, and talking to no one. Who would cheer him up? House Tea Party Caucus founder Rep. Michele Bachmann, strangely enough!

Did you know that 2010 is the Year of the Conservative Woman? Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, whoever else: all conservative, and female, and in the news. Now the conservative filmmakers at Citizens United will commemorate them with a new documentary!

Statistics being what they are, every homophobic politician must have a gay loved one hiding somewhere. Dick Cheney has Mary. Alan Keyes has Maya. And Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party Queen of Delaware, has a lesbian sister in L.A.

Rep. Michele Bachmann, founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, is now starting a political action committee, Michele PAC. The only problem: staffers responsible for registering it, who don't know how to spell her name.

Popular paranoid congresswoman Michele Bachmann, founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, must've caught her somethin' terrible last week, for she was hospitalized Friday! What liberal virus crept into her? No one knows, but hey, she's recovering nicely.

Minnesota dingbat Michele Bachmann, who founded the House Tea Party Caucus last week, is already at odds with Tea Party members. She's campaigning for Missouri Senate candidate Roy Blunt instead of the Tea Party/Joe the Plumber-backed Real American candidate. Traitor!

Minnesota's greatest, Michele Bachmann, and several other patriotic congressmen held a presser today announcing the launch of the House Tea Party Caucus! Her office also released a list of inaugural members — some of whom didn't know they'd signed up.

Your favorite wingnut Minnesota congresscritter Michele Bachmann has made even more history today. Congress has approved her application to form an official House Tea Party Caucus! Get excited for constant parking lot donnybrooks with the Congressional Black Caucus.

Delightfully insane congresswoman Michele Bachmann has found more incontrovertible proof that Barack Obama is the Worst President of All Time: he is creating a so-called "global economy" where countries are "bound" to each other, economically. Who will stop this madman?

Tonight, Jon Stewart continued his "The Strife Aquatic" series related to the Gulf oil spill with a segment about the Obama-mandated $20 billion BP cleanup escrow fund—and exposed republicans who have backpedaled their opposition to it. Video inside.

An AP reporter got an interesting notification after signing up for psychotic Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann's email list this weekend: an entity called "Bachmann for Senate" wanted to thank her for subscribing! Can anything ever be just a typo?

Minnesota's lunatic congressmonster, Michele Bachmann, was on a little radio program this morning talking about our sinister president Barack Obama and she essentially asserted that he is the worst president ever. Then she threatened to karate-kill him. Oh boy.

Liberal deviants hacked the Minnesota congresswoman's campaign website in a "malicious attack" that spread all sorts of nastiness to Bachmann's "unsuspecting supporters," according to a statement on her site. [Politico]

Because Bill Clinton politely asked fringe conservatives to stop encouraging violence against the government on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Michele Bachmann has decided that he wants to "take her out." In a killing sense. Not romantically.

If Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann ran together in 2012, would their T-shirts be made of tiny poison-tipped knives? Tonight, Sean Hannity raised the specter of a Palin-Bachmann ticket. Palin liked the idea, and the crowd went wild!

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's Stormtrooper Hair Helmet is huge and her jacket is scary yellow and she is screaming condescending dog-whistle garbage to old people. And Sarah Palin is there. And Governor Tim Pawlenty bought their website, for some reason.

With the census due, conservatives worry that months of stoking fear among their constituents may come back to bite them in the ass, because a low turn out could mean a loss of Republican seats in Congress. Brilliant move, guys.

Happy Census Day! The government hopes you've already sent in your 2010 census form. (Census Day should've been before the due date though, right?) Even the president had to. But some people are scared of getting counted by the government.

Many years ago (in 2008), Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Shutter Island) claimed that Chris Matthews tricked her into saying that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views." Chris must've infiltrated the closed-press anti-abortion fundraiser she attended Wednesday, because guess what she said.