michele-bachmann

The 2010 Census' Existential Crisis

Adrian Chen · 12/21/09 10:53PM

If only it were as simple to count everyone in America as "One, two... three hundred million." Nope. It's still about four months away, but the 2010 Census is already under attack by people wracked with existential angst.

Let's Not Forget About Michele Bachmann!

Pareene · 11/18/09 02:57PM

Everyone is paying so much attention to one crazy liar lady that they have forgotten all about the other one, the one who still holds elected office! Thankfully, Michele Bachmann is stepping up the crazy.

Michele Bachmann's Teabagging Hordes Storm the Capitol

John Cook · 11/05/09 12:27PM

A bunch of angry white people are yelling at members of Congress right now — both for and against healthcare reform. It's a good thing the Capitol complex has tunnels underneath it so members can avoid these filthy common people.

Just Don't Watch Cable News This Weekend, Please

John Cook · 09/18/09 12:26PM

Prepare for a bipartisan orgy of political posturing and apocalyptically awful punditry this weekend, as Barack Obama hits the Sunday talk shows while a bunch of Teabaggers pray for Jesus to come home at the Values Voters Conference.

Crazy Congresswoman to Appear on Crazy Radio Program

Pareene · 06/29/09 02:49PM

On the one hand, Alex Jones is a (terribly entertaining) unhinged conspiracy theorist who rants about the New World Order and FEMA Concentration Camps and produces crazy movies about how 9/11 was an inside job and how Barack Obama is basically Hitler. All of this is well and good for a late-night radio talk show host! But for an elected member of the House of Representatives to appear on his show might strike some people as a sort of implicit endorsement of his more outre beliefs.