Michele Bachmann to leave Congress, insisting departure has nothing to do with ongoing ethics invest

[octoberlib]

Early Wednesday morning, Team Bachmann announced via YouTube that Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) would not seek a fifth Congressional term

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/29/michele-bachmann-to-leave-congress-insisting-departure-has-nothing-to-do-with-ongoing-ethics-investigation/

[dballance]

1. Wonder if Rove and the other GOP Illuminati Strong-Armed Her?

She really doesn't seem like the type who would have come to an intelligent decision like this on her own. It just isn't in her nature. I'm sure she'd say God wants her in congress.

I'm betting Rove and others twisted her arm pretty hard to get her to stay out of the race because they feel she'd be a real loser in 2014. I wonder if they offered to drop the ethics investigations in the House as a way to get her to drop out?

[GoCubsGo]

23. Yep.

It's about keeping the House seat, and I don't think she is going willingly. I'm glad to see her go, but I doubt her potential replacement will be any better, and because of this it's probably not going to be a Democrat.

[lastlib]

52. I strongly agree on this.

Good riddance to seriously bad rubbish, but it may cost Dems a good shot at a pick-up, and if she's leaving at Rove's behest, you can bet her chosen successor will be a corporo-fascist type.

[pinboy3niner]

2. WOO-HOO!

Her ethical/legal troubles must be really hitting the fan.

[Joe Bacon]

24. One less asshole in the House!

[Cha]

56. That's what I'm thinking.. like Really Big Time

Bachmann Shite Meet Fan.

[downbythelake]

3. !

might start drinking early today

best news in a while

[pinboy3niner]

4. Welcome to DU, downbythelake

And

[RKP5637]

35. Yep!

Welcome to DU!

[Democracyinkind]

5. Investighazi!!!

[Hugin]

6. I would fire up a rousing refrain of...

The "Ding Dong Song that is not to be mentioned". But, I will hold off for awhile.

Until it's clear that this isn't some sort of perverse reverse attention seeking 3-D chess ploy to garner sympathy and some $$$.

When it's clear that she's really going to "spend more dysfunctional time with the family", tho. I move DU starts a forum with nothing, but, a video of that song and her picture on an endless loop... Just like her political career has been.

For now, a smile must do...

[pampango]

7. NYT: Bachmann Won’t Seek Re-election Next Year

Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican who made an ill-fated run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, announced Wednesday that she would not seek a fifth term in Congress next year.

“I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth congressional term,” she said in a video on her campaign Web site. “This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,” she added.

Mrs. Bachmann is known for her strong anti-abortion stance and adherence to Tea Party values but her presidential campaign was marked by frequent stumbles and her candidacy failed to catch fire in a crowded field of candidates that included Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Herman Cain, who all eventually lost to Mitt Romney.

In her congressional race last year, Mrs. Bachmann won re-election by just 4,200 votes out of 356,000 votes cast, beating the hotelier Jim Graves, who was greatly outspent. Mr. Graves recently announced that he would seek the seat again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/us/politics/michele-bachmann-wont-seek-re-election-next-year.html?_r=0

[LostOne4Ever]

8. OMG

PARTY TIME!

[RKP5637]

37. K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R! K&R!

[Mrdie]

9. Eight minutes of "there's totally no ulterior motives for me to not seek re-election"

I had to turn it off around 2:30, it was so ridiculously boring and self-serving.

[RevStPatrick]

34. Wow, you got that far?

Two sentences out of her mouth was more than enough for me!

[BainsBane]

10. Hallelujah!

This is the best news in ages!

I hope she isn't going to run for Franken's Senate seat. Even if she does, she can't win statewide.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. I hereby nominate Louie Gohmert for head of the Teabagger Caucus!

The Batshit Crazy Queen is dead! Long live the Batshit Crazy King!

[malaise]

12. Sweet as!!!

What great news so early in the morning

[corkhead]

13. "She's gone where the goblins go..."

most likely to a K Street lobbying firm.

[RKP5637]

38. Yeah! There's a little more to this ... jerks like her just do not fade away. n/t

[Firebrand Gary]

14. Steve King, Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, the list goes on and on.

While I'm disappointed that Batshit is not going to be on the ballot next year, there are plenty of crazies to remind the pubic that the GOP has lost its ever loving mind!

*This is a very welcome sign for the 2014 elections (Imo)

[pinboy3niner]

15. But the batshit crazy will be down by one

And her fall is delicious!

[indepat]

53. Maybe now she'll be able to devote her entire time to helping others pray away

the gay.

[SummerSnow]

54. Maybe she'll start with her husband first

[MrMickeysMom]

16. LOOSER...

Wouldn't want to choose her...

[Lobo27]

17. I read that her district is being redrawn????

Its also very conservative, and yet she barely wins. So the influx of perhaps more liberals or moderate. Would cause her to get trounced?

[Half-Century Man]

18. That smile......

That creepy fake smile. She has zen master like control if she could keep that smile going through all the bullshit coming out of her mouth. I think she could keep it going through a colonoscopy.

[MarianJack]

19. As my Grandma used to say,...

..."Good riddance to bad rubbish"!

As for that STOOOPID video, there's almost 9 minutes of my life that I'l never have again.

PEACE!

[GoCubsGo]

20. I don't think she is going willingly.

Her potential Democratic opponent in next year's election is beating her. And, yes, the ethics investigation has a lot to do with that. I'll bet money that the GOP is pushing her out in order to keep that seat. It's a conservative district, and they're making room for someone who is a less nutty version of her.

[Recursion]

21. That's a shame. She was great for DNC fundraising.

I think our party should have bought airtime for her, personally...

[Major Hogwash]

22. Dropping out of Congress won't save her beans, the feds have her cold.

You wait, there is no way she is going to be able to pull this Houdini act, and try to disappear, and then get away with it.
Not now.
Not after she went national, ba-bay-bee!!

She looks crazy in that video.
Well, to be honest, she looks crazy like that every day.

[tardybar]

25. bachman

Good riddance and don't let the door hit you from behind

[AndyA]

26. Why wait, Michele? Why not just resign now?

It will give you more time to work on your defense, even though you're not a crook. Richard Nixon wasn't either, you know...

[libdude]

27. As with most

descisions to vacate elective office, the reasons seem many, generally, it may be mostly based on the major issue or issues at hand, e.g. family issues, redistricting, etc. In Bachman's case, I find the Federal investigation being the most significant, regardless how those investigations seem more window dressing with little accomplished. Another reason may be the potential loss in the next election, if she steps down in not seeking reelection, she preserves her brand. Don't laugh. Anyway, if she is beaten and rejected by the voters, that is a hard fact that lasts for ever until she fades into irrelevance.

[hue]

28. I think the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

was just revised to include the "Michele Bachmann Permanently Entrenched in Pleasant Insanity" disorder.

[JHB]

29. Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop doing handsprings

[AnnieK401]

30. Thoroughly enjoying the rampant speculation about the reason behind this.

The ethics investigation, is she/the GOP afraid she would lose next time, do she and Marcus want to devote more time to their "pray away the gay business?", is she afraid her marriage is in trouble since Minnesota legalized same sex marriage?

[DainBramaged]

31. And now the piece of shit wil go on FAUX news as the newest hair-flipping Republibimbo

spewing shit for the FAUXbots every day.



Or just maybe she'll fade away......


Next to useless pice of shit in the dictionary is her picture.

[Sheepshank]

55. oh.........my.......godness.....errr goodness!!!!!!!!! N/T

[liberal N proud]

32. This could be a turning point...

where the batshit crazy starts to lose its grip on Congress and they people of the United States.

[Javaman]

33. Looks as if the Feds finally caught up with her. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

36. just like my visit to the ER has nothing to do with this ax in my skull.

Please, please, please, don't go away, Michele. You are an endless sores (source?) of entertainment.

[RKP5637]

39. She probably got a job offer as a permanent on SNL! n/t

[Buzz Clik]

40. Keep it short and sweet, Michelle. Can the stupid music, and quit rationalizing.

Goodbye.

[JackN415]

41. In other news, methane from cattle enclosures has nothing to do with livestock's digestive process

[HughBeaumont]

42. Good. The Onion can stay in business.

Allah knows they don't need the competition . . .

[spanone]

43. IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME

[Ganja Ninja]

44. Gone from Congress but soon to be seen as a GOP spokesperson on cable news and Sunday talk shows.

The only way we can be permanently rid of her is to drop a house on her.

[11 Bravo]

45. Bachmann's DUNCE! Err, I mean DONE!

(Actually she's now both.)

[Coyotl]

46. Next, the big payoff from Fox News where she will be a quick failure

after they fill her checking account, of course.

[NightWatcher]

47. The spaceship is calling her home. Godspeed you wacky bastard

[Takket]

48. I wonder what paranoid delusional they will find to replace her -nt-

[Blue Owl]

49. Sanity threatens return to Minnesota's sixth district

n/t

[Progressive dog]

50. No rec, after 3 minutes I was done

and I have a lot of patience. It's enough to know she's on her way out.

[dmr]

51. I almost made it to 3 minutes.

Couldn't get past her sickly sweet self-serving and defensive garbleygook.