Michele Bachmann: The audacity of nope

by Cahir O'Doherty

Michele Bachmann is a very new kind of American politician – one who seems to have nothing but contempt for politics and for her political opponents.

For Bachmann, and her Tea Party fellow travelers, there is only one RIGHT WAY and there is no longer any need to examine mature alternatives.

We can thank the Tea Party for the creation of this new kind of American candidate: a candidate who runs for government office whilst simultaneously hoping to completely dismantle all functioning democracy.

Last week's US credit rating downgrade was just the beginning, because these are candidates who prefer crisis to compromise. You'd all better get used to hearing the word no.

Politics used to be the art of the compromise, but for the GOP these days compromise means a quick demotion to the also-ran's. Thank the Inquisitor General of talk radio Rush Limbaugh for that, he will not suffer a heretic and he maintains the climate of dread.

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/michele-bachmann-the-audacity-of-nope-127725688.html

Pretty good stuff from the other side of the world...... :applause:

Like children, they want to be utterly unaccountable.