Michelle Bachmann-Led Rally Out-Tea Bags the Tea Baggers

Disturbing image from source, Daily Kos

If there was even any proof needed that the Republican Party has gone completely around the bend, to the furthest, scariest depths of the right, today's rally was it. You've got your buses, chartered by a faux-grass roots group. You've got your nutty signs. You've got your simultaneously vague and pervasive anger at everything, and this time, you've got actual mainstream elected Congressmen and women in attendance. More than that, the whole anti-government, revolution-inciting event was slapped together by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Batshit Insane).

On one hand, all of this insanity is heartening to a Democrat like me, leading me to believe that the GOP can't possibly win this way. On the other hand, I'm terrified that somehow they will. The lunatics are truly running the GOP asylum, and I can't imagine what would happen if they ran the USA. And here I thought Bush, Cheney, Condi, Rummy, Rove and the rest were the end game. They look positively normal by comparison. Nazi imagery? Dead bodies? Dachau? Really?!?

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While Democrats were touting AARP's endorsement...

. . .If Republicans wonder why most Americans view them as part of the fringe extreme, they need not look beyond this event. While Democrats were touting the endorsement of AARP, Michele Bachmann and the House leadership were rallying amidst signs like this, shoulder to shoulder with 2,000 teabaggers. . .

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