You know, of all the examples she could have used —

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) blasted President Obama following his proposed “crackdown” on firms found to be manipulating the oil market, saying he is “waving a tar baby in the air” as a distraction from high gas prices.

“This is just about waving a tar baby in the air and saying that something else is a problem,” Bachmann said in an interview Wednesday with The Shark Tank, a conservative news organization that covers Florida politics.

I guess we ought to be proud that she didn’t call him Little Black Sambo.  But, I have a feeling it’s coming.

And you wanna know what perfectly horrible thing he did to get her so outraged?

Bachmann’s attack on Obama comes after he pushed Congress this week for legislation that would increase penalties on oil speculators manipulating the market. He called for increased federal supervision of the markets and funding for enforcement.

Yeah, we wants to stop manipulation of the oil market.

Another little tidbit for you to file away.  It appears that Michele has learned the Bless His Heart trick.  You know, how Southern ladies can say perfectly awful things if they preface it with bless his heart?  Her’s is a suffix and it goes like this ….

“The president is a complete and utter fraud and a hypocrite on this issue, with all due respect.”

Well, respect taken, Honey.  Bless her heart.

Okay, this is gonna hack-off the girlfriends.

It seems that the Vatican is furious that some nuns in the United States are using their brains and their hearts simultaneously.

Here’s what the men in dresses who aren’t RuPaul have to say to the 1,500 (roughly 80%) of the Catholic sisters who belong to the Leadership Conference.

… the Leadership Conference [was cited]  for focusing its work too much on poverty and economic injustice, while keeping “silent” on abortion and same-sex marriage.

Oh, so they followed the actual teaching of Jesus instead of what the men in dresses who aren’t RuPaul told them to do?  Well, get them a hand basket for their trip to hell.  Jesus never said a word about abortion and while there was homosexuality during his time, Sweet Jesus, like the nuns, ignored it.

You know what I think?  I think that if men are going to wear a dress, they should be required to think like a woman and quit worrying about s-e-x so much.  You know what?  Given a choice, women would rather feed a starving child than turn a garden hose on two people doing the wild thing.

Oh, and the men in dresses who aren’t RuPaul are back to book burning.

Sister Elizabeth Johnson - at least they didn't burn her at the stake, just her book

Last year, American bishops announced that a book by a popular theologian at Fordham University, Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, should be removed from all Catholic schools and universities.

Her book, Quest for the Living God, talks about “divine compassion.”  We can’t be having that!  God’s gotta be mean and ready to toss your butt into the fires of hell.

Cripes, these guys hack me off.

Thanks to Kary for the heads-up.

GOP Senate candidate John Raese in West Virginia is fighting to protect us from Hitler.  And don’t think we don’t appreciate it.

He announced, “I don’t want government telling me what I can do and what I can’t do because I’m an American.”  And apparently, that includes his right to smoke where ever he damn well pleases, dammit, because he loves America!  He’s not real crazy about my lungs, but there’s something bigger on the line here. Real big.  Hitler big.

But in Monongalia County now, I have to put a huge sticker on my buildings to say this is a smoke free environment.  This is brought to you by the government of Monongalia County.  Ok?

Remember Hitler used to put Star of David on everybody’s lapel, remember that?  Same thing.”

Yep, exactly the same thing.  Okay, so maybe not the gas ovens or the whole Poland thing, but exactly like Hitler and maybe even worse.

And when someone asked him, “Dude, are you serious?” he responded ….

“No, this is not a standard line, nor a misstatement.  It is a loss of freedom,” Raese said. “As Ronald Reagan once said, there is no such thing as partial freedom, there is only freedom.”

Honey, there’s no such thing as partial clean air either.  Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.

So, when you see some guy riding his motorcycle nakkid 150 miles per hour in a school zone with his hair flowing in the wind, that would be John Raese because he’s free, I tell you, free.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.

So, Governor Rick Perry and his Troope of Little Yapping Dogs in the State Legislature decided to turn down $33 million of federal money for women’s health care just to keep Planned Parenthood from giving women mammograms and pap smears because, you know, it’s so much more fun to watch women suffer from stage 4 cancer without insurance than to detect and treat it early.

Well, Rick Perry has a plan.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will ask the feds to keep funding them through November 1. (Texas was supposed to get cut off at the end of April.) By then, presumably, the state will find some way to free up dollars.

Perry 2016: Because He's Got Some Leftover Stoopid

November… November … Hummmmmm, what happens in November?  Why would we want to keep women from getting riled up against Republicans until …. hummm, after November?

And what’s Rick’s plan after November?  Oh, it’s a Rollickin’ case of Damned If I Know.

Rick is asking each Republican serving in the Texas Lege to swear an oath to his next Presidential run.  No, I am not kidding.

Yesterday, Perry announced his “Budget Compact,” which asks lawmakers to pledge no new or increased taxes as well as offering voters a constitutional amendment that would limit spending increases to the population growth.

Well, except for children.  This year in Texas is the first time ever in the entire history of the state that we have decreased per pupil spending on Texas education.  Four billion, with a b for Bad, dollars was cut.

I have one question to Rick:  where are we going to find the money to pay for your security while you prance (and yeah, yeah, I said prance) around the America making a damfool of yourself and the entire state of Texas?  And where are we going to find the money to pay your $10,000 a month rent and your fancy wines?

Could we at least quit paying that until November?

Thanks to Diane for the heads-up.