Bachman is moron, always has been always will be. Her idea of research is "what did Bush say?"

You would think if this were actually possible, they would drill in some of the areas they already have access to... of course, that thinking requires logic.

Michelle Bachmann the pride of Mississippi...too bad for Minnesota and the nationl

WHat I want to ask any Republican on this ANWR and OCS drilling is this. Why did they not open the area up to drilling from 2000-2006 when they had the White House, Senate, and the House under GOP rule?

For the love of God, would they just go ahead and drill to their hearts' content? Only then will all this wishful thinking and delusion be exposed for what it is.

Further proof Michelle Bachman is flat-out DUMB, dumber than a box of hair DUMB.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/01/17/michelle-bachman-is-proud-people-have-to-work-two-jobs/

There is no better reason to be against drilling in ANWAR than the fact Michelle Bachman thinks it's a good idea.

Remember it is this same fool who said the ANWR would be like the continental pipeline, where the caribou gather to stay warm along the pipe. She said it would be a gathering place for the caribou. Sort of a coffee klatch.>

this is also the same fool who thinks that compact fluorescent light bulbs are a great evil that we need legislation to protect us from.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/house/17002506.html

seriously dumb.

call NASA and tell them we have located a LARGE BLACK HOLE between this woman's ears

this woman is so dense she is sucking up matter like a vacuum cleaner

So are the Dems targeting her this election? Surely she makes even the dumbest of Minnesotans burn with shame at being represented by a complete moron. Shouldn't be that hard to beat her.

You'd think someday GOPers would run out of stupid people like this, but they are home schoolin' the next generation at the moment.

But people like her make stupid like an Olympic sport ..... you think what ever idiocy they have achieved can't be topped until they open their mouths again.

"I don't think you could add up the IQs of all the Repugs currently holding office and have it total 200."

Actually Tena, the sum total of their IQs would begin with a decimal point.

They're cult, like the Moonies, but crazier.

Probably the reason Rev Moon has wasted billions in the Washington Times to spew their delusional world view for them. They mirror his own delusional world view.

In Bachmann's National Review she also claims the EIA says opening up drilling will create 750,000 american jobs but in the EIA report, (bottom of page 9) they decline to estimate employment impacts saying it is too difficult to determine on the north shore of alaska.

nada, nichts, rien. Sorry. You've got problems enough without Michelle. My fondest memories of Ms.Bachmann was as a State Senator when she was photographed prowling behind bushes (really!) trying to get some dirt on attendees at an anti Marriage Protection rally. Everytime I try to think of Minnesota as an island of sanity I think of Michelle Bachmann, or Rod Grams, or Rudy Boschwitz, amd I realize the Republican undead are all about us. Pass the garlic.

Michelle is the walking embodiment of what happens when you ignore the old adage "It is better to sit quietly and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth (or worse write an editorial) and remove all doubt.

In her previous activity she and her husband pushed creationism on Minnesota students with the help of the Mega Christianist church they belong to. Her husband has a thriving practice there doing "Christian" counseling and reparative therapy using his mail order degrees as credentials. Apparently the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not lie." comes to mind, and the Sermon on the Mount have not been part of their Christianity.

Just wondering, how many of the folks commenting on energy policy here are rabid, radical environmentalists?

How many are employees or paid "volunteers" for the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth, Center for Biological Diversity, Wilderness Society, or the Earth Liberation Front??

How many oppose development in the Coastal Plain of ANWR?

How many understand the facts and history on the issue?

How many have been there?

How many have even been to Alaska?

How many have any fundamental understanding of energy policy?

How many simply read an ANWR "fact" sheet attached to a fundraising mailer?

I'd argue that Tinklenberg is a good fit for the 6th District. For those not specialists in the characteristics of Minnesota's 6th, on the East it borders Wisconsin, north of the Twin Cities, it includes considerable rural territory, much dairy farming, small grains, and all and extends west to just west of St. Cloud. The East side of the District is Swedish Lutheran...they mostly vote Republican, but the DFL's Tinklenberg is also a Swedish Lutheran Supply Pastor, so over the years he has covered in most of the churches in that area. Lutheran Churches that is, not mega churches. The West end of the District is German and Irish, and Catholic. The West end of the district produced Gene McCarthy. It is very pro-life, but also very Catholic Social Justice.

Tinklenberg served as Commissioner of Transportation in Jesse Ventura's administration, and did a very good job. Remember, Jesse didn't really have a party, so he picked competent types from both parties. Ventura's strength was in the 6th District -- particularly around Anoka County, and Ventura has endorsed Tinklenberg, and his Independence Party voted to cross endorse Tinklenberg. The Independence Party usually gets 8-9% of the vote in that district, which if added to the normal DFL vote wins.

Michelle Bachman is against public funding for what will be popular in the district, The North Star Commuter Line which opens soon. It is a rail connection into down town Minneapolis that will hopefully reduce traffic on much overused I-94, initially it connects from Big Lake, but eventually it will go to St. Cloud. One can in fact ride the trains all the way to the airport just south of MPLS, with one transfer once it opens. But Michelle opposes it. It offends her concern with using as much gas as possible. Michelle also opposes public education. All of it. She homeschooled her kids, and so can everyone else. But her big thing is opposition to Gay Marriage, and everything else Gay. Not only did she crawl around in the Bushes to observe a Gay event, she and her husband also sued to Gay 90's, a Minneapolis Gay Club, because they would not admit them to a Transvestite show -- sued them under the Civil Rights Laws, and won sorta...The Gay 90's had to post a sign saying they complied with all Civil Rights Laws. Yep -- she is quite nuts.

Remember, Minneapolis is not the 6th District, our congressperson is the African American Muslim who got sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran. And yes, we all live in reasonable peace in Minnesota.

Does Tinklenberg need money, Yep. Do I think he can win, yep. The whole district had a great caucus turn out for Obama in February, and that whole district is hurting economically. Really hurting. I have a friend who helped lead the organization of a rural Hospital last winter -- they had tried a vote once before, in three years the No Union vote changed to Yes Union, flipping 30% of the workers. And we only need to flip 9% of the voters to flip Bachman into the trash heap. So yes to donations, and if you think the land of 10,000 lakes sounds interesting -- I am sure they could use volunteers. I haven't seen any published polling, but I suspect it can be done.

They have perfected the technique of repeating lies over and over, from different venue, by different voices, until they become accepted as fact. Too bad these debunking posts don't get the same widespread broadcasting.

As an aside to the conversation, I'm not convinced that this price run up is anything other than a scheme to provide the crisis that makes the public apply pressure on Congress to open up everything the Rs want to drill in, including ANWR, offshore sites, and whatever their oily black hearts desire.

Price hikes leading to consummer desperation? Does anyone remember what ENRON, Kerr-McGee, and Williams did to CA after the state deregulated their utilities commision? Black-outs, brown-outs, electricity purchases at 300% above market rates. A new contract with then Governor Gray Davis that amounted to extortion. This lead to Davis losing a recall election.

I wouldn't put it past the oil companies to do the same thing. One of the sticking points to opening ANWAR for drilling, was that the oil companies would not guaranty that the oil would we go to the US market. They still aren't, while wanting to drill off shore on the OCS.

The irony is, now most people are willing to take a look, and invest in alternative energy and fuels.

Bush and Cheney screwed things up so badly, that maybe we'll start doing what we should have done 20 years ago.