Michele Bachmann tops a team of conspiracy-crazed clowns
By David Horsey
July 19, 2012, 11:43 p.m.
This has been a week in which someone at the Republican National Committee must have said, “Send in the clowns!” Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh and lesser jesters in the GOP circus were just a few fake noses and a seltzer bottle short of performances worthy of Ringling Brothers.
Bachmann was premier buffoon. The Minnesota congresswoman alleged that a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Huma Abedin, may be a spy for the Muslim Brotherhood. Savvy readers will recall that Abedin is the wife of ex-New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the twit who got caught tweeting photos of his nether regions. Abedin may have shown bad judgment in choosing a mate, but there is no evidence she is a radical Islamist.
Wednesday, Sen. John McCain rose to Abedin’s defense on the floor of the Senate, not naming Bachmann, but clearly aiming fire in her direction. "When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it," McCain said.
Bachmann’s former campaign manager, Ed Rollins, was just as scathing. “Having worked for Congressman Bachman's campaign for president,” he said, “I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level.”
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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-clowns-20120719,0,6516965.story
Horsey isn't just a talented political cartoonist, he's turned into one of the best op/ed writers in the country.
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