Third verse, same as the first

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) explains what will happen if Republican gain control of congress:

According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the House Republicans should exercise their power to subpoena and hold continuous hearings. Speaking to a gathering for the GOP Youth Convention on July 22 in Washington, D.C., she emphasized this point.

“Oh, I think that’s all we should do,” Bachmann said. “I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another. And expose all the nonsense that is going on. And it’s very important when we come back that we have constitutional conservative leadership because the American people’s patience is about this big.”

Think she's bluffing? She isn't. Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, were saying much the same thing in 1994, and we know how that turned out: An endless distraction of overlapping, unnecessary, and increasingly inane congressional investigations led by the likes of conspiracy theorist Dan Burton, all designed to do nothing other than tear down political opponents and make it impossible to govern, and culminating in the shameful decision by the House GOP to impeach a president for having an affair -- which, of course, the Republican Speaker of the House was doing, too. Good times. And that's what's in store if Michelle Bachmann gets her way.

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[Manolya]

I should admit here that I'm glad, as a liebarl Democrat, that the liebarl bias of the mainstream media always redounds to the benefit of politicians on my side of the fence. You can imagine my dismay if the media made a big fuss over things like rumors that Obama is a Muslim, the intemperate remarks of Obama's pastor, the lame efforts by Obama at bowling, the cost of John Edwards' haircuts, the clothing Hillary Clinton wears, etc., etc. Over the years, I've been glad that the media didn't expose the Monica Lewinsky affair and then trumpet every sordid detail, didn't peddle the falsehood that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, didn't enthusiastically back George W. Bush's military invasion of Iraq, didn't provide megaphones for every right-wing crackpot who came down the pike, from Ann Coulter to the dozens of ranters on talk radio. I'm a happy guy.