Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), who can always be counted on for hyperbole and assorted fabrications chained together in to her very own special drivel-language, jumped the shark, yet again, during a Tuesday evening webcast with a Tea Party PAC. She likened the financial reform bill currently in Congress with the policies of the fascist government in Italy during Mussolini's reign:
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Let's remember really what this is. This has a lot in common with Italy in the 1930s and they way Italy dealt with economics. It still continues private ownership of business but government is in control.
So government control of the private business, while it's private ownership, that's still at the end of the day the federal government virtually having a say over private business. We lose freedoms; we lose economic competitiveness.
And don’t forget, Italy is in tough shape financially, and that’s not what we want for the United States.


Ross Douthat (
During a campaign (during the primary presidential campaign) stop in Warren, Michigan, in 2008, Mike Huckabee
Jon Stewart, mocking
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) discussed the vote on
charity, that is a — this is an affront to God. And I honestly, I don’t think anybody is like, “yes, and now what we’ll do is we’ll vote on the Sabbath.” But I think it’s absolutely appropriate that these people are trying to put the nail in the coffin on our country on a Sunday — something our founders would have never, ever, ever done. Out of respect for God.
In March of 2010,
In a Supreme Court packed with conservatives, this was no surprise. 
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