Michele Bachmann Continues to Embarrass Her District on the National Stage

WaPo.

Candidates like Bachmann and Angle owe their success and national renown to the Tea Party. And it frequently seems like they're deliberately speaking to the Tea Party's most delusional and self-aggrandizing elements, who need to be flattered with a narrative that's far more grandiose and portentous than a mere argument over the proper future direction of the republic. They need to believe that they're part of a movement that's determined to rescue the republic from an illegitimate, even evil regime. Hence the frequent hints from the likes of Bachmann and Angle that just about everything Dems do is dark and vaguely criminal.

It'll be interesting to see how responsible Republicans react when the rhetoric gets cranked up to full boil, as it inevitably will.