GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) says Ann Coulter is her "hero"

Does she still think that? From the Star-Tribune:

Maybe she meant heroin. (no, I didn't mean heroine)

(shudders)

Maybe she means Ann is her sausage & meat balls hero? (given her extra large adam's apple?)

(note, in NY a large sandwich is called a hero, so it would be a big sausage and a couple of meat balls hero-in her lunch).

Michelle Bachmann is pretty in a Miss Universe sort of way - kind of a barbie doll good looks. Her hair is never uncoiffed, her make-up is flawless, and she has the pretty Republicaness demure style to hide the steel magnolia.

She ran against Patty Wetterling here in Minnesota - a long grieving mother who's son was abducted and never recovered. She looks haggard and worn next to pretty Missy Michelle, and when the DNC decided to host a bunch of negative ads smearing her here, well things got downright ugly.

The end result is that we're stuck with Missy Michelle for another term. And look who's her hero... sigh

Here's a snippet from Wikipedia (I know) about my esteemed Congresswoman:

Political positions

Bachmann's positions include:

* Favors privatization of Social Security along the lines suggested by the Cato Institute.
* Supports a Federal Admendment banning same-sex marriage and is a critic of any type of
gay rights or civil unions for gay couples.
* Supports President Bush's policies in Iraq and believes the military must "stay the course" there
* Favors leaving the nuclear attack option on the table in dealing with Iran
* Opposes minimum wage increases

Some of Bachmann's local critics say she could be more accurately described as a Christian fundamentalist politician. Appearing on the radio program "Prophetic View In The News" to promote her 2004 state capitol rally against same-sex marriage, Bachmann said that "God calls us to fall on our faces and our knees and cry out to Him and confess our sins. And I would just ask your listeners to do that now. Cry out to a Holy God."

In support of a constitutional amendment she proposed to ban same-sex marriage, Bachmann said that the gay community was specifically targeting children and that "our children…are the prize for this community." Bachmann believes that people who are homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender suffer from "sexual dysfunction" and "sexual identity disorders." She also said that she believes that referring to homosexuals as "gay" is "part of Satan."

Bachmann supports the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes. During a 2003 interview on KKMS Christian radio program "Talk The Walk", Bachmann said that evolution is a theory that has never been proven, one way or the other. She co-authored a bill that would require public schools to include alternative explanations for the origin of life as part of the state's public school science curricula. In October of 2006, Bachmann told a debate audience in St. Cloud, Minnesota, that “there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact or not...There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.”

Bachmann has been a longtime opponent of legal abortion. In 2006, Bachmann stated that she would vote to permit abortion in cases of rape and incest. In the Senate, Bachmann introduced a bill proposing a constitutional amendment restricting state funds for abortion. The bill died in committee.

In a 2001 article, Bachmann wrote extensively of her belief that the current governments of the United States and Minnesota State had plans to end the American free market economy and impose a centralized, state-controlled economy in its place. She wrote that education laws passed by Congress in 2001, including "School To Work" and "Goals 2000", created a new national school curriculum that embraced "a socialist, globalist worldview; loyalty to all government and not America." In 2003, Bachmann said that the "Tax Free Zones" economic initiatives of Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty were based on the Marxist principle of "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." She also said that the administration was attempting to govern and run centrally-planned economies through an organization called the Minnesota Economic Leadership Team (MELT), an advisory board on economic and workforce policy chaired by Pawlenty.

Prior to her election to the State Senate and again in 2005, Bachmann signed a “no new taxes” pledge sponsored by the Taxpayers League of Minnesota. As Senator, Bachmann introduced two bills that would have severely limited state taxation. In 2003 she proposed amending the Minnesota state constitution to adopt the so-called “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights” (TABOR). In 2006 Bachmann proposed repealing Minnesota's alternative minimum tax. Bachmann refused opportunities to have TABOR heard when these were offered to her by Tax committee chair, Larry Pogemiller. Repeal of the alternative minimum tax died in committee.

In 2005 Bachmann opposed Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s proposal for a state surcharge of 75 cents per pack on the wholesale cost of cigarettes. Bachmann said that she opposed the state surcharge “100 percent—it's a tax increase.” She later came under fire from the Taxpayers' League for reversing her position and voting in favor of the cigarette surcharge.