While claiming that her decision isn't based on the likelihood that her district may finally waking up and be about to toss her out in 2014, the certifiably insane Michele Bachmann has announced that she will not run for re-election in 2014. Whatever the real reason, it's a case of good riddance. The woman has been an embarrassment to the nation and to Congress. Once she leaves office, perhaps she will join her seemingly closet case husband in providing fraudulent "ex-gay" therapy at the "Christian counseling center" they own together. Here are story highlights from the Virginian Pilot:
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a conservative firebrand and a favorite of tea party Republicans, said Wednesday she will not run for another term in the U.S. House.Bachmann, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, announced her decision in a video on her website."My decision was not influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected," Bachmann said. She narrowly won a fourth term in 2012 over Democrat Jim Graves, a hotel chain founder who is running again in 2014.
Bachmann also said, "This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign." In January, a former Bachmann aide filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, claiming Bachmann made improper payments to an Iowa state senator who was the state chairman of her 2012 presidential run. The aide, Peter Waldron, also accused Bachmann of other FEC violations.A vocal opponent of the health care overhaul and other policies of President Barack Obama, Bachmann promised her supporters, "I will continue to work overtime for the next 18 months in Congress defending the same Constitutional Conservative values we have worked so hard on together."
The woman is unfit to be dog catcher much less a member of Congress. That she was ever supported by anyone in the GOP in her delusional presidential nomination run speaks volumes about the decline of the GOP.
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