who keeps electing this woman?

Disease prevention suddenly turns partisan thanks to America's most out of control congresswoman...

Michele Bachmann is either taking us all for a ride or she has suffered a very messy divorce from reality over the last year. After calling for a McCarthy style investigation into "un-American activities" of her colleagues, publicly venting her fears that the government is getting ready to brainwash kids and teens, giving a bizarre, cringe-inducing speech during CPAC and failing seventh grade science class in front of Congress, she still has more tricks up her sleeve. This time, she's been trying to show us a sinister correlation between having a Democratic president and flu outbreaks.

Michele, if you're not trying to blame anything on the Democrats, why do you bring this up out of the blue? What possesses you to say such things? Usually, I try to hold myself back from polemics and rants on this blog. In this case, I'm aghast that there's a lawmaker so incredibly paranoid, uninformed and desperate to sling mud on the other party, it doesn't seem to enter her mind to think about what's coming out of her mouth before she tries to defer to them during an influenza outbreak researchers have been expecting for decades.

Oh, and as Talking Points Memo kindly points out, in her rush to say something negative, Bachmann gets her facts wrong. The last flu outbreak was in 1976 during the reign of Republican Gerald Ford and if she wanted to really impress us, she would've mentioned that Woodrow Wilson was president during the 1918 pandemic. Could someone remind me how exactly did she get into office, even when we consider party loyalty?