On Monday, voters in Minnesota's sixth congressional district were looking forward to a 2014 rematch of 2012's Michele Bachmann against hotel magnate Jim Graves. As of today, the match-up looks different: nobody versus nobody.
At a dinner in New York on Wednesday night, Cruz walked back and forth across a stage, as he often does, pitching his idea of America, heartwarming as can be, just like his plan to save immigration reform. It's almost enough to make you miss Bachmann's apocalypse-now style already.
The notorious four-term congresswoman whose political star power, like the Tea Party movement she came to embody, has quietly faded almost as quickly as it so vehemently burst onto the national scene, will not seek reelection — as a challenger posed "the gravest threat to her political career yet" and campaign finance scandal may have chased her off Capitol Hill.
Michele Bachmann was the muse for a new romance novel called Fires of Siberia, to be published June 1, about a fiery presidential candidate who tries to bone up on her foreign policy credentials only to get stuck in the wilderness with a sexy stranger.
ABC News' Jonathan Karl's revelation of the White House's role in 12 revisions to the Benghazi talking points propelled the story, long percolating in conservative media, into a bona fide scandal. But then CNN's Jake Tapper's revelation of what the emails actually said revealed that to be a fake scandal. So who lied to Karl?
Prominent figures on the right are calling for harsh consequences for the IRS's inappropriate targeting of Tea Party groups — Michele Bachmann floated impeachment of President Obama on Thursday — but it's worth remembering that prominent figures on the right, like Erick Erickson just five weeks ago, wer insisting that some of these Tea Party groups get some extra scrutiny.
After gamely donning Google's face computer on Capitol Hill this morning, Bachmann has already suffered the same aesthetic fate as those so-called "Glassholes" before her: Even a politician who's somewhat famous for her stare can't make the glasses of the future look any less weird.
If anyone can tie the IRS, Benghazi, and Obamacare into one grand conspiracy, it's Michele Bachmann. And she did.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio went on seven Sunday talk shows to pitch a bipartisan immigration reform deal, while a handful of Republican lawmakers famous for their wacky cable news interviews can't get any attention.
Bachmann was never going to be president. Her quirky, doomed campaign elevated the four-term Congressmember from Minnesota to increased public attention. It also spurred attention, it was revealed today, from the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Does the Tea Party still exist? Michele Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus has been all but dormant for months, while new Republican stars are stealing the limelight.
Like many of the politicians at CPAC with ambitions for higher office, Michele Bachmann offered a vision of a new path forward for Republicans. Bachmann's was unique in that it combined a more inclusive message — "We care about people!" — with her signature cable news-ready attacks on President Obama.
The whole political world is baffled Ashley Judd might run for Senate in Kentucky against Mitch McConnell in 2014.
During the 2012 Republican primary, several candidates were criticized as unserious hustlers who cared less about America's problems than getting more famous into order to sell books — or get a Fox News contract like the one Herman Cain landed on Friday. Well, it's a year later. How did everyone do?
When Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign ended, she faced a decision: pay former aides the money they were owed, or make them sign a nondisclosure agreement first? She chose poorly.
A national field director for her failed presidential campaign alleges that Bachmann refuses to pay a number of former staffers because they declined to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Hostage-takers, in most movies, are bad guys. So it's curious conservatives are fully embracing the liberal talking point that House Republicans took the U.S. economy hostage during the debt limit fight of 2011, and plan to make hostage-taking the cause célèbre before the U.S. defaults in March.
With a bit of dubious reasoning, the conservative magazine wants to kill the summer tradition in which Republican presidential candidates spend tons of money and eat unexpected foods on sticks in order to get a little press and raise a little money.
In a bucking of primary-season tradition that might just fend off the Michele Bachmann of 2016, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is now floating the idea of killing the Ames Straw Poll.
President Obama made an unscheduled stop in Cleveland on Friday to lob an unscheduled insult at Michele Bachmann. Maybe.
Discovered: Republican women have more "feminine" features; some evidence for Mars' watery past; element 113 is synthesized; how the brightest stellar event ever recorded happened.
The spectacle of right-wingers like Michele Bachmann throwing around accusations that State Department deputy chief Huma Abedin is a secret agent of the Muslim Brotherhood has been remarkably information-free. So we decided to trace the most ardent supporter's case for radical Islamic infiltration of the U.S. government. The results are a tangled, convoluted mess.
Michele Bachmann was scolded by House Intelligence Committee chair Mile Rogers for her letter to the State Department suggesting the Muslim Brotherhood is stealthily influencing the department and implying that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin might be an agent for the group.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's McCarthy-like questions about a top State Department aide's "ties" to the Muslim Brotherhood have been largely dismissed by those in her party and the Brotherhood itself, but she's got some defenders, including Newt Gingrich and Slate columnist Dave Weigel.
As we noted today, even the Muslim Brotherhood finds Michele Bachmann's suggestion that Huma Abedin is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood preposterous. With tongue firmly planted in cheek, one commenter suspected the organization of covering up their Abedin connection.
In the latest chapter of Michele Bachmann's dabbling in Muslim McCarthyism and failed attempt at connecting Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton aide and Anthony Weiner's wife, to the Muslim Brotherhood has a funny twist: The Muslim Brotherhood is calling the claims ridiculous.
Republican leaders have recently tried to back away slowly from the Tea Partying style that defined the party during its primary, and that has been complicated by Michele Bachmann's charge that Huma Abedin must be investigated for the "potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration" of the Obama administration.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has become the latest high-profile Republican to denounce Michele Bachmann's "pretty dangerous" accusations that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff and Anthony Weiner's wife, has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
John McCain gave a pretty forceful floor speech Wednesday morning in defense of Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff (and Anthony Weiner's wife), whom a few House Republicans have suggested is part of a Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the American government.
Herman Cain really endorsed Mitt Romney Tuesday, though not without saying a number of embarrassing things, like "What Governor Romney did in Massachusetts, I does not care." It made us kinda miss the guy.
On Wednesday she said it was a "non-story" but on Thursday, Michele Bachmann's office said the congresswoman had written to the Swiss Consulate to withdraw her dual Swiss citizenship, so it must have been some kind of story, right?
She may be America's Tea Party darling but Congresswoman Michele Bachmann can now run for public office in Switzerland.
Hey folks, we've reached that awkward point when our favorite Republicans, felled during the primaries, now have to take back all the nasty things they said about Mitt Romney and endorse him to get some attention. Up today: Michele Bachmann.
Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is the latest Republican to line up behind Mitt Romney now that his nomination is securely in hand.
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann made repealing Obamacare a core issue of her presidential campaign, so it felt a little like she was back on the stump when she led a rally outside the Supreme Court Tuesday as justices heard health care arguments inside.
Every Sunday, we scour the political talk shows for the best parts so you don't have to. Today, Senior Advisor to the President David Plouffe responds to Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann is optimistic, and Paul Ryan hints at a possible vice presidential run.
The Atlantic Wire has confused Michele Bachmann about Iran's nuclear program and we feel terrible about it.
The 2012 Republican presidential candidates -- what's left of them -- will debate for the very last time Wednesday night and we're sure going to miss them.
A mostly unsourced rumor has been floating around these internets recently claiming that congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Disturbia) was offered a spot on the upcoming season of ABC's glitter 'n' gunk "celebrity" fest, Dancing With the Stars. But she's not, OK?
Perry endorsed Gingrich, Cain endorsed umm "everyone," but there's one ex-candidate whose still taking her time making an endorsement.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has announced today that she'll be seeking her fourth term in Congress, reports the AP.
Newt Gingrich imagines the 2012 presidential debates will be like high school prom -- the kind where pig's blood is dumped on the prom queen: if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee, "Obama's going to laugh at him," Gingrich told ABC News this month.
The autopsy of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign has a lot of the typical reasons for what went wrong -- fights between staff, money, priorities, etc. -- but also has an unusually high number of funny ones.
If Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican nominee, he needs the rest of the candidates to drop out -- just not yet.
Michele Bachmann, who took sixth place in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, appears to be having second thoughts about the rest of the race.
Today in sports: In a new ad in Iowa, the GOP White House longshot hitches her wagon to the star of the worst quarterback in the NFL playoffs, Penn State is still trying to settle on a replacement for Joe Paterno, and ad time during the Super Bowl is all sold out.
The morning vote tally has Mitt squeaking by Rick by a count of just eight measly votes.
If we've learned anything from watching the GOP's would-be presidential nominees crisscross Iowa these last few months, it's that the campaign trail never runs out of ways to make people appear silly in full public view.
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