Michele Bachmann says goodbye.

[phrodeau]

As the final tribute to John Dingell winds down (in his absence), the last few Representatives in the chamber make for the coatroom.

Then it's Michele Bachmann's turn on the microphone, with nobody but the sound man and the waitstaff to witness it.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/michele-bachmann-wants-to-say-thank-you.html

 

[bg23]

Seems like the article was pulled? I googled and the link showed up in top results for news but seems broken.

So she's leaving? Good riddance. I want to know if she really DID say goodbye to an empty room though because fucking awesome.

 

[Que]

Seems like the article was pulled? I googled and the link showed up in top results for news but seems broken.

So she's leaving? Good riddance. I want to know if she really DID say goodbye to an empty room though because fucking awesome.

To speak into a microphone in an empty room and have your words transcribed and put into the federal register forever is not as ignominious an humiliation as you make it out to be.

 

[bg23]

To speak into a microphone in an empty room and have your words transcribed and put into the federal register forever is not as ignominious an humiliation as you make it out to be.

damning with faint praise.

 

[Magnetron]

No congratulatory shoe tossing?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

To speak into a microphone in an empty room and have your words transcribed and put into the federal register forever is not as ignominious an humiliation as you make it out to be.

Nah, having not a single one of your "peers" even bother to show up isn't humiliating at all.

 

[Que]

Nah, having not a single one of your "peers" even bother to show up isn't humiliating at all.

~shrug~ I tend to talk to myself, so perhaps that changes my view. Being immortalized in the congressional record would be cool. On the other hand what if it was on the same page as Joe Biden or Barney Frank?

 

[Adre]

~shrug~ I tend to talk to myself, so perhaps that changes my view. Being immortalized in the congressional record would be cool. On the other hand what if it was on the same page as Joe Biden or Barney Frank?

At least she'd be in the company of people who will actually be remembered.

 

[Que]

At least she'd be in the company of people who will actually be remembered.

Infamy does have longevity going for it.

 

[Wrong Element]

In Bachmann's defense (sort of), with the number of people leaving the House, not just this year but after every Congress, it's not really feasible for everybody to get a big audience for their farewell. Bachmann was only there 8 years; she wasn't a committee chair or in leadership. She was a celebrity, but not someone very important to the institution as a whole.

I'll miss her for ridicule purposes, but she will have no shortage of replacements.

Senate goodbyes usually get more fanfare -- there are fewer of them, and relationships are deeper.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Consistent, with how she has behaved, all along. Strangely....

 

[phrodeau]

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/19/politics/michele-bachmann-exit-interview-with-dana-bash/

"I'll be frank with you -- the way that I see it is that I think that when women speak, I don't think that we're listened to the same way that a man does. I know that I -- I'm in a lot of venues where I'm the only woman. The only woman."