Madoff, Palin, Bush, Blagojevich… Bachmann? The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky ranks Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District Rep. Michele Bachmann fifth in “America’s hall of shame.” Her suggestion that journalists should investigate whether Barack Obama and other members of Congress have “anti-American views” — which Tomasky calls “the single most appalling political statement of the year” — merited the mention, naturally. Bachmann earned a higher slot on the list than 2008 luminaries Joe “The Plumber,” Geraldine Ferraro, Dick Cheney and call-girl enthusiast Eliot Spitzer.