bachmann61The federal economic stimulus plan is on a fast track to implementation, but take a moment to stop and smell this irony: In Minnesota, the stimulus will benefit most those congressional districts that elected Republicans in November — none of whom voted for the bill. Districts held by Democrats fared the worst in the proportion of the 66,000 jobs the White House predicts the plan will create or save.

The big winner: the 6th Congressional District, represented by Republican Michele Bachmann, whose unhinged explanation for her opposition to federal stimulus has been dubbed “the craziest interview in American political history.”

The district with the least job hope: the 7th Congressional District, whose Rep. Collin Peterson was one of seven Democrats nationally to vote against the bill.

Granted, the stimulus plan wasn’t supposed to target areas where voters favored the Democratic president or Democratic legislators who made it law with the help of only three Republicans in the Senate. But still, it’s an enigma the likes of which stumped even Minneapolis’ Paul Westerberg, who wrote (in lyrics for the Replacements’ song “Bastards of Young” that are on display in his original scrawl at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame):

The ones who love us best are the ones we’ll lay to rest
And visit their graves on holidays at best
The ones who love us least are the ones we’ll die to please
If it’s any consolation, I don’t begin to understand

Or, less philosophically and more to the point, in his “God Damn Job” from the 1981-82 recession:

I need a God damn job
I need a God damn job
I really need a God damn job
I need a God damn job

God dammit
God dammit
God damn, I need a God damn job