Gerald Ford

Republican Sen. Jim DeMint laid out a funny kind of welcome mat for his new colleague from Minnesota today: He likened Al Franken’s win to the way Honduras President Manuel Zelaya was recently removed from office.

Here’s a post about something Rep. Michele Bachmann didn’t say. Last year, Bachmann reveled in connecting dots between Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, and last month she pronounced it “interesting” that swine flu outbreaks only happen during Democratic presidencies (forgetting that Republican Gerald Ford was in office for the last one). So [...]

President Obama is not to blame for the flu pandemic, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told Pajamas TV today:

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under Democrat [sic] President Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it is an [...]

President Ford’s death is on everyone’s mind today

Gerald Ford had no business being President, and had John F. Kennedy avoided an assassin’s bullet, he never would have been.  Kennedy’s murder, though, had gotten the country thinking: there was no mechanism for the appointment of a new Vice President should the President die and the Vice President succeed him.  Not trusting that the [...]