Michele Bachmann is so extreme, so outsider-y that she needs a telescope in order to catch sight of GOP “normal”… if there is still such a thing. The fact that she plays her radicalism up while undermining their message isn’t sitting too well with her Republican counterparts in Congress (“On the campaign trail, she aligns herself with conservatives who feel the Republican Party has lost its way.”).

If anyone has lost her way, it’s Michele, but that won’t stop her, nosireebob. She won’t give up until she’s lost… the election. And that is beginning to look more and more likely.

Via the L.A. Times:

House leaders have kept their distance and rarely rewarded her with legislative responsibilities. Bachmann was recently criticized by other Republicans in a private meeting where members blamed her near-constant cycle of television appearances for undermining the House Republican message. [...]

[M]embers and former aides say she made little effort to find Republican support. [...] Though turnover on Capitol Hill is common, former Bachmann aides say the congresswoman can run through them because she seems to act on impulse and is reluctant to follow counsel. [...]

She dropped the bid [for the No. 3 spot in the House leadership] after lining up public commitments of support from just five other members. …Her tea party caucus, which has 60 members, has met sporadically and has made no major effort to take a role in policy debates.

Way to unify, Michele! Now imagine what would happen to the scraps of remaining bipartisanship with her as chief executive.

As a media figure, Bachmann has managed to make life difficult for her leadership. [...]  In April, two days after she dismissed a Republican effort to support a budget deal, frustration among her colleagues boiled over. …North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx called out Bachmann by name for undermining GOP aims.

Pfft! That rolled right of Bachmann’s back; she said she didn’t take it personally. You know what Foxx’s response was? “You should.”

Please read the rest here.