Everybody in the world except me has no doubt already seen the video below. But I just came across it and was terribly alarmed for my son Tim, who lives in Minnesota. Could Ms. Bachmann possibly be his congressperson, and if so what kind of mental wasteland had he been living in all these years? Did he have any friends? If so, why?

But it turns out Ms. Bachmann represents the neighboring congressional district, a little further out in the Twin Cities suburbs where the jaws are slacker and the eyes more vacant.

Ms. Bachmann’s call for a return to those heroic days of yesteryear and Joe McCarthy fell on receptive ears throughout the land, only the ears belonged to pinko fellow-traveling comsymps who promptly poured $438,346.57 into the campaign of her opponent, one Elwyn Tinklenberg. Good luck, Elwyn. May your house be safe from dragons.