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Michele Bachmann, retiring from the House one step of the ethics investigators and, most likely, her district's voters. Garance Franke-R...

Happy Birthday to Stephen Strasberg , 24. And some good stuff: 1. Over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, SEK actually reads the Bachmann et ...

The fun parts of the Republican race are starting to fade away: first we lost Prince Herman, and now Michele Bachmann is calling it a day . ...

Ross Douthat, today : What you see in today’s Republican primary campaign is a reaction to exactly these kinds of follies — a revolt agains...

This one is, I'd say, quite a bit lower profile than last week's Reagan Library debate. That one had Rick Perry for the first time, ...

Today's fun story is courtesy of the New York Post, which " reports " that some Jews are donating to Michele Bachmann because ...

Will Wilkinson has a mostly very good piece up arguing not exactly that Ron Paul should be getting more attention in the press, but if I fo...

I really enjoyed this Greg Sargent item about Michele Bachmann. Turns out that just after Bachmann claimed (again) during the Ames debate t...

Republicans claim that they should be rewarded for conceding that the debt limit should be raised at all, because their ideal policy outcome...

That's the correct conclusion Greg Sargent draws from his reporting on Michele Bachmann's tough day -- which started out with what ...

Yeah, I'm still not seeing anything to change my mind that she's not likely at all to be the nominee. The latest is that she's p...

He's attacking the Marriage Vow that Michele Bachmann signed on to this week. Question 1: will she respond? At least in the release, ...

That excellent Hans Noel interview about the nomination process (and yes, you should read it), gives me an excuse to explain again why I do...

Ed Kilgore has an excellent piece over at TNR about the challenges Michele Bachmann faces as she tries to move from gadfly to actual presid...

Shared, to Conor Friedersdorf, who explained why "Are you a flake?" is a softball question to ask a presidential candidate, and t...

Jonathan Chait had a quick item  that wasn't bad, and Steve Benen goes into more detail today, but the Catch goes to Mark Kleiman for ...

I recommend to everyone interested in learning more about Michele Bachmann a helpful profile from Michelle Goldberg. The main takeaway is t...

No big headline, just some various notes on the big GOP debate last night... 1. Yeah, I'm still very much a Michele Bachmann skeptic. ...

Ah, the Republicans are debating again, this time with half the libertarians but with the Mittster and four, count 'em four, conservativ...

More minor presidential campaign news yesterday: Michele Bachmann signed up veteran GOP famous guy Ed Rollins to run her campaign. Outside...