The First One Now Will Later Be Last

Just a mere couple of months ago, the world as we know it was shocked when Michelle Bachmann came in first in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, beating out suave businessman Mitt Romney, and way ahead of Jon "Who?" Huntsman. Here was a candidate Republicans could identify with.

How times change. In yesterday's Florida straw poll, Bachmann finished dead last (1.5%)--behind even Huntsman (2.3%), and far, far behind Pizza Guy Herman Munster Cain (37%). Bachmann's former replacement as Favorite Whacko, Rick "It-Takes-More-Than-$5,000-To-Buy-Me" Perry, finished at 15.4%, just nudging out Romney (with 14.0%).

I'll Take a bunch of These and a lot of Those, But I Don't Want to Pay For Them

Several of the contestants appearing at tonight's Republican "debate," beginning with Michelle Bachmann, expressed their desire to build a Great Wall at the border with Mexico, complete with surveillance and weaponry. Funny thing is, these same actors had just been bragging about how much they would reduce government spending. Indeed, Bachmann suggested that she favors a 0 percent income tax rate. So how come nobody bothered to ask how such a project would be paid for?