Today on The Rachel Maddow Show, guest host Ana Marie Cox pointed out something that isn’t getting much media attention. A video of Al Fraken speaking to a group of tea partiers about healthcare, and it wasn’t a dumb freakshow. These people had legitimate questions, because Franken made them. He would answer them with facts and logic and really talk to them, and thus they opened up. The discourse they have is amazing, and while some guy brought up the whole ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OMG thing, he managed to discuss it perfectly. While most Democratic senators have proven to be entirely worthless while Republican senators have proven to be real life trolling whores, Franken, the guy everyone seems to want to try to discredit as some sort of political joke, is to the surprise of some I’m sure but not to me, is doing terrific. The man is taking this job seriously, and is ironically one of the only ones who is. But why is this getting very little attention? Republicans talking to a Democratic senator and it not being some stupid battle cry? Because that’s no fun. The media doesn’t like that. They like when Michele Bachmann says crazy shit in the same state. I’m guilty of this, as I posted Bachmann before I posted this, and I’m sorry. Fact is, these town halls aren’t all freak shows, and these Republicans aren’t all Glenn Beck crazy humpers. There’s a middle ground here and Franken’s doing it perfectly. He’s probably the senate’s most progressive Democrat (Bernie Sanders is an [I]), and yet he’s also the one who’s thinking full circle about issues that conservatives SHOULD be thinking about when criticizing the public option. The video after the jump.

Literally. Like, really, truly, actually, completely. The most progressive (into the ground) member of the House of Representative, Minnesota congresswoman and bonafide crazy person Michele Bachmann has thrown down the funniest thing I’ve heard in the healthcare debacle. The woman has gone outright biblical and it’s awesome. It’s AWESOME.

In summation, republicans need to “slit their wrists and become blood brothers against health care reform.” Slit. Their. Wrists. Well Michele, make sure to remember that it’s down the road, not across the street.

“This [health care reform] cannot pass…What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass…Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on.”

This was only supposed to be a legislative briefing but turned into a Bachmann masturbation fest, filled with stuff like “you’re with me or against me.” and bragging about how she’s “the second most hated republican woman in America.” Nah, you’re first. Everyone loves Sarah Palin and are just too afraid it, considering how they all believed her death panel lie that started with her. Let’s face it, she COULD win in 2012. Nobody would say they’d vote for her, but it’s only you and the ballot in that booth.

It seems like Bachmann is trying to do some sort of run for something bigger, or…something. God told her to run in 2012 I assume and she’s definitely the kind of person to take on the challenge and even win a few states. I can’t wait.