It’s funny until you lose your democracy

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Bob Newhart made famous the one-sided telephone conversation stand-up comedy routine. "The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart" added to Library of Congress.

The Minnesota Loon, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, claims she has a "calling from God himself" to run for President. I would pay good money to see Bob Newhart perform this "call from God" stand-up routine. Bachmann's Prayers Answered: 'I've Had That Calling' To Run For President | TPMDC. It is not the first time Bachmann has made this claim:

The last time Bachmann sought a higher national office, in 2006, when she was a state senator running for an open U.S. House seat, she famously told a mega-church audience that she had communicated with God, receiving through fasting and prayer the command to run:

"And in the midst of that calling, God then called me to run for the United States Congress. And I thought, what in the world would that be for? And my husband said "You need to do this." And I wasn't so sure. And we took three days, and we fasted and we prayed. And we said "Lord, is this what you want? Is this Your will?" And after — along about the afternoon of day two — He made that calling sure. And it's been now 22 months that I've been running for United States Congress. Who in their right mind would spend two years to run for a job that lasts for two years? You'd have to be absolutely a fool to do that. You are now looking at a fool for Christ. This is a fool for Christ."

Bachmann is not the only Republican who claims to have God on speed dial. Remember this? Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas performing his version of Bob Newhart's stand-up routine at a Republican Governor's Association fundraiser in 2004 in which God calls him.

You can laugh, but there is a serious dark side to this "calling from God" stuff that Republican politicians like to engage in that the political reporters of the corporate media fail to recognize or choose to ignore. These politicians are speaking in code to Dominionist Christians who want to impose a theocracy in the U.S.

Susie Madrak at crooksandliars.com explains in Sarah Palin And The 'Fire In Her Belly' Is About Installing Theocratic Government In America:

Sarah Jones at PoliticusUSA points out that Sarah Palin uses terms that sound vaguely religious but have very specific meanings to the dangerous cult of Dominionists (her use of the term "Restoration" for her bus tour is a good example):

I’ve been saying for a while now that the mainstream media doesn’t “get” Sarah Palin. Last week, when the astute Lawrence O’Donnell equated her with Trump, I understood his reasoning, but disagreed with the premise. Sarah Palin isn’t Donald Trump, and when she speaks of a “fire in her belly” she’s not using that term politically, but religiously. She means she has a fire of God in her belly to lead the country to Jesus. She means she is anointed to lead us.

She has a fire in her belly alright, but it’s not the fire of politics as the pundits know it.

Leah Burton, of “God’s Own Party” made the following Fire in the Belly video:

And it’s not just Sarah Palin.

As Leah explains, “She is joined by many who share her biblical “call to service in the name of Jesus Christ” such as Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, and a whole host of frightening – albeit not as recognizable – theocratic politicians who are aggressively working to re-write our Constitution and anchor it in Old Testament Mosaic Law.”

The Dominionist politicians might use words that remind you of your own church, or your friends’ churches, but these are not mainline Christians. They seek Dominion over the government, and indeed over what they term the “seven mountains” of culture. Their goal is to return it to the earth to Jesus, and the US to biblical law.

[…] Welcome to the new game of politics, where religion plays the role the founders sought to protect us from, a state sponsored religion or an official state religion. The next time you laugh at Sarah Palin because you think she’s dumb, remember that it isn’t that she doesn’t believe in science, it’s that she doesn’t CARE about science. It is irrelevant to her, because the sooner the planet explodes, the sooner Jesus comes back. And when you’re done laughing at her, realize that there are many more, less charismatic Sarah Palins out there, like Governor Scott Walker, whose ability to inflict harm via his beliefs is quite real. And some of them will run for President as moderate Republicans.