Tea party caucus leader Michelle Bachmann has announced that she will not seek re-election. She didn't give a reason, though she did state that it wasn't because she is trailing badly in the polls, or that she is under investigation for corruption in her presidential campaign, though both of those things are true. I guess the word "scandal" can apply to Republican tea partiers seeking non profit status for their PAC, too.
The tea parties change spokespersons and leadership more often than some Baptist churches change pastors. DeMint stepped down, Palin resigned her governorship and faded off into extremist oblivion, now the screechy, wild-eyed, lunatic Bachmann is bowing out. Trump, Santorum and Cain's lights have all winked out in the wake of the presidential campaign, and that only leaves the tea party with genuinely insane nut cases like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
I'm genuinely sorry to see Bachmann go. Having her as the tea party caucus leader was a huge boost to the Democrat's chances of taking the house in 2014, and boosting Hillary's presidential campaign. The best hope the Democrats have now is that Cruz and Paul will be the ticket in 2016. And, well, there's Boehner whose helping them get the house back next year.
Perhaps "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead," is not appropriate in this case, since it would sound like an imitation of the British who sang it when Thatcher died. But I will enjoy a nice rendition of "Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey, Goodbye!" Sorry, I don't have a link to it.