Pity that Michelle Bachmann isn’t the Speaker. That would have just been so....cool.
People can deny it to their heart’s content but Michele Bachmann has some serious steel in her.
She won the house seat in 06 and was stripped of funding by the NRCC in 08 but won the seat anyway. In 2010 the democrats made defeating her a top priority and she won anyway. In 2012 she ran a pretty respectable presidential campaign for an upstart and then went on to defend her house seat against the democrats again in the face of attacks from the likes of John McCain.
She’s become quite the iron lady with intel cred to boot. (member of the permanent select committee on intelligence)