Michele Bachmann has inspired us to desk-slam our heads more times than we can recall. But she's inspired others in more positive ways.

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For instance, she's moved author Trey Sager to write Fires of Siberia, "an old-fashioned bodice ripper romance" that's "inspired by the life of Tea Party leader and Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann."

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We'll see if Barack is still smiling after God forces him to renounce his signature piece of legislation.

No doubt, God, assuming He exists, is powerful. But is He powerful enough to convince President Obama to repeal Obamacare?

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According to Michele Bachmann, you betcha He is!

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There are so many scandals connected with Bachmann's presidential campaign that at this point we need an Excel spreadsheet to keep them straight.

The Iowa Senate has been scrutinizing alleged violations of state ethics rules that occurred during the course of Michele Bachmann's ill-fated presidential campaign. But that's child's play compared to an FBI probe.

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According to numerous reports, the news has gone from bad to worse for Bachmann, as her campaign is now being investigated by the FBI for potential criminal violations.

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Bachmann said Minnesotans she speaks with are clamoring for Obama's impeachment.

In the wake of revelations the IRS improperly targeted tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status during the last election cycle, Michele Bachmann is worried the Obama administration's apparent desire to make life difficult for conservatives might extend into other walks of life.

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Specifically, she's concerned the president and his cronies might deny health care coverage to conservatives once Obamacare is fully implemented.

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The photo that launched 1,000 140-character jokes.

Yesterday, photos of Michele Bachmann wearing Google Glass at a House GOP meeting circulated, and the resulting cascade of jokes pushed the internet to the brink of full-scale meltdown.

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For your LOLing pleasure, we've ranked the 10 funniest zingers we saw in response to Bachmann's new high-tech look. Check them out below the jump.

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She's now even less gay friendly than Chick-fil-A.

For better or worse, Michele Bachmann isn't leaving Minnesota now that we're the land of the free and the home of the gays. But that doesn't mean she doesn't have an opinion about about marriage equality.

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During a Liberty Counsel event earlier this spring, Bachmann made comments about gay marriage that echo what Minnesota for Marriage has been saying for the last year or so -- marriage is between one man and one woman because, dammit, God said so.

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Did you really think she would make it that easy?

Sorry, Minnesota, but Michele Bachmann is not fleeing to Oregon over Monday's vote to legalize same-sex marriage. Not because she was bluffing, but because the Daily Currant -- the news site that published the report -- is satirical.

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Bachmann believes God played a role in the death of innocent Americans. Sounds like grounds for a drone attack on heaven to us.

America may have reached Peak Bachmann during her speech last week at a religious event in the Capitol's National Statuary Hall.

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First, she attributed both 9/11 and Benghazi to God's "hand of judgment." Then, with her hands dramatically gesticulating, she urged everyone in attendance to "humble ourselves and pray to an almighty God."

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Bachmann believes the government should be able to classify American citizens arrested on American soil as enemy combatants. Slippery slope much?

Michele Bachmann and John Kriesel have something in common -- they're both upset federal agents didn't altogether disregard whatever constitutional rights Boston bombing suspect and American citizen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has.

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During a recent appearance on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News show, Bachmann said the Obama administration's decision not to classify Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant is a "miscarriage of justice." That classification would've allowed officials to question Tsarnaev indefinitely before any charges were pressed.

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Bachmann: Caring about the poor if and only if doing so scores her political points.

During a floor speech last Friday, Michele Bachmann mangled an attempt at a Shakespeare quote (She said "Thou protesteth too much" -- the actual quote is "The lady doth protest too much"). But that's not significant here.

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What is significant is that during the same speech, Bachmann claimed she was among a group of Republicans who "voted against the sequestration because we knew all of these calamities [for poorer Americans] were in the future." There's no evidence, however, that Bachmann has ever given a rip about cuts to Head Start, Meals on Wheels, and other programs serving low-income Americans. As a result, she's earned another "Four Pinocchios" rating from the Washington Post's Fact Checker -- her second in just over a month.

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