How Ted Cruz and Michele Bachmann get away with it

[Ike Bana]

What Bachmann, Cruz, Gohmert, Ryan and the rest of them do is promise to deliver shit they know they can't (e.g. "I'll repeal Obamacare. I'll impeach Obama, etc."). The idiot electorate in their backwater cabbagville districts (or backwater states) buys it. And then their idiot constituents buy the excuses they make and finger pointing at Obama and Democrats when they can't deliver what they promised.