Stess-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged

[kskiska]

In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman.

Dziok had worked for Bachmann for two and a half years, a relatively long period by the standards of her office, and was leaving on good terms.

Staff turnover can frustrate any employer, but Bachmann responded more dramatically. Dziok’s departure triggered a debilitating medical episode that landed the congresswoman in urgent care.

“Within 24 hours she was in the hospital,” a former aide says.

Bachmann was admitted to a Washington, D.C. hospital on Friday, July 30, and released that same day. She flew home to Minnesota to recuperate, missing a scheduled campaign event with Sen. Roy Blunt.

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The Minnesota Republican frequently suffers from stress-induced medical episodes that she has characterized as severe headaches. These episodes, say witnesses, occur once a week on average and can “incapacitate” her for days at time. On at least three occasions, Bachmann has landed in the hospital as a result.

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http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/18/stress-related-condition-incapacitates-bachmann-heavy-pill-use-alleged/

[cutlassmama]

1. If she's that sick then how can she do the duties of her job or that of president?

[Horse with no Name]

9. Yeah maybe that 3:00 am phone call ad needs to be

resurrected....and instead finding a stone-cold passed out pillpopper ignoring it?

[CleanGreenFuture]

21. Hell yeah!

[Bozita]

31. +1

Not tonight. She has a headache.

[closeupready]

67. there we go. +1000.

:D

[tblue37]

16. The presidency is a famously stressful job, of course, so how on earth

could she possibly deal with the demands of the job if stress continually incapacitates her?

Absurd person.

[CleanGreenFuture]

22. Just look at Pres. Obama's hair and you'll see the stress peppered there.

[tblue37]

36. The only president who wasn't aged by the job was W, who spent all his time on

vacation, and even in DC he was in bed by 9:00 every night and let Cheney do all the heavy lifting.

[JuniperLea]

60. Cocaine...

Fountain of youth?

[pipi_k]

66. I beg to differ...

No specific dates on these but they certainly do show aging...

[arikara]

70. 8 years

at middle age, hair starts going grey regardless on most people. My Mr had dark brown hair when I met him 15 years ago, now he's white and very thin on top. Basically same age as the chimperor.

[pipi_k]

73. Yes, I know...

My reply was to someone who claimed that the only *Resident who didn't age was W.

He did age, so that statement was not true.



Anyway, I don't know what happened with my hair. I'm 58 and it's pretty nearly the same color it was 15 years ago when Mr P and I got married. A few grays here and there, but on the whole they're not really noticeable... :)

[arikara]

74. Maybe you'll be lucky

when my grandmother died at 80 she didn't have a grey hair on her head, still dark brown. She never dyed it either. I didn't get those genes myself though. lol

[mopinko]

43. meh. he colors it.

when he is campaigning, a little touch up is part of the make up. he has made jokes about it.

[trueblue2007]

68. If she's that sick then how can she do the duties of her job or that of dogcatcher?

[SugarShack]

2. She must be there for the healthcare....will she discuss the healthcare that she gets???

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Well, that's what we need in a President-- someone only working three...

or four days a week.

Just like Reagan.

[tblue37]

17. Maybe she'll be like W and use the presidency as one long vacation,

so she can get a break from all that stress.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. And she wants to be PRESIDENT?

Oh right.........now, there's a non-stress job.

RIGHT.

:eyes:

[Gregorian]

32. Really. President of what? Planet Crazy?

After watching Elizabeth Warren tonight I get a feeling saner heads will prevail. Candidate Jesus Eyes will most likely need an IV for any debate she participates in. :)

[Dappleganger]

5. She's possessed.

That's the only explanation, she's being hounded by a demon bent on erasing the minds of fairy-eating vampires.

:crazy:

[DesertFlower]

8. thanks for making me laugh.

:hi:

[Dappleganger]

35. You're welcome...

sorry for the True Blood references, hehe. ;)

[DesertFlower]

6. i think we're going to find out a lot more about

michelle bachmann and her husband.

[Angry Dragon]

7. 'stress-induced medical episodes'

How would she ever handle the stress of being president
Every president goes gray before our eyes

It seems the burden of hiding the gay is getting harder and harder for her

[tblue37]

19. Not W--he was in bed by 9:00 each night and on vacation all the time. nt

[Angry Dragon]

39. He even turned gray while in office

[Lil Missy]

10. Sounds like migraines. And that is not even the worst thing about her.

[peacetalksforall]

11. How many children did she adopt? Or were they foster kids? 23? Have they all left the house?

If still home - so much for family values - she is always flying and driving all over the country and a little in Minnesota.

[elleng]

25. Mostly short term, imo.

[liberalla]

12. But, but, but... God wants her to be President - he told her so

Oh brother... this is bad news for her. Sarah must be dancing. }(

[Safetykitten]

51. God also made Xanax.

[ThoughtCriminal]

13. What pills?

[glinda]

45. "Prevention pills!" Unfortunately doesn't prevent the crazies.

[MADem]

14. She's an implosion that is waiting to happen.

Between the foot-in-mouth disease, the husband so deep in the closet that he smells like mothballs, the insane commentary (the one where she said her husband "commanded her" to become a tax attorney is priceless--what else does he command her to do? Look the other way when he hustles the pool boy?) and of course, her stupidity and "chutz-pah" I'm amazed that the media is stringing her along for this long.

I think they're hoping for something totally tabloid-y and noxious as we get into the start of the race....anything to sell papers and mags.

[Indykatie]

23. Isn't The Daily Caller a Right Wing Site?

I guess we shouldn't be surprised that those in her party have already started to destroy her as she rises in the polls. None of this will matter to the TP base. They will be as blinded by Bachmann as they were by Palin. Dems won't have to do a thing but sit back and watch.

[MADem]

26. I have never seen that site (and I am afraid to go looking for it!) but

nothing would surprise me.

[Indykatie]

28. I Just Checked - It's Tucker Carlson's Site

Republicans have started eating their own early in the primary process.

[MADem]

33. That little twerp--I often longed to stuff that bow tie down his throat! nt

[mopinko]

44. it looks so good on them, don't you think?

[Urban Prairie]

15. Her physician just takes a deep breath and blows hard into her left or right ear

That lonely nugget of gray matter rattling around that passes for her brain, sometimes gets lodged inside the eustachian tube, it then drops back into her skull, and after a couple of days of rest and recuperation, she is again good to go...:)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

54. but what color dust blows out the other ear?

[RandySF]

18. Handle this with care.

There are plenty of proven reasons to oppose her. If we push this and it's not true, then she looks like a victom.

[KurtNYC]

71. +1

Whoever they pick is going to lose to Obama. The field is limited to those crazy enough to try it and it is unbecoming to pick on the crazy.

[somone]

20. Because she has a hard time keeping her shit straight

[Lugnut]

24. Oh, great.

Incapacitated-for-days-at-a-time is just what we need in a "President". :eyes:

[BNJMN]

27. Maintaining that RICTUS SMILE must burn about 3,000 calories an hour. N/T

[AC_Mem]

29. This could explain allot

I went and read the entire article (recommended). This sounds like a little more than migraines and if true, certainly should be considered by her party before they send her out there running for President. From the sound of this article there is no way she is going to be able to withstand what she is about to face in the primaries, let alone when she goes up against the President and he calls her out on all her lies.

It also explains so much - crouching under trees, calling police over the "lesbian stalker", facing the wrong camera for a WHOLE interview, confusing her facts, blanking out when confronted on lies, and of course, the Bachmann Crazy Eyes.

She needs to drop out. This is just going to get bigger and with the other racist, homophobic stuff coming out she clearly won't be able to handle the "stress".

Bye Bye Michelle

[elleng]

30. WOW. Its all over.

[indurancevile]

34. Just seeing her on TV I figured she was on some kind of drugs.

[unblock]

37. lol! i get migraines roughly 2 out of every 3 days, but... "incapacitated"??

yeah, once upon a time, my migraines used to incapacitate me, back when i got them about once a month.

then after a car accident my migraines became far more frequent. i could no longer allow myself to be incapacitated, so i learned how to function with a migraine. meds help, but a lot of it is simply spock-like there-is-no-pain mind over matter. the pain doesn't go away, of course, but i can detach from it and focus on work or whatever instead of focusing on the pain.

and that's only because i want to keep an ordinary job and have a life outside a dark, quiet room. if i wanted to be president, i'd sure as shinola sort this one out first!

[Control-Z]

42. You're lucky your

migraines have been the kind you can learn to function with. From what I read in the article it sounds like she might get the kind of migraine I get - and mind over matter/pain does not stand a chance with them. The only treatment that works once it is full blown is heavy intravenous pain medication like Demerol or morphine - enough to knock me out, with repeat doses needed until the headache ends.

It is a very rare migraine type called Status Migrainosus (possibly caused by repeated head/brain trauma). They last for at least 3 days with the most outrageous, unfathomable, unrelenting pain. They remain peaked throughout the entire episode, more painful than that crescendo level that a really bad normal migraine gets to right before throwing up or before it begins to subside. There is never a moment of relief throughout the entire headache including the vomiting. It is so awful I wish for death. It is so awful I am always shocked when it doesn't kill me. And there are a whole slew of other symptoms that go along with it.

If Bachmann gets this type of migraine there isn't a chance in hell she should be allowed anywhere near the Whitehouse.

[unblock]

47. my migraines ARE that severe

without my meds, or when the med fail (which happens quite a bit) they virtually always last at least all day, and often into a second or third day. my migraines ALWAYS make me feel like i'm about to throw up, although i only actually do a few times a year.

i ALWAYS feel like someone's poking a screwdriver about an inch or two into my temple, or that a butcher's knife has been wedged inside my brain from temple to temple.

it took YEARS of figuring out how to function with them.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

38. This is a tabloid.

Not sure we'd want to rely on it for accurate info. That said, if it is true, could (if the establishment media copy/pastes this onto their front pages as they often do with tabloid fodder) end her bid for the Presidency.

[K8-EEE]

40. Madame President!..."oh not now Free World, I have a crashing headache! nt

[toddwv]

41. She's a bad egg

[CatWoman]

58. that is fucking hilarious

:rofl:

[pinboy3niner]

61. *spray*

:rofl:

[formercia]

72. Quite the Yolk

:rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

46. Someone please keep a list of threads like these...

for the potential Republican candidates.

:hi:

[felix_numinous]

48. RW love zombies

--Dubya, Reagan, McCain, and Bush Sr was on halidol-all had major psychological issues. This requires handlers and drugs, good lighting, lots of flags and balloons, photoshopping and propaganda to create the illusion of a leader.

They are looking for a sociopath, someone vacuous, completely programmable and who appeals to the right of the right of the right. If technology could create a realistic robot, or they could create a virtual president, they would do that in a heartbeat.

[pipi_k]

49. I guess JFK shouldn't have been president, either.... n/t

[Bake]

50. Had the public known about it, he might not have been President.

But of course, JFK played through the pain and was a great President. Gone way too soon.

Bake

[pipi_k]

63. You're probably right...he might not have been elected...

but...like you said...he played through it.


Which is why I'm finding it ironic that so many here are assuming that Ms Bachmann couldn't do the same.


I wonder what they would think about someone who suffers from, say, anxiety disorders. Would they be as dismissive about the governing abilities of someone with a panic disorder?

What sort of disability would render someone completely incapable of performing in the job of president...

Are there disabilities that are acceptable for Democrats but not for Republicans? (I don't expect you to answer this question, BTW)


anyway, yes. JFK was taken from us way too soon. He was one of the heroes of my childhood.

[Scurrilous]

52. K & R

:thumbsup:

[felix_numinous]

53. We have had presidents in wheelchairs

who were competent leaders, and others who have gone through major medical challenges.

I dearly hope we can discern someone with compassion and a conscience with a medical condition from a ruthless, cold tool who has an unstable emotional problem. Please.

[pipi_k]

64. Thank you...

There are plenty of other reasons to reject Michelle Bachmann besides using a medical condition against her.

[seabeyond]

55. re[ugs gives us the worst representation of women. palin who uses sex instead of brain

bauchmann who has vapors and needs to be drugged

[MH1]

56. I didn't need a reason to not want her for Prez (it hurts to even type it)

but jeez, this wouldn't be good even for an otherwise decent candidate.

[CatWoman]

57. this explains a LOT

Wonder if she shares dealers with Rush?

[JuniperLea]

59. You know, Edelman represents Murdoch...

Small world, eh?

Google Murdoch PR... interesting stuff.

[WinkyDink]

62. She can borrow pain-killers from Rush.

[11 Bravo]

65. Not tonight, Nuclear Armageddon, I have a headache.

[LibertyLover]

69. Scene: 2 am, sometime during a Michele Bachmann presidency:

Security officer on duty in the White House: "We have a situation that requires an immediate decision by the President. I need to brief her immediately."

Personal staffer: "The President retired early this evening with a headache. She has taken her migraine medication. I'll see if I can get her attention."

Security officer: "It's urgent - it may even require a decision regarding the football."

Personal staffer: "Oh my gosh. OK, let me see what I can do. You'd better come in with me so as not to waste time."

Security officer: "Madame President, we have an urgent situation - ______________* . . . . . oh shit, she's gone fetal on us."

Yeah, I can totally see that happening.

*Insert your own version of a major foreign disaster here.