• The House just voted to "fund ACORN," after Barney Frank succeeded with his "ACORN amendment."  Bachmann, of course, was a major opponent.  She ends her bit on ACORN with a gloomy eye to America's dark future: "If Congress can't draw the line with funding for organizations investigated for criminal activities in more than a dozen states, where will it draw the line?"
• Bachmann warns of a coming "debate over socialized medicine."  She's worried that "this will mean rationed care, especially for the most vulnerable; reduced consumer choices; and an inefficient and ineffective delivery of the very best medical care in the world."  More than this, though, she expresses concern that national healthcare--I'm sorry, "socialized medicine"--will go the way of Medicare.  By which she means this:

Take Medicare as an example.  When it was created in 1965, it was said to be a backstop.  Benefits were limited and retirees actually paid a significant portion of the costs.  That year, Medicare was estimated to cost $3.1 billion by 1970.  But it actually came in at $6.8 billion.  Today, it costs $455 billion and the costs continue to rise substantially.

• She goes on to quote the WSJ: "This one is about whether to turn 17% of the U.S. economy entirely and permanently into the arms of the government."
• Number of instances in which "Democrat" is used as an adjective: 2