Psst, Michele ... your moment may have passed.
The scene: It's November 20 and President Barack Obama has just outlined his plan to defer deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants. Rep. Michele Bachmann
goes on Fox News:
"I'm calling on your viewers to come to DC on Wednesday, December 3, at high noon on the west steps of the Capitol," she proclaimed. "We need to have a rally, and we need to go visit our senators and visit our congressman, because nothing frightens a congressman like the whites of his constituents' eyes. ... We need the viewers to come and help us."
High noon on December 3 has come and gone. And after the Tea Party Patriots surveyed their members on whether to make Bachmann's rally cry a priority:
... her "high noon" rally was downgraded to ... a press conference. So on Wednesday, Bachmann appeared on the Capitol steps—joined by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)—and spoke to a passel of cameras and about 40 protesters.
I guess when you lose a presidential primary and decide to leave Congress, you lose some of that special sparkle. But Bachmann's level of celebrity also has to have been hurt by the ever-increasing competition she faces in the flagrantly inane extremism category.