GOP Rep calls Michelle Bachmann 'crazy'

While her staff tried to make the story as innocuous as they could, it grew legs within minutes. Michelle Bachmann's top aide was quitting, and at least one fellow Republican had a pretty good idea why.

“When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” an anonymous conservative Republican House member told Politico Wednesday. Michelle Marston wanted to leave her post quietly, but when Bachmann announced that she would be inviting the tea-party crowd down to the Capitol building so they could storm the halls and confront her fellow lawmakers, the media began to question the timing. "I’m just not talking about it, and frankly I don’t think there’s a story here,” Marston wrote in an email. “Now, the thousands of people calling our office to tell us [they’re] coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow — that’s a story.” The Minnesota Republican has long drawn attention to herself with her sometimes outrageous quotes when dealing with the Democrats. During the 2008 campaign season, Bachmann appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews and told him that there were some "un-american" members of congress, and that they should be rooted out by the media and exposed, making some think of McCarthy's comments during the red scare. Bachmann has also claimed that President Obama's re-dedication to Americorps is actually an attempt to send America's youth to re-education camps and that conservatives should slit their wrists in an effort to defeat the Democrats health care reform.