Democrats are so hostile to and distant from religion that they have no way of judging whether Michele Bachmann is serious or not when she says Irene was a "message from God. "

Bachmann's original comment was: "I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?'"
Obviously she was saying it in jest," press secretary Alice Stewart told TPM.

She also had a good line on spending, saying the government is on a morbid obesity diet.