So what if Michele Bachmann is leaving her seat in the U.S. House after four terms? It doesn’t mean she’s going away any time soon.

The blogosphere is abuzz with ruminations about which road the Tea Party princess will fumble down next.?Though she might spend the coming weeks catching up on some needed R & R, as a recent video for Liberal America suggests, the coming months are likely to find Miss Poken just as proudly on display as ever.

Many pundits have cast Bachmann’s aspirations in a Palinesque (or Huckabeean) light, since both of those Republican darlings cashed in their political chips to become millionaire Fox mouthpieces. No further training was needed.??It used to be that members of Congress used their decades on the Hill and vast political networks to land well-paid lobbying jobs,? wrote Chris Frates for the ?National Journal? on May 30. ?But with an explosion of media hungry for new, and often ideological, content, experience is no longer a prerequisite to finding high-profile, high-paying jobs after leaving office.”

Of course, some on the left are hankering for something a little more fulfilling than that ? like a battle against satirist-turned-Sen. Al Franken, who was recently seen staring into a mirror again at his ?SNL? alter-ego Stuart Smalley, powder-blue sweater daintily around his neck. Franken allegedly told Smalley: ?You’re good enough, you’re smart enough and, goddarnit, people want to laugh about how sad Michele Bachmann makes them.?

Some think the anti-everything Bachmann’s got the juice to get the GOP nod in Minnesota.??I think if Bachmann decided to run, she’d be the favorite to win the nomination,? said Larry Jacobs, a Minnesota political analyst, speaking to RealClearPolitics.com. ?Whether she can win statewide is a bigger question and the question she will be thinking hard about.?

Bachmann? Thinking hard? This couldn’t be the same woman who characterized ?The Lion King? as gay propaganda, who claimed hundreds of prominent scientists were fans of intelligent design, who told Melissa Etheridge that a gay lifestyle might have given her cancer, who denied the science behind greenhouse gas proliferation?

Please let Franken have her. On a platter.

Edited and published by CB