"But as the ice ripped that hole in the Titanic," said
Michele Bachmann, "water started being taken on,
and the engineer came out and brought the blueprint
of the Titanic. Water came into the first chamber,
spilled over to the second, spilled over to the third,
and by the time it filled up so many chambers, it
was over. It was impossible to resurrect that ship."
[Scholars are still divided over whether the
Minnesota Republican was comparing the
Titanic to the United States or to Newt
Gingrich's run for the presidency.]