"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.]