In a battle of wits, Bachmann is unarmed.

Hey, IOIYR. It's probably even okay to give a wry laugh when discussing the impossibility of reconciling what needs to be done with what the public wants done on a particular issue if you're a Republican. Because, after all, it's well-known that Republicans are serious people. Like Michelle, here.

What makes you think she's speaking figuratively? Her entire public career is one long list of words and actions that prove she is deadly serious about even the most criminally insane behavior.

And seriously, this is precisely the "violent overthrow of the government" advocation of which gets your ass thrown in prison.

At bare minimum, it's a blatant violation of her Congressional oath to uphold the Constitution.

i certainly hope that when she starts "investigating" members of congress to find out if they're pro or anti-american, she takes a good long look in the mirror first.

seriously, what is it with these wingnuts. they lose an election-fair and square-and their response is to call for armed secession/revolt?

talk about your fair weather patriots. maybe i'm wrong, but i don't recall any dems calling for armed revolt or secession during the Bush regime.

I think we're seeing a trend here that calls for some media attention. We've been hearing one instance after another of Republicans and right-wing radio and TV show hosts using language that seems to encourage violent reaction from their fans and supporters. Somebody's going to get hurt and I want these jerks to be held responsible for it.

I honestly never thought anyone could manage to make Jean Schmidt seem like a "reasonable" person, but it seems we might just have a winner.

Judging by her "collective body of work" in the very loosest sense of that term, Michele Bachmann is simply too cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs to be representing Minnesotans' interests effectively, or anyone else's, for that matter, in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Good citizens of Minnesota's 6th CD, we're not insisting that you elect a self-identified socialist like Bernie Sanders -- just someone who hasn't already set sail without mainmast, rudder and anchor.

Is that really too much to ask?

When Bachmann ran for Congress in 2006, she openly bragged on her website that she was a concealed handgun permit holder. Maybe someone should ask her if SHE'S armed and dangerous.

Someone needs to remind her that cap-and-trade was coming no matter what. McCain was also on board with that policy (although I think the details differed somewhat). if McCain had won, I'd love to know what the wingnuts would be saying about cap and trade.

Look closely at Bachman, I think its actually Ann Coulter in brown wig.

Apparently the Honorable Mrs. Bachmann advocates that:

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

Apparently we need more blood spilt.

I'm sorry, Michele, but all of our populist rage is currently in use excoriating your friends on Wall Street. Please take a number and get in line.

If Oklahoma City had never happened, one would say "Oh, well, it's Bachmann being Bachmann". But this lady is being very irresponsable. More than one wingnut is gonna take her seriously, and he/she could live in your neighborhood.

If something were to happen, I wonder, would she have an regrets?

Palin and Bachmann, Republican Dream Team for 2012! Steely Mike (Michael Steele) as the National Chairman! PLONK!

If Michelle hates Obama and his ideas on global climate so much maybe Bachman should take Pee Wee Herman's advice in his big adventure movie:
Biker #2: [the whole gang holds Pee-wee hostage] I say we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
Biker #3: I say we hang him, then we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
Biker #4: I say we stomp him!
Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
Biker #4: Then we tattoo him!
Biker Gang: [shout] Yeah!
Biker #4: Then we hang him...!
Biker Gang: [shout] YEAH!'!
Biker #4: And then we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shout] YEAH!'!'!
Pee-wee: [tries to throw voice without moving lips] I say we let him go.
Biker Gang: [shout] NO!'!'!
Biker Mama: [whistles] I say ya let me have him first!
Biker Gang: [break out in raucous laughter]

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson”

I believe that Michelle Bachmann was referring to this quote, but then Jefferson was only a rural Virginia slave holder who founded a university in Virginia, not unlike Jerry Falwell in this regard – correct?

Therefore, the United States and every idea it was founded upon must have been the result of this sort of equally corrupt redneck thinking. Now that we have clearly established that King George III was the legitimate father of modern “liberalism” and Thomas Jefferson only another typical republican country hick , albeit one who could read and speak in the Greek, Latin, and in French. We can dismiss Michelle Bachmann’s thinking as equally suspect, correct?

Now its time for my own mea culpa’s: I first heard Michelle’s voice when she called me at my home to discuss her political philosophy prior to her first run at the congress. After engaging her on the phone for some 30 minutes I became quite convinced that, regardless of her political philosophy, the mean IQ of the House of Representatives would likely rise by several points if she carried the election; almost a certainly in the 6th District. The 6th is a district primarily populated by refugees of Minnesota’s modern urban liberalism (meaning working towards the elimination of liberty) that now reigns firmly over those whose love of liberty has either died or more likely was aborted.

If you have been college educated within the past decade, most of you will have most certainly come to the conclusion that you haven’t really learned a thing that anyone would ever freely pay for. Now that’s a rough awakening but please do not despair. Now that the government has the ultimate power to giveth and taketh away you no longer need to demonstrate your usefulness to individual members of a free society so long as you cling to its power structure like a toadies. For you, global warming is the Messiah; the is instument that will do the taking that precedes the giving upon which you must depend in order to support your livelihood. This forced removable of property and transfer its self-appointed recipients used to be called "theft" but that was only when redneck rural hicks personified by Jefferson held sway.

Now if any of you wish to debate me as to why you are convinced that the eggs of liberty need to be smashed wholesale in order to "control the climate", please state your case without the usual departures from syllogism; another concept where your schooling has failed you miserably.

Isn't it interesting how many of these "pro-lifers" are so bloodthirsty.

This anti-Bachmann screed is less than useless. No matter how much you hate her, the 6th district loves her more. You see we don't believe that we are "all in this together"; what you love - we hate and vice versa. Get used it. You have as much chance of unseating Michelle as JFK had in trying to pitch J Edgar Hoover out the door.