Ms. Bachmann clearly needs some professional medical help. Delusions can inflict self-abuse (may be good in her case) and lead to irrational acts...Hummm..sounds like her already !!

I'll bet the people she represents are real proud of her....If they really are, I'm outta here !!

Did she mention how the TSA is going to identify those "pro-life, pro-gun rights, anti-immigration" people?

I mean, do they have the mark of the devil on them?

Or maybe they'll be able to tell by the AK-47's they're packing?

Inquiring minds want to know.

We need to watch this carefully. If Obama caves in on this one, it's all but over. The Republicans will keep rolling him and rolling him and rolling him.

This has got to be one of the most bizarre "outrages" in recent history. The DHS report, started under Bush's watch, is talking about violent right wing extremists, who may want to commit terrorist acts. No where in the document -- I scanned it -- does it mention the word "conservative". No where does it impugn anyone in Talk Radio or on TV. It simply is an assessment by the DHS regarding very, very real dangers from right wing militias and their ilk.

If Napolitano goes down for this, or if she fires anyone as a result of loony right wing paranoid pressure . . . . we are in very real trouble as a nation.

Apparently, to conservatives, it's only outrageous if far right wingnut groups are under surveillance. They never had any problem with Quakers for peace, students for peace, antiwar rallies in general, being spied on, etc.

Unbelievable. What has happened to this country?

I love Bachmann and people like her, people like Steve King of Iowa, Marsha Blackburn of Tenn., Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney, etc. Everytime they open their mouth we get 10 more voters.

I guess you can tell who they are because the wrap themselves in the flag accessorize themselves with crosses?

Once more Bachmann's mouth puts Democratic turnout and support into overdrive. She is beyond Wacko. The Report cited essentially parallels the findings of the Southern Poverty Law Center studies on growth of extremism. And most of us can remember the militia movement and McVeigh and Nicholls who met in the service--it doesn't say that all veterans are this way, just that they are being targeted by the right.

It's the fairness doctrine all over again, and Bachmann isn't crazy, but evil. She's trying to preempt any light being focused upon right-wing extremists in this country. We shouldn't fall all over ourselves to disavow law enforcement practices that may be perfectly legitimate.

I would prefer that we didn't have profiling at airports. It seems to me that, if there's some post-9/11 consensus that liberties must be curtailed to avoid a repeat, then in a democracy we should all partake equally of the inconvenience and indignity.

But if we must have no-fly lists, and tiers of scrutiny based solely upon demographics, profiling, and associations, then there's no reason that domestic right-wing separatists should be exempt from the same treatment.

Here's a suggestion from a Minnesotan. Prior to the proposed Texas Secession, can we trade Minnesota's 6th District for Texas's 25th?

Minnesota would get Austin, good music and better mexican food. Texas would get much needed water resources like the upper Missisppi and St Croix Rivers.

Their liberals for our crazies. Everyone will be happier. Its totally win-win.

OMG, you mean TSA might ... start PROFILING? Just curious: What does a pro-life gun owner look like?

Again, this is too bizarre.

All of the adults have left the GOP. They have nothing but spoiled, petulant, ignorant children left.

Trouble is, there are many childish adults left in America to keep voting these crazies in. And the Media is stacked with them as well. Mary Matalin just got a gig with CNN.

The pressure from the right is relentless in America. Even though Obama won the election, and the Dems control Congress, I am not sanguine about our political direction. The Dems are just not very good at standing up tall and strong as the majority or minority these days.

America needs progressive government, desperately. It isn't getting that right now, and may never get it.

I'm telling you, these folks are trying to out-crazy each other and a few of them, like Bachmann and Steele really are pathological.

Why do pro-lifers need guns?

A quote from the future:
"Buchanan and Bachmann (BnB) in 2012, because you can't get any more right than us."

is it 2010 yet?

To Bachmann's rant, I have just this to say: Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, Michael Fortier. Oklahoma City, 168 dead, 800 injured. Second largest terrorist attack on American soil in US history.

Danger to American citizens does not come exclusively from people born outside the US border.

I hate to say this, but I knew back when Republicans were torturing Lefties, that if the shoe were ever on the other foot (and I do NOT quite equate what Dems do in control to what Repubs did when they were in control)

That Righties would fight harder and possibly more effectively for their batshit stupid ideas than Lefties ever fought for the truth.

As far as our Senators and Reps.....and making some allowance for Feingold, Waxman, Leahy, and a few others....rightwinger fight harder and more vocally for their stupid side of things than Lefties fought the last 8 years. I have been sickened by how the Corporate and Wingnut Right have steamrolled us....and we have truth and honor on our side, most of the time. The Right, with the immense help of the media, never lets a shot go unanswered and has fought longer and harder for idiot ideas and policies than the left fights for it;s ideals. Even when we are in power, we get steamrolled and all our initiatives get watered down and thwarted and railroaded.

Just look at how we are doing on wiretaps, torture, health care, etc....

I, for one, might feel safer flying if we WERE checking out right wing folk before getting on planes.

Really, is that what Ms. Napolitano said, that pro-life, pro-gun rights, anti-immigration people were right wing extremists? Or did Bachmann just identify the subgroup for us? Get this woman out of our government and under medical observation.

Bachmann's real worry is that the TSA will begin to focus extra scrutiny on blowhard lunatics which will inevitably result in her being strip searched, at least, every time she goes anywhere near an airport.

Where's shooter? Shouldn't he be here to stand up for his side??

-- ARG

Here's something to consider, Teddy Kennedy was repeatedly singled out for TSA airport searches earlier in the decade. Everybody named Dave Nelson wound up on the no fly list at one point I guess because someone named Dave Nelson was considered a suspect. Many attractive women have complained about arbitrary airport searches that seem to be conducted more as an opportunity for molestation by TSA employees than any serious attempt to stop an attack. A whole lot of people branded as protesters or agitators of one type or another weren't allowed to fly to NYC or Philly prior to the Republican conventions.

Bachmann may be concerned that behavior she and her ilk used to snicker about in private is now in store for her. Frankly if she, Rick Perry, or Dick Cheney ever fly commercial they ought to be detained in a small room for 8 hours with no explanation, a sneering disregard for their rights, and interrogated thoroughly. Then they ought to be booted out of the airport. Advocating revolution, secession and breaking American laws are more than ample reasons to deny these folks air travel.

I don't see why Bachmann is so gung ho about the right to bear arms. All she seems to do with hers is shoot herself in the foot.

There seems to be a tendency on the right to connect-the-dots in very broad ways (although the left is by no means immune from this-- "9-11 Was An Inside Job" comes to mind).

For example, the insistence that "Bill Ayers is a close personal friend of Obama" despite any hard evidence. Or better, "Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Obama's book", or the latest red-meat-rumor: "noted communist Frank Davis Marshal is Obama's REAL father" [or surrogate father in some screeds]. They come up with preposterous ideas that justify their rage at being out of power and inflame the hardcore part of their base.

This is exactly what Bachmann is doing here: connecting random dots to paint the picture she wants us to see. There is little doubt that there ARE right-wing extremists bent on assassinating Obama (there were two foiled attempts before he was even elected), and this is what Napolitano was addressing, but Bachmann has twisted this into ALL "pro-life, gun-owning, veterans, in favor of smaller government" are defined as terrorists. The report doesn't say that at all (in fact the way Bachmann phrases it you'd think she was quoting the report).

The right-wing blow-hards have a long history with this kind of logic: Limbaugh claims that "racism is the exclusive province of the left" (I guess we voted for Obama because he is black and for no other reason) or O'Reilly putting words in Jeremy Glick's mouth, or Glenn Beck (. . . where to begin?)

Remember all the evidence Cheney had that showed Iraq was not only buying uranium from Niger, but that Al Quaeda was affiliated with Saddam Hussein? You can connect the dots any way you like when you already know what the picture is SUPPOSED to be.

to mans_best_friend. How do you know she's not stupid. If you heard her rant on carbon dioxide you might change your mind. No "smart" person I know would have said what she did knowing it was totally false.

Unless you know her IQ score,don't be so sure.