This woman is a complete waste of taxpayer's money.

Please no pitchforks. Guns are just fine.

Are even other Republicans going to appreciate this yahoo bringing a bunch of angry morons to the Capitol to accost them? She needs to be smacked down, and hard. Mocking and shame don't work when someone is so completely obtuse and amoral as this freak.

2009 Republican Party - Most Irresponsible Major Political Party in the Modern History of the Western World.

She's angling for a VP nomination in 2012. Maybe the Whole Enchilada.

When Sarah flames out the Palinistas will find -- Michele.

for which freedoms are they fighting, exactly?

the freedom to tell women what they can do with their bodies? the freedom to tell people who they can love?

seriously, which freedoms have they lost? which freedoms are they about to lose? i don't get it.

Right-wingers will continue to disguise their tribalism with fancy words as long as we let them. What Michelle Bachmann is doing is nothing more than trying to enforce a double-standard: when our side does it, no matter what it is, it's okay -- but when liberals do it, no matter what it is, let's attack it!

It's evil and she should be called out for her anti-American tribalism. If she doesn't want to be part of the UNITED States, she's free to get out!

What Dems need is a gathering of sane, normal, average people to provide a counterpoint to these whackjobs.

Extra hint to Blue Dogs: These nutjobs would never vote for you in a million years. If you care what they think, you are beyond dim.

Would be nice if billionaires for wealthcare would show up.

Remember, remember the 5th of November?

Doubt that's a coincidence.

I don't know. I tend to think the best counter protest would be to meet these nutjobs with absolute silence an no confrontation. I vote for a few people on the sidelines WITH VIDEO CAMERAS documenting 1) how few people really show up, 2) how crazy those who show up really are. They are really, really easy to bait into saying utterly foolish things if you ask them nicely about what they want, and then act sympathetic as the red light flashes and the tape rolls.
Journalists, pundits and bloggers I trust who are not subject to the village echo chamber all concluded that momentum for health care reform ultimately increased after all the coverage of the hostile wackos shot their wad in August.
What we don't need is an angry confrontation that allows them to claim persecution or for villagespeak to interpret it as equivalencies.

They want the cameras to portray that they are being "oppressed" by Capitol Police or by other Democrats. Fox News is already pushing that idea when Andrew Napolitano suggested it to Bachmann that Pelosi might try to order a "clampdown." Problem is, the Speaker has little to no say over the security measures of the Capitol but they'll push the lie anyway.

What's going to happen is that they'll try to manufacture a controversy. It's common etiquette to be quiet when traversing the halls of the Capitol in large groups - when these nattering nabobs noisily protest in the building, they'll be told by either security or a Congressional office to pipe down so people can get work done (it is an office complex after all). They'll try to spin this as "oppression" in order to "silence" debate. Same goes for when they enter Congressional offices. Some poor staffer will try to calmly tell them that the respective Representative/Senator only sees constituents and they'll claim it's a politician "avoiding" the masses. Honestly, if this gets too out of hand I can see Bachmann and GOP leadership getting reprimanded for this, if not by Dem leadership than by the Seargent-at-Arms for being so disruptive.

Seriously, between this and the CAIR intern witch hunt and all the other crap the House GOP is doing I'm glad I'm not I don't work on the Hill anymore. They're not paid nearly enough to put up with this kind of crap.