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AMERICAblog: U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann wants a revolution

  • Older_Wiser · 9 months ago
    Shouldn't she be sanctioned by the House? Of course, I'd rather the Sargeant-at-Arms arrest her. Those are seditious remarks, of course.

    Foreign correspondent? What fucking country does she think she lives in? Oh yeah, the Fourth Reich with Bubble Boy--it's over, you twit.
  • Annie · 9 months ago
    She sound's like a gull darn Terry-ist.
    I think we should take the law as decided by 'The Great Decider" and throw her in a hole, or a jail cell, or even give her to the gull darn Syranians over by India or whereever the heck they lives.
    She's nothin' but a gull darn Terrory-ist !!
    (Signed)Right Wing Annie !
  • Chicago Jeff · 9 months ago
    Bachmann Turncoat Overdrive
  • Dick Hendricks · 9 months ago
    Ms. Bachmann, I am sure, is totally oblivious to your point that, in the United States of America, the lawful method of "revolution" is through the ballot box. She and her fellow travelers on the far right wear their obliviousness like a comfortable suit of old clothes.
    She, and the rest of her ilk, also miss the point that in Nov. 2008 the American voters engaged in a lawful "revolution", and threw out the scoundrels who for 8 years were ruining our constitutional freedoms and form of government, our security, and our financial system.
    Alas, I fear they never will grasp what happened. Our job, and our burden, is to work every day to make sure that their ideas never again get in control of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
  • Mark in Florida · 9 months ago
    Well said.
  • GeorgeV · 9 months ago
    So next time when the House convenes, with Representative Bachmann present or not, should the Speaker bring up this call to overthrow said body? Should Representative Bachmann be held accountable for her words, even if it was only to clarify to her colleagues in the House what she meant exactly by her words?

    I'd like to see the C-Span coverage of THAT discussion...
  • henrythefifth · 9 months ago
    Someone needs to inform her of the cosmic irony (and stupidity) of her statements.

    We just did have an orderly revolution. Her side lost.

    Obama and the Democrats won.
  • EarthquakeWeather · 9 months ago
    She's an attention whore. Unfortunately someone with a bomb might take her seriously.
  • Milli · 9 months ago
    I think they want that to happen - not just this nut, but Limbaugh, Palin, Coultergeist, everyone at Fox News.............they would welcome it.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    She needs to be warned of her actions and told she is very close to being arrested for sedition. Let her go crazy after that and then she can be arrested.
  • Jennifer · 9 months ago
    You couldn't even criticize the Chimp back then. I got in so many fights with people over that, because I was only too happy to point out he was an asshole. Fomenting revolution because you LOST AND ELECTION?

    Female, please.
  • AdrianBrowne · 9 months ago
    Mary Tyler Bore
  • Mark in Florida · 9 months ago
    Bachman is a criminal. A total nut bag. Who listen's to her? How did she get back in there?
  • KerrynowCampau · 9 months ago
    She sounds like an angry drunk
  • katiec · 9 months ago
    This woman has proven, once again, that she is totally out of control.
    Is she up for election? Sure hope so as cannot visualize any sane person voting for her.
  • thingwarbler · 9 months ago
    Actually, katiec, the sad, sad thing is, she just got herself re-elected in November. The people of Minnesota really should have some sort of recall of the crappy product they sent to DC the first time around, but they appear to have been quite deliberate about doing so once again. It's incredibly sad to realize that she was their preferred candidate -- and it's not like her crazy wingnut speak is a new thing, she was at it all during the election campaign and before. They. Wanted. This.
  • Theo · 9 months ago
    Exactly, thingwarbler. "They. Wanted. This." You often hear, especially from bloggers in the states, that here's what our state really thinks of so-and-so; e.g., McCain and Arizona, Palin and Alaska, etc. While I appreciate the bloggers'/commenters' sentiments, in actuality, the people in these states keep re-electing these nutcases.
  • katiec · 9 months ago
    Doesn't give any creditibility for intelligence of the people of Minnesota. Yes, remember hearing her during the campaign. She was outrageous then and is even getting worse.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    They should be culpable for her as well if she really goes off the deep end which, she seems to be near doing. Foreign Agent, indeed! The woman is certifiable.
  • PeteWa · 9 months ago
    we are at war.
    she is a traitor.
    execute.
  • Ginger_FL · 9 months ago
    Why hasn't she been censored or brought up on charges??
    The woman is MAD and she is insighting violance.
    At the very least, she needs to submit to a mental evaluation !!!
  • KerrynowCampau · 9 months ago
    and a drug test
  • Ginger_FL · 9 months ago
    Bingo...for Oxycotin maybe ;D
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    Yes. . . Ms. Pelosi, when are you going to slap this witch down with some censorship? You do realize you are in charge?!
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Na, I don't this she realizes that. She is to busy getting her Botox done.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    Botox and can still smile through all the paralysis? She's an amazing woman. ;-)
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Amazing huh? I wish they would have kept Hillary Clinton in the senate and made her leader of the senate and get rid of the pussy they got in there now. I wish they would get rid of Pelosi too. Neither one of them is worth a damn. We need a couple of hard asses who won't take the republican shit and show them who is boss. I say forget the 60 votes.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    I have never believed in the 60 vote super majority. We need to get a lot accomplished and the republicans to a "time-out". A simple 51% majority would make their childish tantrums moot.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Me neither, but the democratics haven't grown any balls yet. Hopefully they will.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    To tell the truth, I am surprised they haven't caved in and kow-towed to the minority yet. They seem to prefer that position than one of power. "Don't want to hurt anyone's feelings." They really have no more cheeks to turn. I just hope they don't embarrass us too much.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    I dunno. Give it to the democratics to screw things up. They are so scared they won't get reelected. That is what the hell is wrong with both parties. Instead of doing the right thing they worry about elections. A bunch of sorry asses. That is for sure. I can honestly say even republicans would agree with that statement.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Do you see where it says Report at the end when we comment? How come some have the word Like and some don't. Do you know?
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    If they pull the same M.O. as they have in the past, I will look into a new progressive party upon which, to waste my money. ;-)
  • MElouise · 9 months ago
    Bring it ON, Michelle! Let's do this thing!

    You and me, baby- this fist plus your jaw- down for the freakin' COUNT!
  • bob_h · 9 months ago
    Perhaps an interview with the FBI should be scheduled?
  • Chicago Jeff · 9 months ago
    We ARE in the midst of a revolution, in case Bachmann hasn't noticed. She just happens to be on the wrong side of it.
  • Milli · 9 months ago
    Don't worry. Tomorrow she will deny she ever said it.
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 9 months ago
    isn't bachmann sorta like the benny hinn of politics?

    not meaning the wealthy evangelical conman aspect...

    more the loony who will give you a splinter of wood from the 'actual' cross for a small donation?

    .
  • wolfhound2 · 9 months ago
    She is from the Clearwater, MN district....very conservative and not just a few nutjobs there also. Looking at Daily Kos one day they had areas of the country down to the counties with the most unemployment. Hers was one of the worst districts in MN. She didn't have an easy time with her re-election because of her disastrous interview on MSNBC with Chris Matthews, so maybe their is hope that her constituency will wake up to her craziness. I am not optimistic.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Lets hope. Surely these people in that district wouldn't want to have a nutjob like that representing them. I would be so embrassed that she was my representative.
  • wolfhound2 · 9 months ago
    I was born in MN and have relatives there that tell me that the district is very conservative with a whole lot of resentment towards "ungodly liberals." She got some bad press with the Matthews interview, but that doesn't seem to stop her from making more of a fool of herself with talk about a revolution. Apparently her base loves it. Scary.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    I have travelled the states I have never been to MN, but I have had the pleasure to meet many nice people from that state. I know Bachmann is a nutjob. Maybe the people that live in that state should call her office and let her know what you think. Even if she doesn't live in your district she still respresents your state and you all have an interest in that.
  • wolfhound2 · 9 months ago
    SouthernYankee, you can bet we are writing!
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    I am happy to hear that. We have a nutjob that is going to run for Governor in TN. Zack Wamp. He isn't in my district but I sure let him know I didn't like his comment about healthcare is a privilege not a right. This bastard won't get my vote. Of course I would never vote for a republican.
  • jeffg166 · 9 months ago
    She better watch out what she wishes for. She just might get it. It won't be the revolution she had in mind.
  • kladinvt · 9 months ago
    Oh...It's that crazy whack-job from out-state Minnesota! Is she related to Katherine Harris? She has the same crazy look in her eyes!
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    I was thinking more Anita Bryant.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    OMG, Is she still living?
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    Yes, something in the orange juice, I think. ;-)
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    OMG, HOW OLD DO YA THINK SHE IS? I WAS YOUNG WHEN SHE MADE HER BIG OOPS, NOW AM 61 YRS. SHE GOTDA BE IN HER 80S MAYBE.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    I'll be 62 in May and she is only in her 70s (unfortunately) ;-)
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    She just turned 69 yrs old Mar 25th
    69 . . . couldn't happen to a more uptight bitch. I'm surprised she had any kids.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    I goolged her. She just turned 69 on Mar 25. God she looked much older back than.
  • ron · 9 months ago
    remember what happened to the dixie chicks for merely saying they were embarrassed to be from the same state as bush?

    and their comment by the way is an example of actual political incorrectness, not the shit the right is always whining about.
  • ndtovent · 9 months ago
    I agree, but because she said 'orderly revolution,' she's covered... But I agree -- I don't know how many times over the last 8 years I heard the blowhard rethugs preach 'sedition' and how any dem who even opinionated against a rethug policy should be arrested under sedition laws... Never hear it now when the rethugs spew their bile. What a surprise.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    I think she needs to define the word, "orderly."
  • lysias · 9 months ago
    A lot of Germans claimed that their national revolution of 1933 was an orderly one.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    Very good point.
  • ndtovent · 9 months ago
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  • Lush Rimbaud · 9 months ago
    Bachman is a dangerous, useless idiot. If she weren't TV-attractive in a Palin sort of way (the kind of attractiveness that interests Republic men), not many people outside her constituency would pay attention to her.
  • Mark217 · 9 months ago
    We should create a Mean Jean (Schmidt) Hall of Fame Award, and give it to Bachmann for 2009. Does anyone else get the feeling that some of these cranks (like Bachmann) have presidential aspirations? In that small, regional, fringe organization known as the GOP, it seems like the crazies who want to be president like to say outrageous things to get attention. They do seem to have massive memory loss about the last eight years of American history.
  • SouthernYankee · 9 months ago
    Oh yeah, Palin/Bachman for nutjobs of the GOP
  • benb · 9 months ago
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    She's disgusting.
  • Reason matters · 9 months ago
    Bachmann has a long history of OUTRAGEOUS homophobia.
  • Hank · 9 months ago
    I wish someone would do a poll to find out do those that recently re-elected this ignorant, crazy, A**hole still think they made the right choice?
  • example · 9 months ago
    The 'imagine if it was us' argument is a pretty weak one, and usually made by moronic partisans. liberals, perhaps not in congress, spouted all kinds of revolutionary stuff during the bush era. There's nothing wrong with it.

    You're too "Inside the beltway" to see things clearly.
  • KingCranky · 9 months ago
    And just what qualifies as "revolutionary stuff", seeing as how, if there's "all kinds of" it, there should be NO problems providing a few examples of Democratic politicians, still serving, who called for armed insurrection against the Bush Jr Administration.

    No wonder you knuckle-dragging Bush Jr lackeys got your worthless asses handed to you the last two elections, and with the bin Laden/McVeigh wing of the GOP shooting off their big mouths-Chuck Norris, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the overpaid village idiots masquerading as the right-wing punditry-don't look for the Repubs to find their way out of the political wilderness anytime soon.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    "Squeaky wheel gets the grease." Perhaps, we need to keep this argument above the radar and make the media and government look at what she is implying. We do not need "mad as an hatter" types in power. I'm sure she will act like the victim if any person in power goes after her. It's the typical M.O. of these nuts.
  • cowboyneok · 9 months ago
    Let her play "the victim" all she wants. With a transcript she can play the victim BUT she really has no defense.
  • Butch1 · 9 months ago
    I agree, but knowing that they become the victim when people stand up to them is one of their methods to gain sympathy. She will also say that her words were taken out of context or that they are being twisted. They have a whole bag of excuses when they get caught. I think Pelosi aught to get on her tail and stay there until she either apologizes or sufficiently explains what she really meant. ( we know she means it but no one is going to hold her accountable, at least on the democratic side of the isle. )
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 9 months ago
    Maybe we'll know she's right if we continue down the Oligarchical path of destruction. The 'haves' don't give a shit about you as evidenced in this trillion dollar boondoggle by giethner and his cronies.

    Though, I tend to think she is doing this to throw us off, take our eye off the ball so to speak.

    What is happening today in the real world that the repukes and their sick ilk, the arm of the oligarchy, are doing??

    What don't they want you to know??

    Remember timing and self gain are two hallmarks in politics.
  • cowboyneok · 9 months ago
    This is the kind of shit that causes Tim McVeigh's to bomb federal buildings! If she is NOT held accountable for this then the next time we have an assasination attempt or public bombing then THE BLOOD is on the HANDS of those who do NOT hold her accountable for treason.
  • The Tim Channel · 9 months ago
    If they're not gonna prosecute for illegal war and war crimes, I don't think she has much to worry about. You can steal BILLIONS, even TRILLIONS and get a bonus these days.

    The only thing still being enforced with vigor are the drug laws.

    Enjoy.
  • Voice of Semi-Reason · 9 months ago
    You'd think that after 60 days, they'd warm up with talk of impeachment. THEN, after a year, you'd talk of violent overthrow.
  • Indigo · 9 months ago
    And the Revolution wants Michelle Bachman!
    "¡Hacia la victoria siempre!"
  • duchessofbilgewater · 9 months ago
    It's all to easy to laugh at this bat-shit crazy woman, until some wack job picks up a gun or builds a bomb. She is advocating the overthrow of the government. Even at the height of opposition to George Bush, I never heard ANYONE advocate the overthrow of the government.
  • devlzadvocate · 9 months ago
    Didn't Timothy McVeigh say similar things? He blew up a Federal building from the outside.

    She has access to Federal Buildings.

    Shouldn't she be watched?
  • shak el · 9 months ago
    While I disagree with the Representative M. any american has the right to verbally advocate the violent overthrow of the US government. This was established by a Supreme Court Case against the US Communist Party in the 1950;s. The law you cited is void.
  • munjoyfan · 9 months ago
    Hmmmm.....today I had the occasion to work with one of the high school dropouts I tutor on the language in the NH state constitution giving the citizens the right of revolution, as we like to call it in New England. MD and KY also have the right. But not by violence. They simply have the right to rewrite their governing procedures, get rid of the governor, get rid of the legislature or judiciary, or redesign them on a parliamentary model. I think Michelle Bachmann is speaking in code to the radical right, as the republicans organize like crazy to take back the white house: the Tea Parties, the refusal to take stimulus funds, the laws on "screening" recipients of public health benefits being introduced in legislatures all over the country-----etc.

    Meanwhile, the stimulus funds are fast disappearing into the black hole of business as usual. Our new city police chief is making noises about using stimulus funds to buy tasers and other toys. Is there any web site anywhere that will help us monitor these guys? Is there any city which has set up a web site with information about how its stimulus funds are being used? This is something each of us needs to be birddogging at the state and local level, but we need a model....
  • sittenpretty · 9 months ago
    put her crazy ass in jail already sheeeeeeeeeeesh
  • DonQ · 9 months ago
    By the way, the spell check in Thunderbird suggests "Eichmann" for "Bachmann"!

    Coincidence? I think not.
  • HarpoSnarx · 9 months ago
    Yo Harry Reid, can we at least get a frackin' tut-tut or do you just bitch when the base gets outta line?
  • Jason · 9 months ago
    This is just an example of where the current Republican party is standing. They are so used to the ridiculous things they were allowed to do in the last 8 years that they now want to overthrow the current administration. The party's silence just as with Rush is simply an acceptance of what has been said. They still haven't figured out that the current administratin has a huge support % wise in this country and they do NOT. They want us all to believe that it's only the crazies that support Obama but I'm finding people that didn't vote for him that now say he's doing what needs to be doe. The people that are in support are NOT just the people of this country that voted Democratic...OMG Republican pull your head out of your asses and go to work fixing the mistakes that were made in the last 8 years...facts are the Republicans screwed us and are now trying to do it again!!!
  • Bruce · 9 months ago
    I am so tired, tired, tired of seditious wingnuts getting the kid-glove treatment from lazy media, particularly in their paleo-conservative, neo-Confederate subspecies. You know them - that Lincoln was a despot that interfered with the "liberty and freedom" of free men to enslave non-free men and women, etc. It's illegal to slap them in the face; I checked.
  • Ewastud · 9 months ago
    Most people naturally prefer the safety and security of a stable government to the unpredictable outcome of a revolution. It takes extremely harsh and unjust conditions to motivate people to really pick up arms spontaneously and revolt, like what George Washington and the founders of our country did about 230-odd years ago.

    I also saw such conditions first hand when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines in the early 1980's when Ferdinand Marcos was president. The New People's Army (NPA) was organizing the rural population, assassinating corrupt local officials, ambushing the police, and serving as a vigilante police force of their own against the thieves, rapists, and other predatory elements that the lazy and corrupt local officials refused to protect the population against. There are times when revolution may be justified, but those times are not now. Perhaps they were from November 2000 to January 2009, though.

    I would say the conditions under GWB merited such considerations - with stolen and corrupted elections employing caging of voters, organized GOP voter intimidation, and using faulty electronic voting machines that always seemed to favor the GOP candidate over the Democratic opponent, arbitrary arrests and indefinite incarceration of a citizen (Padilla) and others with US immigrant status, the passage of the "Patriot Act," torture, the declaration of near dictatorial power by Bush, the criminal negligence (at best) of the Hurricane Katrina response, the 9/11 attack (the responsibilities for, and many details of, which are still unclear) that so conveniently provided the Bush administration the pretext to launch their desired wars in the Middle East to aid their oil lobby cronies, etc.
  • Scottsdalian · 9 months ago
    "You know damn well that if a Democrat had called for a revolution during the Bush years, we'd never hear the end of it."

    Hell, I'm a Democrat and I called for a revolution during the Bush years...but nobody heard the beginning of it.

    Oh wait.....Obama got elected and Dems now control Congress. Guess everybody heard it! And did it! Nice.
  • miss skeptic · 9 months ago
    I wish you could get the clip from Cspan from a couple days ago when Bachmann was harassing Geithner and Bernanke. She was putting our her usual bullshit about "where in the Constitution does it say you can do this" and both Geithner and Bernanke gave her respectful answers, but she didn't like those answers so she just kept repeating it over and over. There was an aide behind Geithner who was rolling her eyes and looking around every time Bachmann opened her yap - it was hilareous!