It’s inflammatory talk like hers that led the Pittsburgh shooter to think he needed to kill a few cops so Obama wouldn’t “take his guns away”.

And the shooting itself, irony upon irony, is what forced the police to take away his guns.

No, I think she’s channeling Joe McCarthy and Lucy Ricardo.

Wicked funny? Or, wicked & funny? Hmmm

Michele Bachman is making a case for the sorry state of mental health in the US

Maybe, in a very strange performance artiste way, she’s making a case for health care reform which includes mental health care.

Very unusual. Heh.

Where is the line in the sand for the NRA?

While some Democrats are of the opinion that President Obama is being TOO bipartisan in his accommodations to Republicans and are disappointed he isn’t playing hardball with them, I believe that his highly visible efforts to include Republicans in the policy making process is serving to illuminate REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIONISM and increasing the likelihood that the 2010 elections will result in a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate majority.

If it ultimately becomes necessary for Democrats to go it alone and institute policy changes with zero Republican support, the vast majority of Americans will see their actions as necessary and justified because Republicans have been deliberately trying to undermine President Obama’s efforts to fix the problems that eight years of failed Republican leadership created for Americans and America.

In addition, the self-promoting and purposefully flamboyant and offensive histrionics of radical Republican provocateurs, insulters and fabricators like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michele Malkin, Mary Matalin, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Michael Steele and Eric Cantor are ALL increasingly alienating younger and working class white, black, Hispanic, female and financially disadvantaged Americans at a time when the core of the Republican Party have progressively devolved into an ignominious and impotent angry minority. Not only do today’s most vocal and visible Republicans lack a majority audience, they are literally eviscerating one another as they fight to be the biggest fish in an increasingly smaller pond.

I wonder what polling in her destruct district might show about her rhetoric if a couple of pointed questions outlining the recent shootings and the potential connection to right wing paranoia were included?

Pretending that these people aren’t being egged on by “respectable” conservatives and Republicans won’t get us anything but more deaths.