Speaking of "pro America" . . . The Founding Fathers and Mothers would have forgone decorum . . . and cat-slapped Bachmann from one end of the Chesapeake to the other. Please, responsible voters of Minnesota, send this clueless anti-American packing.

Well what can you say? "It's the diversity of opinion without getting arrested, that makes this country great despite all the blood bones in the soil from 1619 until now." I don't live in her Minnesota district so I was not given the opportunity to NOT vote for Ms. Bachmann. She and Palin are cut from the same cloth. In a weird kind of way, I think we need to thank George Bush. He and Chaney are responsible for this move to the "left" which really is not "left". In fact I hope that left/right paradigm gets dumped post haste. Its meaningless now and NOT helpful. Hopefully those that vote will move to organize after the election across all of our various identities to create richer communities all across the United States. Those new communities relationships will also need to keep those they elected honest. The problems we have now need all of us to be actively invested in creating and moving forward the solutions that value justice, deep democracy and a vital planet. Nationalism needs to cease being a pathology of human behavior. If we care for our country more than the planet it rest upon, we are headed for more disaster. Community organizing is one of the keys to livable future.

More fear mongering and hate mongering. Remember when the Right wailed and moaned because of the Nazi comparisons? Hmmmmm... ~~ Lane Baldwin - alifewithspirit.blogspot.com

Instilling fear to get votes seems like a repeating pattern.

Actions speak louder than words. I just sent fifty bucks to Bachmann's Democratic opponent in the 6th Minnesota Congressional District. I get a little touchy when a politician calls into question the patriotism of my political party or of me. I'll put up my forty one years of service to my country against this McCarthy clone any time.If she insults me or my party again her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenbertg, will get another fifty bucks. Regards, Carl W. Lundquist, JD, Colonel, Army of theUnitedstates (Retired)

Excuse me, but isn't it Todd Palin who hates America, enough to belong to a cessation movement in Alaska, to which his Gevernor/wife/ VP candidate is sympathetic? Let's get real here!!

Channeling McCarthy is accurate. I remember listing to Joseph Welch interrupt one of McCarthy's ravings during the Army-McCarthy Hearings with the question "'... Sen. McCarthy, have you no decency?'" Someone should pose that same question to her. Rep. Bachmann is un-American. The people in her district should be embarassed for electing her.

Totally agree with Bachmann - if you're not "proud" of and "wild about" torture, indefinite detention without charge or council, renditions, illegal invasions and occupations, the Bank Robber Reward Act of 08 + 2 trillion in addition "bailouts," environmental destruction, massive illegal spying and immunity for the corporate spy-team, Halliburton, Blackwater, Preferred Voting Systems, thousands of signing statements, the Unitary Exec, rising poverty rates, 50 million uninsured, record foreclosures, an $11 trillion debt, and worldwide disdain -- then y'all need to get the hell out of this God-blessed city on the hill greatest country in the history of the universe!!!

Critical inquiry is American--liberty is ensured by asking questions. Guilty by association? Even David Letterman made the connection between John McCain and G. Gordon Liddy. Do Republican's really want a deeper inquiry into this?

Preemptive propaganda. It could also be called "first strike politics”. It is the tactic of malicious accusation in charging the opposition of what you could rightly be accused of yourself. The effect is a media inoculation from the same accusation. The Soviets did it and Bush senior did it when he called Dukakis a demagogue. That, of course, is a fine art among Rove style Republicans. Why shouldn’t McClone do it too? Need it be said that the Republican Party had crusaded against the Constitution? What crimes haven’t they committed? It is up the American people to hold them all accountable.

Louis.. thank you. Polarization isn't the answer. Working through our problems is. Without a firm commitment to THAT ideal, neither party deserves a vote. It can only happen if we work to build a consensus, never forgetting that it's not supposed to be the majority who always gets it's way, forgetting that those who don't agree, also have rights. It's a Republican form of Democracy. Why have we forgotten that?

Ending Democracy? Author Naomi Wolf, set out on a national tour over the past year to discuss the evolution of America from a functional democracy into a closed, fear-driven society with a terrifying absence of due process. She lays out what she calls the 10 steps necessary to end a democracy and shows us just how close we are to completing them: 1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy. 2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place. 3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to citizens. 4. Set up an internal surveillance system. 5. Harass citizens' groups. 6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release. 7. Target key individuals. 8. Control the press. 9. Treat all political dissents as traitors. 10. Suspend the rule of law.

To Carl W Linquist, retire COL, proud Republican who sent $50 to the Democrat in Minnesota who is running against the neocon nut cake, Bachmann, I salute you sir! I salute you for seeing the evil and not accepting it, and for seeing that Obama is transcends race, color, because it is about fixing the nation, uniting the nation and making it strong again. I HOPE SHE LOSES BY A LANDSLIDE!

Complex issues, intricate problems, delicate situations and simplistic minds to deal with them, the likes of which bipolar Bachmann is an unfortunate example, white-black, good-bad, pure-impure, god-satan... BedJesus, our Neighbours to the south are in serious trouble !

Ms. Bachman is just another neocon shrill. Voters in her district PLEASE take note, and act to relieve her and yourselves by electing someone with a brain.

People like Bachmann have had things exactly the way they wanted them for eight long years. It's only natural that they're getting a little desperate at the end of their halcyon days. All the scary talk, the chintzy flag pins and Iraq's Most Wanted playing cards, the panic they relished and thrived upon...it's in the past now, and they aren't dealing with it very well. Let me be clear: I don't think Obama will usher in the kind of huge, sweeping change the true believers say he will. He's a smart guy, he hedges his bets, he's not a radical; we won't be leaving Iraq the day after he's sworn in. But Obama obviously *does* represent a level of change that nutjobs like Michelle Bachmann are worried about, and that is heartening.

Michelle Bachmann clearly does not understand her constituency. While Minnesota has grown less staunchly liberal in recent years--mainly due to the libertarian leanings of new residents in the outer exurbs--one thing remains true: Minnesotans don't like shrill over-the-top neighbors or politicians drawing too much attention to themselves. This won't go over well. It will be interesting to see what happens to exurbanite politics in coming years. Getting slammed by falling real estate values and ruinous commuting costs, they might find their politics growing more in line with traditional Minnesota attitudes.

I am Guilty...I must come clean by admitting that for some time now I have not been a proud American. The first blow to that chest thrusting pride was the pictures from Abu Ghraib. Then while we were all watching the events of Katrina unfold at work, I took a call from a customer in Australia. I felt shame and embarrassment when he asked why nothing was being done to help the victims and stated it looked as if nobody even cared. Later that night I was telling a friend about that customers question and actually stated to him "I am not proud being an American anymore". I will take pride in myself tomorrow as I call Rep. Laura Richardson and ask her to Censure this maggot infested pile of hyena feces.

I just sent a donation to Bachmann's opponent. It's a way for me to speak out against extremists of all stripes who have NO PLACE in legitimate politics. McCarthyism has been brewing in this country ever since Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh became mouthpieces for neocon hyprocrisy and fearmongering. Rush can't help himself, but Rove is a bigger threat because he USES simpleminded thinking to power his fascist agenda.

No investigation necessary. Bachmann & Bush are totally anti-American. Cheney, too. Haliburton, Bechtel, Shell, Archer-Daniels-Midland, Monsanto, Blackwater, and not to mention the GOP. Anti-American, all of them. Don't forget those racists who show up at McCain rallies. Sarah Palin's husband Todd is clearly anti-American as he held a leadership post in an organization that sought to secede Alaska from the Union. Lets see....there's the Felonious Five Supreme Court Justices who aided and abetted the coup of Ought Zero. There's FEMA who was on hand to make sure 9/11 went off without a hitch but didn't bother to rescue New Orleans. Fox News is an obvious one. John Woo was the Admin Lawyer who wrote the memo where torture was legalized. Off with his head. Anyone left? How about Rumsfeld, whose wishful thinking led to unnecessary but utter shame and embarrassment for our military. I'm thinking the whole bunch of neo-cons are the definition of anti-American. I'm thinking all the xenophobes who think immigration is at the heart of their mess should go back to wherever they came from because their all invaders from the perspective of those who rightfully own the land we live in. Totally anti-American. Shoot, the whole anti-American thing once was symbolized by red, so how about the residents of red states are also branded anti-American as well. Maybe we should just scratch all this and remind Bachmann that she is actually the anti-American one here. She should go back to wherever her ancestors came from, where she can be proud of torture and abuse and black flag operations and genocide. That place sure as hell isn't America (we might be responsible for some of those things, but we're certainly not proud of it). Maybe her version of America is the old-school one, you know, where she still had the right to own a human being. Is that what she means? She wants to have the right to own slaves? Anti-American, my foot.

I have been ashamed of my country since the year 2000, when Bush blatantly stole the election and began his sinister plight to destroy this country. And he did it with the blessing of most Americans. What is to be proud of? Since, he has waged a war on lies, protected his buddies like Ken Lay & Co., abused his powers, spied on innocent Americans, arrested protestors, controlled the media USSR style, and socialized screwups by Wallstreet. I ask again...what the hell is to be proud of? And I live overseas.

Well! I wish I could speak to this NeoCON, and all the others, in person. I would be in their face with it. I AM NOT PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN ANYMORE! I never protested the Vietnam War, not once, even though now I know I was WRONG, and that the Tonkin Gulf incident was FAKED UP by the CIA. Yes, Virginia, one more war based on BS and lies. I really bought into that anti-communist rhetoric, because I had a relative that had escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. So easy to see things in black-and-white. So easy to turn your brain off and not see how pro-American Ho Chi Mhin STARTED OFF being, before we stabbed him in the back to help France re-colonize Vietnam after WW2. -And gosh, doesn't history repeat itself? We helped Saddahm Hussein rise to power, helped arm and train his forces, and then turned on him, armed with a BS excuse. He thought we were his allies. Lots of people did. We have killed more civilians in the short time we've been there, than he did overall, and at least HE managed to maintain a secular government. He tried to maintain an infrastructure FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS PEOPLE. Was he great at it? NO. Was he fair and just? NO. Was he brutal? Hell, yes. EXACTLY LIKE WE HAVE BEEN. The difference is that when HE was finished, his country wasn't in ruins, and splintered into a dozen factions. His people got food, electricity, and water on a semi-regular basis. -And he didn't have hospital wards filled with children missing arms, legs, and skin. Sure, he was a monster. WHAT DOES THAT MAKE US??? -And now that all the BS excuses have fallen away, why did we invade? For OIL THIEVERY, nothing more. Yeah, neoCONs, I AM ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRY, and WITH DAMNED GOOD REASON!!! We have a government full of OATH BREAKERS, that have butchered the Constitution they were supposed to be defending. We have a bloated military spending us into a deep, dark hole, run by idealogues and religious nut-job "Crusaders" who don't give any more of a damn about their grunts, than our civilian "leaders" do about the citizenry. I am so glad that my grandfathers didn't live to see this, the way third-generation Nazi sympathizers have reversed the grand victory of WW2, and pretty much destroyed the America they loved. So yeah, neoCONs, I guess I'm one of those "un-American" types that loved what it WAS, rather than what it has STOOPED TO, presently. So, if you're going to start investigating people, why don't you start with me? You probably know where I live. Only, you might not want to get within arm's length...

call her up, i just did. 202.225.2331 fax: 202.225.6475

She has a problem with Barack and Michelle Obama? How 'bout we ask her for her opinion about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYqRfp6-x8&feature=related

Ms. Bachmann - When you have nothing to say, say nothing.