Republican Congresswoman calls for violent overthrow of Obama's regime

March 31, 6:19 PMIndependent ExaminerBrian Trent

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Talk about being sore losers.

After handily losing two elections and finding American polls more against them than ever, the neoconservative heart of the GOP is steadily moving from baseless insults against President Barack Obama to calls for violent action.

Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, the same woman who considers her job at Congress as being "behind enemy lines," wants Americans to rise up and overthrow our democratically elected leader.

Want to know what's funny? This is the same person -- just like her fellow extremist cultists -- who marched in step with every liberty-stealing move of the Bush Administration.

This is the same person -- and crowd -- who decried any criticism of Bush as being traitorous. Who thought it was fine to lose the protections of due process, the rule of law, habeaus corpus. Who thought it was okay to allow illegal and unconstitutional surveillance programs. Who thought it was okay to scream for endless wars based on emotion rather than rationality.

This is the same person who, as I wrote in October, believes not in free and lively debate but in painting a broad section of Americans as "fake" or "real" according to their political views. It is not alarmist to point out that dehumanizing your political enemies is the first step of fascism, and the fanatical ideology that was empowered during the Bush years launched merciless media campaigns in order to do just that.

And it wasn't just liberals, libertarians, freethinkers or independents that found themselves smeared. It was fellow Republicans, the ones branded with the "moderate" label. It was fellow Republicans, which I have been tirelessly documenting in my columns, the ones who dare to be classic conservatives and not the perversion of radical right-wing stormtroopers.

Now that Bachmann and her ilk are out of power, this same group is abandoning their pretensions. They want blood.

Says Bachman:

"We can't let the Democrats achieve their ends any longer."

Make no mistake: the neoconservative cult is not interested in what's proper for America. They are only interested in political wins. They were behind the bailout when Republicans like McCain and Bush were behind it, and they blissfully ignored the bipartisanship nature of that travesty. I have never before seen a group motivated by such enduring irrationality, raw hate, and fear before.

President Obama has done things I like and dislike. I agree and disagree as the issue merits, and through it all perceive someone who is a calm, well-mannered statesman with ideas rooted in logic and not emotion. For eight years, America endured the leadership of George W. Bush and by the end of that cruise we found that our vessel had been tarnished morally, economically, militarily, scientifically, and culturally. I'm willing to give our new leader the time to try and fix a mess that he didn't make.

No single party has the monopoly on vitriolic hatred. Yet the comparison between the Bush-haters and Obama-haters is anything but equal. Many leading voices with rational, documented arguments were raised against Bush. By contrast, the cries against Obama have chimed uncannily well with a KKK rally: full of fear-mongering and unjustified rage. Bush was attacked for what he had done; Obama was attacked by what he was believed to be.

It isn't treason to criticize a President. But it is treason to actively call for revolution, foment violence, and encourage a civil war based on nothing more than catering to the lowest kind of mob mentality. Bachmann should lose her job, and appear before a judge. Someone should remind her that in America, we have something called elections. If she doesn't like the outcome of a vote, perhaps she should start thinking about the next election before she contemplates armed revolution.

America judged Bush after 8 years of his leadership. I think Obama is permitted more than 8 weeks to show us what his leadership is like.