I love this. In my cartoon this week, I suggested an absurd way that Michelle Bachmann might explain her quote that voters should be "armed and dangerous" over the cap-and-trade bill. As I learned today via TPM, she actually did walk that quote back a month later, saying the following:
"I want my people in Minnesota to be the most educated people. I want them to be armed with knowledge, so they can be dangerous to the policies of the left."
Almost like my comic. Clearly I didn't go far enough.
That TPM link was pretty interesting. There were definitely examples in there of people who in my judgement went too far. Examples would be Lowery shooting at a human-shaped target with his opponent’s initials on it and Angle talking about resorting to Second Amendment remedies and later saying that Nevadans needed to take Harry Reid out.
OTOH, I don’t see anything wrong with the “machine gun social”. Sounds like fun to me and I’d love to win a semi-automatic rifle in a raffle. I don’t see anything wrong with what Joe Manchin did either. And Rep. Bachmann’s explanation of what she meant is in exact accord with what I thought when I read her initial “armed and dangerous” comment in the first place. There’s nothing wrong with that comment. No one hearing that would think that she meant to start picking up guns.