President Clinton is concerned that Republican psycho-talk may instigate a reprise of the Oklahoma City bombing.
With the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing approaching, former President Bill Clinton on Thursday drew parallels between the antigovernment tone that preceded that devastating attack and the political tumult of today, saying government critics must be mindful that angry words can stir violent actions…
…Mr. Clinton pointed to remarks like those made Thursday by Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican, who when speaking at a Tea Party rally in Washington characterized the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “the gangster government.”
“They are not gangsters,” Mr. Clinton said. “They were elected. They are not doing anything they were not elected to do.”
Will Bachmann stop? You tell me:
By the time the dust settles on the 2010 contest for the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota, Republican Michele Bachmann may own nearly every fundraising record in Gopher State history for a U.S. Representative.
Just eight days after DFLer Tarryl Clark posted fundraising numbers which – at the time – smashed the previous Minnesota U.S. House record for the first quarter of an election year by 32 percent, Congresswoman Bachmann released her own Q1 2010 numbers that best Clark’s by a staggering 60 percent.
Bachmann announced on Thursday that she raised $810,000 from January through March of 2010 – $305,000 more than Clark’s $505,000 tally and $101,000 more than Clark and her DFL rival Maureen Reed ($204,000) combined.
Stoking terrorism pays. If anything happens, people like Michele Bachmann will have to wash the blood off their hands. Of course, they’ll never acknowledge the link between making outrageous statements about government tyranny and the people that might take those statements seriously enough to fight back.
