Easy Wind and Downy Flake

"If this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies....I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out." Those were Sharron Angle's words, uttered in a nearby state during the last election, a few short months ago. Of course, Angle identified Harry Reid as a direct target, not Gabrielle Gifford, but can you really say that Gifford's re-election is not a sign that Congress "kept going the way it was?" That's substantially worse than bad taste, and it's rather more immediate than advocating an "eventual overthrow of government." Furthermore, Angle directly identified herself as part of the group responsible for these "second amendment remedies." She was, in fact, advocating exactly such actions, in exactly the conditions that we actually live in. Personally, I'm tired of extending the benefit of the doubt to persons that advocate armed government takeovers because they lose an election, and then define themselves as "real Americans" thereby. The threat of violence as a means of coercion should not have a place in the American political system, full stop.