By this I assume you accept Bowser's premise that Bachmann's statement was a serious call for armed insurrection against the United States government. Bowser pulled this off some lunatic leftist website, where it's been making the rounds.

The Joan Rivers link was an example of the slang usage. It's the first one I found. I really, really did not think that needed explaining.

"Change the subject?" This entire Bachmann-as-revolutionary non-issue is leftists trying to change the subject. God forbid I should try to "shift things onto the issues."

The cap-and-trade fiasco is what should be addressed, including its economic impact and use as a budget trick, but as long as the Left can drag dead herrings across the road for their gullible and brainless constituents, it won't be.

It's funny that when I pull some example of Democratic imbecility up (Maxine Waters is a rich vein of this sort of thing) I'm accused of making too much out of insignificant incidents, or using an extremist to paint the entire party with the same brush.