Censuring on the basis of a single comment lowers the meaning of censure, just as trying to impeach someone on the basis of a perjury about a blowjob lowers the meaning of impeachment.

It is far more effective to simply remove her from Congress by votes, or as you point out, by donations to her opponent in this election year.

i was happy to see Colin Powell just call out her message. If the republican party was closer to his image than Bachmann's then it would be much more difficult to decide who to vote for.

That Powell was endorsing Obama merely because he happens to be African-American is just silly. If you listened to what Mr. Powell said after taping Meet the Press, you know his exact reasoning. He complimented McCain, but pointed out that he did not appreciate the tenor of the campaign that he is running. This was not inevitable, he could have simply kept quiet. That he chose to speak says it all in my opinion.

You are attacking this problem all wrong. Why not begin with a definition of what is unAmerican, anti-American or just American in terms of their historical values.

Americanism: a trait, custom, or tradition especially characteristic of the people of the United States or some of them.

So what are these traits, customs, or traditions. I submit that perhaps they are the work ethic, patiotism, personal responsibility, a willingness to make the most of one’s talents and intellect, self-sufficiency, a recognition that what one man receives without working for, another man must work for without receiving, that the government cannot give to the people what it does not first take from them, that you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it, that you cannot legislate the poor independence by legislating the most productive members of society out of it. It is also a recognition that population-driven economic growth is unsustainable, that open borders mean Mexico Norte will replace the U.S., that the limit of finite natural resources per capita as population increases without bounds is zero, that the American culture, language, ideals, standard of living, quality of life, etc. are worth defending against all enemies foreign and domestic.

It then follows that the opposite of these ideas constitutes anti-Americanism. Such ideas as socialism, socialized medicine, wealth redistribution, robbing Peter to pay Paul, open borders, unrestricted immigration, multi-lingualism, ancient religious doctrines that deprive women of their rights and that contribute to overpopulation, the idea that the 1st amendment only applies to liberals, that the fourth estate has no obligation to provide the unbiased news, that buying votes is democratic, that the millionaires and billionaires who finance campaigns through 527s still represent a one person = one vote concept.