Are Republicans Committing Treason?

[tpsbmam]

Snips below -- full article at AlterNet

This party was known as the Republican Party, and while one might have disagreed with them on their policy prescriptions to cure any particular US ill, one could at least see some logic in their beliefs and understand that they - with some obvious exceptions from time to time (ahem, Joseph McCarthy, ahem) - were doing what they thought was right for the United States of America.

Today, this once respectable organization has turned into nothing so much as a collective id the size of a David Vitter Pampers shopping spree. When facing changes to this nation that make them uncomfortable, they choose national hate. When facing ideological worship versus the greatness of the US, the former always wins the day. When facing a choice of what is good for the US or their personal bank accounts, they inevitably go with the latter.

Every. Single. Time.

In simple terms: We, the people of the United States, are the maid. The GOP is Arnold Schwarzenegger. Any questions?


(What spot on imagery!) :rofl:

[brooklynite]

1. No, and we should stop throwing around this hyperbolic comment...

Treason has a very specific meaning (which is why there's a specific WORD for it), and however irresponsible the Republicans are acting, that's not what they're doing.

[Dr Fate]

4. Especially since so many DEMS will come down on their side of things.

If we accuse the GOP of treason, then we have to accuse the centrist DEMS of the same.

I'm not falling for THAT liberal trap!

;)

[PDJane]

5. Reagan committed treason.

That was what the Iran-Contra scandal was about. We watched him do it, and we watched the hearings on it, and nothing was done about it. It has continued, and is as true now as then.

[PDJane]

2. The answer is yes........

and they have been for a very long time. Nixon, the Sainted Ronnie (who should have been impeached)....and on it goes.

I have wondered why the GOP is still around when it keeps getting more blatant about it's treason.

[Bozita]

3. Absofuckinglutely!

[fredamae]

6. The link doesn't work for me? n/t

[PDJane]

10. Nor for me..........

http://www.alternet.org/story/151711/are_republicans_committing_treason/

[tpsbmam]

13. Hmmmmm, it just worked for me. Here it is again posted

as a direct link: http:/www.alternet.org/story/151711/are_republicans_committing_treason

Hope that one works!

[fredamae]

14. Nope, but thanks for trying! :)

[badtoworse]

7. Do yourself a favor and buy a dictionary.

You'll post more intelligently if you understand the meaning of the words you are using.

[PDJane]

9. Treason doesn't confine itself to high treason;

which is attempting to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation to which one belongs.

A violation of allegiance to one's state is also treason, and that is the treason, ongoing, of the republican party. They are governing, and they seem to have no allegiance to anything but their own pocketbooks.

And yes, that is treasonous.

[badtoworse]

16. They have a fundamentally different view of government's proper role...

And the direction we should take. We may disagree; we may find their views abhorrent, but is not accurate to call them treasonous. As far as allegiance to one's own pocketbook is concerned, do you think either party has clean hands?

[annabanana]

17. If they manage to privatize ALL the profit, and stick the public

with ALL the debt, then they have successfully dismantled the Republic.

[badtoworse]

18. Your post makes no sense

By definition, we are stuck with the debt; it's ours and it was built up over decades. Both parties have borrowed heavily at times. To my knowledge, SS privatization has not come up in the current negotiations.

[Dr Fate]

12. Then again, it would be interesting to see a Republican explain it for himself.

The old LBJ syle "make them deny it" as opposed to the New DEM "make their counter argument for them."

A hypothetical Democrat could go on TV and say- "...this action amounts to a kind of treason..." (which is what the OP meant)-then make the Republican oppponent explain how pro-American, patriotic, wholesome and "non-treasonous" their position really is.

The real problem here is that many centrist DEMS will come down on the side of these Republicans, so no one is about to essentialy accuse themselves of treason.

[libodem]

8. Yes

All those ALEC bastards are conspiring to commit treason.

[MrScorpio]

11. Treason, no...

Sedition, you betcha!

[HopeHoops]

15. If so, that would differ from the past 30 years just how?