From the "Since you asked…" file.

mistermix wonders...

...isn’t taking an oath to uphold the constitution and then ignoring it basically treason?

Since you asked, you may call it treason. Me too. Republicans call it business as usual.

Of course, they're a pretty treasonous lot these days.

Is it any wonder that I keep saying that...

Michelle Bachman: Traitor or fool?

She babbles, you decide. Yochi J. Dreazen at The National Journal...

"[H]er comments on Pakistan’s nuclear program represent either a news-making leak of previously unknown classified information or another in her recent series of seemingly-random, and highly inaccurate, public comments."

I suppose "and" should be an option...

Yes, it is.

digby on T*-Party intransigence over the CR - over the budget in general, really...
(* for, it becomes ever more apparent, Treason.)

You have people who are not only willing to shoot hostages, they are itching to do it. It's a problem.

There is, of course, a solution...

From the "Rules of thumb" file.

Via Matt Browner Hamlin...

Things that aren't "almost treasonous": the chairman of the Federal Reserve printing money.

Things that are "almost treasonous": threatening secession from the Union.

The problem…

…isn't the relative quality of the Democratic spine, or President Obama's facility at negotiation, or who or what is right or wrong. Here, via Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), is the problem...

"It has always been a straight up or down vote. The new leadership in the House has decided that they want to add some budget cuts or other considerations to this vote, because that is their preference, and they are the leadership, so we are in this quagmire."

As far as the debt ceiling is concerned, we have a problem because the Republicans decided they wanted a problem. You might ask why, but the important question is what, as in what is "the single most important thing" they want to achieve. That's the lens to view every Republican action and statement through.

They call it politics. Some, to coin a phrase, call it treason.

Earlier this week…

…I was going to tag this as the "un-American idea of the day." It's Saturday night, and there's no doubt, it's the pick of the week, may be the year so far. Disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich...

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

Gingrich is neither stupid nor ignorant. He says things like this fully understanding their essentially un-American character and knowing that they are destructive to Constitutional governance. He doesn't care.

Not about the truth.

Not about the Constitution.

Not America.

Not you.

The problem is, when he says things like this, pandering to people's basest fears and prejudices, he knows he can move a mob of people who don't understand, who don't know, who do not , some who may choose, in fact, to not grasp the idea that we are better than tyrannical theocracies only to the degree that we are different than them. To advocate imitating those tyrants at this historical juncture borders, it seems to me, on treason.

Heck, Newt may have just stumbled on the quintessential un-American idea.

That's it, close 'em down.

I heartily join the chorus decrying the RNC's misogynistic substitution of Nancy Pelosi's surname for a vulgarity for female genitalia. It's unconscionable and un-American.

This, though? This is downright anti-American...

The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight...

The Republican National Committee has created an ad which depicts the Speaker Of The House Of The United States Of America, the third highest Constitutional officer in the nation, second in the line of Presidential succession, in the sights of a gun.

This isn't the work of a random blogger with a perverse imagination and a pirated copy of Photoshop, or the work of (theoretically) some extremist hate-monger. This is the work of the Republican National Committee.

Iconic or not, depicting the Speaker's - any Speaker's, any party, any time - immanent assasination is downright treasonous.

When the RNC staff shows up Tuesday morning, they should find Secret Service padlocks on the door with paddy wagons lined up for the perps. The line of legitimacy as an American political party has faded from the RNC's rear-view mirror.

In the tradition...

...of Tokyo Rose, Lord Haw Haw and Hanoi Hannah...



Hat tip to Gordon.

Some dare call it treason.

Steelworkers President Leo Gerard does…

To survive this economic catastrophe, Americans must assert themselves as economic patriots. They must stand up to the likes of the Chamber and the Roundtable and call them out for being economic traitors to the United States of America.

Me too.

Yep.

Michael Lind...

The most shocking thing about the alliance between the Southern states and America's friendly but earnest economic rivals to destroy America's most important industry is the fact that so few people find it shocking.

…and Rosenberg's right, too.

I mean, look, these people are traitors.

And, I'd point out save for the redundancy, Republicans.