GOP: Grand Orwellian Party.
Rep. Morgan Griffith (Virginia Teahadist) offered a curious analogy this weekend, comparing the impending default to the American Revolution.
Griffith was asked about the fast-approaching debt ceiling, which if not raised, threatens to drag the U.S. economy back into a recession. He told The Hill on Saturday that he is not concerned with the economic consequences so long as he and his party get their way.
“We have to make a decision that’s right long-term for the United States, and what may be distasteful, unpleasant and not appropriate in the short run may be something that has to be done,” he said after a meeting of the House GOP, joining a long list of Republicans who have dismissed the consequences of blowing through the debt ceiling and causing a default on the nation’s payments.
But he offered a novel explanation for why he believes this kind of economic brinksmanship is necessary: because our founding fathers did it too:
“I will remind you that this group of renegades that decided that they wanted to break from the crown in 1776 did great damage to the economy of the colonies. They created the greatest nation and the best form of government, but they did damage to the economy in the short run.”
Griffith made no mention of the revolutionary war that proceeded the colonies’ act of economic vigilantism.
In recent days, some Republicans have backed away from plans to hold up a budget agreement unless Obamacare is defunded. The move came as business groups and conservative organizations like Heritage Action and the Koch Brothers acknowledged that default would bring about economic catastrophe.
The American Revolution led to establishing a democratic republic, whereas the right-wing nut jobs aspire to establishing a plutocratic fascist state.
Meanwhile, Rule by Law is still fundamental to the American system of government and justice.
Theoretically these terrorists are abdicating their duties as members of the U.S. House of Representatives in favor of undermining the U.S. Government and the welfare of all American citizens. And they are working not with President Obama but rather, they are owing their allegiance to their surrogate leaders—Koch’s, Heritage, ALEC, and so on. They are committing the premeditated crime called sedition.
Repeating from previous writings: Treason is legally defined as citizen's actions that violate allegiance to one's sovereign or state, to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the parent nation. These right-wing nut jobs have not attained the status of a "foreign government", so in legal terms, we must accuse them of sedition. Legally, treason and sedition are very close cousins, and anyone could make a strong argument, based on existing sedition laws (Alien Registration Act, 1940) that would land these terrorists fired and better yet, in prison for 20 years.
If Congressional GOPers will honor their oaths and do their jobs, in return, we the people won't demand that they be removed from office, and we won't demand that they and their surrogate leaders be charged and tried for sedition.
Protect our republic, yourself, and all Americans from the politically irrational who enable the extreme minority.
NEW LAW: If your going to run for congress you have to be actually smarter than a fifth grader. This blogger thinks that the tea baggers take civil war and revolutionary reenacting too seriously.
Fear not readers, there is still plenty of time to accomplish nothing today.
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