Congressional inaction is a blessing.  We should insist that they take longer vacations.  Just calculate how much of our money they spend for every day they are in DC……

Congress’ Inaction An ‘Act Of Treason’?Give it up fellows, you are beating a dead horse.

Could somebody explain to this dipshit what an “elected representative” is?

as cutting costs would mean more government employees out of work and drowning the job market.

Continuing to put the burden on our grandchildren of paying for our wasteful ways can not stand.

More To The Point….Why Don’t Americans Consider The Sitting President Of The United States Of America Having Your Boss Fully Entrenched In Our White House While You And The Rest Of His Minions Lie To & Cheat The American People On His Behalf An ‘Act Of Treason’?

MSDNC continues their spin. Apparently inaction is producing not one, but two plans and passing a balanced budget admendment – that the Senate refused to fully debate. The Dem controlled Senate did not pass a budget but did propose some joint frameworks for discussions – hardly specific bills – and the President did NOTHING ! 
In the make believe world of MSDNC, something (Reps) is nothing and nothing (Obama) is something. Who knew ?
So MSDNC’s parent (GE) pays something (nothing) in taxes, and the middle class and the rest of us pay nothing…that is really something.
MSDNC on air people like Bashir et al are all in a race to become the next Obermann…so the race to the bottom is continuing as they abandon reason, fact and rational discourse – perhaps they will echo Moore and demand the arrest of the President of S & P.

http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/09/video-gold-al-sharpton-attempts-to-read-off-a-teleprompter-non-stop-hilarity-ensues/ Video Gold?

Because Americans are stupid and don’t even know what that word means.

Y’know, I seem to recall that during the Bush years, liberals and progressives were constantly accusing conservatives of calling the Left unpatriotic, unAmerican, treasonous, etc., and yet, when pressed, they couldn’t provide actual examples (I think you could count the number of actual instances on one hand).  And yet, ever since Obama came in, I don’t think a week has gone by in which I haven’t read of somebody accusing conservatives of being unpatriotic, treasonous, or just plain unAmerican.  Hmm.

What a conformist pussy Thomas Roberts is. Just because you can’t deal with your own problems in life, you want to call Congress doing nothing — which is the best thing they can do for America — an act of treason? How pathetic…

I’m not even going to comment on what Roberts said.  It’s so plainly idiotic, it speaks for itself.  But, Ron Insana said something that I think deserves comment….

“Insana jumped in to add that the idea that “deficit reduction in the
short run would somehow help the economy” was “flatly untrue”

I think perhaps in years past, he’d be right.  Increased spending by the government, even deficit spending, had a buoying effect on the economy.  Today, however, we are in a brand new paradigm.  Never before have we been in THIS much debt relative to GDP, and never before – not even during WWII – have we run these kinds of deficits as a percentage of treasury receipts.  Put another way, the old models are absolutely worthless because we have never had these kinds of deficit variables before.

Businesses know that the gravy train is going to have to stop, either sooner or later.  So, they’re hoarding cash as a result, and I can’t say that I blame them.  If government adds a little stability and predictability to the equation, people – and I mean business owners – will be able to plan, which will begin to ease the panic that we’re suffering right now.

I think Insana is wrong, and when he doesn’t recognize the differences between the past and where we are today, he’s either not being genuine or he just doesn’t get it.

Just in case Thomas Roberts happens to check Mediaite for the reaction to his show, I’d like to help him out.
Treason: definition
1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s
country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging
war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its
enemies.
2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.
Failure to act due to differing politics is just part of the way our republic works, not treason. Their has to be some intent to betray or harm the nation.

You’d think it would be kind of important for an outfit like MSNBC to hire folks that already know stuff like this wouldn’t you?

If Thomas Roberts does check this site, here’s my comment:

THOMAS, YOU ARE A DUMB FUCKING ASSHOLE. TAKE YOUR IDIOTIC STATEMENT – AND YOUR CONTINUAL PUSHING OF GAY MARRIAGE – AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASS.

Thanks for the space to rant against the ignoramus Thomas Roberts.

Ezra Klein is so great he knows Fing everything about the economy and politics, war etc…. So when will he be running for POTUS? When is he going to man up and put his money where his mouth is. He’s has never done anything but know about everything. Using Obama analogy of the democrats being in the driver seat of the car now. Erza Klein has never driving a car or fixed a car. He has only read about it or watch a video or two and now he is an expert on the complete subject of the automobile from designing a race engine to building the engine and then actually driving the car in a race.

Thanks Obama for taking the engine out of the U.S.A and replacing it with batteries. Just like the Chevy Volt it doesn’t go far without another charge ( government spending).

Oh yeah forgot to say this Erza is trying to throw the idea there of Obama becoming a dictator just like Dylan Ratigan did with his rant about Obama going around the “bought congress” and going straight to the people. The majority that voted him in office and doing what they want while screwing the rest of the country.

Has it really reached the point that if you advocate for smaller government and less spending it should be  an act of treason? Unbelievable how the left-tilted media is completely freaking out. After the GOP held the legislature in Wisconsin yesterday, someone should put the folks at MSNBC on suicide watch. 

Fcat: Thanks for the Obama voter plug!

Many Americans do think that what Congress did is an act of treason. Need to try these treasonous congresspeople like we did back in the old days.

Treason?

Does the Democrat Senate not passing a federal budget in over 800 days (and counting) count as inaction, and therefore, treason?

Why yes. Yes it does.

Go forth, MSNBC moron, and run with this newest attempt to criminalize dissent from your chosen party’s politics.

Go, go! For the food of the nation!

95 House Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling as compared to only 66 House Republicans. Shouldn’t all the media outrage be directed towards them? 

MSNBC is truly turning from partisan idiocy to sheer absurdity.

The issue of treason has been getting some traction.  Take a peek:

Teabaggers delight in accusing non-Baggers of
treason. It’s time to turn the tables. As Baggers pulled a political stunt
designed to destroy America’s government and got far enough to see our nation’s
sacrosanct and pristine credit soiled, it is time to call these anti-American
Confederate wannabes what they are: traitors.

Here is what Baggers’ leader in the Senate, the
bejowled Turtle Mitch McConnell, had to say about the teabagger hostage-taking
that nearly crashed American capitalism into a wall of teabagging ignorance:

The Treasonous Turtle

http://beeryblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/the-treasonous-turtle/

What the GOP/TP did was beyond mere advocacy; they became
bomb throwers.  Once they were sworn into
office they became responsible governing. They could no longer stand on the
sidelines and be bomb throwers by threatening to allow the full faith and
credit of the United States government to collapse.  By threatening to blow up the economic
foundations of the nation; they became domestic enemies rather than
lawmakers.  Their actions undermined
their oath of office in which they swore “to support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. .
. .”   In accordance with their
sworn oath of office, their behavior and actions made them domestic enemies.

Congressional Oath:  “I
do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will
bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and
faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So
help me God.”

Domestic treason is also embedded Grover Norquist’ pledge, because it does not allow Congress people to make decisions freely.  The GOP/TP is obligated to a person other than the United States Constitutions.  The oath Congress takes says that their obligation is taken “freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion” which is subverted by Grover Norquist’s pledge.

Congressional Oath: ”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

There was an intent to harm the nation by threatening to allow the full faith and credit of the United States government to collapse. By threatening to blow up the economic foundations of the nation; they became domestic enemies rather than lawmakers.  Their actions undermined their oath of office in which they swore “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. . . .”   In accordance with their sworn oath of office, their behavior and actions made them domestic enemies.

Where does the oath say that they must support an ever growing Federal Government that has far over stepped it’s consitutional Mandate?  It can just as well be argued that they were the only ones in congress who were upholding their sworn oath.. 

Your hatred blinds you!

It is really disturbing that you may actually believe what you just wrote. That’s some pretty out-there, fringe thinking.

Nonfeasance is just as bad as malfeasance when there is a critical need to take action.
To “advocate for smaller government is an activity for a discussion group, or group therapy confessions. Advocate is to be vocal and hot air is not a legislative activity. We needed congress and the senate to take a serious look at the real world. We need someone to THINK. If you have an idea in seclusion, then just use memory or a pledge or a prejudged view of make-believe, then you may feel above the fray. But if you hold office, if you represent a bunch of people, then the luxury of advocating–pontificating–and making headlines is not what you were elected for.
Sorry. Winning an election is the beginning of a job. A job? Yes, our representatives are paid to govern, be it small or large, it is government. Tea Partiers who win an election have a job. Their job is to make the country run. It is not to throw spitballs.

The problem, Hedup, is that we are already in the swamp. Yes anyone can wave their arms and say, “If there were no swamp, we would not be drowning!”

There is a story told about the man drowning, and a person on shore yells, “Cup your hands. Cup your hands!” Another person throws him a lifeline, then adminishes him for getting in over his head, and then teaches him to swim. Who is the better friend! Who discharges the duty to protect? What is our net present equivalent of a lifeline rather than superiority and hands folded against the chest?

They may wish to begin with level playing field and refuse to play until someone (else) cleans up the old messes, but guess what–it is their job to wade in and do some kind of first steps.

Unless you consider the Responsible Corporate  Officer Doctrine when there is a public danger.

Could it not be said those that ran up an unsustainable debt are just as much “domestic terrorists”?

My response is to the rediculous notion that members of congress be charged with treason for their lack of support of raising the Debt Ceiling on the President’s terms..  One side wants to call this trying to run the economy over a cliff..  I thing that it can be just as well argued that the economy is already headed towards that cliff and unless major reform occures then there exists a real probability that we will go over that cliff with no ability to change our course as we did not act while there was still time.. 

I agree with your notion that there is much work to be done but not your anology of the drownding man…  If anything it is the Democratic side of congress that is sitting with their arms folded across their chest as their proposals have consistently been there is nothing wrong here the right is making much to do about nothing…  Wrong!, there is much to be fixed in DC.

Would it have been good for the debt ceiling to have not been raised? IMO no, that is not a long term solution, would it serve us well for the system to be shocked into finally having to address problems honestly with the American people, yes, it is way over due. 

Time will tell if the left and right will both take more realistic positions on their stances moving forward, again IMO neither side has a plan that will move this country forward but for me the right is doing a better job of bringing to the public’s attention the severity of the issues we face!  For this we have people like Bison1 calling for their imprisonment…  that is BS..