No Other Word But Treason

It's so tiring to see this kind of stuff day after day after day.

AP headline: Okla. tea parties and lawmakers envision militia

Why do we have to keep doing this?  Why must we continually keep this country on permanent 19th century thinking?  Better yet, why is this treated by the media as sane, rational thinking from the minority opposition party in America?  This sort of stuff is absolutely crazy, lunatic garbage that is totally mentally deranged.

Yet again, I have to make mention that this is the Republican Party doing this.  This isn't a nut on the street.  These are democratically elected officials considering ways to form a volunteer militia to block federal laws.  Have they not ever heard of the Civil War?  This is blatant treason.  Though the AP paints it as some blurred grey area that may or may not flirt with armed conflict.

Let's put this in perspective so the media and the GOP can see exactly what it is they are doing.  Democrats decide they are tired of losing elections and other "political setbacks." (That's exactly what the AP calls it too, "political setbacks").  So they decide to focus their resources toward building armed militias that will keep the Republican majority from governing in the areas the Dems enjoy majority support.  Could you imagine the headlines if that was the case?  It would be 1860 all over again.  It is called treason in every realistic sense except for when Republicans do it.  When they do it, they get to exist in some quasi-grey area that is made up of Great Patriotic citizens who are merely frustrated with "setbacks," i.e., losing elections and becoming increasingly sick.  In what world is any of that even possible?

Seriously folks.  If y'all want to sit around and bump peter heads then go do it.  Go do your tea bagging circle jerks in your Confederate uniforms while holding up signs about the president being a socialist.  Go do it.  But for the love of God, at least have the common decency to know that this is 2010 and that we are well past state's rights and federal power.  But most of all, realize that people who disagree with you and a government that is elected as freely and fairly as any where in the world is not your enemy.  It's really time you get over yourselves and it's way past time the Republican Party is held accountable for what they are truly doing to this country.

*Update:

Think Progress picks up on the AP story too and reinforces Republican ties to the tea baggers and their movement toward armed conflict.  Last but not unrelated at all, TP reinforces Fox News' role in the whole thing.  Remember, none of this would be possible without Fox News.