Are we looking at an attempted coup by the 47 members of the senate? Sure looks like it

[shraby]

to me.

[TexasProgresive]

1. Them + the Orange Man

Inviting the leader of a foreign nation to speak to the congress was a defacto coup d'etat - a hit on the state and it's legitimate leader.

[NuclearDem]

2. No we're not.

[shraby]

3. Undermining the president first by boener and now by the senate is a good start by any measure.

One that should be nipped in the bud in no uncertain terms.

[NuclearDem]

7. It's not a coup.

Stop making us look like lunatics.

[Rex]

4. From the way authoritarians are responding, I would say it sure seems like they think so.

At least treason.

[NuclearDem]

8. It's not treason either.

Unless I missed the part where we had declared war on Iran.

[Rex]

18. We are at war with their neighbor, does that count?

How do we know the letter won't undermine future operations now? This could end up hurting our troops in the long run. I know nobody is thinking about that on the GOP side. But YEAH we are at war and gosh what was all that about not even QUESTIONING the POTUS actions during a time of war?

Like I said, from what I've read the authoritarians think it was treason.

[NuclearDem]

20. Ah, this is why I should read posts a wee bit more carefully.

[Rex]

23. I agree it is not a coup...Obama is still the POTUS and will be til 2016.

And yeah probably not treason either...but pretty dam close. You would think after the Bibi stunt, they would try and be a little less offense. I guess they want to double down.

[arcane1]

5. I wouldn't go that far, since there is no threat to his position in office

They can be assholes, and hate America enough to sabotage a peace agreement, but the President is still just as much the president as he was, and his authority hasn't changed.

[Cha]

6. I wouldn't put it past their stupid cottonmouths to try it.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Yes. I live in a Republican community.

They push the envelope of propriety all the time, and continually get away with it. If there's no one who will come after them, there's no incentive to restrain themselves.

THEY ARE BULLIES AND ANARCHISTS. Wake up!

[glinda]

13. yup

[Nye Bevan]

10. Nope. Look up what the word means (nt)

[Bonobo]

11. No, words like that should be used carefully.

We are looking at extreme stupidity in the form of political theater.

[tridim]

12. Something's up, that's for sure.

Because the events of the past few days make no sense, politically or otherwise. I don't get it, unless it's the start of something bigger.

Stay tuned, I guess. We'll get to watch them fail in real-time.

[glinda]

14. Reality check. THEY DO NOT CARE. The world runs as they see fit. I mean

who is stopping them? Who is going to stop them? Doesn't seem our Country can gather together as a movement since they made sure it is split.
Wake up people of this Country is all I can say.
This is a big deal. They are showing their hand. They own it. They own the White House, the Courts, the Media.....they own it.

[Old and In the Way]

15. Not really, but

The 47 will get positive support from the 47% who would vote their Party into the Executive Branch. Cotten is gonna erase Cruz and Paul as serious players for the Republican nomination. Soon, Sarah Palin will endorse him as the serious, honorable person to represent their party. I look forward to that.

[niyad]

16. finding my old copy of "seven days in may"

[2naSalit]

19. On Youtube

they now require that you sign in to give proof of age...



I don't sign in to sites like that.

[niyad]

21. was referring to the book, not the movie.

did not know they now require proof of age.

[niyad]

22. just looked at "shoulder to shoulder" no id required.

[tavernier]

17. More cuckoo than coup

Bat crap crazy.

[Lint Head]

24. Undermining the President of the USA's attempt to negate

the possibility of an enemy's attempt to cause a nuclear winter is damn treason. Not the ideas or words of a lunatic but the words of courage in the face of cowardice. These Tea Bangers need to be condemned before they condemn everything this country was founded on. Cotton can kiss my ass.

[Agschmid]

25. No.

[Zen Democrat]

26. Not a coup. It's treason. Anyone here ever read the Logan Act? It's close to word for word.

[davidn3600]

28. Treason is defined by the CONSTITUTION, not the Logan Act

According to the Constitution...this is "treason:"
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
-Article 3, Section 3

[GetTheRightVote]

27. Wake up people, President Obama is breaking mulitple laws on the books...

We are losing our form of governance due to run away Presidents like Bush and now Obama. One is no better then the other, both tried to rule over an whole nation of people with little regards to the common welfare of all citizens not only those belonging to one party over the other. People our nation is in some serious trouble here...President Obama has done far worst then President Bush who set all this up to begin with.

We should not hope for one person to tell a whole nation what he is going to order us all to do, governance of our nation should be done thru all 3 branches of our government frame. We are losing America behind these parties and their crowned rulers they keep putting in place to take her from us all. Wake up and think Country before party or we are doom to keep losing her behind a party system which could care less about any of us, Wake Up people!

[Lodestar]

29. Where have you been? This coup happened years ago (as Hillary herself once described it)

and history will show that the people of this country did not respond, either because they didn't recognize it (and the corporate owned MSM helped to mute acknowledgement) OR people simply didn't know what to do. Other countries who have had a lot of experience with coups were probably dumbfounded that we let it happen without incident. It was not simply a political party coup but rather a corporate hostile takeover. The OCCUPY movement at least demonstrated that people have awareness of the true source of the problem. Now we are seeing a second wave of this aggression that will finish off the rule of law and defeat any remaining faith for the general populace in an operable and effective representative government entirely by showing our laws and protocols to be insignificant.