What doomed the Federalist Party was an effort among its members to attmpt to negotiate behind James Madison's with the British over the War of 1812. After this, the party never had ballot access in every state and therefore never fielded fully national candidates. Why, because they violated Article 2 of the constitution in a manner persons of good will could construe as treason.
How do we, as Democrats, respond to the latest in six years of partisan obstructionism by the Senate GOP Caucus, the point in which the Repubs actually crossed the line into violating Article 2 in treasonous manner?
Below the fold is how I intend to respond and encourage response as a constituent of one of the 47 signers, the clearly dehydrated gentleman from Florida, Marco Rubio.
I belong to a local Dem club. I will go to our regular meeting Thursday and argue that we pass a resolution calling on the patriots in the House to take up impeachment charges against all 47 signers of Tom Cotton's letter, pass the charges, and send them to the Senate in a single motion that would require the 47 to stand down from their own judgment.
As a member of the county DEC, I will argue that all of the club members who similar belong to said council be called upon to take this motion before the entire council (which unfortunately had its March meeting last Monday), and that we start bombarding our county's House delegation (mostly GOP, but Alan Grayson had a sliver of our county in his 2014 boundaries, to be changed in 2016) and demand responses.
McConnell's krew has been waging war for six years. It is time to fight back hard. If the House doesn't act on this, it needs to be paralyzed by protests. I don't have an answer for how to do this, but possibly my Dem brethren in Maryland or Virginia has some ideas along that line that are civically responsible for as drastic as the crime deserves.
It is no big for me to concede that this not be a death penalty matter. I'm against the death penalty period. But every bleeping Republican congressman who has seen some kind of vague treason in the actions of Obama needs to be challenged, daily, about what to do to Cotton and the others.
I'm preaching tot he choir, here. I know. But now I'll share this diary as a FBer, and make sure to attend tomorrow night - never easy with school-age children. Thank you for your patience.