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It's not like he called them treasonous traitors
By adamg on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 5:00pm
Deval Patrick says he was only employing "a rhetorical flourish" when accusing Republicans in Washington of getting pretty darn close to "sedition," the Globe reports. The Globe also helpfully defines "sedition" for those of us who, unlike the governor, didn't attend a fancy law school where they learn about big words like that.
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Taking a page from W's playbook
In the bad old days of the Worst President Ever, George W. Bush's supporters routinely trotted out the line, "Hey, we're at war: criticizing the President and questioning the wisdom of his policies during wartime is tantamount to treason." http://select.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/opinion/07kru... Funny to hear them squawk when the shoe is on the other foot. Deval's point behind his inflammatory "flourish" is a more reasonable one: that the default we're-agin-it-if-Obama's-fer-it stance of the GOP -- which they now pull out even for ideas that they originated -- is harmful to the country.
One needs only to have
One needs only to have attended a high-school history class to know the word "sedition." Indeed, anyone who is ignorant of the Alien and Sedition Acts should recuse themselves from journalism and any aspect of American public life.