Sedition is against the law

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66. Personally, I've tried to avoid calling anyone ignorant or stupid.

But I see no reason to hold back from calling a stupid idea a stupid idea or an ignorant idea an ignorant idea. The posters that think that members of Congress could be rounded up and charged with sedition or some other criminal offense for voting (or not voting) a particular way appear to have given scant thought to what they are arguing, not just in terms of its implications for future situations, or how it might have applied to past situation, but simply to its logic (or lack thereof). Do they think that the courts, who have established that political questions fall outside their jurisidctions, would take it upon themselves to mandate that the Speaker of the House call a vote on a particular piece of legislation (particularly when there are established mechanisms, such as a discharge petitions) for allowing a vote to be called over the Speaker's objection. Obviously not. Do they think that, after the repubs finally capitulate and the shutdown ends that the members who voted, in a losing cause, against a particular budget bill (but who had voted for another budget bill) would be liable for criminal penalties? Its nonsense and while DUers have every right (within the boundaries of DU's rules) to spout nonsense, they aren't immune from being called out for spouting nonsense.