Republicans are beginning to act as though Barack Obama isn’t even the president

[deminks]

1. Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?

Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Treason

from the OP:

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The only direct precedent I can think of for this occurred in 1968, when as a presidential candidate Richard Nixon secretly communicated with the government of South Vietnam in an attempt to scuttle peace negotiations the Johnson administration was engaged in. It worked: those negotiations failed, and the war dragged on for another seven years. Many people are convinced that what Nixon did was an act of treason; at the very least it was a clear violation of the Logan Act, which prohibits American citizens from communicating with foreign governments to conduct their own foreign policy.

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None dare call it treason. And the MEdia knows who butters its bread.