Arrest The Tea Party Republicans?

Today I read an article about a petition being circulated calling for the arrest of Tea Party Republicans on charges of sedition.  According to the article, Tea Party Republicans like Ted Cruz are guilty of sedition per According to US Code (18 U.S.C. § 2384 ),  the alleged seditious conspiracy has taken place in the House and Senate because the law states in part that:  “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to… prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States… they shall each be fined or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”

So let's take a close look at this petition and its possible merits.  

The definition of sedition is:  1. An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government.  
2. speech or behaviour directed against the peace of a state  
3. an offence that tends to undermine the authority of a state, 
4. an incitement to public disorder

By definition, no Tea Party Republican committed a seditious act while fighting in the houses against Obamacare.  They were acting within the official scope of their duties as elected representatives of their constituents.  It is not only their right but their duty to challenge a law they believe is bad for the country.  The ones who should be arrested for something are those who ran on a platform of fighting Obamacare who then sided with the President and the Democrats against the Tea Party Republicans. 

Tea Party Republicans were elected to go to Washington to fight for their constituents utilizing the merits of the Constitution.  And because they are doing that they are being criticized and ridiculed not only by Democrats but by establishment Republicans.  John McCain, whose party loyalty seems to have changed sides in recent months, has made derogatory statements about his young, aggressive colleagues with whom he disagrees.  He should resign and go home - if Arizona will have him.

The people circulating this petition need to take a look at the law then take a good long look at the one person who has hindered and delayed implementation of the law more than anyone.  That would be President Obama. Since it passed in 2010, President Obama has given thousands of waivers to various supporters throughout the country and has unilaterally delayed the implementation of several portions of the law.  He did this without consent of Congress, which is unconstitutional.  If that's not seditious I don't know what is.

In other news, today the president suggested to Republicans that the system of checks and balances invoked by tea party Republicans in an attempt to defund Obamacare is not what the founding fathers had in mind.

"Let's work together to make government work better, instead of treating it like an enemy or purposely making it work worse," Obama said.  "That's not what the founders of this nation envisioned when they gave us the gift of self-government."

These words about the founding fathers came from the same man who said in 2008 that he was going to "fundamentally change America" and that the Constitution is a flawed document and that it sometimes gets in his way.  So today he's pretending to speak for the founding fathers even though he criticizes them when he doesn't get to do what he wants?  The man has no shame -- only arrogance.

It scares me to see how many people are still in love with Obama and Obamacare.  Either they don't bother to research the truth or they simply choose to ignore it for the love of Obama.  One day they'll wake up and the free country they grew up in will be gone.  Then they'll be asking "What happened?"