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"      There I was, all set to get all up in Willard&amp;#039;s grill about that woman at his rally who said that president should be &amp;quot;tried for treason&amp;quot; because he is &amp;quot;acting beyond the bounds of our Constitution.&amp;quot; (If that were the standard, Dick Cheney&amp;#039;s gristly bones would have been thrown to ravening wolves years ago. But, we continue.) And then Willard didn&amp;#039;t slap her down like brave, mavericky John McCain did to that woman who called the president an &amp;quot;Arab&amp;quot; almost four years ago, and why didn&amp;#039;t he? Is that a lack of leadership or something? Does this make Willard a wimp who is afraid to challenge the wilder elements of &amp;quot;The Base&amp;quot;? No. It makes him a Republican in 2012. While birtherism of the sort expressed by that woman in 2008 remained a relatively marginal belief among the more cracked pots in the party \u2014 although the North Carolina state GOP seems bound and determined to bring it up again \u2014 believing that the president has acted beyond the Constitution in egregious and unprecedented ways is an article of faith among almost the entire Republican party. (Over the last week, I was deluged with ads for Nebraska Attorney General John Bruning&amp;#039;s campaign in which the &amp;quot;unconstitutional power grab&amp;quot; was always the first club out of the bag.) That is how all that strange stuff about &amp;quot;czars,&amp;quot; which Romney has regularly repeated on the stump, got such traction. That&amp;#039;s how a completely outre constitutional argument about the Affordable Care Act \u2014 an argument that, six months ago, serious scholars on both sides of the big ditch found positively risible \u2014 seems like it&amp;#039;s within an ace of prevailing before a Supreme Court on which sits one justice who cited a talk-radio meme about broccoli during the oral arguments over the law. Romney, it should be said, believes exactly the same thing, and has said so repeatedly during the campaign. And while not many of them dare so far to call this &amp;quot;treason,&amp;quot; they have bumped right up to the edge of it with remarkable frequency. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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