I mean no insult by this so please take this in the spirit in which it's intended.

BJ, your message, as posted, is why "Tea Party" members get derided as "**********" and not taken seriously.

For you, or whomever was the source of the words "Treason is not acceptable", to use that phrase instantly discredits you.

To equate the typical policitcal horse-trading that has gone on since the invention of politics with the one crime actually mentioned in the Constitution and still (to my knowledge) punishable by death shows a lack of perspective.

Being inflammatory but still correct in calling it "extortion" (as in 'you vote my way and I won't close the base in your district') still gets your point. But "treason"?

You do yourself no favors and, in the end, the result is to harm the message you're evidently trying to get out.

And "a major retaliation to these threats from Obama by the American People" almost sound like a colonel in Kandahar dealing with the Taliban.

If you treat "the opponent" (assuming it's Obama and the 'health care reform' legislation oozing it's way through Congress) like someone who won a clear majority of the vote of The American People, you might get taken more seriously.

Just as Republicans said to those who backed Kerry or Gore - the election is over so deal with it. If you sound like a fringe group you're going to get treated as one - even by those who (like me) are pre-disposed to be sympathetic to the overall message.