One particularly harsh critic of the GOP has submitted a petition through the White House’s “We the People” platform requesting that the administration label the Republican Party a terrorist organization.
The ‘effort’ began over the weekend amid a pending government shutdown and recent reports that House Republicans may not be willing to support an increase in the debt limit unless Democrats are willing to allow a one-year delay of Obamacare.
“Designate the Republican party a terrorist organization… since repeatedly threatening to default on the full faith and credit of the United States over and over again every time you don’t get what you want is essentially economic terrorism,” the petition from an individual identified as J.D. of North Wells, Pa., states.
The online petition was not accessible at the time of publication, citing the government shutdown and blaming the two legislative chambers down the street.
“Due to Congress’s failure to pass legislation to fund the government, We the People has been temporarily disabled,” the webpage states.
As of Monday evening, the Huffington Post reported that the petition had garnered “a few hundred signatures”, far short of the 100,000 needed to prompt an official response from the White House.
Another We the People petition demands that House Republicans be arrested for treason for a variety of reasons, including “undermining the post office.”
“House Republicans have violated the Constitution numerous times,” the petition says. “They once violated our full faith and credit clause and threaten to do so again. They seek to undermine the post office, which is a constitutional requirement. They refuse the authority of the US Supreme Court and threaten to shut down the government. They are traitors and should be removed from office and prosecuted as such.”
These petitions aren’t the first form of Democratic attacks against Republicans in the nation’s capital in the last week. Name-calling, including the ‘terrorist’ description, has become an all-out brawl over the past few days at the highest levels of government.
“What we’re not for is negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest,” senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said in an interview with CNN.
