GOP lowers bar for "treason"; now it includes simple joke-telling.

It's funny how two-faced members of the GOP can get. Allowing Saddam oil-for-food kickbacks which allegedly funded the building of nukes to be used to attack the United States doesn't qualify as "treason" to anyone in the GOP. However, poking fun at the military's recruiting troubles IS treason--to at least one Alabama congressman. (Maher responds here.)

If Bill Maher's jokes amount to treason, where does that place Bush's "crusade" comment? Where does that place lying about Iraq to invade it? Where does that place willfully underfunding border patrols, etc? If anybody is guilty of "undermine the effort or national security of our country," it's Bush.

But none of that is really the point. Bill Maher's HBO show is one of the very few places where people can really say what they think about Bush--and the Republicans are shitting their pants they can't stomp Maher like they've done about everybody else on TV. They want HBO to cower the same way ABC did.