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This is the solemn Oath of Office that Congressmen and Congresswomen have pledged their personal character and integrity to uphold, ever since it was last revised in 1884:
- I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
And prior to that, there was a much simpler version, so that there was no doubt, about their primary objective, as Public Servants:
The first Congress developed this requirement into a simple, 14-word oath:
- "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States."
It does not say, they should support and defend:
• The Corporate Lobbyists
• The Rich and Well-off
• The Big-money Investors from Other Countries
• Fake News stories from someone’s Twitter account
or even
• The President of the United States, himself
The Constitution in its wisdom, designed the three branches of Government, to be co-equal and separate — that one should always provided a “check and balance” against the other two. They did this presumably because “the nature of Power, is to corrupt ...” and a Power unchecked is a power to be feared. It is from these very abuses, that our people-driven form of Government arose.
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Yet somehow Congressional members of the Republican Party, many of them at least, have forgotten (or tossed in the shredder) their basic Oath of Office. Far, far too many of them are defending that last (fake) block of principles — not the first.
Case in point: Here is what the Republican Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said to “excuse” his (anti-Constitutional) actions of earlier this week, and still on-going actions:
Chairman Devin Nunes:
"It’s clear that I would be concerned if I was the president, and that’s why I wanted him to know, and I felt like I had a duty and obligation to tell him because, as you know, he’s taking a lot of heat in the news media,” Nunes told Fox News' Sean Hannity.
NO Devin, No you DID NOT have a “duty and obligation” to “protect the President” — especially not when he and his Campaign team are (supposedly) the very subjects of your Congressional investigation.
— Not when you are in the midst of fulfilling your solemn Constitutional duty to “provide a Check on” Presidential powers — instead of a “unfettered bridge” for them.
Congressmen like Nunes have forgotten (or shredded) their very Oaths, they once swore to uphold.
— So help them, nobody — if true Justice were ever to be done.
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