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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 01:56 PM
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32. As to where the quote comes from...
For other officials, including members of Congress, it specifies they "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution." At the start of each new U.S. Congress, in January of every odd-numbered year, those newly elected or re-elected Congressmen - the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate - must recite an oath:

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.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office#United_States

"support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic"

Seems to me that all of Congress have promised not to let the Constitution be trampled by lying sons-of-bitches who want some fascist or theocratic government in place of the one we've got now. Even if those bastards were born here.

If what Rush does isn't treason, then it damned well better be a violation of some law. Otherwise we'd better make such a law damned soon!
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