I typically only publish two posts (plus the music post) each day, but today I had to do another short one, for this one made me see red.
Lindsey Graham is now asking every republican in the Senate to sign a ‘loyalty oath’ to Donald Trump, stating that they will stand behind the president in the face of the impeachment ‘threat’. Now, the thing that is most galling about this is the fact that … every single member of Congress has already sworn an oath … to uphold the Constitution. They have in effect sworn an oath to act in the best interests of We the People. They do not owe loyalty to the president, but to their constituents. For them so sign an oath of loyalty to the very person who is trampling the Constitution and who is destroying the nation, taking no interest at all in We the People, would be violating their very oath of office.
This is the text of the Oath of Office taken by every single senator:
“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.”
It should be noted that Article II, section 4 of the United States Constitution reads …
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
The Impeachment Clause was included in the Constitution in order to create another check against abuses by government officials and to give Congress the ability to remove from power an unfit officer who might otherwise be doing damage to the public good.
The Founding Fathers did not specify what constitutes “other high crimes and misdemeanors”, for at the time (1787), they had little or no context and felt it better left to future generations to decide. At any rate, it is in the Constitution, so impeachment of this president, who has arguably done more harm than good in the nearly three years he’s been in office, cannot be called ‘unconstitutional’.
Lindsey Graham is wrong in calling for an “oath of loyalty” to this president or any other. Members of Congress are intended to provide oversight to the president, not to swear fealty!!! Lindsey and all his republican buddies would do well to remember by whose good graces they serve, and who can remove them in their next election! If the senators sign such an oath, it is my opinion that they will be violating their oath of office by failing to uphold the Constitution.
HOLY SHIT!!! I don’t know about Gillette, but it offends the heck out of me and makes me want to call Social Services on this guy! And then I knew I must find out what all the hullabaloo is about.
Seriously, Kathleen??? You like to be shoved around a bit, maybe even slapped once in a while?
Yep. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi cannot go visit our troops in Afghanistan, but Senator Lindsey boot-licking Graham can go visit the Dictator of Turkey, one of the few men who Trump admires, or more likely envies. You will remember that it was a telephone conversation with President Erdoğan that convinced Trump to announce that he would pull all U.S. forces out of Syria, presumably in order to give Erdoğan a chance to fulfill his mission of destroying our allies in Syria, the Kurds.
Cornyn is a graduate from Trinity University and St. Mary’s University School of Law, receiving his LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Cornyn was a Judge on Texas’ 37th District Court from 1985 to 1991, until he was elected an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where he served 1991 to 1997. In 1998, Cornyn was elected Attorney General of Texas, serving one term until winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2002. He was re-elected to a second term in 2008 and to a third term in 2014.
Atticus Finch, you may remember, played by Gregory Peck, was a lawyer in a small fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. Finch was representing a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. The character of Atticus Finch represents morality and reason. He is soft-spoken, believes in fighting for justice and equality, and is a moral hero in every sense of the word.
Since the 2016 election, Graham has become a boot-licker just like all the rest, often speaking out in defense of Trump, even when his actions are indefensible. Last week during the Judiciary Committee hearing, Lindsay Graham decided to go into a tirade leveled at the democratic senators in the room, and by extension, all democrats. Here are some snippets from that rant, along with my own snarky remarkys in 
Bob Woodward was 28-years-old when he started work at The Washington Post in 1971. The next year, he and Carl Bernstein wrote a series of articles on the Watergate scandals that would ultimately be called “the single greatest reporting effort of all time”. Woodward’s career as an investigative reporter has flourished, as well as his career as an author, with 12 number one national best sellers to his credit. He has written about every president from Nixon through Obama, and now he has written what will likely be only his first book about Trump. The book, titled Fear, is scheduled for release next Tuesday, September 11th.
Woodward interviewed numerous sources from the Trump administration and had tried hard to arrange a meeting or conversation with Trump himself, but it didn’t happen. However, now that the book is already printed and ready for release, Trump finally decided to call Bob Woodward. The Washington Post has published an annotated transcript of that conversation, and while it is too lengthy for me to reproduce in its entirety, I am providing a few excerpts. You may wish to 
AG JEFF SESSIONS 
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