Republicans Set The Constitution Ablaze While Killing One Million American Jobs

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Republicans Set The Constitution Ablaze While Killing One Million American Jobs

By: Rmuse
Thursday, October 24th, 2013


At the beginning of each session of Congress, every member swears a straightforward oath that they will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and “faithfully discharge the duties of the office.” One of their duties is keeping the government running and paying its bills, but since January 2009, Republicans have broken their oath of office repeatedly by deliberately undermining the government’s ability to function and creating as much economic damage as possible with an emphasis on killing Americans’ jobs.

It is likely teabaggers and Republicans do not understand the purpose of the Constitution, and it is curious because it is concisely stated in the preamble that says, “We the People, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general Welfare.” Obviously, Republicans violated their oath when they closed the government on October 1st and threatened to default on its debts that exposed their purpose of preventing domestic tranquility and undermining the general welfare of the people and the government. Last week, 18 Republicans in the Senate and 144 in the House violated their oath again when they voted to default on the government’s debts and against re-opening the government that damaged private sector businesses as well as cost the nation $24 billion.

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The Republicans’ latest legislative malfeasance was a continuance of their three-and-a-half year crusade to keep the government in crisis that has cost Americans over one million jobs and reduced GDP growth by 0.3% each year that translates into nearly one percentage point of economic damage since Republicans won control of the House in 2010. Despite killing jobs and retarding economic growth with their numerous fiscal crises, conservatives are panting to increase economic damage in the future by removing or replacing any Republican who did not vote for a default and continued shut down by electing candidates who will “not look to meet in the middle.” Apparently, the shutdown that killed 120,000 American jobs and reduced fourth quarter GDP by at least 0.6% was not enough damage for extremist conservatives and they are livid with Republicans that Rafael Cruz said “damaged the Republican brand” by “caving” and fulfilling their oath of office.

If Americans thought freakoid revolutionaries like Ted Cruz (TB-TX) and Mike Lee (TB-UT) were discouraged by their low approval ratings and damage they wrought on the Republican Party, they can rest assured there are more wing-nuts waiting in the wings to join them and disavow their oath of office and the U.S. Constitution. The teabaggers’ goal was best summed up by then-candidate Cruz who said in 2011 that it would “fundamentally shift the character of the Senate if the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2012 became 10 or 12,” and it portends more damage to America and its people from right-wing extremists panting to win seats in the Senate and begin shredding the Constitution on the way to dismantling the government.

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It is really unclear where, or why, these dysfunctional teabaggers come up with their idea that liberty is equated with opposing the United States Constitution or a sworn oath to discharge the duties of the office they either seek or already hold. The Constitution, like the “public debt, shall not be questioned,” but for extremist conservatives the Constitution, like the oath to support and defend it, is an arbitrary concept Republicans and teabaggers will shred as they “fight for liberty” to dismantle the government because Americans twice elected an African American man as President.