Every House Republican just ignored their oath of office

[babylonsister]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/31/not-single-republican/?fbclid=IwAR2hEtIJQ4ua-prUBQrmlx5KWGOtT1Nj9pSFCU9gy9MR7PGt-FD27BQMsJ0

Every House Republican just ignored their oath of office
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
Oct. 31, 2019 at 12:41 p.m. EDT


It was a sad spectacle, a confirmation that not a single House Republican (even those who are retiring) appreciates his/her oath of office, that not a single Republican can step away from partisanship and look to the greater good, and not a single Republican who is concerned enough about the extortion of a foreign government to influence our elections to do anything about it. For whatever they do in politics and in life, the vote on Thursday setting forth the procedures for public hearings on impeachment and the inevitable vote on articles of impeachment will define their public life.

Unless they see the light and vote for articles of impeachment, not a single one will be able say that, when the chips were down and the most dangerous president in history attempted to delegitimize our elections (by inviting interference) and to co-opt the government for private political gain, they put country over party. None will be able to claim that they stood against an invitation for a foreign government to investigate a U.S. citizen.

Not even Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tex.), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) or other Republicans who criticized the president’s behavior could manage to support a resolution providing transparency and affording more rights to the president than in any previous presidential impeachment. All the Republicans’ talk about a so-called star chamber or a “Soviet” process is mindless blather, a pathetic attempt to wave away the reality that President Trump betrayed our democracy and endangered our national security in strong-arming an ally for his own political benefit. Republicans have been present and have had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses called. Instead, they have chosen to storm the hearing room and to attempt, in contravention of law, to reveal the identity of the whistleblower.

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Perhaps then we should not be surprised that arguably the most morally bankrupt Republicans and some of the most principled Democrats ever to serve make up this Congress. The argument for permanently debilitating the Republican Party and starting a center-right party from scratch becomes more compelling each day.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Today's GOP is an organized crime party. They swear allegiance to their Boss of Bosses, Don Trump.

[dewsgirl]

3. And some of them are bought and paid for by Putin.

[Takket]

2. tragic but not unexpected

[Harker]

10. I thought maybe

there'd be one or two Americans among them.

I was deluded.

[moondust]

4. Lemmings in lockstep.

[wiggs]

5. Think McCarthy, Scalise, and Cheney were bluffing today? Saying...that this is

a scam, soviet style kangaroo courts, tainted, a travesty....?

or

do they have something ready to pull out of their asses, or out of Russia, that will muddy the waters and confuse everyone? A forgery...an extorted country providing a fake witness...a war....

I don't think they stick to their guns to this degree, with this much disdain and apparent conviction, without a plan to get through this. Otherwise, because everyone knows the facts they would look like groveling idiots in service to an autocrat. there's a plan.

[Mr.Bill]

8. I think their confidence comes from

the fact that Trump has gotten away with everything else, so why not this, too?

[Stuart G]

6. Thank You for posting...k and r.

[DallasNE]

7. Follow The Money

That is the only thing that matters. Dirty and clean. Trump controls the money. Republican House members are puppets on the Trump money string.