From the Doonesbury/Slate site http://www.doonesbury.com/ this morning -
"None of the things [Obama is] saying are true...People know that if bad things occur, it's because the president wants them to occur. The president is the president. He's in charge of the government."
Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the House Budget Committee, on the sequester R-GA
The oath he swore was as follows
"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."
Anybody else notice a minor discrepancy between the two? Like maybe lying about the Constitution to your constituents constitutes, at least, misfeasance in office? (Sorry about that, I got carried away)
But, you know, it doesn't say anything about supporting and defending the constitution against people who aren't enemies of the United States. So as long as you're talking to people who are Real Americans, it's okay to trash the Constitution, to misquote it, to warp and twist the meaning to whatever purpose you want, without ever violating the letter of your oath.
Much about the Republican party has now become clearer to me.