"My Oath, Like Your Oath, Is to Uphold the Constitution"

By Matthew Yglesias
This is some good indignation right here from Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) in response to Sara Taylor's view that her oath of office was an oath of personal loyalty to George W. Bush: See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/07/-my-oath-like-your-oath-is-to-uphold-the-constitution/43143/ Expressing good, old-fashioned outrage isn't my strong suit since I'm really way too soaked in the culture of irony. But this kind of thing is almost beyond outrageous. The lack of self-awareness that has to go into a person who knows she under fire saying something like that, as if she genuinely has no idea that public officials are supposed to uphold the law and the constitution.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/07/-my-oath-like-your-oath-is-to-uphold-the-constitution/43143/