The Oath Accountability Civil Action

Join thousands of Patriots who have already signed on to the Oath Accountability Civil Action for Constitutional Integrity.

To enforce our Constitution’s limits on the central government, we believe a formal legal action is necessary. This action, if successful, would require that all members of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, first and foremost, abide by their oaths “to support and defend” our Constitution, under penalty of law, and comport with its enumerated limitations on the federal government. The current scope of federal activities provides abundant evidence that many members of those three co-equal branches have long since abandoned their oaths, and, at present, there is no recourse for prosecution to enforce compliance.

To that end, please sign on to this action, and join Patriots across the nation in this effort to establish legal standing as citizens, particularly those in our Armed Services who defend their oaths with blood and life. If we are unsuccessful in our effort to seek remedy for the lack of any proscription against, and penalty for breach of oath, it is because the judiciary refuses any such accountability regarding the wanton violation of our Constitution. Such rejection would in effect render Americans once again condemned to the abuse previously characterized in American history as “Taxation Without Representation.”

Our goal is 500,000 signatures, which is minimally necessary because if the federal judiciary refuses to hear this action, then we will take it to the national legislature for codification into federal law. A large support base will be necessary if we are forced to exercise that alternative.

The Foundation

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.” –Thomas Paine

Editorial Exegesis

“Washington has repeated nearly every economic policy mistake of the 1930s in recent years, so why not repeat one of the bigger blunders of the 1960s too? We refer to President Obama’s proposal [Monday] for a new ‘Buffett Rule’ to raise taxes on Americans earning more than $1 million a year. … There’s one small problem: The entire Buffett Rule premise is false…. In 2008, the last year for which such data are available, the IRS reports that those who made more than $1 million in adjusted gross income paid an average income tax rate of 23.3%. That’s slightly lower than the 24.1% rate paid by those making between $500,000 and $1 million, probably because the richest are like Mr. Buffett and earn more from capital gains and dividends. … [N]early all millionaires still paid a rate that is more than twice the 8.9% average rate paid by those earning between $50,000 and $100,000, and more than three times the 7.2% average rate paid by those earning less than $50,000. … [T]he real point of Mr. Obama’s Buffett Rule and his latest deficit proposal isn’t tax justice or good tax policy. It is all about re-election politics. Down in the polls and facing a sullen liberal base, Mr. Obama wants to rally the left behind him, and nothing fires them up like the pretense that government is sticking it to the rich. Mr. Obama is picking a tax fight that he apparently believes will carry him to re-election next year.” –The Wall Street Journal

Essential Liberty

“As the Founders warned, there is an ineluctable conflict between Liberty and equality. You cannot make men equal without taking away their Freedom. The Founders devised a Constitution designed to thwart what they called ‘wicked schemes’ to take wealth from one segment of the nation and distribute it to another. The reason prosperity took hold in America is because of inequality. The great American businesses that have so enriched us all came about because of great concentrations of private wealth, not through government-engineered equality. All of us live richer lives precisely because of the unequal distribution of wealth. Inequality, for lack of a better word, is good. Inequality makes the world go around.” –columnist Jon N. Hall

Upright

“As predictable and repetitive as Obama’s economic speeches are, his capacity for audacity shows ever increasing signs of creativity. … Did you hear the anger in his voice? Did you hear him again blame Bush’s ‘two wars’ and ‘tax cuts for the wealthy’ for the economic and debt problems into which he has injected steroids? … Almost three years into his term, did you hear him accept any ownership of his policies? Did he apologize for nearly doubling the national debt? For pushing (and preserving) unemployment to stratospheric levels? For creating so much business fear and uncertainty that he’s given the stock market a multiple personality disorder? No, no, no and no. Obama is the guy who sucker punches you, kicks you when you fall down, stomps on your head, yells at you, and then summons a crowd of people and publicly castigates you for picking on him.” –columnist David Limbaugh

“It is incredibly irresponsible for these super-millionaires to be calling for more taxes, because no matter how willing they are to pay more taxes themselves, the burden will likely fall on many people making a lot less money than they do. For one thing, if the tax discourages earning from higher income people or reduce their wealth it could hinder job creation, hence hurting non millionaire Americans.” –Veronique de Rugy of the Cato Institute

“[Obama] went to Massachusetts to campaign against Scott Brown; Brown is now a senator. He went to New Jersey to campaign against Chris Christie, who’s now governor. He went to Virginia to campaign against Bob McDonnell, who’s now governor. He campaigned for the health-care plan extensively, it became less popular. He campaigned in 2010 for the Democrats, they were shellacked. He began, in a sense, his presidency flying to Copenhagen to get Chicago the Olympics; Chicago was the first city eliminated. There is no evidence that the man has the rhetorical powers that he is relying on.” –columnist George Will

Insight

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” –British author George Orwell (1903-1950)

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” –French Algerian author Albert Camus (1913-1960)

The Demo-gogues

Chutzpah: “It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million. Anybody who says we can’t change the tax code to correct that, anyone who has signed some pledge to protect every single tax loophole so long as they live, they should be called out. … And if they’re pledged to keep that kind of unfairness in place, they should remember, the last time I checked the only pledge that really matters is the pledge we take to uphold the Constitution.” –Barack Obama, who has done everything to undermine the Constitution

He doth protest too much: “This is not class warfare – it’s math. The money has to come from some place. If we’re not willing to ask those who’ve done extraordinarily well to help America close the deficit … the math says everybody else has to do a whole lot more, we’ve got to put the entire burden on the middle class and the poor.” –Barack Obama, repeating his line about math vs. taxpayers

Historically ignorant reference: “George Washington grappled with the problem [of taxes]. He said, ‘Towards the payment of debts, there must be revenue, and to have revenue, there must be taxes. And no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.’ But he understood that dealing with the debt is – his choice of words – ‘always a choice of difficulties.’ He also knew that public servants weren’t elected to do what is easy; they weren’t elected to do what was politically advantageous. It’s our responsibility to put country before party. It’s our responsibility to do what’s right for the future. And that’s what this debate is about.” –Barack Obama, pushing for tax increases on the wealthy to fund his unconstitutional spending bonanza that Washington would find an abomination

“More than anyone else, these millionaires and billionaires benefitted from Bush tax cuts and contributed $3 trillion to our deficit, to help plunge this nation into a financial hole. A balanced approach to reduce our deficit means those who have benefitted the most from policies that created our deficit should also help solve our deficit.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Darn republic: “There are times where – until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again – I’d like to work my way around Congress.” –Barack Obama lamenting to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that “we live in a democracy, and at the end of the day, I can’t do this all by myself under our democratic system.”

Racism 101: “If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House. There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.” –Rep. Emanuel Clever (D-MO), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, admitting to racist reasons for not challenging the White House

Dezinformatsia

Class warfare: “You look at any serious budget expert’s analysis of the situation, taxes have to go up. So at what point do Republicans say, okay, we agree that taxes have to go up, and here’s what we’ll agree to? … So what’s wrong with raising taxes for that crowd so they’re paying the same on their overall income as a middle class family? I mean, what’s wrong with raising taxes on just that sliver of the rich?” –CNN’s Christine Romans

Blame Republicans: “If Democrats are supposed to cut entitlements, aren’t Republicans going to have to give at all on the idea of tax increases? … But we saw in the debt fight in the summer, Republicans would not give on taxes. So if that’s the case, then Washington is just going to be mired, going nowhere yet again.” –NBC’s David Gregory

Sycophants: “You got things done. You know, you reformed Social Security. You balanced the budget. What’s different today? What’s changed the dynamic?” –NBC’s Matt Lauer to Bill Clinton

Civility: “[Florida] is full of conservatives and crazy old people – right wing extremist wackos and prehistoric reptiles that you can’t kill, basically, the Tea Party!” –Angry Left Air America radio-talk-show host Randi Rhodes

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: “Obama Hopes His ‘Next Inauguration Is Warmer’ Than First” –USA Today website

We Blame George W. Bush: “Why’d It Take So Long to Invent the Wheel?” –NPR.org

Then Obama Is a Great President: “What if the Secret to Success Is Failure?” –The New York Times

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: “Ron Paul Was Right” –Cal Thomas syndicated column

No Doubt Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts: “Geithner, Krugman Paint Grim Pictures of Economy – VIDEO” –NationalJournal.com

Bottom Stories of the Day: “Obama Still Popular Abroad” –Politico.com

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

Village Idiots

Friendly advice: “People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: Panic.” –Democrat strategist James Carville

Scary: “As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I … shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.” –James Carville

Insulting? “The Republicans in Washington always say the same thing. Any tax on any upper-income person is bad because they’re job creators. It’s an insult to those people. They don’t mind being asked to pay their fair share.” –Bill Clinton

No big deal: “If you were running the police department of any urban area in this country, you would expend more resources going after serious criminals than after jaywalkers. [The Department of Homeland Security] is doing the immigration equivalent of the same thing.” –Cecilia Muno, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, comparing illegal immigrants to “jaywalkers”

Blame America: “But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right. … They flew the plane in, but we caused it. Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.” –singer Tony Bennett when asked how to deal with the terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center

Short Cuts

“Just to put it in perspective, the breezy $447 billion price tag for the Pass My Jobs Bill jobs bill is about 20 times higher than the most recent Greek government deficit currently threatening the stability of the entire Eurozone. Indeed, Greece’s projected 2011 deficit – $24 billion at last count – is little more than half of just one of Obama’s boutique, niche ‘green jobs’ programs. As Churchill almost said, never in the field of human con tricks has so much been owed by so many to so little effect.” –columnist Mark Steyn

“I think the president has become a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.” –Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

“Rick Perry got a lot of static for suggesting that Ben Bernanke was guilty of treason. Even I wouldn’t go that far. Still, I did find myself trying to figure out the difference between being the chairman of the Federal Reserve and a garden-variety counterfeiter. The best I could come up with is that each man prints basically worthless money, and both men get to serve lengthy terms, but only one of them serves his in prison.” –columnist Burt Prelutsky

“The White House set up an Internet site called Attack Watch asking people to report all criticisms of President Obama. They want to know every nasty remark. The next day the servers crashed from all the traffic, and that was just from the Democrats in New York.” –comedian Argus Hamilton

“President Obama says his new jobs bill will create over 1.9 million jobs – and up to 50 of them will be right here in America.” –comedian Jay Leno

Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team