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To: EternalVigilance; Congressman Billybob; La Enchiladita; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Jim Robinson; ...
Oath Required By The Constitution And By Law To Be Taken By Senators:

"I, A__ B__, 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." (5 U.S.C. 3331.)


United States Senate Oath of Office

It doesn't look that complicated to me. It seems to me that breach of this oath constitutes unfitness for the job, even in the absense of proof of any wilful treason or treachery or perjury. People don't have to get fired, they terminate themselves by failure to perform required job functions. Incompetence or insubordination is cause for dismissal!

Ride McCain and his ilk out of town on a rail and for severance pay, give a month's worth of peanut brittle.
101 posted on 06/04/2006 2:37:35 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Defend the Constitution! Represent LAWFUL Constituents! SEAL THE BORDERS NOW)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Those are grounds for impeachment, no doubt.

But, that still isn't a provision for a recall election, I don't think.

Fat chance that his colleagues are going to impeach him. A good chunk of them would have to impeach themselves on the same grounds...


103 posted on 06/04/2006 2:50:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (I'll believe in the efficacy of a "virtual fence" when they put one around the White House...)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
CHECK THIS OUT Arizona public officials who handle public monies are required to be bonded, and might have incurred imprisonment, fines, or other criminal penalties for violating the terms of bonding, and for lying on bonding applications, in connection with aiding and abetting illegal activities by aliens by using tax monies to build muster zones and the like.

They may also have filed false bonding applications and/or claims. Similar penalties apply to insurance organizations that provide bond insurance for public officials. Check it out in your area.

Most states require bonding by law for all elected officials in their capacity as fiduciaries of the public's monies. The express purpose of bonding is to protect the public's money. Each state sets their own regulations. Now, say public funds went missing and the public official failed to get bond coverage; the state would have no way to recover that money other than restitution through a criminal prosecution. If you determine a public official doesn't have bond coverage, that could be an actionable offense.

Also, if a public official with bonding had previous financial problems---perhaps a bankruptcy or a firing for financial improprieties, etc---that they failed to reveal to bonding agents, that might subject them to legal penalties.

Classes covered by bonding include: Municipalities, counties, townships, school districts, ambulance districts, volunteer fire departments, community college districts, public universities, transit authorities, landfills, sewage treatment facilities, public works maintenance facilities, airports.

Now if and when elected and officials and government employees allowed government agencies to misuse tax dollars-----allowing illegals using phony documentation to get government benefits, to vote in elections for public bond issues, and so on, this could violate the state's bonding regulations, and the bonding requirements of the carrier.

It's time to play hard ball with lawmakers, the only thing they understand. Let 'em know there are real consequences to inaction on lawbreaking.

In Arizona, a good place to start is to go after bonded public officials aiding and abetting illegals via the Arizona-Mexico Border Project..... as well as on a local level with bonded city manangers or mayors, councilmen, etc. misusing public monies to fund "muster centers" and other benefits for illegals and their employers. They may have also filed fraudulent official documents with state and federal agencies.

108 posted on 06/04/2006 3:56:12 PM PDT by Liz (The US Constitution is intended to protect the people from the government.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Insane McCain is a dangerous politician who needs to be retired.


116 posted on 06/04/2006 6:32:24 PM PDT by GBA
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

They have been attempts by congress in the past to get rid of the oaths, Conservatives blocked it. I think it is a place they feel vulnerable somehow and would like oath's of office to vanish.


139 posted on 06/04/2006 10:41:58 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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